skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I see it: forced treatment is humane when the person being treated consents afterward. e.g. stopping someone in a bad mental state from suicide or anorexia, so that they thank you when they improve. Of course it’s not possible to know whether the person will consent beforehand, so you have to predict (and if you get it wrong, you messed up).

In most cases this is what real-world suicide prevention leads to, because if a person is adamant on killing themselves they usually find a way. The exception is really sick people who want to kill themselves, but can’t because they have limited autonomy. That would be covered by euthanasia and is one of the reasons why it is very important ethically.

For other mentally ill people, forced treatment is still only ok if they may actually get better and thank you later. If someone is dirty, homeless, and senile, but they don’t care, putting them into a retirement home does not make them happy so it does not actually benefit them. If someone acts sane only when they get medication but they hate it, giving them the medication does not benefit them, it benefits others.

In these cases forced treatment may still be practically necessary and morally ok to benefit society (we don’t want dirty homeless people begging on the street, so we outlaw public indecency and soliciting, and some illnesses make a person dangerous). But I think that we need to understand that forced treatment is not to benefit the mentally ill themselves, but us, and also take their feelings into account. e.g. force homeless people out of the streets and into homes, but give them autonomy, and if their homes decay and they sit around all day and don’t care, let them.

EDIT: Should also add that nursing and caregiving are jobs which give people power over other, vulnerable people. Many of the doctors which take care of mentally ill and disabled people are genuinely amazing people who honestly don’t deserve the bad connotation, but some apply to these jobs to take advantage of their power over others. So when forcing treatment on someone, we really need to ensure that those in charge of the treatment have said person’s best interests at heart, and need to be monitored and held accountable. This is something which is unfortunately lacking because the people who are exploited or in danger of being exploited and thus care the most can’t really advocate well, so the burden falls to beaurocracy which cannot adequately manage.
Australian stock exchange's blockchain failure burns market trust
https://archive.vn/xZKGZ
Many wealthy people are inclined because they'll have the lowest mortgage rates caused by a 0.5% interest rate deduction with a temporary asset transfer of $1m. Some people will take the 5% as opposed to 5.5% and save $300/month, because whoever originates your mortgage may just sell it to WF anyway.
Reminds me of a co-worker who would spend between 3-5 hours a day messing with their vim config. I know we cannot actually write code for 8 hours a day, heck a 3-4 hour session can feel too long. But spending 15+ hours a week endlessly fiddling with their tools was hilarious to watch on some level. I remember at team lunches how they would go on and on about this new plugin they found that is going to save them so much time now. Oh the irony if they only stepped back for a moment...
Prague resident here. Hell ya people act unsocial here. The Brits and Germans specifically. Prague has replaced Amsterdam as the euro stag party destination for sure. Cops are very lax here and while not legal, weed is highly tolerated.
Direct listings seem fine-ish.
I was trying to be generous and open in my question.
IDEs like this are definitely kludgy and slow but the productivity gain from code navigation, test tool integration, profiler, and debugger is just insane (imo). Having a tool that helps you visualize the code (while it's running) is incredibly powerful
I worked for a Wells Fargo joint venture when I was younger, doing credit research for mortgages during the early 00's bubble.

I very quickly came to the conclusion that all of their quality assurance rules were designed to whitewash, not catch, fraud, let alone simple mistakes. No one cared if what was going on our reports was total nonsense, so long as it was nonsense that fit the rules the underwriters had.

Basically the job was to research negative items on credit reports, and if I could get the creditor to say one of a dozen things, I could take it off the report and get it rescored. So a lot of phone calling.

There was a guy in my unit that'd been there years. He made less than 1 or 2 phone calls a day, but yet cleared the exceeds expectations number of reports consistently. I realized he was just never calling anyone, and writing up total fabricated notes on the files. But because the quality assurance sampled random calls, not random files, this was totally accepted.

This was great for WF: workers would commit fraud, but only in the direction that got more loans sold, and if it ever got noticed, they could just fire the call center worker and claim it was a "bad apple."

When I saw the story about WF branch managers opening accounts in customers names without permission I wasn't surprised in the slightest.

I believe the entire company leadership is consciously behind this sort of winking internal corruption that just so happens to increase the bottom line and bonuses for everyone involved.
The difference is with a local-first editor (like Obsidian) you hopefully get to keep your files if the company stops being nice
How is this any different from just re-using a bunch of template letters? If I was a lawyer I would be worried that the AI doesn't say something just right, potentially opening up contract loopholes. I would expect that you would need to proofread/audit everything anyways, which is the real time killer.

Would a lawyer sign something they didn't read?
Abiogenesis seems so absurdly unlikely that it's enough to explain the Fermi paradox a couple of times and still get some extra margin all by itself.
Things - its a light weight todo app with just enough features to make it useful. I tend to use it for a dev log to keep track of what I'm working on, keep notes, and finally mark something as complete

https://culturedcode.com/things/
> Yesterday we visited with friends and their 12 year old daughter was on chapter 3 of Count of Monte Cristo and was complaining that it was dull and when it was going to start being awesome. We (her parents and our family) were cheering her to stay with it because the epic tale of escape and revenge (served quite cold) is really good.

It is really good, but one thing I have learned to appreciate is that some books just don't work for many teenagers yet. Classics in particular! You need quite a large frame of reference (history, geography, societal issues and classes) to be able to appreciate a novel written in 1844 which takes place in France in the decades before that. If a book doesn't work at 12, just let it be and find something more accessible for her.

Nothing kills a long time habit of reading better than being forced to read novels that don't (yet) work for you.
Just a reminder that you _can_ leave modal editing with :q (sorry couldn’t resist)
Researchers Explore Relationship Between Covid-19 and Fatty Liver Disease
Always nice to see a counterexample to Betteridge's law of headlines.
Can someone please explain what that means. I know MariaDB but understand pretty much nothing else here.
I guess it's a question of humane from whose perspective? If I were ever in a position where I'm not able to make sound decision ono my behalf and I don't have anyone around me to do so either, I would be OK with governmental entity intervening.

"Democratic mayor of New York City, instructed police and first responders to hospitalise people with severe mental illness who are incapable of looking after themselves."

I consider this humane and sound.
I feel like this is a pretty important comment that busts a popular myth about Twitter and Ruby. The notion that Ruby was a poor choice even for a young Twitter that hadn't hit scale makes Ruby (or at least, late 00s/early 10s Ruby) look even worse than it already does.
In 2021, I did an experiment to find out how long it takes to read classic technical books if we spend 40 minutes a day. It turned out that our small book club could read and understand a complete analytic number theory book in 120 days. The complete meetup logs are archived here: https://susam.net/club/meets/iant.html

I am currently doing a similar book club meetups for Mastering Emacs. If this sounds interesting to you, you are very welcome to join us. Meeting link, schedule, and other details are available here: https://susam.net/club/mastering-emacs/
I had to laugh at this one. The fraud case hinges on

"In fact, OneCoins were entirely worthless"

What, the other imaginary digital currencies were somehow more 'real' and were not entirely worthless? That's a curious stance.
That's directly contradicting the Pope:

> One cannot condone the sin of usury by arguing that the gain is not great or excessive

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I can see how Musk’s comment does sound sarcastic, but I think the Space X package isn’t generally being considered as a joke:
https://www.motor1.com/news/508914/tesla-roadster-spacex-spe...
With respect, your statement about ECT is not aligned with reality. ECT is evidence-based and effective, with side effects that are less pronounced in many cases than drug-based therapies. It is approved for use in pregnant patients in the USA. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is not peer-reviewed.
Reminded of the Louis C.K. sketch about being broke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jLufZx3IM
The SPAC is listed as a stock before there is really a company with a product. The value of that stock is defined by the capital put up for the SPAC. Once the SPAC merges with a real company the value of the stock is usually around whatever cash/capital put in originally.
These things are changing - Quarkus and Micronaut are gaining a lot of popularity, and both use compile-time DI, not reflection, and Quarkus in particular is designed to target GraalVM, and Graal does not like reflection at all.

Spring is the fucking devil though.
I can imagine this is useful if you want to sell digital goods, say an ebook or, cough, pictures, but don't want to or can't set up a shop, or use a payment processor. It looks like a simple and convenient solution, they handle all the payments and send you a check in the end.

But oh boy this seems to be an invitation to money laundering. 3 2 1 and people are going to put up links, and buy them themselves with stolen credit cards.
research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35158-9

PDF version: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35158-9.pdf
But they will still prevent youtube videos. Once you put 150 people on a flight with, that bandwidth will be expected to drop significantly.
Является ли https://wunderkiddy.com/category/nature отличным сайтом для хорошей мотивации и развития детишек? на самом деле стоит попробовать, это же будущее наших детей! На личном опыте проверено и все доступно.
> If you pay rent, only your landlord profits.

This ignores the opportunity cost of the delta between equity component of the house’s financing, mortgage payments, and rent.
I'm a linux sysadmin / devops guy who went through this recently. When I started looking, end of September, I had a ton of interest from recruiters who wanted to chat. I also applied to a ton of jobs. Week 2 looked a little sparse. By week 3 I was getting interviews daily.
It took 6 weeks, but I ended up with about 6 solid offers and I turned down another 2 or 3 that wanted to make offers, or continue interview rounds.
I landed an awesome job at the very end of November.
Things will pick up in January, good luck.
>> In the PAC learning setting, these are training examples because you use the labels to select a function, in this case the conditional output given the few shot examples.

That's not right. When you give a prompt to an LLM it doesn't use it to select a function [1]. The function is already selected (its weights are trained). The prompt only invokes the function.

The fact that there are no weight updates is important. Weight updates is how neural networks learn. Without weight updates neural nets can't be said to learn anything.

To dredge up from the depths yet another ancient definition of machine learning, the one by Tom Mitchell, an LLM will never improve its performance no matter how many prompts you give it. Every time you leave an interaction session with GPT-3, all the information you gave it in your prompts simply ceases to exist, as far as its model is concerned. There's nothing that is remotely like "learning" in that.

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[1] More precisely, in PAC-Learning a learner is said to have learned a class of concepts if, given an unlabelled instance from a concept in the class it correctly labels the instance as a member of the concept, with some probability of some error and in polynomial time, or after having observed a polynomial time of examples. As you say, PAC-Learning doesn't say anything about weights, but it doesn't say anything about selecting functions, either. It's a framework within which to study learnability. That's a bit of an aside, hence the footnote.
Assuming her threats and behavior would eventually result in her being tossed in jail, the choice seems to be between her imprisonment and her being forcibly medicated.

I don't have an answer for you. I think you've come up with a potential plot for a very interesting Star Trek episode though.
Absolutely not. I believe there is a legal argument in favor of bodily autonomy which includes the right to death.

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Life is inextricably linked with death. If you have the right to live, you must also have the right to die. That belief is largely entrenched in our medical system too but stops short of doctor assisted suicide.
Most homeless is due to mental illness. Almost always men with addiction issues. Many veterans suffering from PTSD. It's rarely the "single mother of two that lost her job at the plant" trope.
The question feels very complex when framed like in the article. In reality I think it's two separate but connected questions that society should be able to answer based on its dominant values.

1. Do we have and enforce laws about things like people setting up tent cities in neighborhoods, open air drug use, public defecation and attacking pedestrians.

Your politics can determine how you feel about this. My personal take is that yes we should have and enforce such laws.

2. What do we do when people are violating these laws due to mental illness? Do we just prosecute them and lock them up in regular jail or do we institutionalize and treat them like the mentally ill?

To me it seems like treating mentally ill transgressors as such is right. The alternative to treat them like regular criminals seem worse.

I think most people can follow this kind of argument. The real debate is around the first point, where do we draw the line about legal and illegal behavior.
Consider the friction coefficient between the two parts. If it slid perfectly, ie. both were made of greased teflon, then at 30 degrees half would be in the correct direction - sin30° = 0.5

However adding friction makes it much worse. Unlubricated steel on steel is really bad.
> I get what you mean, but what's the alternative? How should you behave if you're exempt from normal social boundaries because of your personal tragedy? Shout at random people? Throw things? Punch some guy in the face?

I don't mean to put words in obblekk's mouth (text box) so what I perceived them as meaning is: I don't think the person you're replying to was advocating for direct person-on-person action. When we see people protesting or pushing back against or loudly saying "this is wrong and I won't have it and neither should you" kinds of things, we should consider how our personal situation could rapidly change to be like theirs. And, in a lot of cases, would have been like theirs but for some skill at leveraging a few strokes of uncontrollable luck.

To me, it's like when people complain that "those damn unionized trash truck drivers are making $90,000 with a lot of overtime and a pension." Why is the response to try to tear them down, when the correct, to my mind, question is "why don't I have that, too?"
Yeah, this is where I've landed on Fermi. It's very likely life exists elsewhere - possibly even on moons in our solar system. And it's somewhat likely intelligent life exists in other solar systems. But physics is such that it is much less likely two intelligences will be able to talk to eachother much less reach eachother. To quote Douglas Adams: Space is really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
The fact that all instructors are actually models is obviously cringy, and that would certainly not be on youtube (although there are many similar channels with thinly dressed models) but to call it softcore porn is too much. It is arousing, but there is no simulated sex or anything evwn close to that.
I don't like Java although I have to use it at my current job. There is simply no other alternative that is both widely known and supported (think a lot of programmers and a lot of libraries). I see only 2 other candidates C# & Go, switching to either of them means significant effort and temporary performance drop for the entire company.

Java is a very backward language, at my current job we use Lombok to generate boilerplate code. Lombok itself is a compiler hack, I don't like it. Why is that Java 17 records does not have supports for builders or for "withers" (point.withX(3)), C# & Scala offer both of those things. This makes records unusable for most of my use cases.

The other hard miss is lack of named parameters. This either makes code very verbose or less readable.

And my last complain is about lack of support around Futures/async/await. Yes there will be project loom, maybe even in next JVM release but currently we don't have it and a lot of libraries will need at least a year to support it. So instead of await's I have to manually compose CompletableFutures into spaghetti like code. I really hate this. We propose to our architect to use Project Reactor but the idea was discarded (after all Reactive Programming is not very popular among "commodity" programmers).

If I had to start a company now I would probably also pick Java (or Go), my main points would be:
- Free compiler and IDE
- Good library support for wide range of use cases
- Programmers available on the market (Java) or willing to learn (Go)
- Good build system, static analysis tools, best practices, learning materials & stack overflow
- Language is battle tested (sorry Haskell, Ocaml & Lisp)

Yeah this reduces it to Java for JVM, C# for .NET, Go if you are adventurous. If someone pick something more ambitious like Scala 3 or Rust I would gladly join that company, but if it was my own I would not risk it.
Learn vi/vim/nvim. Interface hasn't changed much since 1976 (first version of vi).
slow? i use both pycharm and webstorm and their are definitely neither kludgy nor slow...
This looks very nice but no android support is unfortunately a dealbreaker
I do like Kotlin's nullable types for that reason alone. At least Java has far better NPE messages now.

https://www.baeldung.com/java-14-nullpointerexception
Norms are for dealing with magnitude not direction (and were brought up by my parent commenter). If you care about direction specify an angle, quadrant, cone or other subregion that allows you to take the limit to infinity which then doesn’t depend on the norm. Note this is the same in the univariate case where we talk about left and right tail if we need to distinguish.
I agree, I'm a big fan of tables when jotting down ideas to compare and contrast multiple aspects etc.

But as much as I like markdown for its simplicity, tables are a major PITA, almost to the point of complete uselessness.
I loved ditto when I used windows. Do you know a good ditto alternative for mac?
Or is it the other way around?
I think the issue is that MSG is too big of an organization to fairly institute a policy like this. It's like [FAANG of choice] refusing to serve someone because their [mother/spouse/hairdresser] posted a bad review of the coffee at [FAANG's] office in [fill in a city].

Maybe said company can have such a policy, but they probably shouldn't.
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This article[0] doesn't discuss the tech industry specifically, but Jerome Powell recently stated that deaths from covid is a notable factor in the labor shortfall. Those deaths, along with early retirements and decreased immigration, have left the labor market about 3.5 million people lighter than it would have been without covid.

[0]https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are...
What a dilemma. Is she aware of how she acts when she's off medication? Has she seen herself act this way on video?
I think that payment processors should be required to offer service to any legal business. If you do business on the internet you need a payment processor, and defacto need one in the real world. The fact that they can destroy a business on a whim shouldn't be legal.
I give it a year before the venue fires the bouncer to pinch pennies and just relies on the facial scanner
* This other JVM language has it too. Groovy is not Java.

Java does "have it," as in Java has streams. It's pretty crappy compared to Linq due to language limitations but it's a lot better than nothing.
The paradox is that the our solar system should have been visited. But so we haven't been able to detect anything.

It's much closer than the centauri system.
Nothing clever error detection and correction could not fix. Eq. fountain codes and many many copies on top.

Also you could have some simple repair bots wake up once in a while and fixup stuff (and themselves).
Interesting! I'd never thought about that, but it does make sense.
AHK - Auto HotKey

https://www.autohotkey.com/

It’s really a time saver as a launcher, running little scripts, asking input and doing whatever after works, calling native DLL Windows functions….
It’s a big helper of your own workflows
Most of the pieces we were using allowed for configuration via XML or code.

Predictably, the team therefore used both.
It's not that they deserve to lose their jobs. There were probably lots of honest people working at Theranos! That's not a good reason to have kept Theranos around, though.

Like, asbestos miners losing their jobs was a necessary result of shutting down the asbestos industry. It's not that it's fair, but it's not a reason to keep mining asbestos. Obviously ideally Wells Fargo could be reformed somehow, but the "corporate death penalty"[0] exists for a reason!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution
Capital One has no-charge partner ATM's everywhere (7/11, CVS, gas stations, there's like 100 in a 10-mile radius of me), some of the best interest rates (currently 3.3%), some of the best credit cards (3% cash back food/entertainment w/ 0$ annual), and best software tech / mobile app (#1 bank app on iOS, 4.9/5 rating). I'm not affiliated in anyway, I just am pleased with all their products for the last 10 years.
Complicating this is that OLED displays also strongly limit brightness in order to reduce wear, via an automatic brightness limiter. How they do it varies by manufacturer and you'll see different results if only part of the screen is bright versus if all of it is bright.

The only way to get good numbers would be to take several OLED TVs, a few LCD TVs, and measure their power usage at the outlet after calibrating them to be as close as possible, then running through several different test playbacks.
Generative AI: The technology of the year for 2022
Many houses dropped apple, not only because of price, but also OS capabilities and software availability. The system became too limited, so where you would see rows of mac pros, you prob now see PCs.