skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an EMT I frequently transported people to hospitals (or from hospitals to psychiatric facilities) following their arrest.

> I saw no evidence of its abuse.

Unless your EMT services is responsible for 100% of the patients that enter the psych facility, the set of patients you see is probably affected by survivorship bias[1]. The people you see may be biased towards people with a legitimate problem severe enough for someone to call an EMT.

> Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released

About 8 years ago had an experience with a facility (in the SF Bay Area). A psych I had seen once for <5 min had me arrested and sent for a 3 day hold. The justification fabricated; a few sentences of vague nonsense. After finally seeing a doctor on day 2 for about 1 minute, he upgraded the 3 day hold into a 2 week hold at a psych facility (supposedly on the suggestion of the original psych).

The facility was over-enrolled; the staff often complained about having to deny admission due to lack of room. Everyone at the facility that wasn't a doctor thought I obviously should be released immediately. I didn't see a doctor again until day 5 (I explained the situation for q few minutes, meeting over, nothing happened), while the facility was somehow able to justify to Medi-Cal why they should pay several thousand dollars to keep me there for another day. On day 10, I guess Medi-Cal stopped paying. The doctor showed up for a 2nd meeting, insisted I take a shitty SRNI and finally let me leave.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Great concept. I have just tweeted a link to your site.
Judges will often enroll repeat offenders in drug/alcohol rehab programs.

There's probably a more efficient method of that - but the current system sometimes works - county dependent.
Rethinking Sanakirja, a Rust database engine with fast (zero-copy) clones
likewise. Folks selling stuff, looking for odd jobs or recommendations, looking for lost cat or dog or announcing one that they found. Once in a while, "saw something suspicious or heard a loud sound" anyone know about it?
The Missing Guide to AWS API Gateway Access Logs
Wikimedia is free for its users and doesn't do ads, you need to pay the server bills and find development somehow.
To be fair, cat, man and mv are things you type many times per day when working in a unixy environment.
"Why did I install the Angles and Bob's mods", "How do I build a waste processing loop so my entire base doesn't lock up", "Why did my wife and kids leave me"
> There are 3 billion people without internet. It's not a human right, but it's the next tier.

The half of humanity without an Internet access is for the most part poor and uneducated people from third world countries.

I don't want these people on the Internet.

The state of online discourse outside of tightly moderated niche communities like HN is already awful. Cranks, bigots, conspiracists, and other trashy people abound. And that's with only the top half of humanity having access to the Internet.

If the other half gets access then I see no choice but to balkanize the Internet into walled communities. Any discussion forum worth reading will become invite-only and be locked behind layers of passwords and access gates.

Anyone with an Internet connection can google "HN" and land on this page.

Now you're going to have 3 billion mostly illiterate people roaming the web, opening Facebook groups, posting anything that's on their mind on any forum they can.
The people and the collectibles, definitively.
It is a dichotomy. On one hand you have an innovative titan of the tech universe doing really amazing things. On the other hand you have, by all accounts, not a very nice human being to those around him. I think the hero/innovator narrative really wars with the asshole narrative in popular media. He was both of those things and it’s okay to acknowledge his insufferableness along with his great accomplishments. I don’t think the worst of his behavior was required to be the industry titan he was. A lot of people mix these up as somehow critical to the success of Jobs. The truth is, inspiring leadership that treats people fairly is very hard. It’s an understandable fault, but still a fault. That is why I always tried to understand Steve as an innovator first and leader second. People followed him despite his lack of leadership because he was getting things done and it was worth it to be a part of the show. The people that stuck around made peace with his behavior (as illustrated in the article) and learned how to filter it in a way that let them work together, but that is not an easy working relationship and again I think it speaks to how much people believed in what they were doing despite the poor (human) leadership.
Homebrew 3.0
Importantly, the closure of those institutions is what created the homelessness crisis.
Cities skylines has a real good traffic simulation, some of mods make traffic control really sophisticated.

Check out biffa plays YouTube channel for some great traffic optimisation.
Raoul Wallenberg wasn't what you'd call a dissident criticizing communism, and was mostly known for saving Jews from the Nazis by offering them Swedish protected passports.

Officially he was arrested by the Russians for espionage in Budapest in 1945, during the war, with later reports suggesting he was actually involved in an espionage effort. He allegedly died in prison a few years later. There were claims that he was sighted in prisons and psychiatric hospitals as late as the '80s but if they're true then this certainly wasn't used as a cover, he was already claimed dead. The psychiatric ward angle doesn't really make sense in these circumstances, there's no need for a cover story when the official story already sounds like a cover, and even presumably legitimate.
Except that since corona the regional hotline is overloaded and you can wait >1 hour only to be disconnected.
Distro packaging doesn't work like that. Distros enable or disable certain features of the software at compile time, they also attempt to make sure the software plays well with the rest of the distro and abides to its stated goals and guidelines. Distro packagers also make sure whatever the software developers make up isn't blindly accepted and followed. Chromium in particular is particularly hard to package in a meaningful way (there was a recent controversy concerning that in the Mint distro). But that doesn't mean it is not worth trying.
That's true, but Safari uses a closed source JavaScript engine.

Seems to me it doesn't count for much unless the whole browser is Free and Open Source. A single non-Free component is enough for them to sneak in functionality that you don't want.

See also: the VSCodium editor/IDE. Official builds of Visual Studio Code do not correspond to the published Visual Studio Code source-code, as they ship with additional telemetry code. The VSCodium project releases binaries more faithfully based on the Open Source code.
The automated 'please open a ticket' response is hilarious. We need to start calling behaviour like this out - or just blackhole these DNS servers.
Is there a strongly, statically typed language with a syntax similar to Python? Why even newest languages embrace the braces and can't tolerate python indentation block system?
(I do understand that these are controversial features, please forgive me!)

I was so upset when Boo was ditched from Unity, I loved it so much!
Yes, but then your community becomes subject to the whims of Twitter/Reddit/etc.

I've been feeling it these days, helping my spouse with their art career.
I don't know if it means anything really, but:

Subnatucia: gather resources and build things so you can get off the planet you've crashed on. Encouraged to respect the environment. Actually get to leave the planet. No automation.

Factorio: gather resources and build things so you can gather resources and build things so you can gather resources and built things so you can... Environment is just a resource. Build a rocket, but instead of leaving just keep building more rockets.

I thoroughly enjoyed Subnautica despite some resource grind. The experiences it creates, culminating in what I can only describe as "leaving your first apartment for the last time", were well worth the investment to me. I put it in my top 5 games of all time.

I stopped playing Factorio immediately after launching the rocket, and didn't enjoy the time I spent doing it. I think I only kept playing because I could slog through and finish it and I was "working" from home with the goddamn plague anyway. In a lot of ways it is like Universal Paperclips: the automation exists for its own sake to the extent that you'd destroy the universe just to keep the score going up.

With UP, a lot of people talked about the dangers of AI, but seeing what Factorio does to people maybe we don't even need the AI. We have developers out there right now optimizing for "engagement", looping people into their own little recursive realities to efficiently harvest their eyeballs for advertisers. We know this is harmful to them. We know this is harmful to society. But the factory must grow. We need more paperclips.
What an sadly inevitable and short-sighted move.
Abortion laws in europe isn't decided by our most liberal parties.

The first trimester rules you mentioned are usually what everyone can agree on.

Example one: In my country (Sweden), a high-ranking party-poard member of our conservative christian party just got into a lot of trouble because it was found out that they had been a member of an anti-abortion organization 10 years ago, and now had to publicly state that they now support the first-trimester abortion rules (Personally, I think it's a lie, but this is what you have to do over here to not ruin your political career, even in the conservative christian party).
Titanoboa (Airflow/N8n Alternative) Clustering Is Now Open-Sourced
Google was attacked for bundling chrome in android as well.
You can look outside in winter and know that if it is raining the air temperature is above freezing without a temperature scale. It’s pretty apparent by the fact that the water is not freezing.

And how often does knowing that your pot of boiling water is 100 degrees or your ice tray is 0 help you?

I have never been making pasta and thought to myself “wow, sure is nice I know the exact temperature of this water right now”
So it depends a bit on what you are hosting, but a real concern for myself at least is the value that free users bring to your service.

I'm not talking about the costs of running your service to support them, but everything else. A part of your free userbase will expect the world for free and start demanding more, and as they outnumber your paid users by so much it can just be a huge distraction. The question is how many of these free users will convert to paying users?

I personally add a free tier to my products because I want to make the tool accessible to hobby and other small projects without a budget, but it's probably not a good business decision.

Something I've been considering: charge some small one-time payment, say $10, for a lifetime 'try-out' plan. Then when they want to upgrade to a subscription you give them that $10 as a discount for their subscription. It may filter those users that will never upgrade anyway.
I actually owned that book circa 1996 and used Kermit in a production system transferring files via dialup between a manufacturing facility in Mexico and their US-based headquarters. It was incredibly fragile. No idea now why Kermit was chosen, but it was a horrible tool for the job.
Wow, that could be a really big deal in terms of maximum payload.
Yes, absolutely, a lot of things have to go right for people to lift themselves out of poverty.

We all need education, stable political climate etc.
Congrats on the launch. Interesting offering and maybe a fit for my startup.

What kind of insurance products could you underwrite? Would it be possible to underwrite credit/loan related insurances?
>I don't know if this dean's observation is about helicopter parenting or risk aversion as much as it's about how bifurcated and ultra-high stakes

From my perspective, these go hand-in-hand. The Meritocracy Trap outlines how the ultra-competitiveness has led parents to invest more and earlier in preparation for college. Excellent Sheep described how many Ivy League bound have to essentially declare their intention in grade school to follow the templated path to reach that goal. This causes a formulaic existence, which is underscored by an increase in the number of young adults who look at college as vocational training rather than to build a life philosophy. Meaning there is very little questioning why and instead just following the inertia of a goal that was predetermined when one was in elementary school.
Show HN: Recite helps you check your Quran memorization through visual feedback
Why are you in favor of sanctions on Iran? I've never really heard a good argument. It mostly tends to be "Well they say things I don't like that scare me, like Death to America" so very anti free speech type arguments.
Imagine spending 3K USD to watch porn. If there is truly a first world problem, this is it :P
> Google is slowly closing down the lockdown trap they have nurtured for so many years

I think that forks of Chromium which have their own sync are easily thwarting this effort. If nothing else, you can always use Edge.
How did Twitter become a politically relevant platform?
Has anyone kept track of the timeline? Around 2010 Twitter was much derided as a platform for posting precious personal drivel. I am constantly intrigued.
How would they ensure that LOL
How could they guarantee he can't access it if he didn't give them the password? They can't transfer it
Show HN: CSS Named Colours Picker (a filterable, multi-sortable table)
I know when I talk about someone I don't know I use "they". It isn't to do with not knowing preferred pronouns, more like a type of formal speech about an unknown person. Maybe it is a regional/dialect thing?
I would read an article about a person, and then still talk about them/they rather than he/her. I think it is tied to them being unfamiliar, as I wouldn't do that with a celebrity.

If i replace she in op's line "She wants a break" it feels like they are writing about someone more familiar to them. "They" implies distance between the observer and observed.
Is there a human readable summary of what happened? I only feel more confused after reading this.
I try not to say what might embarrass myself later, but I did use my email to create a disqus account to talk politics, which is always touchy. I got banned for a couple weeks once for telling someone to eff off after they said they looked forward to seeing liberals, gays and Jews shot in the street. Go figure.
Wine and Cheese May Improve Cognitive Function
Can't really suggest YT as an alternative to a monopoly
This is a miserable top comment. I also have a low opinion of the field of psychology, but cops can have you committed (and do) by bringing you to be evaluated by mental health professionals. Medical professionals can't shoot you.

There's nothing in the article about creating a shadow mental health justice system. What they have is a van containing blankets and food, driven by two social workers.
> Even Mozilla relies upon funding from Google to implement Firefox, so really, Google is funding the whole browser ecosystem

Don't forget that Microsoft forked Chromium also, and that Chromium has been forked by several open-source groups.
You can never be 100% certain but cold stored only Bitcoin or seizing all his computers would probably do the trick. Maybe he has the wallet stashed somewhere still, but they would know if he accessed them, at least by keeping an eye on those addresses in the block chain.
I use all the websites and products US seems to block (except the antiviruses), but none of the ones the Iranian govt seems to block (except YouTube for fun).

The ones blocked by Iran aren't important in my opinion whereas the ones the US blocks all seem very important.
Don’t let him near a computer
Just because it is a far cry from direct violence or murder doesn't mean that it shouldn't be taken care of. You can harass folks with "minor" civil rights violations and make life hell for someone. I'd argue that being lenient on "minor" civil rights makes the violent ones more likely because of the lenience towards other ones.

If you want to be in law enforcement, don't commit civil rights violations. Period. You might not be able to right every wrong, but once a wrong comes to light, you can very well do something about it.
> Prosecutors have ensured the man cannot access the largesse, however.

Ah yes, they've ensured he didn't memorize 12 words before they arrested him. Simple.
> I just don't see the value and feel that it just adds technical and security overhead, invites spam, and possibly the need to waste time moderating trash comments.

I've been running a tech blog for 5+ years now and it has thousands of comments.

I happen to be using Disqus (not proudly, it is what it is), and I've only ever had to moderate a few comments. Disqus does a pretty good job at stopping blatant spam. Sometimes you get those people who reply with "Nice article, have you checked out example.com?" where it's clear they are just trying to drop a link to their service. But these rarely happen.

I like comments because it creates a sense of community, and sometimes with tech articles things get outdated so it's nice to wake up to see a comment saying something has changed. It's a good reminder to go in there and update your content.

I remember one of my Docker posts having something like 500 comments over the years (around setting up WSL 1 and Docker). The overall strategy worked and most comments were "Thanks, worked perfectly!" but there was a decent chunk of folks asking for tech support because it didn't work for them. Those were really beneficial to me because it helped discover some edge cases, some of which I reported back to Docker directly.

I'm a firm believer that if you're going to put stuff out there it's your responsibility to own it from beginning to end. That means writing it, making sure it's accurate, keeping it up to date, answering questions and everything in between.
I don’t mean to sound pedantic, but here are some ground rules for consuming or interacting with 21st century content: 1. Read; 2. Analyze; 3. Read some more; and finally 4. Form your own unique opinion.

The upside is we get to use our brains instead of letting someone else do the thinking for us. And, we become thought leaders and not obedient followers.

My motto is to do as Jack Black said in “School of Rock”: “Use your mind, and your brain and your head.”

Words of wisdom.
Hindley-Milner typing systems are a great way to introduce typing without making beginners afraid of it. The inference make things just work, the way a beginner may expect from the computer.
Nice write-up. Did not know about Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).

https://openssf.org/
Thank you for the list of papers included in the book.

The value of the book seems to be in the curation of material, and essays providing context:

> A brief essay by volume editor Harry Lewis, offering historical and intellectual context, accompanies each paper.
In the UK there's legislation (RIPA) that would probably result you staying in jail until you came up with the passwords or convinced a judge you genuinely couldn't for some reason.
Guesstimating: How to satisfy client with project budget?
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Looking forward to this one! It will be hard to achieve the same vibe as an in person conference but I'm sure the content will be amazing as usual.
How do you sacrifice an open-source project that people can just fork?
Threadripper L3 Cpuid Strangeness
In my opinion: The charm of reddit is the smaller subreddits, once a subreddit grows too large, it's usually better to just find a new one with the same purpose.
I agree that Apollo set the stage for a lot of things in aerospace. It's worth noting that the death of the entire Apollo 1 crew actually led to less iteration in the late stages of the program.
I agree. As much as free updates forever is great for those of us who get free stuff, modern games are already ludicrously inexpensive. The average new NES game would have been about $60. That's about $120 in today's money. Compare the average NES game's content and replay value to what you get today for $30.
In practice, if they confirmed the wallet address they can see if the money is ever moved. If it is, they can charge the guy again.
And if he sells the whole wallet in the future, the buyer is likely to touch it, proving known access.

Sounds like the only way around it is to wait for the statue of limitations.
There is too much money in milking average non technical people in any way possible. I guess whichever "new internet" pops up will be awesome and used by just a small number of power users. Great and flexible tools will never be used by the average person. I've had 2 close family members in a span of 2 weeks get lost in the whole "log into your chrome account" vs "log into your google account within your chrome account" thing. Any remotely complex feature beyond "2 clicks to all of the 4 things I use the internet for" is just confusing people. And it's OK because that seems to be the reality.

Ads for the general public are here to stay
Chrome and Chromium are not some niche products. Same with ads, search and GCP. These things are here to stay for a very long time.

There are other problems with Chrome and Chromium.

Google is a brilliant company and I want to like them. Out of the biggest tech companies they seem to apply the least bullying tactics, worker exploitation and so on.

But the fact that they are an ad company that profiles my behavior leaves a bitter taste. They often gather data in a way that is completely opaque to most people, which I think is problematic.
Not mentioned is the password situation. That is the bigger lock-in than bookmarks. I don't know what is the tech stack underneath or even what chromium does. But as a normal-ish chrome user I know behind the scenes google is managing my passwords and it would be a nightmare to switch. Too many sites I wouldn't know how to access without their password management. That is true lock-in.
There are basic human rights, that when breached by a law, make the law a crime. 2010 Google left China for those reasons. Much have changed since then.
$60M for a few years in prison is something most people in this world would happily take.

Looks like they didn't seize anything, and he controls the coins.

With that amount of money he can get out of their jurisdiction and live a really nice life.
You are not being downvoted because you point out logical flaws, you are being downvoted because you don’t contribute to the topic.

Are you not aware of the discussion about HTML5 versus Flash, or do you just disagree with using HTML5 as an umbrella term here? Even the Wikipedia article [0] about HTML5 has a section on Flash, discussing features such as sound, video, graphics and interactive elements. With "HTML5 being ready" I believe OP is referring to it being a viable alternative to Flash. There is a famous quote where Steve Jobs said that Flash is no longer needed, because there are viable alternatives to the features it provided – HTML5 among others.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#"Thoughts_on_Flash"