skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a quick story. I was working from home during covid, sitting on my couch in front of my laptop. I was alone...when out of my peripheral I picked up the biggest wolf spider I have ever seen comically wobble-running, his body unusually high, and legs seemingly drawn in, running from the kitchen to...UNDER THE LIVING ROOM COUCH.

And there he stayed for three days, under the couch and in my mind. I did not sit on the couch for two days. Instead I worked from my bedroom. Occasionally I would sneak downstairs to watch the couch. I could not force myself to sit on the couch. I was petrified, and I hated it.

Just before lunch on the third day I soaked cotton balls in a smelly oil and tossed them under the couch. I read online that spiders did not like this, and that he would certainly vacate the area.

As I waited, my son came home for lunch. He was upstairs in his room, and I was downstairs in the kitchen when it happened. Around the corner came the same comically wobbling monster...running frantically...and I was shoeless and frozen! I heard myself yelling for my son, "Tyler! Tyler! Tyler! I NEED YOUR HELP!" He came barreling down the stairs not knowing what to expect, and came face to face to the beast. I could tell by his expression that he was also creeped out, but at least he was wearing shoes. "KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!" I yelled (realizing what a baby I was being, but unable to be an adult).

He grabbed a magazine and smacked it, immediately killing it, and ending my nightmare....mostly. I still get chills thinking about it.

If this sounds overly dramatic to you I agree, but imagine being that afraid of something so small and harmless. I have an unreasonable fear of these things. I am a thinking giant and can easily destroy them, but instead I live in fear of them.
If it's all good, sounds like that's a reason to learn it. ;) But I have to push back some -- I mean you can work alone and build your own castles from scratch if that's your thing (I totally understand that appeal), as in any language, but you don't have to. There are libraries, some quite good, here's an incomplete collection: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl It's also easy to interface with C libraries or Java libraries, there are options to interface with C++ and Python. There are also communal projects with more than one active developer if you wanted to work on such group things, and some companies here and there.
People here are talking about this as if it’s the suicide booth from Futurama. It’s not.

The overwhelming majority of cases are extensions of palliative care made by people of sound mind.
Thank you, but no. I hate it.

I had my fill of exposure to Brown Recluse spiders in high school biology, including one big fucker that was stupid enough to run up my arm. I trapped it and put it in alcohol for making the mistake of making contact with my body.

I was a teachers aide for that biology teacher at the time, and he was disappointed that I had managed to kill one of the biggest specimens he had ever seen. But I didn't get in any actual trouble or anything.

These days, anything that vaguely looks like a brown recluse will just die a very fast and over complete death. There may be squish left to mop up after I'm done, but not much more.
After hanging children from lamp posts and the rape of Berlin the allies figured out they weren't morally superior, gave up and went home
For some more context, in 2020 about 2.4% of all deaths (7,383 people) were euthanasia related. And the vast majority were over 60. Extracts:

“In 2017, 2,838 medically assisted deaths were reported by Health Canada, compared with 4,478 deaths in 2018. In 2019, there were 5,425 medically assisted deaths in Canada, accounting for 1.9% of all deaths. In 2020, this increased to 7,383 deaths (2.4% of all deaths in Canada)” [1]

And

“applicants were on average 74.8 years of age. People under 60 years of age make up 11.3% of all MAID applicants. ” [1]

So about 0.26% of all deaths in 2020 were under 60s euthanasia.

1. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220110/dq220...
I'll make a case against. Declaring all your variables up-front means that _all_ variables can be altered from _every_ place in the function, making it a lot harder to analyze/find data dependencies/etc.

Minimizing the scope of variables decreases the amount of scanning/grokking you have to do to find out how they are related. (Making them constant too also helps a lot as well... you know it won't change thereafter)
Obviously they couldn't admit that it is in part thanks to Bitcoin. But fiaters gonna fiat, what can you do.
WOW...I just had to Google these...
Anyone have the MPQ handy?

Or DII, I'm craving it.
All languages are built on s-expressions. (Aka ASTs) Lisp is just the only one proud of the truth.
Sure. As long as you don’t need Fonts, iCloud, NFC, VPN, Push Notifications, Sign in with Apple, Sign in with browser credentials in-app (useful to avoid typing your passwords in multiple times), time-sensitive notifications, Siri or Low Latency HLS, amongst other features.

And don’t mind re-installing the app every 7 days by connecting your phone to Xcode and installing again or it will expire and stop working… And yes there is wireless connectivity to Xcode, but it’s still extra work, especially if the app itself can deploy using JS in-app updates.

So yep, you can do it. Technically. But the first time my app “expired”, I went and bought the subscription again. It’s waaaay too annoying if you actually want to use an app to use the free edition. The free edition is for, like, class projects maybe. Not apps you actually want to build and use.
It’s supposed to be less than three hours, so I’d definitely consider it as an option.
Ah, thanks. Looks like he still consults for them, but probably not as an employee?
From high speed rail point of view, 101 corridor makes even less sense to put any stations there.
[Upvoted despite significant disagreements, because the downvote button isn't a disagree button]
Humans need to replicate in order to 'improve', there's no reason that AGI software needs to.

Also, humans do not 'improve' or become more 'intelligent'. They just mutate and change randomly in a randomly changing environment. From a Scientific Materialist perspective, there's no such thing as 'intelligence'. We are bags of random noise, indiscernible from the matter around us.

The entire assumptions around 'intelligence' and 'positive evolution' (i.e. getting better) rely on a 'magical' understanding of the world. Of course, Spirituality gives us a few cues there by most scientific types don't like magical thinking hence the funny paradox of Scientific Materialists running around trying to create something (life) which Scientific Materialism itself denies the existence of as a principle (i.e. universe is matter/energy that works in accordance with a bunch of rules - there's no 'life' there).
It is entirely possible that there should be changes to the laws, but involving families is a terrible idea. You aren't going to get rational decision making if you ask someone about their mother wanting to die. You'd be lucky of you didn't get someone screaming profanity at the medical staff for an hour.
I second this, meshcentral is very good and efficient, works on Windows and MacOS too, developpers are very responsive.
90% of suicide survivors do not attempt again.

Why is that?
Isn't it a classical chicken and egg problem? Reliance on car => no public transport; No public transport => reliance on car. Someone should make an effort to change it.
Not going to give advice on committing suicide, understand your point, and as it relates to myself, I am fine dealing with the situation regardless of what happens. Study the topic since I was a child, understand it well, and if you believe such rights are needed, then it’s up to you to make them real before they are needed. Posting anonymously online will have little to no impact.
There are stops between those two places and “grape pickers” as you call them (though they do much more) also… do other things besides work. In fact, HSR will enable them to do those other things even more.

It will also allow people in those places to work other jobs besides “grape picking.”
Unless you want a specific orbital inclination, or are doing is specifically as an engineering exercise, building a cube lab to be installed on a platform like the ISS means lower complexity and lower cost. You can focus on your research goals AND you can even get your payload back to Earth.
This guy has no idea what he’s talking about. One language, one gui framework, and one API paradigm - unified across all contextual devices - is exactly what Apple should do.

SwiftUI is not it by any means, but to say that the idea of SwiftUI tries to achieve is a bad aim is completely wrong.

The aim of UIKit on all Apple devices is 100% correct; and allows developers to go deep into the API forest to create mystical interactions for their customers, friends and users - in every device context. Merging AppKit and UIKit (MacCatalyst) should have been the team to win out the battle, just like in the days of the competing iPhones. The idea Apple is letting both live and fostering the wrong team is its only black eye in this story -

So no, the Mac is flourishing, you’re just not following the way.
But other “experts” created the system in the first place:

> Canada’s road to allowing euthanasia began in 2015, when its highest court declared that outlawing assisted suicide deprived people of their dignity and autonomy. It gave national leaders a year to draft legislation.

Who cares what experts think about what’s fundamentally the regulation of morality?
I think this is a really good point.

I support people being able to have autonomy over their lives (and their deaths). But, as you say, we need to eliminate effective coercion and this has a lot of implications.

For example, no one should ever feel that this is a way out of crippling medical debt or debt they may leave to their family.

So if you think about it, legalizing euthanasia is essentially predicated on having an adequate social safety net, access to mental health resources and access to health care, all of which I support.
I worked in a Haskell environment that used a lot of formal methods & some of those tools, such as Agda, would generate Haskell that could then be optimized for performance. It was pretty wild but for me, a test engineer, was a pain for more boring tasks like JSON parsing or calling Rest APIs etc :) It got me into property based testing though, and now I'm much more type-driven, so there were some really cool perks of working in such an env.
Like almost all pop psychology, it is not very scientific:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-shocking-truth-of-...
Wouldn’t enough disputed charges result in the credit card processor blacklisting this merchant?

I would think a better scam to be selling fake av software in this scenario.
Show hn Spammers are using AI to flood YouTube shorts with offensive garbage
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JtFBkrFNYWk

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z3oZwV78m-c

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gqta_wJILuE (and so on)
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500912
Whats with these Apple complainers they never shut up? Why do they find fault in the minor details of the best computing experience ever delivered?
Establish a ritual that acts as a border between work activity and home/play activity. It can be simple or complex, depending on how much it takes to convince your brain you've made the transition. Practice the ritual religiously (it could even be a religious ritual!) You will likely find your ritual makes the transition between states of mind easier over time. I don't know why it works, but it often does. For my father taking a nap as soon as he got home from work was what helped him. I like to alter room lighting across the house as a reminder I'm in a different mode. A change of clothing can help also. Whatever works on a daily basis seems likely to work when on holiday also.
Well conscription almost doesn't exist any more in western countries. And I don't think it's a good example of something that doesn't affect anyone else, the idea is to train people in case of a war. Having people able to defend the country seems quite useful for everyone in unstable times.
To be fair, these people are not most people. All have a LOT of money to throw at their health. Also at carers, cooks, healthy living, and all the modern conveniences that make old age bearable. Same with William Shatner, he’s 91 now!
I’ve found this explanation to be useful and easy: Haskell is the Mercedes of programming languages.

It has features you didn’t know you wanted or needed and eventually other languages will get there, and Haskell will seem average/harder to differentiate.

I’ve written a more practical post on why Haskell is worth using[0], excuse the clickbait title.

[0]: https://vadosware.io/post/how-and-why-haskell-is-better/
Yes, some crazy YouTube video logger named Schrödinger.

I wouldn't trust him either. What does he know?

You're basically arguing that the assumptions of QM theory that is in many of the older papers for some reason stopped mattering. That they've been invalidated... somehow, instead of simply being dropped for brevity in newer papers, assuming that everyone knows them already.

All I'm saying is that if you go back to the original version of the theory, they were quite clear about the scope: a statistical theory that applies to ensembles of atoms.

In theoretical Physics, especially when dealing with phenomena outside of normal human experience, you have to be very careful with your assumptions otherwise you can make yourself believe all sorts of nonsense.

Such as wave function collapse. Or spooky action at a distance. Both of which stem from a misunderstanding of the limits of the scope of a statistical theory that only applies to some types of physical objects.
High speed rail doesn't make frequent stops. The whole point is to get between major cities quickly.
> Fresh new hires, who’ve never known a reason to care about the Mac, trying to rewrite key portions of the OS

I'm confused. Don't Apple developers develop on MacOS machines?
Brilliant, but arguably not as brilliant as selling idiots grey market keys on StackSocial or SlickDeals for $30, which appear to activate but aren't legitimate for individual sale.

Hint: If you didn't pay out the a** for it, it's not a legit Microsoft product key.
Jevons’ paradox revisited: Implications for climate change
I worked with the CEO at 2 of his other start ups... Ben Lamm is a joke. Maybe some of the other talent working there knows what's up but I do not have high hopes for this working out.
Thanks, ordered both :)
Awesome blog overall man! I appreciate the link, working through it now :)
In concept the answer is simple (although avoiding loopholes is difficult).

If it's your only residence then you get to cap the tax on one unit of housing worth of land at max(x% of income, y% of net wealth excluding that particular unit of land).

In your scenario the poor locals must subdivide and sell or commercialise some of their land, but get to continue benefiting from the commons they have built even if they have 0 income and survive purely off of that commons.
Things have regressed a lot since then. IMHO this should be part of the normal regression testing on things like Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird. As things are now, at least on my system, Chrome doesn't run remotely at all, Firefox does, but lags unbearably (and sometimes crashes) at startup, and Thunderbird lags moderately at startup. (All of this on a 1000Base-T LAN.)
Why? Since when your OS knows what you want to do? Maybe I do intent to enumerate wifi's around me every 10 seconds, so why would OS would be bothered to do such warning? Also Windows has event viewer, you can see there what's going on anyway (consider that the OS warning you want)
> There's tons of land in the US, it's time for stupid cities to organize themselves and not have antiquated/disjoint transport systems i.e. Caltrain/Bart.

how about cars
Because quantum mechanics is the only layer of abstraction?
Well, how about living in Merced and working in SF area? If a trip from Merced to SF would be less than 70mins, this would beat all rush-hour traffic along 101, and become viable living option.
> Suddenly, property tax on everyone's $0.01 parcels shoots up from $0 to $12,000 per year

In New Zealand, property taxes are relative: the tax you pay depends on how much your property price rises relative to everybody else’s property prices. The local government has a fixed budget, which is apportioned between all the properties proportional to property values.

Example: a city has a budget of $1000. The city has two houses, one worth $100k and another worth $900k. The property taxes are $100 and $900 (ignoring fixed charges). If the houses double in value to $200k and $1800k, the property taxes are still $100 and $900.

It is important to keep this in mind when arguing about property price increases, because price increases don’t always matter.
Me too actually[1], and I'd really like trying to work with something like typed racket[2] some day.

[1] I say this as a big fan of clojure

[2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-reference/index.html
Are you asking for the Shareware version? Otherwise prob the wrong place to ask ;)

I'll say this: archive.org is quite the trove for things of this nature
A hospital administrator might be under pressure from a Provincial government to improve “efficiency” and keep beds available, but your average doctor/nurse likely isn’t incentivized for that sort of outcome.

Canadian elections are generally won in suburbs, so Provincial governments are generally hesitant to increase quality of care via tax revenues. This usually results in discussions of federal funding to improve care outcomes.[1]

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/8590853/canadian-premiers-new-pol...
This comment is interesting to me but for a very different reason: the real magic I find in RDP is that the hand off when going from "local" to "remote" is seamless. On windows, without any pre-setup other then enabling the service, I can logon remotely (and it will lock the screen locally) and resume using all my apps. Then I can come back to that workstation, logon (and it'll kick off the remote session if it's there) and keep using the apps locally - and repeat over and over.

And crucially: none of this harms the performance of my local session. I don't have any background daemons or special modes running, I'm not in a "virtual remote session" when working locally. It adapts resolution and screen sizes when I switch to remote consoles.

Everything just works really well, whereas the same is not remotely true on Linux. The best in class - x2go (NoMachine variant) can't do this. My local session can't become a resizeable remote session, it just becomes a slow screen grab of it, and doesn't allow me to lock the remote session when I log in, or kick off the remote session when I log back on.

If anyone knows how or what can get this experience to Linux, it's IMO not only something I greatly desire - it's vital.
While that may be technically true, it's not really true in a way that is relevant to what I meant by my comment (ie.: the syntax maps directly to the AST, or s-expressions are the syntax through which one expresses the program).
That won't catch a serviceworker that decides to run 30 minutes later.

The problem is that a browser is inherently internet connected and these applications simply cannot be firewalled off effectively, you'll just have to trust them not to do anything with the data you feed them.
Plenty of "specialists" make their living this way.
A good book on parasites that I can recommend for the general reader is Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074320011X/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
I think its a silly idea that consciousness cannot be produced by computation.
This was true of the first rover (Pathfinder ‘97) but really hasn’t been true of rovers since then. Ingenuity was an exception re: COTS parts since it was experimental.

Pathfinder cost <$300M. “Better cheaper faster” became Discovery class missions, “capped” at $500M. Curiosity and Perseverance cost about $2.5B each. Not in the same category.
A perfect use of animated gifs in mathematical formulae, making things actually clearer.

The article uses a typical math text layout, but is something you cannot easily print.
Sorry, what? Are you implying that streamlining the already absurdly long and frankly abused NEPA reviews so we can get them done in a more timely manner is somehow a bad thing?
I wonder if somebody could have started a nuclear weapon company before nuclear weapons were proven.
They were great for putting beanie babies on eBay. Not great for printing out on those early inkjets.
There was a girl convicted of telling her boyfriend to kill himself: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/michel...

In general I agree with you, but there are s lot of really people that fall for scams that seems hard to fall for for most of us.
In practice, I’m pretty happy with how dialog turned out. I certainly do not find it needing a “large amount of styling and code” to obtain immediate utility.

I’ll readily agree, however, that the meter element is trash, and date input an underspecified UX crapshoot.

My biggest beef with Apple’s standards engagement, however, is their intransigent and ill-considered refusal to implement customised built-in elements.
The architect who became the king of bank robberies
Malware with a strong command-and-control network will be able to change the merchant.

Additionally, this blacklisting effect can be used strategically to target business you don't like by using the malware to perform a false-flag attack.
I'll check that just in case, thanks for the advice.
The word diverse can mean "different" (implicitly, different from "norm") which individuals certainly can be.

Other comments are saying things like woke people are redefining terms, but this is not a new usage. Wiktionary has quotes from the 1700s using it https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/diverse
I encourage everyone who’s having a strong reaction to this to read through the statistics[0] of who is receiving this care. Perhaps consider why you don’t hear about the success stories.

0: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi...
I assume, given your passion, that you live in California? So hey, that’s fine. Far be it from me to tell you how to conduct your business. To me it’s possibly one of the great US infrastructure projects, a way to take millions of tons of carbon out of the air, and an opportunity for Californians to commute between their two great cities in style and comfort.

But, it’s in a state I rarely visit, and I’d probably never even ride it more than a couple times. If you think the money is better spent adding half a dozen more lanes to 405, I won’t argue. No matter what, I’ll be living somewhere that doesn’t require me to waste my life sitting in a car, and that will probably never be somewhere in California, train or no train.
As an app developer this is my experience as well.

It's way easier to get good ratings on the App Store than on the Play Store. I was confused why, until I noticed that it's just that the standards for apps of iOS users are way lower. There is so much trash around. Especially trash that wants to scam you for money and gets thrown into your face at the top of the list. They crave for anything that isn't a complete pile of shit.

On Android it's different. There is lots of good apps and thus users are way more critical even if the app is the exact same one as on the App Store.
Read more (and good long novels, not tech manuals), take care of your sensory organs, be social. The more intricate your daily world, the more you use it, not lose it. Sounds a lot like Grandma's advice. Which was solid.