skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol nobody touching this discussion with a however-long-you-can-think-of pole. At least not anymore.

My contribution: I think we have been destroying trust systematically for so long that people are losing their sanity. Finally it is time to rethink our foundations and stop coercing. Currently there are various things that take trust for granted and they will need to become a great deal more persuasive if they want to retain their status moving forward (examples include: governments, currrencies, science, etc. - basically central coordination built on a foundation of coercion, science was the last bastion but the "education system" has become a certification system).
Of course there’s not a need but for the people who use it they’re not drinking it for health and health gatherings. They’re drinking it for the courage it brings since they’re no longer “sober” them.
Also no mention of the Cuba-China pan-Corona vaccine.

https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/cuba-and-china-file-pate...
Call me a puritan, but I'm pretty sure just giving people a way to readily kill themselves is not the way to address the problem. You do the exact opposite of that. Some things are absolutes. This is one of them.
Has it occurred to you that just because it doesn't fit your needs it doesn't necessarily mean there is no use case?

As a developer in the SaaS space, this is absolutely invaluable and very much needed.

Your attitude is ridiculous.
Another wiki article says the fastest current algorithm involves a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform [1]. And now I need to know: what is the taxicab number [2] doing there???

EDIT: nevermind, it's just a coincidence... any number larger than 1728 would have worked according to the paper.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number
> Again, it would be interested to get your guesses at what kind of numbers we're talking about, it's hard to know how much we're disagreeing here. The CDC lists total deaths at 1,018,578. What percentage of this do you think are likely to be fraudulent? Feel free to speculate wildly. 1% 10%? 30%? 50%? Even 50% -- which seems wildly imaginative to me, having cared for extremely sick COVID patients regularly for years now -- would leave us with 500,000 deaths... a "very large denominator" to me. And given the single news report that's been submitted as evidence so far...

For cases as clear-cut as this motorcycle accident, my wild speculation would be 2-5%. But I think there were way, way more "gray area" cases that all got recorded as COVID deaths, e.g., people with advanced cancer who caught COVID and then died not long after.

> For example, I don't know if my dead great grandmother cast fraudulent votes for Biden. Is this evidence of widespread election fraud?

A better analogy would be if there were solid evidence of a provisional ballot cast in your dead great grandmother's name, and there just wasn't any evidence as to whether they counted it or threw it out.

> Have you ever seen a death certificate form, or been part of filling one out? I think there is also room for misunderstanding and miscommunication based on how these work (which I assume varies by state).

I have not.
They could just text me with the flight info, and ping me when it's time to board.
Picked up by unit tests? How about some kind of system which can tell you if the method exists or not, and even possibly correct your typos, before you run the code!
The US mortgage delinquency rate was 2.13% in Q1 2022
( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS ). It was 4% in 2016, 3% in 2018. Why should an observer/investor be worried that "Non-performing loans [...] could reach as much as [...] 1.4% of the outstanding mortgage balance"?
A lot of this can be from (un)intentionally trying to maintain separation of responsibilities between different teams or developers. Decoupling, interfaces, etc all add up and pretty soon you start building based on what's already done vs where you originally intended to go. And I don't think that's a poor choice; nine women can't have a baby in one month, but they can have nine in nine months (to butcher an old saying).
I know you were referring to using cars less but

- you need a license
- you usually need insurance
- there are a large amount of laws dedicated to driving
- there are often dedicated police to enforce those law
- cars themselves have a huge number of mandated safely systems
Etc

It's normal that something causing so much death would have a large amount of regulation
> Because of course everyone who goes through every airport knows which app to get for each airport, and thinks to install it in advance.

Which would easily be solved by having actual standards rather than even considering that 'which app to get for each airport' should be a phrase we'd consider uttering. Then you could use a phone or watch or laptop or tablet or a kiosk.
Even if we’re all going to hell, greener Africa sounds nice, regardless.
You're the average of your friends. If you want to stay ambitious and principal then it helps to have friends that are of the same mindset.

In relation to that same advice, make your environment as positive as you can as you're also a byproduct of it. The school you go to, the things you watch, the books you read, the friends you make, the family you have, the job you take, the colleagues you connect with, the city you live in, the conferences you attend, etc will have an effect on the person you become.
Use multiple "-m" parameters in your git commit.

git commit -m "feat: script pretty print" -m "added variables for bold, normal, and a nice blue arrow"

becomes:

feat: script pretty print

added variables for bold, normal, and a nice blue arrow

In your git log output. Use extra "-m" sections for stuff like ticket references, or other relevant information like a link to a design document.
If you’re doing web stuff, frameworks will basically have this built in. Typically the framework’s own request handler will have something that catches all uncaught exceptions within the scope of that request and return a 500 response. So within the context of a single request you can usually adopt a “let it crash philosophy”. In fact, it’s something most people seem to do intuitively.
Was DOS considered to be better than Windows back then?
That’s... bizarre and not particularly safe looking. A UL listed name brand old work box costs under $3. A UL listed name brand outlet costs less than $1 (or rather more if you want a nice one — $3 gets something entirely respectable). A cover plate costs $0.50 or less. A nice Klein wire stripper costs $20.

So for about $7 I can buy a terrifying mobile home outlet that uses insulation displacing contacts and has serious risk of making an accidental high resistance connection and also puts the insulation right next to where heat would be generated. Name brand UL listed parts cost less, can be safely reworked without risking losing the wire behind the wall, almost certainly work better (and the tamper resistant versions protect against little kids to some degree), and have actual respectable contacts for the wire.

Heck, even throwing in a torque screwdriver to make the connections correctly will amortize away quite quickly at any sort of scale. But a 110 punch down tool will not make those evil connections on the mobile home part — are you supposed to bang on it with a flathead screwdriver or do you need a fancy spring loaded tool that may well cost more than a nice wire stripper?
I feel like this comment and a lot of other comments deal with a repulsion to this not being a very egalitarian idea, to the point of maybe missing the forest for the trees. The GI bill is awesome and lead/leads to upward mobility that can benefit all. It’s an egalitarian program available to everyone. That’s fantastic and a good thing that we have done.

Other programs like universal income could also be egalitarian and lift all boats, and might be fantastic or a horror show, depending on your stance on motivation and it’s relation to money.

A universal income for geniuses would not be egalitarian but could provide outsized benefits for its cost to society. If the government (us, collectively) own the results and IP, it might pay for itself / run a profit. If it expanded human knowledge faster than without it, it could provide a sort of compounding effect to how fast our societies advance.

I don’t know that these things would happen but they could, which seems worth exploring rather than discarding immediately due to historically-rooted moral systems.
What, with respect to vaccines, specifically, would you say has undermined trust?

Was there some massive scandalous plague of side effects caused by a carelessly approved vaccine that I missed?
The US uses ballistic missile submarines to provide counterstrike capability that can't be destroyed by a nuclear first strike. This deters adversaries from attacking us because they'll know that no matter what they do, we'll still be able to annihilate them in response.

If, as this article claims, it will be impossible for submarines to hide in open waters in the future, hiding submarines in large, protected bodies of water such as the Great Lakes becomes a compelling option.
An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS
Yeah I was saying I didn’t but I also don’t have good episodic memory so my point was that they aren’t directly connected at least for me.
In support of your idea, engineers routinely use FEA simulation software that models dynamic systems without any explicit representation of angular momentum or rotational inertia. Only linear displacement/velocity/acceleration, "translational" mass, and elasticity. Such software can still model rotating systems and all the complex effects that come with rotation. So at least classically, I don't think angular momentum is a fundamentally essential concept.
Don't worry. It won't be limited to airports for long.

Many malls and supermarkets are already blanketed with facial recognition, and there have been several attempts already to make beamformed audio ads more common.
Then they can be helped in their suffering. Even those who are supposedly incurable can be helped in some way, if they allow themselves to be helped. Not to sound callous about anyone's suffering, but the meaning of life is not the avoidance of pain and suffering. We all suffer to various degrees. Our response as a society should not be to administer death as a treatment option.
Argument from incredulity.
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I've helped build and run similar distributed systems with deep load balancing and network interactions. There are some packages out there that do bits and pieces of the problem. I don't know of anything COTS that is a suitable like for like replacement of the core components, much less a suitable system . On top of that, as Luca mentioned, you almost always get in to deep interactions between L3/4/5/7 and end up building bespoke logic that's tailored to the business or application needs. A trivial example would be the coupling from IP address assignment/announcement, to TLS cert, to SNI headers, to active customers, to application instance routing.
What exactly will someone do if they find out what airplane you're getting on?
I'm not sure the public - at least in North America - has much of an appetite for any more Covid vaccines. In the US:

- Only about 2% of kids under 5 have had a 1st dose since they were introduced nearly a month ago

- Only 30% of the 5-11 year old population has had 2 doses

- < 50% of people w/2 doses went on to get a booster

So much damage has been done to public trust - "You will not get Covid if you get the vaccine; the vaccine eliminates the spread of the disease; the vaccine is more effective than natural immunity; healthy 18 year old males need a booster to go to school" - that I think it will be a real uphill climb to get more buy-in, even if the actual underlying product is more effective.
I feel I should lead with we're not watching people at work and we have no plans to.

However, people wonder why my work laptop is closed on a shelf, only used from a KVM, with the internal audio devices disabled.

If I need to be heard my KVM has a USB audio device I plug in a headset. I don't generally leave it plugged in either.
Who remembers the Jupiter Ace? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
FWIW “strong” typing is a colloquial term and lacks any precise meaning.
Perhaps but it’s different when it’s an ally and intelligence gathering to face larger threats. That’s not the same thing as trying to bring down another society at large.
I discovered the existence of, and taught myself, BASIC on my Apple IIc when I was about 8. My first program was an implementation of Mad Libs. Surely we could just take that concept and make it even easier for kids.
They don't look cool that's the problem. They look flimsy and poor quality. I am personally partial to converting shipping containers
I don't have absolutist opposition to suicide. But what are we gonna do, criminalize it? That would be literally the most unenforceable law. That doesn't mean we should facilitate the act of suicide.
Whistleblowing is something different.

> This concept that companies are always right is alien to me.

I wasn't saying that they were. I just said I don't care to pay people that say hateful things about me. I seriously doubt you or anyone else would, either. Suppose you hired a maid, who then posted online about all your unattractive habits?
Very true. Plus there have to be many of these calls who are just looking for someone to talk to for the moment.
Correction director: Arizona cities would collapse without prison labor
Sounds like hilarious passive aggressive behavior from java developers forced to interact with that devil's language JavaScript against their will.
Thanks for typing this out. Wild.
> Oh really? I thought we liked AI in drones.

I want the US to have good drone technology. I do not want China to.
Then don't opt in for the service? Pretty easy.
I think it's remarkably reductionist to frame OP as "just giving people a way to readily kill themselves." They went to some lengths to stress how it wouldn't in fact be "readily" available, but a lengthy process with many avenues in which people could constructively offer an alternative to whatever the person's problem might be.

I think it's a very similar approach to drugs in certain countries: you decriminalize them, in some cases provide government-funded drugs, provide places with trained medical staff for people to do their drugs in, and provide excellent addiction counseling. If they overdose, there's medical staff. If the drugs are government-provided, then they're pure and not cut with problematic substances. If the person wants assistance with the addiction, they don't have a criminal record, don't have to contend with an erratic supply while they wean off / switch to something else, and have lots of non-judgemental support.

I think it's quite reasonable to take a similar approach with suicide: de-stigmatize it so it's possible to talk to people constructively, and very likely engage with many for whom there's a better path. Simultaneously, provide a way for people to gracefully exit life when that truly is the best option, instead of (for example) wasting away in a hospital in pain.
Yeah, we don’t do much but I started writing up a brief description with a link to the PR, hotfix, or commit, so we can easily find links to relevant changes if we need to. It’s not that difficult to write it up manually. Automating it is too prone to either errors or a less than helpful message.
I've never heard of that. Do you have a CO sensor as well? Those are common, mostly in a very cheap one-time-use dot form.
A harasser would just follow her to the gate...and then what? Try to board the plane they don't have a ticket for?
If someone really wants to do it, they don't need a government-run apparatus to hold their hand. And if they do need that, then they don't really want to do it.
> it was otherwise pretty underwhelming given it didn't display anything different than what was already on my Delta app

This is my highest question for this tech. Privacy issues aside (and they are many), I just don’t see the point. Delta already knows where I am going and has the ability to send messages directly to my phone/watch. Maybe it could be useful for a navigation experience for someplace like ATL, but this just seems like a marketing stunt to me. A solution in search of a problem. Even navigation within a terminal could be handled by the phone app with Bluetooth beacons if necessary for inside location tracking.
You're skipping over the concept of "survivability" of submarines which enable a second-strike capability. It's not about getting the missiles closer to the enemy, but ensuring that there are nukes that can be launched in the case of the US falling to a surprise attack.

In theory this would deter a first-strike against the US because the subs could still retaliate with massive damage. Thus, cutting second-strike capability could make first-strike more likely in the eyes of US strategic (eg nuclear) planning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_triad
I hope not, because I don't think we will be given a choice on whether we want to take it or not, and the last booster I had in December wrecked me. Within 20 minutes I was yawning non stop, one yawn after till the point I was gasping for air. eventually my whole body was in pain for about 3 days, my resting heart rate was over 100 (60-65 is normal for me) and my oxygen levels was down to 90. 6 weeks later I caught omicron anyways.

Long story short, I don't want to go through that every 6 months.
Apparently i am a bit slow. Please do elaborate, i am really curious how your vaccine status can be used to verify that there is no indication for a covid infection.
Your extrapolations from the cited metrics make no sense. People are less interested in the currently available vaccines because they don't protect against the current dominant strain (BA.5).
It's because I'm uploading to https://www.box.com/ where IBM has an Enterprise account.

I am amazed that Box has nailed a good portion of the Enterprise market with a substandard product: poor transfer speeds and an astoundingly bad UX on their web access.

I do get the expected speeds when uploading to or downloading from other servers.
> It's also unpatented and cheap

All of these vaccines are cheap.
Are you sure this isn’t a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor? While exhaust might increase CO2 as well, pilots are usually far more concerned about CO poisoning and usually use CO detectors.
Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills
> if someone has lost their motivation to live, that is the fault of the community around them, and it’s the responsibility of society to fix the failures that led to that loss of motivation

Sometimes it's not the community that failed; sometimes the person wanted to die.

My friend Andy Ettelson killed himself by swallowing a bottle of aspirin and pulling a plastic bag over his head. He was sure he wanted to die.

His parents loved him, his friends loved him, and he had a girlfriend who loved him. He had community.

He also was bipolar, and refused to take his meds. He didn't like the side effects.

It was heartbreaking for those around him. When I got the phone call from Alex telling me that Andy had killed himself, he said, "I apologize if I sound so emotionless, but I've been waiting for that phone call from his dad for the last ten years."

We all knew that it was only a matter of time before he killed himself, and short of institutionalizing him against his will there was little we could do.
IMO mypy is severely lacking compared to what TypeScript added to JavaScript. I'd always pick TS over Python given the choice.
Not magically, but if you have one delivery vehicle making a route by n addresses, could that not be more efficient than n independent round trips?
Ships much larger than ohio subs can get into and out of the Great Lakes via locks.

Looks like the real reason is a US Canadian treaty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush–Bagot_Treaty
What if the plane is mid flight?
NSC 68
> state authorized suicide

IMO there's no way this would ever become any sort of common occurrence, because the state would never willingly give up its human capital on that scale.

"Again, when a man in violation of the law harms another (otherwise than in retaliation) voluntarily, he acts unjustly, and a voluntary agent is one who knows both the person he is affecting by his action and the instrument he is using; and he who through anger voluntarily stabs himself does this contrary to the right rule of life, and this the law does not allow; therefore he is acting unjustly. But towards whom? Surely towards the state, not towards himself. For he suffers voluntarily, but no one is voluntarily treated unjustly. This is also the reason why the state punishes; a certain loss of civil rights attaches to the man who destroys himself, on the ground that he is treating the state unjustly."

— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book Ⅴ http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.5.v.html
Coq is so much fun. It makes writing proofs feel like playing a video game.

I've just finished writing a Coq tutorial [1] that is aimed at programmers (rather than, say, computer scientists). It covers topics like programming with dependent types, writing proofs as data, universes & other type theory stuff, and extracting verified code—with exercises.

[1] https://github.com/stepchowfun/proofs/tree/main/proofs/Tutor...
I thought nobody was forced to take the vaccine?
Nop, you can use pretty much any drone camera.
> For obvious reasons: they want to disrupt society, drop placement in the world, cause internal fractions that divert attention abroad to domestic strive, actively harm populations by spreading dangerous information,

Dd we really need foreign governments for this? They do it, but we get plenty of it right here at home. Covid made that plain enough, but so have decades of attacks on education and the middle class. In the US we even have government investigations into our own government for wanting to destabilize the country, cast doubt on our democracy and promote civil war.

I'm not saying foreign governments don't play these kinds of games too, but if pointing out my own nations very real problems and deficiencies makes me sound like foreign adversaries maybe those foreign governments aren't the biggest problem we have and we'd be better served cleaning house and looking at the problems within before pointing fingers at folks outside.
I have many fond memories of reading Byte magazine years ago. My University library had a complete collection. I would spend hours reading through them. Fun times!
Warren Buffett owns Clayton Homes the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Homes

California has infrastructure (water, sewer/ waste treatment. power etc for 20m people and a population of 40m, one of the big reasons more 'affordable housing' (including the mobile home rip off) does not get built there, but other parts of the US have large numbers of very lucrative mobile home parks
Bad product name anecdote...

I used to work for Rogue Wave Software, who had a product called "Software Parts Manager" which was shortened to SPM, which was used to build code across a number of flavors of Unix, compilers, etc.

The developers internally didn't seem to like it much. They called it SPAM instead of SPM. One day, I as the person managing the online commerce system, see there is an upgrade of one of the products. I scan the README file, and whoever wrote it internally constantly referenced "SPAM" in terms of how to use it.

Anyway to this day, I am a stickler for making teams use the real name, and not the slang name. And if a team ever creates a derogatory name for a product, I see it as a huge red flag that the product itself has issues. But conversely if the slang name is a good one, it's worth considering making that the official or openly fun/positive unofficial name.