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I don't really understand what the purpose of prisons is, and I don't think anyone else really does either.

Is it punishment? If so, then there are much more effective and cheaper ways we could punish people. Is it rehabilitation? If so, how does being locked into a room with a bunch of other criminals rehabilitate someone? Is it removing criminals from society altogether? In that case, there's a far more efficient way to do that.

Because prisons don't have a clear role, they end up being a weird and ineffective mix that achieves virtually nothing.
I spoke to them and didn't follow up. They called at least five of our engineers (on the telephone) to try and get in touch with me.

What can we do to make this less acceptable?
So yeah, instead of learning one de-facto lingua franca of the world and more or less successfully communicating regardless of geographic origin, let's totally focus on learning, let me cite the article out of context,

> the current 7000 or so languages

, all meaningful international interop be damned!

The gist of the article is basically the hackneyed "diversity is good", but no solutions are given as to how would people understand each other should this pesky English domination be gone. Should all the world become over-reliant on google translate instead? That would mean business for google, for sure.

A Russian-speaking guy who doesn't feel over-reliant on English a tiny bit here (and also notices the morbid tendency to separate the humankind and encamp it back into the isolated national states of the yesteryear).
Has nothing to do with bad ju ju, and everything to do with finding a fitting punishment of sufficient unpleasantness as to deter even people with short time preferences from harming others.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Remember the author, as cool as he sounds, murdered somebody.
They really do different things. F-22 is meant to fight other planes and has much less flexibility of attacking ground targets and supporting the army. It also can't even land on a full sized carrier, much less a smaller Marine one.

F-35 is a jack of all trades, has a better sensor suite for ground attack, can be dispatched somewhere from a deck of even small carriers and is much cheaper to manufacture. It is also worse at fighting other planes (although not bad really).

In any kind of real fight you'll probably see both because they're complementing each other, but the 22 is much less flexible and more specialized at its role.

So the 22 is more of a successor to F-15 and F-35 is a successor to the F-18 or F-16.
what are you arguing? that the Japanese system is worse so united states should just suck it up?
Humans really do have agency. Not all criminal behavior can be chalked up to bad policy or bad environment.
I seem to recall things getting worse before the industry swung back into sane specs. The bulldozer era cpus were toasters that could do 5-6 ghz and both amd and nvidia made high power gpus with 2 chips on a single board.
I was arguing the point that "exclusivity that anyone can buy has less value" made by OP..

It most definitely does not, in the eyes of enough people to still be valuable. They will purchase the appearance of exclusivity, even if it's not actually that exclusive.

Of course there will be a minority of people who understand (and deride) the fake-exclusivity, but not enough for the blue checkmark to lose enough value.
It's also about keeping violent people off the streets.

This guy killed someone. He mentions it so briefly it's as though he thinks it's a minor detail. That person he killed was a real human. They were someone's kid, someone's sibling, someone's parent perhaps, someone's friend.

He also seems to behave poorly in prison, still, after 30 years. He flippantly notes a "riot" as though it was something that happened to him. He brags about his abs. I'm not a psychologist but this guy reads like a stock standard psychopath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

For many people (including myself), it's not about rehab, it's not about penance, it's not about vengeance, it's about keeping someone like this away from everyone else.
Makes sense. Hands on experience is the greatest teacher across all domains, imo.
I feel similarly about my 2019 GTI. The fundamentals are available without the touch screen, but you still have CarPlay. The later model GTIs went fully touch screen and capacitive touch buttons everywhere, including the steering wheel. Disappointing.
Crazy high resistive heating when driven at multiple factors above the rated power isn't cause for alarm though. If you put 50A through your wall outlet you wouldn't be surprised when it got hot. The only application where pulling 1500W through a 12VHPWR connector is even close to possible is when using cryogenic cooling (when the conductive cooling will keep the power cable below ambient despite how many amps are crammed through them).

This data point isn't exhaustive, but it does indicate that the actual safety margin is not as tight as is assumed from this news cycle.
And if you survived that, you got slapped with WWII. Which in Europe and Asia could have meant complete destruction all around you.

In fact, in Asia, it didn't really improve from there for quite some time.
2. and 4. are not necessarily givens.

Perhaps the product this engineer works on does not pan out, maybe he unwittingly makes the company weaker by siphoning capital on a project that eventually fails. This seems to be a common case at Alphabet.

It could also be the case that reinvestment of capital from the engineer's efforts is in a line of business orthogonal to surveillance. Indeed a company making flying cars and engaging in surveillance is clearly already not contributing 100% of their working capital to expand their surveillance capabilities.
I have a belief that interest rates will be structurally higher for the entire world over the next decade, higher than the market currently expects. World population is declining in the countries that generate most current GDP, and are likely to in the future. China, in particular. Trade is fracturing, world trade isn't going to end, but it's going to compartmentalize, and that's going to make it less efficient at the margin. Energy is going to get more expensive as we address climate change, making everything else more expensive along with it.

All of these things cause structural inflation, and thereby necessitate structurally higher interest rates. Not to mention the fact that at the very least, the tailwind of globalization is over, which means that the ultra low rate regime we have enjoyed over the past few decades absolutely cannot be sustained. Inflation is back as a problem for the fed unless and until we got another sustained source of cheap growth.

There is one, and only one plausible such source imo, and that is powerful AI labor substitution. Hence the solution: Go long high interest rates, and make a levered long term bet on AI. These two things hedge each other. You don't have to believe AI labor substitution is going to happen (I'm not totally confident it will), all you have to believe is that it's our only out for structurally higher interest rates.

A portfolio constructed to benefit in the right proportions from these two things is currently cheaper than it ought to be, in my opinion. I expect this bet to play out roughly over the next 10-15 years, and I am still not decided on exactly how I want to construct it in terms of specific assets. But broadly I think it's the right move.

EDIT:

Totally separately, i'd like to quibble slightly with this bit of analysis:

> This suggests that, if interest and tax expenses had not declined as a share of EBIT (as shown in Figure 1), then the real growth rate of corporate profits would have been almost 2 percentage points lower each year (5.4 – 3.6 = 1.8 percentage points). In other words, the relative decline in interest and tax expenses is responsible for a full one-third of all profit growth for S&P 500 nonfinancial firms over the past two decades (1.8 / 5.4 = 1/3). This is a very substantial contribution

This isn't quite accurate. Cheap debt decreases the hurdle rate for capital investment. In other words, if rates weren't so low, much of this debt wouldn't have been taken out, and only the higher returning projects on average would have been invested in. Stated another way, as interest rates decline, the profitability of the marginal debt-financed investment declines along with it. It can also lead to anti-productive debt-financed market share wars between companies, etc (think of the vc battles between uber and lyft). This complicates the picture they're painting a bit, and likely reduces the true number here somewhat, but doesn't alter the broader story.
Its really not that crummy a hand. Maybe it’s not as good as being born in 1948, though they had to deal with medical issues that you never will, not to mention the military draft. But that’s not the only point of comparison ever. The destruction in Europe created a period of unprecedented prosperity in the US.

The student debt that is endlessly whined about has been transformed over the last decade from real debt to a marginal tax on income. This is the same system that’s used in Australia and the UK.

Then there’s the run up in house prices. A real phenomenon but this idea that home ownership is the sine qua non of a happy life is a transitory culture artifact, not any kind of human universal.
This is likely not useful in most west european homes (even gigabit connections are unheard of in the uk, 10 megs being advertised as “superfast”, let alone tens of gigs). But still a fun project!
More troubling still, with the engines mounted a vast nine feet apart to allow for greater lift and more weapons carriage space, a stall in one engine could throw the aircraft into an often unrecoverable flat spin. These issues led to the loss of a whopping 40 F-14s in all.

That's a huge design flaw.
Maybe it would mean "no go" to colonization at all, who knows.

For example, when all oceans boil out on Earth in 500m years or so, it might become useless for colonization. Natural resources are way easier to get from asteroids/comets/moons.
How is this the first time I hear this stat? I feel like my angst toward the system has been misallocated for a very long time.
private prisons maintain costs far better than public prisons. The issue you implicitly refer to is prison contracts state "minimum payments when populations drop below [some] threshold". Its not the private prisons arresting people, trying people, and funneling them into their pocket books.

The real issue is the concept of imprisonment ought be about putting people who truly can not be trusted to be "at large". Prison shouldn't be a punishment. There are other alternatives.
I assume you’re fairly young. I know things look pretty grim at the moment, but in the longer term the younger people are going to be in the driver’s seat like few generations before. The demographic trends in most countries forecast aging populations that will face serious labor shortages. So the younger generations should be able to leverage that into better economic outcomes. But the tricky part will be in getting around the institutional barriers that the older generations have and will continue to put up in order to maintain the economic upper hand.
"The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns"

And yet the S&P and DJIA posted one of the biggest weeks ever last week. Huge companies like McDonald's and Microsoft making record profits to no end, and I see no reason for this to change. This means more $ for shareholders even if interest rates rise. Stock did well in the 1980s and 1990s despite even higher interest rates than today. Not that his report is wrong, but experts , such as in 2009 or 1982, have a long history of making such predictions and being wrong. Being invested tends to pay off based on history.
I was testing something and forgot NextDNS was off.

There are so many Ads in a single article I am thinking if I should flag this.
Here's a good question to your manager: How did you feel about that?

Asking for immediate, gut feedback about something that you did, or happened to the team, gives you a read on how much managing up is needed, and/or gives your manager an opportunity to say, "I was surprised by that and I need to know more" or "That's not the direction I was shooting for, let's adjust this."

I also once explained that there was only 10 tonnes of concrete coming in the next truck and doing both #1 priorities was physically impossible, so it was time to choose. My manager, laughing, said, ok, so now you're really going to make me choose, huh?

Humanitarian logistics was easier than software because sometimes the choices were so stark and unavoidable.
well, downvotes for challenging dogma with mathematical identities is a long-standing tradition. I'll take them with pride on this issue.

But thanks for the support, and for pointing out that I'm only stating identities, and that sometimes trends reverse.
In most other countries, the prison system's job is to reform the prisoners.

In the US, it is designed to be punitive, and there is a direct financial incentive to increase the percentage of prisoners that are sent back to prison after serving their time.

The system is working as designed: the US has a much higher percentage of its population in prison than most other countries, and extremely high recividism rates.
The U.S. incarceration and recidivism stats show this clearly does not work as a deterrent (in general, not talking specifically about murder; only ~14% of prisoners are in for murder: https://felonvoting.procon.org/incarcerated-felon-population...
It's not the only take on the subject, and I actually think it's quite mistaken.

50mm is great for street portraits or fashion shots. This is where you 1) can't come too close to not spook the subject, 2) want tighter framing, 3) want to put your subject on a little bit of a pedestal so to speak, or 4) want to make a huge print out of your shot.

However, for candid "photos of your own loved ones" as in the article, I think you'll find it a pain. In these circumstances I can't recommend enough a wide lens instead. Try both and make your conclusions.

- On the surface a wide lens makes things look "farther away", but in fact what it does is emphasize the actual distances in the scene-- meaning with close-up shots it gives a strong sense of presence, which is presumably what you want. 50mm might be good for fashion portraits, but for shots like in TFA it's IMO way too long and puts unnecessary emotional distance between you and the subject (this was my first feeling when I looked at author's photos).

- The article sidesteps the fact that F-number is not the only factor in motion blur. 1/8 second with a 21mm lens is not great but it'd look loads better than 1/8 with a 50mm lens that would be very unforgiving as far as any shake.

- Framing and focusing is much less finicky. For casual snaps most of the time you don't even need to look at the screen: with close-ups it's self evident where the camera is facing, and if something is happening right now a little distance away just point your camera in the general direction and you'll most likely have it in frame. And if you have some time to frame for aesthetics, it's still easier because unlike a long lens with background separation a wide one wouldn't over-emphasize every object that happens to be near your subject.

Get a prime lens compact like Ricoh GR, it's too wide for street portraits but your loved ones will not object if you occasionally use it in close proximity.
>It is wrong only if someone is sitting in cash for long periods of time

It's wrong because you don't know ahead of time when assets are going to fall.

All we know in that the long term inflation will average out to X and stock price growth will average > X, and that inflation will erode the value of cash.

Someone with a million dollars in 1900 was very wealthy. Do you think their family that kept all their wealth in cash is still wealthy? No.
This change doesn't affect Apple. Apple has a perpetual "do whatever you want" license because they were involved with ARM early on.
I think they said that about Las Vegas, once upon a time (before the dam was built, and before air conditioning.)
New research suggests that those with bipolar I should avoid taking lithium
Or the fairness or cost of the death penalties application.
The last commit happened three months ago, so it's not exactly abandoned, but it could use more attention.

There's no relation to CLISP. There's a brief history on the home page; it started out as Kyoto Common Lisp in '84, then William Schelter took it up to support his work on GNU Maxima.
> The cause of the disaster was the failure of the two redundant O-ring seals in a joint in the shuttle's right solid rocket booster (SRB).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_dis...
Harmful viewpoint. If true - that’s still 8% of inmates living sub humanely.

That report is on the first page results of private vs public prisons. I encourage everyone to go volunteer and talk to inmates.

Look at unicore. Total scam.
I don’t believe in life imprisonment but for truly exceptional cases. It is needlessly cruel and a huge burden to our system. The prison industrial complex is dystopian.

But what do you mean by “ineffective”? The purpose of prison in the US is twofold: punitive as a deterrent, and to keep criminals away from the rest of society. I have doubts about the effectiveness of the former, but the latter is super effective, we lock up more people than any other first world country! It’s really hard to argue against that from a political standpoint.
But std::vector has been around since C++98 (and in the STL even before then). What's changed?
sorry, the universal rule is play isn't important, or the universal rule is play is important? Also, do you have some leads on sources? I'd be interested on reading up on this.
> But it's a lot less prone to data races

What's the reasoning for that statement? My other comments have detailed cases of data races, caused by using thin events, solved by using fat events, so I'm going to push back on that: In my experience, the idea that thin events are "less prone to data races" has not been true at all, and that data race is inherent in the model of "receive an event, go back and get more data over http about it". How would you qualify this as "a lot" - how much is that lot? Citations very much needed.

> I would also push back that it has more moving parts. You'll often need to pull information

"Often" is not always. You seem to be saying that when you don't get the signature benefit of fat events (not having to pull information) ... there's no benefit. Yes, that's a tautology, and also an encouragement to further refine the design until you do get the benefit.

> I also think the cases where there's some kind of outage but it's an outage such that the information in the event is enough

Are you speaking from experience here? Doesn't seem like it.
I refer you to point c) here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33392655
It helps reliability to shorten the list of services that your service depends upon being 100% up and responsive.
That's right, only there is no normal physician visit that bills $1300. The absolute highest reimbursement you're gonna get for an outpatient visit - a level 5 evaluation and management first-time patient visit plus double-coding an 'prolonged visit for high complexity care' (some handful of insurers allow triple-coding a G2212) - (a 99205 + G2212 x 2) is 244.99 + something like $30 (I don't recall the G2212 reimbursement off the top of my head, but it's in that ballpark), for a total of about $275. +/- some adjustment for geography.

That's not what patients pay - that's the total allowable reimbursement to the doc via medicare.

I use medicare numbers here because almost all private insurers negotiate as %medicare. If I'm a hot specialty people are willing to pick an insurance plan over (say, cardiology) and there's a shortage of my folks in the area, I might negotiate up to something like 110-120% of medicare. Most of the time I'll be happy to get 105% medicare, and some folks will end up getting something like 95% of medicare.

To hit $1300 there'd have to be:

-A procedure, likely an inpatient or facility service, such as a small outpatient surgery, or an infusion.
- Your doc has an in-house blood work lab and your insurer doesn't cover it, and the bill is actually a lab work bill

That latter bit is a gray area - it's actually barred under the Stark Law, as clinical lab work is considered a Designated Health Service that's barred from self-referral, if it's a third-party lab that they own or co-own. If it's their own actual in-clinic lab, though, I'm unsure of how that works out (I don't run my own lab, so I just know of this second-hand).

If you have a private-information-redacted copy of a 'normal' bill for $1300, I'd be happy to eyeball it - either to let you know something is off and worth appealing, or to learn something new for my self.
There's nops at the beginning of the loop that get written over.
And indeed a "computer" used to be a person too.
As someone from a neighboring country, I think that's a fantastic example of the justice system, justice at its very best. The murderer is absolutely the worst kind of criminal there is. He killed 77 people and he did so because of his Nazi ideology, to which he fully sticks a decade later. He got a fair trial. He got the conviction he deserved. In his desire to encourage violence and division, he failed completely and society did not for a moment fall to his level.

And he's not walking free. For some reason conservative US media loved the "he'll be out after 20 years" idea, which is, in plain terms, a lie. Norwegian law mandates a court hearing after 21 years of a sentence to decide whether the sentence has to be extended. There's no question that it will be and the killer in question will most likely die in prison or perhaps be released in the final days of his life. Having a mandatory additional hearing seems like a great safety feature built into the law.

Hotel-like facility? I haven't seen many hotels that lock you inside your room and don't allow a minute's unsupervised interaction with another person. We don't think it necessary to design prisons to be intentionally cruel to the inmates, we don't think torturing people accomplishes anything. The killer is provided with enough to meet basic human rights and that is overwhelmingly supported by public opinion. I've never been able to take anyone who says "Scandinavian prisons are like a vacation" seriously because nobody who claims that will admit to wanting to spend time in there.
I also installed fiber a while ago after being told "this isn't hard" by Michael Stapelberg's post [1]. Luckily I managed to get by with patch cables; a 30m cables really goes a long way! I even managed to get a duplex LC through a 16mm conduit with a pretty tight 90° bend, but just with lube, quite some force and luck.

I can just recommend going for it if you're curious. Cables and tranceivers really aren't expensive from fs.com (though their sales people may start bothering you).

Edit: And old, used network cards from ebay, of course.

[1]: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-08-09-fiber-link-ho...
I hired an annoying little Renault a couple of years ago. It would quite happily park either parallel or end-on, did a fairly reasonable job of it too. I didn't use it much, because it's almost as easy to park a car that size manually as it is to hit a couple of buttons :P. I think the difference between that and Tesla is that the Renault still wanted me to put the (manual) gearbox into reverse and use the accelerator to move the car, it was only controlling the steering wheel.
> TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 are supported. By design, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 are not supported.

TLS 1.3 isn't mentioned.
We know the purpose of prisons; very cheap labor without oversight.
If you are committing to involving yourself, the adult thing to do is to speak with your neighbor.