skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Star Trek and the like also have utopia levels of medical tech. Physical level problems are all solvable with their level of technology."

The poorly written second season of Star Trek Picard had a character who was suicidal and refused treatment, then killed herself.

I think people refuse treatment in real life because the drugs don't work too well, not because they don't want to feel better, and at any rate you can't have a utopias if people choose to due horrible things to themselves or each other, you just have real life, so I think it went against the tradition of Star Trek being utopian fiction.
This is the super professional guy teaching the course https://youtu.be/KEkrWRHCDQU
> I have a question, do people really protest in designated areas in the US?

No, people can protest wherever they want as a rule, under the freedom of assembly clause in the first amendment. It's pretty clear, and is well established (as are the exceptions). The wording of Article 12 in the E.U. fundamental rights charter is, by my reading, purposefully more restrictive than how the Supreme Court has generally interpreted "Freedom of Assembly" in the U.S., but I am not an expert on that.

In practice, you sometimes see things like "Free Speech Zones", which are indeed Orwellian, but also controversial and exceptional. You shouldn't think of them as the rule, because you also see things like the CHOP in Seattle.
Recruiters have gotten a lot more aggressive on LinkedIn in the last year.
Did a lot of data wrangling this year. The usual grep, sed, awk, jq and even find has sped up my days significantly. Sed is among my favorites to whip up some quick, ad hoc, transformations.

This year I added Miller [0] to my list; a tool to process tabular data, similar to sed, awk, etc. It handles csv, tav, json lines, etc. in a consistent way. I like the delimited key-value pairs format, which allows me to write simple oneliners in bash to collect some data (e.g. "ip=x.x.x.x,endpoint=/api/x") and use Miller to crunch the results. Not sure it saved me 100h, but it was one of the biggest time savers this year!

[0] https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I've been forced to be on antipsychotics. They are nasty and I compare it to sexual conversion therapy. I totally understand the society is not ready for that discussion but it does irk me the supposedly compassionate people are quick to mentally sterilize you.
The parent may be referring to employment laws; google claims 29 states have made blacklisting illegal in an employment context.
If the copyright makes more money than it costs to maintain, then it is financially viable. I often see this approach proposed alongside a renewal fee that rises each time it is renewed, so that works will eventually become too expensive to maintain copyright on and thus aren't held in perpetuity.
> They realized it didn't matter and was more beneficial for them so they can scoop up more public domain and make more movies out of it.

I don't have anything concrete to back this up, but it seems more likely to me
that they just don't see much potential revenue in content from the 1920's, so
they see little to be gained from further spending on copyright-extension
lobbying.

Put another way, they've already succeeded. Copyright terms aren't actually
unending, but in profit terms (or practical terms more broadly) the difference
is minimal.
>As a Dutch resident, I have never understood why so many (mostly American) tourists visit The Netherlands just to use drugs in Amsterdam.

I think back to interviews Frank Zappa gave in the 1980s where he talked about how the "sexualization" happening in American music, movies, etc was really titillation, IE: in a sense, Americans were so repressed and so juvenile that anything resembling sex, drugs, and rock and roll were too much to handle. Where I live in WA, marijuana has been legal for a number of years now to the point that it's passé. But, if you are a young college student from one of the more repressed states and you go on your study abroad where marijuana is legal and there are barely clothed women in the red windows, it's pretty big stuff.

When we took the kids to Amsterdam a few years ago, we walked through the red light district on a late afternoon. Was tamer than I recalled from 25 years ago when I was a college student - I can see where it's more of a burden to Amsterdam than a bonus, but I guess it lures in a few more tourist dollars.
I have little to no idea what you're referring to. I'd need to see specific links to what you're talking about.
Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
Props to The Intercept for reporting on this. Notice how the corporate-owned legacy media still doesn’t pick the Twitter revelations up.
It was also common to invent "tiny languages" (e.g. PIC) and domain-specific languages (e.g. Awk, Yacc) to a greater extent than now. There was no real community to share work. I heard of OO and C++, but didn't really understand it, so when I tried to make my own I made functions that dispatched on the type of the first argument, then another version which could dispatch on the types of any the arguments. We would call this data-oriented now. I suspect that a lot of new stuff arose from such misunderstandings.
The law isn't making that determination, the entities paying to indefinitely extend its copyright are (presumably at exponentially increasing rates). If it isn't viable, they don't pay and the copyright lapses.
If the liquor license really limits who can be denied service, then I don't consider this to be retaliation.

By analogy, if a lawyer is denied entry because they are black and they sue, that isn't retaliation it is just requiring the business to follow the law. If a lawyer is denied entry for some legitimate reason (say drunk and belligerent), and they dig up some other unrelated offense to sue about (while ignoring the hundreds of other establishments with the same minor offense), then that is retaliation.
Thank you for saving me 100 hours in 2023. Installing for Firefox right now.
> The Constitution wasn’t designed for this.

The Constitution wasn't designed for a multi-racial democracy, either. It took a bloody civil war to settle the slavery question though.
The laws themselves are unjust.

In NA we don't build the housing we badly need, making it arduous and illegal to build in most places, which has spiked the price of having a home, making it unaffordable to many, and then we've turned around and made it illegal to not have a home.

That there are so many people "breaking the law" is a self created problem by refusing to build homes for people to live in.
I would say Sublime Text is in fact a program.

It has also saved me over 100 hours or more.

And this includes its instantaneous speed and the ability to open huge files!
Note that for a number of EU countries, US works are in the public domain once they are PD-US due to the application of the rule of the shorter term.
As in as a company you have to pay to extend copyright on a certain work.
From a friend's experience with shelters in NorCal, you're mostly safe from crime inside the shelters (except for theft) but at high risk of being a victim of crime and harassment when you're nearby/outside. You will be perpetually ill with coughs and colds if you stay in shelters.

edit to add: I don't know of any solutions. Sorry for sounding so hopeless.
The economy doesn't suck. Most of the 2022 numbers that look bad are really artifacts of year-over-year reporting, being compared to numbers from 2021 that were artificially high because of time-shifted demand from the pandemic in 2020. Compare 2022 to 2019 and most things look fairly normal for a three-year period.

Remember the "great resignation"? That was never a thing - people aren't leaving the workforce - it was just time-shifted demand for job switching that didn't happen during the pandemic, so that some transient numbers looked high.
iOS "focus" and "screen time" features
I can't help but to think this is intentional. It's a thinly veiled attempt at shifting the Overton Window [0].

Nobody would use "Tranny" or "Jewed" in professional conversation. It's a non-issue. But a non-controversial term like "Tribal Knowledge"?

It really reminds me of the main vs master default branch controversy where some activists really pushed a racial connotation on a term which had none [1] [2]. Of course, someone would have to be technical to be able to find the source while whining on social media is available to anyone!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

[1] https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

[2] https://repo.or.cz/cogito.git/commit/3c4347c8b64fb516bc097ab...
The youtube video embedded in the page shows it working with a GBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOJtrFnawk&t=392s
Death is absolute. In no circumstance can you avoid its impact. Thus, your argument is predicated upon exerting control over another human in order to control the timing of your displeasure.

Preferring a loved one to suffer, indefinitely, in order to spare your feelings... is the very definition of selfish.
Honestly I'm not sure those numbers are compelling enough.

We, like, know how to solve some of those other problems. Sure, there's politics and bureaucracy and complications and the opportunity for corruption, but you can assign a p close to 1 we could get it done in an arbitrary timeframe.

Meanwhile, what's the probability that dumping a particular amount of money into aging is going to pay off? Even taking a thousand years you need a p>0.002 to make it worth diverting money from the safe bet of getting a couple of years off the other things.
50 years of protection after the death of the author.
Just to add on to my now-uneditable comment, Junior Sports Magazine just filed their freedom of speech lawsuit yesterday because they were waiting for the outcome of Miller v Bonta II. IMO that's another clear instance of chilling 1st amendment rights.
A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying
good idea. FYI you can also `sudo vim /etc/hosts` and map any websites to 127.0.0.1, effectively blocking them. Your comment inspired me to do that thank you!
If possible, leave USA. There are political systems around the world that aren’t broken and there are some that are actually being fixed by voters (e.g. Australia). But USA is broken for at least our lifetimes.

You only live once.
So it's better to teach children what targets they should rape/murder instead? Your take is quite brain-dead.
I sympathize with that view, but nearly every decision you make, every day, at every price level, about everything, is a choice between flawed alternatives.
If they visited us a billion years ago, would we know?

Time is as big as space. If you’re positing that aliens must exist and can explore, they might have just done that and lost interest a million years ago, or they do sweeps every hundred thousand years.
And we go full circle. I learned pandas in 2012 so I don't have to deal with Excel or JMP scripting.

Still use Excel for quick stuff but otherwise it's pandas for me.
> If you believe people should be helped, you can go help them.

I could, but how is that better? If there's a natural disaster on the other side of the country and I can see that people need help should I immediately pack up my car with water bottles, food, and blankets and drive for three or four days to "go help them?"

I have responsibilities here too. I have a job and a family who need me here. Should I just leave them at a moment's notice? And not just me, you want everyone to do this? Have thousands of people drop everything they are responsible for to drive however many days/hours it takes to "go help"? Getting to the people who need the help in a timely manner would be hard enough, but imagine the roads being blocked by all the traffic at a time when emergency responders are trying to work. Clearly my efforts are not better directed at helping people myself.

It's stupidly inefficient for everyone to respond to people in need by going to help them. It's sure as hell not how it's "supposed to work" and that's why we've set up the response systems that we have. We need to depend on others to do the helping so that we can contribute to their efforts while still living our lives and without wasting massive amounts of time and resources causing new problems.

Because we're stuck depending on others to help collect needed supplies and funding, coordinate with local emergency response teams, and disseminate whatever aid is needed the fewer organizations we task with doing all that the better and more efficiently it all works.

> than trying to use government force to do it.

"The government" isn't forcing anyone to help people. It's your neighbors, my neighbors, and everyone around and between us choosing to help others. We decided we want state and federal aid for people who need it. It wasn't even a decision we made one time, we continuously decide that it's the best way to handle aid. If we ever change our minds and decide that everyone packing up their cars and rushing in to personally deliver assistance is preferable we can vote to stop it. No one is forcing us, it was our choice. You might not agree with it, but that's just life in a democracy. Collectively we may choose things you don't personally care for, and thank goodness because it sounds like you haven't really thought through your "Everyone go help whoever they think needs it directly" strategy at all.
Shelters are often worse than being outside in my past experience.

People in shelters use lots of hard hard drug and fight or sexually assault each other, shelters are full of tons of illness (physical and mental), rampant theft, you'll end up with awful pests like bedbugs, body lice, scabies, fleas... and you aren't even guaranteed to be let in, after hours of waiting in line, due to lack of availability.

They aren't well funded enough, aren't taken care of, don't have enough staff to keep you safe, and have too many troubled people in too close quarters. The ones sponsored by religious organizations are usually just as bad and add an extra layer of judgement and religious propaganda on top of it all, rudely implying that all your problems are because you don't follow their faith.

I'm not saying I have a good alternative in mind; being outside can also (obviously) suck for different reasons, but there are tons of legitimate reasons to avoid shelters even when you're homeless.
Because some people are really bad at formatting code manually and constantly nitpicking them about it is both tedious and antagonistic. Its much better for a faceless tool to just remove formatting from the equation entirely.

I think the sane part of the software engineering world has realised that auto-formatting is just the right way to do it, and the people that disagree just haven't figured out that they're wrong yet.

Maybe you meant "why is Black specifically better than no autoformatting, given that it isn't perfectly stable across versions?" in which case the answer is:

a) In practice it is very stable. Minor changes are easily worth the benefits.

b) They have a stability guarantee of one calendar year which seems reasonable: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/...

c) You can pin the version!!
I wonder how much difference there would be if I used shared_ptr in C++ instead of the bare one.

EDIT:

As far as I can tell less than 190 lines of asm but I don't know shared_ptr enough to produce exactly the same code.
online store does not take it is the problem, plus I have to go there to buy in the store.
I'm happy to keep paying for it, since it does exactly what I need, and I knew going in that I wasn't paying for a customer support team to genuflect every time I had a question or concern. If it's not working at all for you, don't pay for it. What's baffling to me is how this manages to generate a whole thread of drama twice a year. It's a bookmarking service.
I know this is just a rhetorical point of yours, but maybe we can start to accept that America and the west as whole is not actually significantly different from China with stuff like this.

Thinking about it, why would we be? I can't see a good answer to that without appealing to weird/nationalistic/naive ideas about the moral character of states themselves, or simply the understanble nonlogic of "well this is my country, they wouldnt be like that here." At the end of the day, priorites are priorites, incentives are incentives. Efficiency doesn't know or care about culture, it is self-justifying.
dsq [0]

[0] - https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq
The core of MacOS (NeXTStep) was already ported to x86 long before Apple was even involved. Remember NeXTStep ran on x86 in the early 90's, as they exited the hardware business. It was not compelling for server workloads. It was also very picky on drivers, as the other poster implies. Plus it was difficult to build open source software for (SunOS was the gold standard for commercial Unix at the time. Everything you downloaded ran on Sun!)

I knew guys who ran early ISPs, tried it for servers, then realized they'd be better off with a Sun box and then eventually early Linux (Slackware). They were trying to run a news server off of it, IIRC.
Not everything needs to live for decades. Sometimes the ephemeral capture is just as important in sorting out your ideas.

What doesn't work for me with these tools is that once I've gone deep I still need a tool that offers the absolute MINIMUM friction in its interface and for me nothing has conquered an A3 sheet and a box of coloured pencils.

Perhaps I should invest my time in really learning one of these tools but they never seem to be seamless enough to pose a real challenge to a pen and paper. Maybe if I had a Wacom tablet...?
The 68k was about a year too late to be considered for the IBM PC. I do wonder what an alternate world in which 68k based PCs were the norm would have been like.
Elm has easily saved me hundreds of hours per year in compile time alone, not to mentioned the likely thousands of hours it's saved me in time spent debugging. I still shudder to think of the horrendous compile times I got from even small TypeScript projects, and the days I'd waste trying to debug them.
TBC's act as a heartbeat for video frames to prevent an analog glitch in the otherwise 30-frames a second of interleaved video. Those innocuous glitches can screw up edits, digitizing, and produce so many errors down stream when you make copies, etc. They'll sync different cameras to the same frame refresh so that live edits won't flip when you change camera views mid-frame. They are expensive and worth it if you mess with analog video.
Given the very low efficiency of most mental health "treatment" this remains a mostly theoretical question. Until psychology and physiatry sort themselves out and become sciences were really just talking about locking people up...
Anybody want to start a company specializing in de-clouding companies that went all in and now want to switch to a hybrid approach?
In olden times, people used to be sent to poor farms, where they were given shelter, labor, and food. Yes, there were abuses. But these are fixable ones that we should have tried to solve, rather than get rid of the program entirely. Such situations help people get back on their feet by providing meaningful employment, training in labor, stability, an address, etc. I don't see why this is so verboten to mention these days.

I'm thoroughly unconvinced this is a problem of shelter space. I don't know about Dallas, but in Portland, OR we have hundreds of beds going unused every night, and despite best efforts to fill them... we still have tons of street campers.
The missing workers who are never coming back
Dash for Mac and Vs code
I'd prefer if he didn't hang out with convicted child rapists for one.
For that matter, JS Bach himself very obscure as a composer during his lifetime, and for 50 years none of his works were in print... and many still weren't until the late 19th century.

Any fame he had during his life or the period after was for his virtuoso organ performance.
I would look at this from a different angle: do not pursue things just because other people claim[0] you will be happier upon acquisition; pursue the things that you have reasonable objective reason to believe will increase future you's effective range of possible actions.

You've got to
know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em

[0] hint: sales managers love when their reps get into watches or boats or planes or "houses suitable for entertaining"...
Thanks. I was unaware of it.
It's an interesting point. There is potentiall good (although it's way to easy to screw up) in pushing some western values on other cultures. This could be an instance where it's good. But for most people even talking about it requires all sorts of doublethink, like admitting aspects of some cultures are superior to one another, and as you say rejecting colonialism (which I think is a red herring anyway) while actively trying to go in and save the "primitives".
Actually you're right - it could be categorized as a list. I guess we'll call it a borderline case.

Thanks for thoughtfully considering the rules, on your first post no less! If only everyone would...
This is a very emotional topic so I want to avoid being too critical of that opinion, but at the same time, it's much much deeper than "doesn't want to". Dementia patients depending on their state are a danger to others and themselves. Their limited ability to understand what's happening around them means that they can get aggressive.

Even if not aggressive, they will just "get lost" and try to drive or "go for a walk" in the middle of the night in their pyjamas. I suppose from the way you phrased it that in your case it was mostly harmless and you just disliked getting weird looks, but a lot of dementia patients are actually incompatible with society and need to be detained or given anti-anxiety medications.
No, the FBI Is Not ‘Paying Twitter to Censor’
We had asylums where we locked up mentally ill peopl.
They were treated in a most horrible way in general.
I have seen pictures and documentaries and a lot of them
were nightmares.

Then we tore down the asylums and set the inmates free.
Good job.

You are free.
Live your lives in happiness.
Nobody will force treatment up on you.

In fact getting treatment is close to impossible in the US.

Many people without treatment get progressively worse.

A lot of start using alcohol or other drugs to try to manage their lives.
For most people that does not turn out all that well over time.
They had added a component that will give them even more problems.

Now prison is full of people with mental illness who ought not
to be there.
They have become the new asylums.

The prison cannot provide the care and treatment
required.

This is not progress.

What was needed before, and is needed now is appropriate treatment
for each person.

Some can do well with speech therapy.
Some need to be tied to a bed. A lot.

Between those extremes there is a near infinite palette of mental problems.
No two people are the same, even if they are given the same diagnosis.

(Diagnosis in itself is a difficult thing to get right, and requires observation
/ follow up over a long period of time. Not just when they are having
an episode. )

Treatment of mental illness is almost universally a part of healthcare
with low funding.
I've mentored a couple of college kids and have pointed out some good jobs at good companies and the response I got was "they're boring". They might be boring but they pay well and have good benefits, I guess it's got to be a generational think because I would have jumped all over a $80K gig at a boring company vs a $32K gig at some BS startup at 23-24.
Back in the dotcom boom, most certainly. I had a friend who had taken exactly one programming course in some obscure financial language and she got hired at the, to her, insane amount of $45/hour. At that time, pretty much any warm body that had ever looked at a computer was being hired.