skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most if not all prisoner fire crews are strictly volunteer, and only open to the lowest-tier of offenders -- low risk; certain crimes are automatic disqualifications. There are also health, fitness, and other requirements.

They get something like $26/day on the low end, and their work earns time-served credits, meaning every day spent on a crew counts for 2 extra days served.

They also get full-on vocational training, and are eligible for firefighter jobs when they get out. It is, among other things, a rehabilitation program.

I'd hardly call it slavery, and it has a number of very fair perks, esp. considering that the person is a felon. I lived in San Diego for a little and the general consensus was that the prisoners worked hard and were competent -- nothing else to do but train.
This is nice when everyone you live near is quiet, respectful, safe, and clean. What happens when the neighborhood turns and your wife can’t safely walk her dog outside the house, and you can’t get sleep anymore due to the loud pumping bass and drunk people fighting outside your window?

I kind of like the idea of a city community with nice little shops close by, but every city I’ve been in has had too much crime, congestion, and noise to make it livable for someone who likes quiet and solitude.
> My impression is that most Slack instances are highly private and most users are explicitly invited.

Not exactly true in companies, where you're subject to the whims of HR department eventually, maybe, probably not deciding to fire someone abusive. In the mean time you're subject to abuse over and over again. Great you get lots of evidence to give HR, but in the mean time you're still subject to the abuse and taking the toll on your mental health.

Outside of a work environment, you're also subject to whatever delays the admins of your more private slack space might have around resolving the problem. Not everyone is going to be 24x7 to jump in and deal with abusive behaviour and kick people out.

The lack of blocking in Slack has been repeatedly called out by people who have been on the receiving end of abuse in slack, through both work and community slacks, and have had to deal with either major delays, or flat out refusal to deal, from the relevant authorities for the workspaces.
The over/misuse of the word "safety" and its variants is reaching insane levels. No, seeing messages you don't like is not a threat to your safety. The intentional conflation is increasingly used as an emotive bludgeon/thought-terminating cliché to pressure organisations into doing what the speaker wants, because to do otherwise (or to even question the proposal) would be "endangering" people

I don't really have a problem with Slack implementing a block button (I assumed it already had one) but this manipulative rhetoric and induced fragility is worth calling out in any case
> Through technology? Or through (non-technical) activism?

Both? Mozilla Foundation isn't just an engineering org, and the internet isn't just a technology but also a place with rules and norms. Influencing the direction of the internet is a necessary part to making it better. If the EFF was the one doing this I imagine there wouldn't be any complaints, and the Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit just like the EFF is.
This is interesting coming on the heels of the gzip-based inference paper. gzip is based on LZ77, and the LZ family of compressors generate and store (and cleverly encode) instructions to copy blocks of text they have seen before to their output.
It's funny, I have the opposite problem. I have a particular door lock for which three different locksmiths have all failed to cut usable keys. The originals work fine, but the copies don't. The last set barely works, if you wiggle it around a lot and ram to get it in, but then it gets stuck in there and is nearly impossible to remove.

They've tried various blanks, and I've never gotten a satisfactory explanation from any of them. It's possible all my local locksmiths are inexpert.
> Also, the judge agreed with J&J's idea

No they didn't.

> How is it fair if the first victim gets 10M in damages, but the 100,000th victim does not, given each lawsuit proceeds differently? It's obviously not a race, and getting less/more damages based on the order you filed a lawsuit is surely not the best way

I didn't claim that was an optimal procedure. But as of yet there is no risk of J&J not being able to pay future claims. Indeed, J&J are still financially secure enough to be paying out dividends to their shareholders.

> The problematic part would have been had the money been capped. It's not, evidently.

No, the problematic part is J&J's attempt to use a sham bankruptcy to force litigants against it to to settle through a single judge rather than continuing with regular court cases.

As I have said elsewhere, if bankruptcy is actually required here, then J&J should declare it themselves. They won't because then they'd have to stop paying dividends.

There is plenty of room for tort reform to malye things fairer. Sham bankruptcies and a texas two step is not the appropriate method to bring fairness to victims of a financially solvent company.

Hint, when the victims oppose legal maneuver that is supposed to "make things more fair for them" and the perpetrator supports it, then the legal maneuver probably isn't doing what it claims to be doing.
Economists Are Cutting Back Their Recession Expectations
"Forecasters still expect GDP to eventually contract, but later, and by less, than previously"
Interesting and frightening compilation of facts. I also recommend interested people to read https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/econom....

Copyright would be something useful in principle if it actually enabled authors and composers to make a sufficient living. But this is not the case (a few years ago I analyzed the published data of SUISA and saw that as a composer you can only achieve a sufficient income with a probability of 0.1%; SUISA itself costed 50% more than was paid out to copyright holders; almost three times as much was paid out to publishers as to authors). Instead, copyright (as well as patent law) today primarily serves the corporations to enforce their oligopoly. And of course many lawyers earn a lot of money with it.
> The big problem with Katacontainers is not whether or not they are slightly faster or slower than containers, but the fixed memory allocation which means you must first know and then allocate the maximum amount of memory they might ever need up front.

Conversely the problem with containers is that memory allocation including the OS page cache is not guaranteed. That's bad for a lot of applications, especially databases. It seems Docker has some support for shared page cache but it's not in the Kubernetes pod spec as far as I can see. [0] You would probably need some kind of annotations and a specialized controller to make this work.

[0] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43916
The $445M figure is for another mobile pizza startup, Zume.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/12/softbank-pizza-robot-shuts-...

Discussed last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293636
Fortune 500s don’t pay devs Meta money either….
I'd need to see some numbers to believe that this is true for "most Americans." Certainly it's not a problem for most of America if we're talking about geographic area. But population is obviously not distributed uniformly.
It’s fairly common in the US at hotels and some parking garages, especially in bigger cities.

It can be nice if you’re in a hurry or worried about walking alone in a parking garage at night.

But yes, it can be annoying, especially because you’re expected to tip them in the US too.
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This came out in May...
It is obvious in retrospect because this concept has been around for 30 years. A common killswitch mechanism that I remember being implemented in the early 90's was a system that tied into accessory devices. On my friends car you had to put the key to ACC, then turn the cruise control on and off, and then engage and disengage the parking brake before the car would start. No other obvious lights, buttons, switches, etc. And you could install the killswitch device to tie into basically any 2 systems that used battery power.
Maybe we should insist that production key fobs are secure. It is only pure laziness and incompetence that has resulted in them not being secure. The tech is not difficult.
I don't think anyone actually doing NLP research has thought that BERT is always better than simpler methods. Linear classifiers with ngrams, or even better, large margin linear classifiers, are well known to be competitive with things like BERT on a variety of tasks, with orders of magnitude better runtime.

In contrast, this gzip technique is considered a cute application of information theory, but even in academia is rarely included in studies because there are simpler and better techniques for NLP.

Yes, if you are chasing the ultimate accuracy, then using a LLM (not necessarily BERT either) is going to be the best. But for a practical system trading some accuracy for vastly improved runtime is usually a very good trade-off. And again, it depends on your domain. Topic classification, stick with a linear model. Sentiment analysis? Ok, here a LLM actually gives substantially better results so it's worth the extra cost if sentiment is crucial to your application.

I personally like the CW algorithm I mentioned because it's relatively easy to implement and has excellent qualities. But if I were a dev looking for a ready to go already implemented production system I'd go for vowpal wabbit and move up to a LLM if I'm not getting the accuracy I need for my application.
> The odds of winning _after_ the host already beats 1/3 and 2/3 odds is indeed 50/50, but the odds of playing the game _overall_ is 33/66.

The problem is not about the game overall anymore than the question about whether you'd like to switch the envelope after you got $1 is about the game overall. The question is whether you want to switch conditional on the situation where you got $1!. That's not cherry-picking - it's considering the exact situation described in the problem.

> The only real way I can see of making this situation analogous to the Monty Hall problem is to consider the odds of the whole game

The Monty Hall problem is not about "the whole game". The Monty Hall problem is quite explicitely about what would you do in the following situation:

1) you were given the choice of three doors: one car and two goats

2) you picked a door

3) the host opened another door

4) there was a goat behind that door

After all those things have happened you're being offered to switch from your initial pick to the remaining door.

What is the probability - after all those things have happened - that the car is behind each of the doors?

If you don't agree that this describes the problem there is no point in reading further. We can just agree that we have very different understandings of what the problem is about.

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If you agree with the description above the answer to the question depends your assumptions about how the host's choice in step 3) was done.

There are many different assumptions that could be made.

If he was avoiding the door you picked and the door with the car - as the original formulation of the problem implies - the probababilities are 1/3 and 2/3 (for the door you picked and the remaining one respectively).

If he was completely ignoring the location of the car when he made the choice the probabilities are 1/2 and 1/2 (it doesn't matter if he was avoiding your door or not).
I really can't imagine that. So you save some driver time. They're usually idle before delivery already, there's no driver shortage, and drivers/delivery isn't expensive. So there's only a small amount to undercut. For the profit to become interesting, you'd need a massive volume, but then you'd be forced to maintain a large fleet of mobile ovens. There's no automated driving, so you'd need drivers anyway. You'd have to pay everything from their idle return time, including the increased energy consumption.

Back-of-the-napkin says no.
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I was curious how much bigger the real stadium parking was.

SimCity: https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/simcity/e/...

Real Stadium: https://i.imgur.com/KwT1T53.png
I'm not sure I 100% understand your question.

If you're asking "Why do we need CA's when they already control the DNS record for that domain" then the answer is that DNS doesn't natively even have any cryptography involved, your DNS server can serve any information it wants, and this is common practice in IT environments.

Effectively speaking MITM'ing dns is relatively easy and common as it's the equivalent to HTTP.

So you don't know that the answer you are receiving it actually from the owner of that domain. If they sent you a certificate you don't know if that's an attackers certificate or the owner's certificate.

The CA system is a (very imperfect) method of verifying ownership by having a trusted third party do the ownership verification. This way the certificate the owner gives you is effectively "notarized" so to speak.

tl;dr - DNS has no built-in signing or encryption, and is "MiTM'd" by design. It's common practice for your DNS server to be set to your company's DNS server, your ISP, etc. And those can send any response they want, and you have no way to authenticate if it's been modified or not.
> but the yankee plant is currently housing the fuel in a short-term storage container on-site.

It's hardly short term if it's been there for 26 years.

> It's not yet in the "long-term-storage" phase of operations

And, judging by the ongoing process, it's not close to be. For no technical reason, it's just politicians doing politician things.

So, the logical conclusion is that no one can predict what politicians could do. If they do this, what makes you think that they wouldn't pass a law forcing people to recycle current solar panels at an outrageous cost? You've been claiming that it's impossible to know anything about anything related to nuclear, but the same claims also hold for any other production source, since this kind of political decision is, essentially, arbitrary.

Welcome to the FUD, if you can do it, others can do it too.
Mozilla's guiding principle is to create a "healthy Internet" [1]. Why wouldn't it be their business to make a feature request to another company in service of that goal? Obviously Slack thought it was valuable, too, because they added the feature.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
I prefer a structured approach. I start by setting clear goals and creating a study plan. Online courses, books, and reputable websites are my go-to resources. Taking notes and reviewing regularly helps reinforce my understanding. Joining study groups or forums to discuss topics and ask questions also enhances my learning experience.
You don't think I might have a problem if my roommate joined the anti-pessimizer alliance?

Shocking.
Sure but it's existence means the statement is really "gzip approach not better than dnn models, and doesn't compete or be cheaper to run than previous models like FastText." That's not a very meaningful value statement for the approach (although why gzip is even half-decent might be a very interesting research question).
VS Code's also shows:

- (Linter) Warnings (in most themes a yellow or orange), like compile errors

- Marks for recently edited sections of code (in most themes a blue). Those marks are also shown in the left hand gutter beside lines but I think they are sometimes too subtle there, but their mini-map counterparts are less subtle.

- Current global search results (a bright gray or sometimes yellow, depending on theme)

- Current file search results (a slightly different gray)

- Current "active token" search results (another gray), such as when you put the cursor mid-word and VS Code naturally highlights all the other uses of that word

- Indicators for all of the lines containing your cursors when using multi-cursor (Alt+click to add additional cursors), which can be very useful to watch in large files with a bunch of shared refactors spread out over some distance

That's just off the top of my head because I use all of those to navigate some source documents.

I think one of the "shape of the code" things not everyone appreciates as well is that some languages create more interesting shapes than others. There are some languages where every file creates a very similar looking waterfall and there are others where the landmarks are much more obvious. Ironically it is sometimes the worst languages that have the most visually distinguishable shapes and where I find I appreciate the minimap most of all. You can visually see sections that began as copied and pasted duplicates, you can see the places where lines are highly repetitive and often those correspond to key patterns of very explicit landmarks ("there's the save code, you can tell because all the field string names are on the left side of assignments; there's the load code, you can tell because all the field string names are on the right side of assignments"). You can't make out the individual words, but you can certainly see those "blocks" like that from that "ten thousand foot view".

There's probably a visual processing/pattern matching thing about minimaps in general that some people have an easier time with than others. I've always liked a good map, regardless of context, so minimaps have always seemed useful to me. Map reading is a large combination of subtle skills, and I have just enough childhood training and natural aptitude that I have a great baseline for just about any map. I appreciate not everyone has those same skills, especially not in the weird arrangement that I do.
They invented a less reliable immobilizer?
Thankfully changing retail zoning is as cheap and expedient as writing a document. Regrettably legislation takes a while to move, but given any solution to this problem will require legislation changes anyway, the marginal value for just allowing mixed use commercial/residential zoning is effectively nil.
The best-resourced, most widely respected security teams on the Internet tend strongly not to enable DNSSEC or advocate for its adoption, mostly because it doesn't solve meaningful problems.
Remote server in cloud but running ChatGPT local
Are you referring to quantitative easing/ZIRP or specific government programs that give favorable loans to specific industries?
I know this is US-by-default site but does parking really shape everything around us (most of the humanity)? What about South America or Africa?

From my experience in living in Asia, USA and Europe, it might only be applicable to USA.
There are already a number of these: searching for “journal of negative results” turns up several
I am super confused about this and I really hope this is an optional feature (hopefully turned off by default) for administrators.

Otherwise "blocking" should not be something that is utilized within a work setting. If you have a problem with someone you go to HR not just block them and ignore the problem doesn't exist. You can't convince me otherwise, I don't care how big your company is. If you feel the need to block someone at work, talk to HR. If they won't do anything you should leave since that just speaks to fundamental issues.

Same with "Hide messages from another member" which if that is doing what it sounds like it is doing, again I can't imagine actually sending a message in a public area and marking specific coworker(s) as not being able to see it.

Sure I know I have seen slack used for other purposes but I can't imagine this is actually a majority enough of a use of Slack that pushing or celebrating this feature is really useful? I honestly figured most of those non work use cases have likely moved to Discord at this point.

Unless Slack is working on trying to dethrone Discord... this makes zero sense to me and if it isn't able to be disabled by administrators I will stop advocating to use Slack again... as bad as Teams is.
Sometimes I find the coil whine useful to detect a stray Firefox tab ;)
No, you can't legally shoot someone that walks in through an open door. You can ask them to leave, but youre going to have big problems if you shoot them and all they did up to that point was not leave instantly when asked, if they walked through an open door.

If the door is locked, and they break in, you are not shooting them because they broke a lock. You are shooting them because theyve shown criminal intent by forcibly making their way through a locked door.
That's the opposite of how DNSSEC works in practice.
Behold, the true stochastic parrot.
Dogfights are not a thing anymore. A2A missiles no longer have a 30 mile dud rate and if you want to close to gun or infrared missile range, you have 50-100 miles of eating AMRAAMs or even longer if you are facing a Russian plane. Air to Air combat hasn't been constrained by human G force tolerance since late Vietnam war.
Driving in urban environments is already terrible. This is the de-facto effect of density, regardless of what intended policy is. It seems to me that there’s just no way to have a large number of cars be comfortable in a dense urban environment. Might as well just try to minimize them.
Then it's a good thing no one charges that. I'm all for calling out Apple for bullshit, but their "768 GB more" model is a $200 upsell, not $500. And yes: it's a huge leap from $200 to $500.
To be honest, for me it feels on the edge of being a scam...

Almost like buying what are clearly branded domains only to sell them later to brand owner...

(and keep in mind, I work for Wix)
I was initially annoyed at the lack of a headphone jack on my laptop, but USB-C to headphone dongles are very common and good enough for portable use. For desk use, might as well get a devoted DAC/AMP. So, I think they are a waste of space now.

Webcams are a waste of bezel space, might as well get a non-junk USB one. Plus you can position it for shots other than up your nose.

Give me like 8 USB-C ports and nothing else.

16:10 is OK but if we’re going for Perfect Laptop, obviously 4:3 is the correct aspect ratio.

The current Apple Bluetooth magic keyboards are fine, use that (with a non wireless interface of course).

These opinions are my own but they are also objectively correct.
Enterprise/CRUD devs - where the overwhelming number of developers work - are making between $80K - $170K in most major cities in the US.

That’s what I did the majority of my career so it’s not meant to be an insult.