jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>however those Low/Minimum security zones account for more than half of the entire federal population

OK, but your claim that the "vast majority" of people locked up are there "because some plant is illegal" is still not valid. It would only be true if you're looking at only the people in camp/low classifications, which is why I argue that your perception is skewed. In reality, a little less than half of people in the Federal system are there for drug-trafficking offenses.

>Also consider that there are inmates that didn't actually commit violent crimes that are labeled as such because they received gun enhancements

This is not true. A 922(g) or other gun crime or enhancement does not count as a violent crime, it's a public order offense.

>firearms at their house while they were growing a plant

You keep circling back to this "growing a plant" thing, do you have information on how many people are imprisoned on marijuana charges? From all the drug-traffickers I met in the federal system, none were there for marijuana offenses. Every drug-trafficker I met was there for methamphetamine, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, or some combination thereof. Can you show some data on the breakdown of substance types that backs up your claim?

>That article you linked tries to paint an invalid picture of how prison populations are kept artificially high to protect the jobs and industries that surround correction institutions. There are union groups across different sectors that rally hard to ensure that humans are warehoused to pay the bills.

The article mentions public-sector employee unions being the ones with an interest in keeping prisons open and staffed, do you have examples of the union groups in different sectors that do so? It would seem to me that a union in a sector that doesn't rely cheap prison labor would have no interest in keeping those prisons open.

I'm not even disagreeing that the prison population should be reduced, but your numbers and assertions are wrong.
Wealth of $4.4 million USD seems to get you to top 1% globally[0].

If you earn $500k and put $300k into a total market index fund that earns you 7% net growth per year over 10 years, after 10 years, your wealth will have grown to $4.4 million[1]. (If you use the $200k the article uses for top 5%, assuming all income could somehow be invested, it'll take a bit over 13 years.)

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/net-worth-to-be-in-1-percent...

[1] https://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/compound-saving...
Oh shit... I used to play railroad tycoon all the time as a kid. That and simcity. It never dawned on me until you said it, I never had an issue understanding finance reports unlike a lot of my peers. I never understood how some people were completely lost when looking at one. Damn, it's an interesting idea if those types of games really helped folks that much to understand more serious, and boring, concepts. Huh... my econ anecdote seems a lot more tame now when it comes to the implications of certain games on society.
So, isn’t the nature of memory in the brain still understood pretty vaguely? The “memory is connections and involves the whole brain” is still kind of a hypothesis and less of a hard, empirically-validated theory, no? May still be the best idea we have, but from what I understand (which isn’t much), it’s not nearly that cut and dry and we don’t really know enough to exclude a lot of the other models of memory formation.
Jesus rose from the dead, that's a lot more reason to believe what he said than in Nietzsche's powerless words.
Yeah I figured that was the case. There is a lot of steam behind native-image with graal/substrate though.
California's beach access law is fairly unique. Not some kind of universal human right. I'm not aware of it existing in any other jurisdiction.

Managing access to scarce resources is the primary purpose of the system of private property.
I think the best part of the story is that they could do the FOIA. The data is not somehow magically safe from misuse because the press can't see it. In fact, quite the opposite.
I think you're noticing the autoimmune reaction of a corrupt central bank to the first real competition it has ever received. There are many private institutions in the US experiencing similar growing pains.
I must be one of the only people who doesn't get these references, and doesn't care.
I don't use or like Gmail, but given that it's quite likely the most popular IMAP server on the planet, I'd say it's Apple's responsibility to their users to not break compatibility.
Blame Google's crappy IMAP folder implementation.
Firstly, your link says nothing about customer deposits, it's about bank derivative holdings. Which aren't insured by FDIC.

But, yes, because it's pretty unlikely that all banks will fail at once, it's not necessary for the FDIC to have on hand a sum matching all insured US bank deposits.

There are also limits on coverage. If you keep $1 million in your savings account, you won't get all of it if the bank goes under.
> And elisp grep really isn't that slow, accessing the file system is the slow part and that's true for both implementations and both can benefit from aggressive file caching anyway.

Sorry, I never meant elisp grep was slow. I meant _piping_ was slow.

Here's regular bash in tmux:

$ wc -l fullform_nb.txt
1180517 fullform_nb.txt

$ time sort fullform_nn.txt |grep åbryug
114297 åbryug åbryug adj pos m/f ub eint normert 510 1
114297 åbryug åbryug adj pos nøyt ub eint normert 510 4
114297 åbryug åbryugare adj komp normert 510 5
114297 åbryug åbryugast adj sup ub normert 510 6
114297 åbryug åbryugaste adj sup bu normert 510 7
114297 åbryug åbryuge adj pos bu eint normert 510 3
114297 åbryug åbryuge adj pos fl normert 510 2

real 0m2.888s
user 0m9.570s
sys 0m0.132s

eshell:

$ time sort fullform_nn.txt | grep åbryug
114297	åbryug	åbryug	adj pos m/f ub eint normert	510	1
114297	åbryug	åbryug	adj pos nøyt ub eint normert	510	4
114297	åbryug	åbryugare	adj komp normert	510	5
114297	åbryug	åbryugast	adj sup ub normert	510	6
114297	åbryug	åbryugaste	adj sup bu normert	510	7
114297	åbryug	åbryuge	adj pos bu eint normert	510	3
114297	åbryug	åbryuge	adj pos fl normert	510	2
111.725 secs

Note: the output from grep comes after about 20 seconds, then it runs for 90 sec's until time is done. In any case, way slower than bash in tmux (which is as fast as bash outside tmux). (Silly example, but my real oneliners tend to be rather longer and more cryptic …)

And when I try to e.g. "sort -k2,2 -t$'\t' file" it gives zero results, doesn't even tell me whether $'\t' is unsupported, same deal if I try '\t', whereas in bash, if I try a plain '\t', sort at least tells me sort: multi-character tab ‘\\t’. In eshell, I might be mislead to thinking the grep gave zero results. To me, eshell is both slow and dangerous.

I'm happy eshell works for you, but it is just not usable at all for me. OTOH, I'm faster at typing alt-TAB than at C-x b esh RET, so I don't mind having to leave emacs as long as I only ever have to switch between the terminal and emacs.
> Launchpad is silly, but Mission Control pretty much changed how I used a computer. I'd been using Macs since 10.4, but I didn't get Macs until Lion. And 10.9 made multi-monitor much much better by making Mission Control desktops per-monitor

YMMV, but Mission Control completely broke the way Spaces worked as compared to prior Mac OS X releases -- which also happens to be the way I've worked since the 90s.

I don't need full screen apps, or separate spaces per head, so from my perspective, that change was an enormous net loss.

There are work-arounds, but they're imperfect: http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/

Factor in silly stuff like notification center, and all Apple seems to have done UX-wise for me is make it harder to actually get work done.
There's a pretty good documentary on Curiosity Steam called Out of the Cradle that goes over the story of early humans. The path from the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans to modern humans is not a straight line. There were a lot of forms of hominids running around until modern humans pretty much took over the planet, and these hominids were frequently cross breeding with each other. Neanderthals were certainly part of this story. If you're at all interested, I'd recommend Curiosity Stream since it's cheap enough to be worth the subscription even if you only watch a few of the videos.

Also, the excellent Tides of History podcast is doing a series on early humans. The host Patrick Wyman started this cycle in July 2020 and a lot of the material he talks about is based on the latest archaeological evidence and understanding. Very much worth listening to, and it's available on the usual podcasting platforms.
I think the problem is that there are incentives to just keep finding 10 vaccines about to expire.

I think the issue here is that the organization was stupid and unable to use them. And while the doctor’s motives seem virtuous, his wife got a vaccine ahead of schedule.

I think we have to improve efficiency, but not also set up a system where friends and family of doctors get preferential treatment because of proximity.

This whole issue is solved by better inventory management where about to expire doses are used first, not poorly managed so that a healthcare worker has to try to handle logistics directly.

I think the whole case would have been different if he didn’t personally benefit through his decisions by giving a dose to his wife.
I am not familiar with the proposed law, is this basically the same as the EU link tax? If so, it is terrible.
I have Starlink and a T-Mobile 5G home device (largish gray cylinder).

T-Mobile: $50/month. No data caps. ~40-50mb/s down, ~5-10mb/s up. Intermittent connectivity drops (30-60 seconds at a time) and stalls. Line of sight to the tower. Device indicates I'm on LTE as 5G hasn't been enabled yet (either on the device or tower).

Starlink: $100/month. No data caps. ~100mb/s down and up. No intermittency or stalls. Kids love watching Dishy acquire satellites.

If your budget affords it, I would recommend Starlink.
Recent interview showed they also round up people for "further education" after releasing them the first time.

Assuming the allegations are true- psychological, physical torture, rape, forced work and so on- is it not reasonable to assume that not all who enter will leave?
True, but imagine going to Ford and asking: How does your cars work?

If they came back with: “Frankly we’re not entirely sure, we just jigglede the handles in the factory until they came out like we wanted them to.” Then they’d not be allowed on to sell any cars anymore.
hmm, that is indeed rather worrying

I guess it's time to drop raspbian (or whatever it's called this week) and switch to plain Debian across my pi estate
Well played Watsi, well played. Hope it goes viral.
Totally depends on the person. You rarely see the work of those people because they never get anything out the door.

If you're familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect, it's the flipside of the fools who don't know how little they know and ship garbage. The people who are strongly aware of how little they know may never ship anything.

Ira Glass puts this well: "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."
The author writes:

The second issue is that solving an overdetermined linear least squares problem is much more expensive than taking a few floating point reciprocals, and is also more prone to blowing up unexpectedly when you run out of precision. There is some discussion in the paper about how to manage these issues, but it can become very tricky. As a result, I did not get around to implementng this method in javascript (maybe later, once I find a good linear least squares solver…)

While writing an (honestly probably not very good) implementation in Lua I was facing the same problem. If I understand it correctly the problem is to figure out where to put the vertices so that they end up close to the planes defined by the positions and normals of the neighbouring hermites. I found that I can get a good-enough-for-my-purposes approximation in about 20 lines:

initialize point at center
for i = 1, 8 do
project point onto each plane
point := average of projected points
constrain point to reasonable range
end

Here a some results (some meshed noise):

https://i.imgur.com/utCcKYx.mp4
Actually sub-urban trucks, but that was lost in all the comments. For sub-urban, I’d expect an average of urban and rural.
> someone posted how to make an identical service with only a couple hours (tops) of configuration.

now apparently worth $40M, so why don't they?

seems like an easy return on investment if you believe the theory
Raw pastebin of the PDF contents here (Google Docs/PDF lol) so even those of us with JS off can view it.

https://pastebin.com/raw/baHYyHyX
> The vast majority of people in Crimea are Russian speakers (as well as being ethnically Russian), not Ukrainian. It's been that way since the Russian Empire conquered the peninsula from the Ottomans in 1783. In fact, there's nearly as many Tartar (descendents of Ottomans) speakers in Crimea than Ukrainian.

This is misleading and factually incorrect. Everyone who speaks Russian also speaks Ukrainian in Ukraine, except for people who literally moved there recently from Russia and other countries.
Isn't the homoglyph the IPA "ɑ" character used in place of Basic Latin "a"? The homoglyph URL attack also has some downsides because Unicode is only supported for domains through an extension system, most browsers will convert the above to "xn--chse-r5b.com" after you visit the link.
As a vim to excel user I’ve always wanted to create an addon that maps vim hotkeys to excel. My only fear is that I’d get too used to it and not be able to use any machine that I sit down at.
> but since the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal agents
I don't see that as much of a problem. The vast majority of Macbooks are going to be single user machines anyway. If you really need multi-user support, multiple users on one machine can always install brew to their home directory (https://andrewjorgensen.com/post/install-homebrew-to-your-ho... for info)
There is a reason nobody wants it: "Byrd Station provided a template for the doomed Antarctic base in the horror movie John Carpenter's The Thing."
It would be nice if you would submit your project under either Ask HN or by submitting the link to it, but NOT both. I don't think it should essentially be submitted twice; it clutters up the New page.
I'm more of a buttcoiner myself, but all this past tense "bitcoin is done" reeks of "foregone conclusions" and I don't think that's wise.

I will say that it's possibly less of a crime that the self interested unbridled optimism of its advocates.
When the big debate about systemd was going on, I couldn't really care less. In fact, I thought a future where the big distros used the same init system was a rosy one. No need to have to rewrite some init script to yet another system depending on the flavour of my clients. No need for our config management tools to have a gazallion 'if os == foo' statements.

Now, I'm just not so sure. The feature creep here is remarkable. Why on earth would systemd have anything to do with container management? Surely the 'docker' (or whatever) service which systemd is supposed to be managing should be doing this?

Another nail in the coffin of simple software that does one thing well.

Edit: s/docker/container management/
My personal aversion: being forced to do unit testing.
Compared to that, debugging is very enjoyable.
My point was using 'Tesla' in the same sentence as Elon Musk is ambiguous and mildly confusing in this case. I was saying the poster should have used Tesla's first name as well to remove confusion.
> subject to decline every time the compute power to "mine" the Bitcoins got cheaper

But the network reacts to that by making it more difficult, and thus more expensive, to mine. That's very much not the reason bitcoins become less valuable - assuming the same amount of money being poured into newer/faster mining equipment, it'll always cost the same to mine a block.
Why's everyone pretending bitcoin is dead now? It simply dropped in price in a short time, it's not like it has never done that before...
Based on your replies to others presenting decent uses, I suspect you're not really interested in places where deep mathematics is used outside physics and chemistry, but there are many.

I suspect you didn't study enough economics - there are certainly areas where the math gets deep (PhD in math here, algebraic geometry, so I know what deep math means).

Given this forum, the obvious one is CS, but you already tried to ignore that one, even though the math used includes all manner of graph theory (which gets very deep), number theory (especially crypto, which is a driving force in some areas of the pure math), and so on.

Another is finance (stochastic calculus to start, and a whole host of other disciplines). There is a lot of decently hard math down this route.

Another is medicine or any science where evidence is hard to tease out (statistics, which again gets quite deep, and professional research statisticians often are used as consultants since the uses are not simply plugging data into known formulas).

There are others, but it will be interesting to see how this short list goes :)
I'd love to see a good article on the subject rather than some jackass trying to rub salt in peoples' wounds.
That was a very fun dissection of an idea I'd thought that nobody was foolish enough to actually suggest. Apparently I was wrong, so wrong that enough people had to ask the author about it enough times to provoke this wonderful essay. I wish being wrong was always like this.
> They are rewriting BLAS in Python?

Nah. Note that these are optional even in the original numpy.
If a project is primarily developed by one company, contributions will drop to approximately zero once funding runs out.

Even if outside people are willing to contribute, there is usually no one with maintainer / merge powers who is willing or permitted to step up to handle contributions.
I'm not here to debate that, but my point is that not everyone is obsessed with decentraliztion... they just want their money to grow fast, just as most people don't buy stocks with the primary intention to own a piece of a business; they buy stocks because they want to make money.
I do not believe I mentioned a single thing that you are talking about in your comment. I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about in your comment. You seem to have quite the bone to pick with postmodernism, something I left completely left unaddressed about Peterson.

I only implied that saying men will become fascists if they are feminized is ludicrous. Does "postmodernism" mean feminizing men? And I suggest that the idea of men having rightfully taken their god given place higher up the hierarchy of society, is Calvinistic, by definition this is true. Is this what you think is "western superiority"? because I don't think I've ever said those two words together in my life. I also don't think I quoted out of context. Though it seems you feel the context reaches as far back as the enlightenment, in this way I have not given a history of the world before judging Peterson's arguments as something that should be met with skepticism.

I really do mean to go check it out for yourself. All the quotes I grabbed were from the Wikipedia page, I have not hidden anything. I've seen very little of what Peterson has to say, but all of it strikes me as very crackpot like. If I were a professor and publishing psychology papers I do agree my "citations" would not be up to snuff. But I am not either of those things and was not attempting to cite him in that manner. I think there should be more proof to the legitimacy of Peterson being a scientist rather than my HN comment needing more proof that he is not.
I learned programming, in part from first book, before I had algebra in school.

When teacher was explaining equations first time. I thought, "this is easy, its just like programming".
> Also, no-one buys 330ml of beer except Americans.

500ml bottles are typical in Germany, but you'll find 330ml bottles in every supermarket, they're not rare at all.
This is hardly unique to Fedora / CentOS / RHEL. Debian does the same, even more aggressively in some ways, such as breaking up libraries into many smaller independent packages. At that point it truly is a fork.
Cheapest beers starts at 0.29€/0.5l in Slovakia: https://www.zlacnene.sk/akciovy-tovar/napoje-alkoholicke/piv...
and yet they are fine with using a snapdragon arm processor on the helicopter?
They'll be more expensive per liter than half liters though.
It wasn't a sacking. There was trespassing and a couple of smashed windows. These are the worst images that CNN could find:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/gallery/electora...

There are two ways forward: We make a really big deal out of this and therefore implicitly demand that protests should be suppressed with massive force. Alternatively, we can admit that this is about as peaceful an outcome as we could have possibly hoped for, all things considered.
So I say again, why aren’t Trump and Republican law makers and state leaders doing anything about it? Why have they sat on their hands on this issue for four years, including a period when the Republicans controlled both houses and the Presidency? I think we all know the reason why.
Some info on what constitutes Prior Art for those interested in participating on Ask Patents

Prior art is any evidence that your invention is already known. Prior art does not need to exist physically or be commercially available. It is enough that someone, somewhere, sometime previously has described or shown or made something that contains a use of technology that is very similar to your invention.

http://www.epo.org/learning-events/materials/inventors-handb...
In the context of modern physics a particle, including as referenced in condensed matter physics, refers to all of the quantum wave phenomena that you just described. So to call it a particle in this context is perfectly accurate.
An interesting brief history of what is, if I was forced to pick one, (still!) the best among the thousands of novels I've read.

The whole Sprawl trilogy is fantastic, and while I agree with other commenters here that Gibson's subsequent novels have become somewhat less awesome, it's hard to complain too much about that if you believe, as I do, that the author in question's first attempt resulted in the best novel of all time.

Still, Neuromancer is indisputably dated, as any such work would inevitably be, so I am glad to have originally read it in the 1980s.
I'm looking at their headphones right now and shipping seems to be a huge problem. $20 for the headphones but ~$15 to ship to the US. Are any of their products sold in the US with cheaper shipping?
Late in the game as in BTC is 12 years old, or late in the game like it's worth $50k so obviously it's actually valuable / not a bubble etc.?