skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An old friend has a niece with a life-long, major mental illness. When off her medications (I've lost count of how many times, over the years), she goes "on the run", and phones home to various family members (often many times per day) with angry rants - which very often include threats of great bodily harm and/or death. Her grip on reality in that state is rather poor - asserting that Bugs Bunny and the CIA are conspiring to create a brain controlled army of polar bears with space lasers would not be unusual.

When on her medications, she is a relatively pleasant & rational person, usually able to hold an entry-level job.

Her family do not want to throw her in jail for all the threats (I'm not asserting that they could, if they wanted to), she really does not like the side effects of her medications, and (under the current system) neither confining her to a long-term mental health facility, nor reliably forcing her to take her medications seem to be available options. (Her family has talked to lawyers about their options more than once.)

What would be the "humane" thing to do? In composing your answer, please recall that her family are also humans, and - barring a premature death - she is likely to outlive most of them.

Edit: Thank you for all the replies, but my 4th-paragraph question was intended to be rhetorical. My point is that the case-by-case reality, even from the PoV of a well-to-do family that really seems to care about the mentally ill person, is often agonizingly difficult.
> release so ludicrous ammounts of energy that they might be visible over interstellar distances

Ludicrous at human scales, but utterly insignificant compared to the output of even the smallest stars. Bear in mind that small stars are hard to detect more than a few dozens of light years away. Well you can detect them, but they are hard to range. It’s difficult to pick out nearby stars in the dense stellar background as being nearby. Take a look at the deep field images to get an idea of the clutter. A drive plume would just be utterly lost in all that background noise.

People imagine the sky as being inky black with a few bright objects to look for, and that even a drive plume light years away would stand out against the blackness, but that’s not how it is at all. The sky is full of distant clutter that makes picking out particular objects extremely difficult. And if your plume is in a system anywhere near a star, forget it. You’d have to know exactly what you’re looking for and make extremely precise long term observations to have any chance whatsoever.
Why 2022 was a record-breaking year in bug bounty awards
but requires a lot of extra work

That's not my experience at all. I've found that you get most of the benefits via type inference with very little additional work. Although if you try to be super strict and forbid any use of "any" or casting, then that could get annoying and possibly counterproductive.
Wow, DataGrip also looks very nice. I find it funny that how first we had Eclipse vs IntelliJ, and now DBeaver vs DataGrip - each built on the respective platform, DBeaver on Eclipse, and DataGrip on IntelliJ.
Not aggressively enough
It's the end of the fiscal year. No one wants to drown in paper work during the holidays.
Id love to know what Edward Tufte thinks of this sort of design. I get very strong small-multiples vibes from seeing all those needle-style meters, and I assume, given the stakes, that the Soviets applied some psychology and human information design principles to them. Or maybe they just hacked it together, who knows.
You would harmed by the prejudicial actions taken
against you, like skipping you for advancement,
but not by the use of the word specifically

Yes, but there's a cyclical relationship between words and actions.

Words can reinforce attitudes and actions. When your boss uses the term "jewed down" they are also sending the message that it's okay to stereotype people.

I do not support some kind of zero-tolerance approach to language. (After all, "tolerance" is the goal!) However, I do find quite a few of these changes worthwhile.

For example, a recently disabled friend pointed out how it kind of sucks for her to hear words like "lame" used as a synonym for "bad." So I've tried to weed that one out. Is it going to solve all of her problems? Is that even in her top 100 problems in life? No and no. But I mean, like why not try and make a little change like that?
You don’t see an issue with members of congress and us intelligence pressuring social media companies to suppress political speech?

A private company censoring speech is one thing- it was widely known that Twitter was moderated with a bias towards liberals. But the government doing so seems like a violation of the first amendment, doesn’t it?
Seems like the threshold should probably be whether it's substantially interfering with their ability to interface with the rest of society, especially in terms of breaking laws. Many people in the situation you describe no longer seem capable of regulating their own behavior.
Obesity is something else than median ( = control group) living.

Sport is good for you. Extreme sports markedly cuts short average life expectancy and late quality of life. With your logic, that makes sports bad.

Edit: actually, I guess it depends on where you live. In America, obesity probably is the median..
It would prove life is abundant, but it would still not prove that intelligent life is.
Yeah, we have the dollar amount lost to porch piracy, it'd be interesting to see how much "value" comes out the other side. I suspect much of it is just ripped open and left; perhaps Amazon will start shipping low value items in clear boxes.
Well said. The "Drake Equation" is complete and utter garbage. There is no such thing as a "probability" of any of those terms, in the way we normally understand probability, i.e. dice or card games.

That said, there probably are intelligent civilizations somewhere in the universe, but we have that pesky problem of distance and the speed of light, as you said. People like to imagine that eventually civilizations find a way around it, but in all likelihood they don't.
github copilot
i actually disagree a lot with this. Sure, if you asked something with heavy cultural baggage that would frequently be a real concern, but when you are primarily trying to bridge the machine-human chasm, our cultural differences among the examples you gave are trivial in comparison. For instance, if you offered an AI personal assistant but the catch was that it would (at least starting out) only have the perspective of an average middle-class Indian person, it would still beat the absolute crap out of "first generation" technology like Siri or Alexa!
I low key enjoyed COVID, it gave me a week of free time to read.
Chatgpt to the rescue!
Sometimes, paperwork is there to force some other condition to have been met, such as time and review and notification of others. So, it it more "right" to make people that want to commit suicide take a bit of time to consider whether that's actually the decision they want, and not something being influenced by a temporary situation, whether external or internal (such as a hormone imbalance that ebbs and flows)? I think yes, generally, even if edge cases exist.
The product is the technical execution when your twitter.

Big changes causing downtime will always happen what will kill a company is a string of low level annoyances that just keep getting worse especially if the company don't really have a product other then "convenience" to sell.
Space is large. If you don't look in some direction, you don't see what's there. Big, or not.

Let's take the Orion engine. It keeps blasting away thermonuclear bombs. Are we looking straight at it? Why? Ah, maybe because they are in the neighborhood of a star. But then we are also looking at the star, which is trillions or quadrillions times brighter. Same for fusion plasma drives or anything else.

If the Orion engine is traveling between stars, we'd have a chance, but then how would we know where to look ?
kind of sounds like workflowy, or dynalist (which is made by the same people who make obsidian!)
Agreed. Typing this with Vim (:
I think the 'common recommendation' is one is enough, but typically drip the one that is furthest from where the water comes into your house.
I don't really accept that. So what if it's $10K? Even if they doubled the price, so what? There are lots of firms that would outfit their studios with dozens of $20K Mac Pros. In 1996/7, the ANS/700, running a special version of AIX, was upwards of $25K. Not many were sold, and yet the ANS group was still profitable. Steve Jobs killed it along with A/UX in his return.

This "$10K is too expensive" line doesn't fly. Right now, just upgrading a Mac Pro processor can push the price over $13K. Again, so what? I'm certain there were more than a handful $50K configured 2019 Mac Pros sold. This kind of thing is expensive for the individual, but for a business it's merely a commodity. $50K is cheap because it couldn't even pay the salary of one developer for a year, and the Mac Pro is useful for at least a few years, so cost is more like $16K/yr. That's an absolutely nothing business expense.
I devote part of my time to rereading books, on the basis that you've read a book for the first time only on second read. One benefit is that I get a lot more out of them, another is that I remember more of them. This is useful when the book is complicated, or more is going on than is obvious at the surface: many classics benefit from this strategy.
good ole find, grep, sed, and jq.
I wouldn't say it's "anti-worker", just armchair discussion of supply-demand economics. You can't improve worker conditions without an honest characterization of market dynamics. It pretty straightforward that a decrease of "open positions" (the supply of jobs) and the increase in "candidates looking for work" (the demand for jobs) would afford employers the leverage to change their hiring strategies.

Combine that with post-covid environment where employers want to boost productivity to prior levels, and as they see other companies successfully perform layoffs without huge hits to productivity or stock price, and you get a perfect storm.

And yes, most companies that have had had layoffs are still hiring, but obviously more selectively.

Follow up:

> It sounds like you're saying that companies are going to lay off (say) half their workforce, and replace them by a handful of "10x engineers" who they pay twice as much

they don't have to be 10x engineers, just perceived as better than their current "hand". Put some card back in the pile, draw some new ones from the deck. And they don't have to pay them twice as much either (unless a really desirable skillset), it's an employers market.
It's similar in purpose to sending your goons to break one of the lawyers' knees, and barely more ethical.
There won’t be anything artificial about such intelligences. I have taken to calling them synthetic intelligences.
> How does that work in practice for a company like Hooters - do they spend millions on lawyers to be able to defend their position?

They certainly spend millions on lawyers. They've been sued for not hiring men several times, AFAIK always settle out of court. They defend their position by claiming being a woman is a BFOQ for working at Hooters, but aren't eager to risk losing in court.
This is not allowed in my state thank god
I have no horse in this race, and.. isn't there a lot of backroom reason to cast suspicion, fear, uncertainty and doubt on Apple about CPU and chip design?
I feel that AI can do away with 90% of the KPO industry. Most of that is just grunt work being done by a lowly paid human halfway across the world.
If you are in Europe just submit to him a GDPR request (for fun).
All of human history involves "cultural appropriation", since cultures are shared and shaped as different groups interact over time. Very few human groups remain so isolated that they're not influenced or don't influence other cultures.
There's a mentally ill person who lives outside my apartment. Every day/night she screams at the top of her voice about random things. I feel very sorry for her but at some point she needs to be moved and taken somewhere. She has no right to subject the entire neighborhood to her rants. All of our collective santity outweights her issues. It's not that different than a repeat criminal. Reguardless of reasons, at some point they're too much of a net negative to society. Dealing with them in some humane way is ideal but those 2 things are separate concerns IMO.

Meaning there are 2 issues

(1) Save everyone else from someone's distruptive behavior

(2) Deal with the person in the best possible way

You can solve (1) and not solve (2). Being not able to solve (2) perfectly does not invalidate the need to solve (1)
It's moral to have an unsubscribe button, it isn't moral to require me to fax in an unsubscribe form after signing up with one click.

It's moral to ensure charges go before a court quickly, it's immoral to allow a person to languish in jail for decades without trial.

Time and effort are a components of everything including morality. To dismiss time and effort as trite or irrelevant in nearly any situation seems abusurd.
Berkeley Aerospace EdTech Co Looking for Embedded Engineer
The graphs aren’t very accurate. Reports 8k twitter layoffs???
We run projects in space for students around the world. Our 10th mission is currently operational on the ISS. Watch my interview with Alex Glow from Hackster Cafe to get an idea of what we are up to. I'd love to hear from you if you have the skill and think this mission has value.
Firmly agree with this.
Shocked, no. Disappointed, yes. If you were willing to explore the space intellectually you'd find many legal scholars who could explain how what's happening now represents a significant deviation from the past. The discussion of the court's legitimacy isn't a social media phenomenon.
The ultimate flex from a type 3 civ, love it!
In my experience, shippers will claim a package was delivered and must have been stolen rather than own up to losing it.
fzf!!!
I agree that there is a lot more harm caused than the sheer monetary side of it. Don't do business with Wells Fargo if you can avoid it. But as far as the scale of the redress goes, the CFPB announcement[1] has an assessment of the total harm caused:

Wells Fargo had systematic failures in its servicing of automobile loans that resulted in $1.3 billion in harm across more than 11 million accounts.

Also a detailed list of how much Wells Fargo is to pay for which group of harmed consumers:

Specifically, Wells Fargo will have to pay:

More than $1.3 billion in consumer redress for affected auto lending accounts.
More than $500 million in consumer redress for affected deposit accounts, including $205 million for illegal surprise overdraft fees.
Nearly $200 million in consumer redress for affected mortgage servicing accounts.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-order...
Saying this as FreeBSD user: FreeBSD didn't switch this many times because no one is working on a new thing. The community is already small, the community of people using it on desktop is even smaller. Developers that can work on any of this - almost doesn't exist at all.

Corporate money and contribution go to: storage, network, scheduler. Anything desktop related doesn't get any love. I bet that PR for EoL drm-kmod from linux still not merged.
This is… one perspective. I personally think it's pretty judgmental and don't think it's a particularly insightful one.

Wholesome people have all sorts of lifestyles and habits. Even ones you disagree with. Wholesome people drink, and alcohol is certainly a drug. I have known many, many wholesome people who drink and do drugs—generally in moderation—and it doesn't have to negatively impact other aspects of their life. Most people are like this.

But there are also wholesome people who go through difficult periods of their life and choose to self-medicate. Maybe you believe that act isn't wholesome, but it doesn't by itself need to invalidate your entire evaluation of a person.
Past generations got rid of the wolves for a reason. Although it's nice for wildlife to exist somewhere, it doesn't belong in close contact with humans.

The desire to bring wildlife to where people live reminds me of anti-vax in that it's giving up safety benefits we've gained out of a misguided desire to be more natural.
I don't consider size to be the primary determiner of how banks operate re: good or bad. I consider the ownership model to primarily determine incentives and behavior. They are, of course, are not uncorrelated, but rather when attributing primary cause, I see credit unions incentives aligned with their clientele because they are one and the same. Whereas banks have a larger discrepancy between owners and customers.
That's a great list of filters. Thank you.

Do you happen to know books, movies, articles or other media that expand on this?
That sounds more like a microframework vs a kitchen sink opinionated framework issue though than a language issue. eg Flask is a DIY collection of libraries with your own architecture vs say Rails or Django where you have 95% of those decisions made for you and baked in.

I'm sure there are Flask style frameworks in Java land too. And there was a port of Spring for Python a while back too :)
Probably could go criminal with fraud. They sold a ticket that they did not intend to honor, and the person is not able to get their money back.
Exactly, but there are even more fundamental problems with all these identity laws.

1. They're inherently unjust and anti-equality.

2. In the case of stuff like race and gender, the law doesn't even clearly define what terms like "black" and "white" are supposed to mean. There is no scientific definition because in physical reality race doesn't exist. It's assumed everyone follows race ideology, but even if we assumed that to be true then the premise of such suits is that someone committed a thought crime. Such cases are bound to lead to wrongful convictions as well as actual discrimination going unpunished because it can't be proven. These discrimination suits are the modern day equivalent of medieval witch trials.

3. They create division and conflict. That may be an intentional feature instead of a bug though.
If you agree to something, you are not a victim, you are a participant.

Don’t agree to things you don’t like and claim to be a victim, unless you had a gun to your head. We should have higher expectations than that.

Don’t like the mortgage process? Don’t get a mortgage. Pay cash, or rent. The world doesn’t owe you the exact terms you want. That’s not the fault of capitalism, it’s as bad or worse under any other system.

You also seem confused about how the process works. Nobody hovers over you under time pressure. Escrow takes like 30 days, and during that time the lenders will freak out about any reason to prevent you from getting the mortgage. They are more worried about getting screwed than the applicants are.
I'm not worried about "acting unethically" being a condemnation, but IMO actions taken in a vacuum can't really be judged to be ethical or unethical, which is what it seems like you're trying to do when you state that violating any arbitrary agreement is unethical. In fact I'm not sure you really fully believe this, since you add the proviso "when the counterparty has operated in good faith".

I would add that ethics is an entire branch of philosophy, so you know, there's so ambiguity between different folks' definitions. IMO it is ethical to violate contracts that would cause undue harm to one of the parties without good cause and furthermore it is unethical for a party to ask another to sign such a contract. And working at another sandwich place is not good cause. Clearly in your opinion you think it is unethical to violate such a contract because you appear to believe that violating any agreement (almost irrespective of context) is unethical. I'd be curious if you think that Jimmy Johns is ethical, unethical, or neutral for inserting such language into a contract in the first place. I would strongly disagree with that being either neutral or ethical.

Not that the US government is an arbiter of ethics, but Jimmy Johns has dropped their non-competes in several states after state Attorneys General filed suit against them: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...
I had just switched from IBM 370 mainframe assembler to Java in mid-2000, worked for several months at iXL, a then-typical consulting company with high margins and correspondingly high "bling" -- elaborate office furnishings, massive plasma TVs in the conference rooms, massages, beer cart Fridays, et cetera. That got crushed in the dot-bomb, followed soon after by 9/11. I managed not to have to return to my former vertical (airline reservations), but I definitely had to scramble to stay relevant. I work at Amazon now (usual disclaimer; opinions my own, etc.).
> Rivian

Strategically, it might be smart to avoid for the time being a company that is so new. Will they be around in a meaningful way in 5 years when you need the fleet serviced?
> And I never thought twice, because I was expensing it.

Probably more than 50% of Delta customers can't expense the cost. Travel is an obvious cost cutting center for most companies.
These things are becoming a reality for streaming.

As the prices go up, and the content becomes broken up between more and more services, 2 things happen:

* The idea of a bundle that saves you money, adds convenience and leaves you less caught out when licenses change hands compared to 20+ individual subscriptions becomes more and more tempting

* The 6-month and 12-month plans for these services are much cheaper and become more appealing.

Back when it was only netflix at $7, there was no need for a bundle or a 12-month plan.

But when it's all these services at $15 each, a 12-month long bundle would save a lot of money in the long run.

Bundles may not exist yet, but they will. Mark my words.
Having recently moved from IntelliJ to VS Code, I still miss a few things in the IntelliJ platform (it's overall layout is cleaner, important things are easy to get to), but VSCode has (last I checked) far superior remote debugging support, and is otherwise similar enough once you get past the muscle-memory.
I'm not convinced we would be able to view any of those. The only exoplanets we've been able to directly image are huge gas giants that emit a ton of infrared light. A massive solar sail will likely be much smaller and emit a lot less light.

See here for a list with images to understand the level of detail we're getting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...

I'd think you can easily have galaxy-hopping civilizations that would still be orders of magnitude less noticeable than these planets.
Surely some of the answer also depends on what constitutes the "treatment," no?
Unfortunately it's not a joke. Even starting your own one-person engineering firm will not get you free of it.
This was directly caused by their policy of incenting new accounts which was the last thing they were sanctioned for.
We need to do the best we can with the information and morality we have, we've become paralyzed into inaction by fear of doing anything wrong and the ghosts of atrocities past.
It's certainly tough for sure. I think the ultimate question is what is considered "humane". Locked up in a straight jacket in a padded room for having slightly depressive thoughts is certainly not, but also allowing someone like in your story to spiral out of control and act out their trauma is arguably equally as inhumane. I wish I had a good answer for you.
jq + parallel is a godsend. Take some command output, run another json-producing command in parallel on each line, and pipe it back into jq -s