skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real burden here will be had by those issuing the euthanasia as well as any family members or friends that do not understand the reasoning.

Perhaps this will just be an outlet for those sociopathic nurses/doctors though, get their kicks this way instead of poisoning patients etc?

I put an animal out of its misery once. I decided it needed to be done. Did I murder? If it would have been able to, and it asked me to, was that not a murder, then?

If twenty people ask me to put them out of their misery, and I oblige, does none of it bother me? Does having a license saying I can make it easier for me to process? Maybe this is just a market for sociopaths?
I would expect any production-grade software dealing with a dependency graph to have cycle detection. Why doesn't systemd catch this kind of thing and emit a clear error saying "dependency cycle detected in A -> B -> C -> A"? Especially in cases where those dependencies are statically known - it should be able to detect this problem even before starting the services. Is there something I'm missing here? Are there any cases where a cyclical dependency is a legitimate requirement?
Yeah I kind of wish there was a way to still use `?` inside map/filter/etc. lambdas. Error handling with that functional style is generally way more awkward than for loops, but also it's often more elegant in other ways (e.g. Rayon).

I think Ruby has some kind of feature that works like that but IIRC it looked less foot-gun more foot-bazooka. Does anyone know of any languages that solve that problem elegantly?
Same in Brazil. And users love them.
If it can be made small enough for use in mobile devices, I wonder whether the need for air/oxygen might require compromising on water-tightness. Would an oxygen permeable waterproof membrane allow enough through for operation? It would be interesting if instead of just for cooling, future high powered devices might also need a fan to feed the battery!
Regarding your comment on loose opioid prescription, in Québec (I cannot talk about other province because health care is a provincial juridiction) , they are not a thing anymore.

20 years ago it was like you said: I received 40 pills of oxycodone 20mg for a strained muscle. But nowadays they're quite strict, too strict imo: a few month ago my wife broke a vertebrae and she only received only 20 pills of hydromorphone 1mg and a month of antacid coated naproxen.
Fossify Gallery is a very nice default photo viewer and basic editor for android. I have google photos disabled.

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery
Carcinogens cause cancer. Not just random harm.
Joint DHS/FBI Statement on Reports of Drones in New Jersey
I don't like it either. I'm glad they started calling it Source First™ instead of incorrectly calling it open source though.
On a long enough timeline, Microsoft buys your company. It's a win-win
Your linked post seems to be a polemic, not a legal analysis. Many advertisements are subject to successful (expensive) class-action lawsuits based on some fraud or truth-in-marketing claim. Also, this isn’t an advertisement, it’s a communication which takes place under an implied contract.
Memristor Crossbar-Based Neuromorphic Computing System: A Case Study (2014)
Among the de Sitter invariant states for massive fields is the Euclidean or Bunch-Davies vacuum, which allows for pair production with separations greater than the horizon distance. Since our universe seems to be marching towards a state highly similar to the Euclidean vacuum, such pairs seem (a) physically plausible (b) and with some low probability could arise in groups which (c) because they are interacting particles, might nucleate.

Nucleated objects could be long-lasting, which blunts the Boltzmann brain (Bb) picture, as under fluctuation theory the Bb is ephemeral and time-reversible. On the other hand, it's historically been attractive to think of the nucleation of a inflating patch of spacetime (with low enough entropy that structure like galaxies might form as it expands and fragments gravitationally).
Any recommended ones? Like the parent, I have to reach for Python for AI / ML work and would love to use Rails as the web frontend instead of Django.
It is obviously not true that only 64% of voters who cast votes in the 2024 election cast votes in the 2024 election, so some meaning slipped here, somewhere.
Why does fallible_flatten_fold have that accumulator.clone() in it? You're cloning the in-progress vector only to throw away the original, it's extremely wasteful and completely unnecessary. Just declare the accumulator as `mut`.
The parents won a defamation suit. Nothing was proven beyond a reasonable doubt. That's not even the standard by which civil claims are made.

They had some very clever lawyers, that law-fared defamation against the dead into being defamation against the living because by defaming the dead you are lying about the living's representation about the dead. These lawyers are yanking their chain around, pursuing political enemies, for whatever scraps of Infowars are left without their star loon (and its not clear the parents are going to even get much of these scraps because they were then conned into accepting future revenue from this husk). Meanwhile they are dragging along their agony because the guy who killed their kids was a broke nobody, so they yanked along the parents for years going after the nearest unlikeable pockets as sort of a surrogate villain.

You are making a criminal accusation that beyond a reasonable doubt armed men are making threats, based on a civil suit. Perhaps you are the libeler.
In the sense that it's worse?

My dad also spent days dying from extremely aggressive cancer, being in unimaginable amounts of pain, with all of his organs slowly shutting down, his limbs becoming swollen from pooling blood, unable to drink, unable to eat, crying about how much pain he's in and how much he wants to go home. And all the hospital could do was give him enough morphine to knock him our and we waited by his bedside for 4 days until he finally drew his last breath, probably due to lack of fluids at this point.

Tell me - where does the "morality" stand here compared to him proactively ending his own life with a drug before all of this happened, if he had such an option and decided to take it? How is what he went through morally better like some people say it is compared to euthanasia(I don't know if you think that, but it's a common argument). There's no dignity in any of this.
I volunteered (and then worked) at a Federal hospital in the 90s, up until ~2002. Oncologists were notoriously underrepresented in the oncology department as patients. Instead, then tended to do whatever they wanted and then get dosed up to the gills with Morphine until dead, a few hours later. It was a very different way to run out the clock.
Statement related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391443

Which means it looks like I lost my wager:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394537
> There's a second level of this in C++'s memory model: consume/release. I've no idea what the difference between acquire and consume are; when I look it up there's usually some reference to the DEC Alpha, a 30 year old workstation and server chip nobody uses today which was legendary for pushing the boundaries of memory ordering. My assumption is that no hardware provides memory ordering exactly as weak as consume, so I shouldn't bother asking for it, since it'll just get strengthened to acquire on any chip that matters.

You have it wrong here.

So the basic idea behind release/consume comes from an observation that, on all hardware not named Alpha [1], there is no hardware fence needed to guarantee that a load happens-before another load that is data-dependent on the first load. So the C++ committee decided to add a memory model that would preserve this guarantee. A consume load is exactly like an acquire load, but only for other loads that are data-dependent on that load as opposed to all loads in general. So whereas an acquire load requires a fence on pretty much every hardware not x86 or SPARC in TSO mode, a consume load would only require a fence on Alpha.

For various reasons, data-dependency isn't a property that compilers are in the position of guaranteeing, which means every compiler ended up implementing consume as the stronger acquire instead, defeating its entire design goal of eliminating unnecessary fences. There have been a couple of attempts within the committee to try to find a path that would let something like consume by tweaking the necessary data dependence definitions, but none of them have swayed the implementers, so the current state is that they've given up and let consume die.

Of particular note is that release/consume is not designed to support the Alpha memory model; in fact, it's quite the opposite: it's designed to support everybody but Alpha, since for Alpha (and essentially only Alpha), release/consume is not usefully weaker than release/acquire. Instead, the people who benefit are the PPCs and the ARMs of the world, for whom release/consume is a better approximation of their native memory model and would allow many fences to be omitted.

[1] Actually, some accelerator hardware might have memory models as weak as Alpha here, but I'm far less familiar with memory models as they apply to accelerators.
SynthRiders. Like Beatsaber but better IMO. Hard to put down once I start. I always leave sweaty. It has a decent community and decent custom tracks.
Probably my closest claim to fame was when I wrote a little utility, "pgdbf", that reads binary xBase files and writes out .sql files you can pipe into the psql command to turn them into PostgreSQL tables. I wrote it because my work needed it. Long story. Anyway, I asked my boss if I could release it under the GPLv3 and he agreed to it.

I was utterly gobsmacked to find that it became pretty popular in South America, where Visual FoxPro was wildly popular in some fields. VFP users were left with gigabytes of data in xBase and weren't sure how to easily get it into a "big" database. Someone found my little project and it spread like wildfire, to the point that I got invited to a few conferences to speak about it. I wasn't able to go at the time because of life reasons, but one of my minor regrets was not going to Brazil to talk to a roomful of people who somehow, some way, all decided that I'd written a roadmap to get them out of a pickle.

Thanks, Ashton-Tate. I have some fun stories to tell due to your inventions.
I didn’t know until reading the comments
That’s his excuse anyway. If you can’t hold on to the title, no matter the actual or stated reasons, then you are simply not the World Champion.
As of 2022, foreign inspections were generally preannounced, and the GAO identified the need for a "pilot plan" for surprise foreign inspections:

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fda-must-solidify-plan-f...
The fact it is on your machine at all and cannot be removed means it is forced. The fact that it is for now opt-in is irrelevant; windows is well known for enabling features without user permission that were previously not.
I can only count to 4.
I live in the neighbourhood in Canada with a lot of elder people. I mentioned in one of my previous comments as well, and MAiD is probably one of the best things that happened in our country in the past decade. I have distant relatives who took the MAiD way out (one because of the age, the other one terminal illness). It's not very uncommon to hear once every quarter in the coffee shop in my neighbourhood people chatting about this program. Older people are generally happy having a way out, rather than suffering and bringing pain to their close ones.

Both of my parents (in their 70s) mentioned how they want to go out the same way once they're incapable of living and start suffering. I feel the same about it as well. I understand there are very small amount of cases where people shouldn't be able to take this way out, but it's a net good. I really hate how global media is trying to turn it into a big conversation and "slippery slope", because if anyone who has seen their loved one suffer... they would never want this program to end.
Why is the alternative dogma egocentric hedonism? To me, the alternative to what she was doing is "dogma" of caring for another human. If they need help, if they cry out in pain, help them - not collect imaginary points of sending them to heaven. Not sure where egocentric hedonism plays into this.
The problem is that plastic recycling in general just doesn't work that well. If you want to make any sort of difference then reducing the amount of plastic you use & throw away is essential.
> "Digital platforms receive huge financial benefits from Australia and they have a social and economic responsibility to contribute to Australians' access to quality journalism," Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said on Thursday.

There is no onus, of course, on for-profit media companies to run commercially viable businesses.
I love this idea, but wonder if it's really more of a missing feature of WhatsApp.
People are sometimes unkind to the Division Bell, but it contains one of my personal favorites: "Wearing the inside out". Wright's lyrics and vocals (first time since The Dark Side of the Moon), Gilmore's guitar, it all comes together.
Designing a distributed circuit breaker in Golang
A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn
Looks like it is close to this and Qualcomm has tools to simplify the migration to Android XR
are we limited though to waiting for glass though? can't we already do these things via a lens like Google lens? I get the ergonomics of the glasses is key, but we don't have the software to do these things elegantly on a lens yet do we? But there's nothing stopping us working on them even without the hardware.
Geoguessr is the kind of thing the old Google would have built internally and released as a "just for fun" or April Fool's thing
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/a-second-tree-of-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga_(aircraft)
jinx! yes I'm happy with fossify too, thinking about taking a day to unlock my bootloader and put graphene on my xperia, but something was stopping me before... maybe the banking apps that refuse to run on a modified bootloader? But really I don't need to be banking on my phone. I think there are some proprietary video codecs I was afraid of losing.

Only other hurdle to open source nirvana is OsmAnd is not as slick and smooth as Google Maps. I spent a few days acclimating to it and once downloading the gigabytes of address-data-to-GPS-coords I could start enjoying offline navigation, but when it comes to finding local restaurants' and whether they're open its hard to beat the Goog.
Interesting, I read that link. It looks like they specifically call out Fischer chess: "all matches are played under Fischer-Random (Chess960) rules,"

So he really is just trying to build a tournament format around Fischer chess. That's pretty cool. I hope it takes off.
Both my grandfather and my aunt were palliative care towards their end. Their respective care providers kept asking them if they'd like to increase dosage of their medicine (can't remember what my grandfather was one, but my aunt was on morphine). Despite both of them at the time said that they didn't want to increase dosage, but the care provider kept trying to increase. My family's theory is that they were trying to speed their passing. Both cases were in Canada.
Alternatively, 1/20 die humanely at a time of their choosing while X/20, X>1, die a miserable and slow death at a time long past where continued treatment improved the standard of living. We all die eventually.
> '2 spaces for period-and-space'

I hate to be the one to break it to you but ... I think we're not supposed to do this any more? It's a change I still struggle with.

Apologies to any I've offended with this. Style guides were updated in the last 4-5 years to say that one single space after a period is correct. I think Word even changed how it handles it as well.

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/punctuatio...
Funnily one of the two times world champion is a doctor who only plays competitively whenever there's world championship (And not the regional tournaments)
Hrm. They "Linux" could stop "upstreaming" Russians "directly" by identifying trusted developers and using them then rejecting their contributions.

They couldn't stop "down streaming" by preventing some developers from forking Linux and doing whatever.

This has nothing to do with licenses, and just about code availability, which I assume you are focused on.

There absolutely is a chain of trusted developers for the Linux mainline kernel that could be locked down to prevent Russian contributions.

But that's not what's happened so far. So far they removed Russian identified contributors from a list of developers.
My great-grandfather stuck around for a year or two with various eldery-issues after his wife died.

Then he had to hang himself, because there was no legal or easy way to humanely end his own life.

Apparently he did it wrong, but died anyway. Just more slowly and more painfully, without any support.
> I'd recommend two overlooked albums of the 70's - Meddle and Animals.

I'd even throw Obscured by Clouds in there, which has some straight up rock jams as well as the more moody sound that became typical later.
I never heard anything bad about https://rewind.ai which was launched exclusively on Mac before Recall was, in fact it was praised.
My plan is to run HardenedBSD for most things, MacOS for games, and Windows for anything that absolutely won't run otherwise. Nadella has shown his contempt for power users way too often.
> Is there a keyboard that uses GPT-2 or some other such LLM to predict what I'm trying to write? SwiftKey is amazing because I can tap in the general vicinity of keys

You don't need GPT for that, you need a dictionary lookup and some stats on how the keyboard is used. See how Ken Kocienda implemented the original virtual keyboard for iOS: https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/hurst-han-kocienda Scroll down to "But as promising as the Purple interface was, the software suffered from a potentially fatal flaw: it was impossible to use a virtual keyboard on a phone-sized screen. "
I've learned MessageEase, and it's great for that feeling of having a direct connection to what you're typing (no mistakes, and no annoying autocorrect messing you up), but I always found it slower than swipe-typing
I can't be bothered to set up things again or even refresh login sessions [to gain Graphene]. Simpler to disable Photos and use Gallery instead. Eyeroll.jpg
Yeah, the first noble truth of Christianity is life is suffering.
welcome to the real world where zero risk is impossible for any product. These are the risk/benefit tradeoffs at consideration for the FDA.

To be clear, the formula laid out in fight club is illegal, and not practice in US medical, but similar tradeoffs are still there.

If it is too hard and expensive to reduce risk to an acceptable level, the product isnt made. In many cases, if the product isnt made, more people die than if the product has residual risk.
We did throw our black plastic utensils out, but I have no regrets; even if the risk was not as bad as we believed at the time, the scare gave us a great excuse to replace old cheap stuff with nicer wood & silicone implements.
My apologies to all for the saltiness.
Doctors and the medical system should not be involved in euthanasia. It should be different professionals and a different system. It's a conflict of interest for a doctor or medical system to be involved in this.
By selling the data.

Unless they engineer it so they do not have any data to sell, sooner or later someone's gonna sell that data.

They've weasel-worded their privacy policy to allow this, the buyer of the data just needs to pretend to be a potential investor or buyer:

"We may disclose personal information in the context of actual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in Mozi, financing of Mozi, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer or merger of all or part of our business, assets or shares), for example, we may need to share certain personal information with prospective counterparties and their advisers."
Oops, I missed it when I was reading, and assumed it wasn't referenced. Thanks!
Gilmour also played bass on Animals.
She is one of the featured artists in Sisters with Transistors: https://sisterswithtransistors.com/
My theory was that assuming these are some kind of adversary drone, they seem to have read and understood the law and are making some effort to remain within its bounds so that 4th Amendment and other relevant protections apply to them. That means operating at the legally-allowed altitude, running navigation lights, etc...but then somehow deciding not to run the required ADS-B ID that would, in theory, give away who they are and allow their comings and goings to be tracked.

Causing a collision with another plane that might then fall onto a residential neighborhood is a great way to get the entire weight of the government to come down on you, have the remains of your craft picked apart, and have your cover thoroughly blown. Don't mess with the NTSB!

I realize this theory has holes, but it's what I've got, and I feel like it's making more effort at explanation than e.g. the retired Air Force Major-General who was quoted as saying "they're flying with lights on, they're flying where people will see them; that tells me... there's nothing nefarious about it, or we're dealing with the world's dumbest terrorist."[1]

As to why they don't fly during the day: it seems that they don't want to be seen, and have been observed to "go dark" when confronted.[2] Incidentally, that's also what "The Angry Astronaut" said in his video posted on 1 Dec [3] about the craft he attempted to chase down in the United Kingdom next to the Lakenheath US Air Force installation-- well before this behavior was reported in the USA.

[1] https://youtu.be/qpFz-SPCSJc?t=50

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-new-jersey-drones-go-dark-w...

[3] https://youtu.be/1yglSSzP8Qk?t=331
I told him about the match and told him he only had 7 years to be the new youngest chess world champion and he told me that he didn’t want to be a world champion, he just wanted to play. I approve of this philosophy.
If your intestines are obstructed, and the fecal matter has started forming, and it's trying to come out, where do you think it will come out from?
It seems to me, her example is a way of saying, write better documentation/manuals. Better recipes, better car tire change.
Yes, the Leela team has worked on a term they call Contempt.
(Negative contempt in this case would make the engine seek out less sharp play from whites perspective)
In the first link the authour talks about using contempt to seek out/avoid sharp lines.
lc0 and nibbler are free, so feel free to try it out if curious.

https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/pull/1791#issuecomment...
https://lczero.org/blog/2023/07/the-lc0-v0.30.0-wdl-rescale/...
> There are no central repositories as to the location of arbitrary banknote serial numbers.

Why do you say that?

All that's needed is banks tracking serial numbers and associated persons as cash leaves the bank and enters it. The serial numbers on American cash seem machine readable, and on each bill they are printed in two places near opposite corners - as if they are designed for automated reading.

It doesn't have to be perfect, logically infallible, alibi-proof evidence. You could build a pretty good graph of who is doing business with whom, especially by examining repetitions of the same edges. At worst, it seems useful for intelligence tasks and to obtain worthwhile leads to pursue.
It could be worse! You could be using an un‐configurable modern browser or some such thing where attempting to erase a word closes your tab.
Nearly 20 years old, but a catchup for Wayne Ratliff

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2007/08/01/life-af...
I find it barbaric most countries don't give citizens freedom of choice over this most fundamental certainty.