skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a real shame you are being down-voted.

Before forming an opinion on the role that "Rehabilitation" should play in parole hearings, HN readers should talk with (or at least read about) someone who has been through that process. Even when the intent is sincere, the implementation in American prisons can be downright draconian. "Rehabilitation" means learning what you are supposed to say/do and saying/doing it in a convincing way. Including, e.g., believing in God [1].

Rehabilitation makes sense in the abstract, but its implementation often boils down to "learn how to lie convincingly about your true beliefs", sometimes even about beliefs that are explicitly enshrined in our constitution. Which is pretty much the opposite of what we should be going for.

Now consider the case where the intent is not sincere; e.g., the case of a prison chaplain or guard who was rubbed the wrong way by a particular prisoner's personality. Rehabilitation is effusive and basically boils down to "anyone have anything negative to share with the parole board?"

And all of this without considering civil disobedience. E.g., should MLK Jr. have stayed in jail until he publicly denounced his own Letter from a Birmingham Jail?

Must drug offenders publicly profess their undying allegiance to status quo drug scheduling laws before earning their freedom?

IMO we should always allow for the possibility that criminality and morality are not intrinsically linked. And the modern practice of considering rehabilitation in parole hearings too often runs counter to tht belief.

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[1] http://www.kcur.org/post/court-says-atheist-inmate-s-religio...
The Facebook recruiter told me that "successful candidates spend an average of 10-15 hours preparing"...for a 45 minute phone screen. For the onsite you're expected to spend a few weeks reading CtCI and working through the practice problems.
Keto is focus on eating fat (60-70%), not protein(25-30%).
> What am I missing?

just on top on my mind tooling, factory space, training, burnout, turns, above average defects that will have to be handled by the post sales network.

> they used some very impressive electrical design

oh yes they are brilliant car, no question about that. it's less impressive when you get an engineering marvel and the build quality is random depending on the hands that worked on it in post processing.
Cool, so the top comment by a fellow HNer like yourself confused you, so you blamed your confusion on the author of the arXiv article.

That's your fault for ignoring the links [1] [2] [3] in that comment and reading 3 bullet points as 1 coherent sentence. Those are very obviously 3 different sentences from 3 entirely separate articles. If it's ambiguous for you what part of the passage from [1] the word "it" from passage [2] refers to (and feel free to blame the author of the comment if it makes you feel better), you're supposed to click on the links... that's why they were provided to you. They're there precisely to clear up any confusion or inconsistencies.

And if you click the links and search for "thermodynamic", you see it's explained pretty unambiguously, and the ambiguity was introduced in the top comment:

> There is some controversy over whether what Williams developed is actually a memristor because the concept of a memristor itself is seen by some as a violation of the laws of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

Clearly you can see the "it" that some people claim to be violating thermodynamics (and hence fictional, unreal, or whatever you want to call it) is the concept of a memristor that has existed since decades ago, not the physical thing HP created long after -- that would be preposterous.
> as long as everyone is a consenting adult.

We know, and Backpage don't deny this, that many of the ads were for children.

But if we restrict ourself to adults; it's a myth that women want to work in prostitution, or that it's just another job. The vast majority of women working in prostitution only do so to feed a drug addiction,or because they're in debt, or because they're being coercively controlled. Yes, I do speak to women who've been through this.
I am fortunate enough to be on the $10 plan, but given how little traffic my site gets cutting it in half with the smallest DO box would still be nice.
1) no
2) no attempts to justify. Police search for motive for the purpose of understanding why, not to say any particular actions were just. However, understanding why is often important when attempting deescalation of conflicts and possibly preventing future conflicts.

The point is that there is only one prevailing viewpoint without the context of contributors to the conflict. Why would this not be included? Maybe everyone would still reach the same conclusion; however, if historical context is being withheld, how can anyone know if their assessment is logical.
Is it immoral by default, or due to implementation?

For example, consider a prison which forces (which I'll define as however the prisons currently gets inmates to work the jobs) it's inmates to attend classes to learn job skills and avoid behaviors that landed them in prison. Would this not also be a form of slavery given they are forced to attend? Slavery isn't defined by the slave doing something useful to the owner. A slave is still a slave even if they are doing nothing or if they are being commanded to improve themselves. And in this case I wouldn't see it as immoral.

What about if the slaves are equally forced to clean up the class once done (think stereotypical Japanese school where the kids do much of the cleaning). This could potentially be saving money for the prison by reducing the number of janitors needed, but I don't see it as any more immoral that I see the kids cleaning the classroom as a form of child labor.

In a general sense, imprisoning is a subset of enslavement, though one we generally see as just as long as the laws and legal system which lead to imprisonment is seen as just. In the US in particular, we see some cases as just and some cases as unjust.
YOU Get Into YC and YOU Get Into YC and....
Isn't discrimination the point of Facebook targeting? They could easily throw a warning if the set you are hitting is out of protected class ratios for the geographic neighborhoods and you could randomly sample around them to fix bias.
I think the US is a good example of democracy being undermined, not an inherent failure of democracy.

We can have a law against murder but that's not enough: there will still be murder. It takes a whole society working with the shared value that murder is wrong in order to uphold the institution of the law.
> If it passes the house and the senate, of course trump will sign it and take credit for it

That's pretty much inconceivable. He made repealing it part of his campaign, and specifically claimed that it was an Obama power grab designed to target conservative media.

Even if he has decided since then that net neutrality is acceptable, or even actually desirable and wants it to happen, he would not do it by merely reinstating the 2015 rules for that would be a tacit admission that he was wrong during the campaign.

He would do it by having new rules written, so that he could say that he fixed the Obama rules.
Many years after my first exposure to this book and having learned more heavy-FP in Scala, I would not recommend this as a resource for learning either FP or Haskell.

But let that not be a pock on the overall great mission to make FP more accessible.
> how many do you want to report?

All of them?
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of species of wasps, and as far as I know only a few (<10) social species tend to sting humans, and those don't form galls.
You're inordinately focused on the fact that the zoo-museum district includes "several different organizations." You seem to think this is a crucially-important fact, one I'm trying to conceal, for some reason, but neither of those beliefs are true.

> You chose not to mention that, for reasons I think I know.

You should re-read my original comment, the one that started this truly silly subthread, which twice reveals that there are multiple organizations included in the district.
His preludes are top-notch. He packs so much story into those short forms. That first prelude...what a damn tender 30 seconds (or so).
I think the enthusiasm for LYAH should also be seen in context.

Real World Haskell was the first book that made it to a wider audience. And while was is full of useful information, it is a very uneven book that works badly as an introduction to Haskell. We once had a reading group where we read RWH, most colleagues dropped out after the first 3-4 chapters.

In comparison, LYAH was a book that was far more straightforward as an introduction. And I know a few people that have gone through it cover to cover.

Although it's been a while since I read it, I really liked Graham Hutton's 'Programming in Haskell'. It was short & clear.
Heck, life generally is filled with that kind of inertia.

It's not easy to change banks or brokerage houses. Does it make sense that someone with $1M at Vanguard gets a bunch of special perks and lower fees? Not fair!!!
Yeah, shot using an iPhone. Using the iPhone’s minuscule sized image sensor, through its tiny lens, and built in image processoring engine. With an attached lens.

Huawei used a large image sensor DSLR with dedicated processing chips and lenses designed for the body. The product they’re trying to pass off as having produced the image needed have been within 29 square miles.
Last time I went around interviewing, companies that passed out homework basically front-loaded the candidate time commitment so that they only had to put in their own time if the candidate looked promising.

The homework was not bad in itself, but was a symptom of a larger problem. Namely, the company was unwilling to invest equal energy into the interviewing process as their candidates. So my first impression of the company was that it was full of brusque assholes that valued their time more than mine. It seemed patronizing.

This was certainly also possible without homework, as in the case of the companies that wanted me to disclose my salary expectations up front, without disclosing what they expected to pay the median candidate. They wanted to reject quickly, so they could reject more candidates, and finally get to the good one that they'd want to hire. As the article author might put it, don't use an evaluation tool as a screening tool.
Sugar, and I think its starting to affect my health. gotta kick the habit
The problem is effort asymmetry. For in-person interviews, company must spend as much time as candidate is spending in evaluation. If homework thing becomes standard, I'm afraid that will become first line of filtering because it doesn't cost much to company. So you will still get in-person interview and may be even bit of whiteboarding (to make sure your friend didn't took test for you or somehow you cheated out by getting questions before hand).

You can look at the test process in terms of game theory where one player deals with several players who are not all equally qualified and have incentive to get the prize. So the adversarial mechanics will eventually ensue and folks will try to "game" the system. If you invent whiteboarding as defence, folks will try to invent leetcode as counter measure. If you invent homework as defence, you can bet sites pop all over that allows you to search problem and frameworks and download the common solutions with a click.
No. I am implying they weren't sentenced to be a firemen or a slave so they shouldn't be. People have been sentenced to do community service which I generally don't think is compensated. Going to be honest, I am ignorant and haven't been incarcerated so I am lucky, but from what I can tell community service tends to be a lighter punishment than prison, and doesn't tend to be as exploitative as the uncompensated labor described by these activists. It is also proscribed by the court and not up to wardens and their friends to decide its terms and extent.

And no, I don't think anyone should be sentenced to be a slave or a firemen. Any such sentence probably would violate the 8th amendment.

[0] Insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17813698
The 'old men committing suicide' seems to be a thing. My own 85 year old father has been ratcheting up the idle talk about being a useless burden to his wife, etc, which makes me very nervous.
reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets gives a good idea of where Robinhood's success is coming from.
His current number (2130) comes from the UK's “Family food datasets”. The first thing you see when you open up the UK nutrient intake spreadsheet is this message:

> It is a widely recognised characteristic of self reported diary surveys such as Family Food that survey respondents tend to under report their purchases (and any derived nutrient intakes based on purchased quantities are also likely to be underestimates). Empirical comparisons of sales and duty data for alcohol in particular suggest that reported alcohol consumption could be 40-60 per cent lower than the reality. For other food and drink, reporting is likely to be closer to actual purchases, but underreporting is likely to feature and some food types may be underreported to a greater extent than others.

Here's a paper that critiques the survey results in detail: http://38r8om2xjhhl25mw24492dir-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...
> Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit. The same argument could justify slavery. If prisons are cash strapped, whose responsibility is that? I believe society put these people away and we should pay for it. Either it’s worth it to us or it’s not.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the argument, but why is the focus solely on what is "good for them?" Discussions of over-incarceration aside, there is a legitimate place for prison. These people are already a burden on society--housing a prisoner costs tens of thousands of dollars--why shouldn't they be forced to take on some of their own upkeep?

Note that we do this with another class of people who are wards of someone else: children. Nobody is arguing you should have to pay kids minimum wage for doing chores...
The point may be to avoid a discontinuity? Some programs in the past paid full amounts below a cutoff, and nothing above it. So, if one were close to the cutoff, working would be extremely "disincentivized".
So what about cases where the penalty is a fine instead of (or in addition to) prison time? If I get a ticket, I have to pay. For the majority of people, that money comes through doing work of some form, which I'm now being required to do or else face possible prison time.
You read TAOCP once a year? Or you scan it? I could see perusing it periodically and doing a dive into a few sections. But not reading the whole thing. I read and mostly worked through all of volume 1 once, that took enough time (and a detour through Concrete Mathematics). Volumes 2 and 3 I scanned and did a few exercises here and there on areas I found interesting.
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> it would even encourage people to do work they like to do instead of what makes them the most money

But clearly this doesn't play out with the farmers in question here! They are not freed from the shackles of work for a year or three, busily following their passion. They are committing suicide. That isn't to say that the majority go in that direction, but its enough to measure, and should be enough to give us pause I think.

The majority of men on UBI-like programs seem to watch TV and take drugs, and not follow passions.
I've written a fair bit about UBI and contrasting it with basic jobs, here:

https://medium.com/s/story/after-universal-basic-income-the-...

Related to this discussion see the section, "The Existential Problem", and if you have the time I suggest you read the two articles (NPR 'unfit for work' and Commentary Mag 'our miserable 21st century') that I link to in that section.

Not in the above article but broadly speaking, the work disincentive for UBI tests so far is about 10%. That is, 10% of the people given something like UBI will drop out of the labor force and not do any kind of (measurable) work. Some % of that 10% will go on to commit suicide, I imagine, like the farmers here. Citations for the ~10% figure can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666307

Something about being given money and having no work to do, plus no community or purpose, does not cause people to create community or purpose. My fear here is that instead of working towards making sure people can, somehow, create more community and purpose, we're taking the one thing many people find meaning in (work) and pulling the rug out from under them on it, like we are possibly doing to the farmers here.

Sorry, having a hard time being succinct. What I am suggesting is that we have got to solve this "no community or purpose" issue before we solve the "money" issue. It's bigger, and if we don't, we might not like the future very much.
It’s being heavily pushed by conservative talking heads. Basically just limping everything into “net neutrality” because everyone knows the phrase
I agree, it's really disjointed. It spends a long time on relatively easy stuff and not much time on the hard things, IMO. I also have trouble with the style and I think it goes too far with the sort of informal, conversational tone. Ultimately Haskell is a language with a lot of formality at its core. You don't have to present it as all abstract category theory theorems and such, but that doesn't mean you should avoid formality entirely.
I really enjoyed programming in Elm as a starting point. Elm avoids type-classes, which tend to be the biggest hurdle when starting to learn Haskell. Plus, you can design a nice web app in the process (versus, say, process CSV files). After I became comfortable with Elm, learning Haskell, type-classes, lazy evaluation, etc., made significantly more sense to me. For instance, `do` syntax is great, but it's not obvious what it really is doing, at first, unless you've programmed pure functional languages without using `do`.

Also, learning Idris is another great learning exercise if you want to stretch the ways to think about programming.
Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
If you're comparing grown adults to children in this scenario you're making a fallacious comparison right out of the gate.
Nope, I was tracking it using the labeling on the package... which goes back to my point, the labeling is grossly inaccurate to the point that it may be just random numbers.

And no, it also isn't difficult to overheat on a diet that isn't calorie dense. I've since added OMAD, and can eat 2000 calories in one sitting.

Just because you don't have grains and refined sugars as a hyper-dense calorie crutch doesn't mean you cant. It merely means you aren't used to it.
Conor tweeted a few example: https://twitter.com/_conorpp/status/1031731934643269632?s=21

I’m currently on the road, but I’ll let you have the dimensions. The other tricky part is usb-a vs usb-c.
"Calories in calories out." Yes, hooray we've restated the 1st law of thermodynamics, because it's never wrong, and you can never be called out for saying something incorrect when you trot out that phrase. But it's also about as relevant to effective nutrition as it is to the current price of soybeans.
i second this opinion. past results are not indicative of future ones.

The question is if you dont follow the passive ETF/index strategy what do you do? In that regard i suppose its better than doing nothing.
Another good (imho better) option is the Haskell book https://haskellbook.com/
Yes and there is a newer 2016 version (2007 one came up for me first) https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Haskell-Graham-Hutton-ebo...

(no referral link)
They're not being compelled to be firemen.
> Nobody is arguing you should have to pay kids minimum wage for doing chores...

"Chores" and "labor" are categorically different things, and the motivation for the former isn't usually "offsetting their upkeep", so much as it's "instilling a sense of personal responsibility".

This is a specious comparison.
You can create an ISP and then you have to work to get people to sign up.

You can create a eBay site and then you have to work to get people to sign up.

And your argument is the hard part of making an eBay site is signing people up and hand-wave over the build part of both these things? Apples to Spaceships comparison.
We know Backpage did nothing about some underage ads because the girls who'd been trafficked tried to get those ads taken down and Backpage declined.

> And in February 2010, a detective emailed Backpage to alert the company that a 17-year-old girl who tried to get Backpage to take down an advertisement of herself had been rebuffed: According to the detective, the girl “tried asking for [the ads] to be removed but was told they couldnt [sic] be until enough people reported her as potentially underage.”
You don't make payments to the lender. You make payments to a payment servicer hired by the lender.

Until midway through the Obama administration, nobody had any obligation to notify you if your mortgage was bought or sold. Payment servicers had no obligation to tell you who they were forwarding your checks to. Your mortgage could be bought and sold multiple times, but as long as the same servicer was used, you'd never know (there were/are only a few big servicers). If the mortgage buyer used a different servicer, you'd get a letter from your current servicer about the new servicer you should send your checks to, but no info about who now owned your mortgage.
That's generally due to parts availability (and is still an issue for lots of folks).

For instance, mine had body damage from a road hazard - not an issue of quality, but definitely needing repair. It took a few weeks before the parts were available.

As you can imagine, if your car isn't drivable in the interim that's a big pain and rental bill, but if it is drivable then you just have to wait longer.
My computer is affected by this issue. Upon researching it, I discovered this is one of those bizzare issues where a major long standing issue with a product is seemingly ignored. I’m running the custom kernel and I replaced my CPU, and yet my Ryzen system still freezes. I’d heard great things all around for this CPU and I’m surprised it would have such a glaring unfixed error. My hope in sharing this is to give the issue more visibility. Many people are affected by the system instability this bug creates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmFHAFYwmY
It doesn’t seem to be the most popular opinion around, but I must say I got back into FP (which I came to profoundly despise after completing my CS education) thanks to this book.

It’s certainly not a book for the profane, despite its approachable aspect.
It's interesting how few companies are in the classical tech stack in any way, and how few are in the more retail/consumer oriented techie things like social media.

Many of these are just regular businesses quite far from the ostensible advantages of having rockstar technologists etc., obviously the medical tech notwithstanding, but that's another field altogether.

It's also interesting how many of these I don't think will every fit the mold of 'high growth' kind of startup, as opposed to more along the lines of 'great new businesses'.

Aalo parts are considerably too expensive - basically they are quite a bit more expensive than IKEA, but they don't like quite as 'finished' and don't quite have the 'finished/unfinished' look to suit putting even in a modern living room, I feel it still looks like utility stuff. And at those prices ... I've just personally had to deal with a lot of brick and mortar stuff, and the reality of 'price sensitivity' hits home really hard. People don't have money for expensive, unnnecessary stuff, 'retail' is not at all like Kickstarter.

Love people trying to make fake meat taste great. I have yet to see anything available that really works well. I suggest that once a fast-food chain picks up on it and 'regular folks' get a try, it might fly.