skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

The same criticism can be applied towards forced prison labour, and yet, it is explicitly permitted by the thirteenth amendment. (And is commonly used in state prisons.)

Just because a profit incentive falls in the hands of the state's coffers, as opposed to some corporation, does not mean the incentive is not perverse.
Isn't that something? I work in a big-4 accountancy office and just wear a hoodie or t-shirt.
ARC is implemented at the language level but it's not required. You can use it when and where you like.

One fundamental aspect of swift is the distinction between reference types -- which are reference counted -- and value types -- which are not. Generally in Swift you'd use a value type over a reference type unless you have reasons not to. E.g.: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/choosing_bet...

I mean, I don't know what the right approach for this library is. The authors are going to have to fix their own code. IMO, coming up with a demonstrably poor solution and trying to defend it as "idiomatic" is pretty weak.
> battle with Trump over treatment of immigrants

> Immigrant detainees

> immigration detention facilities

> undocumented immigrants

> immigrant rights advocates

> immigration attorney

Which of those offends you and needs the illegal part?
You can have my scrollbar when you pull it from my cold, dead, GUI. If I don't have a scrollbar visible (with or without cursor), I'd better be in console.
That might be because it’s way bigger than the wall we would need on the southern border or because more people cross from the south than from the north or because they actually are using border security as an excuse to keep out Mexicans - but keeping terrorists out is (one of) the justifications for classifying border security as a national security and therefore military issue.
If you call them mopeds that should clarify any ambiguity.
I don't know anything about Florida. Why would developers choose to build suburbs with ponds in areas like that?
That's charitable. The incentive isn't just to get rid of rehabilitation, it's for the private prison to do everything in their power to ensure that their inmates are trapped in a never-ending cycle of crime and recidivism.
Not considering UX. Accessibility problems. Getting used to the old way. Do you have a specific example?
Only been in one, the one on Stanyan street near Waller. Worked fine for me!
Because the detention facilities don't house exclusively illegal immigrants (in fact, given the fact that US citizens have been detained in them for extended periods despite clear proof of citizenship, even calling them immigrant detention facilities is somewhat misleading.)

A more accurate label would be “arbitrary detention facilities”.
Bootstrap has some JS but is mostly a library of CSS classes. They built themselves a library of React components that they can use to compose UI. I've built stuff like this using React and Vue, without any additional tooling. IMO it can be a great approach but only if there's' a cohesive agreement on the design within the company, IE it doesn't work that well when the stakeholders don't "stick with it".
Acknowledged...

I meant: what other projects exist like Reflectacles that i could (either now or soon) happily pay money for (in order to help preserve privacy)?? For me, privacy is no longer a "nice to have" feature, but rather, a top-most feature for products/services that i pay for.
Many immigrants (especially those from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) in ICE detention facilities presented themselves at the border and legally requested asylum. For more information on "northern triangle" and why these immigrants are fleeing their homeland, read https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/central-americas-violent-no...

This is an ongoing and growing challenge for our immigration system. In FY 2017, as instability in Central America’s Northern Triangle showed few signs of ending, immigration judges decided over 30,000 asylum cases, a considerable increase over the roughly 22,300 asylum cases decided in FY 2016, and the most [since] FY 2005. (source: https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-u-s-asylum-p...)
What is even scarier is an entity NOT motivated by profits that spends endlessly into a pit sucking resources away from solving bigger issues such as Climate Change, creating a high speed rail network, or educating children.

Lets not be against efficiency for the sake of political orthodoxy.
> "In another top-secret document seen by the Guardian, dated 2008, a senior NSA official points out that Israel aggressively spies on the US. "On the one hand, the Israelis are extraordinarily good Sigint partners for us, but on the other, they target us to learn our positions on Middle East problems," the official says. "A NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] ranked them as the third most aggressive intelligence service against the US."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...
Next we have to remove all for-profit 'prisoner support' services such as the staggeringly expensive communications firms that are bleeding prisoners and their relatives dry.
Wow, that sucks, sorry to hear. Sounds like your grandparents may need home health care, what's their living situation? They may benefit from further help than you can provide from your limited free time.
Not just that, digitized also means that it is available for purchase pretty much anywhere and at anytime verses in a specific place during business hours. Also unlike stickers and collectible cards these games get to advertise their newest goods everything you interact with the product.
>A more accurate label would be “arbitrary detention facilities”.

And "concentration camp" would be even more accurate.
>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.

There's no reason a for-profit company wouldn't be able to provide a high quality service here if the customer actually insisted on (and paid for) such.
It's a gated community - if you place the Streetview pointer on Lake Worth Rd, you can even see the gates.
That's all true, though I usually stop at a grocery store on my way home, so I'm not spending a lot of travel time. Honestly the worst part of grocery shopping is getting out of the store with your stuff, because of checkout lines. I suppose if you're not stocking up though, you may be able to get away with express laning it more often than I do.
Metal also is quite different between mobile and desktop, so it's not solving this portability issue completely. It has the benefit of standardizing more of the limits/capabilities in the feature tables as a part of the "spec". This is much better than querying everything about the physical device at run/init time and making decisions from there.

Where Metal is really different, in a good way, is that it has progressive complexity. You can use the basic commands and get pretty far, allowing the driver to manage lifetimes for you and not caring about multi-threading too hard. But then there are ways to get more control, gradually, which you can opt into later. This is very different from Vulkan's all-or-nothing approach.

For the Web, it seems to me that having the same property would work best.
That's literally how Flutter started. "What if we don't have to be backwards compatible? Let's delete the HTML parsing quirks... and expensive CSS selectors... and... all of the DOM... and JavaScript... and why do we have markup even..."
>have you ever seen a construction project that didn't appear like a total racket?

Yes but none of them were funded or overseen at the state or national level. The source of the funds, the people doing the constructing and the people with the stake in the results was a fairly tight loop. The extra overhead of state/national projects seems to provide enough inefficiency/friction that just turns the whole thing into a money pit.
I actually had a similar idea to discourage certain news outlets from posting inflammatory but misleading or untrue headlines and articles for clicks, and then later changing them to something more factually correct after the damage has been done.
Because it houses both "legal" and "illegal" immigrants.

Can you explain why it's so important that the word be included even if it's detrimental to objective truth?
I think it's fine to feel the way you do.

It's impossible not to have negative emotions sometimes, unhealthy even if you don't get the lows. I try not to let it ruin the highs for me, the good moments only happen so often.

I'm sorry you didn't feel as if psychiatric care is not invested in who "you" are. It takes not only an observant person, but also somebody who is compatible in a psychological and conversational way.

In a round about way, I've found the best cure for the desire to be understood, is to actually take time and understand others.

It is rare if not impossible to find somebody who 'fully understands me', but sometimes you can find that you and somebody else understands another in small but meaningful ways.
Isn't it? Companies that probably lobby for stricter and longer sentences, looking at a populated state as a "market,"
with caged human beings as their product. It's the most absurd concept to me, and it's even more disgusting when it's put in such an innocent manner. "Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets." It just gets more disgusting the more you look into it, and the statistics around incarceration in the US.
Public jails are doing the same things because companies that provide those services lobby them to do it. The FCC under Obama had capped the amount they could charge which was promptly undone with government changes.

This also ignores known stories such as an example where a judge had a stake in a private prison company (or was bribed outright?) And as a result was sentencing school kids to prison for things which probably needed detention at worst. And this went on for a decade.

The prison system in the US is not good to begin with. Largely because the citizens look at prison as retribution rather than rehabilitation. But the private nature only adds to and exacerbates issues.
The point was that the concurrency model of these ML libraries is not dependent on a CPU for backprop (ideally), so discussing language level concurrency as an advantage is irrelevant. The parallelism is not implemented at the language level, nor does it rely on language constructs for synchronizing shared memory. The parallelism happens at the hardware level (e.g. with SIMD). And in the model architecture (e.g. with convolutions).

So the advantages you posited in your lengthy diatribe are meaningless, because you failed to take into account the problem domain, along with utterly failing to grasp what gets calculated during backprop. Plus, backprop doesn't get calculated in Python.

The argument about functional vs imperative languages is old, tired and is not relevant to the subject. Please at least learn some fundamentals about NNs and ML frameworks before contributing a long, uninformed response.
"foo" is a string. It's also a regex that matches exactly the string "foo".

Regarding Turing-completeness, the entire point is about the termination of algorithms that examine parsers, not the runtime of the parsers themselves.

I also don't know how many times I need to point out that the reason I'm focusing on regexes is that that was the context for this conversation. Under any other context I'm quite interested in new parsing techniques.

Lastly, I would point out that regexes have uses far beyond a certain arbitrarily decided set of sysadmins and developers "worth their salt". Even if it's true that a meaningful subset of sysadmins are capable of writing basically sound BNF (which is not something I would count on even for CS grads, but maybe you work with smarter people than I do), there are lots of other people who could use a little more parsing power if it was offered in the right way.
Modern JS engines only interpret cold functions, and static vs dynamic doesn't matter once type information has been collected.

The real reason is that HotSpot has 10+ more years of work put into it than V8.
> That's why you need bigger better wheels

Or just one big one! https://onewheel.com

I switched to one of these after having a few too many wipeouts on a longboard. It's been fantastic.
Not only bigger, but inflatable rubber wheels. The small, hard rubber wheels that we used to rip when Razor Scooters were huge in the 90s were great if you didn't value your face.
> The toughest nut to crack

And you somehow managed to completely forget that families with small children exist.
Because a country is not a house. The analogy is fundamentally flawed. Our government can provide for immigrants in ways that individuals simply cannot.
It's good to measure all the pieces (if you can) or get an upper-bound estimate, allocate once, then move in.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/lib.c?id=txr-225#n3897

(The mysterious wini, wref and auto_str macros here allow a C character array on the stack to be a Lisp value with a type tag, recognized and ignored by the garbage collector.)
Unix system admin can be stressful especially if its a production environment. It's great to hear things are working out for ya and you're enjoying the new gig.
It's a good idea to get your software tested by someone else (third party, beta testers etc) as developers we're usually blind to pain spots and think things are 'obvious' that apparently really aren't!
I suppose I was being a bit strong. I just don't want anyone to get the impression that it's anything _but_ the teensiest of baby steps.
Just because you buy something from someone outside your company does not mean you're not benefiting from their business model. Companies don't operate in a vacuum.

To put an extreme example, just because Apple pays Foxconn does not mean they don't benefit from what's effectively slave labour. They're not removed from the effects of their transaction. The principal works in reverse too.
They don't need phone calls in some jails that cost over $20 for 15 minutes. Please don't make excuses for a corrupt system. Yeah, this is a win, but the problem is MASSIVE and in so many different domains. Frankly, you don't seem aware of the many issues that they were hinting at.
Congress Continues to Ignore the Dangerous Flaws of the Case Act
Fortunately, for West Virginia, they joined the union and as such we help each other out since they are under federal regulation and are taxed at the federal level.
Here was their response. I understand they are improving things?

- Ensure your lambda is in the same vpc. Configure the security groups correctly. Things to keep in mind

- Lambda in a VPC has longer cold start as it needs to setup the relevant network interfaces

- Lambda won't have internet access, you will need a NAT gateway/instance if you need internet within the lambda.
California's prison population is declining. Especially in juveniles. So there's less need for prison space.
Even in a lot of the more mainstream libertarian literature [1] most law enforcement and the justice systems are treated as exactly the type of stuff that doesn’t make sense for a market and should be handled by the government. This should apply to prisons for much of the same reasons.

Besides, most of these sorts of private/public relationships are unlike other true markets anyway with very little competition and only one customer to appease. We end up with a system with even more opaque responsibility/liability chains and encourage crony business deals.

Without any discernible benefit for the private nature and creating negative incentives that encourage more violence by correlating the success of an industry on the greater imprisonment of people, I can’t see any net-benefit for them to exist.

I tend to be a fan of markets in a practical sense but I wish we had clearer distinctions between these public/private operations that are spun as being more “efficient”. Plus a ton of people use these failures of public/private organizations to disparage markets. So it’s not doing anyone any favours to support these half baked pseudo market arrangements, even if you are pro market. In most situations we need purely public or market solutions. I’ve seen few examples of mixing the two that left us better off (the US health insurance ‘market’ is the shining example).

[1] as opposed to the more fringe absolutist anarcho-capitalist stuff ala Mises which does push for private everything
They are retention ponds, it’s necessary to create areas where water can drain into.
Maybe you could start by not framing the entire world in terms of numbers?
With the Intimidation of Tech Expert, Ola Bini Case Hits a New Low
Native Floridian. I spent my youth shoeless around these ponds, catching and releasing gators, snakes, and fish. I find those experiences growing up invaluable.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Have you considered remote work? Sounds like it would be right up your alley. (Good) remote companies work based on results, not "butts in seats," so you're free to work in whatever way works best for you. Of course, you still have to be productive.
Can you explain this scenario further? I’ve not used immutablejs but I’m familiar with both functional data structure concepts and immerjs.

Immerjs just improves the ergonomics updating a native nested structure in a way that the original contents are maintained as much as possible. Because js has dreadful support for equality checks, this definitely comes in useful.
This is even better, not only does Israel spy, it also sends trolls to hacker news to make sure you scottlocklin don't reveal their evil plans. I bet u're really afraid the mossad is now after you or something.

You got any more of those gems? How deep does the paranoia go?

Also I'm just yet another Israeli browsing HN, angry of the bulshit and false allegations.
On any standard unix system with bc installed - it's preinstalled on most of them, you can calculate pi to $n digits using bc:

bc -l <<< "scale=$n; 4*a(1)"
Very true. The California Correctional and Peace Officer's Association is one of the largest unions in the state and exercises a good deal of political power, albeit less than it used to.

Part of the problem is the division into trade unions, in which different economic sectors have their own unions and can then be rolled over or pandered to as is convenient for business or state interests. Syndicalism is an idea of people in different businesses and employment sectors to combine their labor power more efficiently by avoiding the fragmentation problem.
I think you are correct because the screenshot someone posted above in Imgur is not what I see on google maps.
What is efficient for society is to focus on rehabilitation, which is not a "pit sucking resources".
The 'undocumented immigrants' part, which is simple semantic bleaching.
I wonder what content-types email clients support besides HTML and plaintext. Would any support mp3, mp4, markdown, org or odt?

EDIT: Hmmm found this[1], and this[2]. They talk about using TROFF, TEX, Postscript, voice data, etc. I wonder if something like that ended up implemented somewhere.

EDIT 2: I opened an issue[3].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1049

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc767

[3] https://github.com/hteumeuleu/caniemail/issues/23
That's a problem for the business people to figure out. Items which make it easier to play are a massive red flag to avoid a game and they're always right.
JS Error `No identifiers allowed directly after numeric literal` when running http://ajennings.net/pi.html on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6, Safari 12.1.2 (14607.3.9)
Take That ‘Gig’ and Shove It
Honestly I'm not.

I haven't had a job in 5 years, due in part to relocating for my partner, family health problems, and then my own health problems.

I've developed a bad anxiety problem, due in part to the shitty job experiences, which has been amplified due to my own health issues.

To top it off, tech work generally leaves me unfulfilled. I don't want to work on another CRM, build another website, or fix another damned computer. I want to do work that matters, work that is new and innovative. I'm tired of not making money.

Finally, I am sick and tired of all the bad luck I seem to have. I'm on the wrong side of the success bell curve and I don't like being here one bit.
No you don't, you'll just replace them with something else.

Assuming of course you are not increasing people's travel times with your new device.

If your plan is actually "make everything slow and take forever", then sure you can get rid of fatalities.
Google-owned Crashlytics is using iOS 13’s custom fonts feature to track users
Well, the article states:

"In March, the Norwegian government announced it will gradually divest its shares in companies engaged in the exploration and extraction of oil and gas. (But it will still invest in companies that refine and sell oil.)"

I'm not really sure how you reconcile these two things - a policy of carbon footprint reduction while actively investing in companies whose business is predicated on oil consumption.
pretty much all the recruiters that have hit me up for senior dev positions in SE Michigan have thrown out $125-175 or so, and the salary websites I've looked up have estimated similar amounts for > 5y experience at senior level. Above $140 or so you'll have to hustle a bit and negotiate though, most likely.
I cannot think of a use of license-plate reader technology which is not immoral.

With the rise of this kind of tech and its prevalence, I think the privacy-focused among us should start pushing to outlaw the use of this tech and eliminate the need for external identification on vehicles.
1) Because they're not necessarily all illegal immigrants. AFAIU, ICE puts asylum seekers who are otherwise following the letter of the law into these detention centers--show up at the border, request asylum, get put into detention while awaiting disposition of your case.

2) Are you an illegal driver for driving over the speed limit? Illegal usually implies something criminal. Crossing the border illegally is a misdemeanor--no more than 6 months in prison. That is criminal strictly speaking, but within a certain grey area where we very often refrain from branding people as criminals.

I'm not really hung up on the phrase. I understand both sides, which really come down to wanting to emphasize different aspects of the situation to highlight different political priorities.

I'm curious, though, if newspapers have style guides regarding usage of "illegal". If I Google 'site:theguardian.com "illegal immigration"' I find many hits, so perhaps at least for The Guardian it's at the discretion of the particular journalist.
The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
It actually is. That's how slowmode works: if you send a message in a channel with slowmode, it sets a flag on your client telling it to not let you send anything for X seconds. No reason an alternative client can't just clear out that flag.