skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least we in NL have access to Euthanasia. Frankly I would like to see Futurama style suicide boots.

OK, the latter may seem extreme, but why do we have all the liberty in the world to create life, including a lot of suffering, but not to end our own?

In America, Euthanasia doesn’t seem like an option, but access to guns solves that option in practice. Terrible, but the hard reality.

In the end, It is about quality of life not quantity of life?. And everything in the medical world should be focused on that. For example, don’t put people on ventilators when there is no possibility of recovery.

Anyway, @Oleander: I wish you the best under the circumstances and that you may get what you wish for.
American exceptionalism... for every single thing... <image>1000_eyeroll_smileys.gif</image>
Really appreciate your time.
The U in UBI mean universal. And if the government is placing restrictions on then it's no longer universal.

Even though we all pay into it most states have placed so many ridiculous restrictions on unemployment that the federal govt had to step in and say if you are unemployed you qualify for this supplement. And left it at that, no income, drug testing, or other silly requirements to it. And that is how it should be.
I wish there were more opportunities for people to learn via “cross training” like this.

I’d love to learn more about a number of engineering disciplines by helping people who know those fields, learn how to implement the algorithms and mathematical calculations they need in Python and simultaneously, learning more about those algorithms and calculations in order to best implement them and show how best to use Python for these tasks.

But unfortunately such opportunities are few and far between outside academia and other learning oriented environments in my experience.
how did new trees grow when the ground was covered in piles of dead trees?
I'm not implying it's a binary condition. There's many degrees of "being reasonable", and we're still have a lot of progress to make.

What I am saying is that someone forcing an issue doesn't make "both sides" political by decree. A person being misgendered can still bring the issue with HR without it being political in a way that's against any kind of political conversation.
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> Sigh. I am so disappointed in our industry that tools like this even need to exist.

But isn't this a valid concern? If we're at a stage that we have a thin client of a thin client we are correct to raise questions. This is Hacker news after all.

Why are the SV elites so quick to jump gun and claim victimhood when they face ridicule and criticism? We don't see the mom-n-pop shops that closed operations last week whine in such fashion.
> Internet Investigator

Haha... that's a brilliant euphemism for "profession Google user". Or maybe we could call it "serial scrapist"?

Of all the silly titles I tried to come up with, this sure hadn't crossed my mind yet. And it has a catchy ring to it too.

"Internet Investigator" got to be somewhere up there between "Adult Software Engineer" (middle ground between "Junior" and "Senior") and "Server Captain/Commodore/Admiral".
I remember reading this before somewhere.

Looks like a huge security threat IMO considering these are huge batteries moving at 70 mph. Considering these have cameras and autopilot, a compromised vehicle can be made to malfunction next to a truck or something to inflict maximum damage.

And this is without even going into all the intelligence threats considering many of the owners are high net worth people probably in constant contact with important people in government and can have access to priveleged info.

With that being said, it's important to compare with other connected car implementations by competing OEMs and point out if they have similar vulnerabilities
Product managers are not exactly a time critical position. If the iOS app falls behind the Android app for a few months, will many users even notice?

And it won't take them long to re-fill these roles. There's a ton of unmet demand to work at a place that's purged the activists. You aren't gonna see them much on Twitter but Basecamp just gave themselves a massive recruiting advantage that FAANG cannot/will not match, and they already had a good reputation. Lots of people read DHH's blog post and thought "excellent, that's what's needed". Any impact on the firm will be transient at best.
Audacity is one of the best open source products of all time. GOAT
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> If it is the latter, an answer I can't find anywhere, why did we need to waste so much time developing a vaccine? Wouldn't it be equally efficacious to introduce one virus to the body on day one, four on day two, and so on until immunity is achieved?

Introducing the virus like this, you’ve created a live virus vaccine. The work involved in creating and testing such a vaccine isn’t really any less than creating the vaccines we did make. You still have to develop technology to grow the virus and distribute exactly the right quantity. Moreover, the risk of complications is far greater if someone fails to fight off the small viral load infection.

The vaccines such as Moderna only took a week or two to prototype in January 2020. The entire rest of the time was scaling up production and running tests to prove it worked in the population. We could have skipped running the trials and deployed the untested vaccine instead. A lot of lives would have been saved but no way to know that without doing the trials, I suppose.
That’s a big part of Buddhism/Hinduism.
Really? Tell that to Hiroo Onoda and his 29 years in the jungle. You see, people play on the subjective nature of life and honesty is not a virtue anymore.
You don’t have to trust a “host of third parties” - you merely have to predict that a majority of third parties will not economically sabotage themselves.
It’s a good point but regulators (ie politicians) are nowhere near up to the tasks. They often leave the legislative details to industry “experts” often tied to big corporations. I frankly think our government is broken and outdated to accommodate the complexities and speed of modern society. It also doesn’t help that politicians refuse to retire and hold onto their seats often until death.
Are you talking about the fork or the original project? I agree the original project's move is a bit user hostile as it now requires people to pay immediately if they want to continue receiving updates. However, I don't see how this can be 'bordering on malware'

That being said, it is the right of the maintainers to fork the software as allowed by the Open Source license the original code was under. Users now have the choice of paying the original company or using the free version with a new name. I fail to see how this is user-hostile.
The complexity in the engine isn't in the mechanical concepts that make it tick, it's in the implementation details. Stepping back quite some time in technology, but staying with engines:

The platonic carburetor is a dead simple device: a Venturi, a jet, and a butterfly valve. Real life carburetors are fiendishly complex: multiple jets, an accelerator pump, a choke. And god help you if you have multiple carbs on a single engine and need to sync them.

Everything that goes into making an engine work is similar: cooling it correctly and evenly, allowing for operation while parts expand and contract at different rates as the engine reaches operating temperature, lubricating everything, preventing vibrations that'll make the car feel unrefined or maybe tear the engine apart, valve timing (fixed in most engines at some compromise between performance and drivability), ignition timing (variable in most engines), sealing things that need to be sealed across a huge range of operating temperatures and in the presence of differing rates of thermal expansion (head gaskets, among others) oh, and making it work for a quarter million miles or more with fairly minimal maintenance. And manufacturing them at enormous scale, and holding the tolerances that make all of the above possible across the lifespan of the production line.

And all of that is before we even discuss pollution controls.
Depending on your network model preference, there's a federated approach https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed and P2P https://radicle.xyz/ Unfortunately both are still in pretty early stages, but active.
Not to mention some of them have wonderful anti-features, such as physical books that have a handful of online-only chapters that you can only access if you buy the textbook new, thereby reducing the value of used copies.
Higher pay is also often a function of seniority (even more so in industries that don't favor job hopping).

Join any union in the US, and seniority is pretty much the only metric used to evaluate fair compensation and benefits.

I don't understand what you are asking for.
If a nation state wants to hack into my computer, I have absolute confidence they will succeed. They are not a part of my personal threat model.
Those unhappy people had friends who were probably on the edge.

Firing them is a good way to tip them over it.
Repairability was the single largest reason for my move from an iPhone to a Fairphone.
Not necessarily.... The Posterchild for parody is 2 Live Crew Pretty Woman. Which includes samples of the original Oh, Pretty Woman. Youtube videos get flagged for 10 seconds of a song snippet all the time.

After the Campbell v Acuff-Rose Supreme Court decision, 2 Live Crew licensed the song from Acuff-Rose music. (which is what they tried to do in the first place).
This does not excuse

> Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

part

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...

Especially given that person making threats appears to be from Russia and target in China.
"If you're not getting your ass kicked in the arena, your opinions don't bother me"

IMO This is the only heuristics should be applied to Internet criticism. This article reads as if they're unable to handle criticism and instead of self reflection they create false dichotomies like fanboy/hater.
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There's all the difference in the world between saying you hope the company "fails and fails hard", vs saying "I understand what the company is trying to do, here's how I think they can do it better". What could be more hateful that wishing someone "fails hard" vs hoping for them to find a way to succeed in a way you think is worthy?

Anyway, it doesn't matter what you or I think about this. As I said in another comment, the ability to discern between valid criticism and hate is one of the most important skills a founder/executive can have, so real world outcomes matter far more than arguments about it here.

All the essay is saying is that some critics cross over into being haters, and where that is the case they can be ignored. It's up to practitioners to discern what is and isn't hateful. People chiming in here saying "some criticism is valid and shouldn't all be dismissed as hate" are not disproving the article's thesis or saying anything PG would dispute.
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A good example is the UI of Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, which is not at all intuitive. I was incredibly confused when I first started using them, and it took me a long time to become proficient. But now I've mastered them, the absolute last thing I want is for them to do a UI overhaul.
The turnoff for me is usually wrt UI scaling, i.e. I have a 4k monitor and I want to scale the entire UI up to maybe 175% the normal size. On Ubuntu, with GNOME, I can do this in the settings, but at the expense of performance and sharpness. I'm not sure how Cinnamon or Elementary fare. To contrast, Mac OS X handles this without any issues- there is no blurriness, no performance degradation at any UI scale.
The irony is that Beethoven probably stole it. Even to this day, music composition has always involved "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue," to quote Duke Ellington.
Defectors don’t have to be one of the contract participants. People are free to create new companies. Price-busting venture capital would be a whole industry if price-fixing was legal.

It doesn’t even have to happen very often; the counterfactual possibility of getting busted is enough to keep price fixes reasonable.
>Animal protein is superior to plant-based protein if you consider the natural amino acid profile. Plant-based protein simply lacks several amino acids and many sources aren't "complete" proteins. - Vitamin B12 is essential for the body and found almost exclusively animal proteins.

This really is the wrong way to argue.

So what was the situation before we developed tests to detect amino acids and Vitamin B12? Did vegans get to correctly argue that nutritionally plants were equivalent to animal foods? No.

Well they still incorrectly argue based on what you said that all that one needs to do be successful vegan is to eat a variety, take some b12 and some protein power and the nutritional aspect is taken care off, They can also they can argue that plants contain useful compounds not found in animal foods, how do you you argue?

My point being that must ultimately look at the health outcome of each food group experimentally.
I’ve had similar things happen. It’s not uncommon.

It is a physical thing. I’m not sure it’s caused by burning out all the glucose or whatever (as that is short term addressable). Dopamine, that’s possible.

In my case, it was caused I think by not getting enough sleep combined with cognitive load, perhaps exasperated by high sodium, and poor nutrition. Stimulants (such as caffeine, but also Ritalin, adderall, etc) if not carefully moderated both cause you to continue to work beyond the point your brain physically needs rest while also causing a kind of dopamine resistance where you need more stimulant for the same effect.

And you get migraines. In my case, optical migraines (expanding noise/patterns... in your visual cortex, not in your eyeball... that is me with somewhat foggy thinking and a bit of a head ache). A little like seizures but limited to certain parts of the brain. A little like micro-strokes as well as there’s evidence that migraines like that are somewhat vascular in nature in that similar damage is seen (in folks with lots of migraines) as in small strokes. And they seem to happen when combined with high sodium, low water intake, combined with lack of sleep and high cognitive load.

But I wouldn’t be too certain about the causes. It’s hard to tell with these things.

I suspect it has something to do with the glymphatic system (as drinking enough water seems to help as does getting enough sleep).

I’m more careful with my sleep schedule and generally don’t push myself overly hard like in grad school and try not to have too much sodium (eating Ramen—with the packet—triggered one of my episodes) and I really have them only extremely rarely—less than once a year—instead of multiple times a week like in grad school.

Recognizing limits on yourself is important. I think hard work is really wonderful and feels amazing, but you should be careful to sleep enough (7-8, maybe more if you’re recovering from something... I aggressively try to get at least 7 hours every single night), drink enough water, don’t over do it on stimulants, and make sure to eat enough.
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That is true, but without source code the violators cannot improve "their" products much nor give any meaningful updates, so the original manufacturer can still have an edge.
If sources were available, the violators could even make it better than original, without having to make even remotely the same R&D investment than original manufacturer.
That's an unethical practice employed by some companies. Although in many cases it can be circumvented by buying old textbooks anyway.

I am glad that many CS authors nowadays make textbooks available for free. And companies like O'Reilly, Packt, and Manning provide DRM free copies.
As mentioned by others, Debian Edu (née Skolelinux might) be closest, AFAIK it's still alive:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Buster

Then there's Canonical recent announcement that Ubuntu will support group policies via active directory - which will probably bleed into other Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.
It is, but there are complications. My parents are still alive and I'd like them to be present (and they'd like to be present), but when you are present at a suicide you automatically become suspected of 'assisting' and that is not something I want them to have to go through when they are mourning.
>> How can you not talk about politics at work?

In my experience politics, religion, and money are all generally regarded as off topic among anyone but close friends and family. Unless any of the three specifically effect your business directly (or a member of staff is being illegally discriminated against because of their personal beliefs) I don’t see how you feel like you can’t work without discussing them.
I've been impressed with their customer support as well- they're human beings who use their heads and can be reached and reasoned with.

Compared to the other services I use, it's a night and day difference with Wise.
Just yesterday I had a colleague ranting about availability in Ireland. Not even price spike, outright no stock of any non-obsolete models.
That knowledge is an entire career's worth of knowledge. Sure, almost anyone could pick it up, but it's more cost effective for them to rely on others to do it for them.

For a musician, the learning and upkeep is a lot of time that would better be spent creating; making a living.
My experience in the lower-level aspects of hardware synthesis is limited but I would love to explore this topic.

I use proprietary synthesis tools for FPGAs everyday but I do not develop them.
My situation is similar to that of a software engineer who uses compilers and who could only explain how they work in general terms.
Thank you, that's insightful.
Well the quality of life improved greatly in the last 50 years, when I was younger people in their 60's and 70's were way older - both mentally and physically.

>Every one of them did not want medical intervention when their time came.

That's their choice, because they have something to chose from. I'm not saying that we should do everything to keep the age ticker ticking - I'm saying they should have the same rights as everyone else, and they should be free to make their choices.

Else, what would be the age threshold that would strip us from rights? Who would decided that?
This is how I feel! Some need the office, some don’t. Let them all make the decision for what works best, it will make everyone happier and hopefully additional positive benefits.
If they followed the DMCA instead of their own system it would scale just fine.

It would scale because under the DMCA system the site is not responsible for finding violations. That is up to the copyright owners.

All the site has to do is:

1. Take down alleged infringing content when someone claiming to be the copyright owner files a take-down notice.

2. Put the content back when whoever uploaded it files a counter-notice.

3. Tell the former that if they want the content taken down again, sue the latter. The site is now in the DMCA safe harbor.

All the site has to scale up to handle is dealing with notices and counter-notices. For that, all they need to do is check that all the required fields in the forms are filled out. This does not require anyone with any legal training--it is just checking things like they have identified themselves, described what content they want taken down/put back up, stated a reason for their belief that this action should be taken, and similar things.

You could train in an afternoon anyone who can read at a pre-high school level to handle this. 20 people in a normal shift could handle those 7200 cases per day.

Heck, you could even speed that up if you wanted by doing even less review on the notices. There aren't really any legal consequences to the site if they accept a notice that wasn't quite right. It is only the counter-notice that needs a little scrutiny. You want to make sure everything is correctly filled out in that, because it is the counter-notice that gives you the safe harbor.
We should have a penalty/fine for fake DCMA requests.

Big corps keep sending automated DCMAs with little consequence and often the little guys do have the resources to fight back.
Step 1: Pick anything other than JVM language
I don’t think OP is claiming he experienced seizures, rather he’s using the “thrown out back” metaphor to explain what he felt when he attempted to work — that is, a re-triggering of the initial symptoms.
> 20 years ago, computer magazines wrote about single-core 10GHz CPUs

Yeah, because they didn't realize how terribly the power consumption / heat output would scale; a 10GHz CPU will just melt itself.
No patients were ever turned away at NYC hospitals. There is a highly sophisticated patient transfer system in NYC.

Morgue capacity makes sense simply because of the population who was coming down with COVID at the time.
Imagine if someone in New Jersey had to apply for permission to work in New York
Is it really worth the energy production of a small country to raise awareness?
> You're sayig that minimum wage robs people of ability to get a foothold in the economy? Please enlighten me how "getting a foothold" works for people that have to work several jobs just to barely keep afloat?

I explained why already.

(1) If their value to an employer is less than the miminum wage, then that's going to contribute to unemployment, because an employer would now rather pursue automation or some other solution, or simply go out of business. That's what happens when you fix prices. This robs those people of the ability to get that first job that they can leverage for better opportunities later, and pushes people to drug dealing (which pays worse than minimum wage most of the time) and so on. It is terrible for social mobility and keeps people stuck at the absolute bottom.

(2) Domestic unskilled labor is now uncompetitive with foreign unskilled labor. The government has effectively banned domestic unskilled labor from working those particular jobs which means manufacturing moves overseas and benefits foreign unskilled labor instead. This devastates communities that used to function on the back of manufacturing.

> What about if a bunch of people come together and agree this is a good thing?

Democratic != not authoritarian.

Internment of Japanese was done by democratically elected representatives, and it was authoritarian.

> keep slaves or indentured servants

You can frame it like that, and I can point to communities that have been devastated and people that are chronically unemployed because of these kind of supposedly well-intentioned laws that fix prices. Who has the real moral high ground?
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True and all fair points. However, I think it may also suggest that people are not powerless/helpless in their situation, even if they are stuck in a job or society that places too much pressure on some.

Personal opinion, but where I think many may begin to really suffer from burnout is when they feel like they cannot do anything to improve or change their situation, and that it is futile to even try.

If nothing else, self care is something an individual who is struggling can control in the midst of a bunch of things they cannot.
It's pretty trivial to make such a CPU: just execute instructions in order and with no cache.

The challenge is more how to make a fast CPU like that.