skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a massive issue with restraining people who have committed no crimes.

Just in way of an example, what evidence do we have that she committed a crime (outside of avoiding treatment, and then avoiding imo illegal detention)?

As far as I see it’s been 2-3 years she’s been out in public, likely longer with TB. Do we have any evidence it spread to others?

I’m highly skeptical of the science around TB because of cases like this.

We have laws that let people commit suicide, we sell alcohol (a known toxin), and why do we care if someone’s sick and doesn’t want treatment?

To put another way, I like to the think of the government as “we the people”. Would I be willing to restrain someone at gun point for being sick? Nah, that’s crazy.
Randomised controlled trial.

Controlled means there is a control arm that get no treatment, or treatment as usual (depending on what's needed).

Ideally a Db-rct a doubly blinded randomised controlled trial.
I think this really pops the bubble of the fantasy of the ultra-productive scrappy individual running circles around stodgy old corporations, because the little hacker is exploiting Codex or Copilot. It seems in reality the outcome is the opposite: AI is amplifying the advantages of large incumbent software companies. They have the data and the resources to train and deploy this stuff. They've been using it in practice for years and they aren't planning to share it with you.
Hasn’t he been there for about 5 years now?
https://archive.ph/L0pQN
Tacoma is the Gary, Indiana of Washington.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686029

This saga has been going on for a long, long time. At one point she was even caught going to a casino to gamble: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/woman-with-untreated...

She also had a hospital visit because she was a passenger in a car (therefore not isolating) and she avoided disclosing her active Tuberculosis infection to the staff. They had to take chest X-rays as part of her accident-related treatment and the infection was so bad that they initially thought it was severe lung cancer. (Described in the linked HN article)

Given the public health risk and her continued flaunting of the isolation/treatment requirement, I'm surprised this went on for so long. We'll never know how many other people were exposed, from casinos to other hospital patients and everyone else she passed along the way without exercising even basic precautions. Wild.
Share holders > Employees > Users

Users and employees can swap places on case to case basis
Obstinate appeal to authority to shut down dissenters is exactly how it took years for "The Science" to catch up to what had been obvious from the available data since 2020. From the masks to the social distancing, to denial of natural immunity and of vaccine side-effects. I agree with the sibling commentator - to anyone who was actually paying attention and considered the evidence from a variety of trustworthy sources, the CDC has been propagating false narratives the whole time and was absurdly slow to correct them, leading to plenty of awful, damaging policies.
What? There are many people who pay to use Christian's app specifically to interact with Reddit. If Apollo suddenly switched to another social network, it would make a lot of people understandably angry
But that's what's selling.

If high quantity sold, the market would shift to produce it. As it stands, people are happy with consuming only the headline of an article and moving on.

There are still many high quality outlets; most have just changed to discussion based formats. Take Joe Rogan for example. He talks to a variety of people, sometimes about current events, sometimes not. Similarly, Tim Pool, Sam Seder, Stephen Crowder, The Daily Wire, Ethan Klein's show, etc. all are daily news shows that produce content in the format people want.

The market shifted. Those working for dying industries can reallocate themselves. That's how the market keeps capital allocation efficient.
What's a "Google veep"?
Yesl For literally most people considering its one of the most virulent diseases in human history. To not know would be a indication of incredible lack of knowledge of the history medicine and science.
There was a little website called ruqqus that emerged for a while. It was mostly people fleeing reddit so it quickly filled with "far right" and "far left" extremes, but that kinda made it interesting. However after only a few months of having to moderate the creator noped out because no human should have to see the things a moderator of a public web forum would have to see.

Its going to be a tough road for anyone who wants to create a public web forum at any scale especially if they get brigaded.
The medical ones are not really cloth and contain synthetic materials.
Wow I guess I never found those comfortable and effective masks. Maybe people are different? What fits one doesn't fit another?

It's fun to earn internet points by claiming to be astonished at how dumb others are, and how much we have figured things out. Maybe after several years of this, the game is growing old.

Tolerance, understanding, consideration used to be virtues. But not internet virtues I guess.
> In 50 years Canada will ... be annexed forcefully

> 2073

Lines up with Fallout
> how to disable Intel ME, which is accomplished by sending an HECI (Host Embedded Controller Interface) command in the same way it has been for ages.

I didn't know this - so it's possible to turn off Intel ME? The idea of a full copy of Minix with TCPIP running on my machine is scary. Can someone else turn it back on?
People say this, but of course if you invest via a hedge fund (or other similar corporate structure), your total downside is just whatever you invest. The fund maybe run up 1tn, or 1000tn in loses somehow, but that just means a lot of disappointed creditors meeting limited liability...
I know what it was, but I won’t participate in naming and shaming.

The dealership tried to fix it several times, and I don’t know if this is a systemic problem, or a single vehicle issue.

Either way, I don’t trust the tech. It can be developed and tested against plenty of different scenarios, but we live in a very uncontrolled and fluctuating environment.
The US has its Alphas and Betas and Gammas and Deltas, all of whom are targeted by advertising that convinces them that their caste is the best (and the other castes are living incorrectly). It's probably not as bad as the old UK system the book was satirising, but exists clearly enough once you look for it.
Shipping high-value items can be an astonishingly small part of the total cost; especially if you're sending it by sea. A few years ago I calculated that an (at the time) maximum sized container vessel carrying a full load of electronics in containers (which is very unlikely, but I picked a high value density item just to get an idea of the general numbers) would be carrying a cargo worth on the order of a billion dollars, and the cost of shipping each electronic good (I picked something around the size of a small PC tower; about 0.05 cubic metres) across an ocean, port to port, was on the order of a dollar. That kind of money.

So I guess if I scale that up to an EV battery, volume about a third of a cubic metre, so about seven or eight times the volume, that's still less than ten dollars per EV battery shipped across an ocean, if you've got a ship full of them.

I don't know what the total parts and labour cost of an EV battery is, but by this admittedly fast, brutal and half-remembered back of envelope calculation the numbers only have to be a few tens of dollars different to make it worth building them on the other side of the planet and shipping them across an ocean.
It's inevitable that I'll still have to filter search results by Reddit to find genuine information, but if the only option for Reddit is the official app/website, I'll just stop browsing and commenting altogether. I don't understand how their official app could remain so bad.
> If I was an intelligent person, I would use a basic phone for making phone calls and not carry surveillance devices on my person or have them in my house. This way I would not have to worry about keeping up with agencies that operate above the law...

Why do you assume a "basic phone" would protect you in any way? It's far more likely to only be capable of insecure, easily interceptable forms of communication (e.g. SMS). Also, it's software is likely much worse than more popular phones (e.g. an egregious example is cheap Android phones shipping with malware preinstalled).
I have never used a pi, but I have at least 4 of them in by basement.

Microbit is another story, great to use with kids. I think world wide they have sold 25 million units.
It has depth as well. You just need to copy in the relevant docs.

It’s writing fault tolerant data scraping scripts for me I don’t know how to write myself.
- Is this available to public? No.

- Available to Enterprise customers? No.

- Can other researcher replicate their result? No.

- Is this a recruitment blog? No.

I have no idea what is the target audience for this post.
*staff. I doubt staphylococcus would care about tuberculosis :)
Persistent Vector Storage for LlamaIndex
We are also behind in having the minerals necessary to build batteries no matter where the factory is.

“given existing reserves, it is possible for the United States and its key partners to significantly friendshore production. However, given current production in democratic countries, it would require an unprecedented build-out of the mining industry to achieve 2030 clean energy targets.”

https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/05/03/friendshoring-criti...
Organic Dairy Scorecard (Cornucopia Institute)
I'm kind of on board with this, but the problem is that it's 30 years of rotten wood. Rust started from a more secure foundation and has put a lot of effort into stabilising even the trickier ground - whereas in C++ it's too often "Yeah, we don't think about it too hard, when there are strong winds I don't go up into the top floor, the creaking is very loud, I'd rather just never find out".

Example, Rust 1.0 had std::mem::uninitialized::<T>() which gives a T but it's obviously uninitialized. It's marked "unsafe" of course, but is that enough? Turns out they later realised that no, it's strictly never OK to do this, so the unsafe label was insufficiently cautious. Today std::mem::uninitialized is deprecated, Rust never removes stuff from the standard library, but you should not use this library call.

The type MaybeUninit<T> is the fix. Since MaybeUninit<T> might not be initialized, it's OK if it's not initialized, and since it might be T, it's OK for it to occupy the same amount of space as T. So, then we can initialize this memory, and tell the compiler it's initialized now, it's a T not a MaybeUninit<T>.

Can you guess how that works? It's pretty clever, and C++ could do almost the same trick, but it never has and my guess is it never will. If you don't know and are wondering, check that type definition carefully - MaybeUninit<T> is a union

For contrast, in his safety talk Bjarne Stroustrup just says as if it's obviously true, that it's safe to have uninitialized char arrays in C++. And his rationale sounds exactly like how std::mem::uninitialized happened - any possible value of a byte is a valid byte, so that's good enough, right? Nope, ask compiler engineers, there were plenty in the room when Bjarne said that, but he didn't ask them.
Companies don't just abandon billion-dollar-plus factories.
I would have to go back and find another article, but her public defender thinks she's not competent to understand what is actually happening. In the times she has been in court, she has mostly complained about the amount of papers and summons she has received, and has threatened suicide if they keep sending her letters/serving her paperwork. Her communication has been described as "erratic" so there may be something mental health related going on here that is preventing her from actually understanding the seriousness of what is going on. I will update this post when I find the article in question.

EDIT: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article272657405.h...

"Tofflemire’s filing stated, “She has not acknowledged the existence of her own medical condition. Because counsel is bound to represent the respondent’s stated interest, a guardian ad litem would be able to provide representation of her best interests, which are not currently clear.

A guardian ad litem is defined by Washington courts as “an individual appointed by the court to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person involved in a case in Superior Court."

The filing added that when “the respondent has joined proceedings, she has spoken out of turn with rapid, disorganized speech.”

It noted, “She has primarily focused on how she dislikes papers coming to her home, and not the import of the process in which she finds herself. She has repeatedly threatened suicide in relationship to papers being served upon her home.”

(Emphasis mine)
For publicly traded options there isn't much counterparty risk unless the financial system completely melts down. Counterparty risk is more of an issue with other derivatives traded off market. That risk can sometimes be partially hedged, for example by purchasing credit default swaps on the counterparty.
> she avoided disclosing her active Tuberculosis infection to the staph

I feel like this is the punchline to a great doctor joke but just needs a setup
The best way to deal with this kind of thing is to write a small language that transpiles to the subset of c that you are using.
I was mistaken about the price for ATT. Looks like the pre tax prices are drastically higher for fewer lines than mine.

1 line is $85 per line

2 lines is $75 per line

3 lines is $60 per line

4 lines is $50 per line

5 lines is $45 per line

and after that, you have to open a new ATT account and start at 1 line.

So I can see paying near $100 for an individual ATT line. It actually looks like Verizon is cheaper now? You can get 1 line for $65 per month plus tax for 3 years if you switch to Verizon (I cannot tell what the price is if you are already on Verizon).
I wonder how long she would have continued living for? This is a terrible situation to find yourself in I’m sure. I wonder how many people are out there in the same situation but flying under the radar!
I think google do layoffs ...
The suggestion I saw that I like is just to allow bringing your own API key. That way I can pay for my (and ONLY my) usage at whatever level I'm comfortable with.
I think you're severely overestimating the abilities of this "AI" and underestimating the abilities of the human mind here :-)

However, if you'd like to be pessimistic on it I won't argue, I have that tendency too ;)

And to lighten up the mood, I highly recommend listening to this episode with Gary Marcus, where he invites experts in the field of humor to discuss how distinctly bad the LLMs are at explaining what comes naturally to us: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-ai-make-you-laugh/...
Please Make a Better Kindle
MASM SDK itself use various tools from VS (including the assembler "ml.exe").
What makes is more useful are various macros/functions bundled in MASM32lib which makes programming Windows in assembly easier (this lib are still regularely updated).

If you don't like MS assembler, the good thing is you can use open source ML-compatible assemblers like:

- https://github.com/JWasm/JWasm

- https://github.com/nidud/asmc

- https://github.com/Terraspace/UASM
replacing talking heads from 2 parties (that you are allowed to choose from) does not equal replacing government
It sounds like a great idea to me. I’ve been trying to carve out time to do more electronic tinkering and learning and that sounds like a neat set of projects.
Nobody cares if she runs off to a national forest and disappears in the wild where she can't be around others to spread infection.

But to be around other people, knowing or should knowing that she is causing a high probability of harm to others IS a crime.
> You have omnipresent performance problems. There are n+1 queries everywhere, but where specifically? You don’t know. It’s impossible to statically determine where a specific query is happening. You have to instrument at runtime, which is rarely done rigorously or uniformly, tracing every call and staring at logs until you find your performance problems.

One of the tools I've really come to enjoy in our modern age is telemetry tools that are designed to solve these kinds of problems. If one finds oneself tasked with identifying the sources of omnipresent database-related performance problems and one is not in a position to rewrite the database access layer for the project(!), I find tools like New Relic to be incredibly helpful. For some setups, they even let you identify the line of code that produces slow queries. Those can then be optimized either within or outside of the ORM.

Having pitched both options, I have also found that "let's install this tool, which may be free for our use" to be an easier sell than "let's rewrite the database layer."

I honestly found myself tuning out of the essay after the intro exhibited ignorance of modern tooling built to address the specific issues under consideration in the essay.

IMHO it still makes sense to use an ORM to build quickly, given that we have tools to help effectively profile downstream. This is the approach we take for code (by using a language like Python and not C/Rust), and the tooling around databases makes the same approach viable for db code.
People aren't going to decide first "I want to do political investing, not let's decide between ESG or anti-woke." ESG investing exists because there is demand for it. Anti-woke investing, or a parallel economy, does not exist because there's not enough demand for it. Saying that ESG investing is strong because it's "the only game in town" gets the causality all wrong

Anti-woke options are there, they failed due to their unpopularity, not because ESG investing anlready exists.
> Did you encounter memory bugs? Essentially what memory safety feature Odin offer? (From what I read here, Zig and Rust offer some features to eliminate entire classes of bugs which remove the nightmare of hours of debugging)

Odin is essentially in the same ballpark as Zig in terms of general safety features. Slices make dealing with blocks of things very easy in comparison to C, etc., and this helps a lot. Custom allocators make it easy to segment your memory usage up in scopes and that's basically how I deal with most things; you very rarely should be thinking about individual allocations in Odin, in my opinion.

> Anything you dislike or wish Odin has that other languages offer?

I would say that in general you have to be at least somewhat concerned with potential compiler bugs in certain languages and Odin would be one of them. That's not to say that I've stumbled on any interesting compiler bugs yet, but the fact that they very likely do exist because the compiler is a lot younger than `clang` or `gcc` makes it something that just exists in the background. Multiply that by some variable amount when something is more experimental or less tried and true. The obvious example there is the aforementioned debug info where on Linux this has been tried less so it is more likely to be worse, and so on.

In an ideal (fantasy) world I'd love something like type classes (from Haskell) in Odin; constraints on generic types that allow you to write code that can only do exactly the things expressed by those constraints. This gives you the capability to write code that is exactly as generic as it can logically be but no more and no less. Traits in Rust are the same thing. With that said, I don't believe that neither Haskell nor Rust implements them in a way that doesn't ruin compile time. Specialization of type classes is an optimization pass that basically has to exist and even just the fact that you have to search all your compiled code for an instance of a type class is probably prohibitively costly. It's very nice for expression but unless Odin could add them in a way that was better than Haskell/Rust I don't think it's worth having.

I would like to see how uniform function call syntax would work in Odin but this is actually addressed in the FAQ here: https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#why-does-odin-not-have-unifo...

UFCS works really well in D but D also has ad-hoc function overloading whereas Odin has proc groups. I think UFCS only really works with exceptions as well, so I think it can become awkward really fast with the amount of places you want to return multiple values where your last one represents a possible error.
Call for regulation then threaten to pull out of EU because of regulation?
Thanks for the clarification! I'll read more about it, I'm quite curious to see how these clauses are implemented in Trino
What I’ll decline: Using LLMs to write more code

What I’ll buy: Using LLMs to write less code (maybe even delete a lot)
We care because we spent centuries dying of TB and aren't interested in starting again. "Questioning the science" maybe makes you feel smart, but in this case you're also questioning the history as well as common sense.
“ Netflix shareholders voted on Thursday to reject the lucrative pay packages of the company’s leaders, including the co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters. The vote is nonbinding and can be overruled by the company’s board of directors the next time it meets.”

A move to appease the public and writers, but room to backtrack if desired?
One of my better typos, to be honest. Thanks for catching. I edited it out.
Yeah agreed, odd to not even address that when it's no doubt the first question anyone would have here.

From another article[1] it sounds like psychological issues:

> [The woman's attorney's] filing stated, "She has not acknowledged the existence of her own medical condition. Because counsel is bound to represent the respondent's stated interest, a guardian ad litem would be able to provide representation of her best interests, which are not currently clear."

> [ . . . ]

> The filing added that when "the respondent has joined proceedings, she has spoken out of turn with rapid, disorganized speech."

> It noted, "She has primarily focused on how she dislikes papers coming to her home, and not the import of the process in which she finds herself. She has repeatedly threatened suicide in relationship to papers being served upon her home."

[1] https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article272657405.h...
I haven't done a lot per se, but 480Mb USB would be nice.
Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins.
They should just buy it from the developer.
This issue is a wrecking ball being swung first this way, then the other way, to create division, hatred, polarization, radicalization and the feeling of being marginalized on all sides.

Who benefits from consuming this article? Was it not mass media used as a primary vector to create the hysteria in the first place? And will the wheel not again soon turn, so that the criticized can criticize the criticizers from their moral high ground created by manufactured narrative and invective?

The lesson here is: We should not read or promote these divisive articles. Three years ago, Wired were contributing to this problem: Yes, great idea, we should just buy the methanol and benzene containing products online and make hand sanitizer ourselves.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-hand-sanitizer/

Probably, the same lesson extends to most mass media. Consumption of mass media like this seems to tend to create knock-on effects that don't necessarily align with our best interests. We should find something better to do with our limited time.
I wonder if advertisers get to chose if they can include/exclude nsfw content? After all, the bottom line is monetization.
Working in a company with other people can be way more fun than coding solo.
invest into soft skills. hard skills come and go.

Mindset takes ages to form. And is timeless. Tech stack, you'll always find some more expert than you to hire.
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