skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not actually possible to liquidate that much. But it doesn't really matter. It's so much money that the exact amount doesn't really matter. It's just an estimate. The estimate is high, but since that "fire sale" will never actually occur, it's all just numbers.

As for what they're all hoarding it for... well, Musk at least is really good at spending money on things that make him happy. He now runs the world's most important forum and has a ton of control over who gets to say what and who gets heard. He just bought the Presidency -- by means that were arguably illegal, but since the President controls the Justice Department, it doesn't matter. He wants to own Mars, and he's spent billions to do it.

Bezos seems less good at it. He did buy a newspaper and swung it in a way that helped buy him the election, too. He's also got a rocket company, though he's not as good at it. In general he seems to be trying to just make the number go up, more than he wants to do anything with it.

Bill Gates is throwing his money at a variety of charitable causes, with mixed success. A lot of it is comparatively un-sexy stuff, like getting people vaccinated, but its relieving a lot of suffering.
Mental health is one I can relate to. There were times when my loved ones struggling with mental health would absolutely go through with assistance euthanasia if they had it available. Years later they are living a much better life but at that point in time, euthanasia would’ve ended it.

I think bodily autonomy is necessary but not everyone is able to make the right decisions at all times. Legislation needs to account for that.
Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge
Types of Time Signatures
I agree, watching the World Rapid and Blitz Championships is more intense and interesting (IMO), for sure. That said, it's much more difficult for a non like me to follow those games; I can't even imagine how tiring it is for the commenters in those shorter time formats. Commenting those games is its own very specialized skillset.
So... I am I seeing things, or can I only sign up using a Google account?
This user does seem to be correct despite the (at least current) reception of their report, e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Member_states_of_...

I agree it probably makes sense for the map to use UN recognized names of the time for times the UN was around and had recognized names for. Whether or not it's the absolute best answer in a given situation... it at least provides a definitive source to defer to for the modern period where the most debates might come from. For more historic names other methods need to be used and blended to the modern names which is sure to be a treat of user debate :).
Does this not imply that /u/bell-cot had been a graduate student in mathematics?

> If I could give my many-decades-ago younger self some advice for math grad school
Nice writeup. Since she mentioned how hard it is to learn these conventions, I'll plug my preferred reference when thinking about CLIs specifically (rather than TUIs and REPLs) - the Command Line Interface Guidelines https://clig.dev

It does include the blog post's rules on exiting on Ctrl-C, accepting `-` for stdin, disabling color in pipes, and much more.
Leading scientists urge ban on developing 'mirror-image' bacteria
A dingo will eat a baby no problem, I wonder if a wolf would too?
It's very much inspired by Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.

At the end of the day we just use the Rust Struct parser!

It's very similar to JSON or RON if you're familiar.

https://github.com/ron-rs/ron
Good choice.

I got Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mx Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo galore. Desktop Linux has come a long way, and if you like true unix here let me tell you some more. I got GhostBSD (https://www.ghostbsd.org/) rocking MATE IDE, if you want lightweight Linux desktop I got LXDE, LXFC, Gnome, KDE, and a whole lot more.

If you want true freedom, ditch the spyware and head on over to desktop Linux where we'll welcome you with open arms.

The excuse of 'But this... and that...' let me stop you right there.

You don't need to configure anything. Download Kubuntu and have fun with customizing everything in the settings.

When it comes to Windows and Microsoft products the answer is 'No.'

Keep it that way. Freedom matters.
Strange question but how does this affect life insurance? Typically a suicide would not be covered.
Can we disable recall?
He's also not really the world champion. The world champion just got bored of winning so hard.
Good point. With that, with Starlink and soon Starlink direct to cell, this capability is becoming much less important in an emergency. Starlink already provides Internet and soon everyone will have satellite capable phone (I assume texting will be prioritized in emergency for bandwidth).
They should create their own glasses with this new Android and name it:

Google Glass
While I'm a gen-X'er who bemoans the half-lived lives kids have these days - eyes always on a screen, never aware of the world around them - I have a problem with the phrase "online constantly". Do we even need to make the distinction of online vs offline? What if some kid - and many do - gets their dopamine hit from a game that runs locally on their phone or computer?
Online or not, it is the addiction to dopamine the cute little boxes enable. Let's address that first. Distinctions about "online" or not are beside the point.
Because unsupervised AI output has a typical writing syntax that is very obviously not human written.
It always astounds me that salespeople still rely on cold contacts. I have literally never once done business with a cold-contact emailer. To me it screams desperation, they have so few good ideas and leads that they're left with cold-contacts. I don't even know anyone who has bought from cold contacts.
I happened to watch that episode. He talks about the math error at around timestamp https://youtu.be/58HUM40gDPU?t=720
Have you ever been on the phone with a bank? Any bank? Banks don't lose. If this goes mainstream, you can bet there will be limiting legislation lobbied by banks to reduce their liability in the first week.
What data did you use to train this?
> Healthcare in Canada is essentially not available.

Why even claim something like this when it's objectively not true?
Looks very interesting, not sure I love the layout of the Home/End/Del but I do love how narrow this would be on your desk
I'm not sure I like the "standard user stream" name, but I otherewise agree with everything here.
I don't know much about chess, but this sounds like a downright unpredictable, exciting finish.
It's rarely as blunt as this, though. Usually people who support such politics will insist that it is democratic, and they do have a point: what they really want is a democracy in which the majority (which includes themselves) gets to do whatever it wants to others.

I agree that you can't really legislate this kind of sentiment away, but I don't think attempts to do so are entirely useless, either - they slow down the process, which, at the very least, buys more time for potential targets to realize what is happening and get out of harm's way through emigration etc.
In the US, laws vary by state. For example Texas prohibits the removal of roadkill and roadside deer carcasses abound in the Hill Country.
What is your mother language then?
But Apple’s approach is fantastic for everything else.

As it allows you to use the device without having to move your arms around.
I'm sure that those interactions are frustrating and are very hard to deal with. I'm sorry that you have to take on that stress so frequently.

That said, someone being unable to answer a question isnt necessarily indicative of a situation where "five people are doing the job of one person". Your example is very circumstantial (and is a scenario found frequently within the private sector, as well).
bad angle shot here:

>Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths

>While the number of assisted deaths in Canada is growing, the country still falls behind the Netherlands, where euthanasia accounted for around 5% of total deaths last year.

1/20 != 5% ???
> polyurethane

If you are using wood to avoid plastic but coat your wood in polyurethane or any other fossil fuel based compound, I kind of feel like you’ve gone full circle back to consuming plastic.
I'm a little sour about Google Cardboard. It was and still is the greatest accessible 3 DoF VR implementation in my opinion. What a fantastic concept.
Also [Homerow](https://www.homerow.app/) is really good
Paracetamol may not be as safe as perceived in older people
It looks like the qpdf-converter source, along with everything else, is now on Github according to the Developer / Source Code links on the site.

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter

Their source code seems to take the most obvious path... flatten it to an image printout then possibly do more? https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter/blo... https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter/blo...

Though at a quick skim I can't see any OCR steps.
> "depends on the device" is almost not an answer at all.

If you ask extremely general questions, you're going to get extremely general answers. This is a discussion board, not a personal research service. You need to go and figure this out for the specific hardware you are concerned about.

> BIOS password does help if they need to be able to boot from usb drive to flash firmware.

That's the only circumstance in which it helps, but that's rarely necessary on modern machines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fwupd
Weird kinda unrelated question but I bet someone in this thread has the answer:

When I was researching the Flipper Zero a year or so ago someone mentioned, "I'm not sure about buying one, it seems like a cool gadget that I'll play with and then end up in a drawer like the [product x]"

I looked up [product x] at the time and it seemed pretty neat. Like a USB or computer card that could get radio and TV signals and some other stuff.

However, I can't find this [product x] again despite scouring bookmarks, reading through reddit/HN topics, etc.

Any ideas?
This kind of reminds me of the original version of the app called Color, where you'd see social posts organized by geo coordinates. Imagine being in a coffee shop and seeing a feed of every post and photo posted from within the coffee shop. The benefit being you could make friends in your area.

Does anyone else remember this app? It came out around the same era as Path.
I’ve heard it’s even more common per capita than in Canada, the difference being that it’s not on the record, so no statistics are collected about it.
> I don't _think_ it supports "concurrent" iteration

I believe what you are calling a "concurrent" iteration is one of the use cases for Observables, so would be on the RxJS side (the "parent" project).

> It doesn't have a "reducer" concept with composition and what not

Interesting. I'll read further on what you are doing there. Seems possibly similar to Lenses/Prisms in FP, with different rules.

> It doesn't have a concept of "optionals"

Good point. So far I've not found a JS approach to optionals I'm entirely happy with. I've had some suggest I should give Effect [0] a deeper look, but given I'm mostly happy with RxJS the bulk of Effect doesn't appeal to me. The dual of an Option being an iterator with 0 or 1 values is something I've seen before and something to keep in mind.

[0] https://effect.website/docs/data-types/option/
Someone wants to pull Zuckerberg's trick again.
This sums up almost all software today though.

My Google Pixel continuously asks me if I want to enable photo backup.

Uber Eats continuously asks me to enable notifications.

I tell the software no, again and again, day after day, and it keeps prompting me.

Most software I use is like this, it seems to be inescapable.
> Or maybe we need something more than plaintext to store code and the meta data around it before we can get to this point. I'm sure it has been already done multiple times in different ecosystems but there must be a way to standardize the information about code and use it in IDE and versioning tools.

This idea of storing more structured information (in the VCS or on disk) keeps coming up but I don't think it's necessary at all. The disk and the VCS can stay dumb. You can reconstruct the rich information after the fact.

It boils down to storing the right information and extracting it. Maybe you want to guard some checkpoints from bad/unstructured data. But that's just a check[1]. The serialization can be simple.

Well say you are blocked from storing bad data (according to the structure). Say you can also detect refactors like code moves (better than Git does, I guess just line moves). Again the storage can be dumb so that's fine. But you still need intentional commits; you won't get helped by a 500-line diff where all kinds of back and forth to solve three and half separate concerns are buried.

First of all you need good data in order to have something to extract. Which requires commit discipline.

[1]: And you don't get much from storing in a more rich format by itself. Just that you committed/stored syntactically correct/compilable artifacts. That's not nearly as rich as what you want. Because there are thousands of different intents (like you allude to) like refactorings -- all are valid in their own way so the structured representation can't have an opinion on it.
Bed sores are a reasonable proxy for people being unable to move and they are a common enough risk to be a significant concern.

If you can’t even roll over then you’re at the mercy of whatever people are willing to bring you even if you can speak or use a TV remote just fine.
I would’ve expected at least a waiting period longer than a week after a traumatic event. Of course I don’t know all the circumstances around it.
Naming conventions vary, and when you consider names across history/geography, it is the present-day Western convention of "GivenName FamilyName" that is unusual and needs explanation.

Generally speaking, someone is born and at some point days/months later, their parents start calling them by some name, while the rest of the world might also doing so at some point, possibly different people using different names. For purposes of interacting with administrative systems yet another name may be adopted. Only when it has been necessary to distinguish between multiple people with the same name do secondary names start getting used, either occupational descriptions (John the Baker vs John the Carpenter vs John the Smith) or places where they came from or were noted for (Jesus of Nazareth, William of Orange, Leonardo from Vinci), or disambiguating with parents' names (Mohammed bin [son of] Salman, Björk Guðmundsdóttir [daughter of Guðmund]) — these are all conventions still existing today, with occasional funny consequences when someone imagines one of these to be a "family name" that persists from father to child across generations. (See "what would Of Nazareth do" about people—even otherwise educated ones—treating “da Vinci” as such.)

Coming to India: there are different conventions. Typically just a name and an initial letter (placed either before or after the name) to distinguish between multiple people (in the same classroom say) with that name. When a boy was named "Anand" by his parents, because his father was "K. Viswanathan", he became "V. Anand" in school records, and this is the name I remember reading articles about this chess prodigy in Indian newspapers. At some point the international press started spelling out his first name and called him "Viswanathan Anand", putting his father's name first, and even started calling him "Viswanathan" or "Vishy" — he used to object and point out that they were calling him by his father's name, but eventually he just got used to it and even began to like it. In this generation, this boy was named "Gukesh" by his parents, and was "D. Gukesh" in school records and news reports, but somewhat wisely they decided for international sources to put the initial after the name, so "Gukesh D", and for those who cannot handle just an initial, spell it out to "Gukesh Dommaraju".

(You have had other replies claiming this to have something to do with Tamil Nadu anti-caste politics. While no doubt that movement discouraged the use of caste names as surnames, the initial convention pre-exists any of those political movements and exists in parallel in other states too. E.g. "S. Ramanujan" was the name on his early papers before the movement being spoken of. Some families/communities use surnames (in the sense you're thinking of) and some don't; that's all there is to it.)
Yes, but Do Not Harm is often quite complex to figure out in practice - that's why it's "a big concept in medical ethics", and not something trivial that doesn't need to be talked about much.

> However, Mostly Good doesn't scale, because often patients need to seek medical attention more than once. Each visit then becomes an increasing risk factor of being hurt by treatment, eventually making malpractice inevitable.

True if the problem requires indefinite amount of repeat visits; false the chance of getting cured and not needing any more visits is big enough that the risk factor doesn't get a chance to grow. "Mostly good" is all we can ever get in the real world anyway; whether that's OK or not depends on the value of "mostly" in any given case.

Pedantics aside, my point is that it's better to have bad solution than to have none at all, and if some people get hurt applying it, the first instinct should be work on reducing the chance and magnitude of damage, instead of giving up entirely.

In this case: therapy is too expensive for most people who need it. The Web, and now LLMs, are poor substitutes for therapy, but they're accessible. Eliminating self-serve therapy substitutes won't make their users to come to mental health specialists instead; it'll just leave them with no help at all.
Show HN: Musical Events Scatterplot
In the process of working on models that decompose audio into sparse representations, I've found that it can be fun to explore the space of possible musical events that the learned decoders can produce. Most modern "neural" codecs encode fixed-size "frames" of audio. This work models sound as a sparse set of events and physical resonances, which could yield benefits for compression, intrepetability, classification, and beyond.

Here, I map 32-dimensional event vectors onto a 2D plane via t-SNE. Each event can be played by clicking or tapping.
I'm referring to this: America got fat from a culture of fat shaming and your last paragraph. Now you're saying that it doesn't seem to be a factor, which completely contradicts your earlier claims.

I can't figure out what you're trying to say, sorry.
This! People feel like they cannot live alone or they cannot want that someone else be caused hardship (time or money) because of their difficulty.

I feel like I will get downvoted to oblivion just because people vehemently disagree, but THIS CANNOT be the meaning and choice behind death. It is simply immature, arrogant, and selfish. But more plainly, it is suicidal / self-relentment.
JS at least implements a strict subset of it for UTC, which is still a useful starting point.
I seem to recall they get a mention in this book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0813-6

It's a fun read, although it goes a bit off the rails at the end, crapping on Linux and open source.
Reminds me of a social network called Dopplr, which existed briefly almost 20 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopplr
Giving this a whirl as it's both MacOS and Linux compat. Thanks.
> That isn't how most appreciate sports. People are hoping for the contenders to be at the top of their game towards the end of the championships.

I'm not sure how "hope" plays into it but few of the sports I follow allow for contenders to be at the top of their game towards the end of the championship. People are tired or playing injured, and it never occurred to me to believe that this made their performances less amazing.
How often does this occur? Citations?

Elderly cancer patients who have a recurrence of cancer often know exactly how uncomfortable another round of chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery will be. At the same time they may already be suffering neurological pain, pleural effusion (fluids building up in the chest), etc.

In this context the statement might be:

"This treatment, as you know, is going to be very unpleasant, has little hope of curing you, and you could live your life while the cancer progresses. We could slow it down and let you decide how you want to live your life."
>For example, I just got back from Miami. Before going, I put my plan (just the city and what days) into Mozi. This information was shared just with my contacts (minus any I wouldn’t want it to be). So, even before going, I was able to see both the people I know who live there and other friends who were visiting at the same time, so we could meet up and make plans.

>Mozi also helps you decide where to go. “Events” on Mozi (currently a beta feature) lets you see who you know may be going—or considering going—to a conference or event before you go. (If you happen to be going to SXSW, join the Mozi event. I’ll be there too.)

Seems like more of a "networking" app as opposed to friends as it mentioned ...

Still, I don't dislike the general idea.
The fun part of the mentally-ill categorization is that being mentally ill also has a tendency to lead to poverty and homelessness which in turn will increase the likelihood that someone will opt for MAID but could be solved by other social means.
>> Tried Windsurf for 2 seconds and came back.

Can you share some details, I was planning to try Windsurf during the holidays but may skip if you have negative feedback that may be agreeable. Thanks.
"De-pepsi-cide"

Advocating for removing the platform from people who are advocating puncturing of sodas. Ideally from atop a bicycle.

/misreading-for-the-fun
It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting BUT it is what I should have expected. It has a lot more in common with other TV themes of the time. It’s also different enough to justify the legendary exchange where Grainger reportedly asked Derbyshire if that was really what he wrote. The story goes that she replied “Yes… mostly”
>I suppose the only accident, homicide, and disease that cannot be defeated given enough luck, research, and effort is the eventual tiring, erosion, and destruction of one's mind

I don't really see how you arrive at this. If someone has a disease that erodes their mind, they didn't die voluntarily, even if they choose euthanasia. In fact, you could say this about all euthanasia. Why choose to die? The HN answer is "because someone or something made me want to die".

If someone is bit by a tick and gets Lyme disease and signs up for euthanasia, then the tick has essentially killed you.

All effects that lead to voluntary euthanasia thereby become murder.

Now think one step further. Someone did something that causes another person to make someone want voluntary euthanasia. That is now also murder.

Notice something? That's a can of worms that society is not ready for yet. Since everything can lead to voluntary death, we must now make sure that society is such a good place that nobody ever wants to die. Society won't be that place, ever.
the term carcinogen is very broad, I think you just mean the bad ones can cause harm (sorry, former CA resident here)
It's a product that works as advertised and has a name that describes exactly what it does. OpenAI was denied the right to register GPT as a trademark anyway, for Blender, yeah maybe but that's up to Blender to defend. It's not pretending to be the Blender software but a tool for it, so it's not causing a confusion.

And as for the innovation part... Kind of irrelevant, 99% of "tech" is built on creating a UI for a process. What's Uber or AirBnB for example? A GUI over a database to keep records of a marketplace.