skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember watching a documentary on assisted suicide where they said that many people who are approved never follow through, but knowing they have a way out provides a great deal of relief.

With that in mind, I can easily see how things like fences might make the problem worse as you said. People will feel even more trapped and helpless when what they need is the opposite.
People have spent however many years since the release of the last pi suggesting improvements. It's announced today offering basically everything that people were asking for, and you are already planning for the next one?

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I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times
I like your ideas. However, I don't fully follow the the low corporate taxes one though. Is the idea to compete in a race-to-the-bottom with corporate taxes and profit from trickle-down economics? I think the popular critique of trickle-down is fair.
You raise a very good point. I hadn't thought of looking up research on attitudes towards death in actual elderly people.

It's an unusual one because I'm specifically thinking about people who might want to die simply because they've seen and gotten from life all that they want, not people who are fed up with the (present-day) privations of old age. I suspect you're right that only a very small proportion of today's elderly match this

The closest thing I found after a little looking around is a recent initiative in the Netherlands called "Completed Life" - which seeks to extend the option of euthanasia to relatively healthy elderly people who have decided that their life is complete - and some associated research [0][1].

Lastly, on a slightly pedantic note, I think it's valid to invoke fictional worlds in response to someone who says that it's "insane" to feel a certain way.

[0] http://www.elsvanwijngaarden.com/

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795361...
I may be biased (I'm a Real Estate Investor) but Investors aren't the vultures that some people make them out to be. We are putting beautiful homes back out on the market. Sure, this is pricing out people who would have been keen on making improvements over time instead of realizing payments on this all at once - but the end result is if people are willing to pay, there will continue to be a market.
Unfortunately, given the low rate of success with startups, you'd probably need data from a minimum of 40 startups before any analysis can progress beyond survivorship bias.
One thing I took away from growing up a military brat and then being an NCO myself in the military:

You lead people, you manage things. People are not managed, they are either led well or poorly. Good leaders lead from the front, right alongside their charges. This is one thing I miss from my military time. Leaders should be working, not sitting in an office breathing rarefied air and distant from their charges.

I'm thankful my current "boss" is happy to simply let me and my one colleague run with it. Should we need something, we ask, but otherwise we know what to do and the road map is clear. We work with a sense of urgency, get things done and keep the boss happy. He looks good, we look good. Another thing that is detestable is too many meetings for the sake of meetings. Have a purpose for the meeting. Allow feedback, take constructive criticism (leaders, I'm looking at you), and actually lead with your troops, not away from them. My sole colleague and I get more done in one day than I did in a week at my previous position because the bureaucracy would not get out of the way.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
I mean, the CFPP mediated my dispute as well. Chase told me to go fuck myself and CFPP dutifully reported that to me. The question is whether these organizations can sit as an objective third party, look at my dispute, and force Chase to do the right thing.
The wrong vision to judge China
Dude the research method is so casually decided wtf?
Just too many questions at this point.

what about the ones who have already paid the entirety of its loan?

Isn't this problem a derivative of problem (insert costly higher education) here.

Shouldn't this also mean that education loan will become one of the easy way to get into college even if you dont want to?

What about the future generation? Its good to have free education in first place rather than giving out loans and taking it back.

India took a similar stance on Farmer's loan waivers and it neither fixed the issue nor corrected it.

Time to learn lessons.
Just too many questions at this point.

what about the ones who have already paid the entirety of its loan?

How about a federal loan structure? with very minimal interest?

Isn't this problem a derivative of problem (insert costly higher education) here.

Shouldn't this also mean that education loan will become one of the easy way to get into college even if you dont want to?

What about the future generation? Its good to have free education in first place rather than giving out loans and taking it back.

India took a similar stance on Farmer's loan waivers and it neither fixed the issue nor corrected it.

Time to learn lessons.
> Stress at schools? I hail from India and when I was a kid in 90s, I carry 10Kg bag to school and has to do homework in 7 subjects, and get beaten by stick if I fail to do any of them separately by respective teachers, and has to spend time till 10pm after school (ends at 5 pm) at tuition to finish the homework.

One person's suffering doesn't diminish or invalidate the suffering of someone else.
How is this not another $1.6T bank bailout?
They are dedicated and spend monthes/years not only perfecting the method (most serious candidates always mpick smthe sale one) but talking about themselves about these problems:

- how can I minimize at most the damage done to my close ones? Yes suicide is a transfer of pain, but only a partial transfer. Full transfer would make life unlivable
- what do I do if I'm saved and everyone knows?
- Is there a hell waiting for suicidal persons? Is reincarnation real, and if so will this hellish life begin again?
- What's the best way to minimize the persons discovering your body?
I've never used the "buy used" option if that's what you mean.
This makes me very angry. I went to college twice, both times I got a federal loan, and both times, through blood sweat and tears, I paid it off myself. Why should I be penalized for choosing a major that pays, getting a job, and knuckling down to pay these loans? People must be held accountable for their poor decisions, even if it is $100,000 in student loans to get an interdisciplinary degree in religious and women's studies [1]

I also take offense to general tone of liberal policy these days of "giving" something away, or making something "free." Someone has to pay for it. There's a lot to be said and agreed upon for the common good, but there's more to be said for just paying your own damn bills and stop waiting for someone else to rescue you.

[1]. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/your-money/student-loans/...
Demographics aren't just white, black, brown iot runs deeper than that. In Chicago's case, the city's workforce is growing younger and more educated at a rapid clip. Here's an article written today about it, "Chicago’s new demographics: ‘A third San Francisco, two-thirds Detroit’":

==His analysis of U.S. Census Data found that between 2005 and 2017, the city of Chicago’s 25-39 year-old age cohort grew 15.7 percent, while falling dramatically in the rest of Cook County (7.2 percent drop) as well as the metro area outside of Cook County (5.9 percent decline).

==In addition, between 2005-17, Chicago’s population of 25-44 year-olds with a bachelors degrees or additional advanced degrees grew 42 percent. As Saunders wrote in a Twitter thread sharing his findings, “An older, less educated, manufacturing-oriented populace is being replaced by a younger, more educated, knowledge-economy populace.” Chicago now has a higher share of college educated workers than the surrounding suburbs.

This phenomenon is dragging down the already depressed neighborhoods the most. The jobs their residents relied on are disappearing. The residents with means are typically moving out (to the suburbs or Sun Belt cities), leaving behind the most at-risk residents.

>https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/6/24/18691792/chicago-econom...
You need BGP and provider independent space for your two ISPs to both announce your space. What's the alternative approach?
> Also IMO it would be stupid to have BMW petrol stations, Renault petrol stations etc

Wholeheartedly agree - but EV use is growing faster that local authorities can build out supply in some areas and flawed capacity planning means there are chargers going unused in others. There's fewer independent suppliers as there are with petrol stations so the market incentive for other companies to pick up the middle ground isn't clear yet (esp compared with at home/work usage).
i can't think of a better way to spend tax tbh
The point was that it isn't removing it from the biosphere - molluscs that feed on algae-covered rock are now setting up on this plasticrust stuff and consuming it along with the algae.
Ask HN: What framework do you use to predict the future of a technology?
I have been trying to understand the way technologies progress forward and the increasing challenges, rejection, and adoption they experience in the journey.

I thought understanding the history of technology can provide answers to what might the future look like for a different technology moving through the "hype curve". (inversion)

For example, the speech recognition technology is in the "Plateau of Productivity" phase currently of the "hype curve" [1]. Accessibility of big data first and then deep learning were the two major changing points in history to push the field forward.

How do you think about the future of different technologies?
Will be helpful if you can point out to relevant resources that talk about history and future of them.

[1] http://k1.caict.ac.cn/yjts/qqzkgz/zksl/201808/P020180814355000666438.pdf
Not cheering the rise of white male suicide, but viewing it as a side effect of an important social shift which topples the historical dominance hierarchy
But isn't this the definition of socialism: Taking from one and giving to another?
I'll focus on the initial part of your post to point out that you _cannot_ trivially avoid taxes for operating in the largest economy in the world while operating in the largest economy in the world.

Sure it's possible under certain aspects (like Facebook et al. paying nearly zero under being "mutlinational" and even that relies on the will of the government to allow it) but that does not apply to the US stock market, does it?

Unless someone knows something I don't I can't be convinced financial players would stop trading in the US because of taxes unless they are really, really abusive.

Some evasion to other markets, perhaps, but how much "down" to developing nations are large funds willing to go?

You can't just seamlessly move the entire thing elsewhere. No other country has the economy and international (military) presence. Do we all agree that makes a difference?

I can't see this level of taxation changing things at all
Nice to see ML in the service of systems for once, instead of the other way round :)
2.5D is connecting chips laterally on an interposer. Full 3D IC wafer level Packaging would be stacking wafers on top of each other a in dense, heterogenous, 3D configuration - i.e. "memory near compute"

Ex: https://www.kurzweilai.net/radical-new-vertically-integrated...
Well, there is agile as described in the Agile Manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.org/

And then there is Half-Arsed Agile: https://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/

The author meant the former. Writing lies seems to point to the latter. Writing lies is not "valuing individuals and interactions".
A potential possibility of why not including Japan is the result they found differs significantly from the reality because of their way of measurements. It seems that the authors concluded as “Cultural Differences” and decide not to use data points of Japan. However The datapoints of India and China seem to coincide with the authors’ hypothesis so they decide not to eliminate them and publish in the journal. This is complete discrimination and I found this extremely dishonest. Shame on the authors and Sciences Journal.
> If the ultrarich want to be taxed, they are free to make a donation to the treasury any time. But they don't. Really makes you think.

Exactly this. They can talk all they want. Until I see them actually donating money to this:

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm

I'll agree with the cynic in you as well.
The suicide rate always dips after wars, at least historical wars. Wars, again speaking historically. reduced the male population. After the war, surviving males easily find mates and settle into stable homes, resulting in baby booms. It doesn't take much. A change of a few percentage points can radically change the dating scene.

I have read about this trend in smaller societies. It has been implicated in the 80s/90s aids crisis in US black communities. A substantial percentage of 20-30yo black males were jailed during the drug war. Those males not in jail found dating far easier. Females had to compete for the artificially reduced number of males. This lead to reduced condom use, accelerating the heterosexual spread of aids in these communities. Also, a baby boom. Changing the male/female ratio in an extremely powerful driver of change.
Corporation tax does not tax (rich) individuals
i would say getting rid of this market makes the financial system healthier. 2008 crash could have been avoided with something like this
How does it work? Who is hosting the data and what incentive do they have for storing and serving unlimited amounts of your private data?
Please, now the SCIENCE is not scientific at all.
Datomic is a distributed database written in Clojure, and is best described as "cqrs-as-a-service". It allows you to run a "peer" inside your local Java VM, which essentially does exactly this: it caches the parts your local vm needs, and if not it looks elsewhere.

https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/peer-server.html
Immortality + no other technology improvement is not a realistic assumption, that's why you get to a non-realistic result of "people have to die eventually" from it.

The immortality is not a thing you take and then have to kill others to not allow them to take it from you.

The only way to not die is to have a huge society that invents new treatments, discovers new physics, builds machines to prevent death from random comets, from earth's magnetic field running out, or sun exploding. The mere 7 billion we have now is not enough for any of this.
I think this revolution will need to start from the bottom, new buyers need to realise that buying an ICE car does not make sense anymore, even if having EVs everywhere would only affect climate change by a small percentage, the benefits every city would get from them are far greater than keep filling roads with ICE vehicles.

Also governments at some point will start forcing their hand (and probably China will do that way before US given the current trend).
At this point in time, it doesn't make sense to restrict tld anymore.
I can't find this mentioned, is this only federal loans held by the government or would this involve forgiving privately held debts.

The first seems reasonable. The second seems terrifying.
It's weird to read a whole article about debugging that doesn't discuss debuggers. "Use a debugger," it says, offhandedly, as if you already know how to do that. But the sort of person who needs this article almost certainly doesn't know how to use a debugger.

Debuggers have a mixed reputation on HN ("I never use a debugger; logging statements are way better") but IME too many developers, especially ones fresh out of school, literally have no idea how to set a breakpoint and step in/out.

For those who do know how to set a breakpoint, that's typically all they know (and so they assume that debuggers aren't very useful); they don't know how to drop ("restart") stack frames, run arbitrary code in the debugged process, set conditional breakpoints, ignore ("blackbox") files, debug remote processes, edit the in-process code without restarting, etc. etc. etc.

Every developer working on code mostly written by other people should learn how to use their debugger's tools thoroughly.
can't believe this shitty experiment is.design by Science
Both. And if your external clients rather consume a JSON/REST API, it's easy to derive that from a gRPC API. You can do it right there in your protobuf definition. It's actually easier to do it that way than to deal with OpenAPI's wall of yaml.
Feels like an exponential upgrade.
SCIENCE is not scientific at all for publishing this kind of article
We could just rollback the recent tax cuts and have a much more progressive tax policy than a student loan forgiveness program for all.

That said one of the arguments for universal forgiveness is that it’s the only way to get major reform in the space. That seems like a crazy expensive premium to pay to me but maybe I’m naive about the appetite for improving others lives.
This is so true. Another thing I've seen great NCOs do:

When someone has to do something boring/dirty/ugly, never let them do it alone. Sometimes having a buddy help you with shit work can actually turn it into something fun.
Disclaimer: This is not based on real world knowledge. (To be honest I have practically no "real world knowledge".)

That being said, I just finished a school project where we (our class) were divided into small teams and we had to implement small RESTful web apps. My team chose to kick it off by grabbing two people from the front- and backend team and writing an API specification by hand. It was a breeze and we were done in a few hours. After that front- and backend (almost) never had to interact with each other again until the end of the project where we had to stick the two things together.

This probably isn't applicable to real-world cases where the requirements are ever-changing and everyone's a full-stack dev (or you don't have a team at all) but I found this sort of separation quite useful for this project. (It kept team sizes managable, different kinds of devs were in seperate teams, we didn't have to wrestle with any tooling that would halt the whole project.)

I see no problem with generating client/server boilerplate from spec though (like Swagger does, I think).
Why blockchain? Because there's one FAQ that you're obviously missing: "How do I delete a compromised/accidentally-uploaded file?" and I suspect it's because the answer is "You can't."

This would be the last place I'd upload anything important. Once that URL/password get out, whatever "secure" file I've uploaded is exposed forever.
I agree with one small point: Rent? Do you mean rental income? Because I feel like if a person can buy a place and then rent it out, that is an opportunity earned and converted into income. My husband and I own two rental properties, which took us about 11 years to acquire. We get decent rental income out of it but it took a lot of time and work to get to that point. I think we earned that income.
Are you in Europe? They had to do this to comply with an EU antitrust ruling last year. [1]

1: https://9to5google.com/2019/04/03/google-play-europe-browser...
> And no one admitted that we were even eating the dog food.

Do you know why? That seems to be a weird thing to refuse to admit.
At the risk of talking about suicude and increasing it's potency, the OP is talking about the cluster that occured before 2015 in the Palo Alto area [0]. The linked article is unfortunately paywalled (for me at least). Other clusters have occured since then. Though I cannot find the citation, I remember reading an article that stated that suicide is considered contagious, in that it seems to look just like any other contagious disease. That article further mentioned that suicude in the social media age is much more virulent, I think by ~2000% more contagious.

Recently, in Colorado Springs, CO, a teen suicide cluster was allowed to fester for a number of years in the evangelical community. The coroner, respecting the religious wishes of the bereaved, listed the teen suicudes not as suicides per se, and these victims were not included in official stats. The religious community believed that death was not the end and that the victims would live on in heaven. The victim would be lionized and become the 'most popular kid in school' for a while. Finally, the memorialization of the victims was wide spread via social media and the religious community, and was also very public with lots of people attending funerals. The combination of these factors allowed the suicide rate to spike 4900% there [1,2].

Though stress is undoubtably a trigger for suicide, it seems that suicide is very complicated and individual, despite the cluster nature of it. More research has been helpful in preventing this horrible 'disease' from spreading further, and awareness of the issue is being increasingly taught to our youth.

If anyone reading this is feeling suicidal, please reach out! In addition to the hotlines (1-800-273-8255), I would like to personally help you. Let me know a good email address and we can talk offline. I really, honestly, do want to help you.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/teen-suicide-contagious-...

[2] https://gazette.com/education/teen-suicides-spike-in-el-paso...
I agree with your excitement! I've been waiting for this upgrade forever. I keep looking at the other options out there, but while their hardware is great, their software is terrible.
Somebody please hard-code this comment to the top, because it is spot on.
What about the people who dodged paying student loans? What about the people who didn't have the opportunity to go to college because of growing up in abject poverty? These people had a choice to not do the research and take on massive loans.
Bill Gates claims his ‘greatest mistake’ was not beating Android
Glitch was his attempt at making GNE again.

Game Neverending is to Flickr as Glitch is to Slack.
winner, winner, chicken dinner.

This is all due to money chasing returns it can't get due to low interest rates.