skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been hard enough to convince countries to legalize assisted suicide for people are terminally ill that I think we're unfortunately very far away from the entension to people who aren't. Aside from the religious angle, what are the biggest arguments against assisted suicide for people who aren't terminally ill?
I heard about it because I went to the government website that tracked this data and checked for myself.
OP’s project is actually a good idea at development stage, where data is not the main thing yet..
That's a good point but humans would easily beat out the utility of any probe if we get to that capability. It's not just a question of mobility and manual dexterity. We do have very capable robotics. The even bigger factor here is light lag.

Even if we don't bother landing humans on Mars, it would still be very useful to have some in orbit to be able to have a real time feed on the ground as opposed to anywhere between the 3 to 22 minutes (one way!) delay that it is from Earth. While our automation is getting better, it is nowhere close to matching that of a human scientist for at least several decades yet.
I believe you could get a similar result using Jellyfin and rffmpeg [0]. From a quick glance it seems like it should work from ARM->x86

https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg
I find the idea of a newsletter compelling. But I never read any of the newsletters that I signed up for. So to me it feels like even if I did have people sign up for a newsletter that I’d write, most of the recipients would not be reading it either. Like 98.8% of this hypothetical audience of mine probably would not read the letters I feel like.
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How programmers Think and Learn
How semi-truck air brakes work
And here I thought I had finally given up the temptation that is emacs. Combined with evil mode, I can easily see having a leader keyspace dedicated to music so I could flip through tracks mid-code without even leaving the home row.

Actually, since it should be pretty straightforward, I'm going to go map some keys in vim to execute applescript to control my media.
Well, with Parler getting shutdown and Breitbart going defunct or whatever, it's pretty obvious that republicans feel they cant believe in what they want. And democrats think their often some sort of religious gatekeeper of truth.
> Patients have to be Spanish citizens or legal residents and must be fully conscious when they request the procedures.

> A request is to be submitted twice in writing, 15 days apart. It must be approved by two separate doctors and an evaluation body, according to AFP news agency.

Given those requirements and safeguards, I'm having a difficult time understanding a rational argument against this law.
Just speaking for myself here, I didn’t realize the power of static typing for years and years because the main languages I used with “static types” were C-style; i.e. type checking without null checking. I was vaguely aware of “better” systems but since I had such a wealth of experience with compile-time type-checking catching ~zero bugs, it didn’t seem worthwhile to investigate, and my toy projects didn’t make it clear what I was missing. Having used Mypy in a large practical situation for a couple of years, one of the MAIN advantages of it is the None checking! I would get probably 60% of the utility out of a type checker that could only check for None.

Having had this experience now it’s much easier to appreciate the practical benefits of systems like Rust and Haskell, where the type checker is doing real work.
Take a look at AWS nitro instances they give you "free" ipsec type network encryption with some caveats I forget.
> Originally super-resolution was a hardware technique, and not "guessing". If you can [edit: this was poorly worded "control an imager positioning"] control imaging with finer resolution than the sensor has, you can take multiple images and reconstruct a higher resolution image in a principled way for say 2x resolution gain (cf super-resolution microscopy), also some telescope systems.

Isn't this also how our eyes work?
How did you get that number? Each bit needs about 40 crabs.
Well, FWIW, the old mystics all say that consciousness comes first, and the physical universe is something that happens "within" consciousness.

We are meat robots. Brains scans have shown that we do not "make decisions". Your brain makes the decision and then a few tens of milliseconds later you have the subjective experience of "I decide". Free will is an illusion. The neuroscientists discovered this but the philosophers and public haven't gotten the memo yet.

The fascinating thing is that the automatic meat robots become sophisticated enough to notice that they are conscious. This should technically be impossible but it does happen.
I wish that I was born 30 years earlier so that only my kids would have to deal with it.
It's a statement of pure materialism: Nothing exists outside solutions to that equation. All subjective human "artifacts" we struggle to identify, e.g., consciousness, are emergent properties of their material substrates.

Souls, if they exist (heh), are subject to the same physical laws as bubbles, sand, and frogs.
Oversights happen

https://thenewstack.io/junior-dev-deleted-production-databas...
The precision it would take to launch an unguided rock from one solar system to another and hit a particular target makes that seem unlikely. Just imagine how many different gravitational forces you’d have to account for over such a long period of time! Depending on how fast you can throw it, you probably have to account for gravitational masses that don’t yet exist or would change significantly before your rock got close. It would be truly impressive. But any civilization worth bombarding like that would also probably be able to protect against that threat model, right? It seems that detection and mitigation are at least theoretically within our grasp already (I’m going to cite the movie Armageddon here), and we pose absolutely zero threat to a civilization in a distant solar system.
Seneff has dubious credibility on this subject.
I have the same issue. If a personal project is fun, I might end up trying to 'just fix this one issue; just polish up this one feature' all the way up to bedtime.

This will invariably affect my sleep with either no sleep at all for 1-2 hours or dreams of fixing an issue over and over again resulting in me being less rested the next day.

I'd love for there to be a quick way to 'snap' out of programming mode but after over a decade of programming I haven't really found one (except for having a couple of pints...).
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What is the best available bio acoustic signal gain from an animal like a whale?
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I would urge caution with that mindset. The HN crowd is as biased as anybody else. While some may have more curiosity and drive towards alternative viewpoints, they are not less susceptible with siding one source over the other. In fact, I find most people dig alternative sources purposefully to further reason their preconceived conclusions moreso than less. Always think that you're a fool like anybody else. If you think professionally trained journalists are biased, it's more likely your "fool-proof" process will lead to even more. Not a bad thing, simply human nature. (If you check my other post, you'll see I also think the media is extremely biased.)

Ex. there are plenty of prominent scientists who strictly stick to a scientific methodology in doing research, but it never stops them from performing their research with the goal hyping up their hypothesis.
> if in a couple years we could run the whole backend of IDEs on another computer

It’s been done. Look at AWS Cloud 9, or Eclipse Che.
They're removing it from the tree because they're tired of Jason controlling the narrative. Jason had more than three months to review the original patch and he's upset that they haven't done everything on his terms. I don't think you need to worry about NetGate being involved any more.
"Curation is becoming the differentiator" is not only relevant for newsletters, but also for readers. To paraphrase Cal Newport, in a distracted world, the ability to focus and to singletask is a "superpower". Curation is a service (newsletters etc), but also a skill.
Agree 100%. I recently lost my Mum to cancer, and while the end wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been, it should have ended a day or two before it did. After battling for almost 3 years, there was no hope anymore. She couldn't eat or talk for two days, and on the last day wasn't lucid at all. In the proceeding years we had many, many conversations about death, and she was completely aware her cancer was a 100% death sentence.

A friend watched his Dad suffer immeasurable pain for 6 months from bone cancer, and the final 2 weeks were inhuman. He was begging the hospital staff, but they couldn't.
Three months after his Dad died, my friend committed suicide.

NOT allowing assisted suicide for terminally ill people is cruel and THAT should be the crime.
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Are you unable to use any of the several free search engines available on the web, or are you just making a point?

Either way, this is relevant: https://www.apache.org/apache-name/
I think it mostly boils down to business loss that they would otherwise incur if they set themselves against those companies and thought them tooth and nail (the actual lawsuit cost would be insignificant). Meaning, no Google/Youtube Music deals with Viacom and potentially other RIAA members.
(revised 2021-03-09, v10.)
My head kind of spins here too. Obviously all these folks have gone through the tech tree implementing the various parts and then ceded control to kubernetes when they found it could handle it.

Seems to me like it's helpful to do an oil change yourself before you take it to the dealer, then understand what they do before you take it to jiffy lube the next time (or vice versa). You keep abstracting it away until you just give your credit card. :)
Parents might be talked into it by children who are eager to inherit their assets. When someone pointed this out to me it made me reconsider.
I use it to pass a file system from kvm host to guest
Every time Jason "fixes" something in the FreeBSD code, it stops compiling. So I'm not sure about that.
This made me curious, so I’m taking a poll.

https://twitter.com/glyph/status/1372640855807250432?s=21
It was them that started suicide bombing

Source, please? The Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi did carry out bombings — as did many, many other groups ruled over by the British, not just Jewish ones, so why that's particularly "insane" seems hard to discern — but I don't believe any of the attacks were suicide bombings. Suicide bombings were first introduced by Hezbollah in the 1980s in Lebanon. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/suicide-terrorism
I wonder what would happen if there was a law which forbade corporations from pursuing anything going against the common good?

Or a law which only allowed companies to pursue the common good?
Somehow I think this may make it possible to "horizontally Scale" the desktop experience. What if I have my main computer/cpu at home and have additional headless computers configured and I set my Linux system so that everything besides the Kernel/boot stuff is spread through the other computers?
I wonder about the email thread. how many recipients on the TO, how many on the CC (how many on BCC?)
This question is addressed directly by Griffiths in his “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics”. It’s in a footnote at the beginning of chapter 3, “Formalisms”.

Basically he says that when physicists say “Hilbert space”, they’re actually referring to a specific Hilbert space, namely the set of all square integrable functions, sometimes referred to as “L2”.
Not sure where you get that idea. It was directly based on a snapshot of the openbsd version. Jason is just gaslighting you.
hey, i would like to talk with you, we are working on something that relies on cloud and scaling. Best way to reach out?
email : jonaskgmoo@gmail.com
I usually see it refer to Peano Arithmetic
"Open source" -- meaning the source is available and you can make modifications. You know, precisely what was in use before the OSI came along.
"I've finally got my emacs setup just how I like it. But my gigabit internet connection isn't fast enough for a text editor these days..."
“more collaborative” here is cover for “pay Jason to work on it” and “skilled people” is code for “people Jason approves”
If only we could have a better system of employee rights that prevented psychotic mobs from demanding people's livelihoods...

I mean, isn't there a particular party that would want that!? Oh wait, their electorate won't vote for them then.
Right on their about page:

> We support start-ups building products that help progressives win.

So yeah, I'd say they're probably not trying to attract people generally interested in politics regardless of ideology.
This article introduced me to some interesting ideas, but the author is willfully ignorant about the workings of brains and computers. I say willfully because he admits partway through that computers can do more logic operations than just syllogisms, but continues to argue as if that's all they can manage. And the idea that the firing of one single neuron encodes the concept of a causal relation is incredible.
I think you're thinking of mp3.com. Cdrom.com is the Walnut Creek FTP site.
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I submitted info for where I live (Toronto) and a day in mid July, and it suggested 6 minutes exposure on a cloudless day. That seems like a reasonably safe duration.

On the advanced form, you can be more specific about how much of your body is exposed, what kind of skin you have, and more values to tweak for atmospheric conditions, which would allow you to calculate how much for regular t-shirt, shorts and baseball-cap attire while out walking your dog or whatever.

The result also tells you how long is too long for the given conditions. For my Mid-July Toronto example, 20 minutes is too long.
"Not up to the standard" means "not pandering to or paying Jason"
That sounds like one of the oddities in retro-computing that could be enormously fun to investigate in detail, if reproducible.

Unfortunately, I don't have or ever had a Franklin, and acquiring one just for that would be a bit much (with no other interest in the machine besides that, it would also be a waste).
That's so cool. I find it so hard to go to bed on time - how did cultivate discipline to do so?
I fixed my Library by removing TypeScript
When is time to legislate not much else than that in Spain, but religion (catholic) is an important asset in politics there.

Conservative parties and catholic church feed back each other.
Anything that will make me money..
All developer authorization solutions should follow the Five Principles. Agree?
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I mean, that can already happen, no? What difference does it make being able to commit legal suicide instead of 'illegal' suicide by downing some pills?
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Yes, the site is really well written, and I absolutely love its "no bullshit" approach which obviously extends to the product itself (and the CEO, from what I can tell). Signal to noise ratio is great. I wish more companies were like this.

Having said that, I do think the site would really benefit from a new paint job. A good UXer can make it so much more aesthetically pleasing, while still retaining its simplicity and quick load time. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just static HTML with elegant styling and a few minor tweaks.

For example, I was really surprised to see big name clients such as Disney, 3M, ARM & ESPN hidden a few clicks away (behind a button which wasn't very informative, from what I remember). Same for being in business for 20 years. A good UX/product person will tell you to put this front and center in your landing page, and rightfully so.

@rsync: I love what you're doing, but please get a UX person involved :)
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Every country has their own system that has different standards. Stop spreading fud, Switzerland that is not very much EU also says they need more data on over 55. The biggest fuzz regarding blood clots was started by Norway, not EU. Americans still haven't approved AZ. The only damage to vaccines are by people who use the political card for vaccines. It's like saying not using sputnik is only political because Lancet agreed with the study.
Why certain people want to treat vaccines like holy cows? Always comes from anglosphere.
That wasn't confusion, that was the point. If there's confusion it's in people having different conceptions of what async language constructs should provide, which color their criticisms and rationales.
Some long-haul Covid patients report symptoms are subsiding after getting vac
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Rights are actually an intersting example for the use case of NFTs.

Blockchains can produce stronger guarentees than trusted timestamping. This is often used to prove digital existence and ownership.

Given the adoption of this interpretation in law disputes about digital ownership can amount to a digital signature with the private key.
> No, the apparent fact that the car was in Autopilot is what makes this interesting. Autopilot is touted as being effective – if not more effective than human operators – in avoiding this kind of accident.

And the fact we only hear about one of these kinds of crashes every few months essentially proves it's true.

Remember, more than 100 people are killed on the roads each and every day of the year in the USA. Dig into the stats, one Tesla crashing does not mean that overall Autopilot is not effective.
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Understanding how your users experience your software is always difficult. It is especially difficult if we're talking about a developer tool like a library or command line utility.

Devtool maintainers have to rely on GitHub issues and IRC/Slack/Discord to talk with their users. They miss out the experience of the majority of their users, who never build up the motivation to create an issue or post a message on Slack.

Humbug addresses this problem. It collects developer tool usage reports and crash reports in a principled manner, only with the end user's full consent. Individuals or teams that maintain developer tools can use these reports to identify issues in their software, prioritize features, and in general improve their users' experience.

You can find a lot more information on GitHub: https://github.com/bugout-dev/humbug

Here is a short YouTube video showing how Humbug works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2c8o_sXC4

Humbug is free to use for small projects. I hope you find it useful.

If you would like to discuss your use case in greater detail, I would love to speak with you in the comments. You can also reach me by email (check my profile).
Think my first experience of this was Adrian Tchaikovsky. May not have been first though.
The most difficult is when it s your day work code.

I m in a phase where the code at work interests me so much that I think I sleep 5 hours a day, the rest I touch that code. Non stop, and I have a kid.

Thank god it s usually just a phase :D
> how many on BCC?

I guess the only way we will know that is if there’s ever a vulnerability in the session handling code of the mail server that they use also xD
Not sure exactly how it was done in this case, but the first sample (the "amen break" - you can look it up) is one of the most sampled tracks ever. There are documentaries about it.

I imagine that many people who work with samples and production and deconstructing would develop an ear for it.

Similar for rapper's delight too I imagine.
It's pretty common to do exhaustive logging even if the data is enormous. It's valuable for debugging and security investigations. As far as the security of storing log data, you need log messages to not contain PII regardless of how long you retain them.

It's not uncommon to see companies talk about processing terabytes or even petabytes of log data per day. In the end the storage isn't that expensive [1], and you can discard everything after a little while.

[1] Assuming of course that any company generating a petabyte of logs every day is doing so because they have an enormous number of customers, AFAIK the cost of storing 1PB of logs on something like Glacier is in the 100-300k USD/yr range. Absolutely a tolerable expense for the peace of mind you get by knowing you can go back in 2 months and find every single request that touched a security vulnerability or hunt down the path an attacker took to breach your infrastructure.
> So not 40 cases all at once in case anyone was worried

Yep, not connected to the mRNA vaccines. :)
another one including text:

https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions

...and including the unincluded:

https://theinfosphere.org/Unused_Title_Captions
My interpretation of the comment is that "rights" refers to licensing.
I don’t think there’s quite enough information in the article to fully evaluate it. Depending on what the precise requirements are, what this “evaluation panel” involves, and how long the panel can take to make a decision, you could certainly have a rational objection there.

But, overall, it at least seems pretty good. I have always been incensed that if I were terminally ill in most US states, the law would treat me worse than my dog. Laws like this are a huge step in the right direction, IMO.

Edit: I’d be fully satisfied when the law allows me to specify when I want my own suffering ended via advance directive. It really shouldn’t be the burden of a terminally ill person to have to make those decisions at the end of their life.
Edit: email sent.
Unfortunately, in the US, people have to rely on 2nd amendment rights to have such option.

Without guns, all other methods I know of are painful and non-instant: hanging, drug overdose, cutting veins, suffocation, what else?

It’s just sad that terminally ill people have to use a method that will put stigma and shame on how their live ended, doing it in secret and with mess.
Instead of a legal and graceful procedure, going away surrounded by family.
> 56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations."

Science journalism is pretty bad for this. Every time a researcher finds any property that influences another, and says more work needs to be done, the headline reads “the cure for cancer is almost here!” or “is this the end of aging?”
Define "Discovered". Transmitting in humans? Or transmitting in wildlife? Because for the second, the answer is a tremendous number.
@dang doesn't work - you have to email hn@ycombinator.com. That's in the guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Fortunately another user alerted me that way - it's the only reliable way to get information to us.

A nice side effect is that it doesn't add off-topic meta stuff to the thread.

p.s. I hope that didn't sound too critical. I appreciate your helpful intention!
I use a simple bookmarklet in such situations:

javascript:(function(){w=window;d=w.document;b=d.querySelector('body');s=d.createElement('style');s.innerHTML='body{margin:0 auto!important;width:100%;max-width:120ch;font:normal 18px/1.5 Helvetica,Calibri,Arial,sans-serif;color:#333;background:#f9f9f9;}main,#main{margin:0 auto!important;}';b.setAttribute('style','');b.append(s);})();

It's pretty basic - changes body width to 120ch, centers body and main, and updates body font. Despite some issues, works great for a one-click fix.
I guess because one is technically murder and you'd have to do it yourself, whereas the other you can get someone else to do it and you'd get away scott free and with less guilt.