skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest problem prisons have is that you collect large groups of criminals and let them hang out together. It breeds an even more concentrated form of criminal. Often times minor criminals need to join racist gangs just to survive which Is inhumane.

I think they should all be separated from each other. They should be put in single cells, and given access to as much education as they want, and just basically put on time out for weeks, months, years. Let them chat with their families and understand the hurt they did. Let them meditate on what they want to do with Their lives after. But keep them separated. It makes things safer for guards as well, lowering the tension.

What we are doing now is useless, inhumane, and counterproductive.
NASA to crash $330M spacecraft into asteroid to see if impact can alter course
And that's why the US are technically in a recession and the EU isn't yet, right?
> Ian McKellen was an excellent choice for the role of Gandalf

But would be completely wrong in the role of Django.

And Samuel L Jackson would make for a not so good Magneto.

> you don't watch it.

I hope I can still comment on the matter...
I don't know why it's different, but unions and employers are not terribly contrarian in Germany. For example, I have seen (edit: a works council, related to unions but not the same) argue for better quality control because they were fearing quality trouble, which would be bad for the whole company including employees. Unions also don't oppose laying off really underperforming employees (but might require a generous severance package) or automation, as long as affected people can be moved around instead of laid off.
Co-op is definitelly best outcome. Find 20 people to each press green and divide equally total amount. U r then in worst case scenario better then taking 1m
Another issue is that whoever they're hiring to write these adaptations either have no clue how to write, or are hamstrung by committee direction. You can make, quite effectively in fact, a story set in the same universe (cue all the Star Wars material that exists as books in the fandom) that has nothing to do with the original story. But it needs skill. Skill that they cannot seem to find.
Was that a good use of the money? How much did it advance science or technology?
Assuming there's no risk to payouts being made/no fraud/etc. then presumably yes. It's probably related to hedges against commodity price increases/ foreign exchange fluctuation, etc. Not quite the same thing but somewhat similar in principle.
I get that this is mostly for fun, but this is as good a place as any to bring up an issue I rarely see discussed with any post about a new language.

Well-established languages have tons of widely used, highly vetted libraries implementing functionality that doesn’t exist in the new language and would be totally impractical for an individual to implement themselves. For example, if I’m doing scientific computing, I need a good linear algebra library like Eigen or Armadillo (or Numpy/PyTorch/Tensorflow), all of which would be impossible for me to implement myself.

Therefore, for a new language to catch on, it needs a good foreign function interface. Yet FFIs are almost never brought up whenever new languages are discussed on HN. (Again, I realize that this is just a fun project and widespread adoption is not a goal.)
I had 15 years of experience when I last updated my rates - and I chronically undervalue myself. I’m responsible for the better part of a billion pounds of revenue, without exaggeration, across my clients, over the decades.

Part of the issue I’ve faced is that I usually start working with folks when they’re 2-3 people, and I grow them - but my rates end up stuck at the 2-3 people company level, not at the 1000+ person company level that they’ve mostly become.

I also consistently manage to get gipped out of equity, as I’m always “just madaxe”, who humbly grinds away and doesn’t feel right taking a slice of someone else’s pie.
> But clion really throws a wrench into that.

I was curious what the experience was since (as you pointed out) there's no C/C++ plugin to add to IJ but I thought _surely_ CLion would support their JDK bread and butter, but damn if it doesn't

> "*.java files are supported by IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Try IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate"

:-/
Apparently, someone has managed to compile the Minecraft client to native: https://medium.com/@kb1000/what-youve-done-with-the-server-i...
For what it's worth, even if you don't buy their hardware (I don't have any either, although I'm looking hungrily at their desktops and keyboards), it looks like System76 offers an option for directly supporting Pop!_OS through their site, like you might for other open source projects through GitHub Sponsors, Liberapay, etc.
I have many Ukrainian friends. They aren't Russians and don't think of themselves as Russians. Why should they priorities that language when they want to be a part of the west more than they want to be a part of Russia?

They elected a president who's policy is just that.

The rebellion was against a puppet installed by Russia. You might not accept those facts and claim the west is lying here. That's an option and it won't be the first/last time that happened. In terms of track record for lying, I'm going to take the west as more reliable than the east. Pretty much all my Russian and Ukrainian friends would agree to that assertion.
I’ve been looking for a new remote job recently, and I’ve heard the following from a couple of companies: “We are a truly remote company - you can work from anywhere in the world! (Except Russia and Belarus)”. Just curious, does the companies from your list allow remote work from these countries?
This optimal (#) can and probably will change soon. We all carry around phones capable of trivial non-reputable verification, and centralised digital cash (not bitcoin but BankOfEnglandCoin) is technically feasible. So it's quite technically feasible for every day to day transaction to be completed with
with the sort of KYC verification currently reserved for say house purchases.

It's just the political / societal implications. These are beyond "hey it's expensive for banks to cut down on fraud"

I disagree with the "banks should allow certain levels of bank fraud because X" for the simple reason we don't have "banks should provide interest free funding to murderers, sex traffickers, pornographers and drug ring" even though that is often the same thing. (And in a two page HN thread I am sure I am not the first to say that)

(#) someone else mentioned the difference between ideal and optimal which is a very good distinction.
https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/2179261410
100% remote work environment - work from anywhere in the US

https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/1165562271
Remote based, US only.

https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/6398528378
Because we're looking for teammates who overlap with our clients' teams working hours, this is a remote position available to anyone throughout the Americas (UTC-3 through UTC-10).
Why don’t you look at how much public teachers are paid in the Bay Area? Also, in CA teachers get tenure super quickly which makes them almost impossible to fire
> there's nothing we can do about the lack of virtual acceleration cues.

I think we're not talking about the same thing. I don't see how it could be a cause of simulator sickness, which I thought had to do with eye strain from focal points not being correct, and the inner ear.

Proprioception is a sense like the ordinary 5 senses, the perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body. It is what makes our body feel like our body. Dissociation, caused by dissociatives, can cause inanimate external objects to feel like they are part of us, which could be considered chemically hacking proprioception. The wooden arm illusion is another way to hack proprioception using touch to reinforce the sense of it. But VR should be able to do this without chemistry or touch, because visual clues reinforce the sense of proprioception.

VR can really be the wizbang killer app, but it isn't. Maybe they show you a virtual arm and you see yourself manipulate it, but it doesn't feel like your arm (I am not talking about the feeling of touch). That is how they are ignoring proprioception. And it doesn't have to be an arm, because in VR, you don't have to be human. It should be possible to blow the wooden arm illusion out of the water with VR, and have ten arms, and they all feel like they are distinctly your arms. But we don't see that, and no one is working on it. All we get is a stiff arm without natural reticulation.

So it is fair to say developers are ignoring proprioception, because they are unaware of their own sense of proprioception (like knowing where your hand is without looking at it). Proprioception should be of primary concern in Virtual Reality. They should toss everything, and start all over again with inducing proprioception as the prime driver of the technology.

> As for your question about distance, I suspect you're looking for "accommodation". Accommodation is the physical distortion of the eye to change the focal distance of the lens. Combined with vergence (the distance at which our binocular vision rays converge), the two systems work together to give you a sense of how far away something is (among other things, like atmospheric hazing, parallax, and trained memory of similar objects). Most modern VR systems lack the ability to account for accommodation, leading to what is called "vergence-accommodation conflict". It can be a source of eye-strain for some people, but it tends to be adaptable over time.

Interesting, but complicated. Should be called "apparent display distance," or something simple and easy to understand. Still, gives me more information. Appreciated.
> So then we may ask: “what is the optimal amount of fraud in society such that the costs of legislation, education, and enforcement do not exceed X% of GDP?” and that is a different question.

It's also not a question of any particular interest; you're interested in what maximizes (good - bad), not what maximizes (good / bad).
Yes. I don’t need anything more. I want to deliver the output various scripts for me and my team, Bash, Perl, Python, etc, why would I care about saving a few milliseconds on a fork?
They started to remind me of Borland when they came up with Kotlin and with Google's help, started to see the JVM only as a means to bootsptrap their own Kotlin ecosystem.
I agree with you that Posits only really make sense for <=32 bits. That said, I disagree that the optimal distribution of numbers is logarithmic. Especially for 16 bit or smaller computations, if you are dealing with big or small numbers, you need to renormalize to roughly 1 anyway to prevent overflow and underflow. As such, it makes a lot more sense to have extra accuracy near 1.
Watkin's Tower
Your premise is incorrect.
Every country on earth demands some form of payroll tax, social security tax, unemployment insurance in the form of self-employment tax, or a combination of the above. It is dependent on your "tax residence" which is a very complex topic you should research because governments WILL go after you for that cash.
It's like we're watching "For All Mankind" live IRL. Starship has received license for its own orbital test over the next 6 months --

Elon might (at this rate likely) have Moon landing capability before NASA

Comparison between SLS and Starship--
https://images.theconversation.com/files/381104/original/fil...
I only work on the products I've built myself. Bug fixes are always free, even if the project has been delivered years ago. Trivial changes are sometimes free if I have a good relationship with the client. Mostly I group the work for a day and charge my daily rate.

For the 2nd question, if it's a fixed budget project, I bear the cost myself and take it as a lesson for the future to do estimates better. If it's not, I always inform the client that it might take a longer than the estimates if it's not something I've done before.
Samsung's disclosure doesn't meet statutory requirements of either jurisdiction I reside in, and Samsung's collection of my information doesn't meet statutory requirements in one of them. I did not set up a Samsung account on my phone or log in, despite constant harassment, and now I got a notice saying my information was compromised.
I'm not sure. The counter argument is, would there be as much review bombing had the cast been all white with main characters as men?

And I think no, there wouldn't have been as much. It still wouldn't be rocking a 9/10, but I don't believe it would have gotten as much review bombed.

I feel the truth is a bit in the middle, people are more critical and harsh on shows that also have more diversity, there's a lot more scrutiny on them. That doesn't mean the show can't be bad, but it does make the criticism a lot more difficult to navigate.
Yes I can say it's untrue because it's simple physics.

You can literally measure the light spectrum from sunlight and from LED screens. Daytime sunlight is full of blue light, far more than from a screen. It's physically impossible for LED's to do some sort of damage that doesn't happen from regular walking around outdoors, because it's 100% known what they emit.

And an inch from your retina makes zero difference when the brightness is much less than daytime and the focal length is far. Because with lenses, as far as your eyes are concerned, the light is coming from far away.

You don't need to study long-term effects when the physics are 100% known here.

Again, blue light close to bedtime is the only thing that's different, and that's trivial to fix.
I’ve repeatedly tried to get into virtual dev work on my Quest 2 (1920x1832 per eye) but the screen density still isn’t there yet. Feels similar to trying to code on a classroom projector screen if that analogy makes any sense.

Quest Pro is hitting in October (supposedly) with 2160x2160 per eye but I still don’t think that gets density to where it needs to be for doing desktop work.

I think Apple has realized this, which is why every screen resolution leak I’ve read has it pegged at 4K per eye or more. But who knows when that thing will even get announced?
last seen date means a single spoofed signal yields future dates forever.

Give some credit to the engineers who built these receivers and their firmware. They're extremely complex and nuanced. You can be absolutely sure that they carefully considered their options here and chose a tradeoff that made sense given the constrains they were designing for. I'm confident they anticipated them, but they just concluded that the fixes beyond using the mfgr date as a base point were worse than the disease.

It's easy to criticize from the future when we know what happened, e.g. e.g. that there was an almost 20 year delay in deployment of the modernized GPS signals and many people kept using these devices far longer than anticipated.
Meihem in Ce Klasrum
So the plan here was to scrape the job listings off another site (freshremote.work), pretend those people posted on your site, make a show HN and then hope someone is tricked into thinking this site actually gets traffic and pays you $49?

I understand what you are doing but how is this providing any value? Wouldn’t people just be better off going to the site you are scraping from?
It sure seemed like a disaster 30 minutes in. I guess I’ll continue with it and see..
In a random video on YouTube the demonstrator person says that the screen can be fixed in virtual space, so that you can look away from it.
https://youtu.be/6uOoS2EF4CI
With Microsoft increasing adoption of Rust, I imagine eventually they will ramp up their investment into Rust IDE tooling.
Even if you restrict "black" to mean African Americans, that subculture has existed in its own right quite long enough for new stories to have been formed surely? The wikipedia article on African American literature would certainly suggest there's plenty to choose from.
Does anybody know the name of this DOS game with a turtle who could shoot at things (not enemies, it was non-violent as all hell), featuring puzzles and random Cyrillic letters like Ж?
No one is (legally) hiring truly location independent.
In Italy Amazon reached a decent agreement with the unions a year ago, and as far as I know workers are reasonably happy.

The article says "they choose to identify with the lowest paying sector", but that sector in Italy is "logistics" which makes pretty much perfect sense for warehouse workers.
I mean you're right I'd rather deal with hydrogen than hydrazine or HF, but I'll respect your parenting choices from a safe distance.
I have a strong feeling River’s wouldn’t post under his own name due to the obvious distraction of GitHub commenters referencing the sweater song. I also don’t think he’d post a photo of himself from the 1994 blue album, am I wrong?
Xcode, Eclipse, Notepad++, VS and VScode over here.
Yeah, these are the performance issue solutions. Based on the way open source databases work (clustered indexes), move your indexes to a table that has the sole purpose of indexing, and index everything you sort by index{search constants, then sorting columns, then id }. You can test with your workload, but I found that full covering indexes sat in ram better (so included the id even though not needed).

20yr ago MySQL didn’t have reverse index columns so we had to make (1-timestamp) cols and index those! Also used int for time as it was easier to index back then and you don’t need sub second or anything. Smaller indexes are better.
> We know that Revelation 18:11-13 in the Bible provides a list of a number of commodities, including humans sold as slaves, for which prices dropped very low at the time of the collapse of ancient Babylon.
Courtesy of OFAC, these places are generally off limits:

Belarus, Burma, as well as Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe

You can't touch these people or companies either no matter what:

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/consolidated/consoli...

The amount of stuff you are prohibited from doing business with is huge: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-as...
> try to politicise this

Okay!

"human learnability of abstract network representations"

Which humans? Did they test it works equally well for all races and genders and body shapes, or is their model of human learning biased to work best for buff white men and is inferior for everyone else?

What's in the abstract network representations, are they truly neutral, or are we just helping humans to learn from biased data that will make them subconsciously more racist/sexist/heightist?
You only hurt yourself by drawing a line between academic knowledge and work knowledge. Very few people are actual geniuses that just retain information. Rather, most people know about things because they use them every day, that's all. Professors and researchers know CS stuff because that's what they need to get a paycheck. You know K8s because that gets you a paycheck. The fact that the former is called "knowledge" and the latter a "skillset" is just a technicality that shouldn't bother you. All knowledge is equal. If you need to know more CS stuff you will learn it no doubt!
Mmm, well the frail certainly do, I'll agree with you on infants not having internet access though.

I guess we'll have to see if infants are freezing to death in the flats of London this winter. My guess is probably not.
The general public is never going to voluntarily start wearing glasses, no matter the features people do not want to look like a nerd.
It's hard to even have a reasonable discussion about unions with most people, because (it seems like) the vast majority of people either fall into

1. Unions are great and everyone should be part of one. Anyone who points out the bad parts of unions is an evil conservative and hates the middle/lower class.

2. Unions are evil and cause nothing but problems. Anyone who supports unions is a fool who doesn't see the horrors they cause.

Any discussion that includes the viewpoint that unions have both good points and bad points (as you allude to above) has a high likelihood of being attacked by _both_ sides.

It also doesn't help that it appears to very hard to actually set things up so that you get the good sides of a union without also getting the bad sides.
At a FAANG? Yes that is fairly normal senior engineer comp
I agree with much of what you said. You've also missed the point if you are referring to the non-profit Underdog Devs, which helps the formerly incarcerated become developers, with your bootstraps comment.

If we could become software devs "by our own bootstraps" there would be no need for an Underdog Devs. Thats the point, support is needed.

Overall I agree with you though, learning to code is not some panacea to cure recidivism. It is however a legit path to a rewarding job which is open to those without degrees and who might have felonies on record.

Since starting Underdog Devs Ive seen it over and over. With real commitment its very attainable. We have many success stories which seem like outliers, however they consistently happen.
I would have preferred to see more of the underlying data from these benchmarks, but it sounds like they've been pretty thorough in this investigation. I'm especially impressed they tested on such a wide range of hardware, not everybody does that and it helps find bad corner cases for more users.

Kudos to the team working on this.
There is no one window arrangement strategy that works for you in all circumstances or for all people. Tiling can be useful in some use cases but there are times when overlapping or free-form or full-screen are more useful. I would not want a window manager that forced me into just overlapping or just tiling. That would be a failure. A good tool would give you a way to arrange in one style but to switch to another as needed.

I don’t see that Apple is leaving overlapping windows. They have introduced Stage Manager as one more window management system added to the others in their OS. It is not clear if people will take to it but it seems unlikely that everyone will or that it will become the only method. I do wish that Apple would strengthen their basic window management tools. The options on the green button are too limited.
That is in fact how every job board gains traction. I've seen it happen multiple times.
Totally agreed about FFI. I wanted to make it easy to interop with C code and write expressive bindings.

Check for example the language bindings to LLVM's C API (fairly low level) and Tree-Sitter which is used internally (a bit higher level bindings)

https://github.com/tibordp/alumina/tree/master/libraries/llv...

https://github.com/tibordp/alumina/blob/master/libraries/tre...

I think UFCS makes it quite nice for bindings, since external C functions can be used as if they were methods if the object is passed as the first parameter. So in many cases there might not even be a need to write wrapper structs for bindings that feel native.

Of course, it's still a manual process and since Alumina is just a compiler and stdlib for now (no llibrary ecosystem, no compiler driver), it's a bit cumbersome. But I like the approach Rust has with bindgen and cc crates, to automatically create bindings for C and C++ code.
I recently bought the Professional Edition of Pycharm after using it for years. The pro features are nice but nothing I missed. Definitely not Crippleware
The quality of the posted jobs is a bit questionable. Still laughing from this:
www.realworkfromanywhere.com/7369835152
It will be interesting to see the impact of high energy prices during the winter on remote work adoption.
In theory, saving transport costs for those who commute in individual vehicles should be enough an incentive but a lot of recent papers claim that remote work is getting unpopular due to the cost of heating at home.
> The snapcraft CLI is awful.

More importantly I would ask: why do I have to learn a new cli? For the convenience of canonical?