skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Most of my family and I cut ties with a family member as she went batshit insane and started thinking the secret police were after her. Started yelling and screaming at all of the family members that eventually cut contact, usually calling them at odd hours in the night. Nothing we did could convince her to get help, and there's no way to force her into care even though she's called the police constantly to report false crimes. (Such as the janitor breaking into her house and rearranging her furniture).

However, she's very cyclical and can act normal ~30% of the time. She's told everyone that we're all drug addicts, or child abusers. Lots of people believe her, and think we all abandoned her. I've had family members call me and reduce me to tears with insults, because of the things she's told them.

From what I've seen anecdotally in every single family where the child has cut contact: there's ALWAYS a (good) reason. It almost always boils down to a failure in respecting their children, and treating them with kindness and understanding.

Younger generations are growing up with better mental health care and social awareness (due to the pervasive nature of it these days with social networks) than previous generations. We grew up in an era of public PSAs and school videos on bullying and acceptable behaviour. We know what's "right", can recognize abuse, and prefer to associate with those that treat us well.
Ingredients change; how often are you checking and updating what you know? Availability changes; what brand is #2 and #3 on your list? Or the time in your day you have to prepare food may suddenly shrink; do you then have the time and spare cognitive cycles to make a good decision under stress? (You probably don't. Not, like, you specifically, but in aggregate.) We make it difficult on purpose to eat healthily in the West because eating less healthily is more profitable.

I eat pretty healthy, though I also like cheeseburgers so I'm not thin. But I make a very healthy income and have the time, and the resources, and the education to actually have the time and executive function to have an opinion about ingredients in food. It is difficult for me to know these things, let alone to in all cases exert the self-control to act on them--and I make north of five times the median personal income of the United States with which to do it.

I mean, let's think for a second. Blame an Amazon picker or a Wal-Mart cashier or blame the corporate entity with a marketing department designed to overwhelm your attention and to induce the specific action they test and refine for?

Gosh. I wonder.
Yeah certificate pinning is a thing too. But since Android 7.0 apps also have to specify whether they allow user-added root CAs and most don't!

You have to get the APK and mess with the manifest to bypass that. And bypassing pinning is even more difficult.

Edit: pimterry below me explains it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27857429

I find this a problem because MITM isn't always bad. It can be used for inspecting apps for tracking and other malicious practices by app makers.
Not op, but it's not unreasonable. There was a nejm study where 800 calorie diet reversed t2d in 11/12? Patients?
Go ahead and make a Sudoku app. No one at Amazon will care. Contribute to the ML library. The worst that will happen in practice is they ask you to stop, but even that seems unlikely.
Governments have provided numerous services and projects at phenomenal efficiencies, including Medicare in the US, national healthcare systems in most of the civilised world, highway and transportation systems, postal delivery, air traffic control systems, aircraft investigations, sewers, numerous municipal utility districts (electric, gas, phone, broadband), and more.

Your criticism fails to fit the facts.
Signal triangulation. You compare strength of a broadcast from a few locations to deduce broadcast location. In the US there’s a volunteer group that does this for the FCC, I forget the name.

https://wfebb101.com/faq/how-to-triangulate-a-radio-signal.h...
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For me, I don't seem to care much if it's a company trying to sell me a refrigerator, but when a company/org is trying to sell me an idea that a group of people is evil and out to get me and all my problems will be fixed if I vote for X or distance myself from my "evil" friends and family, etc., then I start to worry more.

The challenge with having access to that much information is that it can be very powerful and a very lopsided/asymmetric power. I remember when Facebook had Open Graph Search-when any user on the platform could perform complex searches of their friends, friends of friends, and more. It was so powerful at times it freaked me out how powerful it was. I could search for friends of friends who are women who live in San Francisco who speak Spanish who are single and who like Dave Matthews and it would give me a list. Facebook shut it down a few years ago, but I imagine something similar still exists on the advertising side of things (side note, there was someone a few years ago that used the advertiser tools to send ads specifically to his one friend as a prank). So for me, why should some groups have access to this information and others not? Who gets to control who has so much info?

Again, the info itself is not necessarily the problem I see, it's the asymmetry and how those people use the asymmetric info they have on me, which can be to powerfully help me or hurt me or maybe even ignore me.
Somebody downthread made what I thought was a joke about Jimmy John's requiring employees to sign non compete agreements.

Apparently it wasn't a joke: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idU...

>The Jimmy John’s agreement prohibited employees during their employment and for two years afterward from working at any other business that sells “submarine, hero-type, deli-style, pita, and/or wrapped or rolled sandwiches” within 2 miles of any Jimmy John’s shop in the United States

This is absolutely absurd. I worked on JJ's when I was in college. I honestly had no idea that this was a thing.

These companies know that these contracts are almost certainly unenforceable, but they also know that their employees won't have the money to fight them. No acceptable.
Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as longterm residents are pushed out
The question that arouse louder as I read this article was when will the next vaccine come out, snd the next, and the next? It made me wonder if this virus is going to be a game of political whack a mole: New variant, people panic and demand action, so government pressures drug makers to make a new vaccine, which is then mandated. I sure hope drug makers don’t suddenly decide that vaccines are profitable, I would hate to start seeing commercials on television for the vaccine of the week.
Patients will eventually die or like go blind on “regular” insulin.
I’ve always found blue LED or cold cathode signs absolutely illegible at night - just an amorphous blur. I always thought it was just me.
> "doom-erisam" and similar shaming terms is nothing better than those person

First: I use the term because I see NO factual basis for assuming that humankind is going extinct. Your post did not change my view on that:

1) I fully agree that global warming is a massive problem.

But assuming that it's going to lead to human extinction is IMO straight up delusional.

The only plausible mechanism is full-runaway "hot-venus" greenhouse effect (evaporating our oceans), and that is a scenario that--pretty much all scientists agree--we are NOT going to reach no matter how much fossil fuel we burn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect#Eart...).

Rising sea levels and climate change might lead to international crises and cost countless human lifes, but there is simply NO WAY for this to kill ALL humans by itself.

2) With nuclear threats it's a similar situation: There are simply not enough nukes to cover the inhabited surface (even assuming worst-case full escalation!):

The highest estimates I found were between 1.6 and 3 billion victims, assuming that every last nuke was used on the most effective target and killing every person there (which are both completely unrealistic assumptions).

Both fallout and nuclear winter are completely insufficient for extinction purposes, because there is not enough radioactive material for the fallout and not enough dust in the atmosphere for nuclear winter to kill all (we had somewhat comparable volcanic events in the past).

3) Corrupt leadership is something humankind has survived with since leaders exist; there is simply no reason to assume that they are suddenly going to cause our all extinction.
That is some kind of Oil centric thinking that got us in this mess in the first place. Renewables and fusion can do the much better better job at any point.
By the way coal will not form ever again, only reason why coal/oil formed is because bacteria has not learned how to decompose cellulose at the time.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-fanta...
OTOH animals evolved those instincts because they worked in the game-theoretical circumstances that competition with other animals.

Perhaps we can shake off many emotional components of war (which would make war an irrational option in many of the cases that our monkey brain would have been dragged into) but that doesn't necessarily mean that war itself would be eradicated
From the Paper: We report the first experimental demonstration of transoceanic distance real-time transmission over coupled multicore fibers. The WDM DP-QPSK signals were transmitted over 7,200-km coupled-core four-core fibers by a recirculating loop and demodulated by real-time MIMO DSP.

From the headline I'd feared it was just about a new technology still in the lab but it looks like they've already tested it fro transoceanic cables.

I'd imagine this means more for island nations like Japan and Australia's overall bandwidth than anything towards consumer internet speeds.
Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits
Garden leave vs non-competes are very different.
This sounds weird to me. It's illegal here in Switzerland but smoking in public is the most normal thing ever, nobody bothers. Should they catch you it's $100 flat or nothing, no entries in your criminal history either.

Since CBD is legal and common we also smoke THC strains in caffees, clubs, restaurants and wherever else smoking is allowed.

Otherwise agreed, the lazy stigma is living on (and not completely wrong)
> It's doable, but it will require an enormous expenditure in infrastructure, so good luck.

It's simply one among many possible resolutions to soil erosion. There need not be a single solution. Soil erosion won't kill all traditional farming practices, and vertical farms can simply make up part of the difference (and progressively more if soil erosion isn't tackled directly).

> Likely, the places that are unaffected by climate change are going to be so expensive that most of the people fleeing the effects of climate change will not be able to relocate there.

We may or may not have refugee crises driven by climate change. There is simply no way to estimate these likelihoods.

> The Comprehensive Tech model is far fetched because it requires planning, cooperation, commitment, and sacrificing short term gains for long term stability--basically all of the things humans are terrible at.

You just described that regulations require demonstration of any new development's water access for 100 years, which is exactly the kind of planning, cooperation, and commitment you said we need. Clearly we are capable of it when necessary.

Regulations have certainly gotten a bad rap over the past few decades with the push for deregulation, but the worse the situation gets due to lax regulations, the more this will change.

Your conclusion is based on the naive assumption that circumstances don't change people's behaviour and so the past couple of decades will predict the next century, but history doesn't support this argument. Cultural views on nearly every issue have changed dramatically in each generation.
Genuine question (I'm not diabetic): are the analogs actually any better than regular insulin, or were these analogs only created because manufacturers didn't like the margins on regular insulin, allowing them to hold up their hands and justify the price with "R&D"?
This is the equivalent for Novolog (the fast-acting insulin formulations you're referring to), not for the older R variety they've been selling for a while now.
Yes, typically they include circuitry/ICs for brushless motor controller to spin the thing, plus a few more "motor" controllers if they have active magnetics for bearings, or other reasons. This needs to all be redundant, or otherwise safe in the mission critical sense. Then they have batteries, and all the stuff that goes with connecting the two (power regulation, conditioning, etc) and alarms, etc.
Evolution of Infrastructure: From Data Centers to Containers
I've since moved over to using rsync and not time machine.
It’s a depressive win that masks all the other loses.
I would much rather go on a Mig 29 ride to almost space. It's gotten a proven track record, recovering from an emergency is pretty straightforward, and it's sub-orbital either way. Watching the Virgin Galactic flight, it was obvious it was a glorified vomit comet that gets above the atmosphere.
I've seen this complaint a lot, but I don't get it. For C++, the system package manager (yum, apt, pacman) seems sufficient to install most anything I've ever needed. Are you programming under Windows?

My biggest complaints about C++ generally revolve around all the inconsistencies / special cases, and I believe these are mostly in the name of backwards compatibility. For any of the major compilers:

- Integer literals are 32 bits, even on 64 bit platforms. You almost always want a ssize_t, but you get an int, and int is almost always 32 bits. (let's dodge the religious war about unsigned vs signed)

- String literals are basically const char star pointers, but you should hold them in a string class.

- Even the syntax for declaring a variable is a total mess. Depending on details about foo (initializer_list, POD type, explicit constructors, etc), there are a lot of special cases in the following:

foo x;
foo x(); foo x(1); foo x(1, 2);
foo x{}; foo x{1}; foo x{1, 2};
foo x = {}; foo x = { 1 }; foo x = { 1, 2 };
foo x = foo(); foo x = foo(1); foo x = foo(1, 2);
auto x = foo(); auto x = foo(1); ...

For some of those, you can't even know what's really happening unless you know the specific implementation of the type/class. And as a special bit of trivia, one of those doesn't even declare a variable.

- There are a lot of special cases and non-obvious idioms around declaring constructors and assignment operators.

I think it's too much to remember all the rules, so most everyone is forced to find a subset of the language out of necessity.
You don't think there should be any consideration for the fact the person is not performing any labor? They are still able to pursue employment in non competing fields.

In a world where non-competes were funded 100% it seems like it should be the GOAL of every employee to be fired from a position where a non-compete needs to be enforced in order to secure extended paid vacations.
What is sarcastic about that? Why should I pay for the retirement of people who neglected to save for it?
Before 18 (or 21, or 16) it's debatable that humans have the capacity to self-control, or make their own decisions understanding the effect on themselves and those surrounding them. I'm not saying that they're completely oblivious, but there is a reason why the law is not applied in the same way for children (non-adults).

Now, it's a mix of societal and economical (and more) that's making people eat a certain way. Changing your eating behavior can be difficult, especially if you've eaten a certain way for the past 16-18 years.

I'm not saying it's Walmart's fault, but it's also not just an individual willingness to change that's in play here. The United States clearly has a problem of obesity, which is related to Type 2 diabetes.
That is the US justice system in a nut shell. Its really just a threat for large companies to bleed people until they cannot afford to fight anymore. They dont need to win, they just need to stay solvent longer than you can.
I am an introvert, and I suffered horribly. Before you go looking at my profile and bringing up the fact that I am a sales person, consider that being in sales forces me to be extrovert for my job, but everything else about my life suffered. My relationship with my wife, and my kids. My work has returned to the office and it’s a huge relief because it has given me a social life again.
Insulin is not produced by insulin fairies. Someone needs to do it. Even if the government foots the bill, it would be better if that bill were 75% cheaper.
> I think other actors can do similar things much cheaper and faster.

Think again. JWST was criticised for being too ambitious and rightly so. It uses technology that was (and in some areas still is) cutting edge.

It baffles me how people always seem to assume that some company can miraculously solve scientific and engineering challenges quicker and cheaper than the teams that are working on it.

JWST was designed with no serviceability in mind, that is, unlike HST it absolutely has to work. Every detail, from the folding mirror, to the sun shield, to the computer systems to the instrumentation. ZERO room for error and no "fail early, fail often"-option here.

Most of the delays have been caused by engineers and scientists wanting to make 100% sure they get it right, because there's no STS servicing for fixing imperfect mirrors or switching out hardware.
The challenge isn't in building a reliable pump. The challenge is in the connection between the pump and the human body. If we just put a highly polished titanium tube in the circulation there will be blood clots, hemolysis, and other blood damage. Over time these problems become the main hurdle in getting these types of devices to work.
>Also, it is time consuming to read every single label on food that one buys.

BTW, one advantage of the 'shop online for curbside pick up' trend is that it makes it so much easier to read labels and compare products.
This was my exact initial fear in theory but it doesn't work out that way in practice. Children are forced to learn a musical instrument and it takes away their sense of agency. They will hate both the instrument and the parent. This makes sense.

Here. In this case the situation is different. Both the parent and the child is the same person.
In my case I was pretty excited because finally I found something that worked and resolved my issues. Once the feeling of accomplishment sets in you will feel pretty happy.
Once your mind knows that there is no way out it starts adapting and starts assisting you. That's why the contract should be irreversible.
The CIA doesn't monitor cyber, that would be the NSA and US Cyber Command
The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic
My favorite quote:

> The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_L._Bona#Quotes
In practice, for the systems where I built a replication system from the ground up, once you factor in all the performance, scale, storage layer and networking implications, this Paxos vs. Raft thing is largely a theoretical discussion.

Basic paxos, is well, too basic and people mostly run modifications of this to get higher throughput and better latencies. After those modifications, it does not look very different from Raft with modifications applied for storage integration and so on.
Noncompetes should be illegal. Competition is good. Noncompetes are only harmful.
Radio direction finding[1] can be complicated in a "the devil is in the details" sense, but the basics are fairly simple. All you really need are two stations with directional antennas[2] which can be reoriented freely. You have both stations reorient their antennas until they see maximum signal strength from the signal in question. Now you have two points at known, fixed locations, along with two angles - from there it's straightforward triangulation[3].

Using more stations can help reduce the error and get a more precise fix on the source of the transmission. That said, again, "the devil is in the details" because of things like ionospheric reflection, attenuation from passing through things, etc. Radio signals usually travel in approximately straight lines, but there are some quirks that come into play, depending on the frequencies involved, distances, and suchlike.

See also: Radio Direction Finder (RDF)[4]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_antenna

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finder
If a doctor lies to a patient, they go to jail.

If a civil engineer lies about the capacity of a bridge, they go to jail.

If a lawyer lies in court, they go to jail.

Why the hell are police officers not held to the same standard of professional responsibility??
More recent studies by nhs show ~25% success rate but I bet it's due to compliance. The nejm study (iirc) had strict monitoring, which is impossible at the ~300 patient level
I agree it's among the possibilities, but one should be honest about their likelihood. Right now the consensus is that natural occurrence is the most likely explanation, but there is not solid evidence to discard a lab leak.

They don't have solid evidence to disprove a lab leak. Disproving is a lot harder that proving.

I must concede that your statement wasn't blatantly false, but it uses weasel language to appear more truthful than it is.
>"Do you know why I pulled you over?"

The only safe answer to that, period, is "No". Even if you think the cop pulled you over because you were going 100 in a 55, you still don't know, it's not ever going to be a lie, and anything else can legitimately be taken as an admission of guilt in court
While I think the embargo is stupid, it should be noted that it does not cover agricultural products or medical supplies. Both of those categories of goods are in VERY short supply in Cuba which imports more than 70% of their food and that number has been increasing over the last decade. They have the least productive agricultural sector in all of Latin America or the Caribbean. Cuban agriculture is choked by bureaucratic inefficiency, fuel shortages, disincentives for farmers and so on. The Cuban government is so bad at collecting the portion of crops they demand from farmers that the majority of some farms outputs rot and are never collected. The embargo has nothing to do with that. On the healthcare front, the Cuban government's only real export is doctors which they churn out at a dizzying rate and send abroad to generate state revenue. They could spend some of that revenue importing or manufacturing medication and medical supplies, but they do not. You can not find aspirin or antibiotics outside of clinics for foreign medical tourists in Cuba.

These are the stated complaints of the protestors. Again, the embargo is bad policy and makes peoples' lives worse. Moreover, the embargo give a convenient excuse to the Cuban government for its malfeasance, but it isn't the reason things are so shitty. Their government just doesn't deliver basic goods and services.
If you mean to say that we should take a libertarian approach and not try to use government for nudging society towards healthier eating and lifestyle standards, you might as well say that we should give up on the health of the US. Because I have 0 faith in purely individual or "grass-roots" societal change fixing our obesity crisis, given the path we're on.
The second to last demonstration blows my mind. I can't help but feel like I'm being duped, the result is so sharp.
Didn’t know that, thanks!
Or they did want it and used it for seeding more complex life so they could eventually create homo sapiens. Like the start of the film Prometheus.