skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some more interviews with people who survived suicide.

https://www.kent.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/health/releas...

In England suicide prevention is a Public Health duty, and public health is normally located within local authorities (a form of local government). So there are a variety of suicide prevention approaches across the country, but they should all be informed by the national suicide prevention strategy.

Kent and Medway felt one problem was with "male help seeking behaviour". They did a lot of work to understand what this actually means, then they released material that appealed to men. They avoid use of mental health language (eg, "depressed"), and they use the words that men use themselves "knackered", "stressed", "regret" etc.) https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/image/0005/95009/relea...
I decided to run every day at the beginning of the year. Previously I would go for a lackluster jog every couple of weeks. That was not enough exercise and I went cold-turkey, no excuses. I mostly succeeded aside from a few days where it was not possible due to circumstances. I do not feel that it improved me mentally but physically it's a whole different story. Endurance improved dramatically, I do no longer feel exhausted after physical activity.

At first it was a struggle but now I look forward to the daily run. I do not want the effects to wane and that alone motivates me.

I'm aware that running is hard on the joints. Not sure about my long term plans but I will dedicate at least this year to it.

I guess my point is: no matter if it's running, walking or another activity: just continue doing it and eventually you'll enjoy it.
I was so sad to see this date move closer to the half year mark. They’ve made a map with user suggested actions and initiatives which looked useful but was a bit empty at the moment. There sure must be more things we can do in tech to help raise awareness for topics like this?! Would be cool to hear your ideas and suggestions!
Here's the complete source for anyone curious

```
exports = module.exports = trim;

function trim(str){
return str.replace(/^\s|\s$/g, '');
}

exports.left = function(str){
return str.replace(/^\s/, '');
};

exports.right = function(str){
return str.replace(/\s$/, '');
};

```
Actually the site is hosted on Github pages, that's why I was surprised to hear it was down some hours ago
This article is focused on the situation where e.g. a tropical cyclone knocks out the power for an extended time, after which a heat wave sweeps through killing tons of people because the AC won’t run and the human body can’t physically cope with the temperature/humidity.

The first sentence explains that the authors studied the “potential for a catastrophic cyclone-heatwave combo”. The rest of the article elaborates.
But doesn't a vegetarian diet require more hectares than a meat based one? Livestock farming will emit more emissions per hectare, but I don't think we have enough hectares of arable land to feed 7.7 billion people with vegetarian diets alone.

Particularly organic vegetarian diets need a lot of land.
That's a philosophical difference which says nothing of their understanding of the rest of the software universe.

I dislike the microdependencies and the "DRY-taken-to-the-extreme" stuff that the js community does but your argument does not hold up.
The original qmail was widely known for being very secure and fast. This implementation on the other hand, is apparently marketed using warez slang?

> Netqmail 1.06 is produced by this motley krewe
This was so evident 2-3 years ago it’s ridiculous.

I worked on a bunch of projects in 16/17 and what I told all my clients is get to production and lock down offtake agreements ASAP as the amount of projects coming online was huge for the short term (with regards to hard rock lithium) and even worse long term (salars etc).

Even the most optimistic of ev adoption rates showed oversupply by 2023.

Some other facts I remember just as points of interest:

* lithium market is opaque. No open market and all contract based so very difficult to price.

* one major unknown that will further add to supply is recycling, with some tech I remember showing cost effective recycling of up to 80% of lithium.

* major bottleneck in short to medium term are the converters ability to refine. Premium will be placed on higher % Li product to increase recovery rates.

So yeah no surprising at all.
(Am a mining/mechanical engineer)
In many Common Law countries, you are automatically considered to be in a de facto relationship after a period of cohabitation (6 months in Australia, for example)

Obviously designed to protect the rights of people in this situation long term, it's also rather frightening.
When the water in the pot is heated slowly, we don't realise that it's a problem until it's too late and we're already boiling.
Another perspective might be:
Humans want to come up with solutions for systems, they don't want to just implement features. We want to find coherence, some times where little is to be found. We want solutions to be orthogonal. We want to solve NEW (for us) problems.
Writing yet another rest route handler is not real work, it's not stimulating.. "return some data from the database when this is hit" is below everyone once they've done it once. It does not matter how much value that data brings, if the work is just "register handler, query database, return result", it's boring and nobody can be expected to find any joy doing that.. Like paving road, it's probably an interesting experience the first time you do it, but do anyone want to continue doing that? or do they want to move on to the next interesting thing?

I'm not saying it's the right behavior, just that there's a reason. Programming should be a somewhat intellectual endeavor..
It's hard to build the dams, reactors, geodesic domes and whatever else without more mining, concrete plants, energy intensive logistics and transports, etc.

It doesn't seem possible to do both things without failing at both with terrible consequences.
I don't think the solution is less flying and less driving, as we obviously can't take a step back in our mobility. This kind of "solutions" is what puts people off. The solution is more green tech and more green power production. And driving those can be done by buying more of those products, and boycotting any products that generate pollution.
Most of the Scheme libraries are GPL though, if that’s an issue for you.
One thing I don't understand is why nobody seems to consider the obvious solution: put an exorbitant tax on every piece of single use plastic.

If you had to pay $1 for your coffee cup, and $1 extra for the lid, you might consider foregoing the lid. Or maybe you would even bring a reusable coffee cup from home.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat...

Its complicated, but not eating meat would account for somewhere between 3-8% reduced greenhouse gas emissions. And as more of the world's population becomes "first world" demand is going to go up unless we start reducing cultural dependence on meat throughout our diets.
27 years old, actually, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. See “Bramble” at [0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_dogs
Yes. The middle east includes regions fractured by lack of water and competing state interests. Not all tensions derive from Sunni, Shia & Jewish religious/state issues. Turkey controls headwaters that millions depend on.

Wars in Africa can be traced to shrinking rivers and lakes. Tensions between north and south Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda,
Without going too deep, as a provider, Swagger has been a godsend for help with documentation, request examples, and a nice web UI for front-end developers to test against.
>Hence, it must follow from Godlikeness. Moreover, Godlikeness is an essence of God, since it entails all positive properties, and any non-positive property is the negation of some positive property, so God cannot have any non-positive properties.

Counter argument: Of course he can.

God isn't constrained by formal logic constraints -- in fact God created logic and can break it at will (e.g. by being two contradicting things at once).

We, as humans (or even as all of the universe), might not be able to conceive these, but then again, why should why? We're not gods!

In other words: when one is considering a God-like figure, there's no reason to consider one bound by the same restrictions we have, our Kantian "a prioris", or even basic consistency. If you do give your God such restrictions you might be able to prove this or that theorem, but only as regards to that lesser God, not the concept of God in general.
> and it looks like they'll be a lot harder to get wrong.

especially considering you can ` = default;` them, which should be enough a lot of times.
Is there something wrong with acm's load balancer or whatever? First managed to read to the end of the article, but to download the PDF showed "Oops!
This website is under heavy load." Now article page is under heavy load too.

Edit: It worked again right after I posted this comment.
The word for someone that truly does most of the work while others contribute nothing is called a patsy. If you're stuck in that situation it's usually hopeless. And you should leave.

That is different than a control freak that refuses to leave other peoples work alone.
Is Hiring Broken?
Re: career advancement, there’s definitely a sweet spot, “senior” (google L5) makes 3x starting, beyond that it’s diminishing returns and gets further from code. As long as I write code I can phrase my resume to get a programming job.

Re: specialization, seems risky to me, either way full stack suits my interests.
I can't know what the author means, but the thing which is known as chatbots now is very old tech, in fact:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA (1966)
Sometimes I am amazed at the cognitive flexibility of a writer to turn something into a story. Couples that aren't married and live in different houses? So... dating? This is a story about old people dating? Where a lot of them are divorced so they're maybe a little hesitant to move in together and get married? And there are a few long distance relationships as well?

I know this is the kind of pessimism that attracts downvotes, but I can't hold my tongue. The WSJ not only paid someone to write this, but it actually made it into the print edition.
I'm pretty sure, if someone goes on stage at any Clojure conference and asks: "how many of you had to use JVM performance and monitoring tools" there won't be too many hands. And if you ask "how many of you have to read or write Java code every day to maintain your Clojure stack" there won't be too many hands either. You don't need to be an expert in JVM to successfully build, deploy and maintain stuff written in Clojure. It helps, but that's hardly a requirement. None of the most popular Clojure books really dive into JVM - it is not needed.
This is a great opportunity to remind people to read the first post-modern American novel: The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, by Herman Melville. First published on April 1st and set on the same day.
I really hope a modern language can take over many features of C++ without its added complexity.

Potential candidates: Rust, Julia, Swift.

All three are modern languages with modern concepts. I have high hopes especially for Julia.
In Sweden there is a special word "Sambo", if someone lives with you (in a relationship context) for 6mo+ then they're entitled to 50% of your home, it also applies if you buy a home with the intent of living with someone.

Or, at least this is what I've been told, I don't speak Swedish enough to read the relevant law myself but it's been corroborated by enough people I trust.
Could it help to force long names, preventing simple, 'elegant' names?
DON'T. USE. PAYPAL.
Understood. However it's interesting to note that motor vehicles are the major source of cycling risk, all the same.
>If the devil exists in the understanding, we could imagine him to be greater by existing in reality.

That, like with God, is a logical jump. Who said reality > understanding? Reality could be == understanding (e.g. all, including what we conceive as matter, is just thought), or understanding could be discreet but greater than reality (and e.g. reality being a fossilized, realized, and constrained version of one path in the realm of understanding).

>At which point we must conclude that it is a shame that theology has captured the minds of so many brilliant people.

What you cited is based philosophy and logical argumentation, one of the cornerstones of civilization. And theology had quite a role in shaping it, along with the rest of civilization. Just because the starting points and assumptions are bad, it doesn't make the mechanism bad. For that matter, just because a mechanism is bad, it doesn't make it less useful (e.g. a population could be more agreeable, civilized, and moral when believing in a higher power, even if that higher power is BS, not to mention other benefits at the civic and personal level. See [1] for an example of such thinking).

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129528...
They do. Our "democracy" is just a bit too broken right now for that to have policy impact.
The problem isn't high intelligence per se, it's that high intelligence in dogs also correlates with high energy (this makes sense, most intelligent dogs are sheep herders, like border collies, which were expected to be working most of the day!) and other personality traits that can be less than ideal.

High energy dogs get bored, frustrated, or destructive when not given enough exercise. And a high intelligence just means they're that much more creative in finding ways to amuse themselves (that probably won't amuse you...).

Additionally, part of what makes dogs such amazing companions is their empathy for humans not just intelligence. The current dog of my aunt and uncle is pretty dumb, compared to the previous one. But he loves people, cuddling, and he's super mellow.

He still needs to be walked 3-4 times a day, but not particularly long and he's perfectly happy just chilling and lying next to you all Saturday. That fits much better into less active lives than something high energy that needs to run 10-15 miles a day...
Ehh... the reductio of this argument is writing everything in assembler (libc? giant hunk of third party code right there). I surmise that, by comparison, the blowback you encountered was relatively minor.
we obviously can't take a step back in our mobility.

Why not?
Total emissions per unit of nutrition is the relevant factor.

The only way that meat could win on either metric is if livestock are able to subsist on a diet far less varied than humans; essentially if they are better able to convert lower quality feedstock into higher quality meat.
I’ve seen reports of thin film organic solar cells that produce >1 watts per gram of material. A quadcopter motor can generate multiple grams per watt of power. You can today go and buy 100W from a 3.3lb panel, which is like half way there and not even trying. I’m guessing it’s probably possible to make a quadcopter that can hover indefinitely in the sun.
You could go farther and use a DNS name as a group name, then publish packages by signing with the SSL key. Anyone who doesn't want to shell out for a domain name could use a registry service that gives subdomains out. Why reinvent the governance wheel?
Well, I disagree that the article is confusing on this point. They say quite explicitly what they mean. I agree that the terminology is annoying, because they should just match the existing math terminology, and it's also annoying that they didn't account for partial preorders.

I'm not sure whether I agree that the terminology is confusing; on the whole I think it isn't. The reason it's not confusing is that it sufficiently different from usual math terminology so as not to interfere -- i.e., the terminology doesn't actually disagree at any point, it's not incompatible. Like, concepts get reinvented all the time and you just kind of have to get used to things having multiple terms, and be ready to translate unusual terminology into standard terminology, even as of course you should do what you can to reduce this happening. As long as you don't end up in a situation where one word means two different things, there's not really confusion, just different terminology.

And, as I said above, I definitely disagree that the article is confusing on this point, because they're very explicit about what they mean.
OpenPDF 1.3.0
There will be wars. Some say that the Syrian War was affected by climate change https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syri...
This is far more likely to normalise suicide and to increase rates.
> None of them have chosen the "micro-package" way of NPM.

This is not something inherent to npm itself, it's what the people using npm choose to publish.

No matter if people like small modules or not, it's not at all related to the topic discussed.
The IPCC is fairly sure we can't (see the Wikipedia link I posted)
Researchers from Rice University have an approach they think can get to 80% efficiency using a carbon nanotube film:

https://news.rice.edu/2019/07/12/rice-device-channels-heat-i...
I used to do Christmas card mailings for celebrities.

There would be an Excel with their original name in the first column, and their stage name in the second column.

Interesting to read.
Yeah, Media Fragments is basically only implemented for partitioning videos based on time, not slicing bitmaps.

Putting a PNG/JPEG inside a SVG can be a valid strategy at times, but if you are using primarily bitmap sprites then the traditional way of positioning/clipping backgrounds is probably best.
Any "solution" that does not take into account human nature is not a solution.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552303 (a few comments above) why meat production is orders of magnitude worse than producing food directly from plants.

Here is a land use graphic from Our World In Data that also includes information on what fraction of consumed calories and proteins are provided by the uses.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/Land-use-graphic-...

This graphic is used in the article https://ourworldindata.org/yields-and-land-use-in-agricultur...
Are you saying livestock does not live on a diet less varied than humans? As I understand it, they aren't as picky about food as humans are.
Far less of that would be required if we used less energy, and it's additive.

Eating beefburgers, flying Australia <-> Europe for holidays, driving a Hummer, using plastic for everything, and so on and so forth, just isn't necessary. My street has twice the number of cars it did when I was younger.

The idea that "terrible consequences" will come about from people taking the piss a bit less is really very silly. It makes me think of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch but inverted (when I were young, we had all the things...)
Yup! Passionate, inexperienced programmers are more impressive. They will write 10,000 lines of complicated code using a dozen frameworks and libraries. The experienced old timer will get the same done with 2000-3000 lines and only 1-2 libraries.

A further problem is that the impressive code becomes difficult to debug and extend as the requirements evolve. And of course with 2-3 years at a job, the original developer has long skipped to another job, leaving another junior developer befuddled with the "legacy".
Don't the animals themselves need a load of veggies? And only a small proportion of that becomes cow/pig/etc. So if that land were just used directly for human consumption, you'd need less of it.
I don't think that such ideologically fueled comments should be part of HN.
I wrote a small helper class that I extend my components from https://bitbucket.org/polylab/polyblocks/src/master/polybloc...

I have changed the details a bit since this but the approach is the same.

The readme of that repo explains how I approached working with them, I tried to keep the process simple.
> But doesn't a vegetarian diet require more hectares than a meat based one?

No, because livestock need food too and are horribly inefficient at turning food/water into meat.
Adding insulation to your home, riding your bike for short trips, not taking that vacation across the ocean, and eating less beef doesn't stop you from building infrastructure to mitigate the effects of the climate catastrophe.
Flying has been seized upon by various groups because it is an easy target and can also be blamed on this awful thing called capitalism (gasp!).

But the reality is that there many, many things to do that are more effective before even starting to look at aviation.

I don't understand the point of calling for "civil disobedience" (which is usually an euphemism for blocking roads and airports, and alienating public opinion in the process). What does it achieve? If you want to use your individual power do it constructively by changing your everyday routine and behaviour.
"Picky" is a strange way to put it.

Our baseline should be what is required for a healthy body and brain. We can go up from there.

Going down from the current level is farcical. We're in a crisis.

I like me an avocado as much as the next person, but if they need a 500% tax (invented, I don't actually know) to incorporate externalities, they need it. End of.

Like, seriously. It doesn't matter what we "want" at this point. Carbon needs pricing or we are totally fucked.
Die Voraussetzungen für ein indisches E-Visum auf einen Blick
> In my opinion Tesla needs to prepare to be in the budget space. They need to partner with an external manufacturer to sell a product with normal door handles that competes with Hyundai and Toyota. Because once the cost of batteries falls, I predict a substantial slice of their market will simply disappear to the economy manufacturers. I suspect that many people who love Telsa really just love the idea of electric vehicles and they'll be buying something more like the Kia Niro EV.

In my opinion Apple needs to prepare to be in the budget space. They need to partner with an external manufacturer to sell a product with a physical keyboard that competes with Blackberry and Palm. Because once the cost of touchscreens falls, I predict a substantial slice of their market will simply disappear to the economy manufacturers. I suspect that many people who love Apple really just love the idea of smartphones and they'll be buying something more like the Blackberry Curve 8300.

-sjwright, maybe, circa 2008
Getting rid of F keyboard is a major fuckup from Apple. I am very far of suggesting that they don't know what they do, but I am yet to see a software developer happy with the Touch Bar - after all these years.
Anytime someone tells me to do less flying, driving or eating fcking meat, I link to [1] and say: STOP FCKING - or at least stop having children.

The most actionable item (that is of course MUCH harder than not eating meat) is doing something to to convince the nations with most children per woman [2] to have less. But this is not easy - joining organizations that would educate women and doing volunteering or even dangerous work is insanely hard. Not buying meat, recycling and not riding your car seems hard for western people and so you FEEL like you are doing something, but you are not.

I will not have children but do 50 transatlantic flights this year, eat all the meat, hell, I'll even teach myself to drive a car just to show off how useless these individual actions are. You can't convince the world, stop CHANGING the world and change yourself, seek data and find the most actionable item. Jeez!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_action_on_climate_c...
[2] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...