skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Uploading files from the user phone to their servers is straight up copyright violation in plenty of cases.

2. I have doubts that you need copies of all kinds of system libraries to debug that crash. They won't help you debug a crash dump (assuming they don't have debug symbols left in for some reason). They generally won't help you reproduce the crash unless you actually know reproduction steps - it wouldn't surprise me if they tracked every user action, but I doubt they do - so it takes many of those crashes to even start debugging. At that point you probably know precisely which library you need and can obtain it legally.

That said, I agree that uploading the files themselves is not necessary to fingerprint users (the hashes would totally suffice). Unless they do the uploading as a cover-up story, which doesn't make much sense either.
Suicide by firearm is (or can be) certain and instant.

People who would not be able to stick a knife into themselves fatally, or dare to jump off a high place, are nevertheless capable of shooting themselves.
Yes, in some senses it'd make more sense to compare a Nordic country like Finland to greater Silicon Valley in terms of population and GDP at least.

- Silicon Valley pop is 3-4M and Finland is 5M

- Silicon Valley GDP is $275B is higher than Finland $251B

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/silicon-v...

Its better to compare the US to the EU.
Lotta green handles fibbing about us here.

We don't do third party ads. We block third party tracking which takes out third party and most first party ads. We also block fingerprinting, cryptomining, and other threats.
> Social Security and Medicare taxes have always been mixed in with regular income taxes

No, they never had. In fact, 47% of the population doesn’t pay income taxes at all, just payroll taxes, which are capped rather than progressive (anti progressive, actually).

The government does borrow money via IOUs to fund things like military mostly, but they also borrow money via treasuries, are you saying China’s export surplus should be mixed with regular income taxes as well?
Kleinbürger? Depends on the meaning.
Lambda, Filter, and Map Function in Kotlin
>We know for a fact access to firearms increases the chance of a successful suicide.

We also know poverty and financial stress leads to increased suicide, in fact close to 20% are directly related.

and yet, while the stock market is at record highs, companies are more profitable than ever, workers are more efficient than ever, inequality and debt has skyrocketed to historical highs.

The real question is what would come first: gun regulation(s) or some reforms to our economy so people are not living hand to mouth, indebted their entire lives, and have access to healthcare which includes mental health. My guess is neither. People in the US will continue to offer hopes and prayers (over social media no less for the virtue signaling and likes) but the vast majority wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
IIRC a lot of mass shooters are focused on the aftermath and coverage / impact of their acts and what they imagine the media coverage is was important to a lot of them.

I suspect there are exceptions.

Also due to the number of people available for study I have to think certainly possible that things aren't as the study implied.
None of this advice really addresses the core issue: people don’t want to be on other people’s schedule nearly all the time for 30+ years of their adult life. It’s relentless and soul crushing. I get 4 weeks off a year, and even if I take them all in a row, the only thing I can think of once my vacation starts is “the clock is ticking till I have to be back in the office.” And that’s always in the back of my mind no matter what and will be till I retire or somehow figure out a way to get fuck you money. No amount of meditation, saying no, time management etc., can fix that. I basically have no control of my life until then. Is there any fix to this? Can there be any fix really?

My plan now is just to save aggressively until 40 or so, then either lean FIRE or switch to a 6 month on 6 month off contracting schedule.

The only other option I can think of is take a job I might enjoy. But all those kinds of jobs pay poorly (relative to a software engineer’s salary), so I’d be locking myself into the working world for an extra decade or longer.

Edit: I should note that I realize I am extremely fortunate to be in the situation I am. I don’t mean to sound like I’m ungrateful for a lot of the things in my life.
I posted this after hearing Professor Scott Galloway identify Hawley's article as a "win" on "Pivot", his podcast with Kara Swisher. [0]

This week's episode covers a lot of ground and is worth listening to. It includes topics ranging from Tesla being purchased by Volkswagen, the value of Peloton, and the possibility that China is winning the Trump administration's Trade War. (Disclosure: Swisher and Galloway are progressive and liberal, and much of their commentary reflect that angle.)

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719#epi...

EDIT: proofread first sentence!
Possibly, but they likely don't have any incentive to do that and are just going to leave it to third-party devs. Their eBooks store for mobile was the reason they added it to Edge Classic in the first place, and that store has already shut down because no one was using it.
This will never work IMO. Media has done the work, the work is based on science. Some people are turned off by current news media but they know more eye balls will tune in if it is over the top. These companies are exploiting human nature.

We cannot hurt their wallets because generally people don't care. Maybe eventually humans will change. However, once they notice different trends they will adopt. They don't care either, they just maximizing profits. It is simple really.
First, most malware is not that sophisticated. While some does vm detection, most (as is the case here) does not.
Second, VM detection is an arms race. See for example the vmcloak project.
Third, with the rise of BYOD and VDI, vm detection is less common in sophisticated malware as the target is frequently virtualized.
Fourth, vm detection is harder for arm than x86.
Fifth, vm detection detection via static analysis is very effective.
In Celebration of Errors
> I'm OK with a request falling through the cracks if it was not important enough for the requester to follow up with me

The issue with this approach is that there will be a bias towards people who quickly/persistently follow up. Personally, I'm very hesitant to do so especially with busy people, as I don't want to add to their workload (or indeed, I dislike being pushy in general).
Greaselion is coming up as I write this. Stay tuned.
It leaves an impression that the portended motivation behind the platform is disingenuous.
Especially interesting that this is 'known' considering how most shooters die in the event.
My understanding of US economics is as follows:

If it's so expensive that only large corporations can afford it, then you have to score some really huge relationships at the top of the company.

If you're targeting small businesses, then it basically has to be turnkey, affordable, and it must deliver basically 10x value overnight if it is to be really successful.

The reason I say this is because I used to work for a cash-strapped repair garage. Rent, Payroll, Materials, Debt. Those were the 4 major expense categories.

Rent was set in stone for years, and wasn't precisely negotiable. Likewise for debt. Materials would be difficult to innovate, because you are creating a physical product (oil, metal, plastic, etc).

The biggest cost-savings potential would be to replace labor. If you somehow made a robotic mechanic or robotic electrician, that would save a 1M USD shop probably about $300,000 per year in mechanic salaries. But at that point you are getting into fields of computer vision and also robotics, and those are most definitely hard problems to solve.

So to sum it up, your value prop comes from any technology that can feasibly replace human workers salaries.
> Real suicide is not so glorious and does not leave a much of an impact as you would think, other than on the immediate family.

This isn't true. I can still remember the bloodied face of a woman I saw struck by a train. I remember the pedastrian strikes I've seen whenever I ride past the location or go through the station.

If I jump in front of a train I can delay tens of thousands of people. I'm wasting several person years of other people's time. I might get in the news just for that.

The train engineer will remember that moment for the rest of their life. So will the people who saw my jump. And the maintenance man who has to clean my blood and guts off the train will also remember.
Which is quite something considering the dog and pony show that is the recruiting process of most large orgs. One suspects that if OSS developers routinely offered to invoice for "software support" rather than requesting a donation, this would be a vastly superior option from the company's viewpoint compared to having to go through the expensive palaver of hiring.
Right, but that doesn't tell me how many other ways they carved the data up and didn't report it in the paper. Maybe they initially chose different age groups (10-22, 23-50, >50) and found no effect. Then they tweaked the categories and tada, controversial paper!
Approximating Zig's comptime in Rust using proc macros
Maybe I missed it in the article, but did they check the Netflix viewing history of those that committed suicide. Seems like that would be a critical causal link. If a show about suicide is available on Netflix and no one is around to watch it...
he actually lost this battle while he was alive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
> Isn't that what highly trained and professional law enforcement is for?

That works fine and well until the police are the ones kicking in your door to drag you away.

Fortunately for us all, that's not a thing that ever happens.

Since it clearly needs said, the 2A is not about day-to-day life. It's about large-scale societal failure modes.
You're absolutely right. I've been living away from the coast for too long now (~15 years).
Airlines Are Banning MacBooks in Checked Luggage Regardless of Recall Status
Especially since a lot of shooters end up dead by the end of the shooting, so it would be difficult to determine what they like about the reports of their amok run.
Tangential: Does your team publish papers or write blog posts on the kind of engineering or research it does? I'd like to read it, or at least add it to my queue. Thanks.
Android is the Windows of mobile: anything goes, in terms of both user tweaking and sketchy apps.
Yes. And they can still warn about it.
This is just bogus p-hacking and perverse causality analysis.

Look at their graph of monthly data.

https://i.imgur.com/mc8PJW8.png

You can't draw any conclusion from that but that it is an overall increasing trend with cyclic tendencies by season.

March prior to the release in the end of March was already all time high rate of suicides.

"Table 1. Association Between the Release of 13 Reasons Why and Suicide in the United States, by Age Group"

I mean ... it's just stupid. The series' premiere date is also a arbitrary point in time.

I don't refute that the series might have increased the suicide rate, but I have no idea how to verify that or put a estimate on it. The authors surely don't know either.
> It will always be weird to me that threatening to murder other citizens for some vague, ill-defined hypothetical transgression is a mainstream, mostly accepted political viewpoint here in the US.

It's weird to me that advocating for the cessation of an absolute right to self-defense is a mainstream political position.

It's not as if history is one peachy peace-and-love orgy.
Heavy ordnance, nukes, etc. can't realistically be employed against grassroots resistance from the population at large. As a rule, corrupt governments prefer to control cities and infrastructure, not smoking craters, so the tools of authoritarian control are limited to police squads and small arms.

Look at the Chinese response to the protests in Hong Kong. Are they flying bombers over the city and setting up artillery? No, they're using forces of infantry, police, and paramilitary thugs who are far outnumbered by the protesters. If they actually leveled one of their own cities the entire government would collapse on itself.
> Supporting 3 platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) basically means triple the development effort

Only if you're completely clueless.
I think you'd be surprised.
I had a friend for a couple years in Junior High. He had some family issues, and ended up getting kicked out of school, and we lost touch. 6-7 years after high school, he killed himself. I've never talked to the family, but still think about him.
> I wonder why males saw a significant increase in suicides if the show revolved around a female suicide.

As someone who didn't watch the series: perhaps the story is male-oriented, even if the character is a woman?

As an example: imagine that you take the movie John Wick, redo the movie shot-by-shot and line-by-line with a woman replacing Keanu Reeves, and call it "Jean Wick". I bet it would still appeal to the exact same demographic.
The article tries to have us believe it's the anti vax movement doing this.

Although that's probably true in the UK, are we really going to pretend the problem in Greece is also some non vaccination movement? This is absolutely Orwellian.
And I believe that it should be your right also but I also believe that it's Apple's right to not sell you parts, if they don't want to. I also believe that if they're willing to sell your neighbor Joe the parts to do the repair under the condition that he does the repair according to their standards, then that's fair for all parties involved.

Your option is unfair to Apple because their brand is damaged by Joe's shitty repair. I don't think it's unfair to Joe for Apple to refuse to sell him a part without certification.
I think the parent was implying that the show's effect was time shifting imminent suicides to 'now'. Since the consumption of streaming media is big-spike-on-release + long tail, that big spike when the show is released would still be visible. It would look like a spike and then dip for suicides averaging to the trend line on a larger time scale.
I am reminded of a quote from Mad Men:

"How do you sleep at night?"

"On a bed made of money."
These suicide studies are ridiculous. A 30% increase works out to something like twenty additional suicides in a population of around forty million. Trying to blame that on a television show seems far fetched.
Number Form
Could you link to a source? This is interesting to me but I'd like to know more about their method for arriving at those conclusions. I wasn't able to find the article/study you're referencing.
Despite all of the accounting tricks, at the end of the day, “payroll taxes” are spent to fund every part of the government just like all of the other taxes. We just happen to have a surplus now.

Once the tide turns and social security is running at a deficit, regular income tax will have to pay for social security. It’s all the same money.
Scrolling the site with arrow keys is annoying and doesn't really work in Firefox (scroll to something: "I want to see that full line", website: "yeah nah, have the next section instead").

At any rate, does it come with a web verison? Because a mobile app for this is in instant no from me. If it does, it's not very clear from the website.
the only cure for burnouts in the us is a workers’ union. everything else is just attempting to deal with the symptom of the real problem of corporations having too much power.
> It is not exactly practical for state government to try to match west coast compensation.

It isn't, though there may be a sharp difference in cost of living and that's a strong consideration with wages. That, and a pension and benefits is taken for granted by younger people. Besides govt positions tending to be less exciting, you can really put some money away. Moving up, though, is a sluggish process.
They did not. The CDC data on suicides only contains statistical information, not identities. And even if the researchers did have the identities of everyone who committed suicide, I doubt Netflix would share account data with them. It would also be very noisy as many teens use their parents' Netflix accounts.
I wonder if that is even needed ironically given second order exposure and cultural concepts leaking out regardless of actually watching it or not. Granted the "second hand" usually takes time for diffusion of concepts.
Confluence is also pretty bad on firefox for whatever reason, so I'm pretty sure this is going to be a problem wherever chrome is the dominant browser in the dev culture there.
> If you have read access, then yes. Conventional desktop and server linux distributions would allow this behavior.

The difference is in people's expectations of mobile vs. desktop apps. You'd never install untrusted software on your desktop, but mobile OSes provide the sense that software is isolated. In Android, that's mostly an illusion.
> The clear change that should be suggested is more proactive identification of mental illness and increased guaranteed access to mental health services.

Yes!

One thing that help to increase mass shootings and suicide was the anti-asylum movement. many people who clearly are a danger to himself and others should be hospitalized. unfortunately asylum got a bad reputation for inhumane treatments, but modern psychiatric treatment is completely different that the past inhumane treatments.
Are you going to ask the attacker to pause and wait 5+ minutes?
IMO the biggest concern is not whether CRISPR-Cas9, and DNA ligase, will do their job reliably (given appropriate guide RNA, and methodology)... the biggest concern to me is that we don't know what else the target SNP tends to do, aside from whatever we've found from GWAS.

Here's an example...

APOE e4 is associated with Alzheimer's disease risk. People in Guatemala have a high prevalence of this allele. Some researchers from the US might decide it's a good idea to fly down to Guatemala and launch a CRISPR clinical trial to 'protect' newborn Guatemalans from this increased risk of Alzheimer's. So they do; come back to the US, have a toast to longevity for these children. It has recently come to light however, that APOE e4 confers protection against Malaria parasites. Not a big deal if you live in Norway - huge deal if you live in Guatemala. Suddenly, the risk of developing an age related dementia doesn't seem all that pertinent.

So, my 2 cents is that, if we're really going to start CRISPRing babies, we'd better be doing our due diligence, and for now limit to diseases that significantly and immediately impair wellbeing.
When the bubble bursts, the banks probably won't need bailing out, so that won't trigger a recession like happened in 2008.

But a huge number of Canadians being underwater on their mortgage will make for a drastic decrease in consumer spending, which may trigger a recession...
lots of heroic stories result in the death of the hero. I suppose suicide is technically correct but the story is a heroic sacrifice not a suicide.
I'll do some searching. I know it was on NPR, and within the last 3 years.
I feel like running strings on the binaries would do a pretty decent job.
Absolutely. Subdomains may get some extra credit, but they still need incoming links. "Leased" subdomains and directories don't come naked, they usually get lots of links from the main site, often site-wide in header/navigation, sidebar or footer.

Since the publishers get paid for leasing out the subdomain and linking to it, you could argue that they are essentially selling links. That's apparently not what Google is saying though, because they'd penalize the sites selling the links, too, and only the leased out subdomains/directories have been affected, the rest of the sites are still ranking as they always did.
> They don't like stories about the victims that make the victims seem like they're human.

If you're going to kill someone, actually take a person's life, the way mass shooters do, you can't possibly feel like that person is human. It's probably different for, say, a one off killing where it's more personal, or a serial killer who's projecting. But a cowardly shooter walking around killing people, they've completely convinced themselves the people they're killing aren't people, aren't human, are just targets.
It's really not about that. The US was founded by a revolution that required guns. The founders wanted to make sure the same thing could happen again if needed. The second amendment isn't about personal protection, it is about the right to overthrow a government (ours or an invading one) if necessary. You can argue that times have changed or whatever but that was clearly the intention and it hasn't changed much.
No, all of the data is just taken from the standard CDC reports.
Because if your goal is to prevent mass killings then you have to take into account that a vehicle is a viable substitute for a gun.

I'm in favor of gun control but I don't think it's clear whether it would actually make it meaningfully harder for people who want to kill lots of people indiscriminately-ish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack#List_of...
Blizzard is suing Chinese studio Sina Games for ripping off Warcraft series
> Given the amount of value open source provides to for-profit companies (with the open source maintainers rarely getting any reciprocal value from the companies that profit off them), why is it so alarming to think that these maintainers might think of a clever idea like this to make a couple thousand bucks?

Because it's not a clever idea at all. First of all, open source software should stay true to what is is, which is free and open. If maintainers really wanted to profit off of this, they should have never made it free or at least offer some sort of pricing model that doesn't affect the essence of the project being open source (e.g., offering paid support), projects like Sidekiq having Sidekiq Pro. Users shouldn't be the one "paying" for open source software through the ads. This is making developers pay for the project indirectly.

DHH latest keynote from Railsconf 2019 hits the nail in the coffin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwWbFpkltg
That's what they are for if they are in the right place at the right time.

In a situation in which you have to shoot someone to save yourself, it's implicitly understood that the law enforcement won't be there for at least another 15 minutes.

Also, who will call them? You may have to shoot your opponent first, just to be able to call the police. At least in the leg or something, if killing makes you squeamish.
Engines already have to do this - check the type of an argument before calling the compiled version of the function. What the OP is suggesting is simply prefilling the type and instruction caches with information that the build system was already able to gleen.
I mean, we've kind of drawn the line at "automatic" vs. "semi-automatic" and "explosive" vs. "non-explosive".

It's "too powerful" for civilians if it's fully automatic or explosive (RPGs, hand grenades, bombs, etc.)
The Wikipedia article linked above:

> Although females attempt suicide at a higher rate,
they are more likely to use methods that are less immediately lethal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide#...