skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you say "We're going to have a special mental health response team to deal with suicidal people and the non-violent mentally ill." Who would oppose that?

A lot of people! One of the standard arguments is, mentally ill people are by definition unpredictable, so you can't classify then as "non-violent," so all responders must be armed and trained in the use of force for at least their own protection if not the protection of others.

Note that this is the actual argument as to why traffic cops are armed in the US. Erratic drivers are considered unpredictable, and anyone in the US could easily have a gun, so there isn't a special team for handling "non-violent" traffic offenders. It's the regular cops with their regular authorization to use deadly force.

Or put another way - if it were such an obviously good idea to the whole political spectrum, why hasn't it happened before?

"The police are racist murderers" is, first of all, objectively true and facts don't care about your feelings, but more importantly, it's objectively better rhetoric. Problems with inappropriate police responses have been around for a long while - and, unsurprisingly, they affect whites too (Ryan Whitaker was killed by officers investigating a noise complaint, and six-year-old Jeremy Mardis was killed by officers after chasing the car he was in the back seat of). But there hasn't been any real movement to change things.

Meanwhile, a whole lot of local governments are making good and meaningful changes thanks to people saying things like "The police are racist murderers" and "Defund the police." So while you may not like the slogans, they definitely seem to be working.
Do you have a source for the "median" claim? I'm really interested to see the data!
That’s silly. If you have a ton of water in one place and can move it to a more useful place you should do it.
We're a very Puritan country, don'cha know.
RIP Near

Here are some threads from last month, when it happened

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610 Bsnes author Byuu bullied to suicide by KiwiFarms

Some more links

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/tributes_pour_in_f...

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/obituary-near/
Ford first invested $500 million in Rivian in 2019.

At the time they also announced that they'll be using Rivian's skateboard platform for Ford's cars. Later on that has been scrapped.

So why do they continue investing?

I don't really know but it might be an option for future collaboration / licensing Rivian's IP.

Rivian has been working on EV technology since 2009. Ford... not so much.

I think the reason you see so many EV announcements from Ford (and GM and Honda and Mercedes and...) in 2021 is because they all suddenly realized they need to press a panic button.

However, you don't just build battery / electric drive train expertise overnight so Ford might be keeping their options open for collaborating with Rivian in the future.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2019...
Their policy makers will lecture their citizens about the environment, and even the rest of the country (but they're careful not to lecture the world lest their largest industry lose it's largest market) and meanwhile they pump thousands of gallons a day into the ocean and drain aquifers to maintain their nepotistic agriculture cartel.
There are limits to the self identification theory. See: Rachel Dolezal.
For me, the skeleton puzzle was so hard because you were required to turn the bones and the manual (at least on the Mac version) didn’t include the key command for turning things. I ended up going online to find a hint, and once I knew you could turn the bones, it was super easy to solve.
A Chemical Hunger – Interlude B: The Nutrient Sludge Diet
> The police are not really interested in helping people, rather just blindly enforcing the law

This general assertion is not true. It really depends on where do you live. In safe neighborhoods/towns, Police are usually very nice and helpful. In some bad inner city neighborhoods, Police are more aggressive.
“Oh Concensus - The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?'” - Margaret Thatcher
Yeah, why focus on farming. It's not like farming water use is 4X all urban usage combined. Oh wait...
> it’s successful because it’s got a crapload of games that shut my kids up.

Still cheaper than daycare!
It's like being in love right? "You just know."

Startup School's biggest lesson has been "just launch and find out." You can wonder if you'll have product market fit forever, but you'll never know for sure until you have people paying for your product and telling their friends to sign up. It's by nature an ephemeral thing, startups are not yet a pure science.
A Simulation That Looks Like Reality
You're totally right, I am. Thanks.
A desert is by definition not a useful place where agriculture is concerned.
Jet Li has the weirdest publicist.
This is more an indication that the problem is being solved at the wrong level of abstraction. The problem is that phone companies are handing out loans with no way to enforce collateral and without tying to some real persons credit. Being able to install your own OS on a phone is orthogonal to being able to use it as a secure collateral.
Police frequently get called to suicide threats.

While threatening to commit suicide is a horrible thing to do, it doesn’t warrant an armed response.

Instead of arguing over the edge cases, I suggest pushing for the part of the proposal that’s unambiguously helpful (eg: no armed response without a plausible threat of violence).
Why did you agree to try early access with a book? It only really makes sense for games... and sometimes not even then...
The focus of FSF and Conservancy is on freedoms; obtaining the code, reading the code, building the code, modifying the code, installing the modified code and running the modified code are essential freedoms and if they aren't possible for a person with the necessary skills and resources, then the license and the enforcement of the license are not achieving the goals of the Free Software and Open Source movements.

If anything, I would say that the amount of freedoms intended to be upheld by these licenses is not expansive enough, considering the SaaSS world that we live in now.
I suppose attempting that would get you a much higher quality fake however now your fake as well as your address is recorded in the system and you're screwed if they ever catch on. Use someone else's address and it's a federal crime if you go through their mail. I also think there's probably some higher level of identity fraud for messing with government officials as opposed to just messing with a bouncer at a bar.
Certainly, you make a good point.

When we talk about someone “in crisis” it’s very likely to have them appear quite violent. And all people threatening suicide are threatening violence.

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edited to add (as stated below)

What I'm intending to say, quite badly as it appears, is that even if someone in crisis appears to be "violent" -- or if a person threatening suicide can be interpreted as threatening "violence" -- that is no reason to withdraw them from eligibility for a caring response.
There may not be any singular moderate approach which completely captures the complexity. The hope is that everyone viciously disagreeing about what to do captures that complexity and over time converges onto some sort of reasonable compromise.

Maybe that brute algorithm can somehow be improved using ML techniques though I don’t know what that would look like exactly.
> just blindly enforcing the law

They are law enforcers after all, you don't get mad at coders for writing the code they were assigned.

Snark aside, broad generalizations like this don't help the conversation. I would guess most cops do want to help people, and they do in many ways. Of course it's not a perfect system, and I'm also happy to see experiments like this.
To what end and when that runs out, what do you do? Also, there is an ocean's worth of water right there.
> I don't get how it's a real interview question considering that it requires hardly any thinking at all.

It's not supposed to be the only question you give, but it (or similar) works well to exclude people who can't program at all; which is sometimes a scary portion of the candidates.

Most of the algorithm, complexity, and data structures questions end up testing if you studied the right things, rather than if you'd be good at the basics of the job --- which is usually translating a description of something someone wants into if-statements, and maybe a bit of math here and there, but not a whole lot, and maybe some nested loops.

Honestly, my interview question is setup to see if the person can take a problem, describe an output format/file that works with the problem, and then see if they can write something that looks like code that outputs what they said they were going to.

Enough candidates have trouble with a simple loop (or sometimes a two deep loop) or keeping to the format they specified that I don't need a hard problem to be very selective.
KMonad supports customisations like that. It's cross platform (macOS, Linux, Windows).

Though I use a fancy keyboard with QMK firmware, which allows customising this without needing to change settings on the computer.
ooh I didn't think of that, thanks. I guess ios too.
Windows 2000 stability was uncanny, loved it. Used it on personal and work machines!
They could be checking to see whether you'd be likely to disclose Rivian IP in the future.

Seems like a, "Sorry, can't do that. I honor my contracts." would suffice. If the interviewer pushed again for proprietary information, their intent would be clear.
This... modern architectures for mid sized companies are a combination of hosted services. I still have bad dreams when I look back a on prem Swift stack object store project took years to stand up & integrate all to have a much higher TCO and self manage a bunch of out of date s3 translation libraries.

It was a system that had fixed scale, high licencing costs and did not bridge well into software that increasingly leveraging the AWS environment. Egress was least of our worries relative to integration complexity in services ecosystem.

You have to be a very very large scale before self managed services make sense; as you suffer at integration layers for every developer that is even an inch off the well beaten path.
I'm almost 50 and I've bounced between white collar and blue collar work, union and nonunion, during my professional career. It is indeed depressing and was never more palpable, IME, than in academia of all places. Thomas Frank wrote a great book on this shift in Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
Physics lessons are taught in French in France+... It's not because a programming language is not very popular that it shouldn't be used for a tutorial; on the contrary it can help building the network effort most of them rely on.

+ not only there but also in Québec, Switzerland, Belgium, a lot of African countries. Millions of people understand French as a first or second language. Moreover there is a lot of scientific literature in French, in particular in linguistics (the field was created in French, actually). I find your statement rather insensitive.
Is there any way to force which gets chosen? I love being able to copy and image and just paste it to WhatsApp/Messenger/Whichever other client, but if I do copy an image from the internet it’s very hit or miss if it shows up as an image when I paste, or a link. If I download the image, and then copy the downloaded one, it always shows up as an image
Ready Player One would probably be the goto example of what we envision as metaverse. But I wasn't particularly wowed by its presentation in the film. I personally found this a more cohesive vision of what the metaverse could be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPTfdO5hQUw.

Of course, this could just be a difference in cinematic/storytelling approach. The director's upcoming feature also deals with these themes. Interestingly, in neither case is a VR/AR headset seemingly the preferred means of access... The advantage is that you don't look like a complete doofus like in RP1 when you maneuver in real life using VR headsets/haptic accessories.
Do we know that the heart has no experience?

What level of complexity is required for experience?
Brother, if you are suspicious check their code. They are open source not closed source. They are free too. And secue.
Social distancing, masks, hand washing and related practices were available. While I'm not saying that everyone who ever contracted COVID-19 was careless (and how could we even begin to think such a thing front line workers?), there is going to be a correlation.

A random sample of people from the "got COVID" category is going to be dumber than the population.
I know Alec Holowka was driven to suicide, as I remember reading his obituary in the newspaper. Where is the obituary for this person? (An actual obituary, not anonymous messages on forums.)
Of course it is. Cops are people who's job it is to begin criminal prosecution. "Protect and serve" it says on the side of a vehicle with a built in cage.
What new rules specifically? Who has ever called for what your comment posted? It seems like you made up something to be mad about that didn’t happen, then commented on a completely unrelated article.
I clicked thinking it was some NLP project that ran on the GPU.
If anyone is really looking for a single-key macropad... the Seeeduino Xiao is a small microcontroller development board which would suit the purpose. e.g. https://www.40percent.club/2020/08/wonky.html
My YT recommendation on the topic is the hilarious but very well docummented BBC series "Supersizers Eat" [1]

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8D56E0F6438B4CE6
Not only the moment “in crisis”. Some have violent history. Burglary / robbery is not uncommon among drug users.
A friend has a 2018 Honda with auto-dipping headlights, it mistakes a near-full Moon low to the horizon as an oncoming car and switches the headlights to low-beam.
I noticed the same thing moving from an apartment to a condo. It turns out moving from wood construction to concrete slab gets you a lot of the same noise isolation in an urban environment.

A lot of people move from apartment to home and at the same time take a huge jump in the value of the residence. They assume the quality of life improvement is attributable to the SFH aspect, rather than the increase in construction quality.

Noise sometimes is more a question of build quality than living situation.
How does the life of the average human looks like in a world with net zero emissions? How is that life different than subsistence farming?

We need to articulate the future, not wax poetically toward some vague economic abstractions. Unless we can articulate some hopeful answer to this question, nothing consequential will change. People really do not want to live as subsistence farmers.
California should stop the conversion of water into money.... I still don't get how a farmer can get water for basically free, then grow high need crops like almonds, and then sell those out of state and internationally. I don't see the difference between a farmer pumping rare water out of state vs rare almonds out of state.
I agree, it's just sad that they jumped on an internet-hyped nothing of a company instead of just spinning up their own.
> I think the reason you see so many EV announcements from Ford (and GM and Honda and Mercedes and...) in 2021 is because they all suddenly realized they need to press a panic button.

Alternatively, maybe because the traditional manufacturers timed the critical point where it made economic sense to focus on electric cars in the same way?
228-page official report from the University of California on their use of standardized testing [1]. Voluminous data they would’ve referred to while making this decision.

SAT and GPA provide significant and independent predictive value for outcomes of interest. See for example the graphs on page 22.

[1] https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview...
Of course but that doesn’t seem all that unreasonable if you consider farming water use essential (and I think I agree). You wouldn’t risk sacrificing a whole season’s yield when you could cut discretionary water usage.
> Farming has always been the cause behind the water usage but last time they had a shortage they made it seem like washing your car or watering the lawn was the problem.

I don't know...farming seems more...important?...than those other things...
The biggest problem with "hustle culture" is that they praise each others effort rather than results. Like in this case, 10 failed games is a lot of effort but aren't good results. And if you look at the reviews and where he got traffic on this game they mostly come from other gamedev communities, meaning he sold to other developer hustlers interested in his journey rather than to real users.

At this stage what he needs to do is take a step back, stop seeking praise from other developers and instead focus on making a quality game he thinks users actually would want to play. Releasing games you know will fail doesn't teach you much, especially if it is your tenth one. Or he can pivot to becoming a gamedev influencer selling tutorials or monetizing views, if that is what he wants he is on the right track.
You probably don't want W95 before OSR2.
Cool, low-hanging fruit is just, woe is me, too much trouble! No problem, let's do nothing then. Should be a fun ride. Going to be Great Depression either way!

I'm not saying we can fix it, I'm a nihilist at this point, I'm saying we could have fixed it 15 years ago.
Another significant difference in embedded development is that it's the intersection of electrical engineering and software development. Without an understanding of both disciplines, it's difficult to be effective in a professional setting. Understanding the hardware, which is almost always custom to your project, is a base level requirement to be able to write the software that will control it.
I just used this today, worked great even though there was ambient noise from traffic
"tomatoes didn't come to Italy until the 1500s, when Cortes brought them back from the Americas."

Shocking! Somehow whenever i think of "italian food" the first few images that come into my mind usually involve tomatoes somehow...
Locked hardware is itself objectionable, anti-consumer and anti-freedom. "Free software works in a narrowing ecosystem of semi-free hardware" is not an acceptable position for advocates of free software.
Nah, we can do pretty well with just wind and solar.

The practical difficulty with using renewables effectively is that you need to be able to either store large amounts of energy for later use, or trade power across long distances. We (by which I mean "in the U.S." but for other developed countries it's pretty much the same) could buy solar power from Kenya, Australia, Algeria, or similar places to get us through the night if we had high-capacity transcontinental HVDC lines running to those places. That's a major infrastructure project that would cost a lot of money, but I expect it's probably worth it.

(We can even mitigate the risk of the power lines being temporarily disabled by keeping the fossil fuel plants on standby and just not using them except as an emergency backup.)

Another option is to just build batteries on an unheard-of scale. Lithium iron phosphate cells might do the job -- being free of cobalt an nickel, the only other major bottleneck resource would be lithium. I'm not sure how practical it is to build the kinds of gigantic battery packs that would be needed to provide, say, an 18-hour backup power supply for the entire U.S., but it's probably less cells in total than we'd need to electrify our current fleet of gas-powered cars.

edit: to clarify, I'm not particularly opposed to nuclear. I just don't think it's the only option at this point.
Ya there are some decisions that are best taken from the top like “what is the overall direction for the company”, “who is our real customer”.

We should absolutely listen to the views of anyone in the company who has an opinion but some questions require a lot more knowledge and maturity than individual departments may have.

In many of these questions, there are several right answers so we only need to decide the answer that we are most driven by. The people who are most invested in the company are the ones to whom such answers must appeal.
Your comment reminds me of this comic: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
> but a bulky inefficient waste of time.

And for a certain segment of the population, a nauseating waste of time.
We are quickly headed to a future where it won't be possible to buy unlocked hardware. It may not be long before (very nearly) 100% of the hardware on the consumer market is locked and it will only be able to acquire unlocked hardware through NDA agreement, huge costs or by "illegally" unlocking it via an exploit.
Could you elaborate on this? How does the distinction between taking and applying affect the decision making process?
Externalities is the word: the real costs that aren't included in the price. Every gallon of water pumped is a gallon less that can be used for drinking, bathing or other agriculture, but the price for water remains low and fixed. This means there is no economic signal for the water market to respond to in times when water is scarce.

If we included the cost of externalities in the price of water, water would only be used for the most useful tasks. First keeping away everyone's thirst, then keeping everyone bathed and sanitary, then watering our staple crops, and then finally we can keep the golf courses green and water slides running. But when changes in scarcity do not affect changes in price, the golf courses stay green while the drinking taps start going dry.

There is enough water for everything we need, if not for everything we want.
Depends on what you’re farming. In many cases California not growing a high water crop using free water means that someone else will grow the crop at a higher price point. The California land is rich, and could easily grow other less water hungry crops.
Only as long as said base isn't in the US.
Did Bezos participate in this round? It looks like Amazon invested, but Amazon is no longer run by Bezos.
That’s right, no one in France actually knows any physics, because it’s completely impossible to convey information effectively in French, and they just use it because they think it sounds good. Just like ClojureScript in tutorials.
> Hate speech laws, IMO, cause more harm than good.

What's your evidence? They seem to work fine here in Germany.
There was a really great article on how the nut farmers in California's central valley are so dependent on the infrastructure (ready access to subcontractors) that they fail miserably when they try to setup farms in places that are water "rich" like the Carolinas. That was pretty surprising to me.