skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few answers:

As a concrete box, usually windowless and monotone, solitary confinement is a form of sensory deprivation. Studies of its effects on mental health are similar to that of extended sensory deprivation. Some units like this offer books; many don’t. Fee to none offer radio or television. Inmates have been known to suffer hallucinations in solitary.

Two, it renders prisoners even more vulnerable to abuse by officers than even regular inmates. There is no one to see what happens to you. The stress and its effects on your body are borne whether or not you are ultimately victimized.

Three, Sartre can say what he likes, but humans are social creatures. By and large, cutting off social contact is a reliable way to induce depression and anxiety. Indeed, inmates in solitary often develop severe symptoms of depression and anxiety, which may become long-lasting or permanent. These inmates are at a massively increased risk of suicide. It has been argued that solitary doesn’t create mental disease, it just massively exacerbated underlying mental disease. But since some measure of depression and anxiety is extraordinarily common in inmates, I consider that a meaningless distinction.

Four, just as an empirical matter, there are a pile of studies on the negative mental health effects of solitary confinement. Much like a math proof, “it’s true because it’s true.”
I put onions in soups and stews all the time, but I just begin by sauteeing the onion. How does using the juice instead change the flavor?
I gather that you exclude opiates from "usual pain killers". That seems odd. For someone dying of cancer, what's the problem being addicted to opiates? Also, an old-school "peaceful death" option is alcohol + morphine + cocaine. The patient dies without pain, and happy. And their family and friends get closure.
Why is blockchain valuable?
I really don't understand why Minecraft Education Edition (the only way to use MakeCode with Minecraft AFAIK) is only available to schools. I'm willing to pay for it but I'm not allowed to.

Not MakeCode's fault, this is great software. But clearly this is Microsoft's fault.
But that would apply ecto's style across whole codebase and for some function names this wouldn't be handy (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elixir-lang-core/xTduV3KZvfY... )
Show HN: Create an Alexa skill for your REST API in 5 mins
Politics has become so us-vs-them that just about any such question ends up answered with "the most general group/ideology/label in conflict with my own that fits the chosen criteria" among those that don't care to think a little more broadly about things.

It drives me insane. Your views are allowed to vary. You are not a label. A person can share the beliefs of both conservatives and liberals if they choose to, because the reality of a situation is almost always far more complex than either of the extremes, and the right answers live somewhere in the middle.
The main advantage is that you can do time-consistent queries against any past database state across the entire database without any read locks. This frees resources and eliminates the necessity of timestamp tables.

Then there is Datomics caching model in combination with its local data based query engine. The vast majority of critical queries only read from memory. Data that is fetched doesn't block other consumers.
Rerouting the buses from (rural) 280 to (urban/suburban) 101 will both put them at more risk and worsen traffic congestion.

SFPD (for one example) policy is to not investigate shootings of vehicles unless (a) there is injury or death, or (b) clear evidence that a firearm was used (as opposed to a BB gun, air rifle, or pellet gun) -- meaning that actual bullet(s) were found.
1-2 days != 3 years
If you recognize it, it's a recognized word.

Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
Interesting!

> not appropriate for a system that has performance requirements

What kind of performance requirements?

Write performance, Query performance, latency? Other?

Where was the bottleneck?

I've found it's very hard for other databases to beat Datomic for query performance.

> Another piece of advice would be to seriously consider if you need immutability in your database.

Remember to check with your audit team, your reporting and analytics teams, your business users, and your data warehousing team.
Not only that, but he sold the absolute maximum allowed for a C level employee.
Taken in isolation they're exactly the same kind of interoperability issue; the difference is that Scala has the language facilities (typeclasses and implicit conversions) to solve that kind of interoperability problem and Kotlin does not. In Scala it's straightforward to write methods that work with both Java and Scala collections (either at a syntactic level by using implicit conversions or in a "true" way by using typeclasses); in Kotlin it's simply impossible to write a method that will work with both options and nullables.
Of course we will do it. We are building this product for years and we are releasing it as Open Source project because we believe we can truly impact how people are able to process data. We do this because we want to contribute with Luna to how you currently work. In other words, we really do Luna for you, our users. We have to collect data to know if we are heading in the right direction, that's all. If we collect it in such way that it disturbs you, then we have to fix that! Here is related issue I've created for it: https://github.com/luna/luna-manager/issues/118

I do not promise it will be resolved tomorrow, because we've got some high priority bugs regarding windows installation, but I'll ask our team to resolve it faster than later.
Bruce Sterling: YOU SHOULD HAVE README
> Finally, I suggested that if we reached the final round of hiring without any viable women or minorities in the selection pool, we should take this as an indication that we had not done a good job at outreach. We would start the recruiting process over, and try harder to attract diverse candidates.

Isn't that inviting a lawsuit?

Doing as she suggests would be pretty much admitting that they did not hire any of the candidates who made it to the final round because they were all male and white.
I gathered two methods-- one for gcc, another for clang-- and crammed them into a set of macros that require no special compiler flags almost two years ago: https://github.com/jeffwalter/defer/blob/master/include/defe...
Did you mean clam juice? Micheladas validate Clamato, though I'm not sure clam juice is actually necessary in Clamato since Clamato tastes more like a different take on V8 than something with clam in it.
Where "everything" may be limited. For example, I just went and looked: I can recycle "recyclable glass, aluminum, cans, plastics and paper".
I think the audience for such pun-level "humor" is down to single digits...

Oh, I think the audience size (IOW, those that get the joke) is fine, but I think the number that actually know the "why" of the punchline is pretty low. How old would one have to be to have ever run into a problem of BS/DEL not rendering properly on the receiving terminal? (At least my age, and I run in the "masters" category at local races.)
This isn't true of all spices.

Oregano, and rosemary spring to mind as ones where dried is better - and in the case of rosemary mixing can create flavor dynamics that don't exist with one or the other.

Basil is an interesting one in that the flavor changes as it dries - they contribute different flavors depending on the state of the herb and how your using them.

Volatiles and oxidation aren't always a bad thing.
Neat, but I'd still recommend an arduino uno or a raspberry pi over a switch.
A lot of it happens during Chinese New Year.

Shanghai - Beijing has a lot of people riding it, it is also the only line that is profitable (ticket sales > operating costs + debt interest, otherwise, only 6 lines pull in enough to cover operating costs). There are lots of short (relatively speaking) commuter jaunts also (from one HSR station to the next), as mentioned in the article you linked.

But then you have the rest of the track....

Don't get me wrong, HSR will be good for China. But someone is going to pay for it.
They have a clause in the fine print, that says that you have to be in your home country at least once a month, in order to use this service. I thought it was great for me staying abroad for 6 months, but I could only use it for a little more than the first.
This is more related to solitary confinement as a a decision you don't have a choice in.

As the article states, 'disciplinary segregation' is a maximum of 30 days, where 'administrative segregation' is left up to warden.
Here is the topic on Luna monetization on our forum: https://discuss.luna-lang.org/t/how-is-luna-monetized/46/9

As you can see, we are open for discussions here and we are still looking for the best model, so we would love to chat about it! :)
You can now also use Minecraft for Windows 10, see https://minecraft.makecode.com/setup
By "higher profile", I just mean as far as the general public is concerned. I've worked in tech my whole life and I couldn't have told you who the CEO of Intel is. But everyone knows Martha Stewart. It's a Good Thing®
The envelopes are not prepaid in Oregon either, that was an oops. (Or, at least they aren't in Washington and Clackamas counties!)
I'm impressed with your story.

Would you mind sharing more on your learning experience in solitude?

What books/resources you had at your disposal?

What was it like having to grok things without being able to ping-pong on understanding with peers (in what would be a study group)?

EDIT: line breaks.
Seems like you didn't really understand my comment mate. My point is that this link is blowing smoke and there are no substantial differences at the application layer.

There's no difference in security considerations when interacting with external resources at the application level. Either way you better have some form of auth and be sending credentials over TLS.

WAFs aren't irrelevant since from an external perspective there's no discernible difference between a request like

POST /login?user=root&password=' OR 1=1 --

being made to a handler running full-time on a dedicated web server or on-demand on AWS Lambda behind API Gateway.
MakeCode works with Minecraft Windows 10 as well. Please see the setup instructions here: https://minecraft.makecode.com/setup
It's best to ask yourself, does someone who reads a single line of an article and sees that as the basis of the whole article a troll?

Please don't feed the trolls, they'll just move the goalposts and you'll be arguing about something completely unrelated in a bit
Well the grandparent disagrees with those evaluations. I have no opinion.

My point is, there's a difference between deserving a job the most and being the best candidate for it. Whether someone has "earned" a job on a moral level should not be the only factor in hiring them. I am also surprised you decided to take your supervisor's motivational comment so literally.
akavel thank you, thank you! <3

We've sent the mails, could you double check if it is not there?

There was a thread about party in Krakow on our Chat, lets discuss it there! :)
Pediatrics seems like a reasonable exception. If you're seven weeks old, seven months old, or seventeen years old it might be worth a shot. Probably not so much if you're ninety-seven.
It's probably not a good idea. See "Popular electric brain stimulation method used to boost brainpower is detrimental to IQ scores".

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150505152140.h...
or biodegradable!
I have always wanted that feature. I never knew it existed previously.
been seeing a lot of these convert X into JSON api with query ...but what would be the use cases for this type of tool? who needs this type of solution?
Seems like a fair scheme with few downsides.

Definitely nice to know that my bill cannot go higher than $80/month even with some type of data usage run-away (look at you YouTube Kids!).
Also Australian, I did an IT degree, chose electives to do with Software Development, and now work as a Software Developer.

Not sure why your experience was so different? Sounds like you got a raw deal though.
LinkedIn is just copying FB pixel by pixel in terms of design. Just compare LinkedIn feed and FB feed side by side.
If this is literally the juice from squeezed onions, then I use it. It acts as a great meat tenderiser and also adds a nice flavour - works great with lamb! I believe this is fairly common in Iran.
> Actually, there are very few torture chambers in US prisons

I suspect every prison in the US (or nearly so) imposes solitary confinement on inmates. In that regard, every prison has torture chambers, at least as considered by the Canadian judge whose ruling the article is about.
Nope, it's much more simple than that. Each CSV upload is converted into a SQLite database. Then I deploy a static, read-only copy of that database to a Zeit Now hosting account and fire up my "datasette" command-line tool (written in Python 3) which opens the SQLite database and starts serving up queries from it.

https://github.com/simonw/datasette

The magic here is that the SQLite database is opened in read-only mode, which means I don't have to worry about concurrent access or write activity. SQLite is screamingly fast if you use it in this context.

Because the data is read-only, if you ever DO need to scale to handle more traffic you can do so by firing up additional instances, each with their own copy of the SQLite database file.
Why is there a crossbar in the ƛ? Shouldn't it rather be λ?
I am going to be impressed if this pans out.

On the surface, it looks like some of the toys may be more reliable than others - they really need to have skillful designers and coders to be able to pick up particular keys of the piano (I assume they don't have much to work with apart from vibrations).

The second part is that they are just complicated to make and not as robust as dedicated toys. Piano, or the foot pedals are examples - how many days of use until they fall apart? Will Nintendo fight copycats who provide cheap replacements?

Even if they gett all of the above wrong, I will forgive them if there will be a way to adapt or design your own gizmos and make them work without being an approved developer - this really does look like a great way to learn hacking.
I loved this article on making paper for U.S. currency, which is produced by one company out of cotton and linen. Up until very recently, the company used denim as a source of raw material.

> "But recently, Americans decided they liked jeans that stretched, so jeans companies began adding spandex to their fabric. Money with spandex in it wouldn't be money anymore, which means much of Crane's time is now spent on a global search for waste cotton that wasn't used to make elastic pants."

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a24292/benjamin-hundred...
> I suspect you would bottleneck on the PCIe bus before you saw improvement.

Heh, you're right. Its not even close. PCIe x16 is slightly less than 16GB/s. And that's a 1-way transfer, the 2nd transfer back effectively halves the speed.

At 4GHz, this Base64 encoding / decoding scheme is doing 20GB/s of encoding (round numbers for simplicity). So literally, it is slower to transfer the data to the GPU than to use those AVX2 instructions.

Heck, its slower on the one-way trip to the GPU, before it even comes back (and before the GPU even touches the data!)
At least three of them will be supplying toilet paper. That leaves only 8997 left to account for..

Basically Apple just did a COUNT(*) query on their vendor table WHERE country IS 'USA'.
I wonder if they could use this technology to make a hypo-allergenic peanut?
Recycle fail, used fabrics are not a market
Article talks that used clothing costs about the same as new clothing so there isn't a market for it. Similar to the e-waste issues that are starting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore

But a reminder that your local pet shelter still can use shirts without buttons (t-shirts or shirts you cut the buttons off), towels and blankets for pets.
That is the most likely explanation. It doesn't produce as many page views though.
@cakoose, would you be so nice and elaborate more why do you think we are lying? It is very sad to read such comments, seriously. We were doing our best to bring Luna to our community, so why are you talking that we were lying about anything now?
Long-term solitary confinement inherently does harm to the person being subjected to it. That's violence.
Ask HN: How to pitch a company that doesn't solve any problem?
Wherever I read about startup pitching, there is a strong emphasis on the "problem that the company solves". In fact, it is often cited as the #1 point to address.

Yet, many technology advances do not really solve a problem but create new use cases, or improve on existing things.

In these cases, what's a pitch that works? I don't think that "imagine a world where..." works very well...

For instance, how would you pitch the creation of Nintendo? Or Facebook? Or Visicalc?

None of these cases solved any particular problem, yet, they clearly have been massively successful.
I stand corrected, i don't think that was the case sometime last year when I first checked out MakeCode, glad to see that has changed

Edit: I may also be misremembering, I primarily use Mac OS, and Education Edition has a Mac OS version. Plus Education Edition has some unique features that I would like to be able to use.
I'm excited for this but also, at the same time, a bit skeptical about what the target for this is. It looks like it could pair well with schools and places where many different kids get to try out different things. I don't really see it working on an individual basis, though. Why would a kid want to buy this? Why would a parent want to buy it for their kid? Would an adult even want something like this?
That makes it a lot more reasonable, thank you.
We’re talking about the repatriation part here, not all the others, which are a different debate.
Thanks! changed from https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-pay-38-billion-in-repa....

But this looks like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16170235. I guess we'll change the URL on that one too.
I'm pretty familiar with historic and modern anarchist thought. In theory, I would support (and prefer) a State-free society. In practice, I don't see it as viable, especially at this point in history.

That said, a State-free society would necessarily be a property-free society. We need the State in order to have the records and the courts to resolve disputes over property ownership.
That's for max frequency on a given process node. Power scales with voltage squared. But that doesn't say anything about wasted power. And dynamic scaling screws that up in modern chips.

I believe I could summarize things by saying the only way you can really save energy* doing the same work+ is by using a different semiconductor process (either power/leakage-reduction-focused or smaller).

* For serious values of "energy"

+ Where the same work is not always true for a given task, if one optimizes an algorithm
It's art though right? I mean, the last known sale of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2 DVD sold for US$571,000 in 2007 - secondhand.

So what?
I understand the principle, and agree with it in general. In this particular case, though, the legal system understands he did delegate his strategy by delaying his change of lawyer in a way that could be interpreted as exploiting a loophole to keep his trial being delayed in order to avoid the death penalty.

So, in one extreme, you have the right of the individual to choose how the counsel should act, and in another extreme, if you let an individual abuse that right, you create a loophole by which a guilty criminal can postpone their trial basically indefinitely.

Basically, if this was software engineering, they found a strange behavior of the system, and are trying to define if this is a bug or a feature. That’s why the case is in the Supreme Court - it’s them who will decide if this is legal or not.
J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White
Before he won the Nobel Prize in 2003, J. M. Coetzee was a computer
programmer. And before he was a writer, he was apparently a passionate
amateur photographer.

This New York Times story about an exhibition of newly descovered
Coetzee photographs, taken with a Wega 35mm camera in the mid-1950s,
is really interesting.

The first volume of Coetzee's fictionalized autobiography, Youth,
contains an account of his career as a programmer at IBM
in London in the 1960s.

"At 18 he might have been a poet. Now he is not a poet, not a writer,
not an artist. He is a computer programmer, a 24year old computer
programmer in a world where there are (yet) no 30 year old computer
programmers. At 31 he is too old to be a programmer: one turns oneself
into something else - some kind of businessman - or shoots oneself"

And of course, as covered previously on HN, he used that computer at
night to write poetry of a kind:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776042
> Just you, and your mind, for a long time.

I am pretty convinced that this would not be a serious problem for me. It's clearly not comfortable, but also not something that I intuitively would consider as a serious problem to me (perhaps it would be, but intuitively I have a hard time imagining it).

When I think about it, I would probably do lots of long meditation sessions - this sounds like a good way to pass this long time alone. Or exercises to keep the body in shape if possible (see below).

What nevertheless does sound plausible to me is that being alone for such a long time can cause lots of problems for resocialization.

> And often from light, fresh air

This sounds a lot more like a problem to me.

> exercise, and possibly even reading materials.

Serious question for people who know more about prisons: Why is exercise impossible? I mean exercises that need no further sports equipment, such as push-ups, sit-ups etc.
Datasette is specifically designed for publishing static data - it doesn't handle UPDATE/INSERT traffic at all.

This is a good fit for any time you want to share some static data with the world - instead of posting a CSV file, you can share your data as a Datasette instance with a browseable web UI and a JSON API instead.

The three use-cases I'm personally most interested in for this are:

Data journalism: newspapers collect data about e.g. police shootings https://vice-police-shootings.now.sh/ or actions under the antiquities act https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight-2628d... - I want to make it as easy as possible to publish the data beneath the stories.

Government open data: cities like San Francisco publish huge amounts if interesting data. I used San Francisco's 190,000 line CSV of trees in the city to build https://sf-tree-search.now.sh/

Cultural institutions: museums, libraries and art galleries have the collection and sharing of data as part of their mandates. I want to make it as easy as possible to build things like the London Science Museum's collection API: https://group.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/collection/using...
In the long term, it's definitely something we plan to do. For now, we are prioritizing building new features and improving the core product.

Doing open source well requires significant resources for community management, PR review, and support. When we do release an open source version of LogRocket, we want to be sure that we can dedicate enough time to supporting our users and engaging the community.

(I work at LogRocket)
I can imagine this causing our family to need more than one Switch. And it's totally ok if kids play rough with it and break it because you can build another one. And building it is half the fun.