skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Élan School [1] and how kids (under 18) can be abducted with the permission of their parents and put in confinement for dubious behavioral benefits, against their wishes – sometimes with the help of the judicial system.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School
as a 3d artist, every time I work on a new piece, there's a long painful time where I KNOW it could look good, and it looks like crap. and things will continue to look like crap, as I flounder around adding shapes here, forms there whatever... until something clicks, it's like being lost in the woods until the moment you see some glimmer of a direction to start going in.

honestly making art is almost always like that, and what makes it easier is not necessarily what makes you better artist, a lot of people find "shortcuts" what you'd call a style, put certain lighting in, certain forms, and that makes it really easy to skip the middle part and just work with your established artistic vocabulary but it's not what will push you to create better art...

I'm not sure what I said was helpful but I have completely gone through that process you mentioned over and over.
>The few female employees Salesforce has in Texas are probably of the educated type who aren't having unplanned pregnancies.

What?
The reason they aren't in a psychiatric hospital is because the only reasons we can involuntarily commit someone is if they are a risk to themselves or others, and like stated elsewhere in the thread is generally reassessed by a judicial process every 72 hours depending on the state. What I'm reading in your post is that you're in favor of involuntarily holding more people which I find interesting because many others in the thread are complaining that it's too easy to have someone committed. There are a lot of armchair psychiatrists in this thread who have never seen someone in psychosis or truly manic suggesting that it's a joke to have someone committed. I spent 3 weeks rotating in a psych emergency department and only saw 2 patients out of probably more than one hundred total patients admitted for being suicidal. Neither were involuntary. From what I've seen unless you have just attempted or have a concrete plan to attempt suicide again you're not going to be admitted. There are just too many people who are in not-on-the-same-planet level of psychosis or mania that are taking up beds to admit someone who is not really about to attempt suicide.

Not trying to pick on your post or anything just thought it is a good example to say that it's maybe not as easy as it may seem to decide who gets admitted/committed, and the dichotomy in this thread shows that point.

Regarding potential overuse of sedation (benzos) or antipsychotics in nursing homes, it's easier for a nurse to push a doctor to prescribe meds to "snow" a patient than to spend time in the room and try to reorient a sundowning delirious dementia patient.
To be fair you could put your commuting costs into a piggybank and after a year you would likely have enough for a decent chair and monitor.
On the contrary,

(As noted elsewhere in this forum)

There is mounting evidence that John Kerr was a CIA asset:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/...
What I’d like to see done in Emacs
What's more likely? IBM lied to the court for no good reason (paying for shills is not illegal, just strange), the author of groklaw made up a name and later in life violated federal law by filing comments to UPTSO under it, other named lawyers worked with her on that. Or she really is named what she claims to be named?

You're inventing wild conspiracies that don't even have a good reason to exist.
Same. Every time I hear someone complain about, for example, bash it's always because they put no effort into learning how to use it / what it can do / best practices. They just get mad that their typo on a filename isn't auto corrected, and completely ignore the fact that you can tab to auto complete and avoid that problem in the first place.

Everyone wants to rush to fix these perceived problems without realizing how some sort of fully automated AI guessing ability about which file to rm -rf is not a good idea, and is not what anybody actually wants.
Climeworks plant in Iceland will capture CO2 at big new scale
> Reducing traffic speeds by citing a few speeders - this upholds that bargain. Citing every possible speeder while those fines fatten the police budget is a gross perversion.

I don't know. I feel that the citing every speeder is overall better than selectively catching a few speeders. First, it's fairer, leaving less space for selective enforcement based on arbitrary criterion. Second, based on my experience on US highway, the latter isn't very effective. While I usually cruise at speed limit, vehicles rush past me at 80~90 mph every day.

I certainly don't agree with the idea that police should give fines as much as possible to make profits. But it's equally wrong to deliberately reduce the amount of enforcement, because less enforcement leads to less profit.

In my opinion, enforcement is enforcement; the profit-making problem shouldn't even be a consideration when we decide how enforcement is carried out. It should be dealt with separately.
>Not necessarily does not mean never, so be careful of a claim like that, and maybe back it up.

That's definitely correct. It can be a great help for some children, and some teachers (maybe even the majority) do make carefully considered decisions where the primary concern is for the welfare of the child receiving the drugs.

Other times, though, they just want some ratbag kid to STFU so they can get on with their job.

I distinctly remember overhearing a conversation where a teacher wanted to (in her words) "sedate" a problem child so that they don't disrupt the rest of the classroom.
To me, a << b also connotes that the inequality a < b is "robust". For example, even if we mismeasured the values of a and b quite severely, we'd likely still have a < b. Or perhaps later on in my mathematical argument I will consider values that are a bit larger than a, say 5*a. If I claimed before that a << b, it means the reader can be assured that I won't do anything to a that'll make it bigger than b.
I know we’ve gone back and forth about this before, but EFAIL was caused by a major deficiency in PGP. PGP tees up failure modes like this, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of implementations all suffered from the same issue.

Edit: Hilariously, I went to look up the prior thread and it involves you calling EFAIL a hoax: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21985303
What about the use case of "I don't want my email provider to be able to read all my past transactional emails at a moment's notice"? Sure, there are "reputable" non-encrypting mail providers, but why not have a reputable mail provider AND encryption, so there's a barrier if they try to go rogue?
> does not discount the experience you're describing

It's not about saying it's not possible, it's about setting expectations, and scaring people away from a medication which may be helpful.

>> 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.

That clearly states the reason it's administered is not primarily for the child's benefit. While it doesn't discount that the child may benefit, it clearly sets the expectation that it's not the child's well being that's being considered. The natural extension of accepting that is to wonder if there's any actual benefit to the child or if that part is just in service to "the secret".

Implying that the reason a specific medicine is prescribed is not actually for the benefit of the patient might have real repercussions if it scares away someone that it could have haloed. At a minimum, I think a statement like that should be backed up in some manner.
Won't this make Texas less likely to flip blue to stop these kinds of laws?
That depends on the context or the language you are using. In some computer languages those signs can mean entirely different things.

In the bash scripting language '>>' means 'append to the named file' as in:

echo "what?" >> my_file

In C, '>>' means 'shift the value right by one bit' while '<<' means 'shift the value left'. However, in C++, '<<' can also mean 'write to standard output'.

No confusion at all possible, ya think?
I could have explicitly acknowledged that sometimes the child's welfare is the primary concern. I could have used weaker language, too. I've updated my comment a bit to more accurately reflect my understanding.
Treating people badly is always bad
Yes, I agree. Even worse. Other not considered at all, but 'because we use office'. At my last job that was the reason.
I don't mean to be disappointing, but usually out-of-context internet commenters saying that they use something doesn't carry much weight. The reason why they have telemetry data is so they can so say for certain what people are using, with actual numbers. If the telemetry shows that a feature isn't being used, and another feature is being used, then the one being used is what they will put resources towards. Think of this from an organizational perspective -- employees have to use this information in meetings with their boss to justify what they are working on to earn the paycheck, so with that considered they will always go with what the numbers show. Some disappointed comments on internet forums from a small vocal minority are expected, but dealing with that is just a cost of doing business.

Now after this you may want to refer back to the article. I have seen various pieces and rants like this article that complain about this but none of them offer any more reliable sources of information. The article makes an unverifiable claim of "Almost everyone hated the changes" and unfortunately those type of claims seem to be extremely common instead of presenting some data. That's not enough to change anyone's course.

But in the end, I don't know what you mean by "systematically removed" in that way, frequent addition and removal of various features is completely normal for a large project. And technically only the setting was removed -- you can still customize all that but you'll have to modify the browser itself. No they probably won't add back in the setting but as I explained above, those have a cost, and when the cost-benefit analysis doesn't play out the right way, it doesn't make sense to blame an organization for cutting it.
It's not Cloudflare's fault.

In any case in order to maintain privacy I use https://dnscrypt.info it has an anonymized DNS option https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Anonymized-D...

I then just use unbound and forward that to DNSCrypt on my router. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DNSCrypt#Unbound
Show HN: I wrote an ultra-minimal, ~600 byte GraphQL client
> The alternative is that one partner can abuse the other, then throw them out on the street if they wish

Thats literally what happened here. You have a blindspot to men being the victim like the person here was.
I don't know if it's just nostalgia talking, but I feel like a decade ago Facebook really was good at connecting people. I enjoyed it, because most of the content was real people you knew having conversations, or sharing pictures they had taken. I eventually left because it was honestly just boring. My timeline was nothing but shared posts from big content pages, which of course became mostly bad politics over time.
It could be that you're putting more weight on the chair piston than he is....
I've had at least one case of "oh no not that guy again" when reading their reviews. In this case it was a guy I'd seen in magazines ten years earlier, and I didn't like his work then either. He's never the end user, he's a professional journalist "specializing" in that field.
> The rest is just your own imagination ramping up to assume that I meant something else.

I mean it was a direct claim in your comment I was responding to, literally quoted which is the claim that someone on two project is "not really that effective". I'm simply offering my experiences that don't always match that. That's not my imagination there.

No one here was arguing about that they clearly did not resource it in a meaningful way (I said as much in my post), that's not what this thread is discussing though...
> won’t they get it anyways immediately one millisecond later when you issue an HTTP GET request?

Not if you're using a VPN in addition to Cloudflare servers.
> It is also within Signal’s interest that the remain competitive and achieve market success.

What good is a communication protocol with nobody to talk to?
If Microsoft wanted to lock down Windows 11 so it could only run software from the MS Store, they could. It’d be platform suicide… but they could.
>Yet in Silicon Valley, many believe that Theranos - far from being an aberration - speaks of systemic problems with start-up culture.

My understanding is that most in silicon valley don't claim theranos as being a "silicon valley startup" (usually asking: which silicon valley VCs funded them?)
Scalability at YouTube: https://youtu.be/G-lGCC4KKok?t=610

The Python is the less likely think that will suffocate you.

What did you suffer from in past projects with each of these languages?
I don't think that analogy holds. It would work if I'd said "It's not talking, it's just vocalizing a series of words that resolve into understandable sentences". Which would, of course, be 'talking'.

But I said it wasn't 'considering', which it isn't. It doesn't know things; it has no internal experience. It's not capable of understanding a concept, or really understanding anything at all. It's not programmed to do those things, nobody informed about the subject expects it to do those things, there's no place in the model for any of those things to hide if they've somehow arisen spontaneously.

Note that this is not some sort of luddite "a machine can never be alive, AGI is impossible" sort of rant; I think it's perfectly possible that someday we'll build machines that know and think and feel and are alive in every sense that a person is, maybe more so. But GPT-2 or GPT-3 and machine learning in general aren't that - they are the first tentative steps towards that future.

If we're building a brain, machine learning is a couple of hundred neurons in a petri dish somewhere that we've coaxed into connecting together in novel ways and displaying emergent behavior. It's a big deal, it's important, but it's not thinking for itself yet.
Nursing homes have some similarity to schools, the staff is mostly occupied by a few problem patients while the rest quietly shuffle along
Thoth has long been my favourite ancient Egyptian anthropomorphism.

Pick a deity, any deity. Your credulance is worth less than another's coin. Shall we spill some blood in sacrifice?

Oh look, the water's rising, see you next year with your rudimentary approximation of calcuable area.

How's Osiris getting on?
Because it has practical utility beyond "potentially wipe us out". You could substitute "AI" with a long list of things: industrialization, gene therapy, atomic energy, etc.
「子非魚，安知魚之樂？」

“You’re not the fish, how do you know the fish is happy?”
I used them back in my student days but then I realized I needed to stop opening so many tabs and focus on my productivity.

These days you have chromium based choices too: Edge and Vivaldi, which has just become Cinamon's default browser. On Edge you can turn off title bar, for Vivaldi it's the address bar. They look quite neat that way.

They're both simple vertical tabs and not automatically organized as a tree, but to me that trikes the right ballance because I don't want to feel too confortable opening tons of tabs.
Thanks for pointing that out! That’s a great point, will try and clarify in the post

The higher retention rates required for PMF of B2C subscription are because it’s retention of paid users

Same thing for B2B Saas, that’s target retention for paid users
How can anyone get any relevant work done in that environment?
> Citing every possible speeder while those fines fatten the police budget is a gross perversion.

Tying budget to citations is a perversion. Applying the law equally to everyone is just. You're conflating two issues.
Are there any public servers on topic you enjoy that you'd recommend?
The Rest API uses Firebase's static hosting with some small use of lambda functions for pagination. It worked fine on Netlify with partial data, but with the full dataset it refused to work, and support wasn't any help.

The GraphQL API is a separate service that I believe makes use of Prisma and a DB. I wasn't involved with the GraphQL API so I don't know the details.
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Whatever happened, it happened.

I'm not american, but just wanted to say I'm sorry for the good people you lost there guys.

Let's hope for better days ahead, more peaceful for all of us.
Yes, the PinePhone is available now.

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This argument bothers me because it seems to devalue human life on a very fundamental level. If your children resent you for “forcing them into this world”—if they would have preferred to have never been born in the first place—that’s not a healthy or normal reaction, but rather, near-suicidal depression. Sure, some people are suicidally depressive, but that’s a very dark attitude to project onto one’s hypothetical children as a default assumption.

If your kids aren’t suicidally depressive but also don’t love you enough to take care of you in your old age, there’s probably something else they resent you for other than being born in the first place. Which isn’t necessarily your fault—some people are just irrationally resentful. But that is probably the bigger risk to worry about. It’s just that, compared to trusting nursing homes not to become abusive, it’s still a better bet.

It’s also not necessarily about obligation, at least not in the negative sense of the term. I took care of my father during the last year of his life, not out of obligation but out of love. (One might define love as the act of willingly accepting the obligation to care for another, but a willingly accepted obligation is not really the same kind of obligation.)

In any case, the goal is to go into old age having people in your life who are capable of taking care of you and who will choose to do so out of love. Having kids and maintaining a strong relationship with them gives you a good chance of reaching that goal. Institutions, on the other hand, will never love you and will instead just fuck you up with psychoactive drugs for their own convenience.
How has the influence of lobbying been counteracted in other cases?
A good workaround for this is to search for the Wirecutter article you’re interested in via Google and then select the cached version of the page — that will show you the full content, no paywall.
Given that they have chosen that destiny willingly for themselves, what's wrong with that? I personally feel it's a bit more nuanced of a decision then you're allowing. What do the vaccinated care? Why does this unvaxxed life matter to them all of a sudden when they've had plenty of opportunities to care about life before but haven't?
This has been true of many recent movements. I wish I knew what was behind it. I'm sure it can be explained by humans being humans, but part of me can't help but wonder if it isn't intentional.
In Memoriam: Edmund L. Gettier III
In Mother Russia, game plays you.

… sorry couldn’t resist!
What's the other thing besides mentioning suicide?
I most definitely wouldn't want to live in a society where I'm required to do certain things just because it helps my health. Our world around us is full of great freedoms which we are able to utilize depending on our judgment. Some are drunk, some are high smokers, and in the end it's all these things that make us who we are a part from our skills and mind and likes. Also, I don't want to be 1984'd.
Just guessing deaths from commuting the average amount would dwarf that number and it never stopped them from wanting you in the office before.
Photo caption in article: "The dogs will be used to screen airport employees at their entry checkpoints in a pilot study."
I like your Monstera plant.
> If, as discussed in the article above, the anti-steering provision only applies to telling users about lower prices on other platforms, this ruling changes nothing for developers on the iOS platform itself

Not quite. If I understand correctly (IANAL), now you can link to your website if your website has an alternative way to pay, whereas before that could lead to your app getting rejected (although apple was inconsistent about it).

I'm also unclear on if this changes anything about Apple's rules that you can't charge more for IAP than the same product purchased through a different mechanism. It doesn't sound like it does, which would limit how useful linking to alternative prices is.
Yeah I really don't understand this line of thinking. I imagine most would sheepishly agree that they would also do the same thing if it were their restaurant.
All thanks to 2+ year old software with known vulnerabilities.
It takes 600 Kilo Calories to replace a pint of blood so maybe some sort of maggot box that You feed your blood to that can then have their heat converted to electricity through peltier plates?
But at what cost -- is the question I have, and too few are asking.

The young, healthy working aged adults are the "front line" against many dangerous viruses and bacteria. What happens when you remove the natural herd immunity? (Wasn't it something like 40-45% of the US was already naturally immune against COVID when the lockdowns first started happening?)

My guess is if we switch to pure defense, when the next big novel virus comes along, it will wipe out a whole lot more of us.
> was when Fox News and to a lesser degree MSNBC asserted themselves as the purveyors of journalism for one's ideology of choice

No, it wasn't; Fox had done that before, and and MSNBC, to the extent it eventually did, didn't until much later (9/11 occurred during, and didn't end, the period where MSNBC and CNN were kinda trying to compete with Fox in the same ideological targeting even though CNN was consistently painted as the Left network by the Right, and MSNBC didn't acquire a fairly consistent “left”, or at least Democratic, editorial position until into Bush’s second term, as a gradual evolution from a mix of different editorial positions.

> and when political discourse on the internet started to really sour.

As someone who was online pretty continuously since when “political discourse on the internet” met Usenet, the idea that it started to sour only after 9/11 is silly. More people started interacting online around that time, but that was more driven by easy blogging platforms becoming available and internet access becoming more ubiquitous than 9/11 or any connected political actions.
This is actually super useful feedback. The actual experience or quality of information isn't portrayed or accessible anywhere before the paywall. Thanks!
Case fatality rates are meaningless because the majority of infections are never counted as official "cases". The CDC estimates the fatality rates at 0.6% for the general population. Vaccination cuts that fatality risk way down.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

There is no reliable evidence of a higher IFR for the Delta variant.