skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maybe they are required to attend some mandatory psych session

According to the social workers I know who work with this population, there is a persistent fear that any form of offered mental health help is a trap for institutionalizing people.

By and large, people who are chronically homeless due to mental health issues will prefer to remain homeless over being required to see a psychiatrist and having to take medicine, or so I'm told.
> Did that ever work, except maybe in tribal societies?

Maybe I don't understand your comment, but I think our societies were/are tighter in many places and epochs. Maybe it's not so in cities and suburbs in the modern West, but, I think it used to be different in Medieval Europe and before, in villages at least. Neighbors were your support community. I know there are parts of the world where it's still the case.

I'm not that old and I was raised by my neighbors, because both of my parents were working. When my dad was dying last year, I couldn't be there because I was their only economic support, working abroad, and I don't have any wealth to be so if I'm not working. There was more family, but the neighbors were the ones day to day helping my mom with shores and the care of my dad.

>> But in any less ideal situations I doubt even the children would have gone out of their way to devote their lives to the care of the elderly or the disabled.

It was the children, in most sane cases. Not that I argue it's a good thing to bring children to the world to take care of you when you are dying.
Did they break the rules on doxxing, or did Musk just say they did?
I remember saying this in 2003, too, when new grads couldn't sit down in front of an editor and produce a program from nothing, they could only modify existing ones with lots of hints. surprise, they almost all learnt and are now quite good seniors.
Having heard enough Americans cringe-inducingly mangle Japanese, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I had someone serve me an order of ’guy ohza’ just a couple of weeks ago. If the people selling the products can’t even pronounce the names correctly, I definitely don’t want to hear the customers’ attempts.
Blockchain that runs Python smart contracts native. No Solidity, no VM overhead
What's the point of code quality if you rewrite everything every 3 years?
> Nuclear security is highly specialized, high-pressure work, but it's not particularly well paid, one employee told NPR. Given what's unfolded over the past 24 hours, "why would anybody want to take these jobs?" they asked.

The people who will be hired in those jobs in the future are the ones who can't find any other job, and don't care one way or another. It will be a catastrophe of epic proportions, but hard to notice at first because it happens so slowly. Which makes it all the more dangerous.
Sure but any probabilistic approach is either relatively inaccurate reduces it's usefulness for this use case, or accurate which raises the same identifiability concerns cookies would introduce. I guess my point was; this has been thought about already. (Pseudo) anonymized attribution is a bit of a solved problem and you can do it with or without cookies. That's mostly a implementation detail rather than a distinguishing feature.
In the game Civilization, there are different ways to achieve victory, one of which is a Cultural Victory.

A lot of the foreign aid the US does is kind of like this, where we're attempting to shift other countries to our way of life through a mix of direct aid, loans, news, and other methods.

There's a real long term ROI on these things where it's inarguably to the US' benefit that other countries want to speak English, use USD, operate businesses similarly to how we do, etc.
From my limited experience and understanding, I believe concurrent reads are OK, and concurrent writes are queued internally. As long as you don't mix the order of the writes you're doing, SQLite can queue them to as best as it can.

My sole reference: https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
That’s nice, but if Big Tech doesn’t let me say “no” to their software prompts and questions, I’m saying “no” to leaving until my issue is fixed.
AlphaFold helps the _design_ problem. ... but, How good are we at synthesizing the actual protein?

Unless there are some breakthrough recently, Looks like we can't really do it at scale. Doing a few in lab setting is possible, but you can't really use them in drug.
To be certain, by "incredible" I meant more "fascinating", or "intriguing" and not "cool!". War is obviously horrifying and for this reason I haven't even watched any of the videos. That's what made the fibre development novel to me.

I certainly hope we reach a point very soon that we stop the senseless killing.
Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v
It's still the case. I have at least 4 on the same number.
Give me a break, open telegram, which is still in the clear for comrade musk and he publicly advocated for comrade durov and tell me how long it will take you to find anything from prostitution to weapons, drugs and human trafficking. It's all about punishing people who can question musk & co's authoritarian desires.
An previous consumer of Android teams work, across NDK, Studio, Gradle, and userspace libraries, I think it does, and am quite happy that Android development is no longer something I have to care about.
I mean, I think at this point everyone knows that, in this context, 'free speech' should be read as 'speech that Musk likes'.

(This is the case for most people who go on about 'free speech' a lot, really.)
> Why pretend to be smart and play it safe? True understanding is rare and hard-won, so why fake it until you are sure of it? Isn't it more advantageous to embrace your stupidity/ignorance and be underestimated?

Found this beautifully-phrased gem in the conclusion.

Be it in research or otherwise I'm sure so many can relate to this in their younger years.
Analyzing iOS Biome AppIntent Files (2022)
The more we create knowledge, the less we know about our future
Challenge accepted. Less than 200 characters.

"Man fire, big boom, Trump look bad"

Here is another version but Haiku

Man Fire
Big Boom
Trump look dumb
We use MySQL. Why? Well, it's hard to switch. And yes I believe Postgres is the better option, for us, and for almost anyone.

I was hoping to find some reason for Uber to use MySQL over the other popular FLOSS RDBMS (i.e.: Postgres).

For Facebook I more/less know what are their reasons. I was hoping to learn about Uber's reasons, but the article was was not going that deep.
got that from shockwave rider
I have been thinking for a while that lot of people need to understand that China is making the cheapest possible crap because lot of us keep buying it. Why not make cheap stuff when customers want and pay for it.

Being able and willing to make cheap stuff, does not prevent on from making expensive and good quality stuff as well. And you can in many parts make that quality stuff cheaper as you have supply chain from raw materials.
You get to moderate up or down. Otherwise people say what they want.
At this point you're actively contributing to the death of free speech if you're still active on X in any way. There are no excuses to use it still if you have any sort of functional moral compass.
So do you feel that people who disagree with what you think is right should be silenced and not allowed to express themselves?
In your scenario, if they indeed have convincing and independent studies proving this, then, yes, they should not remove this policy.

It is also worth mentioning that in real life, we apply such policies. If I remember correctly, black people are more prone to prostate cancer, and therefore there are policies that "discriminate": the process for cancer screening is different between black and white people. Does it mean it is racist? Does it mean it is unfair?

I think the difference is that I focus on equality of opportunity while you focus on equality of outcome. You are targeting "when looking at the process, I want to see everyone treated the same". Others may target "when looking at the opportunities, I want to see everyone with the same merit having the same probabilities of success". It reminds me of the famous cartoon of people wanting to watch a football game over a fence. The drawing illustrates that "treating everyone the same" without considering that not everyone starts from the same situation is stupid.
Go Toolchains
Don't mistake Rust Evangelism Strike Force, and joining the hype cycle, with the suitabitility for writing CLI developer tools there is nothing there that requires the use of borrow checker.

Depending on how many years into the past of HN headlines we would search for, it would be Go, Scala, Haskell, Ruby,...

Maybe all those Rust CLIs will be all being rewriting into Zig, as soon as version 1.0 gets out.

Roc language is already one of the first.
Twitter appears to make a lot of mistakes of this sort. Tsk. Very careless.

I mean, who knows, they may claim that; I believe they did after the period where they banned people for using the dread word 'mastodon': https://fortune.com/2022/12/18/twitter-suspends-paul-graham-...

But c'mon, now, if you believe that you'll believe anything.
No, but a self-sustained 8-bit or even 32-bit MCU may be cheaper than a 555.
These are noteworthy counterexamples, the exceptions that prove the rules.

You will struggle to find any similar news stories for "software engineer jailed for implementing dark patterns"
Except the meal is mostly shit. There's no free speech anywhere on Twitter. It's not even free-as-in-beer speech because you need a paid account for anyone to really see your tweets.
Yes.

There are many in the US who have a particular strand of thinking. It goes a bit like this:

The US is meddling too much in other country's affairs.

Only a handful of countries actually have agency - US, Russia, China mostly.

All the wars out there are actually proxy wars, because the US is up to no good and interfering with one of the other countries with agency.

It follows that all that is required for global peace is to withdraw US support for foreign adventuring.

America looks after America, Russia looks after (extended) Russia. The more isolationist a country is, the better it is. Hungary is a better friend than the UK because it opposes American adventuring, just like us.

There are other elements of the logic. America interferes abroad for cynical reasons. In Afghanistan, it was the poppies. In Iraq, it was the oil.

They scratched their head a little over Ukraine, but then decided it was for rare earth minerals.

I don't know if it's the end of the US as superpower, but what Musk is doing is destroying US state capacity from within, and what Trump's representatives are doing are destroying US influence abroad. If the goal is ending the US as a superpower, the actions are certainly shaped in a way that look like they're trying to end it.
That's interesting, but my brain can't stop thinking that it's impossible to play the instrument that fast and precisely. Plus, it clearly feels somehow that it was created to mimic the actual live performance of some sort. I guess this "suspension of disbelief" kind of thing is easy for some, but triggers something deeply unpleasant for others.
The Paradox of Music Discovery, the Spotify Way
Valid question. Its quite possible there's a future where only "favoured pharmaceutical company" can distribute these drugs in the US to protect against woke left liberals who might contaminate these meds with drugs that might turn your son gay. :)
You can't criticize Elon on X...
They shared the real time location of private individuals (or links to it).

They were penalized only 24 hours after the ban took effect, but the penality was minor.
You can remove the DRM pretty easily, which is likely why Amazon is making this change.
This push has been ongoing for year and the success has definitely been less than expected, with Finland and Sweden joining NATO. I think with the Americans stepping back, this will only strengthen ties between EU countries, though there still are issues which have to be solved on the energy sector to reduce reliance on Russia.
I think I might be forced to do this by the metrics that measure me at work "things have to work right away and have to scale quickly to other low-skilled people"
The Egyptian case was so sad: the first elections run elected Islamists, who failed to make a pluralist democracy stick (which was what the Twitter protestors largely wanted!) and instead ended up running similar levels of repression but with a Muslim flavour.
The USAID revelation revealed how they were funded. Along with thousands of other news organizations domestically and globally.
I don't benefit from being plugged into any of that. Do you?
No one is a free specch absolutist; those who say use it as a cover to not clearly state their values and what they stand for.
You can disable auth for specific subdomains. With cookies I rarely see the original auth anyways.
It's a good addition. The reason why I personally don't have this setup is ironically because of Looking Glass. Sometimes I want to switch my mouse and keyboard over but still want to just see the video output of my vm in a Looking Glass client window.
I was at an (academic!) conference about Crypto recently with a friend. I am an outsider to the whole topic and wanted to "expand my horizon" and see if maybe my expectations of if it being mostly a scam were wrong.

In one of the first talks we went to, the panel speaker mentioned that Trump pumping-and-dumping his memecoin was a good thing, because that more or less justifies their own position in doing so, and that it would maybe lower their legal fees in the future. This was followed by a big laugh from the audience.

These people fully know what they are doing.
Feds can request info from Telegram. Additionally, Telegram has evolved past a simple messenger application. A massive amount of projects, most of them being crypto projects, use Telegram as their primary method of communication and announcements. It is also a very popular messenger in India and parts of Europe. They can block Signal because they can get away with it. If it means banning a bunch of CSAM traders and drug dealers, even if it includes a few users and privacy nerds, they're still winning in terms of easing up their moderation efforts without significant outcry. I believe this block will be lifted, even if Signal users a minority, they are a loud minority. This could have very well been a mistake.
It's crazy how Trump is making China look like a good partner. At least they would be reliable and predictable to large extent.

The human rights violations and ambitions to grab Taiwan are obviously worrying. Europe may need to give up on the ideal of promoting human rights, democracy and peace, and just be happy to be able to preserve them at home.
Publishers Are Data Controllers on Substack
In nuclear the saying "there's always enough time to do it right the first time" comes to mind. Preventing rework and reducing risk to the safety of the public.

When it comes to the doe there are likely departments that could be trimmed back and interpretations of some laws to the cfr made a little more clear, but since the doe is in charge of everything nuclear it might be good to do a more indepth look at each department instead of a quick and careless wipe.

Currently nuclear power is regulated in a way of "bring me a rock and I'll tell you if it's the right rock, but if it isn't the right rock it will be painful.
The editors.

The problem is that notability is very subjective, and wikipedia's editors are notorious for applying a low threshold for information critical of those on the right, and high threshold for information critical of the left.

Suspending a few journalists for doxxing would not meet the notability threshold for an article to exist, if it occured on any other platform.
Here's to hoping, but I agree one way or another one stack needs to go :-)

BTW: Contact info is in my profile if anyone wants the inside scoop. The project just isn't fully ready for public launch yet, but we're well into the cooking.
Government is a huge ship where everything happens slowly. If you fire all sailors at once, you won't notice the difference immediately. The phantom ship continues to sail.

Then engines start to heat up and fail. And if there's an obstacle along the way, it's game over.

This is a dangerous game played by morons full of hubris.

On June 16 YC organizes an "AI Startup School"; the first speaker is Elon Musk:

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ai-startupschool

What a shame.
Free speech doesn't allow you to say anything at all you know?

Calling for the eradication of people with certain sexual preferences or skin color for example.
In theory at least you could produce the mRNA and duplicate it and use it to produce the proteins.

Though I'm probably missing a few steps here. A large part of this seems to be possible though, given the success of mRNA vaccines. Though using humans rather than animals to produce the actual protein is less than ideal.
I mean, I suppose it really depends on what you want out of a social network. Some combo of mastodon and bluesky is fine for me, but then I didn't follow any of those people in the first place.

If you want celeb VCs, then, yeah, you're probably stuck with Twitter. Most people don't, though.
Everything political gets downvoted, from either side, but you're going to need better evidence than Musk and rumors for this fraud.

(There probably is some fraud! There is in any large money handling system! Japan had a problem with elderly people claiming pensions after they'd died, for example. It's just that you need a better standard of evidence before cutting off money that people are legally entitled to, because otherwise the fraud detection process is going to have false positives.)
So a proper title for the piece would be "A humpback whale briefly suckles on kayaker".
SharingGRDB: A SwiftData Alternative
I had this same thought the other day. It's indeed bad IMO.
A lot of people seem to think I’m anti-ipv6… I’m not, actually. I run it at home, I evangelize for it, I think it’s the future and the sooner we move to it, the better. It solves real problems, the shortage of addresses being the most obvious.

What I’m against is the oversimplification that if we only had ipv6 from the start, that the internet would have turned out very different and we’d be directly connecting to each other through direct unsolicited connections or something.

No, there are a lot of reasons direct unsolicited peer to peer communication are not a good expectation to have on the modern internet. NAT makes it tough, yes, but so does security (you’re gonna want to firewall your network at the gateway anyway, even in v6), changing addresses, mobility, etc.

For instance, even in my network at home, I don’t think using my real GUA prefix on each device is a great idea. Because the prefix changes, I have to use ULA for any static configs (dns, etc), which means the GUA address is this extra address I don’t use, and it only complicates things. So I’m moving toward ULA-only with NAT66, which I think is a more sane choice. I get the benefits of lots of addresses, which is great, but instead of my firewall simply allowing traffic to my public stuff, I just NAT a public IP to each public thing I want.
I think a big pro for Bluesky from a tech perspective is how widely people are using their own websites as their handles and as verification. It doesn't do anything to protect Bluesky from going to hell but it does make it significantly easier to relink with people again.

Mastodon has failed to show any signs of hitting a critical mass so I kind of feel like it's a different level of social network altogether. A lot more durable and worth making an effort with but unlikely to ever become much more significant than it currently is.
I mean, this has been going on for years at this point (for instance see https://fortune.com/2022/12/18/twitter-suspends-paul-graham-...). At some point you have to stop extending the benefit of the doubt.
I guess the EU should hire them, since they probably need to enhance their nuclear weapon capabilities now.
Yes, the US is moving towards a Russian-style oligarchy with frightening speed.
Preface: not an american

Uber offshored some parts of their engineering so all the new-ish blogs fit the stereotypes. Lazy written, LLM generated, by their offshore indian folks.

Make of that what you want.
A president breaking the law, vs a few low-level journalists breaking a doxxing policy of a social media website.

Hardly equivalent in terms of notability.
I didn’t misunderstand what you meant. I just meant you can “hack” the live TV feature of Jellyfin, and use it to create a “live” tv experience from local media.
There are a few interesting channels on YT of Africans singing Chinese folk and pop songs. Quite fascinating and a sign of how China has been able to spread influence in Africa through investment. (Of course none of it a free ride)
I hope so, but it adds an extra difficulty
Easy to understand is not always an absolute metric, a project with many lines of code can be easy to understand for a team with a certain experience and difficult to understand for another team with a different experience (not less but different).
Now I will have to think about "easy to understand" for AI
Same here. Also one of the reason I loved building castles in Stronghold so much. It's so much more fun to build than to destroy.

That's also why I love Anno 1800 (as well as its predecessors). You can (mostly) avoid combat.
If a 'mistake' keeps happening for two years, then it is realistically not a mistake. This is not Musk!twitter's first 'mistake' of this nature, by a long shot.
The database file itself is safe for concurrent use, but the internal sqlite3 database structure itself can be unsafe to share across thread, depending on how your sqlite3 library was compiled. See https://www.sqlite.org/threadsafe.html
> Even free speech has its limits

It doesnt though, thats the point.

Its the same as competition in a capitalist marketplace. A company can sell terrible products and what should happen is people see they are terrible products and vote with their wallet to stop buying. Then the company goes out of business.

With free speech if somebody is saying something that other people think is terrible, they should stop listening to that person. They are still allowed to say anything they want, but their reputation is tarnished and hardly anybody listens to them and they loose their platform/influence.

In reality, people are weak and do not do these things. They keep buying the terrible products because they dont want to have to think about looking for a better alternative. They keep listening to the hate speech because its easier to respond in anger than to ignore the person. The solution to all these things is education and people spending more time thinking about how they respond to things in the world. Again in reality this wioll never happen, and so people will keep shouting and shouting about what they dont like until the world ends up destroying itself through hate and anger.
Yep. I generally love Chat-GPT UX a lot, but this one thing is super-annoying.
It's a feature supposed to aid in "discovery", rather than a feature helping you to finish writing as quickly as possible.

Probably, at one point, they did some user testing or similar and figured out that most people don't even know what to ask these chatbots. So they add some "quickstarts" for people to "get inspired" by.

It's not meant for people who know what they want, but meant for people who don't know what they could do.
Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
... In what way is he not? He is de facto if not de jure more or less in charge of the US government.
He was not welcomed by a small minority at FOSDEM*

Minorities with loud voices always wins because people don't want to deal with bullshit