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A biological neural network does much more than neural models. How much more and why? we don't even know.

Most neural models don't use spikes or dynamical systems, or some of the most intrincate stuff going on in neurons.
There's been a lot of work around this lately. Here's an article: https://clojureverse.org/t/react-native-expo-with-shadow-clj...

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Even ignoring the ethical questions it is a massive waste of bandwidth. They could hash the libraries, and if they get a cache miss, upload that one from one person (or perhaps a few people, since everything is in parallel). They then know what system libraries their users have installed without wasting a ton of bandwidth.

Next step to reduce creepiness is to only upload info on system libraries that actually affect the app (so if some users experience crashes and others don't, they can trace it to differences in system libraries).
That isn't my point. My point was that young men are less likely to be aware of or watch a show that isn't targeted at them. They can't really be inspired to copy something that they aren't familiar with. Similarly if the show was the cause of the spike and the audience was largely young girls, why wasn't there a statistically significant spike in the suicide rate of girls?
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I actually disagree somewhat: if I’m feeling terrible, happy music makes me feel worse but something a little similar to my mood is soothing. I think that’s why Marilyn Manson and NIN were so popular

Edit: this is to an extent only. Burying yourself in an extremely negative place does make things worse if you spend too much time there or go in too deep
Yeah, I think that the whole "healthy to talk" thing has kind of gone a bit too far here.

It's useful to talk to someone who's understanding; perhaps someone who's been through, or has experienced someone else going through, similar issues.

It's not useful to fall into a community full of broken people who don't know how to help each other.
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We inserted ourselves? Our users are not passive victims, they chose to send tokens, mostly ones they earned from opt-in ads we provide. Your framing is telling. Users who want to get an ad revenue share and donate anonymously do not need to KYC, note well.

If you want to send p2p on a big blockchain, knock yourself out. This will do nothing to support the publishers you can see at batgrowth.com (more all the time, see batgrowth_bot on Twitter). It's a fine thing to do when you are sure of the destination address, and willing to fingerprint yourself on-chain. We never "insert ourselves" there -- no one can. That is the beauty of it. But it doesn't solve all problems.
> Men are more successful, but women try more often.

What's the source behind that, particularly how do they count "try," e.g. is it self-reported or based on emergency services dispatched?

Does something like sitting in your closet with a 12GA in your mouth for 30 minutes only to emerge unscathed, to never speak of it again count as a try?
I seem to remember suicide being considered cool in the grunge era of the 90s, especially after Kurt Cobain took his life. I wonder if there’s data on that.
> NIH-supported study highlights the importance of responsible portrayal of suicide by the media

I'm not going to say that media doesn't play a part, but this is mostly a symptom of an inadequate mental health system and a disfunctional society that provides no sense of community/cohesion. Many of us are painfully alone and directionless. We come from broken homes and experience neglect and abuse in childhood.

Pointing the blame at a TV show just feels insulting.
A pet peeve of mine is the noble suicide trope used often in film and tv. Armageddon, Aliens, Endgame, 7 Pounds, its everywhere. I haven't seen any research but I imagine it could normalize suicide in the minds of the impressionable young.

I get that's its an effective (though artistically blunt) plot device but I would prefer that it be used less.
Opening up the picker for sending a picture was notably slow. Approximately a three second count from pressing the button to having the pictures available to choose from. Then similar occasional lags throughout the process (e.g. hitting "back" from a picture to return to the library and select a second picture).

By contrast, Telegram has a quick selection of the last few pictures available immediately, and the general picker opens quicker if you request it -- maybe because it's using the stock iOS picker rather than the custom one Signal implements?

Since sending a picture to a contact was a super common action of mine, this was incredibly frustrating.

Signal also had notification issues if I was running the desktop client at the same time. It'd sometimes clear notifications from my phone before I'd actually read them in either location.
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If you take the statistics at face value, men are literally 10x more effective at committing suicide.

Attempting suicide has very different meanings for men and women. All too often the "but women try more!" is a what-about-the-womens attempt to distract from a very real, distinctly male problem.
Depends on the cheese, and on the usage, really. My mom works at a cheese factory, so I regularly get more cheese than I know what to do with, so most of it ends up in the freezer. Non-aged cheese (not familiar with the English terminology, sorry) is absolutely no problem to freeze in my experience. Aged cheese, at least the ones I eat, crumbles completely after defrosting, absolutely impossible to slice - but I only use aged cheese for pizza and other stuff that goes into the oven, so the fact that it falls apart just by touching it is more of a feature for me - no need to grate it!
I don't think we really understand the root causes of suicide and we don't have mechanisms for intervention outside of an actual saved suicide attempt. I don't think we have support mechanisms in society. Also society itself has become more divisive and less kind. I think we need to become a kinder society. Access to firearms is also a problem because it makes the initial attempt much more likely to succeed. High school kids need to know that it gets better, there are more options in life than academic success and going to the "right" school. We should also remove the future burden of student loans.
50% of suicide in the USA are via firearms, 2.4% are by falling (off bridges or other structures). Focusing on lowering the 2.4% number is not going to be as effective as focusing on the 50% one.

https://www.sprc.org/means-suicide

It turns out more willpower/commitment is needed to jump off a bridge than pull a trigger. The same with stabbing or suffocating yourself. Yes, someone with lots of willpower/commitment will work around it, but for those just teetering on the edge guns are very very effective.
So what is a “fair” amount that people should earn? I bet the people living in the Midwest would love to tax the “liberal west coast elite” living in Silicon Valley 90%. Should 90% start at $150K? $200K? Or is the definition of the “rich” “anyone who makes more than I think I will make”.
I see, but I assume Google has custom ranking since I never see them show up in any search result, they clearly aren't getting Google.com's rank score.
The best performers can use WASM, I suppose.
Committing suicide is a spur of the moment action. Every impediment that makes it harder to commit suicide gives an individual valuable seconds to reconsider, at which point they might decide to use whatever health services they have access too. Limiting easy ways to commit suicide AND having good mental health services seems a better idea than one or the other.
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I disagree. Calling to organizations like Netflix to be aware of an issue and act responsibly is very different than calling for a ban on free speech. They made an artistic and ratings decision without being aware of the ramifications. Future studios should not make the same mistake.
Bringing up one truck-based mass murder from 3 years ago in reply to a comment about US gun violence seems like whataboutism.

If that's not your intent, can you clarify what your intent is? I'm probably not the only one who read it that way.
There is some significant disagreement that Google is in fact doing anything here.

There's somebody who wants them to do something, but Google themselves seem to say subdomain leasing is OK. [1]

[1] https://medium.com/@loish/a-response-to-danny-sullivan-and-g...
It didn't almost glorify suicide, it 100% glorified suicide.
Citation?

It seems likely that men are less likely to talk about it afterwards too, which might be complicating
I'm not sure how this is at all a relevant response?
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.
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Paper: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gUa9-S...

The Werther Effect was well known, from inception, filming and publishing, the concerns seem to have been brushed aside. I really can't see how the studio, netflix and the producers can reject the blame for the induced suicides.

The show distinctly glorifies suicide, playing on the emotional issues and need for acknowledgment of teenagers.

Responsibility does not vanish if the effects are indirect or abstract.

"We produced the show true to the book." is no defense at all and there is a higher moral standard if you sell a product to children still.
Oh, good pointer - thanks!
Liar. Fuck off.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=wakefield
I'd say PDF is all about presentation, while ePub/Mobi is closer to real books that focus on content and legibility.

EPubs are perfect for long-lengthy documents, where you can bookmark position to given line of text (not page, so I'd say it's more precise to get back in which paragraph you've finished reading), everything is searchable/copyable/highlightable, formatted into single-column, usually justified, wrapped using hyphenation, easy to change font size, colors (i.e. day/night mode) and there isn't strict paper (canvas) size. Basically, it increases accessibility and focus.

While the PDF is just like a ZIP (I think those formats share the same popularity), that consist collection of numbered crisp, anti-aliased PNGs and SVGs, sometimes with an attached metadata. I often hear, there isn't any chance to PDF document look different on other device. However, PDF is just a subset of PostScript (hence the name) and has many versions (standardized as a public document, by ISO, by other parties or just paywalled)[1]. Fortunately, quite old PDF1.5 version has majority of features used by typical document creator, also fact that there aren't many competing implementations and they seem to be up-to-date with PDF2.0 convinced users and developers to use it. That's worth noting, PDF supports reflow [0], but it is far from perfect and I guess many bookworms will refrain from using it at all.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Portable_Docume...

[1]: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/reading-pdfs-reflow-ac...
emailing the mods is the best way to get their attention about things like this.
Perhaps their motivation is to launch a campaign saying "Facebook keeps you safe!" by scanning your phone, and use it to justify people signing up for more surveillance. Perhaps this is a stealth beta test.
Saved you a click: They don’t want to be identified.
We do share numbers, working to get up from the 40% opt-in we had on desktop now that we've got ads on Android (iOS to-do). The opt-in is mid-teens right now, I think -- we will drive it up cleanly via telling users about it and rewarding them for joining.
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It's almost infinitely easier to track a library update if you have the actual libraries on hand to compare, rather than two hashes.
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> if the result wasn't statistically significant, there's no evidence that rates for females increased.

That's not quite right. A conclusion of no statistical significance is not a conclusion that there is no evidence to support the hypothesis, but that there is insufficient evidence.

The study failed to disprove the null hypothesis, but "failure to disprove" does not prove it to be true either. A more powerful study (with a larger sample size, or one that includes this incident in a meta-study of similar media events) might be able to use this data to support a positive conclusion.
Now imagine what will happen if access to trucks is a constitutional freedom and anybody can buy and operate one in any way they are pleased with...
Social Security and Medicare taxes have always been mixed in with regular income taxes. The government “borrows” money from the social security fund and issues the funds IOUs. There is no separate account where money is stashed away and only spent on SS and Medicare.
> Access to bridges also increases the chances of successful suicide.

Which is why there has been a push to secure bridges and add crisis phone lines to these areas.

We should be tackling the problem from every direction. I'd love for it to happen but it sure doesn't seem like the US is going to make any progress in guaranteed access to mental health services anytime soon.
> when someone or someones come along and attempt to abridge your rights

Isn't that what highly trained and professional law enforcement is for?

At least that's what they're for in my part of the world.
Why is it neither interesting nor concerning? From a security perspective it would seem to be both-- hostile firmware could at the least read secrets from your screen, and I'd be shocked if it couldn't convince the corresponding kernel driver to misbehave in interesting ways. Not knowing what is actually in the blob, you have to assume it is at least potentially that malicious.
I agree on addressing root causes; however, I've increasingly come around on the idea that pointing to root causes (poverty, broken families, cultural norms, etc.) is a case of the "perfect being the enemy of the good" and is at best a well intentioned but misguided effort that causes real harm.

An analogy: I have some fairly severe sinus issues. I'm working with professionals to figure it out. In the meantime, I'm regularly told to "treat the symptoms." At first, this was really frustrating! I wanted to solve the root problem, not just take pain meds and decongestants for the rest of my life! But the reality is, we may never figure out the root problem, or the root problem may turn out to be intractable. In the meantime, I can significantly improve my quality of life by simply doing what can be done: treating the symptoms.

At the risk of being facetious: we don't stop preparing for hurricanes just because we can't stop their root cause.

Every day we delay making hard choices because we want to wait for a root cause solution is another day we allow the root illnesses more time to inflict damage on us and our society.
It's an interesting thought experiment: set aside the complex details of our real-world weaponry, and imagine instead of guns we had low-power phasers when the Bill of Rights was conceived. Now, imagine those phasers get 1% more powerful every year. At what point should we do decide that a phaser at power level X is too destructive for civilian use?

While I'm sympathetic to the argument of weaponry as a balance-of-power between government and governed [1], in the modern era it's hard to see its application to civilian-grade firearms as anything more than a fantasy. (If one wants to examine this seriously, I suspect the weapons of choice for a modern insurrection would be things like IEDs, micro-drones, and hacking/encryption.)

Still, I think the argument is sound for a right to self-protection independent of government. There just isn't an obvious "bright line" as to what level of destructive power is reasonable for a private citizen, as one progresses from muskets to AR-15s to RPGs to hydrogen bombs. (It is also an open question as to whether regulations like licensing, mandatory safety training, and civil liability count as "infringement", to say nothing of denying weapons to known criminals or the mentally ill.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley#Weapons_and_de...
And the next step in privacy after that would be to not upload the libraries at all. Actually, that should have been their first step…
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Plenty of other modern and progressive countries have what we would consider limits on constitutional freedoms. Americans need to give up on their obsession with the constitution, we're like the only country in the world that cares about their constitution. I predict this century is going to be marked as a transformation from "Free Speech" to "Free Speech, except..." and we're going to be a lot better off for it. Absolute freedoms make about as much sense as viewing morality as black and white.
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I'm surprised that what shooters like/do not like can be generalized like this. I would have expected that it was more dependent upon the specific psychology of the shooter than this.
s/hyperbole/projection, also a lie/.

Brave is named for its users, who have to stand up to the surveillance status quo, sometimes at a price in lowing their shields or otherwise tangling with anti-ad-blockers.
Yeah, but lowering the 50% one will increase usage of the other methods significantly. The US isn't magically going to have insanely low suicide rates if you make guns illegal. Sad/depressed/broken people are still sad/depressed/broken (nothing has changed on that front). There will be a slight drop in overall suicides and a very large increase in non-firearm suicide attempts (re: Japan).

Here's an idea that doesn't infringe on any rights: Mandate each handgun sale come with a free suicide prevention pamphlet. That would definitely lower suicide rates measurably at a low cost that everyone can agree on.
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https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.02...
It's again not quite that simple. Canada's asylum acceptance rate is higher than the US. However, due to a bilateral policy change in I think 2009 asylum seekers could no longer pass overland through the US and apply in Canada. This reduced the asylum seeker rates from south/central America and Mexico a fair bit to Canada as they were forced to apply in US.

Outside of just asylum seekers, although successful immigration rates are much higher in the US than Canada (about 4x), per capita Canada is much higher (as there is a 10x population difference).
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I live in an area of New York State, near a tertiary city, where the median household income is ~$50,000. Parent's comment that to earn this would be an "intense burden" is borderline offensive. I agree with you that urban elite likely have little experience with American (or even Canadian) families living in these conditions. For perspective, such an income puts these families in the 90th percentile, globally.

Parent described how grateful they are to have the opportunities they do. They are obviously very privileged, they should be very grateful.
One way to see it's more subtle than meets the eye: suppose the website defines a function F which is annotated as taking a string argument. The website itself only ever calls F with strings. But suppose I go to the website, open the console, and punch in F(1). Of course, this sort of thing could be guarded against, but the point is just that it would introduce more complexity than initially meets the eye.
This argument reeks of a cocktail of logical fallacies.
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> and limits to the 2nd Amendment have already been settled as constitutional.

What change(s) as relates to limiting the 2A would help to reduce suicide?
Wow, I'm rather shocked by the Apache Foundation doing this. It seems far too sketchy for a respected open source foundation.

FWIW, though, Google can/does penalise such links. From their list of things that can negatively affect ranking:

> Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging money for links, or posts that contain links; exchanging goods or services for links; or sending someone a “free” product in exchange for them writing about it and including a link

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
It says its using the GPU but if you look at the cpu time required to play a 1080p video within firefox vs playing the same video with mpv

www.mpv.io : a lightweight player that among other things can transparently stream any url understood by youtube-dl

It uses 20x as much cpu as mpv. For purposes of comparison this is like Toyota selling a car that goes just as fast as your Ford so long as you are OK with only getting 4MPG.

There is an addon if you prefer to right click on a url and open in mpv or in an addon like Tridactyl you can do the same with your keyboard. It also lets you speed up and slow down the playback speed which is nice for speakers who talk too slow and take a while to get to the point.
But that presumes a human engineer is going through and looking at the libraries in order to maintain fingerprints. I suppose it's possible that's what Facebook is doing, but it strikes me as a massive waste of time, particularly in comparison to all of the other metrics at their disposal.
Probably and it does in Dev and Beta builds (which is a disappointment because "Edge Classic" PDF Viewer was better and Chrome's a distinct regression in some disappointing ways).
> I don't know how many ways they carved up the data before they found a segment of the population with increased suicide rate at the right time.

and they still reported 9 different categorizations (overall/male/female * 3 age groups), and could only find one with a change. it isn't clear to me if they corrected for the multiple comparisons they did report.
Because suicide via firearms is the painless route. If you were going to kill yourself why wouldn't you do it with a gun.

You have to be prepared for legislation like this only slightly decrease the number of suicides but drastically increase the suffering of the people that do.
> More seriously, if the hashes turn out to have serious security flaws, someone may be able to reconstruct the file someday.

Unlikely. The pidgeon-hole principle applies here, there are many equally likely Go source files that hash to the same thing (regardless of hash function).
The viewership of 13 reasons why was 65% female, 35% male.

The show would have to a have an inordinately, disproportionately, strong impact on males to cause almost a 29% increase in male suicides, but a non statistically significant increase in female suicides with that viewership distribution.
It's a show that (at least from the title, and a quick summary of the plot) agrees with the common, awful idea that what people do to you can make you kill yourself, and that killing yourself will somehow punish the people who made you do it. You would expect it to increase teen suicides as much as you would expect a slickly produced show about a suicide bombing in a shopping mall causing an unjust government to fall and the bomber to be remembered forever as a hero to increase suicide bombings.