skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article you've linked seems to be claiming that being in the healthcare unit is the "solitary confinement". This is why I asked you which nine months you are saying you think he was in "solitary confinement", as you said that they predated his time in the healthcare unit but this is impossible as he moved to the healthcare unit in May 2019.

The relevant quote from my link is; "Dr. Blackwood confirmed that Mr. Assange was placed on an ACCT on arrival at the prison; on 18 May 2019 he was admitted to the healthcare unit; and, on 21 December 2019, he was returned to ordinary location.".

It is absolute nonsense to describe being in the healthcare unit as solitary confinement and it absolutely does NOT qualify as solitary isolation under British law, or EU law or UN law.

Assange's supporters have an absurd habit of exaggerating his suffering. They even claimed being in the embassy was "solitary confinement"!! [0]. While in the healthcare unit he still had all his usual prison visits etc (there are plenty of blogs out there of people who visited him during this time, several a month), and of course regular contact with healthcare professionals. He did have less contact with other inmates (but not none) which apparently had a negative impact on his mental health.

He was moved to the healthcare unit for good reason (they found a razor hidden in his cell and assessed him as a suicide risk). There is absolutely nothing to suggest HMPPS have anything other than his interests in mind. All of this is covered in the judgment if you could be bothered to read it rather than accusing me incorrectly of not knowing the facts.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/assange-solitary-confinement...
> Summary: defenestrate the pagans and apostates along with their dangerously corrupting ideas

Huh? From the OP:

> Much of my own work focuses on how industry exploits scientific credentials to bolster false claims that undermine breastfeeding to increase sales of formula milk and, ultimately, damage health. The strategies and patterns recur across industries: they have been documented in tobacco, fossil fuels, pharmaceuticals, food and more. This influence is so powerful that public-health researchers consider it a distinct area of study: ‘commercial determinants of health’.

> Throughout the pandemic, I’ve been saddened at how science has been hijacked. Arguments around herd immunity exemplify this: proponents claimed that acquiring immunity by infection was fine for most people and also that communities were well on their way to achieving herd immunity. The messages downplayed dangers for those with high risks of exposure or severe illness. Technical arguments over infection rates silently cemented the assumption that disabled or immunocompromised people did not merit collective protective action; nor did the workers whose jobs required dangerous public contact....

> The scientists who gum up the doubt machine do so by constantly pointing to the broader context, by acknowledging genuine scientific debate, by being alert to researchers’ political and commercial connections, and by staying educated on how denialism works. If more scientists did the same, these distorting strategies would be stymied.

It seems the problem this article is trying to solve is the one where scientists behave in such a way to allow people to misunderstand or misconstrue their work in order to support false or unscientific conclusions.
They also mention Bitwig several times in the design document (and no other DAW), so it's probably their main source of inspiration.
One of the hardest things to internalize in life for someone possibly on the spectrum (look what site we are having this conversation on) is that people don't care what is right, they care what other people think it's right. Nobody got fired for buying IBM and all that.
>Compound interest

Depends on how much better the same amount of money would perform if invested in an index fund. It could be more profitable to throw the difference in monthly payments into a vanguard account instead of a higher 15yr monthly payment.

Personally my view is exactly your second point: Buy small enough that you can consistently put $x extra each month against the principle + one full extra payment each year. It's a good middle ground to maintain flexibility

And absolutely-- buying the biggest you can fit into monthly expenses may even seem responsible: "I'm not living beyond my means!" but is a razors edge of risk for unanticipated expenses or more significant life disruptions.
Lithium batteries are used on the grid, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Energy_Storage
> They overpaid very generously too.

How do you know without getting bids from the open market ?
Hawaii recently canceled a grid interconnect between the islands and is building battery backed solar instead.
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I`m on day 30 with my newest gadget:
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I'm in a similar situation. Distro hopped quite a bit, (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian).

For 5 years now, I've ran Fedora on an old laptop that resides at my parents house, 5000 KM away from me. In that time I have not once physically been in contact with that server. I've done all updates via ssh, including full system upgrades (e.g. Fedora 32 -> Fedora 33) without any hiccups.

To me, that's amazing.
And it still was a much more faithful adaptation than Foundation. Foundation is like a boomerang that was thrown three episodes ago, and hasn't come back yet to its source.
L5 Xoogler who left for a startup.
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> We can't afford it. Roads are a massive treadmill of maintenance.

They are not. They are less than 10% of budget of most municipalities. We can easily afford the road, even at today’s highly inflated construction costs.
Zepto (YC W21), a grocery delivery app in India, raises $60M
> I am confused why people are so outraged at the idea that some part of selecting people to work with may be based on whether you get along with them.

It's rather simple. If you apply for a job and get hired because they like you, then the system is good. But if you apply to that job and don't get it, it turns into "fuck this old boys club". The outrage isn't logical, it's almost purely emotional.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that science was based on doubt
> There's little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because they're well liked) before being terminated.

In my experience, a brilliant asshole is worse. He's less likely to be terminated, and causes problems for everyone. Incompetent people are self aware of their incompetence. Brilliant assholes rarely acknowledge their problem.

The one time I dealt with a brilliant asshole - oh wow. He would be right 90% of the time, but for the remaining 10% there would be no way on Earth you could convince him he was wrong. You could bring evidence, mathematical proof, anything: He just wouldn't listen. It got to me being very careful that he not be around when I'd ask for help - because he often misunderstood my problem and would then insist I implement his solution, and there was no way I could convince him that he misunderstood the problem statement. If I ignored him and implemented a different solution, he would throw a loud tantrum. And he had no stake in my work - we were working on different projects.

I spent two years in that team and every time he acted up I started documenting it.

I never complained (it was clear the manager didn't want to deal with people problems), and on the outside I didn't let my frustration show. I now hear that another member of that team is really complaining to the manager about him. I reached out to him and let him know that if he wants to escalate with HR, I have plenty of material to provide.

The one nice thing with incompetent people is you at least look better when it comes to reviews. I know in one job I had I ended up slacking quite a bit, but I knew it wouldn't hurt me because they had quite a few people at my grade level who were just plain incompetent. Management isn't going to give the whole team a poor review.
>When adults have a "debate" usually the goal is to take an absurd position

Not so. Most debates are about mundane things like, Should we invest our limited RD budget on X or Y?, or should we send our kids to public or private school? Or is GoT or LotR a better series.

That table you linked is total nonsense trying to redefine fussy terms like debate, dialouge, discussion and artificially place them on a linear scale. T
Debate is a from of dialouge which is in turn a form of discussion.
I used to bring a giant package of toilet paper to housewarming parties, just so I knew it would be used. Also, not everyone buys enough to last the whole party.

Been a while since I got invited to one, but I'm sure that's unrelated.
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You are getting terrible sleep advice
Pretty cool. I wonder if any part of Rudra will ever be incorporated into the Rust compiler.
> sometimes it requires doing great work manually before you should ever consider automating the task

I'd say this is the crux of it. You (or someone before you) should _always_ do something manually before automating it. If you see existing automation, make sure that it solves exactly the problem you have before you implement it. And the best way to see exactly the problem you have is... to do it manually.
You're forgetting swap. Not to mention professionals in domains like photography, design, video, etc. who might chew through big files frequently.
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I've always treated a laptop as essentially disposable - by which I mean that in no way do I rely on it to store my data. It's the device I use to manipulate data. Not only could it break, it could get stolen or damaged at any time.

The bigger issue is that when the drive breaks, they are essentially unrepairable. The only option is getting Apple to swap out the motherboard with another one. On other devices, I'd just swap an M.2 drive. So it's more of a cost issue.
Yes because some people believe that kicking ass and taking names means that one can afford to be rude or antisocial because the mission takes priority. Utimately these very same people sometimes do not take the time to listen to other around and spend time working on the wrong issues or going down rabbit holes because their vision is superior to those around them...with a group it is often more important for everyone to be rowing in roughly the same direction...even if its off, its better than people rowing in different directions.
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One past thread:

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20225093 - June 2019 (236 comments)
You could also take advantage of economy of scale and host your static web site on a CDN - together with thousands of other web sites. And pick a CDN that runs entirely on "green" energy.
California has roving black-outs [0], New Jersey can't have clean water [1], New York subways are disgusting. [2]

But I'm told over and over again: "you get what you pay for."

I just don't believe it anymore.

Per your bit about roads, many have tried to decipher why the US has such expensive road construction and its not at all clear. We're a very bizarre outlier. It's more than just being affluent. [3,4]

I'm venting a bit but its tragic that such a rich nation can't properly build anything anymore. Heck, Flint Michigan got hundreds of millions of dollars _and still doesn't have clean water_. [5] Most bizarre to me is that nobody seems that interested in where the money goes. NYC spent $1.25 billion on a mental health outreach program that has had no publicly visible effects or milestones. [6] It was made permanent this year. [7]

I'm told over and over again that the problem is "not enough money" but where the hell is it going to in the first place? Why does nobody care to answer this question?

[0]: https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/...

[1]: https://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/high-pfoa-levels-m...

[2]: https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-subway-stations-garbage-dum...

[3]: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/wh...

[4]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-o...

[5]: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/717104335/5-years-after-flint...

[6]: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/too-much-money-chir...

[7]: https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/de-blasio-rebrands-wifes-1b-th...
Agree. And frankly, anyone that meets half those negative standards is nowhere near competent.
Even if it’s not cheaper, the devices aren’t really desirable. Most people don’t want a desktop, they want mobile devices. Lots of people still use old computers and significant upgrades don’t happen in the same generation which is the issue with upgrading Intel CPUs.

x86 isn’t what it was, MS made Windows 11 be able to run android apps, consumers don’t care about x86 software anymore. That’s been true since ChromeOS had been used more often since browsers mattered more than programs that only ran on windows.
high five

It truly is the best, no? My pipelines look a bit different than yours (they usually have `lzop`/`zstd`, `cd`, and occasionally `pv`), but tar truly is the best file copy utility.

I rarely use `cp -a` even when copying locally. `tar` is so much faster.
Fedora is usually up to date. In my experience more then manjaro (but that's not arch), still usually fast enough.
It was hugely influential in identifying the frustration of getting things done at Google. In my experience it's even more true now than it was back then, the number of things you have to deal with has just grown. I've been at Google since 2006 and I feel like I'm losing my mind with all the complexity.
I only used Arch (and AUR) to play around. I've been using Ubuntu and Pop as my main OS for years. I've never felt like I needed something from AUR.

I don't need the last software update right away and if I need it, I have PPA and flatpak.
Given the current interest rate market, I think it's safe to assume they are borrowing money to purchase homes. They aren't taking out individual mortgages but I would be shocked to learn that they aren't borrowing millions through other forms of financing and then paying "cash" for homes.
Try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, BJJ. Best sport for software engineers, because you constantly have to solve hard puzzles. You never have to worry about motivation again to do sports. I started it 6 months ago. I'm still in the very very beginning, but I can't imaging not showing up in class, it is so fascinating. In order to get better I lost ~30 pounds, started eating better, etc. Changed my life.
Though it's the road expansion itself that often leads to more sprawl.

Every trip taken is an economic activity that would not have otherwise occurred. Traffic is commerce. Sprawl allows the middle class to continue to exist. More people, more property taxes, more fuel taxes, more money for roads.
> you can’t send someone on your behalf

I totally can though. If sign a document saying another person can do such and such on my behalf, that person can totally do that. Yes, even at the bank. No different from a user agent, really.
The question is - do you actually need to run javascript to build an admin interface for your company?

With Motor Admin you don't need to - you can achieve almost everything AppSmith/Retool does with simpler configurations using the unified motor admin UI.
Yep. Also related and relevant is how the brain works with regard to encoding falsehood; essentially, there's no delete button. Once a statement of possible fact has been discovered, it takes more energy and reinforcement for the brain to remember that it's false as opposed to just assuming it's true.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

SPARCbook 3000ST - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19524130 - March 2019 (98 comments)
Everyone has known Tom is wacky since we figured out he's a scientologist.
I think we don't need another DAW unless it is a very different approach from the current options.
Remote does resolve some of the advantages to clustering. Other factors connecting transaction costs and physical distance may prove harder to overcome, but here is hoping.
Hire from taskrabbit. ;)
... and gun shots regularly in many neighborhoods, too.. while the city workers, managers and managers-of-managers are being paid top salary , retirement package and medical benefits for themselves and their family .. how can you think this is cool?? dystopian
They have then politicized it by referring to "regulators" and "regulations" several times.
Yeah time signature is more complex than you might think which is why a lot of hardware drum machines in the 80s could only do 4/4 or maybe 3/4 and 4/4 with their limited processesing.
That product doesn't look like Wave.

It's a shockingly shameless clone of Notion.
Why are you using virtualenv instead of `python3 -m venv`?

Just wondering.
That was 20 years ago or more so the MacBook is much cheaper even if it is maxed out
Video editors have workloads that can write a ton for each project in 4k and 8k resolutions, if its pro res even more. First thing they do is grab the largest fastest storage they can work off externally.
Wonder if there would be a way to create low orbit satellites that collect this electrical energy.
require a miles logger instead

That's a huge non-starter warranting much harsher language than is reasonable for HN.
Why are they moving away from nuclear? They have a 100% carbon free target, which doesn't exclude nuclear and they intend to introduce a carbon price, which lets nuclear fight on an even ground with other carbon reduction moves. I guess it just didn't make sense financially?
In the ad for his MasterClass, Paul Krugman says (~25s):

> Doing economics requires stepping back from all of the details to say "What is the essential here? What is the story?". It's about people. It's not about money. It's ends up about what people do.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEszZK54dw
I don't know. Probably none. But I'm quite confident no musician or other user of a DAW cares what language it's written in.

If the goal is to demonstrate that Rust can be used to write that kind of software, then hey why not; but they will need to have users at some point, to be able to actually call it a DAW.
It's a joke that's sort of open to interpretation.

The most straightforward is, "I just want do this incredibly simple thing; why is it so hard?"

But there's also the level of, "Googlers are so engineeringly pampered that they think serving 5 terabytes is the equivalent of Hello World."

And then there's another level of, "Well, isn't it? After all, this is Google and this is $YEAR."
The interface looks much more similar to Notion than Google Wave; I don't see the similarity to Wave.
I still want to understand the issue. The Sources tool is the same in Chrome and in Edge. And if you undock the devtools and you press CMD+Shift+I (or CTRL+I) on either Chrome or Edge you get a second DevTools instance to debug the first one. If you use a workspace, you edit files externally in either Edge or Chrome as they are the same thing. There is no difference in either of these use cases. What use case are you finding where it is different? I'm really confused.
Yep, wear leveling actually works. On some SSDs, there are SMART indicators to tell you the average, max and min block erase counts, so you can see for yourself that the erase counts are all about the same across the entire drive.
Yeah, that was my reaction. I get the need for all this reliability/failover, but it's horrible failure of abstraction/separation of concerns.

There's no reason the serving team should have to learn how to do all of those things on the checklist, since it can be done by anyone who's already learned the infra. You're expecting them to learn all kinds of stuff outside of their specialty, when they should be able to kick the app over the wall and let infra ensure that the app is deployed in two separate PCR zones with the failover plan etc, which should itself be mostly automated.
Perhaps, but there’s a security angle to this as well. iBoot is stored on the internal SSD. If you want to bypass the internal SSD entirely for the boot process, you must now trust that any external drives plugged in have non-evil versions of iBoot installed, as the Mac will now have to go to every external device and say “can you tell me how to boot?”. If the internal drive is the only place to get iBoot it makes the security strategy way easier (since the only way to write to it is via DFU connected to Apple Configurator). We know only people with the keys can modify the internal drive, so we don’t have to keep certificates or something else around to verify it is trustworthy. Who knows where the external drive’s copy of iBoot is from.

You could make it so there’s a break glass copy of iBoot on another chip, but then that’s something they can’t update if there’s a bug.
If you're a large corporation one way to get a good idea is by having lots and lots of fire drills around various disaster scenarios and time how long actual service restoration and re-routing takes. For other companies it's just guess work.
Microsoft Edge is available on Linux in Stable
It depends upon what kind of work you do, like if you do music with Bitwig anything but Ubuntu is going to be a nightmare.
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