skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
been thinking about kitt(y)ing my cat out with a 3G+GPS module for tracking outdoors but the weight of lithium in the battery pack required for hours-long adventures has hindered any further effort
Worth revisiting this 1984 NYT article

'HOW RELEASE OF MENTAL PATIENTS BEGAN'

'THE policy that led to the release of most of the nation's mentally ill patients from the hospital to the community is now widely regarded as a major failure. Sweeping critiques of the policy, notably the recent report of the American Psychiatric Association, have spread the blame everywhere, faulting politicians, civil libertarian lawyers and psychiatrists....'

This is encouraging in Denver but we need a much more serious nationwide approach IMO

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-me...
Correlation / causation problem here. Of course arrests will go down in that circumstance, by definition. You need other metrics beyond 'arrests' to properly measure effectiveness of the policy, though.
It is utopian if you are on the megacorporation end.
I support the initiative, but it's sadly only a matter of time until one of the social workers is slashed/shot at by someone they're trying to help.
I suspect that it's more a generational thing than an occupational one. I've met a couple of test pilots from the '90's and '00's and they were the some of the most by-the-book people I've ever met, they were meticulous and followed their steps precisely, even for quotidian things like making breakfast or pitching a tent.

As for risk, Jim Lovell was asked, before he left for his second trip to the moon (Apollo 13), if he worried about the risk. His response was if wasn't an astronaut heading for the moon, he'd be back to his original job as a navy fighter pilot flying missions over North Vietnam, and he'd rather everybody be working to keep him alive than trying to kill him. And war (for Americans and the rest of the world) is a lot less deadly than it used to be, in large part because it got more professionalized.
If you add KIA+MIA (after this long a time, those are dead bodies that were never recovered), in World War One average US monthly losses were 6260/month, World War Two was 9865/month, Korea was 1116/month, Vietnam was 589/month, and the total combined dead from September 11th attacks, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and the operations against ISIS come out to 9766 (all numbers from Wikipedia). So the past 20 years of fairly continuous war comes out to about the dead from a single month of World War Two, for the US. That's in lockstep with the rest of the culture, we simply are much safer in every dimension.
Large in number, yes, but not in proportion to the total population.

Moreover, mostly in the places where productivity is not happening. Their growing irrelevance and sociocultural aversion to change are primary reasons for their vocality.
Like that old saying "those who panic first, die first".

Personally, that has mostly applied in online gaming matches. Seems like it'd fit here too though. ;)
They could be using "DLSS" to refer to any sort of highly capable resolution improving software, not nVidia's specifically.
Given that they are being dispatched to those incidents that cops probably wouldn't have responded with an arrest anyways, it's hard to compare.

If they or cops were dispatched entirely randomly to incidents, it would be possible to do a fair comparison so long as the number of incidents the both groups respond to were numerous enough to be statistically significant.
Farm laborers perform an essential role, but it isn't one that is driving US economy.
I believe pickpockets prefer crowded, busy streets.
In that case, maybe the media and academia could use its narrative making power to convince people to believe in and repeat something useful. They clearly are able to promote falsehoods or unsubstantiated wishful thinking to the level of widely accepted truths with institutional backing, if needed. Maybe they should then convince people that incentivizing companies to make vaccines exactly when they are most needed is a good thing. That it's true should make it easier job than it usually is.
I’m sure it’s more complex than this, but why isn’t the federal government jumping at this as a massive employment opportunity. You could train a wide variety of people for these jobs, and the way the jobs could be structured, support roles might not require college degrees in a lot of cases. Award grants or conditional extra city funding to cities that grow the program and make it work. People get to feel good about giving back, the country can feel good about reducing needless arrests, we can make bigger strides to solving homelessness, we can make good on various social justice reform items not only without necessarily massively defunding police, but also by freeing police up to actually do the much harder job they are trained for and stop treating police like they need to also be an arbitrary mental health issue handler.

There’s a lot of complexity for sure. This idea will hit a lot of roadblocks. But it seems like the potential upside across a dozen or so dimensions is super high.

Of course this is the same country that shuts out widespread nuclear power, so maybe this is the last we’ll hear about it when some police equipment manufacturer starts lobbying against it the minute one of these workers is involved in a violent encounter or significant arrest or something.
Chromium losing Sync support in early March
Instead of naming rights for a stadium, it's running rights for a whole town.

What happens if your town account is opaquely closed?
Saw a dude sleeping on the street in -13°C today. My friend called the police. They told us to call the ambulance. We called the ambulace. They told us to call the police. We called the police. They said they'd call the ambulance........ Shortly after he was called up by the ambulance, who said the police was on their way. Well, it's good to know you get help over here, eventually.
Would love to read this study if it’s not too difficult to dig out from history. :)
democrats always seem to fold because the right has moneyed interests on their side, politicians will never act in our interests unless we make the cost of not doing so greater than the cost of helping us
You do realize that jails (not prisons) already house people quite long due to various dubiously legal reasons?

Also that we got rid of most asylums so the risk of being committed is quite low by the pigeonhole principle?
I'm not sure that's a particularly convincing argument. Bolting a type system on a dynamic language is incredibly hard to do if you're trying to make a type system that's worth using. It's a fundamental language design problem, and if the type system is doing anything worth while, it'd probably take around a decade to make one that is reasonably sound and robust. At that level of commitment, one can just turn around and look at your static language and say "Well, couldn't you just implement a new language with a new type system in your language?" (assuming your language is turing complete). This really isn't that different.

Meanwhile, Julia's type system is actually a fundamental player in it's optimization schemes (the compiler essentially breaks up programs into statically typed chunks and optimizes those separately), so rather than inducing a constant overhead, the type system is responsible for some of the fastest code that's possible to write, including BLAS libraries that are competitive with OpenBLAS, BLIS, and MKL (https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl/issues/24)
Police officers can end your life against your will with no trial, so I see anything being an improvement over that.
The title is the worst part of the story. It seems tautological that a person will not be arrested when the police hand off that person to people who don't carry out arrests. It'd be a bit like saying that in the first six months of marijuana legalization, there were zero arrests for marijuana possession.

The more interesting (and heartening) aspect is that the police and the white van brigade appear to be working together and helping each other do what they do best, with benefits to the community.
F# is that language and is rapidly gaining steam.
Yes, from the title I had expected it to be about health officials ignoring the law in instituting covid related restrictions. We definitely don't need more power in the hands of unaccountable technocrats.
or maybe it means an alternative way of organizing society is needed
The thing is I don't want to work at a place that's just giving people with the right keyword soup interviews anyways. My resume is still using human language, if they're just searching for a certain tech it will show up.

But from there, if the recruiter is looking for easiest resumes to parse... they'll immediately recoil and move on

For me that's a feature not a bug. I'm at the point in my career where it's generally assumed I'll be capable of giving technical interviews, and nothing sucks more than being on the receiving end a recruitment funnel that's more focused on cookie cutter applications than the actual applicant...

I also don't want to work on a team that passed up capable people who just happen to have missed the resume meta

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And fwiw, I work at fairly large company, not FAANG large, but ~5k employees, market cap ~50B, and TC is also about in line with FAANG I'd say, at least at my level. We have a ton of ex-FAANG coincidentally...

I was contacted by a recruiter of theirs who recognized a previous company I worked at and wanted to chat (very small company, tiny, so I was surprised that was what got them to bite)
1975: Dnd
I would assume that if the mental health professional can't resolve the issue, then they would call the police to arrest them, no?
Exactly. If the police decide they're making an arrest these guys aren't getting the call.

These guys get called when the police feel like helping but can't justify spending their time on it.
Clever has its applications and its drawbacks. First off, you may not feel very clever when you need to read the code you wrote (no caffeine, or a hangover, or an incipient cold ...), or perhaps the next coder to pick up your code is not as clever.

I save clever for the real mechanics of problems, for data structures, and occasionally optimization of running time if that is a factor (it often is not as much as you would think).

I eschew clever if it seems like it is just a way to pack a lot of stuff into fewer lines of code. One of the reasons that Perl attained a reputation of "write once, read never" unmaintainable code (whether or not it was justified) is a culture that cultivates "one-liners" and packing everything down into a minimum space. Our filenames in Windows no longer have to be 8.3. We are not constrained to write our code in a few kilobytes.

I programmed in the days where you might have two kilobytes in which to program. In those days, extreme terseness was a value. It is not any longer. "Cat" and "man" and "mv" are holdovers from those days. This is not a telegram where you are charged by the word. I program for total obviousness and sometimes that makes my code seem "dumb." I might do only one or two things per line. That's really fine.

Just as an example, I wrote this obnoxious web app in Perl as part of my job. At some point, some students were to take it over, but they didn't know Perl. I received an excited phone call from them at some point: they were able to understand and port my application to a language they were familiar with because I commented, I was not clever in packing, and I kept it to "one or two things per line."
Why would you add the unnecessary level of indirection with the _add_item() method? And if your application uses standard IDs throughout then yes you can guess it :)
Nice. I like how simple and functional this is. It is very good for studying new words. Thanks for sharing
The issue is not the size of the stdlib but rather the process for how things get in there. IMHO Python's stdlib has a number of modules of sub-standard quality and design. It would be good to have a gradual process for inclusion in the stdlib, so that different 3rd party libraries could be vetted by the community before we bake one into the language.
fwiw, hes the founder of hashicorp - now worth at least 10bn. so the latter path you drew was the one that happened!
its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
I understand the media loves to hype these things when they happen, and they are all tragic incidents, but when you take a look at how often that actually happens compared to other things that can end your life, you realize it's really not actually that big a problem, compared to say... Murders or violent crime.
Analyzing Cridex malware with Volatility Framework [video]
TUTOR Programming Language
I'm vaguely aware of a service in Australia where a police unit teams up with a mental health worker.

When there is a police call for someone which they feel is mental-health related, they'll send this specific unit if available.

The health worker takes the lead with the police officer just there to provide support if needed.

If the situation gets very serious, police still have powers of arrest under the Mental Health Act to take them to hospital.
I'm not that worried about that since I already spend most of the day staring at a monitor at a fixed distance. But, I would be a lot more worried about the added weight. My posture is not the greatest and having a bulky headset weighing down the head levering the backbone could be problematic if done for long stretches of time.
I'm surprised we don't have "variable latency DRAM" yet. Ie. DRAM which can either return data quickly, or raise a flag saying it needs more time.

That would enable error detection circuitry to redirect some reads and writes around defects in the silicon without incurring a latency penalty for the majority of reads and writes.
I'll say three things in response:

1) There is no evidence that MTG does not believe that Nancy Pelosi should be murdered. There is evidence that she does. She has never apologized for it.

2) If you, or anyone else, makes a death threat to a public figure on social media, you will be at minimum receiving a visit from law enforcement, and will be arrested if you don't immediately disavow what you said or are thought of as a threat. "Watts" ruled that "mere political hyperbole" is not illegal, have fun in court trying to convince the judge of that. Death threats are not just "distasteful rhetoric", come on.

3) The fact that you a) gloss over the rest of my post and b) don't even bother to condemn this stuff is really telling.

One more thing: have you ever received a death threat from a stranger?

I have, I was playing poker in a casino late at night. I was not frightened, but it was not a pleasant experience.
The guy was 86ed, and a few hours later I was escorted to my car by security. I stayed away for a few days despite it being my only income at the time. That was 15 years ago I still think about it some times. I don't wish that experience on anyone. Being a politician must be terrifying. Really sad to see it minimized here.
Character count, sadly. I’m not a fan of editing either.
How to write idiomatic Python? This talk is often recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
Microsoft Slips It In
The problem seems to be that the writers and editors are all volunteers and that will necessarily mean a great variation in quality on both jobs. On top of this, their comment system seems stuck in "sort by controversial".

There is a lot of work that needs to be done - moderating, getting good data, presenting information well. That doesn't jibe with people doing it for free. At least on YouTube or Instagram you could personally strike it rich off being a successful enough contributor.

Is there a way to get good users paid from this? Can you tip moderators? Would people? Maybe, as the newspapers used to do, a subscription fee could be added once a certain growth point was reached. X dollars a month per user, some percentage goes to mods, some percentage goes to people whose comments you liked, some percentage goes to keeping the servers running.
The US used to have more of that. The men in the white coats would come to take crazies away.

In the SF bay area, they were sent to Agnews Insane Asylum in Santa Clara, which gradually closed down and is now an Oracle facility. When that institution was active, homeless people were rarely seen.
Study: Pandemic’s cleaner air added heat to warming planet
It’s not weird to me. GP is arguing that the teachers unions don’t yield (sufficient) positive outcome and using their powers the wrong way, being part of the inefficient potentially corrupt bureaucracy.

Whether that’s the case over there, I have no idea. But it’s not inconsistent.

In my hometown I don’t recall a single person beating against the teacher’s union. Sure on particular issues there would be occasional tension, especially with negotiations with private schools, but no one argued for their abolition.
Dog bites man, partisan U.S. media stokes the latest controversy.
"A senior developer can develop a whole application from scratch by himself. Senior devs know about design patterns, architecture, automating testing, performance, security, debugging, bug fixing, testing, validation, etc. This doesn't mean they don't have questions or make mistakes, it means they know how to identify problems and where to find the right answers. That's why they are the ones who get assigned highly complicated tasks that require an exhaustive level of knowledge."

Source: https://lightit.io/blog/identify_seniority_level/
Anybody can do that regardless of their profession.
You can get thrown in jail for a long time but there is a long list of legal ways to appeal a conviction. Yes, people get convicted wrongly but that is pretty rare. 97% of people at the federal level who get indicted just take a plea deal, so the proportion of people sitting in jail unfairly (assuming they pled not guilty) must be fairly low, at least at the federal level.
This is one of the key parts when starting to learn programming. Just typing out everything manually really helps you see the small details that are important when writing code that can get lost when copying from elsewhere. Courses like Learn Python the Hard Way focus on this method and I think it's the best way to go for absolute beginners.
The Sims Made Me Realize I'm Ready for More in Life
>I suspect that it's more a generational thing than an occupational one. I've met a couple of test pilots from the '90's and '00's and they were the some of the most by-the-book people I've ever met, they were meticulous and followed their steps precisely, even for quotidian things like making breakfast or pitching a tent.

The people who were test pilots in the 90s were people who succeeded under a system of massive "by the book"-ness.

The cowboys of the 60s don't wind up being successful test pilots in that kind of system.

The organizations changed so the people who succeed in them changed.
this seems to be Scala "case classes" or Java "records" or Kotlin "data classes"...the earliest I saw it was (among these) in Scala.

I find it a positive sign that these expressive languages are mimicking one another.
The mere fact it hoovers up less metadata alone makes it more private. I also trust the developers more way way more than I trust Facebook. That's a personal preference though and if you trust WhatsApp and don't mind that it leaks contacts and other metadata to Facebook to profile you then use WhatsApp.

If I wanted to I could install a fork of Signal that doesn't require Google Play [1] and run it on any non-Google Android build. I would do if it wasn't for the fact I'm currently using an iPhone.

[1] https://langis.cloudfrancois.fr/
Unless you're thinking of a hybrid supercapacitor, you're still going to need a chemical reaction first.
Except murderers and violent criminals don't have essentially legal immunity.
leetcode adds them automatically and I just didn't bother to take them off. leetcode also names the functions with camelCase versus whatever_this_is_called (which is the python way).
It obviates the need for a ridiculous number of business trips.
The risk is of a judicial system without checks and balances.
I start from a place of wanting this program to be successful, but I have to ask- what do they do if the subject becomes violent or dangerous? The disturbed person suddenly pulls a knife, or attacks the respondents? It seems unrealistic to not have someone armed & prepared for violence, even if they're just armed with pepper spray
The theater this is in might be one of the best places to see a movie. I fondly remember the first night the Star Trek movie was shown. Every time a major character was introduced the crowd went wild. When they told us to turn our phones off some guy yelled "Silence your communicators". It had a really unique energy. Plus they serve beer.
> I’m sure it’s more complex than this

For starters, a lot of people have negative productivity. Think of someone intensely anti-social who drags down the productivity of people around them.
So I work at a large-ish company, not FAANG large but public company, ~50B market cap, ~5k employees

And their recruiter reached out to me without issue.

And recruiters from FAANG companies regularly reach out to me, I'm pretty sure at this point they reach out to anyone with certain companies listed on their LinkedIn profiles

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I mentioned this below, but it's not like I turned my whole resume into a JPG or something, it's still searchable/indexable

It's just not optimized for skimming, which I like.

The thing is once they index and find the person with experience and the tech they want, I also want them to be willing to give a resume that looks different a chance.
>Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police.

I dunno, that sounds pretty high to me, regardless of how high other things are. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

Pretty extreme protection measures are already in place for much less common causes, e.g. fire, drowning: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit... (though there are obvious opposites as well, e.g. opioids)
If the breakins are people who need food and shelter, maybe they can help. Or if they can convince people to switch from crime to legitimate income.

In other words I'd be okay with lesser penalties for someone smashing my window if in exchange there was a very high likelihood of getting caught, and of that event leading to reformed lives.
This isn't changed by an arrest being the first step. As an EMT I frequently transported people to hospitals (or from hospitals to psychiatric facilities) following their arrest. This just avoids the extraordinary cost to both society and the individual that comes along with an arrest being part of the process.

The medical authoritarian system you're worried about already exists and frankly I saw no evidence of its abuse. Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released - which is a far cry from having healed or become functioning members of society.
This claim disregards those who take a plea deal because they believe they cannot win a federal criminal case, which is a superset of those who are actually innocent of their accused crimes.
> And war (for Americans and the rest of the world) is a lot less deadly than it used to be

My hunch for wars getting less deadly is because of nuclear weapons. There hasn't been a direct war between superpowers for the better part of a century. This sounds good, except it's possible we'll essentially wipe out the planet overnight because of a technical error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

I think we need a longer timespan to say whether or not wars are getting deadlier.