skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/43297...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_poisoning

Yes. The dose is something like less than a pound of salt, probably 100 grams might work, disolved in solution, and taken in one sitting, as a deliberate act of ritual suicide.

I think the inspiration draws from the concept of sea water dehydration/toxicity. Probably not a great way to go, since it isn’t fast, you hallucinate before losing consciousness, and it probably involves a lot of vomiting.

The point being, though, that a mason jar of salt carries a near zero perception of hazard, since it’s not really accident prone (accidental salt overdoses among children or the elderly aren’t commonly reported) but we also don’t consider it particularly deadly, even though the potential is there.
Reread, I made no such suggestion. In our black-and-white culture, though, we don't have much of a bin for "that's not illegal but it's societally risky so we're going to have to keep an eye on you". Which is why we've made "simple possession" illegal, so we don't have to manage that nuance. My point was just that making it legal isn't the right move either.
I don't see any reason you can't do both of these things. A benefit to open sourcing the code might be that it gets feedback from a wider audience beyond peer review.
Director: Wow, you look great, that's quite a transformation. You know what would be great, we finish with a before and after close up. Here, take this wet wipe.

Presenter: Awww, really?
Agreed. But since we’re rewriting the implementation in this comment thread there should be an emphasis on E2E encrypted connections WITH key based auth. SSHy packaged up nicely with a web socket proxy through Shellvault, or any provider for that matter, would be more secure than Shellvault’s current implementation but I think the lack of being able to use key based auth would be a nonstarter for many.
There are many cities that do certain things better than others, but what I don't understand is that most local politicians don't travel there and learn from how others govern their cities and don't accept their own problems have been solved elsewhere.
Math and science are creative pursuits. One of my pet peeves when people think that STEM subjects are not creative fields.
I'd like that feature. There's no reason why GitHub can't have a little more pizzazz. A lot of us spend a great deal of time writing code, why not have some fun with it? As long as the core features remain intact and unencumbered with trivial things, I for one welcome the additions GitHub has been making and look forward to their continuing development.
GitHub Stories! Share screenshots of your app or source code and they disappear after 24 hours.
Pls stop trying to re-invent public transit.
That's what LinkedIn is for.
William Petty, the person who first proposed the measure of GDP, even warned against using GDP as a measure of prosperity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#History
While ideologically coherent this position is inconsistent with another fact: it should be illegal to push people to commit crimes.

We could design strongly addictive porn that would significantly increase the market for production of actual child abuse.

More precisely if you abolish the concept of "obscenity exception" you still have that a lot of the same is illegal by "crime promulgation" (not a nice word, could not think of anything better)
This is hard to do in C/C++:

int val;
if (do_something(&val)) { ... }

Is val initialized or not? Note that passing in addresses of values is the standard way of getting around the fact that C/C++ does not support multiple return values.
Fifth Element totally had this idea more than 20 years ago.
I'm a man and have been wearing make up for years to cover acne, and it makes me feel good. Maybe this will help push passed the whole "makeup is only for women" thing and allow more men to feel good too.
Lupe Fuentes:

> In 2009, federal agents arrested a man in Puerto Rico on suspicion of possessing child pornography that included Fuentes. At trial, a pediatrician testified that Lupe was underage based on her appearance. Lawyers for the defense subpoenaed her to show her passport, proving that she was 19 years old at the time of filming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupe_Fuentes
I’m pretty sure the ones forced to work without pay don’t feel like it’s a vacation. No way are air traffic controllers feeling the “beach vibe” and considering that about a third of TSA workers are calling in sick they seem to agree. It’s also pretty hard to have savings when your pay is shit, and hard to plan for insane political whims with indefinite expiration dates.
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I am around 1700 in bullet (1 minute or 2+1) and I had to claw myself from 1400 as I am 1900+ in Rapid.

I played in anonymous mode for a long time experimenting and I realized that I was losing most of my games in bullet to time not to tactics.

For bullet: Just play average move each turn based on long term goals (I want to castle king side and pawn storm queen side etc), dont bother about tactics or traps or any other short term strategies.
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To me this is a bizarre line of reasoning.

I was "forced" to adopt systemd, but so far it's been leagues better than previous attempts (OpenRC, sysvinit) for integrated management of daemons, user-session daemons, a predictable way to access logs of a daemon ("systemctl -u postgresl", for example) without having to guess what it's log file name (if it even has one or logs into the syslog, etc.), etc.

Painting this as some sort of nefarious "extend extinguish" strategy is just tin foil hattery.

(Yes, there are still bugs, etc., but they will get fixed and the whole ecosystem will benefit. The security problems discussed ITT seem to stem more from the use of an unsafe language rather than design issues, per se.)
Law enforcement agencies in Europe cooperate extensively and legally with US ones. Just recently in the news -

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/01/the-netherlands-tapped...

This is El Chapo getting burned by this exact bad advice, among other things.
Can you summarize your experiences for all three systems?
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Prediction timescales are always a bit of a stab in the dark, and 5-10 years seems a tad pessimistic. Having said that the overall picture you paint is hard to disagree with. The extremist 'economic growth' superstition that has now spread worldwide is utterly incompatible with the continued existence of a living planet. Ecosystems are collapsing at an dizzying pace, and still our rulers and marketing-force-fed populations believe that they live within a fictional 'economy', floating free of the complex evolved physical systems that constitute reality.

Our international polity is now so fragile that economic collapse or war consequent on a black swan environmental breakdown could happen any day. But in any case, it's entirely clear that we are completely unprepared to deal with the environmental refugee flows that will occur, in billions, in the 2nd half this century. Wars will sweep the planet.
I hate to say it but I feel like the 90s was a better time all around for the casual computer user.

- You had total customization over your computer, every app was skinnable including Windows or MacOS itself

- Linux was in a great spot, finally becoming usable as a desktop OS with a ton of fun toys and UI/UX experiments that got a lot of us into Linux before we knew about CLIs

- Products were sold per-unit instead of *aaS, so when you bought something, you knew you could use it as long as you needed to

- Social networks didn't exist, so if you wanted to interact with people, you had to learn something - which is what made geocities and later MySpace fun, since people had to learn a little HTML in order to update their friends on their current status, and could use that new skill to decorate their "home" page

I miss the 90s. I want to bring that back. That's why I got my kids PICO-8, at least it's a little taste of the good old days!
At this point the more commercially viable option is to ditch the phone for a better quality mobile hotspot.

Pair that to a smart watch that doesn't require a phone, a mini tablet, and the ability to hand off calls to the watch or tablet.
Teen porn is certainly fine, and I believe you'd be hard pressed to make the case that Bing's results for "teen porn" are illegal [1]... porn companies specifically hire of-age performers that look young, then further dress them up (hair, makeup, outfit) to look even younger. Nothing illegal about that, and I don't see anything morally wrong with people choosing to watch porn with people that look closer to their own age.

[1]: I haven't actually done the search myself, for obvious reasons.
> It's pretty much over in 5-10 years as I see it now.

I understand that discussion on this topic is virtually impossible on HN for those of us who believe the world is not, in fact, sliding incontrovertibly into oblivion.

> It's like this knowledge has washed away all of my dreams, entrepreneurial spirit and will to play the capitalist game.

A lot of people said the same thing when _______. None of them have been right yet, but all of them (and those around them) suffered personally from their dire fatalism.
IIRC, auto C++ objects aren't uninitialized, they're default-initialized, but said default-initialization may leave them with uninitialized fields. I would hope that this new automatic variable initialization would also apply to those fields of default-initialized auto C++ objects.
This service was a godsend when I lived there, due to how abysmal Muni was. Sorry to hear it didn't work out for them.
The big big difference is discovery. Neocites has an explore page that shows you all of these mostly pointless personal pages and js games which often link internally to other neocities pages so you end up with a bubble resembling the old web rather than other static hosts that have websites that are just another blog in the modern commercialized internet.
The solution for the last stage of my Bitcoin programming challenge
Bar Induction Is Compatible with Constructive Type Theory [pdf]
InsightLeap is the latest Seattle startup helping Brands leverage eCommerce data
It is. Even after suggesting otherwise to some senior friends who work on MMOs it seems they're locked into doing it for some reason probably just inertia and general fear of game companies to do things the right way and not the "easy" way.
"I love the fact that we broke our industry's narrative"

That's about what I'd expect. Being proud of lying seems totally in character for AT&T.
> Secondly, many reviews of lego sets trot out a "price per piece" number as if you're buying pieces in bulk and get an instruction manual for assembling a set as a bonus.

To be fair, while some people do approach Lego sets like build-and-done models, lots of people do approach them with adaptability to other uses besides the one you get instructions for as a key feature, and more pieces even if they don't make a difference for the build shown on the box are a benefit for that use.

> We'd need to find a better metric (price per stud? price per gram?) and somehow get everyone to start using that metric in their reviews.

The idea of a "better metric" depends on knowing the One True Value Function of Lego. But I don't think that exists.
Obviously IBM was looking at Gates before noticing he was Mary's son. Don't forget that Gates was already a major player in the microcomputer software business, he didn't need any more "connection" than that. Of course IBM would go knocking on his door.
That image is 145x68 pixels[1], for some reason.

[1] - https://media.makeameme.org/created/what-is-this-3kgg8z.jpg
It's not that cryptocurrency is inherently a scam, but people have found no good use case for it yet (other than scamming people).

It seems like that for any problem that you could conceivably use a cryptocurrency to fix, we can easily find other solutions that are actually much cheaper and much more efficient.

That's not to say there aren't any problems that cryptocurrencies are better at, there could be, but so far no one has discovered them.
I think you misunderstand the feature. You don't have to constantly update your status. You can set it once in a while to show what you're up to... if you want to.
My heart sank a little when I saw this appear on my profile last night. I don't understand which demographic this is meant to target or what the point of it is, I just can't think of a single reasonable use case for it.
And how exactly does that mean "if we don't get them, they'll get us"? What it means is that not acting is as much an action as doing so.
I am a teacher. Our marks are immediately available once I have entered them in the online grade book.
"SpatialOS is a cloud-based computational platform that lets you use many servers and engines to power a single world. The platform coordinates a swarm of micro-services called workers, which overlap and dynamically reorganize to power a huge, seamless world. The platform also lets you handle a huge number of concurrent players across different devices in one world"

I'm planning on releasing something like this, with Unity clients on the roadmap. I've no plans to run headless Unity instances on servers, however. Would Unity make my system "illegal?"
Is this "feature" due to the new ownership? I really don't like the direction it's going.

Soon, we might not be able to make PRs without making our friends "help", and people will be making accounts for their cat.

When my (non-coding) teenage daughter signs up, I'm leaving!
oops, I meant to delete my needless clarification "(Just to be clear, these aren't..." but must have sent it anyway. All I was trying to say was that these tweaks are user preferences like background images, not essential things to make the machine usable. Thanks to Sputnik and the wifi card swap, the machine was usable from the start.
So will it be super cheap to buy but replacement toner will cost a fortune?

Wonder if you could get different colours and have a in-situ printable tattoo system.
The underlying idea seems to be that the economic reality is worsening and this is true for every group. Meanwhile some groups have had more and more artificial barriers removed that make it easier to access that economic reality as say someone who is middle class and white (not necessarily equal, but let's just take white and middle-class as a standard for comparing). So yes, it is better for certain groups, but to continue the analogy of the hill, these groups have had artificial barriers removed that make it easier and easier for them to climb, but that hill itself is getting steeper and steeper.

So on the one hand those barriers are getting torn down slowly, which is progress in one dimension, but the economic reality is worsening for everyone. For example, people of color mighty be competing with other individuals on more level ground when it comes to getting jobs, but the supply of those jobs, the quality of life they support, and the security they afford seem to be decreasing, and the all important question isn't what it's like now, but what it'll be like on 20 or 30 years.

As a side note, worsening economic conditions can result in a flare up in racial tensions which might undo the progress that has been made.
My site is hosted by Neocities (who I support with a measily $5/mo) because I also miss Geocities and the "old internet". It's not that I couldn't have just picked any old host to serve static assets for me - but that it wanted to be a community of artsy/non-corporatized websites ran by hobbyists.
Unfortunately it doesn't print away jowls and wrinkles. Although I expect it could via trompe l'oeil for one particular angle.
I don't think that offers nearly the sort ironclad protection the GP is suggesting. The broad exemptions are part of the reason AoI agreements are universal in SV.
I think it's absolutely essential to have a good basic education in: reading, writing, grammar, literature, philosophy, math, science, history (all not in any particular order), maybe add some psychology. These things are essential. How you structure teaching these things is much much less important than actually getting them across.

Whatever your concerns with public and private schools, you can spend some time at home making up for their faults. Homeschooling is a full-time job -- great if you can do it and are good at it, but it requires a tremendous commitment.

Unschooling... I'd never heard of before, and it sounds dangerous indeed. There is no way that children will self-directedly learn the basic things they need to learn that we've accumulated over the last few thousand years -- the vast majority children don't even have the organization skills and self-motivation needed for this, and they simply do not and cannot have the perspective needed ("eventually I'll be an adult and will need to be able to provide for myself and my family, and so I need to know all this stuff and more"). To force that perspective on them might work out, but might also ironically deny them the innocence of childhood. At least going by what I see here, "unschooling" seems like the sort of bad idea that the State should throw its weight onto and squash, and I'm not one to think that the State should do that. Think seriously of all the culture you enjoy and all the implied knowledge, and tell me there's a chance that children will learn some equivalent of that on their own, and the only thing that will convince me of is the depth of your ignorance.

And I say that even though I have some experience with how schools fail to deal with, e.g., students who are on the autism spectrum, or even those who aren't but who are even somewhat gifted. Maybe it's just that I know nothing about unschooling and it comes across in the worst possible way.

Whatever OP has been reading, OP should consider reading other views as well before possibly inflicting a huge own-goal on their children's lives.
It’s pretty clear that public non-chronological, timelines, posts, profile pages, and messaging will follow, along with a mess of spammy recruiters. Then, leetcode style scoring so that employers who can’t interview their way out of a paper bag know who to hire. Can’t wait to see where else they’ll stuff “sponsored content”.
My complaint isn't with the design. My complaint is with the piss-poor implementation.
Linden labs had produced a VR version of secondlife at least for the oculus DK2. There was also another viewer, ctrl-alt-viewer. Linden seems focused on an altogether new VR platform, Sansar, though that fails to get traction. i guess it s nice to have it, but then you need take off the glasses to chat.
Really glad to hear that you enjoy my app that much! I put a ton of hard work into it and honestly yours is the first feedback I've heard about it at all, beside a close friend who beta tested it briefly. If you have any thoughts on features or APIs you'd like to see in Autumn, please don't hesitate to use the in-app Feedback form :) In particular, if you wouldn't mind sending me a copy of your current script, I'd love to see how you're using Autumn!
Jonathan Blow was a hugely success indie developer prior to creating The Witness, and it had a multi-million dollar budget.

Also it's a great game, but I wouldn't say it's comparable graphically to a high end AAA game.
As with paint vs. printer ink, I'd expect it to cost many times more per unit, though.
> The volume of spam is high, but low enough to ignore.

Same with crypto. The projects people actually care about and follow aren't scams. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Nano, etc are not scams.

Sure there are some scams out there but they are mostly obvious. Just like email. But because some people have a personal crusade against crypto they like to play up the obvious scams as commonplace when they really aren't.
> Well, you can do all that, and still Facebook will know where you are and sell that information to others.

So after limiting what it is authorized to access, the Facebook app proceeds to access it anyway. You could say it 'exceeds authorized access' - a criminal offense under the CFAA! Should someone perform a citizen's arrest on Mark Zuckerberg?
> I'm merely objecting to the notion that being the toughest kid on the block implies it's always right to use force. Might does not equal right. Sufficient might only equals military victory, nothing more

Absolutely. I did not mean to imply that in any way. What I meant was that might gives you the power, and therefore responsibility, to make moral decisions about when and where to impose your will on others when they are acting 'sufficiently immorally', however you choose to define that.
Man. I feel bad for the employees. They probably thought getting bought by a big company like Ford meant they would stick around for a while.
I disagree. I think a lot of children see their parents commute 30-60 minutes both ways to a job they don't really like for 40 years, have few hobbies and life outside of work, see the massive damage corporations have inflicted on this planet, and see the massively corrupt government and think that there is no winning no matter how you slice it. I think the anxiety stems from having to be part of a system that they don't really want any part of, but ultimately don't seem to have any power to change.
They could implement IFTTT integration, or someone else could probably do that with a bit of js for your browser.
This is a good reminder that I don't use GitHub the way they expect me to. I don't use their notifications. I don't really ever look at my profile. Certainly not enough that I would go to it regularly to (even think to) update my "status".

I'm wary of "slippery slope" arguments but I do NOT want a(nother) social network in my life. It's hard to imagine how this doesn't evolve into GitHub Chat, etc, especially with GitLab buying Gitter, etc. No thank you. Thankfully there are ever increasing (and OSS) forge platforms, it seems.

It is a bit amusing, however, to imagine hypothetical horrible, naggy, even more self-promotional LinkedIn/GitHub integrations.
Thanks, that fills things in.
Though, I wouldn't be opposed to something like Gitter being built-in, to replace the Slack/Discord/Telegram groups that many projects have.
Am I the only one that had trouble seeing much difference before and after? I guess I could see that some lines had faded, but I really didn't think he looked any "younger".
Why would you want to make it a price to pay? We choose what's legal and what's not, it's not given to us in some great revelation. Do you think people's lives would be better without privacy, or with privacy?

I see little benefit in developing an alternative system of payment to the dollar, some form of intellectual nudity, implications of which I don't fully understand. The dollar is fine, charge me and leave me alone.
I grow more resentful and despise the way many will vote for a politician and hope and believe that change will happen, even with no track record to support it.

44 at least got SOME kind of healthcare, but not enough, shoved through before things gridlocked.

45 ... I understand and sympathize with why many followed this siren's call, but it's all emotional rhetoric and very little of real substance. I hope they are replaced soon and move on to making "The East Wing", a reality inspired drama made for TV.
“I would be careful. As a young child I was allowed to self-direct many aspects of my education (Montessori schools, permissive parents, etc.)“

Could you provide more detail
On this? Did your parents involve you in their day to day activities, were you completely free or did you have a choice out of a set of activities. I know this may be a difficult question to answer as our memories of early learning is always hazy.
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Oh man, you and I remember 90's Linux very differently.
I think it is a good thing to have a search engine that indexes everything... it makes it easier for cops to do their job...
GitHub is dead to me now.