skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the major difference here is exactly what you point out: social conditions outside of prison.

The US's general lack of a social safety net, and the "every person for themselves" attitude, means that life for a lot of Americans, in the world's richest country, is super miserable and hopeless.

If US prisons treated people decently, I think many people would choose life in prison over their existing life outside of prison. Guaranteed meals, shelter, medical care, all paid for by the state? That's a lot more than many Americans have today.

So for their social structures to have at least some paper-thin justifications, life in prison has to be worse than life outside prison. I am sure this is at least somewhat by design.
For medication like this, the doctor will usually prescribe a specific number of pills at a specific dosage. The number will rarely exceed what you ask for, and asking for large numbers of pills is treated (not unreasonably) as a sign of drug seeking.
> Computer science is not a science

That's a narrower argument that the one I wanted to make, which was that CS is not programming; it's theory/research/practice more like the traditional sciences.

Whether it's a science or not is not as clear-cut as you claim [1]. There is argument about this, like about many things claiming to be "science". Here's a relevant quote from Wikipedia, attributed to Newell and Simon:

> "Computer science is an empirical discipline. We would have called it an experimental science, but like astronomy, economics, and geology, some of its unique forms of observation and experience do not fit a narrow stereotype of the experimental method. Nonetheless, they are experiments. Each new machine that is built is an experiment. Actually constructing the machine poses a question to nature; and we listen for the answer by observing the machine in operation and analyzing it by all analytical and measurement means available."

This does seem to leave out the more "mathy" part of CS, which isn't about building machines at all. For the record, I think CS is science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
Yes, the 18s and 16s have relatively low fuel capacity in comparison to the 14. The F-35 finally improved on tank capacity quite a bit.
Its one thing to grow your business, but repeatedly spamming people is obnoxious and gives me a bad impression of their company. Next time I need an obseravbility product, datadog will not be high in my list of candidates
I think you may be confusing "this thing doesn't work for its intended purpose" with "nobody knows what this thing is for".

Prison would ideally do three things:

1. Act as a punishment and by extension as a deterrent to people who have functioning impulse control, but might otherwise choose to commit crimes, and to deter people who have committed crimes from committing more crimes after their sentence.

2. Segregate from the rest of society people who have harmed others through criminal acts so they can't continue to harm the public during their incarceration.

3. Rehabilitate people by addressing mental illness and unhealthy modes of thinking to reduce the chance that they will re-offend after their period of incarceration is over.

In the US, at least, I think the system does a decent job of the first one, to the point that prisons are full of people who are mentally ill, drug-addicted, or just have such terrible impulse control that the idea of avoiding punishment never figures into their actions. I don't think prisons need to be horrible or sentences long in order to serve as a a deterrent, the idea of loss of freedom is enough to deter anyone who can reasonably be deterred.

The second one is working OK, too, but it's terrible; people who are locked up somewhere are not out committing crimes, so crime goes down. So we give longer and longer sentences for smaller and smaller crimes, and it 'works', in the same sense that letting people starve to death reduces hunger.

Finally, there's rehabilitation; on a scale of 0 to 100, we rate a -100. We could not reasonably get any worse at this. As you mentioned, spending years locked in a cage with other criminals just makes people better criminals. If you wanted to design a system that maximized recidivism, you could do little better than the US prison system. Prison makes people harder, more violent and more ruthless, and/or breaks them psychologically. People join criminal gangs, which they remain in after they leave prison, and beyond that it provides an opportunity to make contacts and generally 'network' to further a criminal career. Little to no attempt is made to identify or treat existing mental illness, which is of course exacerbated by the conditions in prison. So we eventually let these people go, and they re-offend, which takes us back to the second purpose, in a feedback loop.

It's a huge mess. And the sad thing is, it's a problem that could be solved, but it would be expensive and politicians don't want to be seen as 'soft on criminals, so we just keep doing more and more of the same thing and it keeps costing us money and lives.
> significantly better social outcomes

I think we have different ideas about what this means. For me, it is that crime ceases to exist because criminals integrate into society because of successful rehabilitation. For you it is that crime ceases to exist because criminals are scared.

I will editorialize that your system has the population effectively coerced into compliance by the state (so not coming to these conclusions about how to be a good community member on their own).

I hypothesize my scheme results in a better/happier/stronger community/society but I don't have data in either direction. With that said my system is more humane/humanistic and results in a positive outcome for the "criminals" too.
Seriously. I should probably enable an adblock or reader mode, but couldn't even be bothered to read the article it was so trashed with ads.
> We can solve these problems in a month if enough people just thought with empathy about this topic for 10 minutes.

How?
Cool, we must have TARDIS's now or personal levitation & force field belts or something to replace the functionality. Been waiting for that.
Do they have pronunciation guide? Thought it's just gi-tea
VALIS is the most bizarre but fascinating book I've ever read. I recommend going into it only after reading a number of his other books, and then reading a synopsis of his own life. It's fiction but also psuedo-autobiographical, and a deeply personal story to PKD.
It is sad... one of the most admirable technologists on the planet is also a total jerk.
Does this mean you think any criminal (that committed a violent crime) should be locked up for life? Or how does the length of prison sentences factor into this?
The boom and bust business cycle is very different than a protracted run of near zero growth
That's too broad of a generalization tbh. Personal experience: I worked on large contracts with Google Cloud, AWS, DoIT, Cloudflare, and others. I have nothing bad to say about them: they do their job and we move along just fine. Except DataDog - intrusive, borderline stalking behavior.
> private prisons maintain costs far better than public prisons

possibly, but the issue is not cost conservation; the problem is that there are shareholders who benefit the more people are sent to prison. This creates perverse incentives (lobbying for stricter/longer sentencing, bribing officials, etc.).
I thought it was kinda funny the article is in English. They don't have the power of their convictions!
I agree about the coolest looking. It has a very muscular look from the front. I'd also add F-4 and Mig-29 to the list. F-22 isn't bad either although not as cool as YF-23.
I think I could see where you're coming from if not for the near-total elimination of stimuli. If I could have any book I wanted whenever I wanted I'd consider it over being with the general population. If I could have an internet connection I'd probably not consider it very different from my current life. But it seems neither are possible. In that case, I'd rather risk dying from attacks than dying of boredom and loneliness, unless it were a fairly short sentence.
My understanding is the "ethical requirements" of the model licence preclude it from being used in any completely FOSS software, as it would violate freedom 0 by restricting the purposes someone can use the software for.
Lock them up with other maladjusted people for years, then let them loose on society with a hardened attitude, extensive criminal connections, and no ability to find employment?
If your boss comes from a place with high sycophancy like Infosys, TCS, IBM or a similar, don't try this.
No, I'm not imagining people pushing others hard. Everyone has a choice:

1. passively propagate forward whatever force is being applied to them from behind

2. actively resist by applying some amount of counterforce (this doesn't mean the person in front of them experiences 0 force, but only that the force they experience is less)

3. actively add one's own force in addition to whatever force they are experiencing from behind

I'm positing that (3) is selfish even at low forces, even if you're near the back of the line, and your scenario of 1k people doing (3) with an individual contribution of 1lb of force describes 1k wrecklessly selfish people.

The moral I'm proposing--and it's a really fucking easy one--is don't fucking push people, even gently.
Thanks, I'll make sure to do that next time!
Not bragging at all.. it was just introspection on how different my code looks now… maybe I should find some older code that is fraught was dangerous constructs. In fact, early versions of this were segfaulting for the very reasons you mention.
Yeah, that's not what I was talking about. Are you even in the same conversation? Or do individual people build recycling plants for lithium now?
Yes but in quantities I can use the drive my car?
I'm trying to live alone within my apartment for a long time but it has become such a anxiety/depression sinkhole that it's impossible to live like that for more than 10 days.

I have tried all the suggested things but all effects have mortality.

Anyone has any suggestions on living in isolation.
Mur Federation
I've not followed any of their stuff for years because I'm no longer directly or tangentially attached to teaching besides mentoring but here: https://www.sigcse.org/. That's the ACM SIG for CS Education. They have conferences and publications on this topic.
IIRC the capital punishment is fast if the prisoner does not present court appeals, but most people prefer to try to use all the methods to avoid it.
They come so close but don't quite get there.

<<<Believing that it doesn’t matter how you spend your 9-5 — that you can put in your stultifying bit while on the clock and then make up for it in your off hours — can lead to prematurely resigning yourself to doing work you dislike.>>>

IMO they should have been more explicit that "job satisfaction" doesn't necessarily correlate to pay or status. Just as often it's about intellectual stimulation, belief in mission, comfort with one's peers, etc. Satisfying jobs which enable the greatest overall happiness might be quite different than the ones most people seek.
If you only consider being a commercial artist as success, then sure. I started drawing 5 years ago(in my 30s) and have been making steady progress. I consider that a success. And I could barely draw a stick figure when I started.
Doesn't the Quest run on Android?
They'll just change names again, so your suit will be for a new dead company
> Copyleft only stops someone from distributing changes as closed source.

That "only" is the important part. Having to change label attached to it is annoying, but copyleft is crucial
An attic or unfinished basement can make this much easier
Whataboutism.

The only thing I can say here is that people like Lord Palmerston were aware of what they were doing.
Requiring it to be usable is terrible. That said if images are important to the content, it's almost impossible without zoom to get a decent experience on a tiny screen.
Crunch time as crisp makers adopt plastic-free packets
When was there near zero growth? The last decade has seen a boom of VC investment and startup growth. There was the Great Recession before that, following the post 9/11 growth spurt. It seems like the last time there was no growth was perhaps the late 70s?
Super hornets have about 100mi shorter combat range than the Tomcat. That said they are capable of buddy air-air refueling so that can extend their range by a bit (at the cost of an extra pilot, airframe, and associated costs which doesn’t get to carry a useful payload).
Both of your examples are of colonialism not modern neo-liberal globalism.

I have no position on your argument other than those examples aren’t making it for you.
I don't mean to be snarky but for someone born and raised in an irreligious majority nation, this does read as if written by someone who's lost their mind
Pieter Levels is some kind of force of nature.

A self confessed 'script kiddie', he's a one man hit maker when it comes to building products people want to use. Nomad List, Remote OK and now this thing??
I've just added $30 to his millions and I'm very happy to have done so - great results. The man is an understated genius and is living every developers dream. Well done
How to Survive Solitary Confinement in Alcatraz

>> What I used to do is I’d tear a button off my coveralls, flip it up in the air, then I’d turn around in circles, and I’d get down on my hands and knees and I’d hunt for that button. When I found the button, I’d stand up and I’d do it again.

Source:

https://bobyewchuk.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/solitary-confine...
> But, the cone of condensation coming off the body of a plane is the supersonic shock wave.

And shock surfaces can be present over the body due to local flow speed being supersonic even when the aircraft's velocity vector is strictly subsonic. Though to be fair, still in the transonic realm if you're seeing shocks.
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
it's funny because for me the prose of a lot of science fiction writers was always what turned me away from the genre. I could barely make it through Dune and gave the Foundation up. A lot of science fiction authors which I came to love a lot like Gibson or Le Guin I think I mostly got into because of their sense of style.

Stephenson for me is probably the worst offender for this. I've met so many people both online and offline, particularly other programmers who always told me to read his stuff but he's straight up pasting pages of Wikipedia into his books, I felt like I was being trolled.
What are the benefits of a microservices architecture?
> I find it really odd how many people abhor the death penalty and capital punishment as a whole, while also tolerating life in prison and solitary confinement.

This is a false dichotomy describing a fictional group of people. What many people really want is no death penalty, and a proper, effective carceral system. There’s many countries who get this fairly right.
There is that subtle issue of how do you get hydrogen.... Takes energy to make it.
Very nice, how much does one of those plates cost? I can't find any prices easily.
Finally some updates after all these years. I'm just curious about the relations between the older "nanoprocess" and the now Component Model. Previously the nanoprocess model promised fine-grained containerization, I wonder if the Component Model still targets the same granularity?
That doesn’t really make sense.

If someone born in 1955 who started working in 1980 and then started saving money and investing into a diversified stock portfolio the current downturn sucks but isn’t the end of the world. Plenty of time in the market.

Sure, it always sucks if you are entering retirement when there’s a downturn (which someone born in 1955 would do right about now) but I wouldn’t even see the point in completely pulling out of stocks now.

I would say that if the prediction that returns will be lower in the future is true then this sucks for everyone not entering retirement right about now. They still need and want time in the marke
Mirrorless cameras don’t care what brand their lenses are and 50mm is easy to manual focus. You can get an old Canon FD lens anywhere.
And given some of the inexpensive single mode fiber spools are two fibers, it is probably easier to just have two fibers instead of trying to do 2 wavelengths.
Officially, it's all of them. From title 18 section 3553 of the US code:

> The court, in determining the particular sentence to be imposed, shall consider ...

> (2) the need for the sentence imposed—

> (A) to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense;

> (B) to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct;

> (C) to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant; and

> (D) to provide the defendant with needed educational or vocational training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in the most effective manner;

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3553
whoa there, you made a big jump. I didn't remove culpability from them. I'm just curious if there were any recognizable patterns between the parenting and the future bad behaviors.
I have a couple of large plywood sheets in closets for this purpose. Paint it the same color and nobody knows
If a significant proportion of a lithium battery was lithium, this would absolutely be true.

By weight, something around 1% of a lithium battery is lithium.

Sodium is seen as an interesting alternative, because there are some indications that it can make that 99% that makes up the rest of the battery lighter. Even though sodium is ~3.5 times worse as a charge carrier, if it's use allows cutting enough weight from that rest, it can be a winner overall.

For example, aluminium is, for complex reasons, not compatible with every part of a li-ion battery, and so they use copper connectors internally, typically containing by weight at least 10 times as much copper as they contain lithium. Sodium batteries can use aluminum everywhere, which saves on not just cost, but also more in weight than the weight difference between equal molar amounts of sodium and lithium.
You also have to compress it to very high pressures to be able to store a useful amount of it.
Push for MIT/BSD licenses can be pretty much shortened to corporations wanting to use some work for free and by proxy developers wanting to make their corporate job easier.

Which would be fine if not that they usually use disgusting rhetoric like trying to argue it's somehow less "free" to have license disallowing taking the freedoms away.
I was actually including refactoring and small improvements in this rewriting idea. It just helps me mentally if the bar to re-do code is low.
In your mind, what are the drivers for the need to clamp down on immigration?
A run of near zero growth is exactly the same as a bust, so I don't know what you're adding.
You and I have a very different concept of safe? I don’t think it’s saying what you think it’s saying.

That brand new connectors and wire that are custom specced wouldn’t catch on fire (but come close!) at only 2x the power draw means it’s very likely any damage to a connector, wire, etc. especially with normal wire and connectors likely would cause damage and a fire, at much less than that power draw.

Which is what we’ve been getting reports on.

And that is just from minor physical damage it seems,
ignoring corrosion or fraying wires over time which is usually the bigger problem.
Inspecting the source code is a condition of all deals I've been involved with. Most sensible people want to see what they buying, unless they are under pressure to close fast due to competition. It's a lot like buying a house.
Feel free to maintain your opinion, but I can't agree with it.

> I cannot recommend a 35mm for close-up pictures of people.

Also a little too long. Emotional distance, framing difficulty, yada yada. 28mm is probably the best bet for casual candids with relatives for the reasons I listed.

> The perspective is too weird.

Who cares. If you fail to capture a memorable moment because you were busy looking into the viewfinder focusing and framing, you fail, period. Very hard to do with a wide lens.

Distortion is just not a problem for casual shots of loved ones. It's not fashion or advertisement-- for the purposes of capturing memory & feeling you may want to emphasise intimacy and presence rather than perfection of proportions.

> It's really not. I would start at like 90mm equivalent for fashion or general portraiture (i.e. not candids).

Hard disagree. Wow. A prime of 90mm poses way too many constraints to work with. Unless we're talking professional photography, at which point you might be OK investing loads in a high-quality zoom/a spacious studio/lights/etc., there's really no point in shelling out for a lens that long that would be useless in most scenarios.
> The problem I have is many businesses don’t even try in the first place.

Is this perception accurate? I have my own life experience and thankfully do not have any disabilities that I know of, but it definitely doesn't seem this way to me.

For example, if a disabled person went into a restaurant and asked for a bigger seating area to accommodate their wheelchair or crutches or whatever, is there a restaurant out there that wouldn't try to rearrange the tables or move stuff around where possible? I'm using this example because I worked in different restaurants in the past and all of them were happy to carry tables up and down stairs to make space and even force other seated customers to move to ensure that anybody who wanted extra space was accommodated.

Not sure what else you want to see from stores.
It seems wrong for him to ever get out of prison, even if he wasn't viewed as actively dangerous.
I spent two weeks in "The Hole" in California, and my first thought was "no prob, I'll meditate and do yoga." Let me tell you, in three days I was at the brink of insanity and in tears. It broke me. Later, however, long after my incarceration and during the lock-downs, I was absolutely unfazed as a result. Let that sink in.
OT but I am making a year-end resolution to skim everything Julia and Patrick have written on their site, then make a list of deep-dive pieces.

The amount of useful content these two crank out is mind-boggling. They hold down day-jobs and write more useful stuff than 98.3413% of writers out there!

I would love to see a fire-side chat on how their process works.
My house already has the "Santa Fe" texture on the walls... it is supposed to be not perfect. Going with smooth, seems like a mistake to me.
At a typical startup they might not know much of anything. Except someone else in management who is a personal friend.
Is the a7s not fast enough for you?

Shooting indoors is unfixable because there isn’t full spectrum light; you’ll have to make up some of the missing colors eventually.
What the mandate is and what is actually happening are not synonymous.

Congress is also supposed to oversee The Fed and how often does that happen?

Referencing theory is fine. But not as a substitute for reality. It's important we see and discuss reality.
Get involved with your local community. Everything else is consumerist nonsense.
What do you mean? The current crop of high-end cameras is absolutely amazing in that respect. Take Canon R5, where usable ISO settings extend at least to 32,000 (and the upper limit is 102,400).