skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although ... I'm glad I'm not a gambling man...

Back a while ago, I remembered my MtG friends complaining that they couldn't get some box (Modern Masters?) because they ran out immediately. I was at my hometown and ran into a dedicated gaming store owner who vastly overestimated the wealth of his rural clients in buying higher end MtG stuff (or maybe he didn't--I did spend a lot of money after all).

So, I bought all his stock--something like 10 boxes at almost $3000, IIRC, (there is more than one reason they call it cardboard crack) and brought them back.

I kept a couple boxes for gifts and sold the rest to very happy MtG players.

Every single box had a card at the time valued at more than the price of the whole box--plus a smattering of other fairly valuable cards.

Since then, my MtG friends make me pick out any "lottery" things they buy. My luck is decent, but it has never been that good again.
Yeah, I've always thought the private/public prison thing is a bit of a red herring. Construction and maintenance companies get paid either way. Staff gets paid.

I think it makes more sense to focus on specific aspects of the criminal justice system rather than simply the private/public distinction. There should be standards for the pay and training of prison staff, security of inmates, quality of food and nutrition, medical care, etc.. It might be true that private prisons skimp on these things more than public prisons, but the standards are what is important.

Of course, this may very well mean that the best way to implement and enforce these standards is to have as much "public" (state) direction as possible in the development and operation of prisons, and I'm not at all against that if it is in fact the best implementation.
It probably wasn't visible from ground level. If it's five feet below the surface but 30 feet from shore, then your line of sight would pass through a bit more than 30 feet of water, and the pond is muddy enough that it's partly obscured even from directly above. If no one happened to swim or boat directly over it, and with no tall buildings nearby, there may have been no opportunity to see it.

(I've noticed something similar flying over the Great Lakes. Looking down from the window of a descending plane, you can clearly make out lakefloor contours that are invisible from shore, even with the relatively clear water.)
To add further, it would be horrible if inequality were perpetuated forever. But we have made a lot of progress by instituting liberal order and Western values in our own demarcated nations. This order is uplifting the world and other nations are able to copy it at their own pace. To eliminate the demarcations threatens a race to the bottom wherein the system has to accept people who do not know how to participate in our way of life, in greater numbers than it can accept.
Also not a bad reddit post on the same topic

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/d275up/week_of_sept_9t...
I have a phd in deep learning, so I do R&D type of work, where I mostly read papers, build models, run experiments, and occasionally write emails to others who work on similar problems.

I actually didn't like to be so disconnected from the group. I like face to face brainstorming sessions, and I couldn't really have that there.
New zine: HTTP: Learn your browser's language
Personal experience tells me that in federal prison you get 300 minutes a month. You pay 26 cents a minute for long distance. There's legit virtual phone tech businesses that service the families of those incarcerated. You get it dropped down to 6 cents a minute.........

That 15 minute maximum includes a mandatory waste of 38 seconds of a recorded message telling the receiver that the person on the other end of the line is in federal prison. Additionally you waste approximately 1 minute during the call when a woman's voice reminds you all that the call was placed from federal prison. That's just the time the voice is talking.. it doesn't account for the fact it is seemingly random and derails any train of thought. All in all you waste over 1.5 minutes of the call...

Outside of Unicor you're screwed if you expect to make more than 20 dollars a month.

Oh and the email system ha ha ha haaaa you pay by the MINUTE to email. Imagine how many people can't type well at all? I spent so much time typing up messages for people because they couldn't type well. It's just pretty sad. Huge rip off for every one in a vulnerable position.
Please understand that I am saying this in a compassionate, not a judgmental way. I think the key developmental step is to be able to get over yourself. I think this is a fundamental part in becoming a mature person. Many of us are forced through this step against our will and maybe without realizing it. Either through our job, or significant other, or kids, or some other experience that just overwhelms you. Apparently you are a tougher nut to crack than most people. It's not easy because it's like part of you has to die and it doesn't go quietly.

But on the other side, where it becomes easy to start thinking about others first, everything starts to fall into place. We were made to be like this. A human child tends to be self-focused. A human adult must be much more selfless. And I don't think we can really be happy until we achieve this state. When you can find joy in satisfying others, you have access to a bottomless well of happiness. (Then it turns out satisfying others is pretty hard even when you are really trying)

It's funny because this is something religion usually stresses as well, so if you've avoided that you really might be missing out.
Lots of funky stuff. Don’t let your dogs swim in those ponds either.
So does this also ban private companies from operating inside prisons? Most of them don't care who holds the actual keys so long as they can take advantage of the prisoners. They may not be the warden, but they can still control the purse strings.
Why We Need to Study Consciousness
Others have explained why it's relevant (this is the recommended solution for online shader generation from SPIR-V advocates.)

But there's also a direct comparison of WSL vs SPIR-V wire size in he same graph, for cases where SPIR-V would be generated in advance.
A Georgist Income (UBI from Land Tax)
>Has the legality of their immigration been determined at that point?

By that logic, how do you even know they're immigrants to begin with, then? All it takes is flashing your visa or any documentation proving your status which you are required to carry at all times, just like I am. You were not expecting bartenders to give you a free pass in your teenage because you left your ID at home, did you?

>Regardless, the statement as written is accurate

Accuracy by omission is deceit, not journalism.

>How many modifiers are necessary?

One: illegal immigrant. Now I re-iterate my question: why is it so hard for The Guardian to use the correct terminology?
> Meanwhile in America we paint a tiny narrow bike lane on the road and pretend the white line is going to stop accidents.

Separated bike lanes can be equally dangerous and more inconvenient for cyclists. If you can swing around a slow/stopped hazard then it’s not much better. It’s only good for the newbie riders who are scared of the road.

The best arrangements are sharrows where both parties are sharing the road with constant reminders to cars to be aware of their surrounds and respect cyclists.

Otherwise I 100% agree with you regarding electric vehicles.
Wouldn't the better solution to these priorities be shrinking down those definitions of crime, and not filling up the prisons we've got, rather than building bigger ones?
I wonder if there's anyone scanning satellite imagery for the word "HELP", or if we should agree on some other symbol people could use to ask for help that would be easier to discover with computer vision and wouldn't be English-specific.

How large should you make the letters? Satellite resolutions range from 2m for Planet Labs, 50cm for Geoeye to ~10cm for that spy satellite Trump leaked recently. The MNIST dataset of hand written digits uses 28*28 pixels, but you can get away with less. Maybe 50 meter by 50 meter letters?

If you know binary you could also include extra information by using rows of 5 squares ~1m in diameter.
Yes, and that's a great general purpose solution. The problem comes when you try to market this as a replacement for a car, and then it doesn't work. The platform is too narrow, some require lots of fiddling to get right, you don't have a comfortable seat, you're open to inclement weather, you have to already have a decent e-bike, etc. Taking a lot of time to find your own solution is one thing, but providing everyone a one-size-fits-all (remember, the intention is to prevent people from needing a car) involves a lot of considerations. With every change you have to reconsider the whole design, because even small changes significantly affect the ride.
I just checked my comments. In fact none of them have any replies. I suspect none of them are visible. The account is one year old.

I have two submissions. One has no comments, and the other has one comment (a regular reply to the submission).

I will write to the mods as you suggested. The account is irrelevant, I can use this one from now on. I just wouldn’t want to repeat whatever I did to get the account banned.

Thanks again!
(defun LMAO '())
Mopeds are sub 50cc motorized bicycles though.
> I cannot think of a use of license-plate reader technology which is not immoral.

The parking garage I use every weekday reads my plate, and opens the gate as I have a subscription. Same thing happens when I want to leave. Is that immoral?

It's less about the technology about license-plate reading and more about what people do with the data afterwards.

I would restructure the argument as " I cannot think of a usage for storing the data of a license-plate reader for purpose of selling it which is not immoral." or something like that.
Someone needs to add some heavy complexity to ACID4 so there's a solid baseline for tests.

They should have ACID sub-tests for images, videos, etc so these statistics would actually provide something long term and important.
I would recommend you do some research on this topic. Your giving talking points produced by mainstream talking heads.

When in fact, research points to private prisons being better at dropping incarceration rates through the programs offered at them. Therefore increasing ones chance at correct rehabilitation.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249718665_A_Compara...
At the recent XOXO festival here in Portland, there was a dsicussion by the authors of the book "Burnout": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592377/burnout-by-e...

I really found it illuminating, and their suggestions helped me get out of a momentary and powerful funk.
I'm a retired programmer working on a programmatic approach to life using models from psychology and applying category theory to them. I'm also a stay-at-home parent who is working to develop a life for my family rooted in supportive and loving community instead of money. My partner and I also are making several non-normative conscious decisions about how to raise our child. These decisions are oriented toward meeting all needs for life to thrive, especially autonomy and respect.

We don't have cohorts and are currently looking for rent-free housing on land where a diverse, interdependent community already exists or the land-owners seek to develop one.

I am not looking to argue on the merits of what I seek or the existence of such places. We have enough evidence so far to encourage us on this path, including 4 potential places to live, though none have an existing community and the ability for us to move before winter may not be available at any of them.

We seek community and guidance for how to find our next home.
The proposal from SPIR-V advocates is to not ship any high level language compiler with the browser. That could change, but currently no one is excited about accepting both a binary language and a text-based language.
You know what’s dangerous for cyclists? Other drivers.
If he lived on that street or a connecting street then you can see how he might drive right into that pond if he fell asleep (from all those drinks at the club) right before making that turn.
Why not allow the runtime to call the garbage collector (GC)? The GC is very lazy by default, it should be possible to make it collect all garbage. Currently v8 will just let the garbage grow because the GC is so lazy.
Rather than building enough prisons, what if they just set target incarceration rates, built capacity for that, and then required that the justice system sentence and parole accordingly?

There's no reason to have over half a percentage of point of the entire population in prison. Almost no other country in the world does this.

Capping incarceration rates not only prevents prison overcrowding, but is a forcing function for policy changes that actually lower crime, as well as alternative sentencing options for non-violent crime (which almost always have better outcomes.)
Many massively large companies today, simply saw traction for a particular product/service in one country (market) and then adapted it to their own country (market).

What might be a new "innovation" in our country could be old hat in another.

Nothing wrong with that at all.
Gnome 3.34 Released
Do you strive to be more animalistic? That doesn’t seem like a very noble pursuit for a human being
As a cross-platform graphics developer who is currently knee-deep in papering over platform incompatibilities, what I mostly care about at this point is compatibility. I don't care about shader size or compilation time, as long as both are reasonable. I do care about having yet another shading language to cross-compile to.

Please, everyone, just use something that already exists. It is frustrating how the big players constantly use new and incompatible graphics APIs to try to obtain some sort of competitive advantage, adding to the workload we developers have to deal with. There is almost no cost to the platform developers to add new APIs; instead, the costs are borne by the application developers. It's a classic case of negative externalities.
The Hasabra is real, dude. Feel free to attempt to refute it; it is well documented that knuckleheads are paid to show up on forums and do exactly what you're doing. So far you've called me a blood libeler and an antisemite without engaging with anything I've raised.

Israel definitely spies on the US; you can literally find hundreds of examples on google: I only listed 10. If you're Israeli; tell your politicians to cut it out. I actually agree with your assertions that this is likely to eventually cause problems for Israel with the US, and that they should stop. They should also consider getting rid of nukes with delivery vehicles capable of hitting LA.

I mean if I really wanted to get out the heavy artillery I'd mention the Lavon affair and the attack on the USS Liberty. By now, those are mostly water under the bridge, but they sure weren't the actions of an ally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
This also takes a lot of RAM. Keep an eye on it during longer executions or the swapping could make your box pretty unusable.
Workaround: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/03775904-177...
Oh ok, that makes sense. I know that's one way to view the problem, but I guess it carries more weight as being the correct view due to the divine origin of the advice?

Maybe the bible is right here, but another way to view that parable might be that the rich person was planning for his safety, which is wise. And by dying, he has transferred the safety that he was building for himself to his legacy, which can continue without him. I think most people in our society would describe that rich person as being prudent, not foolish. We call that "estate planning" today and it's recommended that everyone does it.

There's a lot of other guidance that I consider very wrong in the same bible though, so its authority doesn't help me much in deciding if it's correct about how to view life. It also seems like this advice might have been more applicable before the invention of medicine.

In any case, I appreciate the explanation.
Prisoners can't go to a bathroom or book a conference room.
> The scrollbar is under attack. Scrolljacking hijacks the default scrolling behavior, breaking the implied contract between document length and scrollbar height.

…

...so here's how we hijacked system-provided scrollbars to fit our needs.
Sad that you make almost no effort to push responsibility on the people hiring undocumented workers
Safari does not support BigInt yet it seems.
Fun facts I would like to add:

1.
Even Cantonese in Guangzhou and Hong Kong is different. The way they formulate sentences makes it very easy to distinguish where one is from.

For example, Guangzhou people like to say, “Handsome brother, I got a question.” For Hong Kong people, it just sounds weird to call someone you don’t know handsome brother. Although, this would sound perfectly normal in China.

2.
Hong Kong/ Taiwan uses traditional Chinese, while mainland China uses simplified Chinese.

Simplified Chinese was actually discouraged because it is considered shorthand; therefore, improper for formal writing.
The PJ-SIP project defines their own length-based string wrapper for C strings.

https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject
https://www.pjsip.org/pjlib/docs/html/structpj__str__t.htm
I would recommend you do some research on this topic. Your giving a talking point produced by mainstream talking heads.

When in fact, research points to private prisons being better at dropping incarceration rates through the programs offered at them. Therefore increasing ones chance at correct rehabilitation.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249718665_A_Compara...
> Eventually, Adam said that he went from vaping over-the-counter e-liquids to vaping THC or tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the main psychoactive component of marijuana. Adam would get the THC from "a friend" or dealer.
Over time, Adam said that he developed shivers and couldn't control them. Then, the vomiting began.

A very small number of people are getting sick and dying because they're vaping black market THC cartridges. Most vapers are doing nicotine, and they're buying Juuls and other brand name products that are much safer than smoking.

I ask again: Are you willing to bet money that the CDC will attribute more deaths to vaping than smoking (or some similar statement that would be true if vaping was deadlier than smoking)? If you're so sure you're right, why don't you take my money?
The distance from the quote to your question seems like a pretty large leap.
For work days, essentially none. My wife sets out the clothes for me, and my role is limited to choosing brown or black shoes and belt. (Well socks, but generally that's whatever's in the front of the door.)

She has all the clothes sense that I have never particularly had.
I feel the same as you but I think most people - including me - only justify working because it pays for what we want to do in life. The problem is not having enough time to do what we want in life, and negotiating less hours for less pay leaves us with less pay to do the things we want with the time we gain. It's a very fine line and it leaves everyone unfulfilled most of the time depending on your expectations. One approach is to try and find fulfillment in life with the time and money you have, and optimize for that.
It was the Postgres server running out of available connections because Lambda doesn't let you kill them when the Lambdas are kept warm.

No idea if it's improved, I left the company they were doing that with. I much prefer owning your own infrastructure where possible.
Polls are usually pretty good at correcting for response rates. Claiming he has a 40% approval rating is hardly the sort of statistic that would be at a rally!
> my real preference would be for us to all work toward eliminating these national-level borders completely

I mean, ok, that means that you literally support open borders.

It is fine for you to think that, but you should realize that the vast majority of the population does not support it.

So it is not just "republicans or conservatives" that oppose open borders. It is instead basically everyone.

This company is not deporting anyone. It is just putting cameras at the border.
I'm an abolitionist* and agree with many of your points, but the political leverage to do a 'big bang' reform of the entire criminal justice/carceral system at once doesn't currently exist, nor are there neatly packaged answers for all of the complex problems. , so in the meantime we're still working within an incrementalist framework.

* as in that's the political position I hold, I wasn't involved in any way with this initiative or attempting to take credit or provide insider perspective on it.
I'm right there with you man. As a mildly successful adult, I'm more than happy to pay taxes for all those things I took advantage of growing up.
Water Jet Powered Drone Takes Off with Explosions
It's a taboo word for many reasons that are easy to explain, but mainly because there's nothing that can be done about it. You can try and "build more housing", you can "make it more expensive", you can "implement a lottery system" but you can't get rid of people, so it's not a constructive discussion.

The book "Collapse" by Jared Diamond covers this pretty well.
ICE Fails to Redact Document, Reveals Future 'Urban Warfare' Training Facility
Electric shopping carts? Here we sometimes have walmart's shopping carts parked 1-2 km away from wallmart...
> The contracts for these four prisons expire in 2023 and cannot be renewed under AB32, except to comply with a federal court order to reduce crowding in state-run facilities.

Hmm, something tells me these will end up being renewed considering getting budget approval and completing construction in 3 years is basically impossible so unless Californa has some prisons with spare space or in-progress new construction. OR, even better, reduces it's prison population... we may still have some private prisons for a while.

Still fantastic news.
> It is though.

Do you have any data to support this claim? Does any of that data specifically compare the two?

> it's not injected with antibiotics.

You can buy meat that hasn't been
I'm not sure what you're getting at. The term illegal is expressed in Oxford and Merriam Webster.

Its also expressed and used quite a lot in legal documents and written law.

Neither mean to use it as a racist term.
How to create an optimized intake process
MS-13 was literally founded in the US, in Los Angeles. Their rise to prominence (from small street gang to transnational one) was under the control of a man named Ernesto Deras, who had been trained by US Army Green Berets in Panama while serving in the Salvadorean Special Forces, and then left El Salvador and moved to the US to escape the brutal civil war in El Salvador- a civil war the US did have some involvement in. But MS-13 (and their rivals the 18th Calle) started in the US and then emigrated back to El Salvador.
Yep, the trick is that the lasso needs to be able to stretch enough to accelerate more slowly. You'd also need whatever harpoon you fired into the comet to be able to survive thousands of times its own mass in acceleration.
Is it not possible to keep allocating contiguous memory? Just keep appending to the string and allocating more memory. Repeated calls to malloc are not guaranteed to be contiguous but I think you can do this with posix_memalign. Just keep growing the heap segment, and appending more character to it. I suppose it's not going to be contiguous in physical memory, but it should in virtual memory.
What's going to happen to the existing private prisons? I assume this involves tearing up very expensive contracts. Will the government purchase them and convert them to public ones?