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That Canadian footnote is interesting, thanks. Apparent effectiveness of one experiment not withstanding, my intuition is privatizing prisons = bad idea.

I remember the news of Ontario shutting down their privatized project and taking it over. But I also remember the Harper conservative government later suggesting private prisons could again be in Canada's future.

I know there's lobbying going on (and probably more, now, as some of the US state gravy trains dry up) but does anyone know the state or politics of privatizing prisons in Canada?

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/crrctns/bt-crr...
When two bad names collide in funny ways, creating a "No, this cannot possibly be true" moment.
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The reason I prefer humans to AI or whatever is that humans are infinitely better at fuzzy searches. I'm not enough of an expert to know what I need to know to get what I want. So I relay on a human with experience to translate for me, then give an answer. This is also an issue I have with indian call centers. Its very hard to communicate something to them in a manner that doesn't use the "correct" words. So I lose a lot of the service I'm counting on.
You're still at risk of baseband exploits, but those are less common.
B/c Uber layoffs, post jobs free for 48 hours at epicjobs
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Which was a fine argument to make when a college degree could be had with minimal or no debt at the end. The equation has changed now that a degree usually comes anchored down by significant debt.
In Switzerland you need it for bikes and they still manage
Poor bracketing almost always causes syntax or compiler errors. As long as you have a language that's block-scoped (which is true of modern JavaScript and most other popular languages), you'll get an error if you make a bracketing mistake.

That's not true of indent mistakes. Semantic whitespace is lossy -- there's data contained in those brackets that some people think is low-value that it's expendable for the sake of saving keystrokes, but it does have value in practice.
Keep in mind that reporting is very often inherently political or otherwise sensitive. Often complaints are signs of a reporter doing their job well, lack of complaints a sign of a hack.
Typical optical clock transitions have ~Hz linewidths, not MHz.

The intrinsic frequency stability of almost all lasers is by far not good enough to be able to probe such transitions. Therefore, ultra-stable optical cavities are used as a frequency reference, and the laser is constantly steered to stay on the cavity resonance by a fast electronic feedback system. In this way, laser linewidths in the sub-Hz range can be achieved. Then an acousto-optic modulator is used to scan the laser frequency across the clock transition.
I'm not an expert in Georgism (in fact I had never heard of it) nor in human behavior (though, I am a human), but depending on the tax rate, I would guess for most people, an acre of land free from tax would be a better offer than the income.
In that case, you need to test if the memory is contiguous and copy to the new pointer if not. O(N^2) in the worst case, where every memory allocation returns a distinct start pointer.

What I was getting at is that in virtual memory the heap is always contiguous (even if it isn't in physical memory, but we only need it to be contiguous in virtual memory). So one can guarantee that the solution will never require copying data if the program exclusively uses the stack, and the resultant string is the only piece of data on the heap. You always add contiguous memory so your string can dynamically grow without ever copying to a new buffer. This probably requires allocating memory through the use of OS-specific syscalls to request new memory pages instead of malloc or realloc.
Research the Big Dig.

Most of the interstate was built 50+yr ago when the administrative overhead of such projects was far, far lower. The states basically said "here's where it's going" and did it without much local input, environmental assessment, etc, etc. Government also was far less risk averse in those days (so more stuff was done in house at cost).

The interstate is actually a great example of how costs have increased over time since it was mostly built over a 30yr period.
Can we do something about Betsy DeVos and the efforts to privatize our public school systems next?
Not really. I would wager most consumers are actually under the impression fake meats are in some way healthier.

The article is not particularly well-written or informative, but I don't think they're making a straw man argument.

Fast food companies will try to market this stuff as in some way healthier, because that's what will sell.

Unfortunately, opposition to animal cruelty and anthropogenic climate change just aren't great motivators of consumer behavior.

Yet. I wouldn't be surprised if consumer preferences shift and it becomes profitable to market meatless meats as more humane and better for the environment.
Living Iceland, the increased amount of tourists means that everything can no longer be written in the local language so that the tourists can understand, and that when you go to a restaurant, you often can't even order food using icelandic as the staff won't understand you, walking down the street, everyone is speaking English to each other, things that used to be free and offered to the public, now have to come at a charge due to the amount of people trying to take advantage of a place or a service, and the fact that we have several times the amount of tourists as we do locals, it's eroding the culture.. quickly.

At least for me, I feel a difference between tourism, and over-tourism.
> These things COULD go through a functioning legislature

Which would just make them subject to switching when the legislative majority changed, rather than actually fundamentally changing the situation.

But I'm not sure either is really a problem: otherwise, bad laws would be impervious to change, too. If you want good laws, you have to keep electing good government.
Yup, it all needs insuring here - even the 35cc autocycle I used to have needed it - but it only needed a cheap daylight mot (no lights, indicators or speedo) and tax was £15 insurance was just £50 at the time.

Being hit by a moped could easily cause life changing injuries, so I'm pleased to see them insured.
> USA stands against everything they believe in.

Is this a euphemism for saying "Many of these people have relatives killed by America or one of its puppet governments"?
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The rare cases where I had to put some LaTeX into Evernote I'll render it, take a screenshot, and attach it as a picture to the Evernote doc.
I would include the costs of what insurance pays, because it is in fact part of the cost of bringing a life into this world in the US. You are scratching to prove your point, and keep moving the mark. If you don't want to include what insurance covers, how about including insurance premiums, at least two years worth since you cant just hop on insurance once you get pregnant. Lost wages are another factor, but those can easily cost thousands for many people, i wouldnt minimize those down so low.

based on your math and assumptions i really wonder if you have had a child in the US recently.
It's deeply confused to see a farm selling food to a prison as some kind of evil. It seems you've dove head-first into an anti-market position that sees any for-profit production as bad, which should be a big red flag.

Hiring a felon should not be regarded as evil, either; just the opposite.

I don't see how it's bad faith to assume activists don't advocate full abolition of markets. If you want to take the position that all profit is evil (or at least is evil if it ever touches any part of the prison system), that just makes your position harder to defend.
FBI arrested 281 people for BEC scams, most of them were arrested in Africa
Safari also does releases less often than Chrome/Firefox. They are behind, but not by that much.
Well, there are options here. You could assume that the time value for the wealthy travelers is high and the time value for the poor travelers is low. Your objective is to maximize the (revenue - cost_to_maintain) while retaining some max_visitors. You could then offer the Faroe Islands option: you get to trade off some degree of your time and some degree of your wealth to visit. So you could either pay $1000 to go to Preikestolen or you could help maintain the trail for some x days etc.

Ultimately, let's be honest: we want the most number of people to be able to experience these things (I fortunately went to most of these places before the recent boom and I think they're wonderful) while ensuring that the cost to the environment isn't catastrophic. That means some people can't go. We can pick some mechanism but it will necessarily exclude some people. The money is the best selection mechanism because we can use it at pretty high granularity on preserving the thing that is bearing the cost, but any substitute that serves the purpose does just as well.

The key magic is that with money we can undo some damage. That's what makes it a useful thing to auction on.
>If the "Social Credit" system is administered without corruption

Good joke.
Start of the discussion:

https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1171935904811773952

The whole thing is a little unclear to me. Is the “unique identifier” unique per user, or just a way for Crashlytics to recognize that something is installed?
Right, but that .5mi "10 minute walk" tuns into 20 minutes both ways, adding tons of time (as a % of commute) to the door-to-door travel times.
This seems like an item for "Show HN".

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

(Not trying to scold or anything, but seems like this would fit well with that convention.)
To be fair, a lot of Americans support AIPAC, either from ethnic solidarity, Christian dispensationalism, or just because they like Israelis. But they've certainly been involved in some shady stuff which should merit them being registered as Foreign Agents.

FWIIW the FARA act was passed in 1938 because of fascist and Nazi groups like the German American Bund interfering in US elections. Maybe as time goes by, AIPAC will become about as important in US politics as the German American Bund.
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Sorry I didn't provide an exhaustive list of all the evils in the prison vendor system I'm aware of. I know about the horrendously expensive phone calls and the move toward video conferencing in place of in person visitation and the massive over charging for commissary items and the nearly slave 'wages' prisoners are paid for jobs they have no option to reject.

I just didn't think I needed to provide an exacting list of thing that will probably always involve a vendor. For example though unless the state gets into growing and preparing all the food from scratch there'll always be a food vendor in place, maybe just a normal food services company but it'll always be bought from someone, similarly for clothes and furniture.
>kamala harris hated this
Pure nonsense. Very little evidence. Someone is simply speculating.

Why does Hacker News allow these unsubstantiated conspiracy-theory discussions?
He brought his own rope but the current or something was too strong/high to use it. One thing I didn't understand was, was it impossible to go back the way they came?
I've always wanted to see a lambda school model for private prisons. they get some share of an inmates future tax revenue but pay a significant penalty if ex-inmates re-offend.

I've reached out to Austen..
On a macbook with a big touchpad it sure as heck feels like touching the content. Esp. with fluid gestures (not abrupt like windows) and pinching it feels very physical. And then flicking with two fingers and the inertia of the page that keeps on scrolling because you pushed it very hard feels satisfying. On windows it just feels fake.
The focus of a healthy prison system should be to rehabilitate

The operative word you used is should. You hold the view that the purpose of justice is rehabilitation, which is one theory of justice. Other popular views are deterrence and retribution.

From what I've observed about the United States, preferences for these competing theories of justice tend to fall along well-trodden political lines. That's why it can be so hard to make the legislative changes that California has just made.
I don't know any activists who feel or behave in the way the activists in your comment do.
What I don't understand about this logic is why you don't opt to augment SPIR-V with the aspects required as opposed to branching off on an entirely different standard. I'm sure there are politics I'm not privy to, but here I am watching 48 processors pegged on compiling shaders and I really don't care to deal with another instruction set.
Last month, I noticed there was a sign not well fixed over the road. So when I arrived home, I reported it to the appropriate authorities through a web interface. And doing so, to pinpoint it for the repair guys, I noticed that the precise sign was available to be seen via street-view. I was even able using the time-travel feature to notice that it has been dangling for more than two years.

Probably running anomaly detection on all road-signs all over the world, you could prevent a certain number of accident each year.

The deeper question behind this, is what should have been done by those who have the info and didn't act ? Once you start running anomaly detection on data how do you navigate the ethical minefield that ensue.
Completely untrue. Israel has great relations with China and India.
For those wondering: they’re talking of 25 milliwatts of energy per square meter, so the (theoretical) 20 times increase would be half a Watt per square meter (source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/seductive-light-from-the-...)
Examples of where I dont find srs productive- law and programming. Both are focused on deep ideas that do not convert easily to a short sentence and by the time you’ve gotten the idea the verbal reminder is not necessary. I know what you mean about an insight but for me when I really get something, for example an algorithm its more like a mental picture of moving parts in my head.
CA assembly passes bill to allow college athletes to profit from endorsements
Look no further than the Mother Jones story where the reporter went undercover as a prison guard --
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-pri...
Are they available in the USA?
> Wow. This is something to think about. Would you trade privacy for this level of safety?

The problem I have is never with the system itself, but who is it's master. And this isn't even just a China thing, I'm against pretty much every government on the planet having this kind of system at it's disposal.
If I drop/break/lose my iPhone 8 before next year's phones, yes. Otherwise I'm fine for now.
That all said, 25mph on scooter wheels sounds terrifying.

Meh, you work up to it. Time and place, though; I tone it down through the downtown part of the trail.

What's your stopping distance at that speed?

Faster than my car or motorcycle. And that's just using the regenerative braking of the motors. I've never tried a full-on-drop-anchor stop with both the mechanical disk and regen brakes.
Technically, you should be able to just call exit(1) because of the C's support for "implicit function declarations".

With no prior exit() declaration, the C compiler would assume that "exit" is "int exit()", spit out the code to push whatever arguments are passed to it down the stack and then just call the damn thing. So, magically, it will all just work. Requires an older compiler though, C89 the latest.
> anyone writing Python (sans mypy) doesn't get to chastise Go for lacking generics! :)

Why do you say this point in particular? Python's duck typing makes generics very easy, no? i.e., you can write an algorithm in python that just assumes a particular method is callable and you don't have to code gen individual implementations for different types. plus the dunder (e.g., `__iadd__`) methods give a lot of useful basic functionality
> I’m not a member of the GOP. Extremely far from it.

I didn't mean to imply you were or were not a member of the GOP. I included the observation about their hypocrisy simply because they are the largest group making the most noise about border security while clearly not actually giving a shit about Americans' jobs being "taken" by undocumented laborers.

> Yes, of course. Punish those who exploit undocumented workers. Of course, it’s much harder to exploit an undocumented workforce when it doesn’t exist or is reduced in size. Many ways to achieve this (paths to citizenship, etc.); Anduril is just one piece of the solution, as I suggest in my original comment.

If hiring them gets you thrown in prison, they will suddenly have a much harder time getting hired, and after some time employment will cease to be a reason to cross the border illegally. We don't have to fuck around with "virtual border technology" to accomplish this; all we have to do is recognize that (relatively) wealthy business owners are not above the law, but in America we have an astonishingly hard time with this. It's like the Brock Turner judge's mindset is baked into half the population from birth.
> and a Democratic supermajority.

This is the key. With Gov Brown, he still had a modicum of temperance that they couldn't override. Now the legislature has carte blanche to do whatever they want, because regardless of the governor, they can override his veto.
I'm not disagreeing that we don't value things fairly. Just that we never were open and honest with people that these jobs won't pay more. Then add in $50K-$100K in debt and it makes the choice easier.
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I can appreciate the effort expended on compiling such a great wealth of information, but the execution needs work. This site would essentially label all RPG games as dark games, and anything board game-like as healthy.

Further, I don't think there's anything dark about games being addictive. They should be, otherwise they're boring. If you obtain no dopamine kick from playing a game, you're doing chores. When addiction becomes something that is taken advantage of, then it's a dark pattern.

Maybe that's actually correct, but frankly I find it plainly wrong. So, I agree with what you have to say. It's clearly subjective-in your words-but this seems egregiously conservative.
>Once you start running anomaly detection on data how do you navigate the ethical minefield that ensue.

Where's the minefield?

Just release it all publicly, and offer municipalities private services if they want you to really have a go at their signs.
You should look up any number of books about how the US got into the Spanish American War in 1898. It's a very long standing problem.

I wouldn't describe an expert's opinion as "speculation". Maybe it's becuase you don't agree with their opinion that you see it that way?
Same here, I've once switched from a bunch of 40-something guys in an ‘IT department’ to a web-shop filled with 20- to 30-year-olds ranging from hipsters to ‘family people.’ It felt like fresh air, and conversations went from caustic comments on the company's demands to everything under the sun—had to boost the reading habits to keep up.
Do you have some contact information? I'd love to ask a few questions about this.
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I was wondering about this topic not long ago as well and came across this article: http://dieoff.com/page99.htm (not sure if that's the original link I saw but it is the same paper).

Basically it's about there being a curve for population size vs standard of living. We can't control the size of the population for the entire world, but a country can for themselves.

I don't really have much of an opinion on it, and can't say whether the article is bunk, but I did find it an interesting read.
I would love for someone to give meaning to those terms that I might have something concrete to disagree with (or perhaps even agree with--who knows?). The historical, well-known, coherent definitions patently refute their espousers' arguments, and if there was an alternate meaning why can't anyone articulate it coherently? If there are coherent, alternate meanings, they're kept as closely guarded secrets. Why would these people use words, but keep their meanings secret? It seems far more plausible that these people are choosing words with some specific negative emotion attached and applying them to their political opponents, and using the lack of any actual meaning as a sort of plausible deniability.
Visiting friends in Florida recently, they warned our kids not to go in the landscaped pond in their development (it had a beach). I asked if snakes were a danger. They laughed, not in the least: the real problem was flesh-eating amoebae.
AIPAC is an American Organization. Composed of Americans. Why on earth should they register as "Foreign Agents?"

You may not like people because of their religion or nationality, but they are allowed to have a lobbying and education organization without an accusation of not being real Americans.

Politicians can choose to listen to them or not, just like the NRA, the American Cancer Society, and the AARP.
Yeah, enabling 3D view makes the car plain as day, even on Firefox.
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I doubt the police would stop you. I can't believe you won't use one if it saves that much time! Be brave!
Like they’re very very good at what they do? Simmons is a genius ans the people that work st RenTec are some of the best and brightest minds in the world.

Even so, I must admit, their profability and success is outstanding. But then again, so are Apple’s and Google’s. The only difference is thst no one knows how RenTec makes buttloads of money.
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It's not an "argument against correctness" it's an argument to what you are proposing
This whole site reeks of a security company trying to cash in on a previously reported issue.

The scarier they can make it, the more $$ ... they even have the domain name.

2011 ... http://blog.m-sec.net/2011/sim-toolkit-attack/
If 20+ years of school is what you want, go for it. But a lot of people want to move on sooner, and so we should use the first 12 years of education efficiently. High schools don't get to just pass the buck onto the college system for all the kids that they failed to educate. And students who don't use their HS opportunities well shouldn't have the excuse that they will just get a HS do-over in college (at taxpayer expense).
All I’m saying is that it’s appalling to see all of these “solutions” almost completely ignore the root problem and instead become obsessed with “border security”. Our borders are secure, immigration is not a threat to your life, the problem is almost purely economic and I think that is the more fruitful discussion

I meant no particular offense to you, I see this sentiment regularly in online forums and repeated throughout comments here, your comment was just the one I happened to reply to.
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Unrelated, but I f*cking hate Cover. I tried getting a quote with them once and they gave me some quotes that were not what I wanted and had budgeted for that policy. Not a big deal.

A week later I started getting bombarded with junk mail sent to my physical address, from insurance companies offering me every possible insurance policy in existence.

What a good way to innovate./s They claim they're modernizing the process of buying insurance but still use the same old trashy tactics of the old companies like selling your personal information.
It’s not a weasel word. A weasel word is used to mask a lack of sources or data, that’s not the case here.
The people you are helping is your family (via your income from the job).