skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yeah, but lowering the 50% one will increase usage of the other methods significantly.

The evidence says otherwise. Most suicidal ideation is brief and impulsive, so making it harder to access effective means of suicide doesn't just lead to a substitution. Multiple studies have found a lasting reduction in the overall suicide rate after a highly lethal means of suicide became less easily available.

The majority of people who survive a suicide attempt say that they decided to attempt suicide less than an hour beforehand; simply increasing the delay between impulse and action can be life-saving.

90% of people who attempt suicide do not go on to make a further attempt, so merely inducing people to choose a less lethal method is a net win.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/
> And certainly you can’t eliminate teenage angst, which is likely the real culprit here.

So why weren't teenagers in the 60s shooting up crowded places with full-auto machine guns (they were fully legal and accessible back then)?
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Your article actually says it ranges from 1.5x as expensive (so very similar) to 4.5x for the cheapest Canadian schools.
With all due respect, that isn't how the solution works. Users must first opt-in to Brave Ads. Once they do, they download a regional catalog. This is a text document, compressed down to about 3 MB in size. Your machine (via on-board machine-learning) studies this for relevancy. When a relevant ad is found, you are given 70% of the revenue, and a notification is displayed on your operating system. You have control from the start, even over the frequency of ads you'll see within an hour.
I find this to be the perception of:

1. New engineers, and it's certainly valid. The net pros and cons of your abilities are equivalent to those coming straight out of college. You must set yourself apart from the competition by putting more time into your work or increasing the quality of your talent.

2. Experienced engineers who work for companies that devalue personal growth, and that is valid too. Our most challenging daily work will usually come from employers -- If that work isn't mentally stimulating, you're not learning anything, and nothing is being meaningfully done to separate you from those college level entries.

3. Experienced engineers who work in fields with a lower barrier to entry, and it seems valid to me. If your company's projects are more resilient to the mistakes novices will make, or there are less mistakes to make because it's easier to understand, it's difficult to increase the quality of your talent in a competitive way.

4. Experienced engineers who knowingly have poor talent quality, and it's valid. It's challenging for some people to critically think, to navigate the abstract nature of engineering, and to learn those deeper concepts that typically separate experts from novices -- And that is surely difficult to overcome.

5. Experienced engineers who believe they have poor talent quality but are indeed quite talented in meaningful ways, and it's invalid. It's imposter syndrome and it's absolutely rampant in our industry.

6. Experienced engineers with good talent quality but poor interpersonal skills, and its validity depends on your interpersonal growth. If you're not great at negotiating or you intensely value validation, you're certainly at risk to being taken advantage of, and not necessarily with malice on the company's part.

There is definitely a shortage of engineers with high talent quality in fields that require it. Many people believe weekly hours are the only competitive aspect of our industry and it simply isn't true in many cases.

While we will almost indefinitely feel pressure to stay busy, talented engineers have far more leverage to push back than they realize. Great engineers are hard to come by and many companies will work hard not to lose them.
it is absolutely necessary, but it is dying, I come from India, and it's dead here.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19788773.
It depends, I buy a large block of cheddar, cut off a weeks worth and freeze the rest. The frozen cheese of course does not retain the texture but is fine for meals calling for melted cheese. Cheddar usually comes in quantities that would mold if kept in a fridge until consumed for me, so it’s either waste excess by letting it mold or having meals with melted cheese for a few weeks.
It uses the GPU but doesn't use it to actually decode video on linux.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726

Bug opened 4 years ago. Hundreds of millions in revenue and can't task one person for a summer to hook into the support that already exists.
That's very different than what the OP was talking about, no?
Was going to ask the same. I’d love to read it.
Brave defaults to Google in most countries, but we get paid $0 for it. We also disable auto-suggestions based on key by key tracking to Google as you type your search term, leaving it as an option some users choose to enable.

This isn't that hard (except for doing without the big bucks, which is hard: Brave is building up small revenue to large, not profitable yet -- again, we pay the user >= what we make, 70% of gross revenue for user-private ads, 15% for publisher partnered ads [not yet launched]).
(just leaving a comment for future reference because I'm also interested)
I have to because the twitter app for some reason causes my phone to freeze up like crazy until I reboot.

I wish there was a good way to report it, neither apple or twitter seem interested.
Bad people kill so kill bad people. So logical...
Maybe the actual final act is impulsive, but given personal experience, someone plans for a long time before they have that final impulsive moment. Lots of time to overcome blocks.
Here's a link you can look at:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296697/
I might be biased, as I develop kernel drivers and other low level stuff that must just work. In C and C++. Sometimes some assembler.

I've seen very little C/C++ code where I can't find tons of bugs. I've been in the business for over 25 years and gotten tired of this a long time ago. Enough is enough. Even the smartest people in business don't seem to be able to use C/C++ safely. (Yes, C++11 etc. did improve matters, but not enough).

Personally I'm happy there's finally at least one language that is effectively runtimeless, C/C++ like performance, significantly more secure than C/C++, C ABI compatible and has reasonable momentum. Rust might be it.

It doesn't need to be a silver bullet for everything, just give me more memory and concurrency safety.

If it's Rust, fine. If it's something else realistic, fine. It's not cure all, but borrow checker is clearly a major improvement for low level safety.
Is this problematic because of the links? Because FOSS is funded by donations and it's common for non-profits to acknowledge their sponsors. For example EFF does the same thing [1], but FSF displays only the logos with no links [2]. Are you advocating for the FSF version?

[1] https://www.eff.org/thanks

[2] https://www.fsf.org/patrons
I'm asking about methodology as relates to the statistic, not for the sentence in a Wiki.
I'm not just talking about the experience of browsing websites, although to compare a typical website in 1999 vs in 2019 is a bit like comparing a model T to a Tesla (for better or for worse).

I'm mainly talking about all the services that are available today though, not just serving static text with pretty markup. web search, video streaming, cloud storage, etc. were barely available (to consumers) or non-existent in 1999. I'm venturing out of my area of expertise here, but I believe sharding, cdns, and load balancing were also in their infancy then. big web companies would actually have their sites go down and have meaningful downtime. web services are much more resilient today than they were.
Wow, this was recent, too.
Most enterprises would have to allow a new app to connect. Even trying to use a different mail client doesn’t work in my employer’s Office365 account.
Congress only "means" what makes them look good for the next election cycle. But sooner or later, either benefits will have to be cut, or taxes raised. Either way Congress won't be able to do what they said they could do.
Perhaps:

Thresholds of violence: How school shootings catch on, by Malcolm Gladwell https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-...

Gladwell interviewed about the article on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/2015/10/13/448182623/how-riots-may-help-...
Throwaway and vagueness for hopefully obvious reasons.

I was loosely involved in the production of this show. I didn't find out about it until after our contribution was finished.

If I had known what content we were working on I would voiced my concern. I'm deeply ashamed I had anything to do with this and if I had known, I wish I could have verbalized my objection and voiced concern over being affiliated with the reckless disregard the production staff has for a leading cause of death among people in America that has taken the lives of friends and family.
Corporations do whatever is most profitable. If we don't like what they're doing, the only way to change it is to incentivize something else. Were the U.S. a country with interest in funding public-works projects - infrastructure, science, etc. - we'd benefit massively from the amount of brainpower and energy stored up in Silicon Valley. Instead, we get more adtech.
Just to be clear, the ISA is open source. The design or implementation does not have to be.
How and why did this end up on the homepage again?[a][b]

This is a silly claim, backed only by tiny toy experiments on tiny toy datasets with tiny toy neural networks. See links to the paper in [a] and [b] below.

Using the same logic as the authors of the paper, I could make the claim that neural nets are "essentially the same" as any universal approximator (GP's, SVM's, RF's, GLM's, etc.) and then run a few experiments only on tiny toy problems to back up my claim.

The authors should try to fit a polynomial regression model to cognitive tasks such as language translation, image generation, or modeling the game of Go... they won't get very far without running into the curse of dimensionality.

Please stop posting this on HN.

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17385383

[b] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19145706
This is cool! Let's not forget that over time genes variate on their own. Both human-modified genes continue to mutate along with side organic genes.

For folks looking to learn more about Genes in general I recommend the book below.

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No, we rip out Google's tracking and insert nothing.

Brave Ads are opt-in and client-based. There is no server side tracking of users or data in the clear. I can say more on how all this works, but I will pause here. Search for "catalog" elsewhere to find another comment explaining it a bit more.
> Nobody is questioning that they give some software back but giving software back simply does not fund open source

As I already stated, yes, it does fund open source. That's literally what they're doing: spending funds on developing and maintaining open source code. Did they fund every transient piece of software in the technology stack? Of course not.

It does not fund the...

Corporate money funds all of those things you listed. No, not every single package that becomes popular, but many of them, including many informed by practical knowledge acquired through battle-tested experience operating such software in their businesses.

> western developers can't afford to work on open source unless it's at a FAANG company.

So what? If western developers can't afford to work on open-source software they shouldn't. I wouldn't expect anyone to work for free if they couldn't afford to do so.
Ask HN: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on?
Personal life, career, dev work, trying to be "clever" about saving money: anything will do. What were/are some of the biggest time wasters in your life?

This is anonymous account, so can be candid about mine... Things I regret as of today:

* Taking too many business/economics courses, e.g. Managerial Economics, Marketing, etc..
* Some DevOps stuff, particularly Ansible
* Django/Python - should've started with Rails
* Failed side projects that I kept working on for a long time
* Facebook - deleted it several years ago
* TV - havent watch it for more than 5+ years
* Porn - havent watched for several months
* School, memorizing useless facts - nothing can be done about that, I suppose?
* Studying Calculus/Linear Algebra because I wanted to go into AI/ML
* Some video games

EDIT: added mine
You can own a machine gun today - they just cost as much as a car.
Hanging out on HN is a good start. If you spend time doing a lot of OOP at school, try learning a Functional language. It’s a great paradigm that will improve your general programming style.

Learn a language by making something interesting, i.e. web app, GUI, raspberry pi project....there are millions of ideas and things to do out there, so pick the most doable and exciting one to you so you can complete it, or at least make usable!
You are absolutely right they glamorized suicide.

But doesn't all media do that for the most part? I mean, most people are looking for escapism.

It's particularly galling that they do it with suicide, but it's what people want:

1- Movies/TV glamorizes violence from gangsters/mob/police/army... or they demonize it.

2- Movies glamorize drinking/smoking/taking drugs... or they demonize it.

3- Movies glamorize casual sex/strip clubs... or they demonize it.

4- Movies glamorize college... or they demonize it.

5- Movies glamorize having money... or they demonize it.

6- Movies glamorize 'justice' (criminal justice, etc)

I think the series is an insult to everyone who has been exposed to a suicide in their life, but I think that applies to many points. The guy who spent 15 years in jail falsely convicted won't appreciate the BS that is CSI. Just like the guy who is a recovering alcoholic, the ex-stripper, the person who lived real life violence like war, etc.

Whenever something bothers me, and this series bothers me plenty, I look within and why it bothers me. Why other things that might be similar don't. It really helps me understand our shared humanity.
Going back to an older post of mine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035005)

Here are some examples from a 2010 model railroader. https://photos.app.goo.gl/RvRzECgs7MaTo7tP8

Some, especially the Kato model Amtrak one, have some aspects of an aspirational ad, but I don't know if I'd condem them as such. They usually, as the Kato one has, information about the specific items that are now available and often some "ambiance" information that many hobbiests, especially people new to the hobby like to look at.

I don't mind ads like these as they're not designed to make you feel as though you need to purchase something to be better and they're not in a public space. They're they're to matter-of-factly says a service or product is available.

I could also show you the local pennysaver or Craigslist. All of those are also add, but they're not the "aspirational" kind. They're more matter-of-factly that someone is selling so (used) item, or provides some kind of service, or that there is a garage or estate sale at such-and-such address. How else would this information be made readily and easily available?
People underestimate the prevalence of random suicidal thoughts. A lot is probably intrusive thoughts or just life frustrations pushed into a form.

People should be taught to be skeptical of bad thoughts and understand how chaotic the brain can act. Otherwise random thoughts can materialize into fixations and be re-enforced by biases.

Life is hard, it occasionally gets you down but thinking bad thoughts doesn’t make you “sick”, it just makes you human.
> Really though, we should be focusing on the root cause: lonely/sad/broken people.

The US is an extreme outlier in terms of gun homicide in the first world, is the assumption that every country except the US has solved lonely/sad/broken people?

The second amendment (the full reading of it) doesn't give carte blanch coverage to own firearms and the US populace agrees that, for instance, inmates in prison and domestic abusers shouldn't be given firearms. There are sane ways to limit the second amendment.

Defenders of the second amendment often say it's an opposition to tyranny, but I fail to see how a hand-gun will help to protect you against an Abrams wielded by a tyrannous government - or should tanks, jets and battleships be objects that private citizens should be able to purchase and own for self-defense?
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Well they are patching SQLite and SQLite is written in C. So they'd have to maintain a C path, Rust code, and another layer of C API interface for client bindings, if I understood their architecture correctly.
Equally interesting would be a side-by-side architecture comparison.
> Awesome. I'm looking forward to trying this out. As a PM, I currently use Simplenote to jot down quick requests, or file it in JIRA if time allows. Eager to see if this turns me into a superhero.

As a side note, a JIRA board full of random feature requests in my experience will generally become a patchwork graveyard of backlog feature requests with little to no coherent relationship or roadmap between them.

In my experience, when this occurs, it is then recognized that maintaining a roadmap and list of feature requests works better in a wiki or similar documentation-oriented space through which one can categorize and cross link the feature requests as needed, as well as keep track of information such as how often it has been requested, etc.

This allows for a clean separation between actual planned work that needs to get done and prospective planned work that may never get done, but we want to think about in the context of the rest of the work we may put in the system.
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There's a research PDF as well I'm unable to link to because the file opens directly on my phone.
But if you Google "On the media mass shooting", a link to ifa.org might come up.

I googled that query because I remember hearing it from the On the media podcast.
I always used xeyes to test X connections in the past.

I wonder if we'll see a wleyes for Wayland, to test Wayland only and not the x11 comparability layer.
Many browsers would be screwed, and Google would for some of the code be in breach of the open source licenses governing the file or library. It's not likely for that and for many other reasons, but who knows? Anyway by the time Google went this evil, we'd hope to be big enough to do our own engine.
Forgot to mention that I use GNU/Linux. My bad.
Hey, I'm on the chromium videostack team, would you mind filing a bug report for what you see happening with youtube? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry
You mean the ones google is fighting to keep, while trying to convince everyone that allowing more tracking would incentive bad actors to drop fingerprinting ?
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> 10 million is about double the size of the metropolitan area

But you can agree that you understand and feel connected to the issues of people in your metropolitan area more than those of people in another state? Or in a rural town?

Assembling funds to build a bridge/tunnel/rail in your metro feels more tangible than livestock subsidies in another state?
> Right, but that doesn't tell me how many other ways they carved the data up and didn't report it in the paper.

i understand that and i don't believe i contradicted you, rather i was emphasizing: they _admitted_ to 9 different carvings and only got 1 interesting one. what they did under the hood had to be even worse!
All the Atlassian suite is somehow dog slow on Firefox on Mac. They're unusable.
Doesn't matter who he is. If he wants his article to be taken seriously, he shouldn't fill it with unsupportable bombast.
I'd argue that your web browser is one of the most likely areas to be compromised from. Huge codebase, network connected, processes many different types of data, can follow links without your direction ...
> copying and uploading the libraries is actually illegal

Is it through?

If I'm uploading a library to virustotal to check if it's a known piece of malware, am I breaking the law if it was clean?
Right, there are National Guard units, and armories, everywhere. Some of those would probably side with revolutionaries. And then there are police forces of large cities, which wield serious firepower.

It'd be a mess.
Attacker already got the data http or https. But by publishing over http...other sniffers of public traffic also get your data.
> It sucks that we have to do that, but I can't entirely blame them for making their own products work better on their own browser.

You mean like MS for a long time did with MSIE?

Are we really back in the 90s, back to “This page works best in $one_specific_browser”?

This is not the future I was hoping for... On the flip side I can use Linux for almost anything, so i guess it’s not all bad.
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Compared to other methods, it leaves a relative mess, you can easily screw it up, you're conscious for it...
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That's what I expected when I installed the app. Just kidding, I would never install the app.
I think the risk of failure being lower for firearms is exactly the draw. But failure is still a possibility.

I had a friend who unsuccessfully attempted suicide by a pistol in the mouth. He ended up with a hole in his nose. Having only brought one bullet with him, was in enough pain to get treatment. He still wears a small bandaid on the side of his nose, but he’s in a stable place now.
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Ads are a cancer upon the world, far worse than poor free software funding, and people are understandably dismayed at seeing that cancer spread, no matter how justifiable the reasons given.

Paid software is increasingly filled with ads, and I would argue it is precisely the absence of a profit motive that has kept FOSS software so virtuous. See the effect it had on app stores.
I'm implying that some of the attempts may be half-hearted. The US has more than 1 gun for every person in the country. The fact anyone survives a suicide attempt means that perhaps they didn't really want to die?
>> Some of the citizens overthrowing the government would be in the military, though, no?

Very unlikely. Biggest part of military training is brainwashing you to always following orders. People that resist brainswashing are quickly discharges as "unfit for duty".
This technique works more generically to allow you to persist any file descriptor. That's probably why it wasn't mentioned in the documentation (it's just another tool in the toolbox).
Any interpreted and most weakly typed langauges are great for prototyping.

lisp, clojure, python, php, ruby, javascript, prolog, smalltalk, basic, lua. I would say clojure & javascript lead the pack due to their support for concurrency.
Google's classic canned response of "We've confirmed we're right, we will not tell you why and this is the last reply you'll receive" is one of the most infuriating things I can imagine. I make my income primarily through AdSense and live in fear of that email one day.

In this scenario it seems pretty obvious that their automated fraud AI messed up, but the customer service person is probably also automated. They have so many people working on insane moonshots, but don't spend money for customer service for their core products (in this case people literally trying to give you money!). Just bizarre.