skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people are arguing that collectibles are the problem. They're arguing that the gambling is.

In this context, we're defining gambling as exchanging money for a chance at receiving something of value. I think that's a reasonable definition and it certainly fits here.
The speed limitation is down to the fact that they don't need insuring. Like pedal bikes the idea is that they will cause limited injury or damage to property in the event of a crash. Up things to 25mph, plus the frame/battery weight needed to add strength and safety to accelerate and brake swiftly, and suddenly you have plenty of energy to damage a car or other piece of property or hurt a human (yes I know cyclists also occasionally hurt humans).

So therefore they will need insurance, and therefore need registration. And guess what, you can ride an electric scooter or bike at the speeds you mentioned, you just need to register and insure it. It is entirely possible and people do.

What you are suggesting is a way to ride fast vehicles without the social contract of insurance and traceability.
Using your geolocation data as a marketing strategy for Google
There is a lot of other metal in shallow water though. Just think about rubbish, buoys, marker posts for utilities, boats, sewer outfalls, gratings etc.
Why do you want to fine ebikers for not wearing what you consider to be the "proper safety equipment", even after you yourself said that an ebiker with a throttle is safer than an ordinary cyclist at the same speed?
New device harvests energy in darkness
Honestly, I wouldn't even play a game where paying for power-ups was the norm. It's not something I'm interested in.

Skins, on the other hand... so, to start with, I play FF14, which has a cash shop for things like special outfits and emotes. While I wouldn't dump all my disposable income into cosmetic stuff, and I sure as hell don't trawl the cash shop looking for stuff to buy, I'll buy stuff here and there if it really catches my eye or if it could be useful. For example, I went to an in-game wedding over the weekend, and I didn't have anything to wear that was really appropriate, so I hopped on the cash shop, looked at a couple of dresses, asked my friends for advice on which one looks better, and bought exactly one outfit. And then there was when I was first setting up by subscription after my free month ran out, and I stumbled on a set of emotes inspired by one of my favorite television franchises of all time. Those were the only things I bought from the cash shop... though I have to admit I'm tempted to buy the new cat ear hood (which was heavily advertised when it came out) just because cat ears are kind of my thing.

So I'm definitely not in the "buy all the skins" camp, but I'm fine with buying a couple of items here and there that enhance my enjoyment of the game. And, of course, this leads into why lootboxes are evil. In a game that uses lootboxes, you can't just buy one or two cool things. You have to keep buying lootboxes and opening them again and again and again and again until you get the thing you're looking for. It's exploitative, and it trains the mind to derive enjoyment from addictive behaviors.
Be careful. I'm speaking from experience when I say that there are only so many lucky falls you can have when you are traveling faster than you can run, especially with only friction keeping your feet on the board.
At least Minecraft doesn't charge you to change your skin.
Hahaha yea right, that problem is actually hard. Cleaning up straws is much easier.
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Good riddance.

The whole premise of private, for-profit, prisons has always seemed deeply troubling to me. The focus of a healthy prison system should be to rehabilitate people and help them turn their lives around so that they contribute positively to society. That can take years of hard work by the individual, and require assistance from professionals (therapists, teachers, ...).

A for-profit company by definition seeks to maximize profits. Expensive rehabilitation is therefore immediately off the table, or given at the minimum allowable level. That is just not in the best interest of neither the individuals in the prison system, nor the rest of society.
Compiled vs interpreted is not a useful distinction. Until fairly recently when Ignition was introduced, V8 had no interpreter. All the JS was compiled by the first tier “full codegen”

The bigger difference is that the JVM is heavily optimized for performance after a long warmup and V8 needs to produce relatively fast code early during page loading.

Java being much more static certainly helps warmup time but ultimately doesn’t really affect final performance. LuaJIT can beat C in some cases once it has time to compile all traces needed.
Anecdotally, several people I have talked to about this had no problem with the new behavior (after a relatively short re-training time), but did find switching between touchcreens and touchpads with opposite behaviors frustrating.

If you do have a problem, then you can switch it in System Preferences. Everyone wins.
You're right. People scream bloody murder about "omg! This means a financial incentive for imprisonment" and then ignore how the exact same thing happens with public prisons, in particular how prison guard organizations pushed for Three Strikes to pad demand for their work -- same dynamic.

http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/the_undue_influen...

And IMHO is bizarrely inconsistent outrage.

Want to make a profit from supplying prisons? Activists see no problem with that!

Want to make a profit from hiring felons, who are cheaper due to having limited options? Activists give you the thumbs up!

Want to make a profit for your private corporation from building a public prison? AOK!

But run it for profit? No matter how much oversight or regulation is applied, it's somehow inherently evil.

It feels like a distraction.
Many states have cut sentences in face of prison over-crowding, including California.

So, yes, some people believe private-prisons are a useful tool to deal with over-crowding in state facilities and that the likely alternative is further reduced-sentence releases.
I'm so happy about this. Private prisons are the scum of the earth. They're totally antithetical to a free society that values human life. They often lobby for minimum occupancy levels in law (effectively requiring by law a certain percentage of citizens to be marked as criminals). Any profit they skim off the top is money that should be spent rehabilitating criminals and making them functional members of society. Next up should be criminalizing charging huge quantities for prisoners to video call / phone call and the usurious fees on commissary.

I'd wager $1 in their pockets costs society easily 10X that.

[EDIT] Surprise surprise, when Canada experimented with private prisons, they found measurably better outcomes in public prisons [1] and took the private prisons back over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#Canada
> Is this something that people against private prisons believe...that they just release all the prisoners when they close the prison?

There are a few different strains of thought when it comes to opposition to private prisons, but I believe the common denominator is that they create a perverse incentive. They turn prisons into businesses—the more prisoners, the better.

So while there are definitely people who want these prisoners freed immediately, and even people who want prisons abolished altogether, getting the profit motive out of prisons would be a significant win regardless.
What we believe is that a lack of private prisons will disincentivize new prisoners from being systematically introduced in an abusive fashion. More accountability. Releasing people like non-violent drug offenders is a separate issue.
>Most farmers will tell you that Americans won't work for the low wages that they feel they have to pay farm hands, so they have to hire those undocumented workers.

If cheap labor was unavailable, would American farms shut down? I don’t think so. I think they’d raise wages until Americans were willing to work for them, and pass the price along to consumers. I think the status quo (undocumented laborers working for low wages in terrible conditions with no healthcare, all to subsidize $0.50 oranges at Safeway) is a humanitarian tragedy equivalent to the worst Nike sweatshops.

>the people we're seeing in camps and cages on the borders of the US, the people we keep trying to punish for coming here in ever more brutal fashion, are not trying to make illegal border crossings.

Right. Anduril’s work would not affect these people, so why all these comments calling them literally evil?
The hijackers did not enter through Canada or Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...
I had 3 weeks during this summer when I was with my 5yo at my parents house. My parents took care of their grandchild and he was happy to just spend time with them. I didn't have to cook, take care of groceries or do any house chores that normally fill my day up. I could just work, so I did, for 10-12h a day (usually it's about 7h).

I had trouble with sleeping basically from the day one. I was constantly thinking about one more optimisation or bug fix I can apply to make the feature I'm working on better. I lost interest in my normal evening activities (movies, books, games). I had been looking forward to spending these 3 summer weeks at my parents' for a few months before, but I made it quite stressful, by my own wish.

I learnt that taking care of the kids and doing the house chores is something I really need to keep myself sane. Doing it I often wait for the evening, when I can just chill out - but it's hard to relax if you don't do anything else than hitting keyboard for the whole day.
> But the costs of shutting down all these incentivizing/nudging/conditioning/addicting technologies would kill most of the tech sector (by market cap)

I couldn't care less if predatory companies collapse. None of the tech itself is inherently evil, its only being used against us instead of working for us. If google were disbanded or broken up today new companies would rise up continue to do what they do now under more responsible terms. Those companies can continue to provide cell phones and email accounts without using those things to build dossiers on the people who just want to communicate with friends and family.

Many people today think it's impossible to offer anything if you aren't abusing your users because that's all they know, but I remember when there were hundreds of free email providers long before it became technically feasible to read every last email stored on the server to spy on users.
So? Just because they work together doesn't mean they are not doing it. That's not how spying works.

In fact, its well known with the intelligence community that Israel is by far the greatest intelligence now that Communism doesn't exist anymore.
Reforming private prisons is just a small part of criminal justice reform. This is a good step but it seems like many are unaware or are ignoring the impact that labor unions have on overcriminalization. Police and corrections unions exist all across the country and share many of the perverse incentives that private prisons do.
The United States itself had "open borders" for a long period of time. There was mass immigration from Ireland, Italy, and many other places and it worked out quite well for us.

Even today, we have "open borders" within the US. People are free to move from from poor (or poorly run) communities to places with more opportunities and it's a win-win.

Similarly Europe has 26 countries in the Shengen area. Some of the countries have a "better-than-average standard of living" and they're doing just fine.
I believe OP was being sarcastic. We're all on team "FOH Nest" in this thread so far.
No, people don't believe that people will just be let free.
The future of tracing is open
I guess it depends on your definition of useful. If it is purely in the economic sense, then yes, but I'd argue that misses the entire point of college.
>Do Common Lisp implementations have a "core" that multiple inheritance and multiple dispatch can be desugared to?

Yes, that's the Meta Object Protocol. It isn't on the standard, yet most Lisp implementation have it, and now you can use it in a portable way as well.

>If it's the former, I would say that optimizing a small core is easier than optimizing a big language. Python's core is 200-400K lines of C

Common Lisp's "core" (that means, not including "batteries") is considerably more involved and complex than Python's. Creating a new CL implementation is a big deal.
Same here. My eyes are so happy.
Vickrey auction?
Seems like outlawing single-Family zoning should be easy, but how many NIMBYs reside in the state legislature?
> Longgang is also subjected to continuous surveillance. In the spring of 2017, a couple reported that their three-year-old son Xuanxuan had been abducted. A security camera captured the scene, and it took the police precisely two seconds to identify the kidnapper using facial recognition software. They located the perpetrator and the child on a train shortly thereafter.

Wow. This is something to think about. Would you trade privacy for this level of safety?

I think we are going to have the surveillance anyway, for economic if not political reasons, but that once we get used to it we will find ourselves better off (I hope!)

http://firequery.blogspot.com/2013/10/total-surveillance-is-...

If the "Social Credit" system is administered without corruption, by being self-referential, it seems that the end result could be that it works. A kinder, gentler tyranny of Mrs. Grundy.
Has the legality of their immigration been determined at that point? Or is the detention center used to hold them until that has been determined?

Regardless, the statement as written is accurate. How many modifiers are necessary?
Its nice to read publications from countries that have no relevant geopolitical rivalry with the country being discussed

Would like to see more!
The idea that a special interest that is financially powerful and interested in high prison population, may inject wrong incentives into the society is real and understandable.

But we also have other side of the equation - politicians willing to expand definition of "crime" to placate people's fears and emotions combined with prosecutors willing to throw the book to make and example and build a career on it, all while not appropriately funding the prisons.

California's real problem is MASSIVE prison population, where you have to BECOME a RACIST to survive the prison gangs. Prison overcrowd is a feature of CA prison system.

I wish they ordered their priorities right and built enough prisons to house the population safely.

This is one single step in a series of steps to get anywhere positive. Knowing their Governor and his political expedient past, I am skeptical.
You really need to scrap the massive subsidies that incur to cars via free or nearly free parking in many cities: https://www.city-journal.org/html/high-cost-free-parking-146.... This will lead to an incredible surplus of space for smaller vehicles; it's often easy to fit 6 - 18 of them in a give space currently legally mandated for cars.
One thing that shouldn't really be controversial. Incentives are misaligned with private prisons. It really hard to find an argument for them.
The advertising is Google’s business model - not Apple’s.

Google could make its money a different way.

It’s true that if they did so they might not be a monopolist.

Who knows what the bidding for the default search spot would look like in that case, but it is their choice.
>SBCL beats CPython by a country mile in every performance comparison I’ve seen.

This. Lisp at least 10x faster in the worst case; it can be made to run even faster...
Fair enough, but in that case it's a bit disingenuous to say those claims were being made about "pinball games" without qualification, because what you describe is not what someone today[0] thinks of when you say "pinball".

0: citation: myself and gambiting and barneygale at a minimum
> this simple one still converges at about 0.6 decimal digits per term.

Quick proof of this: as the number of terms n in the sum goes to infinity, the ratio of each term to the previous one is approximately 1/4 - the first factor contributes m/(m+1), the second q/(q+2) for some m and q that go to infinity along with n, the third contributes 1/4.

If we counted base 4, then the value of each digit would be on average 1/4 of the previous one, certainly for a normal number like pi. But we count base 10, so we get log_10 4 decimal digits every time we get one base-four digit. Which is very close to 0.6.
Back in the day, when a buddy was into Warcraft he could fall asleep anytime he wanted during the day. “I have five minutes before the next meeting. Zzzzzz...” Not sure it was just three hours at night, though.

Kinda similar how where I am, draftee privates can sleep standing up, and sometimes with open eyes.
Yeah it's not great but it's a move in the right direction and beyond closing all prisons there will always be a need for vendors to provide goods and services inside prisons. Prisoners need food and clothing at the very least and it'll be bought from someone.
This is really interesting to me! I work with a few Hongkongers here on the mainland, but i assumed they were a self-selected group of people who could speak Mandarin. When i go to Hong Kong i have a really hard time communicating with anybody because they do not like to speak either English or Mandarin. Admittedly, i tend to visit the smaller suburbs in North District so i may not be meeting the most cosmopolitan or mainland-friendly Hongkongers.
have you ever seen a construction project that didn't appear like a total racket?

I wouldnt try holding construction groups and Chinese central planning to a higher standard
I realize it's hard to take a random internet stranger's opinion seriously, but my manager was really that bad.

I waited about a month before suggesting anything. And it wasn't even serious stuff (e.g. "I think we could use a C API here, that way we don't need a Objective-C++ bridge between the C++ code and Swift", his answer: "No." with no explanation - I'm pretty sure he didn't understand what I was suggesting, and had no interest in trying to understand)

Eventually I learned to make him think he came up with the idea, that was the only way things could get done. Unfortunately I wasted my social capital on the suggestions that had the most impact (early on, before I realized politics were a thing), but thankfully I managed to make some improvements.

> From this and the rest of your post, I would suggest that you try to develop a more diplomatic, political, and humble approach in your next job. This is an important skill.

Agreed. My biggest lesson for sure.
As someone who used to be a Floridian, tales of gators in ponds are greatly exaggerated :) The vast majority of ponds, especially community ponds, do not have gators.

Snakes? Another story.
Good point--I tend to forget that. The rather vague article seems to indicate the actual SMS content is being sent to the SIM, though. Why is that?
Honestly, it's a bit of a red herring.. nothing is going to change from a criminal justice perspective. Less than 10% of incarcerated people are held in private prisons. But even more importantly, there are still so many private contractors / unions in the (public/private) prison industry that this ban won't really affect policies or outcomes going forward.. private interests will almost always exist in it that have perverse incentives that are contrary to what's actually good for crime and recidivism rates. [0]

An example would be the prison phones / video visitation industry. It's absolutely abhorrent what's going on there (removing in-person visits, replacing them with stupidly expensive phone calls that prisoners can hardly afford).. and yet public prisons / jails are using their services just the same. [1]

[0] - https://worthrises.org/picreport2019

[1] - https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice.h...
Just look at how expensive those phone calls are :(
I am also struggling with sleep. Applying for jobs and starting a blood pressure medication flipped on my insomnia. It's been nearly a month of waking up three or four hours before I want to and it's driving me crazy. Does anyone have any tips for falling back to sleep?
> Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets.

This is such a bizarre and twisted sentence to hear without a hint of irony. It's like dream/nightmare logic except in real life. In 100 years private prisons are going to be a hideous stain on our history and this is such a huge step in the right direction that it really makes me proud to be living in California and supporting the state with my tax dollars.
You and I grew up in very, very different worlds then. Most things that made kids in my community were purely consumerist.

Air Jordans, Pokémon cards, brand name clothes like hollister and AE, and then popular phones like the razer were ubiquitous among those that were popular. Kids who didn’t have those things were bullied relentlessly.
Looks interesting. I see there’s web for desktop use, but have you considered bringing the iOS app to Mac with Catalyst?
Anyone from other browser vendors care to comment? Would love to know their progress and what they think of SPIR-V/WSL.
Not that I've been to prison in California, public or private, but if you look up a guy named Wes Watson on youtube, who recently got out after >10 years in a mix of private and public California prisons, he mentions that the guards at state run prisons were actually much more effective and actually tried to do their job the right way, because they're paid well with state benefits and pensions and such, compared to the staff at private facilities, who he likened to WalMart employees.
Trump has a plan. Concentration camps.[1] Site surveys already underway.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/10/trump-pus...
This is incredible. I can't believe it's happened so soon, putting people (especially such a stigmatized group) above profits really gives hope for the future of the country. Thanks for leading us in this, California.
Because we design for worst case scenarios, not perfect utopias.
No matter what string manipulation method you use, you have to produce linear, null-terminated strings for passing into all sorts of existing API's, standard and not.
Well if their spam/flood control is done in the client they should ban themselves from their job and let someone competent take over
There were plenty of drugs 50 years ago, they merely got recalled

We’d be invincible if those other drugs didnt kill us!
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Sourcehut makes BSD software better
I don't think that's a fair assessment. Just because it's not a huge revolutionary reform that doesn't make incremental improvements a red herring. These are just steps toward a better world.
Glad you found a solution.

A very dear friend committed suicide after a few weeks of sleeplessness. I can't say it was the sole cause, but I don't believe he would have done that had he been sleeping more.

Lack of sleep is dangerous to the human brain. Anyone that experiences this should seek help immediately.

My solution to a racing mind: solitaire. I play for 10 minutes and I'm totally groggy and fall asleep very quickly.
Interesting. What's the name of the engine, and is it open source?
California passes a sane law, what is happening to this world?
Dynamic typing means you pay the cost of trace recording or profiling to collect the type info. The actual code performance should ultimately be the same. JIT can remove the overhead of dynamic dispatch and replace it with a fixed call and a guard, for example. This isn’t possible with dynamically loading C libraries.