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> if prisons did more than just house inmates

The problem is that the US system in particular is obsessed with punishment alone. Yes, sure, sometimes the punishment is justified as a learning experience but it's entirely based on the idea that punishment alone is sufficient to teach and act as a deterrent to others.

Considering mental health (especially for the poor) is fairly neglected as a public health issue in the US and the country has the highest incarceration rate in the "free world", I'm not sure there's a fix.

Oh, and paedophilia absolutely can be managed if you treat it as a mental health issue. Not to mention that most sexual abuse of minors isn't actually committed by paedophiles -- just like most rape cases aren't simply about very horny people who can't help themselves.
The US are getting weirder and weirder and weirder. I just can't wrap my head around Trump, gun laws, life-time sex-offender registries, the messed up health care system.

Yet, I have only met absolutely nice, intelligent, loving americans, and I've met many. I feel sorry for them. They deserve better.
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> people realised that putting everything into a single giant scene graph isn't a good idea (so at least since the very early 2000's).

Why?
In a similar vein, I hope you've seen the Primitive Technology channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
The only reason a front loader has less mildew issues is because the top is unsealed. Repairs are not more expensive in my experience, and why should they be, the basic principles are the same. A front loader usually washes better, saves you quite a bit on the water and electricity bills, and for all that you just need to remember to not close the lid when not in use.
Presumably...

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Cars are still in the old mindset. They're unmodular, un-lego. Kinda like average laptops before 2006 or so. Tons of intricate parts stuck together. Coming from the computer world, especially now that you can plug and swap all kinds of parts, this looks insane. And the carmakers are leveraging this to take a premium on anything if you don't dare to try fixing it yourself.
One of you is talking about SF the city. The other about SF the political entity.
For learning just facts, solving crossword puzzles regularly helps a lot (not cryptic ones). More complicated matters are going to get forgotten rather quickly anyway unless you need them in your daily life.
This is why in a lot of European countries you can only get condenser dryers now, rather than vented dryers. I guess there's a fire safety aspect too (i.e. vents blocked up with highly flammable lint, static electricity and heat), but I think it's mainly because of energy efficiency.

It's a bit ironic though, because there is a lot more stuff that can and will go wrong in a £600 heat-pump condenser dryer vs a £150 vented dryer. If they are both equally designed to be 'disposable' which is really better for the environment?
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It's not even maintenance, it's a change of habbit. Which is hard for some people.
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Hardest is to dis- and reassemble the whole thing. Inside it's pretty simple.

I have to do this on my mother's car. Surprisingly both doors internals started to fail around the same year.
On the contrary, their stock valuation is staggering. If it simply increases to eclipse normal companies they can burn all they like.

It's more than a bit like a tipping point for the moral soul of market capitalism (to the extent that's not already an oxymoron).

Basically Uber will continue to dominate so long as being a complete, total monster is MORE important than any other consideration. That's what's propping them up: their continued existence is an indication that, to global capital as it exists today, the various considerations of business all boil down to one single Darwinian consideration: what will make the most money, all else aside.

Uber is a vote for 'all else aside'. They're a vote for literally capital crushing everything else before it, for the belief that abstracted power (in the form of money) can always do anything it wants. In a sense it's a vote of confidence in the freest of free markets: as long as everybody continues to believe, logically Uber can never fail because they can always out-scumbag everybody else and if you're certain that's the key to success it's illogical to break faith with 'em. That doesn't mean 'liking' it: you can hate it and still believe that's the only way to success.

The one crack in the support beam: this literally requires everyone to agree, because the ONLY thing holding Uber up is the collective confidence in their valuation. They can only burn infinitely if they represent something vitally important to capital as a whole. This is why they're still Uber, and it's pretty revealing.

But it requires just about unanimous agreement that Uber is the way of the future. It doesn't take many defectors before Uber stops making the rules for being a unicorn darling trend-setter: and people do have a sense of what's at stake here. If Uber is NOT the future… then they lose a LOT of money.

Uber is the Enron model. They are incapable of crumbling, or dwindling. They can only be the way of the future and the one model for everyone going forward… or explode, very suddenly and catastrophically.
"We think the increased efficiency from AI will net out positive for the world, but we’re mindful of fears of job loss. As such we’re also looking to fund companies focused on job re-training, which will be a big part of the shift."

I find a lot of wishful thinking, denial and cognitive dissonance in this sentiment, which is found everywhere.

"Computers will eliminate these jobs, but humans will always have more to do."

Um...

If computers can learn at an accelerated pace, what makes you think that by the time you learn that next thing, it won't already be eliminated (or shortly afterwards) by a fleet of computers that use global knowledge? Do you really think that Uber driver - turned - newbie architect is going to be in demand vs the existing architects with their new AI helpers?

It's not black and white, but the AVERAGE demand for human labor is going down, not because EVERY human job will be eliminated but because automation allows LESS people to do the job.

So wages drop. On average.

The only real solutions are either unconditional basic income, or single payer free healthcare / food / recreation.
It follows the same trajectory as the tobacco industry. I think when it comes to tobacco we already can "not believe" how prevalent smoking was just 50 years ago.

> at this point the food industry is almost guilty of mass murder for profit

Agreed. Now how to fix it?

I like Dr Greger's "How not to Die" book, as it brings a lot of scientific evidence to the table. He also has an app "the daily dozen" that helps people improve their diets.

Given the power of lobby groups I do not expect that we can effectively use gov't to change the status quo.
maybe I'm missing something, but PLA is just 3d printer filament. There's only two plastics commonly used for extruder-style 3d printers, and they're ABS and PLA.
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There isn't a good rail system in north America and flights are expensive and slow (due to security and border crossing). You don't cross any borders traveling around Europe.
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I suspect the implication is that he believes insurance as a market is a bad thing
> Truth is, you really don't want to be assimilated to IT anywhere in the world. Most people will think of you as the guy called when the computer breaks.

I think people do this already. A lot of people I know seem to assume 'web developer' = 'expert in configuring/fixing Microsoft Windows'.
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The proles only think they are deciding. Things were tolerable when media outlets controlled access. Thier bias was open for all who cared to challenge. Now control is in the hands of facebook's robot. Bias is now hidden behind math, code and interface. There is nobody to challenge or attack. Instead of calling out NYT we must now fight smoke.
Go to Tom Forsyth's blog here: https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html and find the "Scene Graphs - just say no" post (I failed at providing a direct link, apologies).
Usually failure follows a bathtub curve. If you know your appliance will probably break in 10 years, you can still offer a 3 year warranty easily without costing almost any extra.
Diet Industry, Snack Industry, Soda Inc... what would you prefer... when most people are eating processed and or pre-prepared foods, things aren't good. And imho things like hamburger helper aren't very far off.

I ate a lot of food that came from cans, boxes and packages growing up.. and today its' far worse... I know a lot of people around my age (early 40's) who never eat any vegetables at all. none... Unless it's filler in something else they're eating. Lots of refined starches, more than enough meat... but very few actual veggies.

I mean, I'm not all about the veggies, I'm far from getting enough every day (per whatever standards), but I at least get 4-5 salads a week, and have at least 3-4 other times with at least a vegetable side that aren't starches (root-veg) a week. But man, there's something to be said for going from at least some, to almost none.

I'll admit, I do tend to favor lower-carb (I'm diabetic, I really have to), but the anti-fat fads of the late 70's through the 90's did more harm than good. Compounded by the proliferation of snack items and refined fats (mostly vegetable source), starches, preservatives, fillers and stabilizers is astounding.

I no longer have any children living with me, but I can't believe the number of ads for foods that aren't whole or at least minimally processed on TV, targeting kids... "fruit rollups", gellies, gogurt, soda, pops, drinks, fast-food and the rest... It's time to start saying no to kids, no to ourselves and trying to lead by better examples.

Another issue is thinness !== healthy. Metabolic syndrome is really dangerous when you don't show the typical outward symptoms right away. Body shaming doesn't work... We, as a larger society need to start making better choices for ourselves. And I say this as someone who has McD's for breakfast pretty much every day (breakfast sandwich, sometimes just an egg and sausage, no bun with a water to drink). If you eat fast-food, skip the side of fries and the sugar-water. Hell, use a calorie tracker for a week, and be surprised how much you really take in (including snacks, drinks, etc)... it can actually be hard to take in under 2500 kcal a day.
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I see it more like:
I own property. I pay the government a tax on the property or I lose it.
I own intellectual property. I pay the goverment a tax on the intellectual property or I lose it.

I am not interested here to engage in a libertarian argument that all tax is theft or mafia type coercion.
Tech people know how hard it is to scale things. More precisely, we know how hard it is to maintain quality (of code for example) in an environment where quantity increases rapidly.

Take a look at this graph :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Human_populat...

The industrial era. What happened in the last 50 years is that the quality/quantity ratio went to almost zero. Industries now produce a LOT of stuff for a LOT of people, but the quality of this stuff is insanely low, food included. Industrial food is sometimes void of anything good for your health.

In my view we have two options : rebalance the quality/quantity ratio, ie make a LOT of stuff of quality, or if we can't, drastically reduce the quantity of stuff needed. I let you imagine the consequences of the second option.

I'm optimistic, but scared.
With that kind of ambition, Swatch really missed their best change on accomplishing it: they should have bought Pebble.

Maybe they kind still buy relevant parts...
"All started from and only by a controlled a website"

That is really scary. And another reason to limit/disable JavaScript (if somebody still don't find enough). Has anyone found more detailed report? I'd love to see this in action.
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Memory blocks are owned by the span (the page-aligned larger bucket of blocks) they belong to. While a span is in use (at least on block is allocated) it is indeed owned by the heap that allocates the block. When the span is completely freed, ownership is released.

In your case, the block will be marked as free for allocation. If it is the last used block in that span, the span will eventually be returned to the global cache and reused by other heaps/threads when the owner thread ends. If the span is still used, it will remain in the heap until the heap is picked up by another thread. Heaps are reused as threads are joined and created (i.e number of allocated heaps are the maximum number of concurrent threads since process started).

The worst case is that one thread allocates blocks, hands them off to other threads then ends, and that the process never creates additional threads. In this case, the spans will remain mapped and unused. I have planned to allow other threads to pick up and collect spans from unused heaps at some point to solve this.
I do some data science type work for a charity. This is only part time but I'd imagine larger charities could employ someone full time at this.

The work is not cutting edge data science at all but I do find it meaningful.

Happy to answer questions on here or email me at my gmail (in profile) if you want more thoughts from me.
Agreed.. I'm not anti-grower, or anti-gmo... the cost/benefit of "organic" is dubious at best (aside from some berries, iirc). But man, the balance has to shift at least a little... we really need to move away from highly refined/pre-prepared everything, every meal, lots of snacks, lots of sugars, every day.

Edit: I also know a world-class chef who agrees that the McRib is one of the most tasty things ever developed. But you don't eat that every day...
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> Diets low in omega-3 fatty acids, found in seafood [...] also played a role.

In seafood you also find a lot of toxins, especially mercury. So trying to get your omega3s from there comes with it's own problems.

Thank God for flax seeds! A cheap and pure source of omega3s. Freshly grind 2 tsps and mix in your food every day: you will have covered your omega3s, amongst other micro-nutrients.
I was in the Bay area during the first bubble, so that's my basis for my comments. An anthropologist I knew described the Bay area as a place where 'adolescents go to retire', which made a bunch of sense. A sense of the 60s was still around, with the general wackiness and Folsom Street Fair and the alt-cultures around. The tech scene was merely the latest incarnation of the gold-rush mentality.

But now, given everything I have read about the Bay these days, I don't think I'd want to live there. Apparently all the artists have left, Burning Man is a corporate event soon to be shut down permanently (given what I've heard about the cops), money, money, money... too much wanna be zillionaires all hoping to best buds with Zuckerberg someday. IT culture is not what is was 'back in the day'. And get off my lawn!

And I have lived in London for seven years, more than I did in SF. I greatly prefer London. Good public transport, it feels like a place you can live, it's a real city, not a bunch of suburbs (but now the rents... well, being used to SF rents when I moved, it was similar).

My take on the article is the guy projects a lot onto the two cities. The tech scene has all these romantic associations with it and good lord, I am getting tired of hearing about them. At the end of the day, it just a job for most people and few startups actually matter (Uber matters because they are screwing up so much). "Changing the world" only equals working on social problems like establishing UBI, not running the world's largest BBS so your grandma can read fake news that is written in Romania or feeding the ADD of adolescents who like to take pictures of their food. As for financial, that will always matter until capitalism crashes.
I find that it's easy to hate the US for what it has been doing to others (yes, yes, tu quoque and at least the US isn't literally Nazi Germany) but what's really astonishing is what it's doing to its own people.

Sure, in theory citizens of the "home of the brave" have it pretty good but between the atrocious healthcare and welfare systems, the insane criminal justice system, the mass surveillance, the militarised police force, the widespread influence of religious conservative groups, and everything else... I'm not so sure US citizens are any less victims of the US than anybody else.
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My $.02 -- if I were to provide a resource with the goal of being of great value to people, and it's within my wherewithal to maintain it with what I make elsewhere, the $$ return from ads are far too low to justify how much they detract from the experience I set out to provide. Ads aren't the absolute worst, but I think we can agree they are on average negative to the experience you visit a non-shopping page for.

For a fairly niche resource such as this (it'll never reach a "how do I get a boyfriend" level of audience), it's unlikely to ever draw as much ad revenue to pay for itself. To do so, a high quality, specialized ad system would need to be deployed, which honestly becomes a high touch deployment and maintenance project, that isn't directly tied to the core goal of just providing an awesome resource publicly for the greater good, which is just distracting (or costly) for whoever is behind it.

I appreciate the mature choice to not try to gain small change and instead eat the cost for hosting and development to feel good that you are providing something not just great, but unadulterated as well.
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But the UI wouldn't be stuck with something from 5+ years ago for a car that should last 15-20 years. My year old car's screen came with a UI that felt dated out of the box. If it were my phone driving the thing, at least the UX would be current, and with data, even more could work... I wouldn't be any less well off, even without data, unless my phone were broken or forgotten.
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Only if you consider techniques like Word2Vec[1] as a non-breakthough.

No one knew you could do it, but yes, it build upon previous work. I was working in the field before and after and if anyone had asked me if one could represent all human languages in only 300 dimensions, and have vector composition be meaningful I'd have laughed at them.

Take using back-propagation to train deep neural networks. People had shown it worked in 1 or 2 layer networks, but despite years of work no one had been able to train anything deep enough to be useful. Then Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton won ImageNet[2], proved it was possible and kicked off this whole ML craziness.

Neither of them is exactly because of more powerful computers, nor magical math breakthroughs. It was more lots of hard work by researchers trying many combinations of techniques until something worked.

These techniques, combined with huge volumes of data and - yes - more powerful computers are what have made the difference.

[1] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5021-distributed-representation...

[2] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4824-imagenet-classification-wi...
I agree. Though perhaps the Victorian / puritan morality that underlies American history won't let us move on from punishment to rehab.
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I'm not sure if this is changing or whether it never really changed (in the past 50 years or so): professionals using tools just have no need for tools which might break quickly so there always has been (at least in my memory) a market segment for proper tools (high end think Festool, Hilti, ... but even somewhat lower end tools never seemed to had problems like becoming unusable/unrepairable within a couple of years). And even though some small segment of the market might now be taken over by ultracheap less decent tools, the segment with the decent tools is still going strong as ever.
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Really interesting. The Linux port is not maintained, unfortunately (last worked on ubuntu 10.04, apparently - someone made a docker environment here: https://github.com/AndrewKvalheim/treemaker but the base image is so old it is not on docker hub any more.
> But the story at hand really underlines that 20 years is longer than necessary.

And the scenario outline underlines that it may not be.
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>In the software-sector everything is moving much much faster than in the physical world. The negative effects of patents become much more obvious then.

So tune the law for software patents ? Software industry is large enough to get specific treatment.
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> You'd then get a longer term slump, as all companies stop investing in basic research and long-term R&D

There would be a different type of slump too, as companies kept important technologies secret, rather than patenting them
This must have been a political decision. The Soviet/Russian Buran has flewn only once, but then autonomously.
For sure aeneas is not suitable, since it requires all the text and all the audio in advance.

But ASR-based tools in theory would allow such an operation mode, but I have not seen aligners that read from the mic buffer directly or have a built-in option/CLI for it.

Knowing the text in advance basically means that you can train your own language (textual) model adapted to that exact text, and then use the (standard) acoustic model for your language and aligning procedure as usual. Hence, I am quite sure you can tweak e.g. CMU Sphinx or Kaldi to do it. Perhaps gentle (which is based on Kaldi) is worth looking into.
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It all depends on what constitutes 'bad press' and the company culture. If the valuation of Uber is based on how much they are monsters with no consideration for anything else, none of this counts as bad press provided that Uber can still beat everything and everybody it's in conflict with.

Stealing ideas from Google? If they can't get away with it, that's catastrophic. If they DO get away with it that's a thumb in the eye to Google, much like their normal operations are a gutpunch to every legal system they're in conflict with.

The whole point is this: everything negative about Uber turns into a positive for their valuation if they can get away with it. I don't see any possible event or action that would break this rule. Travis Kalanick could eat babies on nationwide TV and it would help their valuation IF he got away with it, because it would be more grandstanding about how Uber is ultimately powerful and can always do anything it wants because of that power.

View any bad press in that light: are they getting away with it? If they are, it's more evidence they make the rules, and making the rules is why they're valued at Uber levels. If they are above any and all laws, the valuation is justified or undervalued.