skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big reason i avoid cars is because you need a license and that means more interaction with the police and dmv. If there is a good reason for this I don't mind, but it makes ebikes less desirable. If you think about it, they are the only means of transportation in a city that can transport you commuting distances without having to interact with the government (public transportation has their own surveillance and police). Regular bikes are impractical in high humidity and heat, and >2-3mi daily is too much for most people.
Yeah, if "around here" means what I think it does, three people died recently doing just that because they hadn't learned how to swim properly. And while you can learn to do some basic swimming in a lake or a river, it's a lot easier to teach and learn it in a pool.
I frankly don't believe that the majority of people advocating for forced institutionalization are going to be satisfied by waiting for someone to commit a crime. I think the majority of people advocating for the return of asylums want the State to be able to commit citizens to asylums before they do anything criminal.

Like you said, prison exists. And I will happily advocate for prison reforms within the existing legal system that allow for better rehabilitation of prisoners, particularly better rehabilitation for prisoners who suffer from mental disabilities or illnesses. Prisoners should have more access to mental health services, and prisons should be focused on treating and caring for prisoners who are struggling with mental health issues. And of course, prosecution already exists today, so prison reform changes nothing about prosecution, it would merely improve conditions for people forced into that system who have mental disabilities. Call it what it is -- prison, and then lets make prisons better. Sure, I'm on board.

But wait. Is that what people are calling for, even in this thread? People here are advocating that the government should have the ability to forcibly commit someone to an asylum. Well, wait a second, don't they already have that ability? What ability are workers currently lacking? They can forcibly commit someone to a prison once they've committed a crime and have been prosecuted. That system already exists, we have sentencing for crimes. So what do they want?

The fact that people are talking primarily about needing the ability to forcibly commit people indicates that they don't believe that police or judges or the legal system has that ability right now. They are arguing that current abilities to imprison people are not enough. They believe the State should have more power to forcibly imprison people than it currently does and that under certain situations the State should have the ability to expand prison sentences, possibly even indefinitely.

Otherwise they'd just be talking about prison reform and this wouldn't be a debate at all. Nobody is against prison reform[0].

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[0]: Well, okay, many many people are against prison reform, but nobody who is worth paying attention to when they talk about justice or human rights or care for the mentally ill is against prison reform.
All the excess you cite is a result of this (albeit flawed) capitalist system we live with. I believe there will come a time where it is no longer necessary, but this will require levels of cooperation, education, and coordination that we are not nearly prepared to handle as a species.

For what it's worth, I worked for a while at a fast food joint that did allow employees to take food home, or to make extra of it and just consume it on premises during lunch break. Leftover food was frozen and donated to a shelter twice a week. This place is still in business and as far as I know still operating with these policies. Cynacism aside, I don't even think the place is that unique. If you look around you will find lots of groups motivated by something more than just the mighty dollar, perhaps even most enterprise. This despite the corrosive effects of capitalism you're fretting over.
And yet, because git does not bundle those things, which actually do belong as part of a modern SCMS, people lock themselves into GitHub or Gitlab, which provide those missing pieces.
> It's not verifying the output after it's done, it's constraining the output as it's generated.

It is verifying, by filtering only tokens that allowed by the grammar. I think we are talking about the same thing.
I wonder if the type of people he met on the cruise ship are a particular population. I know some older people who are adamantly opposed to cruise ships (and other types of tours). The people he speaks about who feel comfortable with themselves - are they too comfortable? Comfortable enough to let the world drift by like a visual novel, guided, and with limited interaction?

I suspect there are different types of retirement that are diametrically opposed to this type of experience.
Having gone through half a century of Japanese period, Taiwan also calls bread "pan".
What is a "tooth bud"?

Botox works by blocking neuromuscular signals. As far as I'm aware, wisdom teeth coming in is a bone-tooth interaction. Botox would do nothing.
>Walmart's self-checkout

Look up next time you use your credit card :|
Good, I support this.

I have long harbored confusion over my municipality's statutes on bicyclists. In some ways, it appears that a driver license is necessary to ride a bicycle, at least in the street and not on the sidewalks. For example, there are infractions and offenses that will affect your driver license, add points, incur suspension, etc. So if a person offends in this way, but does not hold a driver license, how are they accountable instead? It doesn't seem just.

Is it preferable for a drunk to ride an (acoustic or electric) bike home? On the sidewalk or in the streets? Better not have a driver license if you do!
yeah, despite popular views, intelligence is a gradient. Also you have to distinguish between memory, reflective reach and other skills which can vary drastically in their proportions across species.
FWIW, I've been making a point of submitting paywall/archive links along with my own submissions for a few years now. I'd encourage that practice as well.

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>The software business went from primarily being targeted at businesses, schools, and hobbyists to being targeted at mainstream consumers

The way I remember it, personal computers (initially called home computers) always had a market among individuals with those individuals initially being hobbyists, but becoming more consumer-ish fairly soon, certainly by the early 1980s when the video-game market became a large part of the market for software for personal computers--maybe for a year the major part. Once individuals owned personal computers, they started bringing them in to work, usually against the wishes of the IT department, and the enterprise PC software and professional PC software segments grew faster than consumer PC software--until about 1990.

Video and sound cards became popular around the same time as the CDROM drive, roughly starting in 1990, and the combination led to a "resurgence" in software for consumers--games certainly, but also things like Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia (1989), The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (1992), Encarta (1993) and interactive fiction.

San Francisco was the center of the companies trying to reach this "multimedia" software market, and some writers started referring to SOMA and the Financial District as "Multimedia Gulch".

It boggles my mind that you think this "multimedia resurgence" I just described was anywhere as dramatic a shift as the Internet was!

Microsoft's main tag line during the marketing of Windows 95 was, "This way to the Internet." I must have heard that phrase a thousand time in Microsoft's ads. I don't recall Microsoft making any pitches to consumers to the effect that Windows 95 will allow them to take full advantage of their new graphics cards, sound cards or CD drives.

I kind of remember public interest in those things--and the"multimedia" software titles enabled by those things--having subsided by the time Windows 95 hit.
This was interesting, thanks for sharing.

> They slog through the one path available, get to a point of understanding, and then they're so exhausted and relieved that they got there at all that they cling to their mountaintop of success for dear life and refuse to contemplate re-taking that journey by some different path.

Alternative hypothesis: We've selected a group overrepresenting people for whom that particular approach was effective, and that's precisely the group of people least equipped to come up with a different framing. (These aren't really in contradiction though, both could be true.)
A gray area is insurance for cyclists and scooter riders. I have been told that my renter's insurance covers scooter accidents, but I'm not so sure. I won't call my insurance agency, because every time I've done that, they scream denials and repudiate the policy I show them (which was watermarked "SAMPLE" anyway) and generally do CYA things.

Lesson: Insurance Agencies aren't the ones who will tell you whether [poorly-specified future hypothetical event] would be covered.
> I think this says more about how badly Craftsman has shat the bed and less about manufacturing in America.

Sorry to burst your bubble. Manufacturing pliers and screwdrivers is a joke when compared to, as an example, manufacturing a cordless drill, battery packs, charger and accessories.

We cannot do ANY of that in the US.

Something like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-M12-12V-Lithium-Ion-Co...

Nope. Can't do it.

Not unless you are willing to play $500 for it, or much more.

Let's put it this way: If you take the time to create a detailed list of every component, material and process required to manufacture and deliver that product, you will quickly discover that NONE OF IT is made in the US.

In business terms, the supply chain for the manufacturing of such products is long and very expensive, because it isn't local.

Guess where you'd have to buy all the components from? China.

A corollary is that you cannot make this product for less (or even the same) than what it costs to make it in China. Impossible, even if the factories existed.

While people love to talk about "Buy American" there's a huge gaping hole between those who virtue-signal with bumper-stickers and flags and the much smaller group who actually practice --to the extent possible-- what they preach.

BTW, I have attended trade shows where Chinese OEM manufacturers showcase products they make, including tools. To put it in simple terms, anyone can sign a deal with any of these manufacturers and have a line of quality hand and power tools with their own brand and logo. You go to these conferences and can actually talk to and buy from the very companies who are making tools for the top brands in the US and Europe.
I'm just sharing personal perspective.

As a recovered uppers abuser (sober over 14 years) I am grateful to care more than most peopls are willing to in such an unjust society.

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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+1. I've made a few cheeses, and mozzarella was on the more difficult side.
I think there is certainly some truth to this. I think the same when I watch dolphins play, it truly makes me wonder about “intelligence”. My opinion is that it’s really just a tool to help life become enjoyable and to help the body protect itself. Kind of like the immune system, but…it’s not operating correctly in us because we’re using it to destroy and not necessarily to thrive, hence climate change.

Boffins like Kurzweil seem to think it’s the end goal but even if you had an IQ of 500, or wouldn’t necessarily mean you enjoy life more by default.

Edit: Kurzweil also emphasis that love is an amazing thing, which is cool, I think the guy means well. I just wonder if we and people like him overemphasize it's importance.
Valid points.

> Legal stuff is first concerned with what happened, and just secondarily with the why.

I guess it's more nuanced than we have space for here, lol. :) I was thinking of 'possession with intent to supply' for narcotics. The penalty is much greater for that than simple possession.

I think you are correct though, I'm mixing up legal and moral concern.
Wait, what? EMJR quoted ChatGPT for a legal opinion on the study? Over a subtle legal question? That's both hilarious and disturbing.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one, but jj is interesting:
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
Assuming good faith, I will elaborate:

* to respond to something you don't agree with, in this case a metaphor, perhaps just write "I don't agree with that metaphor" or "let's stick to realistic examples"

* try not to dissect motives unless necessary. The person you responded to made a good point that people will do things against their interests out of habit or convenience -- why does use of a completely legitimate tactic need to be singled out?

* technical people who work with non-technical people (or even who deal with non-technical families and friends and children) are highly accustomed to describing things in simple metaphors

I realize that I have been uncordial and somewhat aggressive with you in this instance, but it made me particularly irked to see someone profess such an amount of self-awareness while showing a profound lack of it.

Either you are (a) just not in your groove mentally at that moment, (b) not as centered as you like to think you are, or (c) playing some kind of game, either consciously or unconsciously. Either way I figured my approach would get a response and hopefully a correction.

I look forward to our next encounter and genuinely hope it starts off on a better footing because you seem like an interesting person.
That's why for me it's not easy to forgive the people who were so righteous during the pandemic that ultimately got things wrong. They would've been happy to see people locked away for dissenting.
Outsider here.

One thing that I have observed about programmers is how obsessed they are with tooling. Whether it’s exactly which model of ergonomic keyboard or exactly which toolchain(s) they’re using, there seems to be an endless desire or eagerness to shoot the shit over tooling.
Cool you should walk around with a QR Code Tee Shirt with that stuff, so they can easily link out to the fulltext.
The Mathematics of String Art [video]
I used to try to make tools fit in cache, esp L1, because they'd load and run a lot faster. Lightening fast!

Try that to see if it still works on the newer machines.
Pointing to the worst abuse of a system of the same name when that is clearly not the intent and claiming this is what the person wants is a lie.

It is possible to keep mentally ill in walled communities and those communities not resemble the above. There are activities which are known to help some of these people, such as gardening (plants are cheap, forgiving, rewarding, and have no real profit motive).

There are large numbers of mentally ill people who are given a bottle of pills and just released to fend for themselves. This became common after the development of certain medications and the government felt it was a lot cheaper than institutionalizing them.
> Why does that matter if I only need 50 miles of range for my day to day?

Because, as a practical matter, short range vehicles suck. I don't want to have to charge my car every five minutes. And if you want to tow with a pick up truck EV there's just no getting away from the practical reality that you need many kilowatt hours in your battery pack.

The Chevy Silverado EV has around about a 212 kWh battery pack in the longest range trim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUN358zio7A

And you need those kWhs for towing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPxjg_jDog
What do you mean by redundant, highly available? Under what circumstances are those necessary? Whatever it is, seems completely orthogonal to version control software. Anyways, I can serve a fossil repo with a great web UI and a few 9s of reliability on an existing web server with literally a 2-line CGI script.
It’s become a joke post Fox acquisition.
Thing is I don’t need a tool that won’t fail me. I need a wrench once every couple of years and not for anything difficult. I got a cheap set from Amazon. I know it’s low quality and not the most durable, but it’s sufficient for my use case. Even if I were to replace the set twice it’s still cheaper.
You’re not going back far enough.

https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/03/hard-truths-about-dei...
I really appreciate the cleverness of this.
It is not easy to do this research, or research on animal intelligence, without pissing on the Third Rail of Race and Intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
Search for digital twin.
What knowledge would you want your partners to have to help you accelerate the project?
Money spent != effectiveness

Its still a political problem at the end of the day if you cannot convince a large section of the people with decision making power that its worth their time to deal with, regardless of how much money youve thrown at the issue yourself
> When you move manufacturing overseas, you’re not just eliminating jobs: you are eliminating knowledge.

Precisely right. And, contrary to what uninformed commenters are saying, that knowledge and experience is lost over time and is incredibly difficult to get back. Even worse, we don't know that knowledge and experience for the manufacturing for a number of modern technologies.
Not the person you're replying to, but I'm curious: what's wrong with position (3)? That's kinda where I am right now.
RSUs that you can sell are effectively cash, not a lotto ticket.
If you have an enemy that's committed and skilled enough to break into your house undetected while you're not there just to listen in on you, I feel like they could just plant a bug or something.
You are the one creating strawmen by harping on abuses from 60 years ago when I'm specifically saying don't do that.

Are you just completely against the idea of human progress? Do you think we're incapable of fixing things that were bad in the past?

Both my parents were nurses who worked in psych hospitals. I can promise you people exist who need to be in there. People who are incapable of caring for themselves. People who in some cases already committed violent crimes. We need places to care for people like this.

Yes, abuses happened. So stop abusing people, don't stop caring for people who need care.

Prisons are sometimes abusive. People are sometimes put in prison for unjust reasons. People sometimes try to make bad laws to put people in prison for shitty reasons. So should get rid of prisons altogether and just let thieves and murderers do whatever they want? That doesn't seem to be working out so well in California.

At no point did I say there were never problems with institutions. I'm saying fix the problems instead of getting rid of institutions altogether.

Now, are you saying it's not possible to fix or what?
Me too, but that’s because my photo library has exceeded 200gb. Don’t know much what else I can do with my drive space. Do you have any suggestions?
An alternative idea is that some types of "boilerplate" can be annoying to write but actually helpful for people to read, and these tools might make that type of code more acceptable.

For example, it's helpful to be able to see all the steps a test case is doing in the one function, so you can read that and see what's going wrong if it fails. If a lot of your test cases are similar you might be tempted to refactor and put common parts in separate methods, often with unhelpful names like "assertResult()", etc, but now the reader has to jump about to understand the logic. Whereas this allows you to write the more repetitive but also more readable code easier
I’ve found that Rural King and Tractor Supply Company are solid places to shop for the type of tools I’d find at Harbor Freight.
There’s so few people that would have done what you did. In my experience, most customer service reps want to complete their tickets as quickly as possible to meet the companies quotas. When you run into reps as yourself it’s so refreshing. 10 years ago this lack of customer service was rare, businesses tried to provide the best customer service as possible but now you get companies that seemingly chose to avoid providing support.

There really should be a website that documents factually interactions with these companies that lawyers can dissect.
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I think it comes down to less connectedness and community, fewer personnel connections, less religion/spirituality, less moral grounding, tech/media landscape that drives feelings of division/fear/inadequacy, generally less sense of purpose and belonging and self worth.
> Distributed means every user has a full copy of the entire repo including full history.

Then git must not be a DVCS; I use shallow clones all the time.

In any event, centralized systems probably can do offline support, at least in theory, but DVCSs more or less include it for free by default, which is still worth something.
in theory a software rooted echo would be superior to a bug; fairly high quality positioning by the victim which ensures good quality recordings and a fair amount of plausible deniability opportunities by the attacker. if discovery was considered inevitable software can be tripped into wiping data or reverting states.
Scientists are probably going to skip Scarborough Fair this year

Scientists engineer bridge which can certainly withstand stormy river turbulence

Scientists prove that Mrs. Robinson is blessed

Scientists say "Stop calling us 'Al'!"
I can see why that's the case for high turnover companies. It is to track and reduce money laundering and tax evasion. Also, it has become a no brainer for any consumer facing company to not provide UPI as an option.

I keep appreciating the regulations in India, it is overall supportive of the common man. From say SEBI regulations on derivative markets to digital payments. For eg. credit cards are becoming less frequent, people here won't take out their cards for every other expense. People have become aware of the fact that money at the end is in bank and spending from the bank account hits much more real than a 30 day stream of cash 3-4 times your salary handed to you whenever you need. And so, low income and middle income groups spend wisely and don't get caught in spend cycles above their capacity.

Such an angle goes unappreciated, but hopefully this continues and money still be real and in our pocket.
Except it seems the world keeps insisting that I use the hammer to bash on the screws.
"Cause I [allegedly] got high..."

"Cause I [allegedly] got high..."

"Cause I [allegedly] got hiiiiiii~~~i~~~i~ighhhhhhighhh."

Pass one 'round for our locked-up smokehomies.
John Goodenough, one of the inventors of the lithium ion battery, also kept working this long; just passed away a month ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
Yes, in particular this statement in the about page:

> The text on this site is hand-written by me (a human),

Surely humans don't need to point out this explicitly that they're human!

Or, with less sarcasm: I can't imagine how one could detect that AI was or wasn't used to generate a website, since that's an excellent use-case.