skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are they really that bad though compared to historical prisons?

Yes. But that particular comparison wasn't the point anyway.

> What makes them "hell on earth"?

Beatings. Rapes. Gangs. Drugs. Being forced to do illegal things by the guards. Prisoners being at the mercy of people whose word always trumps theirs (which means they will lose most cases of "I said, he said", which is a big deal in prison). Many inmates enter prison as petty criminals and end up graduating to the big leagues inside.
I know. It was not meant as an absolute statement.
Eat what our ancestors ate. Meat, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, dairy, in reasonable proportions. Ignore all modern artificial junk food (that includes unnatural omega-6 industrialized vegetable oils - soy, rapeseed, etc). Ignore all the dietary advice of the past 100 years. Much of it is corrupt, funded by industry. It was recently discovered that the anti-saturated-fat nonsense was from studies funded by the sugar industry in the 60s.
"not-from-concentrate" just means it was pasteurized, stored, and transported without water being removed and re-added. It still generally goes through aseptic storage for up to a year, which strips out the flavor, which is then added back in chemically, yielding a consistent per-brand flavor. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ask-an-academic-...

You need to go with fresh-squeezed to avoid the chemistry set.
I went to the largest crypto hackathon in the world and brought my video camera
Agreed, Viet food is lacking in SG. For various reasons it hasn't caught on with the locals. Still, the average quality level of those Viet places that do exist is higher than that in the US.

As for hawker food, the increasing cost of doing business in SG means that hawkers use cheaper ingredients and give you less meat/fish. For dishes of Malaysian origin, Penang is the place to go for the best of the best. Even many Singaporeans will admit this.

I'd go with Bangkok as my personal #1 food city in Asia, but Viet cuisine is lacking there is well. So maybe Saigon?
Bandcamp typically has a fun application process.

https://bandcamp.com/jobs
That's a better idea than mine. It could also potentially out undercovers.
What country is this? You can only fire an employee if he misbehaves or company goes bankrupt ? Wtf? What if the employee is a bad fit? What if they trying to replace with soemeone better????
Mostly unrelated question related to banks, does anyone know of banks that expose an api that owners of consumer checking accounts can use? Specifically to do things like read balance and recent transactions. What banks make this easy and have good documentation?
Maybe? I believe with enough traffic you can determine the actual content size by calculating the average apparent padding length. (Compare JavaScript timing side channel attacks that can remove random clock jitter, or Onion Routing traffic analysis.)

What you really want is padding to a fixed-length block. That requires restricting the maximum allowed length of confidential fields. (Could vary per field.) Yet such "arbitrary" limits have been frowned upon for ages as poor design.

That said, there's usually nothing stopping people from imposing their own limits and padding accordingly, server- and client-side. But without enforcement across the entire software stack it's difficult to maintain the invariant.
Not to sound adversarial, but configuring a web framework tends to be one of the last difficult or time consuming parts of building a web app or backend in my experience.
For-profit prisons are indeed problematic for a variety of reasons, but they only comprise about 8% of the US prison system[1]. I’m just throwing this out there because the for profit prison bogeyman, while real, often takes an outsize share of the attention when discussing problems with the US justice system. There are problems that extend far beyond that small segment of the larger apparatus.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
As a fellow MTG player, mostly people hearing a story once how someone tested a spindown dice, and it wasn't fair.

But the average MTG player at a con did not take stats in college, and not worth a fight. So ya just pull out another dice and smile and roll it.
"These tools are insufficient" (or: are not enough).

A tool that's "often insufficient" isn't a very good tool - by virtue of often being insufficient - it becomes [ed:simply] insufficient?
Three main reasons:

1) Modern NICs have multiple queues, and are best used with multiple threads.

2) A single core is not capable of saturating DRAM bandwidth.

3) Sharding is annoying, the more you can get out of one instance the better.

Those were the reasons we made the attempt. It certainly does make the code more complicated, but there's no feature in Redis that prevents it. The beauty of open source is you get a chance to try these things.

Cutting latency in half was a big benefit for us.
I think the obsession has to do with how prone the HN crowd is to being a bit OCD. Fasting is all about asceticism, and controlling your impulses. This is why it appeals to me, anyhow. Maybe the rest of HN feels differently?
The fact that it's currently a secret actually makes them potentially vulnerable to blackmail. Airing it would remove that threat.
Dave Bautista doesn't want to be a movie star, but he does have a zombie killer
I've been using Linux in some form for about 20 years (starting with Slackware), and use it as my default at home for the last few years now. I also just mostly run stock Ubuntu these days. I had some issues running a "headless" system that I only logged into remotely a few years back which required tinkering with config files that I would have rather avoided, but even that seems to have mostly ironed itself out now. I mostly just use Super+left and Super+right for laying out windows, nothing fancy there. Makes it very easy to have your "input" (editor/IDE) on left and "output" (browser or terminal) on right.
There are plenty of million dollar teachers, but they work in private tutoring or corporate education positions.

The million dollar teachers will do things like actively manage the student's home life or business trajectory, give them personalized curricula, connect them with opportunities to gain hands-on experience, etc.

Not saying you're wrong re: the incentives or anything, but a lot of people don't even know this segment of the market exists.
Actually I use org-mode. I could implement what the blog suggests pretty quickly. But... A blog post aimed at bakers... Highlighting Emacs... OK.
You can't assign significance to a sample size alone.

A sample size of 10 can be significant (if it were 10 1's for example), and a sample size of 100,000 can be not significant, for example if you were to roll 4,953 1's.
I don't understand what you mean. The standards have to be defined and as demonstrated by wasm there's nothing preventing a runtime that all languages can target that isn't just compiling to JS. How that was ever considered a solution is just mindboggling. What was delivered by wasm is something that we've wanted for 10 years and were repeatedly told was not possible. Even today there are people in this very thread arguing that was is already available is not possible...
The retention requirements needed by the enterprise consumers are not terrorism related.

Also, cutting the government's budget would not impact the cost of compliance to corporations.
>Not sure why something can’t be extra work and a core feature at the same time.

This person is the chair of the internationalization team at W3C, their phrasing is intentionally trying to shift the perception from "extra work" to "default work".

Yes, it is more work if you ignore it but the person is trying to change that perception because inside organizations "extra work" is what you cut to make a deadline.
As someone who's always skipped breakfast more often than not, I too find calling that "fasting" kinda silly. I'd reserve that for going at least a whole day without food, before it deserves much consideration.

I rarely eat breakfast and often skip lunch. I find that when instead of doing that I focus on eating more meals but also driving up my vegetable and fruit intake to as high a % of my calories as I can stand, I feel healthier and have an easier time keeping weight in check.
A college hackathon organizer here (and former high school hackathon organizer). This is so useful. Dealing with high school/university administration takes up an incredible amount of time. When it came to reimbursements, my university took months to pay back student organizers who paid out of their own pocket to buy last minute items.
Not sure what you mean. I do 62+ hours for the most part, each fast.
Chicken rice isn't unique to Singapore though. It's pretty much the same in Malaysia and the Thai version is quite close as well.

Katong laksa on the other hand (which is in the article) is probably the famous hawker dish that is most uniquely Singapore.

Incidentally, the Katong laksa at Cassia in Santa Monica is probably as close to the real deal as you can get outside of Asia. But be prepared for sticker shock.
Everything inside your container shares the host kernel, so you wouldn't need a kernel (and I think most official distro containers don't have one either).
Standards and open source: Why are patents treated differently?
Works every time.
The same vulnerability goes back even farther with nearly all 90's laptops having one or more PCMCIA/PC Card/CardBUS slots.
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Many people have trouble sleeping on an empty stomach but not doing their work. Also night time is socializing time and there is no way that I would skip a supper with friends to fast but skipping breakfast is super easy to do.
Er, can't you just ignore the annotations? They are in a different part of the screen and don't modify the original paper. Not affiliated with this website but wondering why you felt the need to seek the original paper from a different place when it's clearly right there...
Why? What are the risks?
How many different sub-variations of "intent" are there?

So if I plan to kill Person A, but miss my shot and kill Person B whats the charge? What if I was under threat by Person A? Who should even be charged for Person B's death...me or Person A?

Moreover, you've neglected to mention that there are all sorts of "human killing another" which are not even considered a crime (abortion, do not resuscitate orders, etc).

>The complexity of the law that people bemoan are not about simple issues like murder, they are issues like zoning laws, tax law

Lets not get ahead of ourselves, we still have barely scratched the surface with the 'easy laws'
Very possible, but the act of the vulnerabilities being disclosed makes them more vulnerable unless it was disclosed responsibly and the responsible party has already issued a fix. Even then, devs using the affected version now have a known vulnerability out in the wild, which will be incorporated into vulnerability scanners and scripted exploits and kits.

So whether it's due to an increase in interest or not, it is something that needs to be taken seriously.
I don't think that's true, or at least the 'Many' here is probably a minority. IF doesn't necessitate any changes to diet.
I've been doing something similar, but I've been taking it one step further: Alpine's apk package manager will let you treat a subdirectory as "root" and you can install packages there. Then you can write the root out as a tar file and use that as the file system for a "FROM scratch" Docker build. One deficiency is that every package seems to depend on the Busybox shell, so the only way to get rid of that is to delete it after it's installed.

So far this approach seems to work OK, but it feels unnecessarily hacky, and I wish there was better tool support for this kind of thing.
When you're trying to leverage your intuitive understanding of photos, using such a low DPI will screw up that intuition and damage the accuracy. 1mm black and white is basically a QR code.

I prefer to visualize things at a reasonable density. Using boring software and a boring printer, adding in redundancy and still using very visible dots[1], you can fit over 7000 bits per square cm instead of 100.

That old 2MB card turns out to only be worth 4 sheets of paper. 1TB remains enormous, but going from 3 square miles down to .1 square kilometers helps to bring things closer to understandable. With this new density it's 25 acres or 17 football fields.

Considering the flash layers is also useful to my intuition. That old CF card is four pieces of paper next to each other. This new card is a box 32 meters / 105 feet on each side, filled edge to edge with densely printed dots on paper stacked 96 sheets deep. I can actually visualize that room / yard. I can visualize the dots on a sheet of paper. I cannot visualize a square mile at human scale.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/extrem...
How was the "real" soy sauce? I'd totally buy some to try it. I definitely like soy sauce and can eat it on a lot of things.

And you're right about the narrative, but the BBC is in theory an impartial news organization, and shouldn't be playing into the narrative advertising requirements of the company being profiled. The fact is that even if the knowledge of making wooden barrels had been lost in Japan entirely, it could still be restarted by bringing in experts from abroad with no material differences in outcome. Fermenting for longer in wooden barrels definitely does affect the end result; exactly where the knowledge to build those barrels comes from so long as they're made of the same materials does not.
When an orbiting spacecraft runs out of fuel, it keeps staying in orbit. It does not "tumble back to earth" unless it is close enough that the atmosphere is thick enough to slow it down further.

In this case, perigee is 668 km from the earth, which is in low-earth orbit, but it's apogee is 69020 km away, or high earth orbit - https://heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=44049&lat=0&lng=0... .

Hubble is about 500 km elevation, and it's expected to take about 30 years for its orbit to decay, from the last time it was reboosted. For Beresheet it would be much longer.
> The problem was and is the lack of things to do for which someone else is willing to pay

That’s not even the problem. Basically all businesses get started without enough customers to pay the bills.

I think in all the cases I listed there are implicit clients who could pay for the work.

What’s missing is a way to finance the customer development process. People with that skill tend to work on medium sized opportunities and up, and the labor problem is a group of small opportunities that aren’t worth developing on their own.

You have to develop them in aggregate, which is Hard™️.
"Zero configuration"

But, you can install express, copy paste the getting started code and be up and running at a similar level in 5 minutes. I...guess I don't understand why I should trade something super simple and easy to use for this additional level of abstraction magic.

There is such a thing as too much abstraction.
Also `var` is such an important mitigatory for this in C# that it continues to astound me that some of the worst offenders also eschew `var` in C#. You really don't need the redundancy of `ImmutableSortedDictionary<string, Foo> localCache = new ImmutableSortedDictionary<string, Foo>()`, it's not some sort of Prolog assertion where the strict tautology makes different code than `var localCache = new ImmutableSortedDictionary<string, Foo>()`.
Your complaints sound like they're coming from someone who went on a cruise to almost any third world island - though maybe other destinations are better controlled by the cruise companies to take you to specific (clean) tourist ports.

Cuba is not without its problems, but much of what you describe is not unique to a third world country.

The one area you're just completely wrong about is the flavors. I was only able to stay for 10 days, but on my short trip there I stayed in locals' houses (which is quite common there - google "casas particulares") and the vast majority of the meals we had - especially the ones cooked by the people we stayed with - were extremely flavorful.

I'm not claiming socialism is great or anything - there was a potato shortage while I was there - but I'd just hope no one reads your post and thinks Cubans are eating terrible bland food...
This sounds fantastic and I was about to install it, but I paused when I saw the required permissions:

Access your data for all websites
Read and modify bookmarks
Get data from the clipboard
Input data to the clipboard
Access browsing history
Display notifications to you
Access recently closed tabs
Access browser tabs
Access browser activity during navigation

... this seems excessive - especially clipboard and historical items.
One of the main promises of hyper-local geotargeting was the ability to build audience pools based off of location data that could be correlated with inferred home location mashed up with Zillow data to provide home value and estimated equity. On paper this kind of targeting would be really appealing to home improvement chains, banks, and even restaurants. I never really bought that way when I was a media buyer, so I can't say if it was ever effective. That said, I imagine it was more compelling to marketers when the data was sourced from a few trusted entities. Now, practically every free-to-play android app is asking for location data 24/7, no doubt to be sold to data exchanges. Once a location data relationship is established with an app publisher, there really is nothing stopping them from feeding psuedo-random location pings and getting paid for it. Its just another form of ad fraud. I wouldn't recommend a major digital buy to my worst enemy these days; Facebook lies about their metrics, Google sticks your ads next to child porn, display has been destroyed by domain spoofing and arbitrage. Maybe good old-fashioned direct buys with publishers are still safe, but there is a reason why TV budgets have held strong.
Not OP, and I'm slightly exaggerating for effect, but I would say that if a fresh ripe tomato is not the best tasting food you've ever eaten, then you haven't had a "real" tomato.
Trying to write a terabyte at two or even ten megabytes per second would be excruciating.

As noted above, this would be WORM

But for just $218 USD

I'd rather spend $218 on my family and re-use the flash I have lying around instead of dumping it in a landfill.
I've seen... I don't know that I'd call it astroturfing, but at least people pushing an ideology. I mean, we all have our view of the world, and we all think ours is right. But some people will argue every post opposing their view. And they Just. Won't. Stop. I mean, they may talk about other things on other threads, but when a thread talks about their position, they will never stop arguing. They will never give any acknowledgement that people on the other side had any valid points. It's like talking to a brick wall.

I'm tempted, when I see this behavior, to just say "With those who will not listen, it is useless to have a conversation", and walk away. But I'm pretty sure they'd reply something like "I will listen, but everything you say is wrong".

Other than flagging it or otherwise contacting the moderators, I don't have a good solution. It sure doesn't help the atmosphere of the board to have that kind of "conversation", though.
Agreed, I've done this too. It's not something I do every day by any means, but I certainly have gone down Wikipedia rabbit-holes from time to time.
Not scientific, but this is tried and simple tip from traditional Ramadhan fast-breaking in Tunisia.
We start with some dry fruits (usually dates) and olive oil (or butter), then some soup. I think the chewing first gets your body ready and the soup is there to ease the stomach into whatever your regular diet is.
I just ran into this last night searching for a converter dongle, and got hundreds of reviews for silicone rings, which... what?
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Someone in the article makes the same argument as you are making here:

‘To the extent the public wants that to be public record, I can understand that,” said Rains, who is leading a legal fight to block the release of officer disciplinary records under the new law.

“Why don’t we make that known for everybody?” Rains said of convictions, pointing out there’s no broad disclosure for lawyers, doctors, teachers and other trusted professionals.’

The key difference is that none of the other ‘trusted professionals’ have arbitrary leeway to detain you under suspicion on the street. The dynamic between police and the populace is not even remotely equivalent to any of these other types of professions and to equate them is an outright false equivalency.
You can end up being the one punished in all kinds of scenarios where you're the wronged party initially.

If you are too vigorous in defending your property, you can be charged with assault, which I'm guessing is what happened.
> Also it's frankly weird how the last capitalist era there is basically enshrined in their culture

No, I think your first list perfectly enshrines the effects of modern day capitalism on modern day Cuba...

> garbage EVERYWHERE, many toilets have to ration toiled paper (!), not to mention, no incentive to clean the bathrooms, many restaurants had bland flavors due to the inability to order specialty food items and spices and only work with the bulk items the government gives you
>the Locke character from "Lost". And boy, did that show have a letdown denoument.

Yep, that show was a poster-child for the phenomenon called "jumping the shark".
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I live in Spain and Switzerland. I spend most of the summer in Spain, and the rest in Switzerland. I work 100% remotely, so I can live and work anywhere (not seamlessly, as I need visas and residency permits and everything else, but still doable).

My wife is a scientist, so we travel a lot and change places of living. So far, I lived in Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Denmark, and about 2 months in the US.
How on earth would blockchain help?
What percentage of customers go through the refund process? I think I refund maybe one purchase every 4-5 years, for all of my retail activity combined. I don't believe I've ever bothered with Amazon.
I get the weirdest language bugs with Google:
- The info box on the right hand side of the search results intermittently shows up in German
- A suggested event (a football match) in the UK (where I am) had both team's names transliterated into Cyrillic
- An airport on Maps consistently shows up in either French or Finnish (or both!)
I don’t think disappearing down a Wikipedia rabbit hole is as novel or boring as you make it sound.
This is only one study, but there's some evidence that stress and the belief that stress is detrimental are correlated with detrimental health effects [1]. In other words, there may be a negative placebo effect at play where its less to do with the stress and more to do with how you respond to it.

Now, consider that fasting (and, really, consistent exercise as well) is correlated with high self-control and an internal belief that you're doing this to improve your physical health. The worst kind of Stress is stress from sources you can't control, but you have complete control over what you eat.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3374921/
These are two completely different topics. One is about privacy the other is about holding people in positions of power accountable for their actions(and that we have evidence about them not being).
You're assuming a lot. Take a look through a popular buildpack source and you'll see how they work. They do version pinning which means someone has to be aware of a vuln, its patch, and update the buildpack. I'm not saying they don't do that, just that it still requires a person to make the necessary changes. It's not inherently more secure.