skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If "they're all human" is all you can come up with, I think that essentially proves my point. Cultural factors are likely to be difficult to detangle from the whole mess of what's going on.

As far as abject suffering goes, I agree, that probably doesn't help the suicide rate. But, what I've been getting at is this: you keep referring to "absolute poverty," and I'm telling you I don't think "absolute poverty" is it. I think it's plain old poverty, which is relative poverty, which has to do with what one's local purchasing power is.

"Abject suffering" is relative, too. What you might call "abject suffering," someone in another country might just call "Tuesday." Conversely, someone used to living very well who ends up losing everything financially might feel extreme despair. Think 2008, or 1929.

In other words, add all those cultural factors on, and what an American might want to end it all over, a Pakistani (to pick a random example) might not. If you did a study with 10 countries, then you'd have 45 pairs to consider, and, like I said, that gets messy quickly.

This is roughly why I suspect there aren't any good studies that do what you suggest. Almost all the studies of this nature concentrate on a single country, and I suspect it's because the research itself would be difficult, but, also that it would be extremely tough to make any cross-cultural conclusions, which is what you want to do if you want to know what makes "humans" want to kill themselves.
What is the purpose of this? Does anybody find these more readable?
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> We have fast and short lockdowns as soon as there are any cases to restrict spread

This is not a world I would want to live in.
That's fine, but Sarbanes-Oxley only applies criminal penalties for knowing or willful mis-statements.
>Is it the turbines themselves which are very difficult to maintain in salt water?

The real key is they are far more difficult to maintain than wind turbines. Also, dams are ecological nightmares and disrupting huge swaths of coastline is not ideal. Dams also made use of very specific geological conditions where a maximum amount of water power could be achieved with the least amount of money, time, materials, etc. Coastlines don’t have steep cannon walls to build up hundreds of meters of water to push through turbines at high pressure. Coastal tides are moving water meters high, not hundreds of meters. It isn’t that it can’t be done, it is just that it can’t be done more economically than other technologies.
Well before even the Cold War. The USSR was pumping lots of propaganda into the US as far back as the Red Scares of the 1920s.

A Clockwork Orange uses Russian slang ("nadsat") based on the aggressive propaganda that was blasted at the West. There are some uncomfortable comparisons to be made with modern times there, e.g. Q-Anon and aggressive propaganda aimed at the survivalist types...
M00t did have a greatly contrasting view to The Zuck. The Zuck -- one identity, one you. M00t talked about "facets," a face you show, just one plane out of the multihedron of You. It's a bit more than Billy Joel's "The Stranger," is the "you" that you bring to work, or maybe just the one you show your boss. The Zuck just had everything all out there for everyone. M00t's insight is that people really really did not want to do that, everything from your personal political leanings to not wanting your grandmother to know about your fursona.

It is a smart hire in that aspect, but Google+ was going to be an also-ran and I don't think M00t alone could save it.
The 1970's saw multiple oil crises hit the US and the smaller Japanese cars' better fuel efficiency was another big reason for their new popularity.
I think the future is Popcorn Time + a patron-like model
Googling, stackoverflowing and copypasting.
There are many languages pushing for mathematical style formulas, but until they get easy to type, I don't think any of them will succeed.

It's not COBOL that won. It's qwerty.
You have been listening to propaganda. ARM has always been better. Consider the fact that it still exists, despite Intel's predatory nature. It exists because Intel could not make a processor for the low power market that was performant. They tried. But anything they built either took too much power, or used the right amount of power but was too slow. So ARM survived in this niche. But it couldn't grow out of this niche because Intel dominates ruthlessly.

But the low power market shows that, for a given power consumption, the ARM is faster. Does that not apply everywhere? Yes, it does. And so Apple, which controls its own destiny, developed an ARM chip for laptops and desktops. Its faster and cooler and cheaper than Intel chips, because ARM has always been faster and cooler and cheaper than Intel chips.

AWS, which also controls its own destiny has launched Graviton2. These are servers which are faster and cooler and cheaper than Intel servers, and the savings and performance are passed on to customers.

As long as Intel ruled by network effects - buy an Intel because everyone has one - build an Intel because it has the most software - their lack of value didn't matter.

There are now significant players who can ignore the network effects. The results are so stunning that many people simply refuse to believe the evidence.
If "number of dead people" is the only metric we care about, yes, you're 100% right.

But that's not the only thing that matters. I don't want to keep going down the car rabbit hole, so to bring it back to suicide: increased rates of mental distress (as indicated by higher incidences of suicidal ideation) is very bad. This would likely mean several other things which are damaging to both the individuals and society (loss of income, additional expenses from medical treatment, possible run ins with criminal or psychological incarceration)

As with most things, there's no "magic metric" when it comes to mental health relating to suicide that we could say "if we can get this down to 0 everything is fixed".
If there's still someone who touts the "but X people die of the flu/car crashes/whatever per year", let this be a lesson of non-linear scaling and why you need to take this property very seriously with contagious & lethal disease.
It's more interesting now for a couple of reasons. The board was raided by "social justice warriors" during GamerGate and many stayed to keep arguing. Another reason is 4chan/pol/ is tamer that it used to be. The worst kind of uninteresting stuff moved to 8chan after GamerGate.
> There's no mystery as to whether you improved something

I'd nitpick a little bit and say it's possible that an optimization in one case causes a slowdown in another case- or worse, a bug. Benchmarks can also be inconsistent on the "same" case due to caches, etc, some of which may live outside of the code you actually control. Even the simplest program will vary a bit when you re-run it on the same system due to the state of that system (other processes, temperature, CPU cache, etc).

Some optimizations are clear wins, but many of them involve trade-offs and can have some mystery. Thorough testing/benchmarking helps a lot, but it can only get you so far.
It's almost as if something outside the norm happened relatively recently which for some reason dialed the divisions in American society and politics up to 11 then broke the knob off.

Of course, to mention specifics would be partisan, and partisanship is culture war, and culture war is killing us so who can even say what? We'll just say that somewhere around the end of Obama's term it seems like maybe something happened.
> What is the purpose of this?

Its explained in the first two sentences of the page.
> Regarding just recent history, 2015-2021 is more divisive the 2000-2015, don't you think?

Maybe, but not as a sudden phase transition, just sort of a continuous process since the end of the New-Deal-to-~1994 overlapping partisan realignments and thr subsequent crystallization of the current ideological divide between the two major parties, returning to the steady state norm.

The periods of reduced—or not-party-aligned—divisiveness during the realignment period were an aberration and artifact of the unsettled alignment.
Wow, I guess I'm not a reasonable person then - because that's absolutely what I believed when I hit "purchase".
> We are comparing embedded CPU's with proprietary north bridge architecture to industry standardized and socketed CPU's with an entire industry supporting it

Eh? x86es have had an integrated northbridge for about a decade.
The surprising part is that you have attention to spare for all those distractions.
Thanks for the education.

> I think they direct listed before launching USDT specifically so they could avoid putting Tether in their disclosures.

That definitely explains the timing, but given that they probably prefer users to use their own USDC anyway, why do this when it's such a controversial asset?
I promise you, I was observing either extremely small airplanes or fairly large drones. This wasn't some lights on the horizon. This was a set of lights that looked exactly like a large drone, plus the outline of the vehicle partially visible due to the lights of the town, that I watched maneuver in all directions from the familiar vantage point of my apartment courtyard. I also passed under them more than once on my commute to my overnight job, as well as observing them over the fields on either side of the interstate. This was the same commute I'd been making for months before these things started appearing and continued driving for a year after they stopped showing up. I've spent a lot of hours driving in this area, day and night, with nothing better to watch than the crop dusters pulling off crazy stunts for the sake of saving time. You ever seen them fly under power lines? They do it once in a while. It's a stupid risk and super fucking impressive at the same time.

It's the Midwest. You watch the sky, see how the corn and beans are coming along, and try not to hit deer. Those were either very small manned planes flying at a time of day those vehicles rarely operate or they were some kind of drone. Either way, something weird was going on.

You want to tell me the UFO I swear I saw in high school was my eyes playing tricks on me at 4 am? Yeah, you're probably right. These however were something I saw, personally and repeatedly, in an area where I'm very familiar with what's normally in the sky.
I have a 2015 MBP as well... it's HORRIBLE when I hook it up to a 4k monitor. Lag, freezing, etc. I can still get stuff done, but the experience is pretty bad.

Perfectly fine on its own screen though, the dual-core in mine just isn't up to the task of a 4k external monitor.
Brexit’s top donor outed as Bitfinex, Tether parent shareholder
> We had strict lockdown early.

I’m in New Zealand and saw your lockdowns as very soft compared to ours. Here almost zero shops were open - supermarkets and some dairies. Medical practices and pharmacies were open. One could not associate with anyone outside their household.

However Australia’s approach worked. It does make me wonder if ours was too strict.
Virginia Eliminates Accelerated Math Courses
The Wendy's twitter straight up drunks on other brands.

If you're Pepsi, you've got every reason to retweet all of the Coke stuff about "don't be white".
I had nearly a perfect Lighthouse score until the marketing team added GTM
weird article, who cares? I care enough to point out the following:

like literally what is the point of this to lead people to talk about unrelated aspects of 4chan and maybe how that influenced his time at Google

but the article describes an extremely normal and extremely extended time at Google

what...?
> constant covering of everyone's facial expressions (no smiles)

I have noticed little sympathy for this here on HN, as well as in interviews with scientific advisors to my own government (who tell the journalist things like "masks are just a thin little layer of fabric, they have no drawbacks whatsoever!"). Often people point to Asia as a reason people should not feel any unease in a mask, but the smile famously plays a rather different role in Asian body language than in the West.
Alternatively, do it on save. :)

gg=G in vim is fast enough to type for me, though.
Say what you will, but any post on HN that even mentions cryptocurrency in passing has an environmental alarmist as the top upvoted post whereas here any such thing will be downvoted to the bottom.

> I prefer it when the commentary on Hacker News does not extend to hot takes.

Seems like you don't speak for the hivemind. Hot takes get upvoted on the regular around here. Just not when they don't conform to the echo chamber.

I found a name for the phenomenon that I was looking for, I think.
I've been observing this effect through the years on various hardware configurations. Currently, I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on AMD 3900X, ASUS Prime board, NVIDIA 3090 card (same effect on old NVIDIA 980 card). My Mac is old MacBook Pro 2013, with both Intel and NVIDIA graphics inside.
> This is how the revolution and much more was fomented.

The la-le-lu-li-lo still run the show
Same here, thought I was a master of Googling already, but good to learn something new.
Explaining the failures of the home-ownership dream
In my opinion, most of the 3D software and renderers are starting to align in their workflows and set up. If you've spent enough time in a 3D package and have your fundamentals down, then a reasonably experienced 3D artist could make something look good in Maya, Blender, Cinema 4D, UE4, 3ds Max, Modo, or slightly more specialized programs like Katana, Mari, Nuke, etc. Most of the "learning curve" is just finding out what a particular program calls one tool or another. I think this video starts to illustrate what I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkvRBvKHFek

Also, at studios, you tend to hear about the "main" pipeline where the majority of the work flows through. There are often secondary, smaller pipelines where they evaluate new tools and workflows before committing to entire rewrites. I would agree that small to medium sized studios don't have the resources or luxury to do as much exploration
What I’m really curious to see is whether or not “electric” is the single killer feature it is often positioned as.

Semi-autonomous driving and overall UX are two places that Tesla is just so far ahead. I think other manufacturers will make progress, but they are likely to be slow. Electric is compelling but it’s only a small part of the overall value prop for a lot of buyers.
> And now zoomers, seduced by corporate sponsorships and the cozy fiefdoms of communities like YouTube or TikTok, have almost no concept of files or their utility, of the value of owning something detached from a profiteering cloud. They have no problem enriching those who seek to exploit them.

You’re blaming gen z for the world they were raised in? The oldest “zoomers” are about 25. You think they ran these companies for the last 20 years and made the decisions that got us here?

They have no problem enriching those who seek to exploit them because there is no other choice. Nobody actually wants this.
Maybe. Things that succeed in the face of an issue no one predicted don't really stand out as smart - just lucky.
It might prove smart in the long run for many other reasons of course.

For all we know, Tesla could be locked into TSMC like everyone else, while Nvidia has their current high-end chips on Samsung as well relationships with TSMC.
On more than one occasion, in discussion of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the question has come up "ever been there? There's nothing out there!" Umm, as a matter of fact, I have been there. And you're full of shit, Person Who Has Never Been North of the 49th Parallel. I guess if one can't drive an SUV to a paved overlook, what good is it, eh?
I was drawn to that same spot because it was big but there's no city there on the map. I opened google map to see what was there and found this: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vankor+manufacturing+site/...

Seems to be an oil field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vankor_Field

Also didn't google it as much, but it looks like oil fields in Texas give off plenty of light as well: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=9.14&lat=28.6928&lo...
>I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations.

Always fascinating how they refer to themselves.

You have n-words.

Then potato n-words for the irish (and lithuatians)

Pasta n-words for italians

Bongs for the british

Leafs for canadians

Burgers and Amerimutts

Toothpaste for the netherlands

Gypsy for hungarians and romanians (who are at a perpetual shitposting war against each other)

Hohols for the ukranians

Finngolians

The usual suspects for anyone of any asian country, extra special hate towards the chinese and Xi's internet army.

and on and on

No matter what nation of the world you are from, they will find an insult for you. It's endearing in a way really.

Oh and also there's someone shitposting from a research facility in Antarctica.
Yes. This is an important point to note. USA is sitting on 30M pile of AstraZeneca vaccine which is not even approved in USA. They could have simply sold it to India.

USA is also stockpiling, glass, containers and other raw material which USA is not technically short of.

On top of this German Chancellor yesterday said that "we allowed India to become a pharma powerhouse but now we have to rethink". This is because India is producing cheaper vaccine.
There is a start at opening up borders with safe countries (currently Au and NZ) and free travel between them. I’m not sure anywhere else has achieved this.

What way would you have it?
The European system is broken in the sense that you have 2 to 5 teams per league being head and shoulders above everyone else. This is because their president are super-rich (e.g. Real Madrid) or because they act as a political shield (e.g. Olympiacos FC) for mafiosi masked as business men.

Just to be clear: I totally dislike the idea of a super-league. Additionally, I dislike the lack of salary cap. The fact that Real Madrid bench could come 5th in a league of 24th teams is hurting the sport. Real Madrid should not be allowed to have more than X number of high contracts, directly or indirectly. In the same vein, when an owner does not have guaranteed income and/or cannot support a soccer/basketball/whatever team, for the good of the sport he/she/they should be stripped away of the license.

There are other issues that come into play like players taxation: The reason the European soccer centre moved from Italy to Spain was because of tax cuts enjoyed by Spain's clubs. A 15 mil/year contract is different in Real Madrid/Barcelona than AC Milan/Juve for example.

Regarding the champions league... The fact that the UK, Italy and Spain have three teams with only 1 or 2 of them playing knock-out games to enter the first fixture is bullocks. I Yugoslavian super-team called "Red Star" would never have won in 1991 if today's system was applied. The current system generates lots of more money at the top leagues, leaving leagues in poor countries starved. This is because the competition is a lot harder: a team from Greece will have to face multiple teams from Italy, Spain and the UK. Additionally, although Olympiacos plays a the "champion" of Greece, Inter Milan might be playing as the 2nd best in Italy. It's not a "Champions League" anymore, indirectly, it s a "who-has-more-money" league already :-)

As many already pointed out. The first thing UEFA needs to do is bring back the "champions league" by banning everyone who does not hold last year's championship from current competition. Allow teams from poorer countries to join the competition. That will drive money to these teams and enhance the competition (a celebrity coach) mentioned something similar on an interview... Instead of having a CL that is becoming competitive around April, it could have been competitive from day one just by turning the CL to a 90s style CL.

Anyway, UEFA now has all the big clubs on their knees. As an AC Milan fan, I'm ashamed of the club's conduct. Hopefully, UEFA will do what needs to be done and finally introduce some sorely needed reforms.
It seems to be that way.

The first startup I ever worked for made IT integrate about a dozen different marketing SaaS because each one was able to convince the department that it would enable them to become the next generation of rockstar sales people.
This would be more convincing if I wasn't reading it on a 2013 Macbook. But yes, Big Sur is the last major update available and in a few years it's going to be obsolete.
Already doing that... a lawyer also knows his price, whe SW guys are to nice to the corporations
Oh I'm dead serious. I want it to play an audio file when it detects a dog shit: "Thank you for kindly picking up your dog shit."
Technology designed to grow human cells is transforming the lab meat industry
> Not everyone with mental health issues or depression agrees with lockdown regardless of suicide statistics

I don't understand this argument against public health measures. People should die because we have an unchecked mental health problem?
When I first had my M1, I ironically had to use Canary for stability purposes
Chip supply is inelastic. Paying more still doesn’t increase production capacities.
A lot of deaths could be going un-reported. There could be multiple factors here:
* India doesn't count everyone who died with COVID as having died of COVID.
* There is something fishy going on with the number of cremations with "COVID protocol" compared to the number of reported COVID deaths on a day in multiple states
* Just not enough infrastructure to handle this kind of situation
Let's not let Lowtax off scot-free here, even if he is a documented horrible human being SA deserves some share of the credit.
> Anyone who is living in India knows that cases are severely underreported in India. Government is publishing statistics saying city a has x covid deaths in a day. But crematoriums are seeing 10-20x body bags.

What would be the incentive for India's government to do this?
How would you measure the efficiency of this process? I’m assuming this was merely test hardware and an at-scale implementation would be much better. 5.4g/hour for 10min of breathing in a “first try” of this seems, to a KSP-trained laymen, like a pretty good trade?
I don't have this problem with variables or method names, but the type "double" does this to me.
Blender has a lot of things lacking however:

* It too is crash happy just in different ways. However Maya scales better with large scenes than Blender does and that's key

* Blenders licensing is a deterrent. Very few people want to deal with GPL.

* Blender is not good for extensibility if you're looking for performance. The API is unstable and exposed only via Python. Studios need to extend the DCCs and Blender doesn't allow for it in the way they need unless they fork the whole app.

*Blender has no professional support contract. This is very important for studios.

I think Blender is awesome, but a lot of the stuff that makes it appeal to freelancers doesn't appeal to big studios. In some cases like the licensing, it pushes them away.
I'm encourage everyone who is building a SaaS to join this. You don't have to do this challenge but they have a thing call "Mastermind groups" basically a way for you to connect to other founders weekly at a certain time to sync/share feedback.

From my own experience to launch my https://hanami.run email forwarding SaaS app, a weekly sync with my friends are my life hack to bring the idea to life, it forces to work, celebrate small changes/win with friend. Thing like I managed to got 100 visitors to landing page last week are now so awesome to tell my friends and keep me motivated.

Building on the dark in the past make me think I'm a falure and just jump ship to other brighter idea.
That would be lobste.rs
I'd wager their record keeping of that number is worse than france...
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