skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah any time I've been to a nursing home they have a lot of activities to keep them stimulated - usually some sort of musical performance every week day (usually by volunteer community groups, sometimes school kids), themed days ( Valentine's Day, farm day, pet day, Easter, Christmas, etc) - even the immobile and mentally-declined still enjoy the music and patting a dog.
You are very fortunate if you've never witnessed the suffering of those who are less blessed with mental soundness, intelligence, or health.

That's why we've created social safety nets, because sometimes pure capitalism simply isn't worth the human suffering it costs. I wish everyone could have your degree of success. Believe it or not, pretty much everyone wants it.

And just so you know, it's $21,000 in Washington State, #4 most expensive state for housing. It's less or more restrictive in many other states.
I think there are a lot of people that are absolutists on the point. If the whole universe depends on one person's continued existence, that would still not justify forced prolongation.

If there is one thing that should be beyond social control, it is the choice over existence itself.
I heard the quote that some 50% of the mobile traffic is handled by erlang. Somehow the other 50% seems to be doing just fine (except the usual shitshow on the inside that sofware is everywhere all the time).
Ah yes. Dahl’s depiction of genuinely abusive guardians in a clear fantasy world vs real life parents worried about screen time in a world where a child is receiving incitements to parricide with only information from a child.
They need Churnkey
We do have one for execution, obviously: it's "execution", not "killing".

"Killing" by itself doesn't accurately describe what MAID is, because it's not just ending someone's life, but doing so on a consensual basis after establishing that they are sound of mind and have a good reason to desire that.
They've already given to society, probably for most of their lives. It is now their turn to have some small amount returned.
the server cost is basically nothing since since it's static content. probably fits into free offerings from cloudflare.

the summarization is where the cost is and it would be cool to have some crowdsourced contributor model there.

smells like a cool crypto/ai crossover project in the making (or maybe drop the crypto and have upvote-driven "moderation").
That does not make any sense. Old people’s healthcare gets paid by the US government, literally everyone up and down the healthcare chain earns more profit by extending someone’s life who would rather die.
At kosmi.io we use elixir hot swapping for every small patch/bugfix on the backend. This allows us to deploy updates multiple times a day with 0 disruption.

Allows the clients to remain connected and be none the wiser that there was an update at all.

For larger updates we just do hard restarts when in-memory data structures or supervision tree are changed.
I can't post images but here's the accessibility text form:

Low IQ: black background, white text

Average IQ: 3:1 contrast as per W3C G145 recommendations. Dark gray background with a hint of saturation, light gray text

High IQ: black background, white text
It's already too late unless he is playing at GM level already — testament to how absurdly good super GMs are.
I suspect the causality is reversed. When you have a good designed telecom system, then spmething shaped as erlang happens to be a good tool to create to implement it. The tool than keeps you committed to the design choices you made by being restrictive enough.
Authorities have ways to mark their letters. And one usually ignores them at own risk and cost.
Everything in the sky is a UFO until it's identified.
The winning move is at 4:01:45 for anyone looking (like I was).
But this arrest makes him a perfect candidate for this spying mission, so he could be dismissed as a space/drone nerd.

And then one would have to ask whether the arrest in Shanghai is real or a made-up story. Or an event they orchestrated, so if some foreign intelligence agency quietly checks, they'll find eyewitnesses and people who can confirm the event, not knowing it was made up to give this man a cover story...

I sound like a conspiracy nutter now, but a conspiracy nutter is convinced his idea is definitely what happened, I'm just throwing an idea.
What does "neanderthal" mean in this context?

eg: at some point there were humans who, genetically were 100% neanderthal and other humans who were genetically 100% not.

The first pair that mated had offspring with a 50-50 mixture of more or less random neanderthal and "not-neanderthal " genes (although even that is a simplification as the two parents would have had many common human genetic features).

Over the course of seven thousand years of side by side interbreeding and co-habitation there would have been individuals with ranging from 0% neanderthal to 0% "not neanderthal".

A further complication is the relationship between "features" (visible physical characteristics) and "percentage neanderthal" .. an individual may have almost no neanderthal genetics whatsoever save for that one gene that strongly codes for a "neanderthal forehead".

If there was some unique "neanderthal feature" that was clearly recognisable as neanderthal and only expressed itself within people that had some specific "neanderthal gene" ..

Then no, there wouldn't be people walking about with that specifically "neanderthal feature" unless they also had that specific "neanderthal gene".

The problem is that genetic expression really isn't this cut and dried, nor is the boxing up of humans as "this" or "that".
I think images also have much higher information density than words, or at least they can. There is a reason a picture is worth 1000 words.
Correct. Google’s forays into payments, including identically named but different products, is so complex that it has a Wikipedia diagram:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Google_payment_apps
I don’t disagree, but you are making the case for regulating grown adults. For the parent post “who decides how long the waiting period should be?” The answer is society. Right now society says none, but it shouldn’t be looked upon in horror if that changes. If I had to choose, I’d choose seat belts optional over on-demand euthanasia.
QVC!
I think it would take flat-earth level idiocy to think you need the government's blessing to "self-determine".
Yeah. The feds follow paperwork. I was once able to get a request filled about a meeting that I knew would cover a topic they denied knowing anything about. Guess what was in the meeting file? Them talking about said topic.

Edit: if this is a normal drone company with a process, they are going to be filing these requests. You don't mess with the FAA. The drones have their lights on, I'm guessing they are also filing their paperwork.
Obviously, in this context foreseeable means that the nature has low uncertainty and the predicted timing is narrow
The issue with hashing is that it's really tricky to do that with mixed media. Do you hash the text? The figures? What if it's a PDF scan of a different resolution? I think it's a cool idea—but you'd have to figure out how to handle other media, metadata, revisions, etc, etc.
Good point. I'm not sure why I was thinking that it was possible to do via some other command invoking `cd` or something, but you're right that the only examples I can think of are all using other builtins (e.g. invoking `source` to have a script change the current state).
I doubt the story that poster wrote is true. The actual MAiD policies are very sensible.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...

> Your eligibility assessment must take a minimum of 90 days, unless the assessments have been completed sooner and you are at immediate risk of losing your capacity to consent.
Care to share how you do the tagging?
> When we use it [...] Do you really have a problem with AI

"What do you mean by 'we', Kemo Sabe?" -- I don't use LLMs, and I do indeed have a problem with them.

Just because conflicting opinions can be found within a large group (i.e. HN commentators) does not mean every member of the group is a self-contradicting weirdo. (Fallacy of composition.)
iMessage Wrapped
I literally downloaded last week this keyboard to do the Advent of Code on the go
Interesting! Too bad my googling didn't come up with that, since it was not at all easy to discover anything from within the shell.
Postalagent seems like it's mostly targeting real estate agents? Seems like you have quite a few competitors there. I played around with editing the template graphic, it's a little hard to use but like the idea!
The full report is here:

"Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks"

https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

The premise reminds me of the "Rifters" trilogy by biologist and science fiction author Peter Watts. In it, an archaic deep sea microorganism "ßehemoth" that outcompetes all other kingdoms of life is brought to the surface and wreaks global havoc as it spreads.

https://www.rifters.com/maelstrom/maelstrom_master.htm

A good premise (along with others) for a hard SF novel series, but it's bleak. As James Nicoll put it, "Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts."

https://rifters.com/real/author.htm

I see that a substack author has written about this "second kingdom of life" today, under the catchy heading "green goo":

https://denovo.substack.com/p/green-goo-republished

And a commenter there mentioned Rifters also.
Fastmail upgraded their DNS servers to Knot DNS
I hope my streak of almost a decade of not needing to use Oracle will continue, but if not, I definitely will be looking for alternatives to sqlplus...
Others have given you an angle related to consent.

I'll give a different take: Rehabilitation.

In some philosophies, Prison is designed to rehabilitate prisoners so they don't reoffend. Execution doesn't fit with this philosophy.

Assisted Dying is meant to be an option for those for whom there can be no rehabilitation. Eventually some day, when we've figured out the key to immortality and/or sufficiently advanced robotics, maybe we can offer a different way to rehabilitate people facing terminal illnesses and suffering. Until then, letting someone choose not to suffer out their final years and die on their own terms seems like a reasonable approach.
So one thing old people never tell you, you don't really get over losing your parents (if you had relationships with them).

But... I can never doubt that my mom loved me. She might have messed up a lot, but she was willing to take actual poison that was torture for her just to ease my mind.
Mathematician solves the moving sofa problem
I went to look at the screenshots, saw armarok 1.4.10, got excited thinking they'd brought it back, and then got sad when I realized the screenshot was from 2011.
According to long standing rumors, the Samsung headset is supposed to have micro-OLED screens just like the AVP, that alone is likely to push the price to a minimum of $2000 to $2500.
I'm not sure you understand what I'm getting at here. Carta manages things like employee stock options. If a company has issued equity to employees or investors, they can't just shut off their Carta account and be done with it - those obligations need to be managed somewhere, and part of the offboarding process needs to be a managed handoff of that information.
Turns out it's a fork of KDE 3, with comparable goals to the Cinnamon fork of GNOME 3. I guessed it had some connection to KDE from the logo, but for whatever reason the home page doesn't say anything about KDE. So I went into the FAQ, which does mention KDE, but does so in a way I find odd:

>What is TDE?

>TDE is the Trinity Desktop Environment. The project was initiated by Matthias Ettrich in 1996 and originally called the K Desktop Environment.

>Why the rebranding and renaming efforts? Why not continue calling the software KDE?

>The "KDE" name, various logos, and related efforts are trademarked by the KDE Foundation. Since the Trinity project is not affiliated with the KDE Foundation, legally we can't use their trademarks.

It's like the FAQ is trying to hint that TDE is the "real" KDE, a continuation of the same project initiated by Matthias Ettrich (who, afaict, has no connection to TDE), and that the KDE Foundation's project is an impostor. But the FAQ page doesn't quite make that claim explicit, or provide justification for it, so I don't know what to think. The Wikipedia page on TDE is also of no help. Does anyone know if there's a backstory?
That was not a "name" but a description.
If you know a domain space intimately, and are working on a problem for enough time, you don't need to write things down to think things through.
Perhaps you would no longer ask your friends about changing tires, but AR will open up new opportunities for interacting with them. Maybe virtually visiting a different country together, or studying new language together with a (virtual) native speaker.

Also, flat tire on a unfamiliar road, especially a remote location, can be very stressful. More likely your friends wouldn’t be there.
There is plenty of disillusionment with the modern world in China and Taiwan and Korea.
> Then we’re going to need to spend waaaaay more money on policing

Don't believe it. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cops earn more than software engineers in many states. Half, or more, of most municipal budgets go towards police salaries, benefits and pensions. Some of the highest paid public employees, if not the highest paid employees, on any government's payroll are police.

Most cops sit in their cars for hours waiting for something to happen, often accruing overtime in the process. They have plenty of time to play Candy Crush, hard to believe they have no time for paperwork.
Yeah - people basically had entire applications written in Access - think very simple point-of-sale systems, record keeping tools etc. The downside of course, is that, it ran on a single computer and there wasn't a concept of multi-user systems (or maybe there was and I just wasn't aware of it).

In some ways, it's a hark back to the day of a really 'thick' client that was a server, middleware and client all in one.
Curious. The article mentions Star Trek three times, in all cases referring to The Original Series, while stating that "Outside of niche books and magazines, the golden age of optimistic science fiction did not exist.", which is surprising it how it missed the golden era of Star Trek, beginning with The Next Generation (1987-1994), aka. the reference work for optimistic future in popular sci-fi, subsequently followed by several more series and movies set in the same continuity, culminating with Enterprise (2001 - 2005). That's 18 years of stories about humanity enjoying Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism aka. a post-scarcity society! Seven seasons of a show set on a starship that looks like a luxury hotel inside - because why wouldn't it be?

People still joke about the carpets on starships (including in-universe in the recent shows), but honestly, you can pretty much measure how we've lost the optimistic future by tracking how Star Trek shows (including the post-2005 ones) got darker (literally, I'm talking about how the scenes were lit), the architecture less Hilton-like, and eventually, when carpets started to disappear.

Apropos visual media, there's another example of an optimistic vision of the future, which the article also indirectly mentions: Disney's Tomorrowland - not the fair, the 2015 movie. Severely underrated, that one. I broke down in tears when I watched it (okay, I was in a vulnerable period), because it was an unexpected breath of pure optimism about progress. I mean, the movie is literally about the very thing the article talks about - it recalls the optimism of yore, presents a protagonist who's asking herself and us, where did it all go wrong, and then tackles the question directly. The answer it gives may or may not be any good[0], but at least an attempt was made to talk about it. Sadly, this is the last attempt made so far in popular media, at least as far as I know.

I'm puzzled as to why these two stories were not mentioned. They're not exactly outliers no one has heard of.

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[0] - We're effectively fucking our own future up by only ever talking about disasters - past ones, current ones, and every plausible prediction of future ones - in a feedback loop with news and entertainment; we're simmering in despair, securing a doomed future by not being able to envision anything good as a society.
It is a parent's responsibility to ensure their child is not accessing these 18+ sites without supervision.
There's something endlessly humbling about looking beyond a human lifespan. It's at least one of the reasons I find the Long Now Foundation so intriguing.
See it does have a recognizable personality!
How does that relate to the phenomena of regression to the mean?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373098
Really? Then how did the man in guyzero's anecdote do it in less than a week?
It would make more sense to just record everything they do. The reason for all this documentation is for disputes or court cases, but if you have a recording you can produce the documentation only if it's actually required.

Of course, there's the problem that cops don't want to be recorded.
GitHub pissed me off recently by giving us a one month reminder of our renewal, but having required two months notice to reduce our number of seats. As a result, we are ending up paying for twice as many seats as we currently need.
A list of countries that should change their name
Meanwhile: "Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about the Bidens" (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty...)
> Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids

Great team name. Really captures the essence of life in corporate America.
Obviously doctors should have a choice not to provide a specific service if they don't want to
You’re right that many of these chemicals are already present in our daily environment. But that doesn’t mean every source of exposure is equivalent or that we should stop caring about reducing it where we can. Think of it this way: if you know you’re going to be exposed to some harmful substances, it still makes sense to lower your overall intake whenever possible. It’s not about achieving total elimination, which might be impossible, but about minimizing unnecessary risks.

Eliminating known sources of contamination by (1) using safer utensils or (2) using water filters are straightforward steps that decrease the amount of these harmful chemicals you consume.

Even if we can’t quantify the exact benefit to the last decimal place, making such changes generally comes at low cost and might offer meaningful advantages over time. Why not err on the side of caution when the trade-offs are so small and the potential health benefits may be substantial?
Codesandbox jumped the shark about 3 years ago when they pivoted from simple client side sandboxes to full featured devboxes running on their servers, and incidentally started charging people credits for sharing.

This had the effect of breaking thousands, if not millions, of demos around the web, which were the main source of their word of mouth customers.

I understand why they did it - I'm sure their short term profits went up massively.

But they had caught magic before then, with a perfect blend of features and simplicity, and they sacrificed it to the gods of profit.

AI enshitification is just the natural next step in this process.
From Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny

Do not obey in advance.

Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy. Perhaps rulers did not initially know that citizens were willing to compromise this value or that principle. Perhaps a new regime did not at first have the direct means of influencing citizens one way or another. After the German elections of 1932, which brought Nazis into government, or the Czechoslovak elections of 1946, where communists were victorious, the next crucial step was anticipatory obedience. Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed.
Software can be proven. You can exhaustively test a program for a particular hardware configuration, and logically speaking you can get proofs of validity. There aren't those proofs now because the "Free Market" decided there was more value to be had using shitty software now rather than proving it out first through testing. Hence why every license provides no guarantee of fitness for purpose and disclaims warrantee to the extent practicable by law. But given time, those claims can and waivers and warnings aren't necessary. The discrete math will just work out that way.

Now ask the AI producers/users to accept personal liability based on a stochastic probability machine. I imagine you won't see many hands raising to take you up on the offer.
Oh sweet baby Jesus what the fuck.

Not one, not two, but three different things called Google wallet, and four different things called Google Pay, one of which was formerly called Google wallet and one of which went on to be called Google wallet.

How is this real?
p80 is defunct and sold off [0].

A 3d printed frame with fiber filament will last a long time. That is the future, conventional injected molded polymer 80% companies for handgun frames have been sued into oblivion.

[0] "This week in guns" by Fudd Busters, youtube, 8/20/2024.
Many people still love it. For me, KDE 3 was fine but caused sever eyestrain when I used it. I never had an interest on going back.

But I am glad it exist, it proves you do not have to make changes "just because", but just change to make it run a bit better, eliminate bugs but keep the same "soul".

FWIW, I stick with fvwm, now on v3.
>Youtube and Reddit are the worst. I am pretty convinced the aggressive blocking is not because of abuse, but because VPNs actually have become a "problem" for tracking and data mining.

FTFY (added scare quotes)

I don't see blocking tracking and data mining as a problem at all, but rather a very good thing.
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Right it’s not random that it was French, and not, say, Russian.
For anyone interested this is probably the software they used

https://facegen.com/artist.htm
Could it be Modern Major General?
Is it really beam or just otp? Sure, beam gives you processes, network-transparent send, immutable structures and linking-monitoring thingy on top, but is what makes it good to shoot for nines?

I suspect the aura of mistycism around yet another jit vm is not that warranted
The only thing I really want is a keyboard that doesn't think I'm trying to type "Ava" all the time I'm typing "and". Dictionary removal would be just great. I don't ever intend to type "Ava". It has been my intention exactly Zero times.
These are all the same case. They were all huge headlines in Canada. Note it wasn't a doctor but rather a case worker.

This example showed that the system is working well enough it was caught.
> My hope is when cases of euthanasia for economic reasons happen, people will be horrified and it will put pressure into improving the system. But maybe I am naive.

I predict it will be the opposite. Economic reasons will pressure people to support euthanasia.