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We have two. I suspect that you are thinking of Yellowstone, but there is also the Long Valley Caldera in Eastern California. The Mammoth Mountain area.
I don't know you, but I think we'd be great friends based solely on this statement.
It would be lot easier to just use sodium directly and have hydrogen as a by-product. (See my other comment.)
If Apple’s headset is like a Hololens that would be a turn off honestly. I expect more from them.
I have a Bose headset that connects to two devices. I used to have the problem of being on a work call when suddenly the phone rings and my audio goes out.

I solved it by realizing I can hold the power button for like ten seconds and wipe the paired device list. Then I connect with my work laptop again and I'm set.
I've worked in shelters and offered people food and a place to get cleaned up and they decline.

I grant you many are not like this and perhaps you're more knowledgable with your first hand experience. I know I personally, also from trying to offer people shelters or even free room-and-board, they don't take it. I don't know why in all cases, but many wanted to do things "their own way". I find it commendable and I respect those who choose to refuse handouts.

That's my point, they may not choose to be in that situation. However, forcefully detaining them for "mental illness" for not wanting "assistance" is a different discussion.
It's not "technology" that has provided you all those things, its civilization. Without technology you could still be sitting in a nice sunlit cave drinking fresh clean river water eating a delicious buffalo steak.

Technology != Civilization.
40 yards? Pfff

My money is firmly on Europe for the first lunar Ryder Cup.
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First, that seems needlessly absolutist. We're literally talking about upending decades of emergency response practice here, surely it should be reasonable to talk about tweaks to the process (mandatory judicial hearings within N days of mental health detentions seem very reasonable to me) without demanding that a change be thrown out because of a theoretical problem.

Second, is there data here? I mean, the article lists 748 tracked incidents. Did any even lead to an involuntary hospital admission? Shouldn't we figure this out first?

Inventing terms like "medical authoritarianism" seems like more noise than signal, basically. Surely the fourth amendment as it stands can speak to the needs of mental health cases just as it can accused criminals.
Corruption or stupidity? Is there really no room for doing the right thing?
Giving up secret ballots has its own issues. Always worth considering, but giving people a way to verify their own vote could lead to vote buying: "vote for X, keep your mouth shut, and show me the verification for $$$".
There's no way a Mac could render at that resolution when we have 600 dollar 2k headsets severely stressing top of the line gpus.
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> agricultural revolution was the worst thing to happen to humans

Funny because that was one of Rousseaus core ideas from the 1700s.
Presumably we're discussing real ones, not TV ones.
Being a minority tends to mean in America that you have a higher chance of growing up in areas with bad education, poor economic situations, and higher crime rates.

These are all factors that lead people to poor mental health, to drug abuse, and subsequently to committing crimes (often to feed the addiction or due to poor education/limited opportunities).

These problems aren't necessarily just problems minorities experience, white communities in poverty-stricken areas of the US have exactly the same issues (See Detroit for instance). It's just that there's more poor minority communities than there are white communities.

We need to fix it for everyone, regardless of race.
A team that needs 6 months to get their code running on a computer on-premise, might also be replaceable. Maybe the lesson is that that team that produces source code without value.
Ammonia is quite ok. You can smell it :-) You can put it into water, where it is quite stable. We know how to handle it at industrial scale because of fertilizers.
I don't know if the subject matter is just coloring my perception, but this is the first time I've ever felt that a web page design was pretentious.
Deployment is easier. Upgrade is easier. Access control, restrictions, permissions; you don’t have to add a user account to namespace/sandbox a process in browser tab.

The facilities provided by a browser are almost (but not quite) a complete superset of those provided by an OS. file io, peripheral io, etc. Can all be done via the browser. Additional facilities are provided too (security/sandboxing).
AR is also much, much harder. Refresh rate doesn't just have to fool your brain, it needs to "stick" to reality. Plus, you're adding environment tracking and integration. If you're using a glasses model, the only techniques I've heard of darken the environment and the CG element lightens things--this makes integration difficult.

I imagine you could use some tricks if you did AR with cameras pointing out and displayed them on a screen (this seems to be what the parent is implying), but you go back to "failure" being a black screen. In practice, I haven't seen this be a big deal. The display is black when it is off (like your phone assuming it doesn't put the screen to sleep). If any rendering misses a frame they distort the previous frame in the buffer to match any head movements (in AR likely reintegrate with new footage).
> This seems like an ivory tower exercise that has not yet met the messy realities of the world.

Honestly, that's how the economy is run today, it's one big ivory tower exercise. It's shameful, toying with people's lives that way, exploiting them, and then we cry about why everything is messed up.
> 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,

We've had a program like this for years here in Eugene Oregon. It's called CAHOOTS.

One of the cornerstones of the program is it's all voluntary. There is no use of force, no dragging people off anywhere. People show up with a van and some basic medical supplies and help people. If the people don't want help and the only alternative is some form of restraint, they call the police.

They almost never end up calling the police because most people just want a little help and a patient person talking to them gets it done.

The fact that these people never themselves do anything against people's will is what makes this work so well.
Did she just receive $800k? Or was it years ago while she was not a public official?
A virtual pandemic in WoW allowed real-world pandemic research
I miss the weekly police logs in the local paper.... so and so arrested Saturday night for drunken disorderly conduct. Fun stuff to peruse.
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I don't think so, I think it's civilization. A lot of people are still slaves in another sense, and tech will not prevent extremists from plunging the world into a new dark age of slavery and poverty.

Tech "empowers" people, but its what we choose to do with that power that makes our lives better (or worse)
We were taught in school it originated from the water cycle.

Essentially the salt is part of the process where we have fresh water on land, running toward the ocean carrying nutrients/minerals (including salt) into the ocean.

Put that on auto for a few million years and you have the current ocean.
Difference is, if your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.

If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related (medication, treatment, commitment, etc...).

If you send a cop, their solutions will involve the criminal justice system (citation, fines, arrest, jail time, etc...).

One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time (latest major improvement: body cams). The other one of these is primarily fueled by giant corporate lobbies who spend a lot on every single political campaign (read: Big Pharma).

Can you guess which one is now being touted as the "new solution for all our societal ills" despite having no track record of actually being able to fix any of these ills?
A 1000 years ago a stronger someone could easily decide to steal your lunch, not today. Well it depends where I guess ...
Aging is great! If people lived forever we’d just have a immortal ruler class of vampires set in their 1800s ways. I truly hope that never happens
The article mentions rendering only the fovea in high resolution. The key advantage is it does not need to render all 33Mpx equally well.
That looks fantastic!
Lua could benefit from a larger standard library for sure.
50 years ago people were busy staring at slices of dead trees while experiencing detailed hallucinations.
It does.

Go got this right. If you want to read code, contribute to a large code base, folks will be using the features of the language, including the weird ones. Go has kept things very simple (relatively) in terms of core language. Some things were beyond basic (error handling? no generics?) But boy did it make it easier for contribute and understand code.

def Hi() = "hi"
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Yes, those two variants both work?
The police have the authority to place a person on a 48 hour medical hold, and will threaten to use that authority if you don't do what they tell you. They'll use it for something like a person who passes out not wanting to go to the hospital, even if they are with a friend who can take care of them if there is really an issue. I'd probably trust this crew in Denver more than I would a random police officer in making that assessment.
They just recalled about 1/3 of annual production?
Having done a fair bit of AR/VR work in medical and industrial settings, I've always thought the 'killer app' of VR is not in gaming.

It's this very weekend: The Super Bowl.

Well, not the Super Bowl precisely, but in experiences like sports or other time/space limited events. Sitting ring-side for the next big match. Or at the 50-yard line at the Super Bowl. Or at the finish line of the 100-m dash. All for, I dunno, $15? And the cost for the company is just rigging a google-maps-like camera ball and streaming the data out. Especially as the quarantine grinds onwards, a better form of escapism that AR/VR provides may have a big market for time/space limited events.
This is unnecessarily rude and not deserved. I get that elections are divisive times in America but that's all over.

We've had decades of technologists and cryptographers being wary of digital voting, however many years of the voting village at Defcon where the only challenge left now is how quick you can exploit it not whether you can.

As an aid beside regular paper voting I think it's probably fine but disliking electronic voting is bread and butter for the types of people who visit this site.

I don't see anyone supporting "insurrection" in the comments.
> What's the source on this?

Based on the GP's username it's probably from a self-survey.
What they're saying here:

Some tech can be directionally utopian and some not. Various technologies lead us in various paths along the gradient of utility. Some tech is actively dystopian, when put in the context of social psychology. Tech is inherently meaningless - its usage in the real world by real societies defines its effect.

Tech's overall effect on utopia is based on our collective ability to predict and responsibly use it. That ability may not scale.
I think utopia is a really high bar. To restrict that bar to a single and simple facet of economy, I will say that a necessary condition for an economic system to be utopian, is for no one to regularly find themselves without an adequate quantity of food. However, apparently in 2020 more people died of malnutrition than any other cause. [0] I don't want to make this a long post, however I think on the basis of this fact alone, I am justified in not considering myself part of a utopian global economy.

0: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/global-nutrition-re...
Ohhh shoot. I guess that's egg on my face!
I’m a bit taken aback by this message.
My students have never copied and pasted a single line of code aside from their own...

I also don’t give homework. If you want to learn on your own, you can, but homework is a massive crutch that I don’t think benefits most people.
I'd personally add a lot of non-realistic USA video game character art, typically when there are lots of characters, to that museum. Examples: XBox avatars, Oculus avatars, Guitar Hero characters, Bitmoji characters (Snap).

I have no idea if there is some objective criteria that could distinguish why I find those characters so repulsive vs say Nintendo Mii or if it's just 100% subjective opinion.
See the article at the bottom of my original comment for the Buzzfeed investigation into UnitedHealthCare psych wards. That was targeting adults, not children.

However, involuntary commitment of children (and subsequent rape too many of the girls who end up there, tragically) is a huge problem. Look up abuses of the "Baker Act" in Florida for example.
It is my understanding that any government going a non-isolation route is going after the bigger picture: less of an economic impact, fewer psychological effects on the population, all leading to fewer lives lost.

While this approach leads to bigger numbers of deaths directly caused by the pandemic, actual effects can only be measured further down the line (say in five years). And we still haven't seen any numbers to compare mortality rates due to all causes since the pandemic started (i.e. due to focus on covid, how many other serious diseases are left untreated? how many of the covid death cases were likely to pass away from getting any other common infection like influenza?...)

I am not saying that Sweden's approach is favourable, but that it's a risky move that has the potential to be better in the long run and when looking at the big picture (i.e. what's the total number of deaths in Sweden in 2020 and how does it compare to previous years?). But to call it terrible is making judgement too early.

I fully understand that someone having their loved ones in a nursing home is frustrated with their government not doing anything when such an obvious risk is present, and that most people don't have the means to do what they feel is right (eg pull their loved ones out and provide dedicated care for them), but at the same time, I feel for thousands of those who've been confined to die alone for having but a cough. It's a tricky time, and only hindsight will be 20/20.
There is a bit more to it than that. But it does appear to be above Robinhood's pay grade.

The private clearing house raised the holding requirement for GME from the usual 2-3% to 100%, making it impossible for smaller brokerages to put up the necessary funds. These are funds that must be on deposit with the clearing house for all buys (not sales). I read somewhere that at once point, nearly half of all robinhood users had bought GME.
They've been doing this for 30 years in Eugene without issue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-town-of-170000-replac...

> Per self-reported data, CAHOOTS workers responded to 24,000 calls in 2019 -- about 20% of total dispatches. About 150 of those required police backup.
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Anecdotally, this approach has been replicated by go. The stdlib in go is surprisingly complete. I’ve seen several go developers cite this as an advantage, being able to write many apps without adding dependencies from external to the language runtime.

I definitely think they’re onto something. Dependencies are a hard problem to solve.

Modern build tools like gradle work great at resolving deps, until they don’t and at that point we’re in for a world of shock at just how complex dependency resolution can be in large projects.
It'd be neat to see the shaders running in the browser using Godot's wasm export. But sadly that limits you to OpenGL ES 2, and most shaders seem to need 3.
> AT&T is not Epstein's only option for wired Internet service. In fact, he said he pays for both Charter Spectrum's cable Internet and AT&T DSL at home but generally only uses AT&T Internet because, he said, "in order to get phone service, I have to use the AT&T modem." He noted that a technician could probably set things up so that he could use AT&T phone service and Charter Internet. But with the pandemic continuing, Epstein said that he and his wife are playing it safe by not having any visitors in the house.

They choose what they get themselves. Do they think fiber service would magically appear and be connected inside the home without a technician coming in?
They call the police when shit goes south.
We've had ours on back order for 18 months and counting. It is technically out there, but hard to get for companies.
I agree, I've some nephews/nieces in college and was talking to their parents about why they were getting them to start applying for tech internships in freshman year, sounded absurd to me. And I was telling them how they should be more adventurous with where they want to work and live after they graduate. But all they wanted to do was work in Silicon Valley ( they grew up around here, so I thought they would want to move and explore other parts of the country). But, no they did not want to. I think it was both risk-averseness and also sheer practicality that all the good tech jobs are here.
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Smart! I just wish PowerPoint had better support for content formatting in the notes. It’s really barebones and hard to edit—more like working with text in an Excel cell than a proper document. (Which kind of makes sense, from their perspective.)
While this is partially true, it is important to realize that most of these papers are talking about mild to moderate depression (not severe depression or any other mental illness). There is a ton of evidence that medication helps in more severe cases (https://www.psychiatrist.com/JCP/article/Pages/efficacy-ssri...) the main debate is whether depression meds are being over-prescribed in mild cases.
> Psychiatry does not know how to cure mental illness. At best it knows how to medicate it and alleviate symptoms while causing very serious or deadly side effects.

I whole-heartedly agree with this. I was on anti-depressants at some point of my life. At that time I did something very stupid that jeopardized my life. I was lucky enough to get out of it unscathed. Although I am still traumatized by the incident.

Please be very careful taking anti-depressants.
I only mention humanoid mistakenly. It’s really I guess just the fine motor skills a human typically has and the smarts to make decisions seemingly ad-hoc and such.
> People that likely would otherwise have been arrested.

But that's... that's the point, right?

I get what you're saying, but the outcome people wanted was "conflicts that don't need to result in arrests should stop resulting in arrests." The goal was to reduce needless arrests and only have arrests in situations that couldn't be handled in other ways.

I mean, we can measure other things like long-term impacts on people's health, prevalence of crime, etc... but one of the questions I was hearing when this idea was first floated was actually, "can these situations be resolved without arrests, or are the police just going to need to be eventually called anyway?" And it does seem like this outcome goes some way towards answering that question.

Just as an analogy: if I introduce script changes in a support center with the goal of solving customer problems faster and having fewer calls escalated up the chain to upper management, and at the end of 6 months, way fewer calls are being escalated up the chain to upper management, then that's a statistic I care about. It's not the only stat I care about when figuring out if my changes were successful, I might also look at things like customer satisfaction and call time, but it is on its own a pretty important outcome for me to measure.
utopia for the wealthy

god help you if youre poor
I’m not sure that statement is accurate, I could see an argument being made for C being a really good learning language.
And small things. Like your function wants to know if a parameter was not used when calling it. The ideom if par=None breaks if called with arrays.
Ending scripts with a command early would also be great (for interactive programming)

Also what is wrong in having a switch statement? (I`d like one with range cases 1<x<10..)

Accesing dicts with a struct syntax.

'Inline' C functions.

JIT, especially for loop acceleration.
Maybe the 3-4 people in Denver are fine. The issues come with scaling this up nation wide to where you have tens of thousands of variously trained "health professionals" where outcomes will not necessarily match what you're seeing in a pilot where they obviously handpicked competent people to run it...
Creating something from nothing will always impress me more than particularly cutting snark.
I finally switched to poetry for python deps and happy ever since. It’s basically the gems approach applied to python.
I'm not sure I care about the "run this in a browser" part (unless someone developed a WASM backend for it). And FOSS would be a requirement for me. Given those criteria, I would gladly pay a recurring subscription or donation for such a language.

For what it's worth, there are a lot of good interesting languages out there that aren't Python and have pretty good library ecosystems. Kotlin, Elixir, and Elm come to mind. But they don't exactly fit the Python niche.

What you're describing sounds to me like a modernized Common Lisp with commercial backing. Rework CLOS a bit, clean up some of the other crufty old weirdness, and give me a big selection of high-quality well-supported libraries like Numpy, FastAPI, Trio, etc.

The advantage of doing it in some Common Lisp derivative is that things like React JSX are pretty much "free" and wouldn't much seem out of place, whereas in Javascript they need a whole separate build/compilation step and are often portrayed as black magic fuckery.

edit 1: Arguably Julia could be used for a task like this, but its library ecosystem and language runtime are heavily skewed towards numerical computing and data analysis.

edit 2: Raku also sounds like a possible candidate here, but it obviously lacks widespread adoption and last I heard it fell significantly short of Perl 5 performance. I'm not sure what kind of library ecosystem it has nowadays and I doubt we're going to see big commercially-backed library development efforts for it, soon or ever. Perl 5 has a huge ecosystem of course, but it's such a nasty warty language with nasty warty tooling.
Counterpoint: communications and the creation of a global community can be profoundly life-changing for the better for many individuals. People who are LGBTQIA+, people who are neurodiverse, people who are curious about deeply learning about specific subjects, people who have any interests that differ from the social orthodoxies of their immediate physically-colocated tribes - finding that one is not alone can be transformative. Certainly there is a balance, and perhaps we have seen examples where user-generated content has become so prevalent and hyper-optimized that it permits dangerous levels of propaganda to spread. But I truly believe that a balance can be found.