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I worked in journalism at the tail end of the local paper era. My first degree is actually an associate’s in journalism and I won several state-level awards for journalism in college in the late 90s. (In fact, my two year college paper swept our category the two years I was there.) Out of the twenty or so people on that staff, all of us started with paying jobs in journalism, but only two of us now work in anything even related to that field, and those two people are in marketing.

Most of us got into the field we’d studied for and were immediately run out because we were (cheap) liberal 22 year olds that wanted to write about millennial social justice, our editors and owners wanted to run as many ads as possible at the lowest price point, and our readers were generally older than our parents and wanted to feel something that validated their feelings that the world was going to hell but wouldn’t pay even the cost of paper for a subscription.

Since this situation didn’t meet anyone’s needs at the price point they were willing to pay, what’s left for information sharing now that we’re all too far spread out for a pub is Nextdoor.
Safari is Apple's usual answer for this kind of thing, and it looks like Safari may be getting WebXR support as we speak: https://twitter.com/rufus31415/status/1357022695553200130
What in the world are you talking
about?? That is actually completely opposite of what happened!

As cool as this was to many of us, public support plummeted after seeing NASA "fooling around", and golf especially was seen as an elitist white man's activity. In the wake of the Civil Rights Act, this only highlighted NASA's cultural bias. Political support, which was already waning, immediately fell off a cliff as well.

Had NASA not allowed this, the landings would have continued for at least a few more years.
Yeah, I'm curious about their protocol and organization. So:

* Org chart - which city dept they report in to

* Dispatch Protocol - It says a third of the time they're called in by police officers. Is the only other way to get them to call 911 and ask for them?

* Emergency Protocol - What is their stated approach to dealing with the situation if it goes pear shaped, who do they call, how do they make sure they're not around to get hurt.
It can take a long time for the police to show up, and a very short time to be stabbed. Arming STAR members is probably a step in the wrong direction, but I agree that they need to be able to handle these situations on their own.

This program deals specifically with nonviolent people, they presumably have some sense of what they're getting into and understand that violence, while not impossible, is very unlikely.
I wouldn’t even pay half that.
I think we're starting to talk past each other and this is falling into the well-rehashed pit of "are runtime types really 'types' or just semantically normal runtime assertions."

I'm implicitly talking through the lens of the latter and you're talking through the former.

Regardless I agree with your central point that Julia is doing cool things with runtime types and its design is what is giving it the ability to do such impressive runtime optimizations.
Nowadays it's pretty straight forward. Just run `sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic`, install plugins for fsharp for vscode and you're good to go.
Absolutely, I find this approach gets the right mental gears turning as well. The problem comes up most often with take-home assignments though, where students are more likely to copy-and-paste a couple lines from somewhere because you haven't given them a full program. If anything, an IDE might be better because it'll give more localized feedback and people are more likely to react to the red squiggles :)
> Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released.

Having personally had family members and friends in such places, I can tell you this is false. It has often been the case they are 'magically' healed and capable when the insurance money runs dry.
I get the visual issue and the font is nice. But Apple has put a lot of effort (and garnered praise from organizations and users) in providing visual assistive technologies. (I don't know what Android does but I'm sure they have a serious approach as well).

Did the author try none of those? As for dialing, the intelligent assistants for both OSs provide a robust and easy to use audio interface - "Hey Siri Dial Taxi".

Maybe I missed something in the sentiment of the article?
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Not sure how comprehensive is this collection.

Missed on mentioning Microsoft's fluent design guidelines https://www.microsoft.com/design/fluent/#/

Then there are 100s of design systems.. https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/
thanks for the mention :)
He has the username to get away with it
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"Is 40 yards impressive?"

It's the world record, which has stood for 50 years.

Hopefully it won't stand another 50.
how fast does it have to re-calculate the position of the fovea to not cause visual pain?
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I commented on a different branch of this thread with some numbers. Light truck sales in December 2020 exceeded light truck sales in any of the months prior to the pandemic.
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>Psychiatry does not know how to cure mental illness

Psychiatry doesn't know how to cure mental illness and oncology doesn't know how to cure cancer, but they both work a lot better than the supplement aisle.
I'm not so sure about that. We live in a golden age compared with, say, how things were in ancient times. Mostly thanks to technology.

For example, I'm sitting in my warm house sipping coffee typing this, lit with electric light, with the stereo playing softly in the background. I'm trying not to go eat that box of donuts in the kitchen. Maybe I'll watch a movie later.

I'm not shivering in a cave drinking water, sitting in the dark, and wondering if I'll get lucky and catch a squirrel to eat tomorrow. That is, if I can walk on my broken ankle.
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Bindings for Apple's APIs for other languages come out every once in a while. For example, PyObjC for Python, RubyCocoa and MacRuby, Apple's own old Java bindings, etc.

Usually these garner early interest, but no significant programs come out using them, and they tend to be abandoned within a few years. I don't mean to discourage the author, but I wonder if he's aware of the history and if he has thoughts on why Go may fare better.
Which version(s) have you experienced? (Any that track eyes?)

I've only used Quest 1, with _fixed_ foveated, and while it's noticeable, it's good enough that I could see a generation or two of improvement pushing it beyond noticeability.
A lot of interventions have "disparate impact" - we had that locally - so a big outcry. So yeah, "trying things" can be somewhat high risk. I think some police departments are trying to be proactive by reducing overall contacts (ie, don't pull folks over for things like missing plates / bad registrations etc, delay or avoid responding to certain other erratic behavior type calls).
running hot water comes pretty close.
WebXR will not give you the same experience as a native app. For VR you're always pushing the limits of tech. VR in Safari will never be that.
That makes sense. I haven’t touched something like a C++ gaming engine in a while so the idea of a function with more than like five arguments is not something I’ve seen in a while. I can see type hinting being useful to give an IDE more info.
Most 'permanent' criminal records can be expunged. When you are incarcerated against your will in a mental institute, you lose firearm privileges permanently (for real), deservedly or not.

Seems like a great avenue for disarming the populace if the government needed to turn dictatorship.
You're talking about the same Tesla that had funding secured at $420 a share. That is probably my favorite social media post of all time. I quote it all the time.

But only with hindsight 2.5 years later does that tweet look tame. Tesla's rise in valuation is something no one credible could have predicted. Tesla relies on selling a narrative for bulls.
> No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial

Increasing cop presence won't fix that problem. In multiple jurisdictions, cops can also refer you to be involuntarily committed.

So we're not creating an extra judicial system that has no checks and balances, that system already exists and cops are a part of it. We're talking about the potential benefits of removing one harmful part of the equation. If you want to also talk about the negatives of involuntary commitment and make progress in that area, that's totally worth examining as well, but it's not an argument for flooding the streets with more cops.

Getting arrested doesn't mean you can't be involuntarily committed afterwards.

Also note that in some cases, getting arrested and thrown in a holding cell can on its own be just as traumatic of an event as being held for an involuntary mental evaluation -- particularly if someone is genuinely suffering from a mental attack. And arrests don't require trials either. A sizable portion of the people in our jails have never been convicted of crimes, they're just stuck there because they can't pay cash bail.
The police don't want to have to attend to calls with "emotionally disturbed persons" as they term them. I know a few officers in the NYPD and unfortunately they aren't given many tools in order to deal with these people. They either have to dump them off at a hospital (who often also doesn't want them) or arrest them for whatever they did. It is really not what they want to be doing.

In NY long ago there were very large institutions where they'd ship mentally ill people off to. This was not a good thing at all but the police did not have to deal with habitual people that stop taking their medication. Now there is not much they can do.

So officers would love to have these resources.
I don't think any single language will be the "next Python" for everybody.

Many seem to be happy replacing Python with Go, to get better performance, parallelism and packaging support. However, for my uses I'd much rather replace it with another high-level scripting language, even if it's still slow and single-threaded.
Wow! This is what I call decentralized internet. Where unless Apple can take down the app from the AppStore (we should fight against the monopoly) Signal is hard to censor.

Unless Iran totally kills its internet to all.

Sure there is the dark side that it could be used to organize crimes and terror, but I think we have to recognize the right to meaningful communication and privacy.

Signal gives me hope on the internet of the future.
I think it's the opposite.

All languages have their own "implicits" - just not as a proper language concept, but for "special cases". The problem is, that while it gives developers are more stable/clear framework to work with, it also limits the development of the language itself.

If you look at Scala, implicits could be used to model typeclasses from haskell and method-syntax-extension. Other languages such as Kotlin have a dedicated language feature for that. Scala never needed that.

However, this power also ask for responsible usage of course. That is a drawback that can't be denied.
Assuming the cops don't just turn them off or "lose" the footage, which "mysteriously" seems to happen every time there's an incident (unless the cop is too stupid to cover their tracks).
What's the source on this? I see people keep saying that but from what I've seen, the #1 use of VR is as a gaming console, with a focus on games that embrace the fitness aspect of VR. The Quest 2 has an insane mainstream potential, too, and most people won't bother rooting it.

Speaking of, I'm going back to beat saber. You might have been misled by its name if you think that's a porn app. :) Email's in my profile if anyone is up for some multi.

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PS. It's pretty obvious to see the people in the comments here who haven't used VR headsets. Eyestrain and headaches are mostly a non issue with recent models, but what they still are is clammy. They get warm. Super uncomfortable for work purposes. Apple's design could solve that I suppose.

As a non-apple-user, I'm excited to see if they can produce something as lightweight as the Quest 2 that is much higher end. I would buy that in a heartbeat, even at a 3k price tag. (Yes, mostly just for beat saber...)
Plenty of people are spending many hours in VR these days. It's not affecting their eyesight. It may not be good for young children when their vision is still developing, but for adults there is no issue. Especially once you're old enough to have presbyopia; then you can't focus your eyes anyway so it's moot. And presbyopia happens to everyone, VR or not.
Im not sure python gets harder once you dive in. The hardest part of python is performance (when you need it) and making sure you don't make too much of a mess with the freedom you're given (though every language has this to some degree imo).
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Oh man that was a fun hack to write. Basically we demonstrated an easy-to-setup AD on rust by leveraging link-time optimization (LTO) as a way to make sure Enzyme's generate derivatives "optimization pass" was run.

We're currently working with the Rust ML infrastructure group to make a nice integration of Enzyme into Rust (e.g. nice type-checking, safety, etc). If you're interested in helping, you should join the Rust ML meetings and/or Enzyme weekly meetings and check out https://github.com/rust-ml/Meetings and https://github.com/tiberiusferreira/oxide-enzyme/tree/c-api . There's a bunch of interesting optimizations and nicer UX for interoperability we want to add so more manpower is really helpful!

The most interesting thing from the Rust standpoint is that ideally we'd want Enzyme to be loaded into the Rust compiler as a plugin (much like it is for Julia, Clang for C/C++, etc) -- but Rust doesn't support the option for that yet. This means we can either help push for plugins/custom codegen in Rust, make script-based compilation tools within rustc [I don't remember the specific name but someone who is more of a Rust expert I'm sure can chime in], or do the sketchy LTO approach above [not always desirable as it requires running LTO].

Alternatively Enzyme can just become part of LLVM mainline so everyone can use it without a plugin :P We're not quite there yet but we're in the process of becoming a formal LLVM incubator project!
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While your anecdote is incredibly sad and messed up, it does not invalidate the parent's belief that most psych facilities are not like that.
I live in a small town that has the same dispatch for all those services (police/fire/EMS). Covers a couple counties if I understand correctly. I guess we are weird in that police and fire are "public safety" instead of separate.
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This is not the best way to think about it - it’s not like mobile. WebXR offers distinct opportunities from native. It’s not a hierarchy. There are some things you can only do with one or the other.
Unless we arm our police forces with time machines, I would expect homicides to increase during a crisis or uncertain times regardless of the police force.
What?

> It is implemented in Java, so suffers ALL of the performance issues of Java (and then some).

Uhm no. You can create native binaries or javascript code as well. I think your knowledge is from many years ago.
Try ThinkJulia: https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html

It's a bit out-of-date, but still useful.
But small-town police blotters were (are?) hilarious. https://www.npr.org/2012/04/07/150148340/small-towns-police-...

NextDoor is Gladis Kravitz meets Archie Bunker, minus the humorous aspects.
That's missing the point of development.

Developers are supposed to be producing working software, not just code.

Code reviews help with that. They don't detract from it.
ditto. I bought a oculus quest 2 purely based on video from immersedvr. its notw quite there yet but I'm enjoying beat saber in the meantime
This is a dangerously bad take. Real progress is being made by this change and the assumptions you’re making risk taking wind out of its sails over essentially a non-issue.
I like they way people fixate on the hardware, not the billions of dollars it will cost for the software.

Needing 8K models and exponential extra difficulties will fix Cyberpunk 2077 and design software?
My own belief is that there isn't a single simple issue, but rather a web of many simple things that have complex interactions.

Nearly all of those are political issues though. Technology can help with better communications and tools for debunking falsehoods in those communications.

It might also eventually help with strong AI that's smarter and better than humans at offering a set of solutions and then letting people debate the ones that we agree are also emotionally the correct answers.
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Uh, citation needed? Getting committed 'because their insurance was good' is likely not an issue here, as ~70% of the interventions were with homeless people.

Here's the actual report:
https://wp-denverite.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sit...

"[T]he STAR van provided transportation to 41% of its calls for service where an individual's information was recorded. Of those incidents (107), the most common locations were a shelter or homeless services (30), the walk-in crisis center (24), or a hospital (18)."

It's unclear how many of these would involve an involuntary commit, and similarly unclear how the outcome would compare to a police encounter, which often comes with its own special brand of involuntary commit. One of the report recommendations is to create a longitudinal study to assess outcomes.
There's also skim[1], which would be a Rust fzy alternative.

But neither fzy nor skim quite do what fzf does, which is offer an simple feature-filled experience out of the box. The big draw is fzf Just Works™. I don't mind that it feels bloated and slow sometimes, because I don't want to spend a week figuring out how to make the other two do what fzf does without configuration or drama, and all the speed improvements in the world doesn't really matter when the bottleneck is the meatball behind the keyboard.

[1]https://github.com/lotabout/skim
>Dont commit over 50% of the homicides in the country despite being 13% of the population and the stats will go down.

Why do you think the statistics look like this? You must have some reason for bringing it up.
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>But for better or worse, overall health outcomes are better than at any time in history.

This is not true? US life expectancy is actually falling now, and due to the obesity epidemic the "average" adult is fairly unhealthy.
I don't think there is one objectively best language for anyone to start with, but I'd suggest something with a relatively concise set of features so as not to overwhelm a novice or hand-wave away important details.

I am very happy that I started with C. It has surprisingly few features compared to most languages and it gave me a good appreciation for how memory is managed at a relatively low level. The biggest downside was that it took me a long time to learn how to make anything I thought was "cool" at first (like GUIs, graphics, sounds, or networking). Some people might struggle with that.

I rarely write C code now. It's not as practical for the kinds of things I make and I have nitpicks with it just like any other language. But I don't think that's the point. Your first programming language is an instrument for learning first and foremost. Once you've become adapt at one language, it's relatively easy to pick up more.
> Are you saying that right now, the most popular use of VR headsets is for pornography?

Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's a "dirty little secret". Most of it is VR video at the moment but apps are growing quickly. New titles appearing on steam all the time and appearing on the top 10 selling titles.
That the social body might learn to accommodate some ways of being which defy initial expectations, rather than altering individuals to conform to rigid norms.

When certain behaviors are thought worthy of institutionalization, it may reflect a narrowness of heart and mind in the majority rather than a social danger.
Maybe that is less common than we expect?
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Wait, what? Pet ownership responsibilities like leashes and waste removal are "unpopular laws"?
When the government is the one doing the hiring, they don’t have to pay market rates. They can decide add on hazard pay.

This system already exists - it’s why police get better pay and benefits compared to jobs with similar education requirements and levels of danger in the private sector (e.g. delivery drivers). Why couldn’t that hazard pay be extended to these psychiatric responders?
I would be pissed if I were involuntarily committed and they billed me.
Have you seen a young person have 100% success with a voice assistant, let alone a 91yo? Not a chance I'm sending Granny with whatever my phone thinks 'taxi' is.
I was going to come to say something similar. At least in CA or the part I am in (very liberal) getting someone committed for a longer period (3 months + etc) - I think may be pretty much impossible? This can be despite a whole host of criminal and self harming behavior. Pre pandemic I think it was probably easier to get folks in at least for a few days at a time to jail pending disposition of whatever the latest case was - which was time enough to fix locks / windows / doors etc or move.
Disingenuous story is disingenuous
> 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.

This seems plausible, but I wonder if what you calculated is the best way to measure it.

First, since you mentioned "Americans and the rest of the world", does the same trend hold for the people on the other side of these conflicts? At least in the past 20 years' examples, the U.S. military wasn't fighting adversaries who were equipped nearly as well as it was.

Second, the number of people who fought in each of these wars is also pretty different. Isn't a more direct comparison something more like "deaths per combatant per month" rather than "deaths per month"? (I don't know how that comparison would come out.)
> I think I understand the difficult position that they are in, and I'd rather they do that than fall to sell to some large entity their name recognition and their IP.

I think GitHub has done pretty well under Microsoft's ownership. There was a story a few years back, Microsoft tried to buy Docker but apparently Docker wanted more money than Microsoft was offering. Maybe they now wish they'd said "yes".

A big company like Microsoft can afford to have some loss-leaders in their ecosystem. So could Amazon or Google, but I personally think Microsoft would have been a better steward of Docker than Amazon or Google would have.

Of course, Microsoft is a private for-profit corporation, whose benevolence is not guaranteed to last forever, and has even done some malevolent things in its past. But Microsoft's benevolence may well last longer than Docker's financial ability to offer free services can.