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This crosses into name-calling and personal attack. Please steer clear of that on Hacker News; we're trying for something a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can someone explain the logic behind the evolution of the fractions at each stage? I see that (1/4) becomes (1/4^2) and (1/4^3), but it's not obvious to me how (1/3)->(1/5)->(1/7) flows (odds? primes?), or (1/2) -> (13/24) -> (135/246).

EDIT: I understand now, the numerator on the first term is ascending odds and the denominator is ascending evens. Thanks for everyone's help!
I dunno, we have voluntary insurance for kitesurfing. Why not? Insurance companies will do it pretty cheap.
the config generator will ship in synapse by default in the near future. its first release is due tomorrow.

ma1sd is considered stable and works afaik, and is already part of the matrix ecosystem.
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.

FWIW, one should also consider that in a Libertarian system FAR fewer people would be in jail in the first place - perhaps as few as none, since Libertarian ideology is not big on forced imprisonment in the first place. The typical Libertarian view of justice is rooted more in the idea of restitution for damages caused (where applicable) than "punishment".
It never made any sense to me either. I scored 1600 on the PSAT and got a stupid letter. Big deal. It didn't matter then and hasn't mattered since.

All of my time before and during college would have been better spent focusing on meeting people and forging relationships with successful people than worrying about academics.

This is the secret unspoken script underlying the whole dialog about college admissions. Membership in an exclusive club. I got into a good school and blew it because I didn't have the wisdom to see through the tatemae about college and academia generally. Don't be foolish like me.
Why should travel be the exclusive domain of the wealthy?
The purpose of prison certainly depends on the socity the prison is in. In Germany for example prison is certainly seen as a institution whose top-most goal it is to reform the inmate. Just punishing them and showing them that society doesn't care about them will in many cases achieve the polar opposite: it hardens them, makes them more dangerous and is therfore a punishment for the rest of society too.

And frankly if I had to choose between a reformed inmate who won't do it again but wasn't punished with cruelty and a hardened inmate who thinks he owes nothing to society I will always go for the former out of pure egoism.

It takes a certain transactional mindset to believe that harsher punishment result in less crime or that the suffering of the criminal will make up for the crimes commited. The lack of effectiveness for punishment to prevent future crimes is a well researched topic.
I'm so glad you have found a calming outlet. I personally find mind-numbingly boring games like color matching or just silly dress-up competition phone games really calming.

However, I would still strongly suggest seeing a therapist, or exploring online therapy tools. Escaping with video games is great supplement to a stress-management , and for short term comforts but a strong support system(recognizing and acknowledging stressors, discussing solutions with your partner and family, having an outlet to vent with a professional, and emotional tools for overall resilience improvement) should be your overall goal(and everyones goal).

Here are some resources I've identified for my affinity network at my work, but I think really should be around spread for everyone.

Mental Health is super important. "We all experience different levels of mental health throughout our lives. In fact, half of us will deal with some type of mental health challenge over the course of our lifetime."
https://www.eachmindmatters.org/mental-health/

Consider taking mental health breaks and investing time into self-care, because your family and community cares about your well-being too and your contributions are going to be much greater with improved mental health:
https://www.workplacestrategiesformentalhealth.com/newslette...

Explore utilizing mental health apps, like a cognitive behavior diary, meditation, or mood tracker to identify and improved harmful thinking patterns:
https://adaa.org/finding-help/mobile-apps
https://www.workplacestrategiesformentalhealth.com/employee-...

Learn about the signs for suicide risk (it is Suicide Awareness Week! And Tuesday was world suicide prevention awareness day)
https://www.suicideispreventable.org/
Being able to "manage" doesn't mean it's not a net negative on society.

If everyone was required to insure stuffed animals it would be cheap and perfectly "manageable" because the risk would be so low and the overhead would be spread over society but that overhead would still be pissed away on something non-productive because the net benefit to society of insuring stuffed animals is so small.
If you go to https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer [1] their resolution isn't great (can't see the car), but you can see that in 1999 (~2 years after his disappearance) they were still building houses there... ~2 years before (1995) that area was orchards or farmland.

[1]I used 3789 Moon Bay Cir
Wellington, FL 33414
United States
One looks like a complete idiot riding an 1880s highwheel bicycle (well, in the 1880s for sure, at least). Bicycles still caught on.

--

Owner of an 1886 Columbia bicycle and 2019 Boosted Rev scooter
> the whole idea is to forcibly prevent criminals from breaking the law again

Unless you kill them, permanently incarcerate them, or lobotomize them, this is impossible.

The support group's intent is to help prevent re-offending after they are released.
No, it is a different country and population, and the people there probably like having their own country.

Not everyone in the world needs to be in the same world government.

I do not want to take away Mexico's right to self determination. The people there don't want that.
It seems like there would be alternate ways to do online shader generation than concatenating strings and compiling if there were a well-formed binary standard. Maybe it is the easiest conceptually, but I don't see that as being a performance target in that case.

Edit: Also seems like they are leaning pretty heavily into Babylon.js. I don't think a standard should be developed that closely with any one specific application or framework.
The next step is for the Governor to pardon all the people who are in for possession and other "lesser crimes" and the release them over the next there years, alleviating the need for additional prison space.
World of Warcraft Classic. It's MMORPG videogame from Blizzard.
Yeah that sounds a bit like some Hot Fuzz, "The Greater Good" level stuff going on.
As a full-time Python DL developer, I would say the major pain point isn't about passing the ndarrays/tensors to BTS runtime.

The major pain point of Python is the ... Python part of it, that is not related to ML itself. Like processing preprocessing data and sample it and feed to your downstream model stuff.

This part is surprisingly effortful, because of Python's slow runtime and GIL, etc. TBH for a lot of stuff there can be a workaround, but it is just manual and brittle and can't by further away than the supposed Pythonistical experience you would assume.

What Swift could be to the scene is a set of powerful and easy to work with preprocessing primitives that writes once, and runs both in training/production time. That would a revolutionary experience once it happened.

I can totally see the market there, and won't mind be an early adopter to it.

With that being said, Python isn't going anywhere any time soon. People bitch about it, but there is still no other option on the market that is more productive than Python.

Python isn't perfect, as it isn't as bad as some posts here trying to convince the audience otherwise.
I don't think it's as simple as "not making enough investments"; there's also concern about the structure of Mithril (the fees go to a management company in the Caymans that Royan may own the overwhelming majority of, and the fees don't seem to track the staff that Mithril actually has).
Doesn't mention a very important factor: the amount of stuff Americans own. All that stuff needs to get put somewhere. Over the decades, Americans have decided that it goes into garages (pushing parked cars out onto the street) and bedrooms (increasing the demand for "spare" bedrooms).

It's a real eye-opener to walk through residential neighborhoods and notice that most garages with open doors can't actually be used as garages anymore because of all the stuff crammed into them. Oddly enough, this phenomenon seems most pronounced in poorer neighborhoods, where hardware parked on the street (boats, RVs, and even derelict cars) leads to a "wall of vehicles" effect.

The flourishing self storage market is further evidence that even supersized houses aren't enough to satisfy demand to store ever more stuff.
Dumb as it may be, please don't make HN dumber by posting unsubstantive comments here.
Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock - Benedict Seiferle @ ThEC2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrbGhAy-fXI
well when you moderate a group that big(for free, in your spare time) and have first hand experience you can speak to how they are handling things, otherwise its just another uninformed opinion.

How else would you deal with threads that are constantly off topic? Aside from turn comments off? How else do you deal with someone that keeps whining about the group and how its members act? How its moderated? If you don't like it, leave. ya know? it's exactly how id treat someone that kept complaining... show them the door. Many have left on their own to form different groups.

Anne was a great lady, but to say she was the only one moving the needle or to assume they are hiding things is just bizarre to me.
I miss the years where inspite of all its flaws, OpenGL was a non deprecated option on all the platforms. I know it left performance on the table, I know the drivers for some vendors were iffy and I know reasoning about performance across different vendors / drivers / platforms was difficult - but it worked most of the time and allowed me to have a mostly unified codebase everywhere.
Kate text editor now in the Windows Store
They are afraid the browser is going to kill their cash cow.
When I visited Seoul this was one of the coolest "daily life" things I noticed. All parking garages, even by the hour ones, operated this way. There was no ticket to lose, no ticket to accidentally de-magnetize, etc. You pulled in unhindered, and when you went to left the machine had your total up for display before you even stopped rolling to pay.
A Tech Comparison of API Gateways: Apigee Edge, Spring Cloud Gateway, and Ocelot
Kickstarter Has Fired Two Union Organizers in Eight Days
Thank you. You shouldn't be downvoted for saying this. I feel like you're saying what everyone else around me is thinking, but nobody has ever actually said.

I don't even know why you'd have to preface it by saying you mean to be compassionate. If your belief is the common one, why isn't that something people talk about? Is it that taboo? Shouldn't this death of self be celebrated if it's how were made to be?

Also, I think it's not a coincidence that my views on this definitely have not changed since I was a kid that hated school. I also rejected religion as a kid, and have continued to do so as an adult. Seems like you've got me figured out so far.

> It's not easy because it's like part of you has to die and it doesn't go quietly.

That is exactly what it feels like.

> But on the other side, where it becomes easy to start thinking about others first, everything starts to fall into place.

This is where you lost me. From my perspective, I would be a better person without the work obligation. I don't really know what I'd do without the obligation to work, but it would probably be more philanthropic than whatever my employer has me doing. Maybe I'd work on free software or anti-censorship? Or maybe I'd find joy in helping the disadvantaged in my local community? Or maybe I'd find virtue in starting a family? I have no idea, but I won't find out unless I luck into a few million bucks, because I can barely function while I'm employed. I can assure you I'd be a greater asset to society if I was unemployed than building commercial software.

> 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.

I don't understand. Are you saying that I should accept some greater wisdom that giving my employer my best waking hours is helping the company, and that is somehow greater than helping myself? If that were the path to fulfillment in life, I should be taking a pay cut and working longer hours, which is quite the opposite of what I'm trying to do here. I'm trying to hoard as much as possible because I know society won't support me later if I become unable to support myself. Which incidentally, is also what I believe my employer is doing for himself.

I suspect society only works because your view is widespread, but I still can't understand it.
In a language as slow as Python where even basic memory copying is slow, you don't really just have a few bottlenecks. You can optimize the most important 10% of the code and the rest of the code will still be slowing everything down. It's also a lot of work to have to rewrite parts in C/Rust and interface with Python code.
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> A lot of C developers I know see value in keeping the C standard library small.

And what value what that be?

... if you're going to say "easier to fit a small implementation into the memory of some microcontroller" - not a sufficient argument. There's always some smaller system with not enough memory, and larger systems with more than enough.
I propose that we refer to the companies related to Peter Thiel based around creepy surveillance stuff collectively as the "palantíri."
> I can sell my magic cards for real world money

And you can sell CS:Go and TF2 items for Steam credit. I'm not convinced this makes anything better. A slot machine isn't the only way to get money, but I still don't think we should market slot machines to children.

I think a lot of the people who dislike "lootboxes", but grew up with collectible card games like Magic, try to rationalize why one is okay and the other is not. And the hard truth is that it was never okay when Magic did it either, but the problem wasn't pervasive to the point where we had to address it. This isn't to say that Magic is evil or that everyone who bought random card packs as a child is now scarred for life, but it's not a great practice.

Collectible card games should not be a reason to allow loot boxes, and any laws we make ought to apply to both, instead of attempting to create strange carve outs.

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Disclaimer: I've never played Magic, and I avoid any video game that contains micro-transactions.

Edit: And just to be absolutely clear, this isn't to say that Magic should be banned any more than all video games should be banned, just that consumers should know what they're paying for, unless they're explicitly in a casino.
It’s highly likely during the interview process, someone will ask why did you leave your last company?

Be prepared to answer. Networks often overlap in mysterious ways in the business.

ex: Truthfully, I was let go. My CTO and colleagues will vouch for the quality of my work. But my direct reporting manager was a bit difficult.

That’s why I am being very strategic about my job search, really focusing in on the people, culture, and reporting relationships.
The "Florida Man" phenomenon is likely due more to reporting laws in Florida than it is to the culture in Florida:

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

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...
In the UK, more specifically London, these are completely misused. Users act largely as pedestrians on ultra busy and extremely tiny ancient streets. They have no place here.
This is unbelievable.
> Wake me up when the government provides comprehensive healthcare.

I was lucky enough to never needed to go to the doctor when I was in China. But from what I heard, it’s a nightmare to go to the hospital in China. Simply because of the sheer number of patients.

> Wake me up when migrant workers can get hukou.

I couldn’t agree more. This one especially I feel for.
The link to Slic3r directs to cura by mistake.. it should be:
https://slic3r.org/
How about "bigger than a sedan at the bottom of a pond"?
Nothing is wrong with securing your nation's border.
This reminds me of a book by Yoko Ogawa called "The Housekeeper and the Professor." It's a really beautiful story of the awkward friendship between a former math professor, whose memory "resets" every six hours or so, and his caretaker.
Hong Kong’s protesters created their own “national anthem”
True, but the lack of a downvote button on posts means we'll never know how many agree. This community is far bigger than 110, so the vast majority (as with every post) abstained from the vote, and we'll never know their reasoning.
I've been considering Gollum Capital as a name for a VC fund. You have to admit it has a nice ring to it...
If they're in prison, they're prisoners.
The MRI image that misled many Mums
Well done California.

- Private prisons has no incentive of getting rid of its income source the prisoners.

- More emphasis should be put into preventive nature. Ie to stop people from becoming criminals. This most likely involves more instruction on how to raise children.

If analog was to computer program it is cheapest to do things correct at the design phase, once late in the phase the issue hits production it is very expensive to mitigate. Thus we should as society do maximum effort into supporting young children and parents. Once the person has turned into a criminal it is very expensive for society to correct the issue if at all possible.
SMS 2FA can bite you in the ass. Since the phone is with you all the time, there is a higher chance of something happening to it that makes it damaged enough for you to not be able to use it. Now, you are in possession of the password, the IP is the same as the one you signed up with, you have access to your e-mail, but you still cannot access your account. You contact support, you tell them the same thing. They will tell you they cannot help you because "security", and do nothing. You are now unable to access your account, most likely forever.

This happened to me. Any experiences or thoughts? Is it worth the risk? How do you prevent this scenario besides not using 2FA from happening? Personally I would choose to not use it though.
My Xiaomi becomes impractically slow around 15% (probably less, I've not properly measured). My Boosted Rev, I've yet to find anything in the Redmond, WA area that it won't climb with gusto. The Boosted cost $1600US, though.
> I gave it a go and listened to a bunch of these wolframtunes

Sure, but that just says that this particular combination of human and machine isn't very good. Lots of people play guitar poorly. That doesn't imply that guitars are bad instruments.

> it's pretty much limited to "this is a demonstration of the algorithm I programmed," kind of a far cry from how most music is written and received.

If I write an "algorithm" that simply plays back a hard-coded series of notes and timing that I selected, that's, I assume you would agree, a fully artistic expression. After all, that's how most working keyboard musicians work today. They play and record the MIDI notes. Now maybe I play a few melodies and write a program that just randomly selects between them. That's still 90% human-authored "art" plus a little random chance. Maybe the melodies get shorter and the random choices get larger. There is a continuum here between "human makes all decisions" and "human makes no decisions" and I think you'd have a really hard time putting a finger on it saying "everything below here is just algorithmic demonstrations".

Even acoustic instruments and our physical bodies have some stochastic processes. A tambourine player isn't controlling the hit timing of each individual cymbal on it. That doesn't lessen it. Maximum artistic value doesn't necessarily mean "maximum human intent".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_(music)

> they're driven by people through and through.

I think you might be surprised. Many synths and drum machines have randomness as an input and can use it to vary the timbre of sounds, velocity, whether or not to play individual drum hits, etc. For example, the Digitone lets you assign probabilities to individual notes and will roll the dice each time to decide whether or not to play it.

Even hand-authored LFOs with slow rates interact in ways the author is unlikely to be choosing deliberately. It's not like musicians are calculating the least common multiple of their various LFO frequencies to determine when the pattern repeats. They just tweak a few knobs and let them "randomly" wander in and out of phase with each other.
Unfortunately, the stated transition wavelength of 149.7 ± 3.1 nm is well outside the range where practical laser sources exist. There is a proposal for driving the transition with a vacuum ultra-violet frequency comb generated by high harmonic generation [1], but such systems easily fill a lab with no clear path for miniaturization.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08060
And this mechanism might be more palatable if it got applied both ways: I get a game and then we roll the dice [144] to see if I have to pay full price or just with some junk I have lying around in the house. Same odds as that legendary(?) skin.

[144] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dice_by_number_of_sides#D...
Any ideas as to why it (ocaml) ends up being so slow?
The law says that current contracts can run until expiration, which is a few years from now. They'll have to either release prisoners, move them, or incarcerate fewer people (or a combination thereof) otherwise they'll have to renew the private contract, which is also allowed under the law if necessary to alleviate overcrowding.
Hm, I'm not sure I understand. I don't think I was the one to call bounds checking an abstraction in this thread.
Soil’s microbial market shows the ruthless side of forests (2019)
It's not just supposed to be a punishment and it's obviously not a deterrent. Rehabilitation and allowing for proper reintegration into society needs to happen or you end up with a former felon being stuck in a cycle of crime that they are forced into.

While I agree with your assessment of private prisons, I think we've begun to use the legal sure and imprisonment for things it wasn't intended for, such as minor vice crimes, based on flawed broken window thinking and making police terrified of the communities that they serve.
It could easily come from Apple, no?
Dockless and docked bikeshare programs both mitigate this issue, with trade-offs on the inconvenience of finding bikes/parking them.
That sort of cynicism is needless. Considering that this thread is about private prisons, a very serious issue, bringing up a literal straw man is disingenuous and completely unnecessary.
Minor sure, but it's still illegal.