skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a narrative bubbling in my head at the time; can't remember exactly, but it was something like: "Jaak Panksepp was just here, and you know his work better than I do, which over several decades has established the rich emotional lives of mice. It seems to me that, given that, laughing at the terror you've caused these animals seems inappropriate. What do you think?"

It's worth noting that I don't think saying that would have affected my career. I didn't say it because I didn't have the guts to stand up to the mob. Thus the guilt.
'when our system identifies you're at a clinic' implies they have a signal for this

g is dreaming if they think they can make a signal for 'high likelihood illegal location' and not receive a pen register style warrant by every state that cares. roe provided federal a right to privacy for abortions. roe has been overturned.

the google.blog post[2] linked by the wapo article talks about 'law enforcement demands' and says g has a 'track record of pushing back'. eff disagrees[1], says dragnets + keyword warrants are still happening in the US.

maybe could do this with a broader commitment to wiping 'all medical facilities', and more clarity around deleting supporting data for trips. But you mostly can't get anonymous medical care in the US -- even if clinics take cash, states could ask insurance cos for info, or credit card cos, and assume the 'location history holes' in abortion states, not explained by insurance payment, were cash abortions.

would be nice to have an actual right to medical privacy, aka anonymity + civil damages for violators. scotus leans the opposite way -- sorrell v ims[3] overturned a vt medical privacy law as violating the 1st amendment rights of data miners.

1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/google-fights-dragnet-...

2. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/protecting-pe...

3. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-779.pdf
>> State-based education is funded largely because it is in the interest of the state to educate citizens to participate in government and exist in a pluralistic society

> This is not an even approximately correct model for why the state bankrolls public education in the US.

I'd be interested to hear about your model. Please tell me what kind of model you mean.

Are you familiar with the phrase: "All models are wrong, but some are useful?" In what ways is your model useful? In what ways is my model useful?

Are you irritated? What are some ways to make this a kinder discussion? I'm sorry if I insulted you somehow.
Use a language (DSL or general) that can provide a rules engine. Prolog could be suitable for this.
I think we're in agreement that sleep is an issue for a lot of kids, but the devil is in a ton of details about how society is organized.

To comment on your points...

> 1) They wouldn't need to get out any later. Most of the school day is basically baby sitting and they could easily fit the actual teaching in <4 hours.

I agree that they wouldn't need to get out any later and that most of the school day is a waste and can be radically compressed, but I sincerely doubt that this is what would happen. If we're talking about showing up to school later and leaving at the same time, I'd say that's a big win over the current situation. Please tell me I've misread things and this is what we're talking about. I'd be happy to have that be the outcome, but I doubt it.

> 2) There have been bunches of studies that show teenagers don't get proper sleep specifically when they get up early. There is something about that age that requires sleeping later to get good rest. No matter when they go to bed.

I've seen similar tendencies in the studies I've come across as well, but I'm not convinced that the stats are interpreted correctly based on human nature. My thinking is that the people who need sleep the most probably aren't going to go to bed at a sane time and end up with a large net sleep gain. That said, I'm a little open-minded about this point applying to many (but not all people)

> 3) Who says their waking coincides with the current times? Doesn't for us. Something like 9:30 or 10:00 would.

Everybody's job and life situation is different, but I'd bet that a lot of lower income people have to deal with getting to work earlier, and have more transportation issues (trying to connect to multiple busses and trains, etc) and more complex childcare requirements necessitating less overall time flexibility in the morning.

I'd wager it's largely the technical, white-collar class that can show up later and generally has a quicker path to work (work in pajamas in living room, or hop into the car in the driveway and drive to work with no connecting delays)
What’s stopping you from using these tools today?
I still use vim for editing and rsync for deployment whenever I can.

Unless you mean for clients.
I think those limitations also lead to a lot of creativity. Good music is often made under severe constraint.
The US. will offer nearly 300k doses of Monkeypox Vaccine in the coming weeks
42 as well. Once you got a “base” it wasn’t really an issue. And I’d be out all day riding bikes and playing 8 hours a day. Everyone had a farmers tan. That said, I now use sun screen like crazy but it’s mainly about vanity as I confront aging. I also make sure my daughter is protected with sun screen, it’s like being bilingual, she’ll thank me later.
Doesn't look new, various files have copyright 2010, 2014, etc on them and the referenced papers go back to 2006, 2007.
These are very sweeping statements about therapy without evidence or exposition.

As someone who fully believes I'm alive and typing today because of an excellent therapist, I'm curious to understand what you're referring to, and how it differs from my experience.

What do you mean by "therapeutic" here?
That's a store in India selling what they were able to purchase in India. Sensodyne doesn't sell it to retailers in the US.
I'm going to try this, the prices on commercial zinc sunscreens are often exorbitant.
> Not trying to diss you here, but you very clearly have the fully-indoctrinated understanding of someone who's been inducted into the western state-secular religion and isn't even aware of it (same as most of its adherents).

Don't worry, I'm not insulted.

In any case, your assessment of me -- which you talk about as if it is binary (i.e. pass/fail) -- is way off the mark.

Let me suggest a productive direction. How about you tell me in more detail what this kind of indoctrination means to you. If you make a list of sub-points (perhaps questions) that roll up into some kind of indoctrination score, I'll take a look.
I had a similar one. They called me spoofing the local PD phone number and pretending to be the local cops with a very poor fake US accent. I was able to stump them when I asked if the Giants won last night. They went silent and hung up.
Yeah, I came across this when I was researching UPS models since I have a few I need to replace with sine wave units. Unfortunately the current generation of APC's consumer PFC UPSes also have a reputation for catching fire.

At least this is a cause I can pre-emptively fix ony own, I guess.
I'm not saying that's the complete picture, yes there's a great diversity of food here and heavy asian influences abound.

However there is definitely a heavy British influence, I know of only four countries on the planet that have fish and chip shops distributed all over the place like this (and not purely for tourists): The UK, Ireland, NZ and Aus.
> USDC is USD backed, so one would conclude you actually do "hold" USD through the USDC security.

I mean, I can see the thought pattern behind this, but it's wrong. No court will uphold this interpretation. You don't hold the USD, you hold USDC, so absent the USDC financial instrument itself having contractual obligations (which it doesn't), the underlying assets matters not one whit.

> It's pretty evident to me here there was a slight of hand here that was intentional. The wording was intentional chosen to weasel out of the FDIC backing while leading the customer on to believe it is FDIC backed.

Oh, I'm certain the misleading was intentional. But that doesn't mean it was fradulent. At no point did they make a false statement--instead, you made an incorrect inference. You might have a cognizable false advertising claim, but nothing I've seen would lead me to conclude that a fraud claim could be upheld.
I've tried both of these devices. The Digitone (and anything similar) is useless, as it requires you to press a button every time you receive a call from a "bad" number. I did this for about a week, logging hundreds of incoming calls, and I rarely saw a duplicated number. So you'll just be pressing the button all the time - might as well just pick up the phone and hang up.

The Sentry is much better, but has some notable flaws.

The Sentry works as a whitelist, so it blocks all calls by default. After you enter your whitelist (family, friends, etc.), you'll get three types of calls:

-Good Calls: From people on your approved list. These calls ring through as normal.
-Bad Calls: From idiots (aka robocalls). The idiots aren't smart enough to press a button, so they don't, and then the Sentry hangs up the call.
-Other Calls: From humans who are (ideally) not idiots, but aren't (yet) on your list.

This third item is where the Sentry really needs improvement. Other callers hear a (horrible quality) outgoing message, so they can either hang up, or press a key to leave a message - on the Sentry, not your answering machine/voicemail. The message they leave is only 20 seconds, and you can only receive two messages. And you can't screen these calls - you don't actually hear the person leaving the message, and you can't pick up the call if it turns out it's valid. And the Sentry doesn't timestamp the message. There's a log of calls, but you have to work to figure out who actually called, especially if the caller's message was cut off.

(What I would prefer is to have callers press a button, then my phone rings like normal.)

If you don't get a lot of "new" numbers calling you, the Sentry isn't bad. But you will miss some calls, especially at first. Thankfully, there's an on/off toggle for those times when you're expecting an important call from an unknown number (delivery guy, hospital).
I see that you didn't reply to the part where I noted to you that it doesn't matter if they show them to _me_ and not _you_. Youtube is still running these ads, and they are skeevy as hell.

Again, from a question of company ethics, what is the point of noting that it's focused on people the algorithm thinks are vulnerable? Does that somehow make it better or change the point?
I was able to get into a dermatologist in just a few days, I'm in the US.
Crypto is dumb, for sure. And I agree with you, speculators haven't done anything except prevent people from playing computer games at max graphics settings for a couple years.

The statement from the press release, "A Web3-friendly platform with NFT creation and publication plus integrated MetaMask-style wallet", is just marketing copy designed to separate investors from their money. At some point in the not too distant past, everybody and their mother wanted to invest in a Web3 startup. Meanwhile, "hey investors, want to invest in physical manufacturing and by the way we're the first company to ever use this open-sourcey chip," is investor repellant. I'm guessing that the company threw "Web3" in there to turn investors' brains off during the crypto madness to get some funding for the unbelievably-risky hardware startup. And it worked.

The other possibility is they just like crypto things, which is certainly a red flag. They are too late to this party to make anything of it, as far as I can tell, NFTs are dead and buried. Who would buy a laptop aimed at "NFT creation" even during the hype? You certainly don't need RISC-V for that either.

I kind of see your point about RISC-V being a marketing buzzword. It is. Right now, it's "neat" to try some sort of other cpu architecture. There is no reason for you to do it. AMD64 and ARM can run all the software you want to run. Or write.
I wonder if a 50 year ago smallpox vaccination would do any good at preventing monkeypox.
How well studied is Novamin safety wise?
I didn’t say directly transferred. Just that they have an effect and it’s usually not a positive one.
BTC isn’t a security. “Crypto” securities are much riskier than sticking with the one cryptocurrency worthy of being called a commodity- according to Gary Gensler (SEC chair, former CFTC chair). Securities are dividend or interest bearing assets. Commodities do not give interest or dividends, it’s like holding gold or some other rock. BTC is volatile enough! “Stable” coins and other “guaranteed return but not regulated” instruments have a long history of collapsing, even before “crypto” was sprinkled on top.
The fact that the regulatory agencies in different countries consistently come to different decisions is a good indicator that their decisions are not science based.

Because science is the same in different jurisdictions.

The common explanation is the great asymmetry in bad press if an agency kills 1000 people by approving something dangerous vs if it kills 1000 people by not approving something beneficial.
Of course they weren’t just being custodians! Gotta chase those returns…
They effectively made bold claims with their plans and they failed to deliver - in a place in open source that people rely on greatly. If they do this badly, that's a betrayal of trust. That is my view.

Now, it's true -- I absolutely have no legal or physical recourse to materially affect them them and because it's open source, I shouldn't. They should never be sued or anything like that.

But you can get out of here with the silly idea that it also shields them from me COMMENTING, even HARSHLY.

Look, I didn't talk about their mama's, I talked about their product.

Your idea that "FOSS developers should be shielded from criticism because they'll stop sharing" is as absurd as "Never boo a musician because THEN THERE WILL BE NO MORE MUSIC."
My criteria is a lot different from even others in Cali. I live in a water exempt area because we doing it right ;)
However, we just got enough fog this past year to keep our res full. We gonna be screwed soon and when we reach that point we will then build a giant desal ... which ive hated the idea but respect the necessity.
Salty Halibut anyone?
Honestly, yes, because the number of FT remote jobs is not high, jobs are harder for FT remote people to find and land, and you are actually now closer to competing with offshore options, often augmenting an in-office team.
Caveat: People suffering from long-term sequelae from SARS-CoV2, or any virus, deserve respect both from the medical community as well as the public at large. Whether there are biological, psychological or immunological reasons behind it, the symptoms _are_ real. We can't say depression is real and long-covid isn't.

With that said, I think we do the patients a disservice by assuming that this is a purely biological impact of COVID. We are _all_ suffering from various psychological, physical or emotional impacts from the entire world being flipped around over the past three years. Couple this with the fact that _literally almost everyone will get COVID_ either in the past three years for the years to come, we can't use correlation with infection at all.

Most people recover from all sorts of shit. Most people can do a bump of coke and not turn into Stevie Nicks. Most people can have a few drinks. That doesn't mean we _ignore_ the people who get addicted, who drive drunk or who have long-term symptoms. But we understand that it isn't one thing that causes it in most people. It is a lot of things, and we do the folks suffering from these issues a disservice when we limit it to One Thing.
As others have echoed, I'd suggest trying to talk to him and get a sense of his level of interest and knowledge. Many of us probably grew up trying to make QBasic games and trying to build our own computers in a much different era around that same age, so his level of interest in your real world coding tasks might surprise you.
Whether it’s the specific car companies that exist now is sort of uninteresting to me, I guess. Once AVs are deployed, the whole sector becomes way less risky because there is an example of a successful business model, and more funding can be attracted by various parties to support more AV development, both by startups and governments.

Either way, the exact vendor of the vehicle is a matter of trivia to the AV company, since the majority of the hard work goes into the software. Private companies have been servicing government contracts for decades, so I think it would happen if a government wanted it to.
I have also been there and tried that, extensively. That's the opposite experience of what I encountered in paying by cash for more than a decade. Typically I'd pay around half price via cash for healthcare services (routine doctor visits, scans, et al.) versus what they charged if you had insurance. I never ran into a situation where they wouldn't negotiate steep discounts for paying by cash.
In my opinion, the current documentation on the autofree engine [0] constitutes a false claim about language capabilities:

> Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's autofree engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. Remaining small percentage of objects is freed via reference counting.

> The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object.

[0]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#memory-ma...

So, I am not entirely sure the best way to quantify whether this is true. However, I thought a fun test would be recreating "my first memory leak" -- the first memory leak I can remember fixing in code that I wrote. Specifically, I was essentially leaking some bespoke heap-allocated iterators I had created (inside of an infinite game loop).

So here is my little test:

struct Iter {
mut:
pointer int
}

fn main() {
my_array := [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

for true { // simulated game loop
mut iter := &Iter { 0 }

// heap allocated iterator
for iter.pointer < my_array.len {
print(my_array[iter.pointer])
print(" ")
iter.pointer += 1
}
println("")
}
}

I compiled this with -autofree -gc none, with V 0.3. Checking it with valgrind, it continuously leaks memory.

So, from what I can tell, this description of the autofree engine in the documentation does not accurately describe the existing functionality available in V.

I am curious where the 90%-100% figure comes from. It is such a specific number that it implies to me, as a reader, that it comes from an empirical measurement of an existing system. But, there is no link to where this measurement was taken. In my opinion, the documentation should include some details about how these figures were generated.
What is an SUV?

Here's an example of two vehicles that I imagine might be cross-shopped by a hypothetical consumer who is able to ignore styling and image and objectively compare SUVs and non-SUVs.

(Yes, these are probably more US-market models, but it's tough for me to envision someone who doesn't care about image rationally cross-shopping a BMW with anything)

A 2020 Nissan Pathfinder has 7.1 inches of ground clearance and curb weight of 4,475 lbs. In over 30 years, the model name "Pathfinder" has applied to totally different vehicles, but always with the connotation, as far as I know, of being an SUV.

A 2021 Kia Sedona, which is a minivan, has 6.7 inches of ground clearance. Curb weight 4,443 pounds. The Sedona nameplate has also been around through several redesigns, but as far as I know has always been a van.

So, the SUV in this comparison has 0.4 inches more ground clearance, which is about 10 mm. And it supposedly weighs 32 lbs more, in whatever configuration they were tested in. This is about 2 1/3 stone, or a little under 15 kg.

Maybe weight and ground clearance aren't material to why SUVs should be banned. But something essential to "SUVness" has to be identified to prevent working around a ban. I don't know what it might be.

I think there's a process that's been going on for several decades, where auto manufacturers are actively trying to blur the lines between SUVs and other cars. And it's a significant evolution, if you compare today's models with the 80s.
OOH, pipe the water in from mid ocean, farmers (us subsidizing of course) desal and use the water. This has prob been brought up but i aint heard it yet. I like it.
Yes. But if the insurance amount is large enough, it would encourage the insurance company to hire someone to kill you.

You may say "that's ridiculous". But how much do you trust the ethics of CEOs of large financial firms?
Quartz crystal explanation and cutaway picture with fine tuning marks was all I needed. Preordered. Looks like a fun read.
So much talk about microdosing in the last few years. I have to wonder if it’s the result of people being too uncomfortable taking a regular dose. Fair enough, but I’ve only found real benefit from taking a moderate to high dosage.
Why is this on here.
Neither one of us can afford to stay at home and earn no income, or are temperamentally suited to such a life even if practical. I would be happy to work from home indefinitely, but I can't interrupt my coding every 20 minutes to answer questions and still get anything done. Town layout as such that even teenagers need parents to drive them everywhere, at least high school campus has library/gym/pool/various clubs.
> It will always have its lemmings and grifters pumping it back up after a dump. Just ride the tide.

I think the shoeshine boy moment might be here with bitcoin and crypto, thanks to things like the Super Bowl ads, so that strategy you stated is much riskier than it was in the past, and potential returns lower. Pumping doesn't work well when the flow of new investors ebbs.

Eventually a lot of the "investors" may need to take out money out of bitcoin into fiat to pay for necessities, especially if a recession hits.

The issue is that people don't need or want to buy crypto except for speculation(other than some temporary crypto purchases for ransomware, drugs, money laundering etc.) to flip it.
I think this is a good theory. I almost wonder if it's an accidental synchronization of a burst of hiring caused by the FAANGs snatching candidates away from their peers and having outsized psychological impact.

Classically, the way to go from l1 manager to l2 manager to director, senior director and VP was to grow your organization in headcount terms, so in a situation where it is "hard" to hire, say Amazon is busy grinding through the entire valley, you might accidentally create a situation where everyone feels urgency but no one feels backpressure.
Able to download it.
Cancer rates are a lagging indicator. You get sunburned today, you get cancer in 30 years. The people getting skin cancer now were not wearing sunscreen in 1990.
I wouldnt say drying up but not refilling up but, yeah, otherwise, california is the garden, fruit, non-wheat bread basket of most the country. This water was being used to build wealth among a small group of farmers that sent the food out of state. I say cut it off.