skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article. It is worth noting that in the UK statistics, suicide is lumped in with poisoning of undetermined intent, so when they say "suicide is the leading cause of death <50" they are including drug overdoses. [1]

This actually helps explain why "unintentional injury" is the leading cause of death in the US under 45, followed by suicide. In the US poisoning, and thus drug overdose falls under unintentional injury.

I suspect there is no way to get clean statistics separating accidental overdoses from intentional ones. I personally feel that drug overdose and suicide are most appropriately grouped together, as they tend to have similar causes.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

[2]https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcause.html
It kind of does though? I.e. I’d expect that article to be about why you need to keep adding water to the human body (by drinking water), whereas an article about “why the human body is mostly water” would explain why it is composed of water rather than why it needs more water.
Indeed, it is customary to note that you created or run a site if you link to it on HN. Or anywhere, for that matter.
RTFA:

> I need to record the conversation and I need a contract signed, because I need to protect myself.

If someone thinks he's just making it up, he's got the documentation.
I think Grammarly is doing something like this for text messages.
Hacker News in 2020: Where "hackers" prefer closed systems and perceive no value in developers who don't want to "play nice" with closed systems.
It just hit me that “IoT” is no longer a fad.
I don't understand. There's no satisfaction in it if you're dead. If you have something to say, surely the best time to do it is when you're still alive? I can't think of anything sadder than knowing you're going to die, wanting to be able to say something — good or bad — to someone important to you, and STILL being unable to do it yourself.
The tests themselves are fine, false positives are due to human error:

"The high specificities (usually 100%) reported in PCR-based tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection do not represent the real-world use of these tests, where contamination and human error produce significant rates of false positives."

New York reports positivity rate below 1% for a while now, so false positive rate cannot be 2.3%.
> The most dangerous leaders in history have been those who do it out of ideology.

Does this also include the founding fathers (Or Abraham Lincoln? How does he stack up, compared to the likes of Jefferson Davis, or many of the other defenders of an unjust status quo?) Were they not ideologically motivated? They certainly spilled a lot of ideologically-sounding ink, and started an ideologically-motivated revolution, and then made a lot of ideologically-motivated decisions. Or do we define ideology to explicitly consider our current orthodoxy to not be ideological? [1]

Lenin and Mao certainly had enough of a sense of responsibility. Just because you disagree with their ideology[2] (And agree with that of the founding fathers) does not mean that they didn't feel that it was their responsibility to bring about what they thought was a better future.

> Folks who feel a bond of both trust and obligation towards the people they lead.

This is, in my opinion, actually a much better litmus test then the rather subjective 'ideology' versus 'responsibility' question (Which hinges entirely on where you stand on an ideological spectrum.)

[1] That would be the 'everyone but me is an ideologue' argument. I don't think it's a great one.

[2] It doesn't need to be said that most people would disagree with their methods, so let's not veer into that tangent.
Green coffee beans Side effects: Dangerous -2020
Yes, all true, but let's not forget the overall context of the OP -- people's reactions to co-workers needing an extra day off. Deciding to uproot your life rather than take advantage of temporary company policies connected to the pandemic seems to be an overreaction.
Yup. In our case, tablets are forbidden on weekdays, but we allow them to use the appletv because we can control what they are doing/watching. I’ll be happy to pay a lifetime membership once it’s released there.
The sandworms look amazing. I really like how they have these wispy "tusks" in their mouths instead of teeth.
I mostly agree, but I'm not sure complete "suicide liberalisation" is the answer.

For most people, suicide is a very temporary state of mind, and many people who are prevented from committing suicide are glad that they were stopped.

Given the very final nature of the act, perhaps it's best to have some cooling off period before a state sanctioned suicide can be authorized?
For an android!
"In my father's case, the loss of his 45-year marriage partner, whom he had cared for devotedly in her final years, left him struggling. His retirement had not brought the contentment it had promised, and no number of visits from his children could dispel his loneliness. He had little in the way of a social circle - another factor that differentiates older men from women, who tend to be better socially connected."

This actually hits really close to home with my own Grandmother. She lived 11 years longer than my granddad, but she never was truly the same after he passed away. My mother (her daughter) and their siblings did all they could to help, but all of her kids were spread throughout the US (due to most being pretty successful people). She also didn't have much of a social circle until she went into assisted living, which I actually think was really good for her. She was able to meet folks and socialize, and they forced her to go out and do things. But I don't think it did too much to help her loneliness from losing my grandad. She didn't die from suicide, but I think at one point she just lost the will to live, which I think that finally took her.

I don't have answer to that. I also think about it with my own mom and dad. She is bound to lose her husband (or he her) within the next few decades, and I don't want to see her have the same downward spiral I saw in my grandma.
> by nerds

Really? Was that necessary?
Because the 'stranger' has a voice recording and a signed contract of what he confesses on behalf of the deceased.
Thanks! Is there anything you particularly like, and anything that can be improved?
AWS: Security Groups for Pods
Because it is just a flu.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763945
I love this. I might try it. It doesn't scale, but that's okay for my project.
Hm, the numbers I've dug up (though rather hastily; I haven't read much of the documents) don't really match 2.3%... they seem to be 0% in their tests. Here [1] is where I think you can find the info for all the FDA-authorized tests. I see mentions of NPA (negative percent agreement) being 100% in their trials in [2] and [3] for example, though the sample sizes don't seem too large (something like 30-50). Any idea what I'm missing, or if it's just because of small sample sizes? (I'm not exactly trained in this, but my impression was PCR was more accurate than that.)

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/media/141951/download

[3] https://www.fda.gov/media/141760/download
It's pretty much impossible to take away that freedom, killing yourself is not particularly difficult. The more interesting question is whether someone else should be able to kill you, if they think it is what you want.

And I think suicide prevention is still very important, since many people who attempt to commit suicide regret it afterwards.
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It seems to me that defining this space could be admirable foresight in the (perhaps unlikely?) event that government begins to deal more fiercely with the known abuses of big business and the stock market. (and that, is a potential argument in its own right: let's postulate that there are people out there who consider this whole area pretty toxic)

So, as things stand, the status quo is strongly reinforced, and being extremely toxic is strikingly rewarded. In the event that this never changes, there's not a lot of place for a Long-Term Stock Exchange or anything like it. That holds even while the status quo, being 'extractive', begins to do serious damage to all the stuff we like and care about. So long as the rules favor toxicity and are written by those who stand to gain by it, this proposal is a joke.

But we are also postulating that there is reason to believe such 'extractive' behavior has consequences: call 'em externalities. There's plenty of history on how business can continue that way, even to the point of open warfare, murder of strikers etc. so we know there's motivation to cling to 'extractive'. But history also tells us there's a limit, and societies can turn against this sort of thing in whatever form it shows itself.

(side note: I spent part of yesterday trying to help Amazon not be toxic. I got an LED light being sold as a light therapy tool, $40 or so price but might only be a few bucks worth of LEDs, and I did not order it. Someone's using my name and address, with their own email and credit card, so they can review things as me. It was very tough to get the situation understood by Amazon. Yet, the product reviews had already been frozen for suspicion of fraudulent reviewing, and the product was fulfilled by Amazon and was literally #1 in its category. This is a form of toxicity that leads to Amazon's brand being garbage because you can't trust a thing they say.)

In the event that government changes its approach and begins to deal more harshly with the abuses of big business, which is far from unthinkable, this Long-Term Stock Exchange and seeking to comply with it might be a useful form of virtue signaling by companies that are trying to avoid being targeted as bad actors. And the requirements of the LTSE could track the legal requirements by government as they develop, making the exchange a 'safe haven' and public show of good faith.

The contrast with what you have to do to please current stock exchanges and those who follow them, could not be more striking. It's become very obvious that shows of BAD faith (by certain political standards) are required by the existing investor audience, which seems correct in believing that right now companies are held to no consequence other than beating other companies in making money by any means, full stop.

If that IS stopped, the meta-market (market of money holders seeking markets) would be hot to find a place to invest that was more safe from unwanted consequence.
Usage telemetry can be gathered pretty easily from the client itself. Having an intermediate service is usually for stuff like push notifications, search, autocomplete, recommendations and really any other feature that goes beyond the email spec and would be difficult or cpu intensive to implement on all the clients.
That's a great one!
Something that can be validated yet not easily calculated. Kind of like hashing!
There is a potentially infinite one-word poem in English actually, so long as one is allowed hyphens: "police" can be both a noun or a verb. 'Police-police' are police who police the police. Police whose job it is to police the police-police are police-police-police, etc. Any number of recursions would be possible.

Regarding your idea of fermionic stories, I think King's Dark Tower series might be close, though I may be misunderstanding the concept...
I'm finding it harder to focus based on my lack of belief in the system.

On a side note, I hear amphetamines are an option. I've thought about that.
I suppose "best" is something of a personal value judgement, for which I must apologise.
However, the science is called "psychoneuroimmunology" and can be discussed with any doctor.
Quasar is great as long as you can work with the flow for Quasar. The moment you need to step out of it (such as having multiple entry points from a single codebase), it’s hard to work with.
Look at the bright side. Executive compensation didn't even have to change!
> If you lower the upfront or monthly costs for something, then demand should go up which will push prices back up.

Guh... I don't feel like I'm the expert here, but even on this little quest of mine to get a straight answer I feel like I'm finding one obvious conflation after another after another, as is the case here. Why would we assume that increase in demand pushes prices back up? It might, instead, reveal that lower prices are more optimal because they bring in more new buyers and more revenue overall. It may be that lower prices result in a larger total pool of buyers willing to spend a larger total amount of dollars at the lower price, which turns out to be a more optimal price, which is also econ 101.

It's better to sell big macs for $3.99 to billions of people than to than to sell them for $9.99 to millions of people.
Like, for networking? None of these parts have any network capabilities -- they're microcontrollers, not application processors. Even if you added networking capabilities through external hardware, many of them wouldn't have enough memory for a network stack, let alone to handle any protocol on top of that. (Many of them have 4 KB of SRAM, or even less.)
A properly performed PCR test is essentially 100% specific. False positives come from contamination of samples, mislabelled samples, and other forms of human error.
>Eventually, there'll be another revolutionary trend in art and people will yearn for the minimalist abstract stuff that fills museums today.

I fervently hope so. Call me uncultured, but I prefer art that has aesthetic value.
> Wow, thank you for that, I had no idea PCR is this inaccurate.

I'm not sure it really is. Take it with a grain of salt for now. I feel like there's a missing piece of the puzzle here.
There is a relatively massive false negative rate.
How are the Grammarly[1] or Honey[2] addons terrible for security?

I can guess why you say they're terrible for privacy, but they both mention what data they share on the addon page. So it seems not so much that they are violating users privacy, but that you think people should be more concerned with the amount of privacy they give up.

For the record, I am pro-privacy, and would never want to use addons like these that send my browsing and other data to a third-party. And I know the vast majority of people don't read privacy statements and might not fully realize the amount of privacy they're giving up. But that's a much bigger problem than Mozilla giving these addons that openly collect this data a Verified tag. Also, the tag will ostensibly indicate some level of verification that the addon isn't doing anything sneaky (on the client side), so it's not "just" promotion, according to the announcement. If you don't believe Mozilla is going to do that verification well/honestly, that's a different discussion.

Regarding open-source projects, I share your concern, but would be interested to see some evidence that they will be hurt by this.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grammarly-1/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/honey/
Completely agree. I really want to use Quasar, but need to use Vuetify because my use case falls outside of the Quasar sweet spot.
You're taking on risk for that sign in convenience though. What do you do if Apple bans your account? If the services you're using have absolutely zero info about you, how do you prove who you are and get your account back?
Biggest Dogs in the World
There's essentially no sports where women can compete on the same level as men. The differences go beyond strength.

For a man and woman the same weight: Men have stronger bones, much higher oxygen capacity, faster reaction time, better motion tracking, higher fatigue tolerance, better aerobic endurance, higher pain threshold.

An interesting development would be co-ed professional sports with teams that have a fixed number of men and women. I think this is the best we could hope for as far as equality in sports
MoltenGL already exists.
Try Nick Hanauer.
How does Elvish compare to Powershell, at least in philosophy?
This isn't completely correct.

The PCR test can produce high numbers of false positives. It depends on a variable called the "cycle threshold" (Ct), which is the number of times amplification is run.

Different tests have different Ct numbers, so some specific tests are overly sensitive. However there is no data on what test is used where, or when tests were changed.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/09/01/covid-tes...
I thought the general reason nobody had tried it was that the resultant EMF would fry pretty much all electronics globally?
What frequency or range of frequencies is used?
The buried lede here is that Oil uses some kind of tool to translate Python to C++ before running it. This sounds super interesting. Also am I misreading or is Oil written in Python 2.7?
What problems with RTT does Starlink add?
It absolutely would 'end' current competitive sports for women.

This would be the equivalent of ditching your current paying customers for maybe potential future even-smaller-segment customers.
The number is probably derived from his PI services. It also seems like a good enough number to filter out most of the pranksters. I'd fork over a hundred bucks to have someone "confess" at my funeral about some really outlandish swashbuckling lifestyle just for laughs. I'd only go to $7000 for a special sort of loose end that would be far too painful to waste my numbered days on, but would make me feel much better knowing someone's got it handled.

He also lines up an alternate funeral director to have a backup site, and I imagine that's not free.
Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse
California AB 2257: Changes to AB 5 Independent Contractor Law now in effect
The EU appears to have specific criteria for when a single company's product can be considered its own market. [1]

Dominance on the aftermarket is excluded to the extent that a customer:

1) can make an informed choice including lifecycle pricing, that he
2) is likely to make such an informed choice accordingly, and that
3) in case of an apparent policy of exploitation being pursued in one specific aftermarket, a sufficient number of customers would adapt their purchasing behaviour at the level of the primary market
4) within a reasonable time.

The case that established this precedent found that printer manufacturers did not have dominance in the market of "printer cartridges compatible with their printers" based on the above criteria. Whether or not this would apply to the iOS platform will have to be decided by a court.

[1] https://europeanlawblog.eu/2013/09/26/the-efim-case-no-domin...
Don't we want looters to be identified and prosecuted?
A very shallow analysis only compares reported deaths on the scoreboard. We need to looks into the deaths and find out how many were actually preventable and where they all occurred. In Sweden, the care homes were particularly hard hit. There’s also more to life than merely covid and must consider those factors in the whole cost/benefit exercise.

I’m not saying Sweden is better or worse, but an in depth analysis won’t be available for a while and especially while everything is still in chaos including our health care system which we were trying to save on the first place.
Solar + batteries competes with wires by being distributed. You install as much generation as you need, right where you need it. In this context you could think of it as a "wireless power receiver" and the sun as the transmitter.
The API looks awesome. But when I tried it just now, I see no color in the terminal, and it does not have anything like the completion I see in fish.

I don't know if you have tried it but fish basically predicts what you are going to enter based on the directory you are in and what you have entered before and gives a preview as you are typing, and then you can hit the right arrow to complete it.

Since that is extremely convenient for me and your shell seems to not have color (at least not in my Ubuntu terminal right now), I am going to stick with fish.
Darwinism generally arises in a world of fitness where reproduction is the dominating force. That is if politicians reproduced while in office to form more politicians and reproduction among politicians was the main source of new politicians then yes we might have reason to believe that seeking re-election is an emergent behavior from basic survival.

However, that's not the way politics works.

There is a stable equilibrium where politicians are constantly replenished by the larger population as they leave office, which holds true as t approaches infinity. And indeed this is more or less what we observe in Western societies.
What's your point? Is the report false? I see similar reports elsewhere.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/amazon-adds-former-nsa-direc...

I suppose you just meant to warn against other content there that are inaccurate? Which ones, though? I'm not familiar with that site.
Ask HN: What Does “Holistic” Mean?
I keep seeing this everywhere, and have for many years. I still have no idea what it means.

Google says "characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole", and I'm more confused than anything.
You can use an ESP8266 as a wifi router for up to 8 clients at 5mbps each I think which is really impressive so it should be able to do that... I used that for the kids in the car so that they can play games together

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater
This seems more likely to be the real reason: https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/09/01/covid-tes...

TL;DR: Some (many?) PCR tests are using too high a cycle threshold, which makes them too sensitive. Key quote:

Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California-Riverside, said she believes any test with a cycle threshold over 35 is too sensitive. "I'm shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive," she said.

The following is my commentary, and not specifically in the article above:

There were many early tests that were giving false negatives. It looks to me like test manufactures over-compensated to make sure they never give false negatives. There is no data source that I can find that shows what test is used in what area, or what CT is used for what test.
I've always felt you can't do Dune in a single movie, the world is just too big. I'd say it has to be a minimum of two or three parts to really tell the story.
More information about recently-in-effect California AB 2257: https://www.calpeculiarities.com/2020/09/08/ab-2257-sweeping...

Curious to get others' thoughts on how these latest changes impact software contractors in CA.
That's awesome! I shot you an email - I'm interested in how the project turned out