skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Macs were never programmed in Pascal, but in a variant dialect called Object Pascal.

Turbo Pascal compiled fast. The generated code ran at more or less the same speed as output of random other compilers.
The short story "Lena" touches on this and is genuinely one of the most terrifying things I've ever read.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Haldol, Benadryl and one other drug are part of the common rotation used by nurses to sedate troublesome patients so they can skate out of handling said patient during their shift.

When said patient regains control of their faculties they are often confused and angry as a day is missing from their memory.
Another view is that the constitution as written allows the $$$. That's bad, but the solution is to amend the constitution, not have SCOTUS ignore it.
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There is no equivalent for anything that can be run on a turing machine. You can't mistreat an abstract mathematical concept.
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How do you feel about denying the “turing machine” the electric power that it needs to continue computing?
I'm not sure on the numbers here but would be interested if others' on the site have input.

I'd be interested to know how much the stock increase will come from younger investors putting their inherited wealth into more aggressive mutual funds. If the majority of people with wealth followed the idea to go more conservative as they aged, then it would make sense that as those people died and passed on their wealth it would be invested more aggressively.

This would naturally happen over time, but COVID would speed it up.
I believe the payment by microsoft was partially over the SCO case. I don't recall seeing any evidence that he was paid directly by SCO (but I could have missed it)

You can read the document in which microsoft discusses paying shills in this form (directly on page 53) and make up your own mind...

http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096....
>it seems like the only thing Epic won here is the right to tell customers about other possible payment methods, including being able to link to external sources in order to give that information.

I don't see even that as a clear win. It would be quite straightforward for Apple to require devs to mark all such notifications or links under an 'external promotions' category, and then give users the choice to disable promotional notifications. All users will disable them.
Six months ago "no one" was arguing for coerced vaccinations, either, and people like you mocked us for suggesting it was going to happen. Who's the absurdum here exactly?
what’s an antipsychotic without horrible side effects? As far as I know newer antipsychotics have less frequent side effects but they’re still extremely bad. Obviously that compares to the total dysfunction of severe mentally ill people who don’t take them. But to say there is an antipsychotic without horrible side effects isn’t correct.
> Deadly? Not really,

The Delta variant has a case fatality rate in the US of 0.1% for the general population, and 2% for those over 50.

That's not nothing. There are a LOT of people over 50 in a hospital.
It didn't start there, but I think it was the gateway into the modern (social) media bubble misinformation overload era. It was when Fox News and to a lesser degree MSNBC asserted themselves as the purveyors of journalism for one's ideology of choice, and when political discourse on the internet started to really sour.

By the time the post-war occupation had started to slog into a quagmire (the run-up to the 2004 presidential election), we had basically witnessed the dawn of our modern age.
It would be interesting to see the numbers on being overweight vs vaccinated, and seeing which is more correlated with covid severity.
There was never any such language as "ADA". The name started out and is still Ada.

There were once COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, and BASIC, some since renamed to Fortran, Lisp, and Algol. Pascal was always Pascal. COBOL is still COBOL, and BASIC is still BASIC. "Visual Basic" is a wholly different language.
God bless the Institute for Justice and all who work there
It seems like

api/translation/TRANSLATION_ID/book/BOOK_ID/chapter

breaks after Isaiah. Which is shame because I really wanted Ezekiel 23:20 as a service.
Why Trump Was Elected and Why One Man Is to Blame: Mark Zuckerberg
> Current generation antipsychotics also have significantly fewer risks than first-generation antipsychotics

This is true, technically. Newer generations still have severe and often debilitating side effects though. Which gives an arguably favorable risk benefit for severe conditions, but very questionable ones for one in five nursing home residents.
"Examinations may last up to 72 hours after a person is deemed medically stable"

"There are many possible outcomes following examination of the patient. These include

(1) the release of the individual to the community (or other community placement),

(2) a petition for involuntary inpatient placement

...

(3) involuntary outpatient placement (what some call outpatient commitment or assisted treatment orders), or

(4) voluntary treatment (if the person is competent to consent to voluntary treatment and consents to voluntary treatment)."

[Numbers mine]

So assuming #2 and #3 are the "bad" outcomes: both seem to require a judge's order within 72 hours?

Unless the definition of "stable" has a wiggle room I am not appreciating? Or some other practical nuance?
Windows, Mac, IOS, and Linux do. By my count, that's somewhere between 99.5% and 99.9%
Lots of beer is still made from rice (at least partially), including some of the biggest brands in the world like Budweiser.

>Budweiser is produced using barley malt, rice, water, hops and yeast.
The Library of Babel – Jorge Luis Borges
Groklaw certainly had a variety of sincerely held opinions (so does everyone), and advocated for them. That's different from being paid to take a position that you don't believe in or making bad faith arguments.

The identity of who wrote Groklaw is known (Pamela Jones), and the accusations that they were a paid was disproven in court in the Oracle case.

Edit: And when I said advocated for them, I mean it in the legal sense as well as blogging about them: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/patents/law/commen...
They did the same with the crosswords and other puzzles.
Exactly. It doesn't even require the operation of the image stabilization for the damage to happen. The damage happens when it reaches that magic frequency where the components break.
Note the title of the post.
> Heart disease and cancer aren't contagious

And? They still kill people and clog the healthcare systems around the world. Worse a lot of those are aggravated by obesity and smoking, all of which not only are voluntary actions but also generate profits. Also obesity is contagious: http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1646997,0...

Also average Covid death age is only 4 years lower than the pre-pandemic life expectancy in the US. And what is the biggest aggravating factors for Covid-19? Obesity and smoking.
Good procedure and details.
Do you also have a handbook? What details do you capture in it?
Careful, criticism of the medical industry and concern for your rights is verboten. You will take the drugs the experts tell you to take, and you will like it.
I still argue that antipsychotics are generally overused and that many cases that require them are either currently perpetuated or were in the past caused by technological or societal conditions, regardless 20% in these nursing homes is dramatic vs the overall 1.6%, down to .5% among older people. https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2020-10-18/9d/dennis2020.pdf
In reference to the mentioned article

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overl...

I can't determine what this article means by "quality", is it gauged by validity or some subjective notion? If it's the latter, I'm not sure how any of this is useful.
Looks really good. I was thinking about doing something similar for my house, but using my 3d engine and a first person camera, so people could walk around. What is the polycount for this scene? Looks really smooth
What percentage of Americans do you genuinely believe file non-standard taxes?

All I see is a potential "tax bill" system that would simplify the process for the vast majority of Americans, and the percentage of Americans who file non-standard taxes can continue to do so no different than they do already.
Yeah, it's just propelling itself forwards through water. It's not swimming!
"Companies wants you to feel like a family">
I strongly recommend everyone to browse through blind once a few weeks to dispel any such notion.
You will not find someone who dislikes social media and its effects more than I do, but:

> In the simulation, the decision whether to rebroadcast is random, rather than being driven by “virality” or cognitive bias, so the simulation is an optimistic one.

Why not model the decision to rebroadcast based on something other than a simple dice roll? Why not drive it by virality? Why not drive it by quality? Why not model tribal affiliation? These things seem significant when talking about the "information hellscape" we've created.
Vaccination requirements were also litigated at USSC, over a century ago: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/08/vaccine-ma...

I am an independent software developer and like most business owners I contribute because it's required by law and failure to do so carries harsh penalties.

Are you telling me that you do not pay federal and or state income taxes? That you do not contribute to FICA? Are you under the impression that because you are not a federal employee that you are not required to pay federal income taxes?

If so, the IRS has plenty to say about it: https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/the-truth-about-frivo...
There needs to be judicial punishment for the care workers and higher ups who administered the drugs. Merely sweeping it under the rug is not enough.
Looks pretty dope, best luck.
In absolute terms, the super rich would be hit hardest. In relative terms, the super rich can afford to take a lot of probably losing plays that protect their assets.

Imagine if the super rich spend 2% of their assets to hedge risk (options, etc.). The average middle class person has most of their assets tied up in their house, and probably cannot afford to lose 2% of their asset base to protect against downturns. Certainly, there are few easily available hedges for a decline in the residential real estate market in (random town/city) as opposed to the easy ones for wealth held in stocks.
I assume the “one other drug” you are referencing is Ativan (lorazepam)?
You infer that humans "have ideas, know things and want things" primarily by talking to them or reading/listening to what they say - in some cases by watching what they do, but that's more rare.

You have no direct knowledge of those wants etc...of a human any more than you do this chatbot.
"Caring for the elderly/infirm is a really gruelling experience."

I can see that in the facility where my parents live. Overall the place is fine but it's constantly understaffed and people aren't paid well. This is a way harder job than my much better paid tech job. I can slack off for days when I feel like it whereas the care personnel never can escape the grind.

It's sad that these people get paid so little considering how psychologically strenuous their work is and how much human benefit comes out of it.
Perhaps for now, but if Proton raises the Linux gaming market share, companies in the future may be more likely to invest resources into native clients.
Do not be fooled: the Xians are not tolerant of your religion; they would absolutely love to convert you all like the ”good” evangelists they are.
Zinc ionphores + zinc alkalize golgi bodies and endoplasmic reticulum, which destabilizes viral synthesis. "Chloroquine is a Zinc Ionophore", actually: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/

Zinc alone is still critical for zinc-finger immune proteins and cellular calcium homeostasis.
Benadryl and Haldol arguably don’t belong in the same sentence at all, considering their ridiculously different effects and profile. You’re right that they’re used though. Is there any reason Haldol should be used like that at all, beyond it already being available as a psych drug? And even if Benadryl isn’t as effective (I dunno) surely something that isn’t as bad in side effects could be found? Many instances of said sedation are totally unnecessary, but many are eminently necessary to restrain someone actively violent.
It's worth noting that there is mounting evidence that John Kerr, governor-general (and thus the Queen's representative) at the time of the dismissal of the Australian government in 1975, was a CIA asset:

"'The Palace Letters' show Sir John Kerr sacked Gough Whitlam because the embattled PM had taken on the US Intelligence establishment"

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/...

EDIT: Markup.
I would make your team's principles / operating practices / expectations explicit and clearly lay them out. It's sort of awkward to say some of these (very basic) things, but you never know what kind of culture the new hire came from. Here are some of mine:

- It's OK to not know the answer*

- Always tell the truth*

- Show people you care

- Do the best you can

- Show up on time

- Finish what you start

- Do what you say you will do

When you start a new role, you come in with no technical debt & are fresh. I want people to maintain that as long as possible and question why it is we do what we do. Often having the freedom to say "I don't know" exposes the kinds of things that happen because they've always been done that way and makes the team explain what we're doing, and why we're doing it, at least once.

*It's ok not to know, but take action to find out the answer / get the truth. Don't make crap up if you're unsure, and don't smile and nod if you aren't understanding what's going on. This doesn't help anyone. It's ok to pause and get the right data.

**If you knowingly lie, you can get off my team. But most lies are driven by the fact that people feel scared to follow rule 1.

*** three of these are Lou Holtz' 3 rules.
It’s worse than that, Apple already agreed to this just last month as part of a different settlement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-a...
macOS persistence – Beyond the good ol' LaunchAgents
Can you inspect the weights in GPT-3 and tell me what does?

The mathematics of neural networks leads to huge numbers of parameters with small contributions on the overal result. There's tons of work in ML to try and go in the opposite direction, LASSO being probably the most famous.

Yes, you can inspect the weights. But compared to other models, neural networks are still a black box.

Interpretable means a human being able to explain what the model does. LASSO gets you this by narrowing down on a small number of important parameters. Decision trees are interpretable.

Even allowing for some groupings of neural network parameters like convolutional filters or certain network architecture choices that can characterize an entire layer, there's still too many parameters to explain.
Doesn't the Wirecutter use domain experts for their reviews? I don't see any intrinsic reason why the reviews would have to be laughable.
Sort of like the plot of the OG Star Trek episode All Our Yesterdays. Going back in time to avoid your planet death: Now that’s nostalgia for real.
Ironically, this was the reason they gave the reason for hiding their identity under PJ and then later expanding it to a generic Pamela Jones since there are a lot of people under that name:

>In other words, I was hoping people could assume whatever they wanted and just focus on what I said, rather than on who was saying it. For that reason, I chose PJ, because it could be anyone, either sex, any nationality, anyone and no one in particular.

Maybe we should follow PJ's advice while reading the posted article.

Anyway, we are rehashing a discussion from the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7090812
> But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on

This assumes the company will be around in 10 years and that I am still working there.
yeah but antipsychotics severely retard every mental process and have a high risk of permanent motor and intellectual disability (it really sucks to have tardive dyskinesia). There’s absolutely no reason that should be prescribed. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-weight Freddie explains it in this article - he deems it worth it for him to be able to keep a job and friends, but it is in no way called for for random old folks to be disabled like that to make them easier to handle
About 10 years ago, I was working in a startup that had a hadoop cluster on some bare metal servers in a datacenter. At one point when the dataset size and sustained traffic between nodes grew to a particular level, the network throughput crashed to a trickle, until the hadoop jobs were all canceled, then network was fine a minute later.

It turned out to be pause frames! The switches were too eager to propagate them, or something? The fix was to just disable them on all NICs - TCP can handle packet loss and rate control pretty well in those conditions anyway (gigabit switched ethernet).

(I can't take any credit for the work debugging and mitigating this issue.)

Anyway, it seems this is one of those bugs that pops back up from time to time... people try to implement this bit of the spec along with the rest, but don't realize how it's really supposed to behave under stress, and it's never tested under this kind of stress...
In the interst of continuing to provide actual facts to this conversation:

Here is an article by Pamela Jones (ironically not on groklaw) discussing the lack of compensation for running groklaw: https://www.zdnet.com/article/letter-to-the-editor-no-ibm-gr...

Here is the court filing by IBM in which they deny that they paid groklaw (page 10): http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-621-E19.pdf
OpenAI started as a nonprofit :)
If it's wrong to be right, I don't wanna be wrong. Right?
It sounds like they're following the Consumer Reports "it's better because you're paying for it" business model. I don't know if we need two of those though.
“euthanasia” is already available. gun, knife, bridge, rope.
That seems cheap if you break it down into per hour of labor needed. I can only imagine how understaffed they are. I would hope I can take myself out before I end up in one of those.
Do you use a specialized tool for the online training? Is the training material your own?
Does it matter to the end user?

Signal, Matrix, etc... all have functional UIs that users can use today. For whatever reason, either because PGP is too difficult to work with, or just because email clients are too decentralized, or because there's not enough buy-in -- it doesn't actually matter. But for whatever reason, the UX for encrypted emails doesn't work today, and I can't recommend a normal user start using PGP for emails today because of that, and I agree with tptacek that honestly, technical users can't really use it consistently today either.

If somebody comes in and solves the UX problem, and suddenly all the issues go away, then that would be different. But I'm not personally holding my breath. It's not really about who's fault it is, it's about telling people not to use a dangerous, error-prone workflow for encrypting their communication. Whether or not PGP itself is good is kind of secondary to that point.
This article conflates retention of product use and retention of ongoing paying customers without being clear on which it is talking about at any point.

-You can measure how many users use your product for each period – which is usage retention

-You can also also measure how many users subscribes to your product on a continuing basis over X periods – which is paying subscriber retention

Without being clear about what is being talked about, the comparative % figures could be misleading. It also can change how you would evaluate the usefulness (or not) of a product to users.
Even if laws are being violated, civil disobedience is a valid response to unjust laws. I don't think there is anything wrong, or incompatible with western democracy about companies taking a principled stand against unjust laws, as a person would.

The only problem comes when a special interest hijacks a company's notion of what kind of activism is reasonable.
The Wikipedia article [1] on the crisis has a whole lot of context that this clearly one-sided article neglected to go into. Needless to say, CIA involvement is a speculation and memoirs/papers released since 2014 have not strengthened the case for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
:( I recognize you from Twitter, that’s sad...
This past week I made/forked something similar for macOS only.

There was a GUI for youtube-dl I liked but never could get to work called Get-It (https://github.com/Kevin-De-Koninck/Get-It), and with many people switching to the actively-maintained fork yt-dlp, I decided to try using that as a base for making a clone with the latter as a backend.

I don't know Swift at all but thought I'd try it out to see if I could, and it seems to work for the most part on my end. I also cleaned up random errors I found in the code (like a rogue youtube link to a Grand Theft Auto 5 video?) and made things a bit more consistent, or at least I'd like to think so. Changed the UI and added a toggle to block sponsorships from videos as well, but not totally sure if that works all that well yet.

I'd love if anyone would try it out and report any issues they run into, it's been fun trying to fix it up!

https://github.com/jslpc/Swift-DL
Except, at least in the UK, vaccinators will be in schools and will "evaluate" if the child is informed and competent to make the decision without parent consent. Mixed with financial incentives, for each child vaccinated, looks like a bad stance

Vaccinations in schools are an absolute commonplace in Australia. Again, the proviso here is that no one is forcing the vaccinations on anyone. Incentives? Sure.
> it's an open secret in that industry that Ritalin and other behavioural drugs are administered for the benefit of the teacher and other students in the class - not necessarily for the child receiving it.

Not necessarily does not mean never, so be careful of a claim like that, and maybe back it up. I have a daughter, now an adult, which Ritalin and/or Adderall provided real benefit. The only thing in question was how to find the right one and right dosage to minimize the side effects )lack of appetite and sometimes stomach aches). The difference was very clear, and was exhibited multiple times. For example when we let her go off it at her request during the middle of her sophomore year in high school, and she went from getting B's and C's to getting flunking a quarter of four of six classes, and then going back to not flunking anything and getting mostly B's by the end of the year when she went back on the medication. This was not an isolated incident, it happened 2-3 times over junior high and high school.

That's the thing about medication. Different people respond to it in different ways. That's why studies look for statistical significance, not "guaranteed to do what it says".

Edit: The language of the original comment has since been softened to no longer imply that's the only or main reason, which I appreciate.
Later, mandatory church attendance will be instated.
I don't have a problem with the general idea, a full OS experience from the browser, but why would I trust my data with a random company?

It would be fine for me to use a CloudWindows from MS, because most my data are already in OneDrive. Or a CloudMac from Apple. But not any other companies.
>horse tranquilizer

Come on, nobody calls it that, ketamine is generally known by the epithets:

"Date rape drug"

also

"Drug used to murder Elijah McClain"