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I think we link it because, most of the time, it is linked to mental illness -- typically depression. It's not an issue of "rights" but of whether you are really functioning competently. Sure, there are cases where someone makes the decision to commit suicide because of a terrible terminal illness (e.g., bone cancer). But that is not the norm.

FWIW, I say this as someone who has had severe depression and been suicidal.
> The problem with web page performance is people believing a page would render faster if, instead of sending HTML, you send a giant blob of JS which, after almost choking a parser to death, then does a XHR to actually fetch the content and then starts to render templates into actual HTML.

"It's asynchronous, and that makes it soooo fast!"

So many people drank that async kool-aid, but didn't understand that the network is slower.
While they definitely have above average incomes and probably some good financial security, there's a Damore factor risk: Public attention could render them unhireable if they come off as troublesome or likely to cause issues with future employers.
Suicide is inherently a selfish act, and I think that’s where the perception of it being “wrong” comes from.

Sure you have the right to decide your own fate, but you should consider that you affect other people. In taking your own life you’re also fucking up the life of everyone who cares about you, forcing them into a state of grief and possibly causing them to blame themselves for what was ultimately a selfish act on your part.
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Entirely untrue and offensive. Propagating this is dangerous and fuels the stigma that makes treatment harder.

Not all mental illness is chemical, but a lot very much is.
According to thought-leaders, it isn't dead, but it smells funny.

https://nolanlawson.com/2016/10/13/progressive-enhancement-i...

[Note: I very strongly disagree with this position.]
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I agree with the position that you are the boss of your own life. But I also believe that it is at the very least considerate to self-limit your freedoms to a point where they do not adversely affect the ones around you.

My conclusion for my suicide is "bad" is because it causes pain and suffering to the ones around you. I relate suicide to stress that cannot be managed. If you feel like you need to die, then you are completely free to do anything. So why not do that? Remove that stress, till you don't feel like that's the only answer.
Because in the overwhelming number of cases there is a direct link. The count of people who decide that "enough is enough" is dwarfed by all the people suffering from mental illness that see no other way out, but could get help if society as a whole was willing to give it.
Request does not compel compliance the way a warrant does.

Law enforcement is generally allowed to request just about anything just like everyone else.
No, but it's a given that if you don't develop weapons tech at all, it renders you unable to defend against weapons that you would otherwise be able to counter.
I'm sorry you're offended by things I didn't say. I now feel silly and ridiculous. Thank you for setting me straight.
Performances are just that.
Funny, I’ve known several people who clearly were depressed through physiology. Nothing to do with being able to “think it away”
I dont want to say humanity is different, but I think its time to change culture.

I think we went from Hunter Gatherer where land ownership didnt matter to Agriculture where land ownership was everything to enlightenment to post war due to WMDs.

War will kill us all with this new technology, there are people still alive today that were born before Nuclear weapons.
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There has been a good thread on carbon capture etc recently, and I thought this might be an interesting roundup of our (the species) options.
> Our sales people would hate for LI to go away. Happily pay themselves for Sales Edition.

You just convinced me to go kill my LinkedIn account from whenever ago.
The drugs can be really, really helpful to some people though. There is no doubt in my mind that Prozac saved my life 25 years ago.
No it doesn't mean peer-to-peer here. It means that there is no one server but a lot and in fact the 'server' is abstracted away from the developer so he sees no server (serverless).

I think Wikipedia has a nice explanation of the term:

Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity.[1] It is a form of utility computing.

Serverless computing still requires servers, hence it's a misnomer.[1] The name "serverless computing" is used because the server management and capacity planning decisions are completely hidden from the developer or operator. Serverless code can be used in conjunction with code deployed in traditional styles, such as microservices. Alternatively, applications can be written to be purely serverless and use no provisioned servers at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
Or its mining.
I recently read the book "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari which covers this issue. In fact, it's a really a book about some deeper problems of Western society (where depression, anxiety, etc. has been on the rise for a long time), so the pharmaceutical pill-pushing and the fairly debunked "chemical imbalance" explanation of depression really just sets the backdrop of the story. He emphasizes - like you mention - social changes in modern Western societies as major causes of depression.

I really recommend the book. If you're not convinced or just want an audio version, then I recommend the episode of the Ezra Klein Show podcast where Johann Hari is a guest - that's what convinced me to read the book.
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But the comment was in response to him having a stiff drink.
That big a percentage in two stocks would freak me out a bit. My money is in indexes, roughly 90% stocks, 10% bonds. Boring, but it's worked well so far and it's more of a long-term thing.
This machine does the work of six people. Unfortunately, it takes ten people to operate it.
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Agree, it could be simple and logical doesn't have to be a mental condition
2kW is right about the wattage of a small electric fan heater for comparison. So regardless of how they made it look, anyone standing near it should have felt warmer.
'Distributed' just isn't exciting any more
I suppose because it's much more common that it's someone dealing with a debilitating mental illness than a Hunter S. Thompson type who is just hitting the reset button because he's done. I don't get offended by much, especially if it's a question that comes from an honest place. Death is the only thing we all share, so I think it's natural to have a lot of questions about it.
I suspect 'All of the money and fame in the world' presents its own unique set of challenges to deal with,

and those challenges are usually poorly understood
It probably wouldn't be worth very much. If, for example, I'm writing a python app and I import some package from pypi, if that package is relatively small, and I have some issue with it, I can probably just open the code files and figure it out. Support for open source projects usually means it's something large and complex and requiring specialized knowledge or at least beyond your own, or your project is so large and complex you need outside help getting it done. Also, suits willing to foot the bill.
"I hope you're happy with your new proprietary web."

Absolutely, and it is close to impossible to discuss rationally without the conversation being dominated by rhetoric.

https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/09/05/embrace-amp-or-...

The point of that piece is that AMP is filling a role -- a minimal web for document publishing -- and denying it, as always happens in AMP discussions, simply makes an easy road for AMP's domination.
That depends on what queries the peer runs. In both On-Prem and Cloud, Datomic maintains an in-memory LRU object cache. Also, you can send queries with different working sets to different processes without having to shard data on ingest. For example, some peers might handle queries related to user transactions while other peers handle analytic or batch work.

See also https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/operation/caching.html.
What about when you have an 11 year old daughter?

I am in favor of a right to die, because I saw my mother struggle with cancer. What she went through seemed truly awful.

However, having a terminal disease is very different than having a temporary lapse in judgment about whether to continue living. Someone raising a child likely does not truly want to be gone from the Earth. We don’t know for sure, but with his known addiction history, this was likely an unintended consequence, the one he cannot take back.
I'd like to see a combination of this and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext_(programming_language) along with a visualizer debugger that could scrub forwards and backwards in time.
I’m curious, if depression doesn’t have some basis in chemical roots, then why is it often hereditary? Like other forms of mental illness which are chemical and hereditary, depression also exhibits these characteristics.
I'm the same way. I usually think "why is this even news, it's not like these people were friends of this person." Then at times like these, I'm reminded what an impact his work had on my life.
Fair enough, it does seem like different people react to it in sometimes markedly different ways so I don't disbelieve you.

(As an aside, it's an interesting problem how long is 'long enough' when proving you can go without something.)
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These days I never start anything new without a good sales person as part of the team.
Yeah, but I don't really have the time or the freedom to care about whether or not I am part of the problem. At the end of the day, I need to live, and everything else takes a back seat to that.
I had success when someone did this for me fifteen years ago after years in the dark. I was also ashamed of my feelings and hid them as a result of the stigma in society. No two people experiences of mental illness are the same, but I'm glad someone said something. I lied and acted like it was a ridiculous question multiple times before I finally admitted to myself that I needed to commit to getting help. I'm glad I did. No two experiences are the same, but if you're interested in talking more about it my contact info is in my profile.
Very good point. Eventually the routine stuff gets automated. For instance [1] is an attempt previously covered on HN to generate code from an interface mockup/screenshot. Obviously this'll take years of work to perfect, but because UI wiring code is pretty routine for simple forms, I can totally see this working eventually.

[1] https://github.com/tonybeltramelli/pix2code
> "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. - Luke 16:10

Water that is wet is also dry, and water that is dry is also wet!
Let's finish that thought process, roll out UBI, and generally let people figure out what they can do outside of those space filling WPA jobs.

Everyone not beholden to a company for their living wage now gets off the treadmill of "keep employed" for its own sake.
I see what you're getting at, but I think the reason that suicide is linked with mental illness is because it goes against our very nature as living beings.

If I recall correctly, a majority of people who have 'failed' suicide (for lack of a better term) have stated that they immediately regretted attempting once it hits the point of no return.

This is just an assumption, but I think the will to live greatly outweighs the desire to take your own life. Of course their are outliers (I'm thinking of Samurai Suicides performed in front of audiences) but I don't know if there's any resources that talk about their mental health.

If anyone as any counter points I'd love to hear them - but for the most part I think suicide stems from mental instability or an otherwise inevitable physical death (terminal illness, old age, etc).

One other reason it may be linked with mental health, is the fact that if mental illness is not a factor - what is driving these decisions? I can't imagine that people come to the logical 'master of my own existence' that you mention.

It's a very interesting subject, when you take the horror an tragedy out of it. Also curious what other species have high suicide rates, or if its a primarily human affliction (don't have time to dig around on this right now).
Dan Carlin had a podcast about this. He said something to the effect of, "what if you had a stamp and every time you stamped something, your boss would never find out about it. How long do you think it would take before you start putting the stamp on your mistakes?"

What he was trying to get at is, how does a democracy function properly when it has no idea what it's leadership is doing, because the leadership makes everything secret and classified? It's a good question and I don't really have an answer.
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Surely the mental anguish that drives someone to take their own life qualifies as a mental illness. We are not talking about someone who chose to die rather than continuing a painful fight against a terminal illness. Maybe it's rational to take your own life if you are suffering so deeply from depression. Maybe that's a choice we should respect. But that respect doesn't mean that the underlying suffering isn't an illness we should recognize as such and try to treat.
Linus T. would probably be shadow banned if he commented here under a pseudonym... HN's moderation is a little extreme.
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My original comment was a little bit sarcastic, but seriously - why not? I understand that a single blockchain will not handle global scale messaging. But a set of federated installations, could that work?
Don't forget supermarkets stacks the stuff you don't need but may buy on impulse at the end of isles, meaning you still have to pass them.
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That seems more likely when you are bad, not average.

But there is also the problem that average is relative. I consider myself average, when comparing to the best developer in my company. But I am sure he considers himself average when comparing himself to other outstanding famous developers.
"Priceless" has so much price that you can't pick up one.
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You're just lucky that you have an archipelago for a supermarket.
Then perhaps I've misunderstood what they mean by mostly unnecessary assets.

I was thinking of the choice to embed third party scripts or not, rather than what domain they're on.
Or to take it a step further, massively build up Nuclear to match daytime peak (give or take some renewables) and then use carbon sequestration as the load on the grid at night time instead of batteries (or other sorts of storage).
I really try to downplay the depression-based suicide angle - at least for my own sanity. I like to think that large part of depression is based on circumstances, I leave out the clinical cases that have underlying physiological causes. If you are unhappy enough to end your life, then there are probably things that you can change to stop feeling that way, i.e. job, relationships, friends, habits.

In a lot of ways this make sense to me, he was probably under a lot of pressure to be the guy that everyone really liked. Created this unrealistic expectation that was stressful to meet. Add in poor habits, maybe strained relationship and friends to lean on. It's not hard for people to feel like there is not point in going on with life.

EDIT: I am open to being wrong and invite a discussion of others opinions.
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Maybe now they can start complying with New York law.
I've had consistent trouble getting Godot to play in debug/development mode on a Mac with an external monitor attached. As much as I want to use it, that's a non-starter for me.
"Coding is a calling."

No more than anything else could be.

I've found that after time, it's better to look at it from a much more pragmatic view. When I feel 'it's a calling' I get caught up in perfection and bike shedding. When I treat it like work and focus on outcomes ... stuff gets done :)
Lovecraftian Economics... just saying that makes me shudder a little but I see it, can't unsee it.
From what I've read if you had a single instance of a lambda function running 24/7 it's still cheaper than the micro EC2 instance. You have warm-up time on initial requests if the functions been idle for awhile, but otherwise the response time is fairly quick <25ms and it scales up with your traffic directly. It's cheap for a web application served primarily from CDN with serverless for backend logic and easy entry to using other AWS services with secure access per function. Starting a web app through serverless would be insanely cheap barrier to entry with serverless considering you only pay for processing time.

Whether this works well depends largely on the architecture of the application and if it's done right. You can absolutely have a serverless application that would be much better served with elastic beanstalk or ECS perhaps but to say serverless is useless or too expensive all around is not true.
I have not found evidence to support this hypothesis. Unless you are grossly and spectacularly insensitive, I do not see a plausible mechanism by which simply starting a conversation could have "lifelong negative effects".

There is reasonably strong evidence to suggest that social connectedness has a substantial protective effect on suicide risk. Just asking "Hey, how are you?" and making time to listen can make a meaningful difference to someone in distress.

https://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/Suicide_Strategic...
I don't have a popular opinion on this.

I wish they did more to help the US military with AI technology. It reduces costs of human interpretation and doesn't have the same issues with classified information in the minds of those humans.

There could be great time savings and the potential for higher reliability of image interpretation if unsure AI assessments are passed onto humans for interpretation.

I don't believe that the core of the US military is evil, and as an American I am happy to have it defending my country.
Still some fairly major hosting platforms that don't do ipv6 -- amazon lightsail for example
>Possibly inappropriate - but why do people immediately link suicide and mental illness?

Because suicide is almost always preceded by years of mental health problems.
And even sadder for his 10 year old daughter who will live this experience while most of us are focusing on other things in a day or so.
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How often do utilities compete? I don't have a choice on water hookup and electricity has only been a choice in generators recently. Also no one has actually done UBI long term and on a large scale. At this point I feel like you are being disenguous.

If you don't like the idea of UBI and think market only solutions are better, that's fine, but this is different than the government telling everyone they're making A widgets this year instead of B widgets
Passing away on June 3rd, 2018, Georg von Tiesenhausen was the last of the original German rocket scientists that came to the United States with Wernher von Braun.

He is also presumably responsible for #29 and #30 of Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design:

29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.

30. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Engineering Design) If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept.
Wow that is absolutely genius, call that an analog growth hack.
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Not sure, this was many years back but if it wasn't a default it's very likely I didn't.
>We are not talking about someone who chose to die rather than continuing a painful fight against a terminal illness

I am afraid you don't understand chronic depression. At all.
People seek to draw a link between suicide and mental illness because the drastic outcome of suicide stretches one's comfort with the notion of informed consent.

The widespread societal taboo against suicide supposes that no rational person free of undue pressures would consent to ending their own life, therefore anyone who commits suicide must have been pushed to do so by serious factors that impaired their ability to properly consent.

This line of thinking effectively re-defines 'mental illness' to be that unknown variable that pushes outwardly functional people towards a choice that surprised the observer.
I understand all the ramifications in certain cities where the housing prices are getting effected by airbnb, but I think in this case it is just the Hotels strong arming because they were losing business and the Olympics are coming.

I am a budget traveler and low income remote worker and I really am glad I got to slide in before airbnb got shafted. It's a shame that I now have to choose between hostels and overpriced hotels, when I prefer the AirBnB experience. I met friends my age, got to see a side of Japan outside of tourist spots, and learned what it's like to just live in a normal house here without some exchange program or school. Without AirBnB I would not have been able to visit this unique country! RIP!
I'm saddened to say I didn't gasp, I was more saddened that his demons had finally claimed him. Bourdain struggled with addiction in the past and stated flat out when talking about it the reasons he got into drugs in the first place was an emptiness inside of himself. My condolences go out to his daughter who's just 11 and ex-wife as well as the crew at Zero Point Zero that's supported and worked with him for years.
Well, Microsoft is a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation.

It would be really weird to see anything but a positive reaction from a consortium which receives a substantial amount of money from Microsoft.
Can't really write something on the Linux foundation that'd annoy a platinum partner though, can you? :)

Though I'm in the middle on this, I'll see what microsoft does with github. The company has shown a different approach to the 'old microsoft' but it's still a company with the aim of making a profit. Github was losing money IIRC and MSFT has a lot of data on people as it is. Github might be a good way to target devs for advertisements :)
A similar shorthand exists for calendar years - e.g. "2k8" means "2008".
Android is really a good image of what happens when Google design something from top to bottom according to what they want. There's a tiny piece of it open-sourced, the bare minimum and everything else around is closed source. They made sure that the whole ecosystem is complicated and convoluted enough that you can't easily modify it for yourself.

We could have had a Linux distribution tailored for mobile, instead we get that mess that is Android.