skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's hard to understand why you would want to close one jail and open 4 smaller jails further away. That is going to be a lot more difficult to manage.

Multiple issues come to my mind:

- the larger the facility, the greater the chance of riots or unrest escalating

- it is more difficult to maintain different standards of imprisoning (low, middle and high security) in one complex

- it may be infeasible to renovate an existing building to current code and requirements while it's still being occupied, if it is at all possible (e.g. floor plan layout changes tend to be difficult to modify in prisons as the walls are very thick)

- smaller prisons spread across the country can make it easier for prisoners' relatives across the state to visit them, which usually leads to lower recidivism as prisoners can still keep contact with family
Well, I didn't own a car at the time - commuted by bus. Good enough for the doctor to sign the letter.
If that’s the company-wide number, I imagine it’s even higher in the Family of Apps and Reality Labs groups (the ones affected by layoffs), because it doesn’t include cross-org functions like facilities or accounting.
Hi HN, I made this after getting inspired by Swurl which was posted recently on Show HN. Since I visit almost the same set of websites daily for news, entertainment, and search, I figured something like this might be helpful.

XFrame is a website (https://xframe.app) and Chrome extension combo. It lets you:

- embed your favorite websites on the home page

- do multisearch in a single page

Privacy:

- I don't collect anything. It runs on local storage.

- The extension simply removes the response headers that prevent you from embedding websites in iframes.

- The extension's functionality is restricted to the iframes in https://xframe.app.

Drawbacks:

- Websites with login functionality may not work properly due to iframe cookie restrictions
So don't ask if you want to stay.

Having said that, if you're going to be worried about possibly/probably losing your job 6 months down the road what does it really matter if you have signalled you're not very invested in staying? The company has signalled they're not very invested either is how I look at it.

>(edit: The idea being that you might get fired "normally" as a result, and not get generous severance.)

Of course I am saying this as someone in Europe where firing someone "normally" is a lot more complicated and time consuming and comes with a whole list of other issues a company needs to make sure they manage properly. They can't just turn round and fire you with no pay because you "showed you were not very invested in the company as you asked if you could be let go when we were letting go of several thousand people". That is a 100% guaranteed legal hell hole no company likes to be in by choice.

In America perhaps that is something you genuinely need to worry about I don't know.
I'm with you there and I know several others who are too. I don't see home prices coming substantially for hot markets for this exact region
> We made the decision to remove access to most Meta systems for people leaving today given the amount of access to sensitive information. But we’re keeping email addresses active throughout the day so everyone can say farewell.

E-mail address still working for the day?
Is this the standard way to layoff employees in the US?
> What we don't need any more of is web cruft and CRUD apps, social networks, and people figuring out more ways to mine our data and shove ads in our face

(No snark intended, my background is in science...)

The fields that would benefit society the most are not typically the fields where the most money is to be made.
This was before the internet was widespread.
This thread has been a good reminder to go check your settings in about:config. I was unaware that firefox had turned one single option into several which seem to be on by default ignoring my previous change.
The comments on that are telling. Does Zuckerberg always seem that forced when he’s interacting with people?
It's an old Prolog joke. Early Prologs (and many still today) would reply "no" to queries that have no results.

(In practice the issue can be overcome by making a meta-interpreter that does tracing or error reporting or whatever. It's standard Prolog idiom, "in the book". See also: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/debugging )
.NET Conf 2022 – Day 2
I know this thread seems to be Obsidian specific, but wanted to share: I've been writing down every detail of my day since January 2021 on Diarly. I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. I have two "journals" - one for personal, and one for work. From thoughts, to encounters during the day, to what food I ate, I write everything. It has dramatically improved my day-to-day. I've had trouble remembering my whole life, and now I can just look back and find the exact date where I did something (the search feature is pretty spot on). It's even improved my retention skills - e.g. "i don't remember what day this happened, but I am positive xyz happened because I remember writing about it". Strongly strongly recommend it to all.
I just bought photo a month ago at $50 and was annoyed at first that suddenly I have to pay more if I want the latest version, but then at $100 and I get a universal license to all three products, I’m still way ahead of having an Adobe subscription.
Was just interested in thoughts from other people about his blog. And yes, it's very German-focused but I wanted to give it a chance.
How many of the prisoners are subject to taxation?

Some of them get to vote, too. https://www.nyclu.org/en/know-your-rights/voting-criminal-re...

"Misdemeanors do not impact your right to vote. You may still register and vote if you are in jail for a misdemeanor or are awaiting trial..."
The U.S. has legalized what is considered corruption in most other western democracies. Campaign finance reform is needed.

People should not be able to give money to politicians they are not eligible to vote for, i.e. rich people buying politicians on the other side of the country.

Companies, unions and trade associations are not people and should not be able to give money to politicians.

It is my understanding that the U.S. is definitely the outlier. Other countries like Canada, the U.K., Germany, Japan, etc don't allow money to influence politics like in the U.S.

More information: Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
They are doing it out of speculation - not improving the efficiency of the market. They thought that they had a lock for a large windfall of profits based on the trajectory of the housing market.

People don't like that because that profit comes at the cost of people who are trying to find homes at a reasonable price. I am happy their model didn't work.

Also I think you assume that their model would be efficient but I don't think it would - you still have to work with all the small mom and pop shops who are doing the actual renovation work and that quality is worker specific. There is no proof that Redfin's model would improve quality or efficiency.

Add in redfin trying to guide the market buyer on the price to purchase with their price forecast mechanism ... which I would not be surprised if they boosted their own properties (speculation, but wouldn't be surprised at all).
Concrete accounts for something like 5% of CO2 emissions. So They want to use green energy reduce CO2 produced elsewhere in the system as an offset.
I don't even want the regular versions of their software. It's already gross enough to have to upgrade to the most recent version of windows 10 to even get any drivers from nvidia or amd to install or to have ads in the start menu or to have settings menus switched around and scattered in every version. This seems like more in a treadmill of forced upgrades that are hostile to their customers.
Others have pretty much covered the matter, you will always bump into former team mates, or it will be thanks to them that you will get some gig.

Employers themselves usually look into spreadsheets with a bunch of KPIs deciding who to lay off, without any regards for the effort you have actually placed into the job.
Its all Presidental Alerts. But its not just Ontario, its all of Canada!
It absolutely has. 8 months ago the Fed Funds rate was effectively 0% and now it's 4% and headed higher. That may not mean anything to you, but it means everything to VCs, banks, investors, and the market overall.
A therapeutic church is an atheist church
I am an IC. Mute all channels except the one or two you want to be notified on all messages for. Create good email filters to catch all the notification spam, but organized so that you can still scan over it. Setup reasonable boundaries with people instead of the classic passive-aggressive fallback because nobody ever did.

The rest will still be chaos but you can at least do a few things on your end to make it 5% more manageable.
let me guess, software issues again?
Nothing is idiot proof. Only more or less idiot resistant.
Thanks for confirming that my option of asking a local admin with internet access was the right way.

Still... had to load the tape on our office AIX machine (the only Unix box I had access to), then wire up a null modem cable to a PC, install Kermit on both ends, transfer all the floppy images, find an MS-DOS image writer, and finally copy the works on that stack of floppies.

Good times, sort of :)
Startups will not make you rich
Yes, C&D letters are common everywhere, but that doesn't mean that the laws and implementation unde which they can be sent can't be flawed, leading to exploitative loopholes, as no other European jurisdiction is such a paradise for rampant abuse by any $BIG_CORP like in Germany.
The definition of 0% efficacy in plain english.

A different strategy was already obvious. 30 seconds with soap and water still makes me laugh :)

Be sure to thank the lab rats... Now pay the $8 (adjusted to $100+ for inflation) :p
Well said, there's a lot of scams for sure but to say it's completely useless even the technology behind it is absurd, or hired to do so.
Cynically: why would one want a market there then?
>That is going to be a lot more difficult to manage

Hard to manage also means hard to scrutinize.
That salary is still 2x-5x the average.
it's from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_...
HR. Is. Not. Your. Friend.
Yea.. I saw WSB and left. Rants of opportunistic lunatics

The sentiment shift I've observed is that Musk is using Tesla kind of like a piggy bank/engineering entourage

To my totally uneducated self this makes sense
Ask HN: Why is prepaid mobile second class in the US?
And why do they have separate websites for support and payments? I BYOD for about 10 years now, and no matter what network I'm on the website is different, the support is different and some networks, like Verizon don't support visual voicemail. It's the same network for post paid subscribers why does it have to be a completely different system?
I finally settled into:

- text files (edited with vim using vimwiki format ie. adding ``` %% vim: set ft=vimwiki ``` to the file

- syncthing (@ mobile, desktop and server)

- Markor (@ mobile)
Yeah I'm mentally filing that image [1] away for later use.

[1]: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/static-assets/images/blog-post/instr...
Twitter adds a secondary Official mark to verified accounts
He decided to make people pay for a verification, got laughed at, and now he's adding a secondary verification badge, which makes this whole thing pointless to begin with.

Blue already is a terrible bang for the buck, with "LESS" ads and priority comments being the only reason to get it, comparatively to every other social media subscription service.
> And solar and batteries are cheaper than nuclear on a levelized per kWh basis

So I would expect to see countries with higher share of solar generation and less nuclear would have lower wholesale electricity prices than ones with less solar and more nuclear? This data isn't easy to find for a layperson like myself, but I'd be surprised if such a correlation existed.

> If I were a French taxpayer who just paid €10B to nationalize EDF

EDF was state-owned to begin with, and was only partially privatized in 2004 with the French state still retaining 80%+ ownership. The recent re-nationalization was only an acquisition by the state of the remainder. The French taxpayer was paying for it all along.
In my opinion the "real" Geocities lives on in https://mmm.page/
It's a paraphrase or restatement of the phrase "so long and thanks for all the fish", the title of one of the books in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Changing "fish" to "bits" is interesting, as it could be "just" a reference to life in the modern age and that this individual is leaving a techie oriented job that deals with "bits and bytes". Or it could be a really on the nose "joke" making light of exactly what you say:

"GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?"

It's hard to say which it really is.
> Plus, if a new compiler shows up (besides MSVC/GCC/LLVM)

They are still far from being the only game in town.
I might be mistaken but this post is basically describing git-friendly which I've used for years, is 100% flawless, and you'd need to pry from my cold, dead hands.

https://github.com/git-friendly/git-friendly
How to Install Linux on a Chromebook
> The largest environmental group, Greenpeace, has literally invaded a number of nuclear plants to protest government plans to permit new plants.

Have similar protests in coal mines or fracking or oil wells or on fuel tankers ever done anything to slow down the fossil fuel industry? Did they send state sponsored terrorists to bomb an EDF ship and get away with it completely other than throwing a couple of patsies under the bus?

Greenpeace's objections have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the permits go through and the very idea that they have more power than the French, Chinese, Russian, and US military and nuclear industries combined is utterly laughable. You cannot possibly think anyone would believe such a ludicrous lie.

It's actually kind of heart warming that you think environmentalists have so much power. Why do you think they chose not to use it to stop coal, plastic or beef?

> Breeder reactors extract something on the order of 100X more energy from uranium than 2nd generation nuclear power plants, and that's the standard by which you have to judge the sustainability of fission feedstock resources.

Not until one exists that actually runs in breeding mode on a commercial scale and that's what you're proposing building. Until then there's about 40 years with the current fleet and the suggestion of building enough PWRs to make a similar contribution to renewables means there would be 20 even after doubling the fuel economy.

Suggesting that you could scale uranium mining 5x to provide the first load for a couple of thousdand PWRs, complete them all by 2030, and then design and build five times as many breeders to keep them fueled in the 20 years you had left so as not to decomission all your freshly built reactors is a ridiculous farce. And that wouldn't even cover all electricity, let alone primary energy.
It's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Goodbye and thanks for all the fish" as the dolphins abandon planet earth IIRC.
This is literally nothing like 2000 unless in you're in something like crypto. Meta hired 30k+ people during covid and they are correcting that over hire mistake. They are fine financially.

In 2000 entire companies were just disappearing. Companies had gone public that had no business plan. 100s of millions were thrown at companies who were gone in 12-18 months.

Big tech, who are making dump trucks of money, laying some people off is just part of the normal business cycle.
"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"
Ontario does have amber alerts

https://amberalert.opp.ca/
I’m pretty sure calm rational thinking wouldn’t have put me into an untenable situation in the first place so I’m going to have to assume not me. Let me take a crack at it.
1) What is twitter? Public square? Publication? Ad platform? Well how do they make money? (If you’re putting down $44B you at least need to know where the money comes from) So, Ad platform. Profitable? No. Crap. Opportunity for eliminating waste? Maybe. $1.5B worth? (Just servicing the acquisition debt costs $1B/yr) No. Pass.
2) ok, but still want. Fine. make a reasonable offer with contingency clauses. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to do that your lawyers do —and will (unless you tell them not to. Don’t do that)
3) shit, you ignored one and two. Ok well at least don’t piss off the advertisers any further by like firing the whole quality and safety team… annnd you did that.
4) ok we can still save this, slow and steady, figure out the lay of the land, lean into the positive, trim the negative. No? Ok then just go off half cocked, fire anyone you lay eyes on, personally moderate all tweets. Good luck to ya.
The thing is, I think it's right to say "cryptocurrency is a scam industry". I don't want this to be true, but it looks like it is.

For a few years I was like, "Wow, Ethereum is cool! Haha, imagine email over ethereum where recipients charged a fee, goodbye spam! Solidity is a pleasure to write in! Decentralization is cool! Oh wow, ZKsnarks!"

Now, I'm thinking, "Ok, where are these cool blockchain things?" All I see are:

- Cryptocoin exchanges or lotteries, but that's not interesting,
- NFT exchanges which are too reliant on centralized services to be interesting even if they weren't full of scams, and
- "Layer n+1" platforms which promise to be the foundation of something cool. (Maybe a "Layer n+2" platform?)

None of these are cool. I want there to be cool decentralized Things. The only three interesting things I've found are (1) notarization, (2) datascience and profiling data from publicly available blockchains.
Nice that will do the trick for my needs. Thank you!
I’ve been using Orion browser , before that I used an app called Hack - but I haven’t opened it in a long time as I’m really liking Orion browser
LEN and KBH are both up today. Does this have something to do with the election?

How can it be that the economy pulling back works in their favor, as you say?
(OP here)

The user can support whatever screen/window sizes they want, and set increments as they wish.

I just do mobile and desktop because I'm mainly doing dev work and want to spend as little time as possible on the site.

There is a bug right now where zoom is broken. It did work correctly, and it will work correctly — in general I feel it's important that the browser controls work as expected (one of the big problems Flash had).

In our case, the page should adapt to the window unless the window was zoomed — when the window size changes, I have to determine if the user changed the window manually or if he/she simply zoomed.

It's quite complicated with Apple's pinch-to-zoom, because that creates a situation where you have two completely different zoom mechanisms that can both be in play at the same time.

And, if you zoom then reload the page, the zoom is still in effect.

It did work correctly then I recently broke it while fixing a different bug. I'll get it fixed ASAP.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I really appreciate it.
This was super helpful context, thank you.

Question: how do they know when money migrates between these tiers? E.g., some of my paycheck goes into an index fund; occasionally an index fund gets liquidated to buy a house, or to pay for a vacation. Is there some "trigger" at certain points that lets these tier estimates get updated, or is it just ad-hoc guessing?
Depends on where you are. In Canada, our system sends everything as "National/Presidential Alerts". We don't use the different levels at all. So AMBER Alert, Weather Alert, etc are all Presidential/National Alerts.
The thing is, a flipper is going to sell, one way or another. They'll try to stake a higher price, but they'll sell low if there's no alternative.

Supply, supply, supply is all that matters.
When I got most of my TLS certs from a commercial CA via OV or EV processes, I could have my cert in place before I repointed DNS.

Now most of my certs come from Let’s Encrypt via DV, which checks DNS. So I have to repoint DNS first, and risk users seeing a cert error before certbot finishes getting the new cert. So I keep my DNS TTLs a lot lower than I did before.

Also, DNS service is a lot cheaper than it was years ago, so it doesn’t hurt my budget to send more requests back to the name servers.
Illustrator is the undefeated champ, and I've loved it deeply since 1987. You're right that nothing can replace it at the high-end. For that audience, a $20/month subscription for Illustrator or an all-apps subscription is a given.

Still, this Affinity upgrade is an insta-upgrade for me. On a practical level, I'm lucky enough to be able to "vote with my dollars" to support small developers and non-subscription software. From a creative perspective, sometimes it's helpful (or just fun!) to work with different tools.
How could people rent if it's prohibitively expensive to own multiple homes?
I've been going to a small private gym with a great trainer/owner since March. I walk in and he has everything setup for my workout. He figures out the exercises (supersets), and within 10-15 minutes I've already done 12-16 sets.

The great thing about a good superset trainer is they will figure out each day's exercises based on your previous workouts and take into account which muscles are being used that day so you can do the whole workout without significant resting. I'm up to 45 minute workouts now and have done up to 32 sets in one workout. The other thing I like about this format is that because there is no significant resting, it also gets your heart/breathing rate up. Pushing or pulling a 300lb sled has a high cardio component when combined with 3-4 other exercises, especially after 4-5 rounds!

By making it an appointment with a trainer, you're less likely to skip, especially if you have to pay anyway (which I'd recommend). Whenever I've tried to do stuff on my own, it either peters out quickly or I end up getting hurt. This is the first time working out has worked for me.
I think it's a reference to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Knowing Earth was going to be destroyed the dolphins leave, but they leave behind a message which when decoded translates to "so long and thanks for all the fish" (referring to how dolphins had trained humans to give them a fish when they did tricks).
That is really generous. But man, I'm sitting here really hoping my sibling who works at Meta is not getting axed.

He took the job because of the money, after our parents had to declare a medical bankruptcy. The increase in salary allowed him to pay for their housing which they cannot afford on SS benefits.

Even under those circumstances he still would not take the job until he got my super-anti-Zuck butt on-board with the idea.

I hope people realize that reasons for working at Meta may be more complicated than it might seem on the surface.

</rant>

UPDATE: he still has a job, whew
Single-Family Residential
> - I am now a living manifestation of numbers, so I can't leave my house

I guess GPT-3 has never played Numberwang
I advocate for rebasing, but I discourage using a linear history. The two may seem to contradict one another but they are distinct (enough) that I felt it worth mentioning. When a developer pushes, it makes sense for them to rebase first because they are shipping those commits at the time of the push.

But, depending on your git workflow, when merging to main, I prefer a merge commit so I can see the tree of activities that lead to any particular release.
One less-obvious benefit to this will be that many spaces will likely be wired for EV chargers at the same time, since they'll be running electrical lines throughout the parking lot anyway. This should help make the switch to EVs much more attractive to many people who can't charge at home.