skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for making people's lives better. But people deserve the choice of what treatment they will or won't accept. That's what informed consent is about. We don't force surgeries on people just because they have a good prognosis; the person still has to consent to the surgery (if they are capable).

Even if there is a treatment with a very good prognosis that could magically make you happier, you deserve the right to say "no" anyway. So let's absolutely make sure somebody is informed and of sound mind before we put euthanasia on the table. But let them have agency over their own life after that.
Hmm, I didn't know Midomi and Soundhound is the same company.
My parents are 78 and 80. Old age is slowly catching up with them. But my dad can still stay out in the yard for hours at the time and until Covid, my mom was still tutoring friends kids and grandkids in advanced math. She is still completely comfortable with driving from my hometown 5 hours to where I live - a place with some of the worse traffic in America. They were not “rich”. My mom is a retired school teacher and my dad is a retired factory worker. They retired at 55 and 57.

My dad still keeps active and he practices karate katas multiple times per week.
Given that Eddie is telling a story from his youth it's probably fair to say it was in common use 10+ years earlier - which is consistent with my vernacular at the time.
I’d note that the hospital administration was mentioning this, rather than a particular doctor providing care. Or, the former has a financial incentive to keep care costs low (especially given the current government in Ontario).
No. the larvae that would infect humans aren't competent swimmers. If you are a little zooplankton predator like a copepod, there would be little L2 stage roundworm larvae of various species whipping about (after having hatched from eggs that came out of a larger predator's gut) trying to attract attention and get eaten so they could continue the lifecycle (often, they'd need to get eaten by at least one larger predator to mature).

There are Ascaris-like worms in water that can affect humans, see: Anisakis. But you wouldn't get infected by larvae in the environment, you'd have to eat undercooked fish that ate the zooplankton that ate the L2 worms and get infected through the gut once they are L3 stage.

Ah - Dracunculus aka guinea worm is a another you could get from water, but you'd need to actually drink the copepods.
>My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? And in this case it absolutely could be.

Can't every app other than a browser, phone and messaging be a website?
I laughed, but it made me think, with "smart" houses becoming a thing, this will one day become a common occurrence. sigh
> demolish all single family homes

Ahhhh, brutalism . . . “The Soviets decided to pass: the plan was too extreme and destructive of existing institutions even for Stalin. Undeterred, Le Corbusier changed the word “Moscow” on the diagram to “Paris”, then presented it to the French government (who also passed). Some aspects of his design eventually ended up as Chandigarh, India.”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
Research shows that those who attempt suicide once statistically speaking have distinct risk factors and characteristics which are notably different than those who attempt again; among other notable differences, their last attempts statistically speaking are more likely to be lethal. Simply put, they’re not comparable.

Example of related research:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.6051...
> Why? That is well within the speeds of typical high speed rail systems.

So consider this set of goals:

1. You want to get from SF to LA as fast as possible;

2. You want to go 220mph; and

3. You want to stop in many places along the way.

With just these 3 goals you already have conflict. More stops makes 220mph less valuable because it takes time to accelerate and decelerate. The driving distance between SF and LA is (according to Google maps) 382 miles. Will this route get there in 382 / 220 = 1h44m? No, it's more like 4 hours.

Getting from SF to LA in 2 hours by train would be fantastic. But that's not what's getting built.

> Going threw those towns actually makes a lot of sense for a serious rail project and potentially even safes money.

You clearly don't realize the consequences of this as I described above. You may pick up extra passengers in Fresno but you may then lose passengers by taking too long to get from SF to LA.

LA is building a rail extension to LAX, which is going to solve so many problems for using LAX. I believe it's costing $2.2 billion and it's about the best money you could spend.

If the route takes too long you may as well just drive or take a plane. That's what you're competing against.
How is this knowable when barely anyone has access to assisted suicide outside of a few small states/countries? And even then, drooling does not qualify in most.
they predate the term, and the scale of interaction is different, but being able to explore and complete dungeons and sidequests in arbitrary orders is certainly open-world-y
This is a quest for a remote desktop software that is free and/or included in the OS, yes? Because otherwise, in the land of paid software nothing beats TeamViewer. Not even Windows' RDP does. I use TV daily with clients across oceans and nothing else offers a better remote desktop experience than TV.
Thanks. I’ll just…stay awake tonight.
"Everyone is always right" [in the limited scope of their argument, which may be different to yours] is an important realisation in life, and makes you approach disagreements very differently (i.e. tease out differences in scope, rather than prove someone "wrong". Which they're not. Because "Everyone is always right").

Or as Patrick Lencioni says in his excellent book "Five Dysfunctions of a Team": don't aim for consensus, aim for buy-in.
That's because the business owner wanted stability and predictability. He needed somebody to go and fix that server when it crashes due to an update, or to add a new column to the database when the customers request it, at the lowest price possible.

The dev needed peace of mind and job security. To do as little work/thinking as possible at the stable pay.

They kinda found each other and it was working just fine for both of them.

Then you came into play, bringing more work to the dev at the same pay, if he agreed with you. Had the company owner taken your side, he would likely lose the senior dev, and lose you in a couple of months once you get everything working and decide to move on (I doubt you would be happy with the kind of work the previous dev was doing).
The death of King George V comes to mind. He was very sick, but still alive. His doctor was worried that if he didn’t die fast enough, his death would be reported by tabloids, not the “respectable press.”

So he was given a sedative against his will. His last words, “God damn you”, we’re shouted to the nurse injecting him. Then he was poisoned to death.

And of course things went bad in Germany. “Euthanasia” was not a Nazi innovation. It was being advocated in Berlin throughout the 1920s, from very humane motives.

It was relegalized in Germany a few years ago - I don’t know why it’s excluded from the list of countries that allow it. Bad optics?
HSR isn’t “public transport.” Completely different things. And not even Japan has public transport serving agricultural places.
I dream in infrared.
> As far as I know, you can get some parasites (not sure about Ascaris specifically) just from walking around barefoot.

I think its just a couple hookworm species that'll get in through your feet
Micro-Cap was released for free, no license required.
Windows only (although I recall of a Mac version decades ago), but runs perfectly under Linux+WINE.

http://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/download.shtm
It's not the mystical interactions or feel of widgets, layout, and function that are the problem, it's bad UX paradigms, declining consistency between apps and across versions (a Mac hallmark), buggy software on an aggressive annual schedule, holes and rot in developer documentation, constant treadmill of Xcode and device updates, and general lack of attention to detail in Mac apps.

I've been a Mac user and dev for twenty years. Music.app is probably the most egregious example and gets a lot of flak for good reason. It's so bad, when I'm working all day on my Mac, I listen to music on my iPhone instead. It's utter trash, designed with the foremost goal to push Apple Music sales and subscriptions, with everything else propping that up.

There are still so many magical features — Safari Cloud Tabs, using your iPad as a second display with automatic keyboard & mouse switching, attention to Focus and Notification management, a very solid iCloud sync service for so many core data apps like Contacts, Notes, and Messages, and so much more.

But the whole platform just feels like a rot, and the generational gap alluded to in the post is spot on. It's not necessarily an age thing, but it feels like those who "get it" and know what the Mac was and could be, and those who are making decisions and setting deadlines who are largely driven by company-wide synergistic goals. It could be both. But instead, the latter is winning.
I'll be surprised if this doesn't become an abandoned experiment.

Take a look at the commit history: https://github.com/microsoft/DTrace-on-Windows/commits/windo...

Last commit 4 months ago... and then a year ago... and then two years before that.

I saw this mentioned here a while back and saw the "last commit 2 years ago" status in GitHub and just ignored it completely. It's most likely someone's pet project with no real support in the larger Microsoft corp.

Oh and I tried it in a virtual machine, but it just blue screened, which doesn't inspire confidence.
They could reverse it from a subsidy that rewards the property owners for their past anti-social behavior to a fine the punishes their bad behavior.

Fine the owners $2500 each month that a house is vacant. Add a $2500/mo tax on short term rentals like Airbnb too-- Airbnb has a very negative impact on availability of long term rental properties. Adjust fine and tax amounts until sufficient long-term rental housing stock becomes available.

Give the revenue from fines to the long-term renters as a subsidy to encourage the workforce to stay.
I believe that Apple is strategically choosing to coast on their desktop software while they work to harmonize their mobile, desktop, and entertainment software stacks.

Why? Because based on rumors, patents, and the decisions they've made and the actions they've taken (or not taken), it appears as though that Apple believes that in the not so distant future the concept of having a separate mobile device and a computing device will be irrelevant. Consumers will have a single device, and that device will be capable of some form of altered reality interaction, or at least some impressive context switching behaviour.

It's already the case that an entire generation has been raised with their primary computing experience not being on general computing devices, but on some variant of mobile or tablet computing. It's not too much of a stretch to consider that they will be most comfortable with a device that behaves with some familiarity to that experience, but which can engage in much greater utility in a pinch. And it will be mobile, and it will require a better input experience than mashing your fingers on the small screen that splits its available space between the important information and large input elements.
WASM itself can't do anything, it needs bridging code to do actual I/O. This is by design and I think that's a good thing security wise.

WASM runtimes are just the JVM reimagined, but slightly less capable because of WASM compatibility restrictions. Yes, we have tons of compilers that target WASM now, but there's no technical reason why they can't target the JVM or dotnet runtime instead.

GraalVM is proof of this, it has an LLVM runtime that can take LLVM bitcode and run it within the same context as a great many other languages.

WASM may have more existing tooling because of people plumbing it directly into browsers but the "write once, run anywhere" concept has been around for decades now.

I'm curious what tech stack you're using for cross platform applications, because I honestly haven't seen what the big deal about WASM is other than "Javascript but starting to get fast".
I mean if you’re still alive you can always die another time - or not. But when you die, that’s that. No more options.

Medical ethics usually desires preserving options down the road as much as possible.
I dont think that's expressed particularly well, but that's pretty much how all variable traits are. E.g. Normal height people are closer to average than abnormally tall people.
I really don't like the elitism coming off the title here. You don't need to be a genius or an academic to use languages like this. If people want to promote what the ML family can do they should concentrate on the problems that these languages solve and what tools the languages offer programmers.
> The landowners are the community

In cities with multi-tenant buildings it's typically not so. Renters are the community, or a large part thereof.
As a user of macOS betas for many, many years, this amount of visual issues this close to release date is pretty novel.

I have little faith this will be addressed in the scant time left before a GM release
MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

20220815 490 points, 571 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474827
Everyone is different, some people have a very difficult time dealing with even minor issues. Also, based on the way most people live their lives, I don’t think the average person truly understands what’s ahead, or if they do, pretend they’ll magically escape it. Personally, I am fine with my future regardless of what happens, but it’s not surprising to me some either don’t want to grow old or are caught off guard by the reality of old age.
To me, the only thing more ‘disturbing’ than a system which routinely fails its most vulnerable people by failing to provide adequate care and support for a good quality-of-life is a system which fails its most vulnerable people in that way and then also forces them to continue to suffer indefinitely.

I agree that we should not accept a system that does not provide everyone a good chance at a decent quality of life. I also believe strongly we should do everything we can to develop better treatments and cures.

At the same time, it is cruel to allow hubris or sentiment to blind us to the reality that, today, even the most well-allocated resources are finite, and our medical knowledge isn’t advanced enough to effectively treat—let alone cure—a huge number of non-fatal quality-of-life diseases.

Maybe Canada’s system needs more safeguards, maybe it doesn’t. It’s impossible to tell by reading this article, which is heavy on innuendo and light on data.
Quote: "You plug the USB drive into your PC and it immediately tells you that you have a virus, and you need to call “Microsoft Support.”"

Well, that's a badly configured PC then. Stop having AutoPlay enabled and this won't happen. Then next step is to format that USB drive and voila!, free thumb drive.
> A senior judge typically has decades under their belt.

A senior judge is also quite literally a semi-retirement role. You take on reduced workload.

> But what if you were outside the industry and heard that term?

"Senior Associates" in the legal profession are junior/mid roles, similarly, senior account managers etc. aren't particularly senior in most places. In white collar roles, a "senior" is really just a distinction of independence and reliability.
I know I have it backed up somewhere but don't have the easy-search filesystem setup yet for tens of PB. No worries.
A buy or sell offer system works pretty well for determining value.

Claim whatever value you please for tax purposes.

Anyone can put your land into the commons by giving you your claimed value multiplied by a small safety factor. The current owner then gets priority on public housing or continued stewardship of the asset.

Anyone can purchase your land in a forced sale by offering your claimed value x a larger safety factor (+ max(the median home value within a half hour walk/train/etc, median home value country-wide) if it's your only residence).

The goal is to counteract the agglomerative nature of wealth. Profitability (no matter whether your abstraction for ownership is property or political favour) as a fundamental concept is a tax on the poor to the benefit of the wealthy. You must fix this for your system to be stable and not excessively punishing to the poor.
Source tweet : https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/156031792839788953...
No one is killing fetuses in the 38th week for fun. Not moms, and not doctors.

The reason to keep the legal system out of it is because there are a million things that can go wrong in pregnancies and child birth, and the doctor does not need the added complication of having to think about legal liability in the heat of the moment.

Women make a tremendous sacrifice when choosing to bear children. The issue of abortion is sufficiently handled between the pregnant mother and doctors.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/04/raw-data-abor...
Botometer creator says Musk’s Twitter spam estimate “doesn’t mean anything”
Canada allows abortion through the entire pregnancy.

Usually abortion and euthanizing can be talked about as very different things. But Canadas unusual laws on both invite comparison.
Apple is getting smaller lithography from TSMC than AMD chips are, so they'll probably have an advantage in their M3 or M2 pro/max by the time Ryzen 7000 comes out.
Just don't sign up to any of the biggest three once the protocol reaches mass adoption, and that's not a problem because you can always leave without losing the ability to communicate if someone does something shady, and your private data is private.

Additionally having a long tail with 30-70% of the users makes it impossible to buy. And you probably don't even have to go that far, just not using element is probably enough to prevent matrix from trying it even if they wanted to (which it's clear they don't because they make it easy to leave).

We don't have to 'leave email' or 'leave tcp/ip' every few years because the TOS requires handing over your firstborn or because http is running experiments to see how many people will commit suicide. The idea is borderline-incoherent.
Yes, those are wonderful. They aren't gifs, though! I can highlight the numerals, so I'm guessing some CSS transformation trick? I'll have to look closer when not on mobile.
Don't use document.querySelectorAll unless you're prepared to wait a while...
I use this daily for a number of windows machines and it's great. Even the Android client is surprisingly usable.
Or, you know, they could build more housing and build more transit so local workers and tourists can commute in. But, I guess that will "ruin the character" of the place.
That's discussed inside the article.
I’m sorry I live in California Brightline is the name of the line. The point is Florida could build it California can’t, even in 20 years time we won’t have it.

And in regards to efforts, it seems a money laundering operation more than a construction project.
Asking a clarifying question is not a straw man argument. It isn't an argument at all. It's a question.
The RDP protocol should be pretty good even for running video as it can switch to a simple MP4 stream on the fly, at least in Microsoft clients and servers. I don't know if the open source implementations have that capability, though.

I wouldn't expect too much from a DSL link but at a low render resolution (<720p) even video should be doable with the right tweaks. Quality won't be great, but those stupid video ads shouldn't lag out a browser session for example.

If xrdp or equivalent don't support those extensions, I see an opportunity for distro makers there. Linux distributions (and others) have been reliant on VNC for way too long in my opinion and the only somewhat supported alternatives with more than one implementation aren't exactly built for this purpose, sadly.
>Almost no one goes through with it.

I don't necessarily share OP's sentiment, and I think it's great that people don't go through with it, but I strongly believe that the option should legally be afforded to them.
I don't think he was arguing against unification; he was just arguing that in practice, the unification Apple settled upon was one that made macOS worse and thus represents their continual disinvestment in the platform (because, as you note, "SwiftUI is not it by any means"). This comes after years of neglect for the Mac platform; OP says Apple was "distracted" by iOS, but IMO that is unfair; instead I would say they were focused on iOS, probably correctly, but with a downside cost for Mac users. Macs are no longer the primary breadwinners for Apple, so they get a smaller percentage of focus and resourcing.

It sure seems like they could've done a better job at the unification attempts though, at least from the videos of the new Settings app floating around the internet. How can you break toggles that badly? It seems like it should be very hard to make a toggle button that occupies the regular amount of screen real estate, but has a click target that is 1px. That shouldn't happen by accident!
Disclosure: I was a (secondary) coauthor on this work.

Vroom [1] is a research system to accelerate page loads. It identifies dependent resources for your page and uses a combination of client hints and and server push to improve network utilization. I believe that only important, non-cacheable content use server push. See the paper for results.

To be clear, web performance is not my main field and I haven't kept up with the latest happenings. I only bring it up as evidence that push can be useful, but I can't actually say whether it's worth the complexity.

EDIT: fixed some typos.

[1] https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~harshavm/papers/vroom_sigcomm17....
i couldn't convince a cat to get into a cage
Having ridden the California Zephyr between Chicago and Sacramento multiple times already this year I'm extremely annoyed with the lack of HSR in the USA.

Really looking forward to California getting some HSR established within the state.

Hopefully the rest of the country gets on board before I die.

It's really wonderful to travel cross-country by rail with your bicycle in tow. I made the trip from CA to IL for ~$160 in coach and was able to pedal literally out the doors of Union Station in downtown Chicago to the West burbs in day.

If it didn't take ~2.1 days to make the trip I'd do it far more often to visit friends/family. And we'd be able to meet somewhere in the middle like CO with our mountain bikes in tow on the regular. As-is the trip wastes far too much time in transit for them to meet me, and it's too costly/ridiculous emissions-wise for most of them to fly to CO (or CA) for a weekend - nevermind the nuisance of bringing a mtb on a plane.

Bringing the mtb onto the Zephyr was as easy as checking a bag, fully assembled, zero preparation necessary. It just needs to go 300+MPH and this would be magical.
That seems exactly the opposite direction they’ve always gone though. Microsoft tried to have a completely unified PC/tablet experience, where their desktop OS basically became completely tabled focused in Windows 8. Whereas Apple has always made a strong distinction between e.g. the iPad and the Mac, refusing to build a convertible Mac or any Mac with a touch screen…