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> I lived there for a bit over three years. Never spent any time trying to learn the language.

This feels like the same kind of attitude that makes immigrants from English-speaking countries think they're not immigrants (which you were, if only for a while) but "expats" (see other recent HN threads on that subject).
Are you American? You say "we" and then you spell checks the British way. I'm just curious as to why that is.
Naaaah, basic fucking healthcare.
Why would that occur to you?
> At least for that there's a pretty simple non-nefarious explanation. The state wants to outsource their prisons/jails to some private entity. They agree to pay the private entity per prisoner housed.

That sounds pretty nefarious to me because the state has a duty of care for its citizens - of which this is a clear and flagrant abdication.

> I haven't seen the actual minimum occupancy clauses, but realistically speaking they probably involve the state paying for the minimum occupancy even if actual prisoners are less (eg. if minimum occupancy is 800 prisoners but actual occupancy is 700, they still pay for 800 prisoners). It's not like the state has to come up with 100 extra prisoners to meet their obligations.

Probably worth not speculating. [1] At the end of the day this is the same thing - the state should be paying less when there's less crime. It should be incentivized to stop crime from happening in the first place.

It should be spending that money not on guaranteeing profits for corporations but instead on programs that reduce criminality. The state should feel the burden of higher criminality and reap the reward of lowering it.

[1] http://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital-library/Criminal-Lockup-...
IIRC the breeding program predates those tools.
Future Farmers of America had something similar.
I remember when some of the old Slot-1 P3 cpus had off-die, but on-board cache (The Katmai did, the Coppermine did not).
In a nutshell, most languages allow their functions/methods to do almost everything by default. My Ruby methods can log to stdout, mutate global state, create files on disk, truncate database tables, throw exceptions, fire the missiles and generally do whatever it wants. The default is very permissive. The most basic Haskell function on the other hand can do almost nothing. It can access nothing except it's (immutable) arguments and do nothing except returning a result. If you want to add more 'functionality' to it, you have to explicitly mention that in its type. The typical way to do that in Haskell is to add one or more monadic contexts to it. Writing to a file would typically require access to the the `IO` context for example, and if a function does not have that then file I/O would be a compiler error.

To bring it back to CoPilot, it is a heavily restricted DSL where all variables are streams of values, each of which gets updated in every iteration of the main loop. The types of the functions and datatypes that you can manipulate these streams with don't contain any "interesting" monadic contexts, so you definitely can't access the outside world other than through the provided interfaces. You are also mostly restricted to mathematical operations on these streams, like summing or multiplying two other streams to produce a third stream. This already restricts a lot of the variability you could introduce in a "normal" program. The CoPilot project then contains a dedicated Haskell-to-C compiler that will try its best to generate constant-time and constant-memory code. If that is not possible, it will generate a compiler error indicating which part was not possible to compile in such a way. For example, for most recursive functions it would not be possible to prove it terminates in a predictable amount of time so that would be right out.

Of course, even if it does compile then there are no guarantees that the code will fit inside your time or memory budget. It is still possible to write code that is inefficient or contains bugs. It will just always take the same amount of memory and same amount of cycles per iteration.
This line of reasoning is just dumb. Every single chip on the mother board is made from Silicon. (There maybe some gallium or germanium parts but those are insignificant and irrelevant).
>I certainly applaud the effort, however I feel like greater education and predatory lending reform could have prevented the need for this in the first place.

Unfortunately, it will never happen. The same people who despise the premise of student loan forgiveness also despise the premise of government interfering with the student loan markets. The only reform they would accept is removing loans altogether, so that only people who can pay full cost out of pocket (the wealthy) can afford education. They certainly don't want education to be cheaper or, heaven forbid, nationalized.

And if anything, populr backlash against this from the right is only going to harden the resolve of those people to resist further reforms.
Not quite, Australia wasnt an independent country at the time. It only gained independence in 1901. The last prisoner was shipped to the penal colony around 1870. So there was no Australian state to sign any agreement with. UK was until very recently in the EU with Greece. Might even get the prisoners superior conditions, some of UKs jails are Victorian in construction and very overcrowded.
180 days HAND-MADE Not only a ELECTRIC GARAGE I build a GUNDAM WORLD [video]
Apple zealots have this hilariously weird obsession with performance per watt. Do not expect them to look at any actual data.
JSON Schema has an ‘if’ construct. That gives JSON a standardised way to do flow control.

I’m still not sure I would call it a programming language. But I wouldn’t say it’s not one.
Yes you do. You hear plenty of people calling for an end to the foreign aid and military spending.
That would result in an all out nuclear war.

That would leave Putin with no power. So no, that is not going to happen.

As for how competent Russia is, we have seen that. They are not.
> who caused the universe is already out of bounds.

"caused" can mean a different thing. Imagine causualty in a 3d FPS video game, and the creation of the game itself. Though they are similar in semantics, one is different from the other.
In the experimental Document-Policy HTTP header, "bpp" does seem to signify bytes per pixel.

Document-Policy explainer: https://github.com/wicg/document-policy/blob/main/document-p...

I tried it out on my own site, and through trial-and-error I found that Chromium does in fact treat the "max-bpp" Document-Policy directives as bytes-per-pixel.

I could be wrong; my memory has faded. Please correct me if this is the case.
I'd be surprised if it was more than 1%. But getting actual data is impossible of course.
>Supporters say the collections are a legitimate way for states to recoup millions of taxpayer dollars spent on prisons and jails.

Wait there are supporters of this? You're telling me if I asked 100 people on the street, there'd be someone that said "oh yeah this is a pretty fair and reasonable law to charge the inmates 5-star hotel prices"??
>What happens is the folks who end up in prison haven't accrued any more of less liability - instead they drew attention.

>If you'd like to learn more I recommend Three Felonies a Day. [1]

It's hard to take that book seriously when the book fails to state how the average person actually commits felonies a day. According to the top critical review[1], it doesn't seem like most of the people in prisons are because of the reasons listed in the book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R29XT1DSN5VBWK
Besides the default/obvious channels, we generally seem to have a channel per "team", a channel per "division" (group of teams), and then some channels for "division collaborations" e.g. data science + engineering. Then we also often set up a channel for big new features/projects and invite stakeholders to them.

EDIT: I guess the last type could be what you mean by "topic" - we are a startup so perhaps the number of feature/project type channels will balloon out over time, but doubt we would end up with "zillions" haha. And loads of them would be old and essentially archived.

A lot of the channels become somewhat bloated over time, with people joining because they are interested in keeping up with stuff in a broad context, but have no need to click into each thread and read over everything.

I would choose threaded discussions over PM groups or short-lived channels any day tbh.
UK prisons are overcrowded, in poor condition, expensive, and the land for those 127 prisons could be used to provide inexpensive housing for the poor here.
Oh come on now. There are MUCH worse prison and criminal justice systems. Let me name a few where I’d not want to be: 1) all of Russia; 2) Sabaneta Prison, Maracaibo, Venezuela; 3) North Korean Camp 22; 4) Diyarbakir Prison, Turkey; 5) Gitarama Prison, Rwanda; 6) Gldani Prison, Georgia; 7) Ciudad Barrios Prison, El Salvador

There are many more. These above make the pay to stay seem tame in terms of impact.
Or creates and reinforces those class lines.
My take is that it's completely possible that reading might be scrambling the long term autofocus mechanism that determines they eyeballs length in the long term.
What's old is new again.

Had a chat with an old timer whl was doing horizontally scaling compute with thr IBM A400.

25 years later it's the starry eyed wonder of the 2010s.
I don't think there's anything in the constitution that prevents Congress from delegating their power. I don't think the authors anticipated that elected officials would want to give away their power.
Not just in the Tower - this was pretty common practice up until the mid to late Victorian era I think - eg it features in Dickens's writing to some extent.
Not clear how that's relevant to the comment you were replying to, unless you're suggesting that being jailed for minor controlled substance offenses is far more common in the US than the many other developed countries with similar laws?
If you assume that the original intent was to find the most socially acceptable way to criminalize minorities and "social undesirables" (e.g. hippies) and go all in on it, it makes a lot more sense.
It's not too late, you can start catching up on these neglected areas (relationships, friendships, sport, parties) now. Otherwise, the feelings of regret might not go away, and can get worse with age. It's basically your subconscious telling you you neglected some important developmental milestones.

It could also be good to talk this through with a competent psychoanalyst, but unfortunately my impression is that majority of them are hacks.
Swap “drugs” for “guns” and you’d have the majority of HN flip out.

The Government isn’t a magical entity of absolute perfection. Large classes of banned substances are indeed banned for good reason. Their effects on individual/societal well being documented quite heavily.

Two things can be true at the same time:
1. Some substances that are detrimental to human health need to be controlled.
2. The US government and its present approach to enforcing laws is equally harmful and needs a complete overhaul.
> Only a few select students are allowed to go

What are you talking about? I went to university in Europe and literally everyone with a high school degree is allowed to go.
"Honestly i can only guess but i don't know how to handle that i lost so much viable time"

"I am 23"

I can only smile at this. You have got tons of life ahead. Instead of comparing yourself with John Carmack, do what you want to do and you still have plenty of time.

Remember this "Don't compare with someone else. Compare yourself with yourself from the past. If you are doing better than you did in the past, be happy and keep moving forward. If you are not better than your past, work harder and keep moving forward"
Does anyone here remember a website, active about ten years ago, that had languages ranked according to statements like, "I feel like I'm not smart enough to program in this language," and, "This language has good support for concurrency?" There was another ranking for different martial arts, IIRC. I don't remember the name of the site and can't find any references to it anywhere.
This is me also. I was also isolated seeing only one other human for the entirety of COVID (including now, but I'm gonna move soon so I can at least go into a physical office). I feel like my brain still works at lots of stuff, once it gets going, but I forget what I'm doing randomly and I think I used to be not _THIS_ bad at interacting with other humans :/
Intel was in this situation before.

They dug themselves out with the Core 2 Duo.

There remains a nonzero chance Intel digs themselves out of the hole again.

I'm strongly considering their stock.
Why change what was, and not what will be? I'd rather they give free college to the future kids than repay the ones who already got one.
but they enough money to support their maintainers.

Are you sure?

I haven't done a survey but my guess is that the Open Source developers being supported solely by their projects are a very small fraction. But best of luck becoming one of the select few.
I just don’t want to pay for someone else’s, strangers’ mistakes.

If you want your tax money to be used to pay other people student loan, be my guest, while you are at it, pay their mortgage too.

Don’t force others to do it.

Biden is a tyrant puppet, no difference than president orange loompa. Both are criminals. But I’ll vote for oompa loompa rather than student loan forgiveness.
> Then I have expanded this to google, microsoft, amazon, facebook ASNs.

> The whole internet stopped working.

Not that surprising, considering these companies already had direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic back in 2014 [0]

By now that number is probably in the 80-90% range as it's a problem the vast majority of people are either completely unaware of, or sometimes deny it to be even a problem in the first place.

[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
I enjoy it. There are a lot of communicators who shy away from giving their own opinion about anything that isn't the overwhelming consensus. They might be wrong after all. It is refreshing to have somebody actually disagree with something and then back it up.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to take the word of one randomly-selected Amazon reviewer at face value just because they're a verified purchaser.
Seems like something people should know about. It's incredibly dystopian.
Depends on how you ask the question.

"Is it fair to incarcerate individuals for their preference of intoxicant in a free and liberal democracy?"

"Should drug users and other junkies be taken off the streets to keep them safe for the rest of us?"
Low-tech, non flash solution that delivers.
Portugal is an excellent role model, there are numerous studies on their approach to drugs[0]. While I am not an expert on the subject the model is morally appealing to me, and I believe public order is maintained. Begin researching on your own if you're interested in this subject. I feel for anyone who loves a drug user.

Separately I just learned fentanyl test strips are not legal in all 50 states. Given that fentanyl is a leading cause of death, giving access to test strips can save lives. I don't know how heavily this law is enforced, but it's a great example of cutting your nose to spite your face. To me it's a litmus test that reinforces the notion the USA's stance on drugs was never about harm reduction.

[0] https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
Agreed that intuition can be useful, same as making a guess or going with your “gut feeling”.

A crank turns that useful but possibly misleading thing into a crusade where truth is being suppressed by the establishment.
Good question. I'd imagine something like blight resistance would probably not be a simple case of a few specific genes we can just switch over.

It could also just be technology. This breeding program has been around for 50 years or so and CRISPR only really took off around 2011. In addition, the original CRISPR-Ca9 caused a lot of unintended changes in DNA and it's really critical that the new trees are morphologically equivalent to the original trees in order for the birds, insects, and animals that depended on them to resume their interactions. Newer technologies like CRISPR-Nickase are much more precise but also very recently developed
It is far more common to be jailed in the US for minor controlled substances than in many other developed countries.
Hint: people posting on HN about how the M1/M2 are revolutionary are definitely not part of any hardware circles, and are using the marketing speak.
I haven't committed any violent crimes nor have most people. A substantial number of prisoners have. In fact countless murderous and rapist criminals go free.
No private entity enjoys absolute, or even qualified, immunity of any kind from lawsuits in the U.S. as afar as I know.

So how could your second case occur?
> You're telling me if I asked 100 people on the street,

Confronting people on the street with questions like this won't give you a representative sample of what people really think. The sort of people who support the system to maintain their class/lifestyle are likely to ignore your question or to perceive your activist intent and lie to you to avoid getting sucker punched by the 'crazy person on the street.'
In other places, it says pretty explicitly that there are other gods:

Pslams 95:3 ESV

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Psalms 97:7 ESV

All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!

Deuteronomy 32:8 NRSV (less henotheistic in other translatins)

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;

And there are others. We know pretty clearly from historical sources that the early Jews were henotheistic (recognized the existence of other gods, but only worshipped YHWH), and that is preserved in the oldest parts of the Old Testament. Even Genesis often uses a plural when God talks about his works - today that is often explained as talking about himself and the angels or even the holy trinity, but it is very likely it originally referred to the god of Israel and the other (lesser) gods in the heavens.
It probably can’t happen without congress. But can you even imagine the shitshow when half a trillion in debt that was wiped out somehow has to be put back on the books?!
I was just suggesting a reason why the solid state theory of the cosmos fell out of favor - evidence to the contrary.
Moving goalposts much?

> which are produced from them actually seem to work.

Oh yea, religeious things also seem to work. For example, prayers and other religeous offerings. That is how these things survive so long.
Check out Mailjet: https://www.mailjet.com/products/sms/
That's in theory; in practice there is a bunch of resellers that are making crazy amount of money due to "merit pricing" that makes sense in a stable market, but not now. The places you mention are much worse off than by a simple price ceiling per electricity type.
It sounds like you have never been a moderator for an online community of at least moderate size.

If you've never been in that role, it's easy to not only underestimate the sheer amount of garbage that you need to remove, so regular users won't be turned off and leave, but also the dedication and finesse of some of the trolls, who love nothing more than asymptotically approaching that line, without ever fully crossing it.

What you propose is effectively giving these guys a doomsday device (i.e., "if you censor me erroneously, your platform will be dead"). In that scenario, there is a 0% chance that a place like Facebook would not turn into an absolute cesspool.
Correct. It's a statistic many people are not aware of.

Additionally, if you look at the racial breakdown of who's incarcerated in the USA, it's disproportionately black relative to number of blacks per capita residing in the country. Blacks are incarcerated at 5x the rate of whites, and make up 40% of all incarcerated individuals.

This is insane.
If I recall, someone has jammed a wheat gene into a few of them in just that manner.

It's a tricky business, because chestnut had very particular properties, as wood, that made it quite valuable, and any gene interference, well ... who knows how it will change the resultant wood?
You can really only swap drugs for guns if gun related imprisonment is high. Are there are lot of people in prison for illegal gun possession / dealing?
My guess would be that most developed countries see prison not as a revenge but as the start to learn to function in society. America's system is more or less all about revenge.
? I don't think this list helps your argument.

There's always a few rich socialites lingering around almost nobody knows who they are - and they were not aspirational figures.

Henry Winkler is an actor, for god's sake, he was the Fonzarelli, one of the most iconic characters on Television, he's still acting on award winning productions to this day.

Raquel Welch (?) is at least working actress. Look at her IMDB [1]. There's nary a single year since 1960 where she wasn't doing some film or made for TV Movie tripe.

Never, ever, in my early life (pre 2000) did I meet someone who either 1) knew much about socialites or 2) aspired to be one.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000079/
That link is just awful partisan politics. It’s unfortunate that LongCovid is getting swept up into the culture wars. Obviously genetic predispositions are inherited and will be a strong predictor. There is very little difference between ME/CFS and LC, many of these kids will have inherited ME/CFS but would not have been aware of it until awareness of LC picked up. In addition the vaccine is sufficient to cause LC in those predisposed to it. My pre-existing ME/CFS was made substantially worse due to the vaccine and I have not yet had covid. I do have extremely strong ACE2-AAbs which is a marker for LongCovid.
> Without demand, there is no supply.

An economics professor of mine put it as "markets are created by demand, not supply." That was nearly 20 years ago, but it's really stuck with me.

As the linked article notes, the precursors for technological innovations were present in many places, but many of those places lacked one or more components of demand flow to finance the required innovation. Only after demand for industrial innovation is present do gaps in the supply chain come into play.
“Finite picture whose dimensions are a certain amount of space and a certain amount of time; the protons and electrons are the streaks of paint which define the picture against its space-time background. Traveling as far back in time as we can, brings us not to the creation of the picture, but to its edge; the creation of the picture lies as much outside the picture as the artist is outside his canvas. On this view, discussing the creation of the universe in terms of time and space is like trying to discover the artist and the action of painting, by going to the edge of the canvas. This brings us very near to those philosophical systems which regard the universe as a thought in the mind of its Creator, thereby reducing all discussion of material creation to futility.” — James Leans
You’d be surprised if more than 1% of the US’s prison population is innocent?
In America ? Yes. I’m willing to bet a good part of the reason why our prisons they way they are is because many see it as a means of revenge and not rehabilitation. No one cares if a rapist or pedo is saddled with debt , much less of they leave out of there alive.
Based on the comments in the "NYC is owed a bajillion dollars in parking tickets" thread from a couple days ago I bet you could get an easy dozen if you just dropped the phrase "five star hotel prices". People are strongly in favor of harsh punishments for the type of crimes they don't ever see themselves committing, like not paying a ticket apparently.