skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also read that schizophrenia is much less painful in countries where cultural/religious context lead people to interpret the hallunications as friendly spirits, and not government spies using mind control tech.

The way someone experiences schizophrenia may be a reflection of their overall societal mental health, and how fearful society is in general.
Thanks! I am not qualified enough to know a good answer either. Albeit I have alternative thoughts for some points you have made, you seem to know this better than I do.
It's completely believable, yet utterly meaningless.

Development can mean anything from actually addig SKUs to the webshop to talking about expansion of the service network...
My point is that Forth's general goal is to be a higher-level assembly language for embedded systems.

Common Lisp and Scheme's general goal is to be a high-level programming language for application development (also PL research in Scheme's case).

By general goal I mean what you could ultimately guess the focus is based on the implementation decisions and how the community uses the implementations.

They both do a good job but in very different situations.
You really can't think of any other options?
Monty Python is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python

I also love the phrase gallows humor:

Robert-François Damiens, a French man who attempted to assassinate king Louis XV, was sentenced on March 26, 1757 to be executed in a gruesome and painstakingly detailed manner. He would first be led to the gallows, holding a torch with 2 lbs of burning wax. Pliers would then be used to tear his skin at the breast, arms and legs. Then his right arm, which held the knife he had used for his crime, would be burned with sulfur. The aforementioned areas with ripped skin would then be poured upon with molten lead, boiling oil, burning pitch, wax and sulfur. His body would then be dismembered by four horses, the members and trunk consumed in fire, and the ashes would be spread in the wind. After hearing the sentence, Damiens is reported to have replied: “Well, it's going to be a tough day.”

During the French Revolution, Georges-Jacques Danton, who had facial scars from smallpox, when he was about to be beheaded with a guillotine on April 5, 1794, is reported to have said to the executioner: “Don't forget to show my head to the people, it's well worth it!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy

Edit: After reading the author references Monty Python
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I think this is a bit of the wrong analogy.

There's a big difference between judging someone unworthy of life and acting to kill them, and judging that someone is not worth the energy and struggle to fight against their own drive to throw themselves off a cliff.

We're not collectively strong enough to save everyone. Getting strong enough is a goal to aspire to, but the dark reality is that in our state of weakness, we need to prioritize what we struggle to hold onto.
I don't know if the HN community member "rootusrootus" is "average", but his post certainly did not seem humble to me.
This is an interesting experiment that I'm excited about. The fact that a financial flash mob is possible is incredible. Anybody from anywhere can participate and have voting power by joining the DAO. Regardless of the outcome, it's good to see the convergence of DAOs into meatspace.
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I like your insight on this! That would absolutely be a common effect of implementing a naive version of such a policy.

Theoretically the current top tax bracket is 37% for anything over $523,601 -- I wonder if that's enough to be causing this already. There is, of course, the differential between this new "90%" (or whatever) bracket and the next highest bracket, which is currently 37%.

I'm curious how much people would do this. I suspect this would be very common for someone earning $120 million (give wife/child/best friend $20 million which would become $12.6 million after current existing taxes), but not common at all for someone earning $2 billion (they'd likely prefer to keep $290 million purely for themselves rather than keeping only $100 million for themselves and giving others $1.2 billion after taxes).
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>Suppose each person in a sample of 100,000 people were asked how much he or she would be willing to pay for a reduction in their individual risk of dying of 1 in 100,000, or 0.001%, over the next year. Since this reduction in risk would mean that we would expect one fewer death among the sample of 100,000 people over the next year on average, this is sometimes described as "one statistical life saved.” Now suppose that the average response to this hypothetical question was $100. Then the total dollar amount that the group would be willing to pay to save one statistical life in a year would be $100 per person × 100,000 people, or $10 million. This is what is meant by the "value of a statistical life.” Importantly, this is not an estimate of how much money any single individual or group would be willing to pay to prevent the certain death of any particular person.

I think it's important to note that the value of a statistical life has nothing to do with actual value, or money provided into an economy. So it's not something that can be taxed against etc. So to me it's false statement to say "spend $10 billion dollars to prevent all of those suicides, you would be generating a $50 billion dollar gain." there is no _actual_ dollar gain. The gain is that the average mortality goes down by 0.001%.
You can't fight Facebook and Twitter on a feature that is adjacent to what they already offer. It's a losing battle.
Because you can exploit them to write great things without really giving them a platform for being a dick.

A good manager will isolate an asshole from the rest of the team, but still capture the value they produce.
vertical integration in information technology. or does that mean "stacking the books high?"
I'm confused, if an individual bidder bids more than the DAO, wouldn't that bring more to charity than the DAO?

Perhaps the argument is that the DAO is raising hype and therefore raising the price for the winning bid and the hype itself will increase the total going to charity, I just don't see how the DAO would necessarily be giving more to charity than an individual if the individual had a higher bid.
You could simply state that you've lived with depression your entire life and that it's not something you'd wish for your offspring to inherit... or something along those lines. Just make sure to point out early that you're not interested in kids, you can bring up your motivation for that once you're comfortable enough to share it.
Yeah sure, but that‘s all added on by other parties. As far as I know, the layers above VISA/MC are diverse enough (not a duopoly). If that‘s true you could rely on the market to drive down fees if it‘s profitable.
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If your laptop battery isn't removable, it may be unable to boot if the battery cell has died, even when connected to AC.

Plus, laptops very much do have internal button cells and typically will either throw an error when booting or require a complete reinstall of the OS if something happened to the encryption key system along the way.

Might want to have a linux install media (DVD + USB stick) available just in case.
Well, then, thank you both for discussing it!

I, for one, would like to normalize what is often called "dying with dignity" but could also be described simply as "intentionally dying." It's not suicide in the traditional sense, it's choosing your end of life with the same sort of assertiveness that most of us wish to have in all the other aspects of our lives. I understand why it's difficult. I still think we should be able to be in control of our own termination sequence when many of our subsystems are already doing so of their own accord.
This isn't a trivial task (attaching probes to chip legs, or board connectors), and it's a good write-up, but sniffing seems like a poor word choice. This isn't picking up the data via covertly via existing attached components, or through some kind of software exploit - this is literally reading traveling messages which is nigh impossible to defend against aka "Reading data from the TPM"

Short of a physically sealed path from the chip to all components that benefit from its knowledge (impossible on a desktop?), that can only be destructively accessed (triggering an alarm; like case-open switches) - I don't see how this can be defended against.
Not sure our biology is great at that, but paradoxically as an almost 40 year old... I have the resources to support a bunch of children. Maybe the change to make is change the dynamic between men and women to introduce more age differences for child rearing.

My parents fought about money all the time, but if they had delayed then they would have been better off. If they were better off then maybe my mom wouldn't have killed herself...
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I would think that there'd be a threshold where the elevated risk of birth defects would place a ceiling on how old parents should be.

25-35 seems to be the ideal window, where the parents have had ample opportunity to get to know themselves as individuals, and the risks of a severe disability aren't particularly elevated. Afterwards, the risk seems to climb very quickly.

https://www.med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/10/older-fat...
https://www.ivf1.com/age-birth-defects/
As usual, Matt Levine has the best take (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-16/jpmorg...):

> Ben Thompson points out that this is all pretty approximate; ConstitutionDAO will not give its token holders fractionalized ownership of the Constitution...

> Also, not to be like this, but there is an original copy of the Constitution on permanent display at the National Archives; it is already “in the hands of the people,” in the sense that (1) it is owned by the U.S. government and (2) the U.S. government is, when you think about it, sort of a decentralized autonomous organization made up of the citizens of the U.S.? The citizens can kind of tell the government what to do? By voting? When you think about it? I don’t know. I’m sure that in five years ConstitutionDAO token holders will vote to change the Second Amendment to say “putting laser implants in your eyes is now mandatory” and somehow that will have the force of law.
Out of 320 comments only one notice this PR quoted Jeff. And not anyone else.

I read this as Jeff is on the supporting side and pushed for it within Apple. ( Which is inline with Post Steve Jobs PR pattern ) And Despite both Jeff and Tim Cook joining at about the same time and both in operation. Jeff and Tim Cook has a very different personality. At least Jeff has a product mind set.
Why did the NES not allow rotated sprites?
> Are people like this? Are some simply too broken to fix? I feel awful thinking this, but I wonder if there is some truth to it.

In the criminal justice system, this is essentially what pleading insanity recognizes. Many of these people are placed in long term mental-health institutions.
Not even mental health. If this level of self-awareness/planning would be universal, we'd reach complete societal collapse within 3 generations.
I'm not sure om the first question because I use SimpleLogin for email masking instead, but the second one it is advised to use your bank info so there are no fees. The plan I am on I get unlimited masked cards as long as I use a bank. There is a fee to use a credit card. There is a minimum amount per masked card of $10 but you can immediately request a refund once you use whatever amount or if they just pre-authorize something.
Personally not a big fan of "entry level" esp when you are offering a service, comes with the feeling of inexperienced imo. The other 2 on the other hand, yeah, they seem fine to me.
Oh that is top tier silly
Again, because I can’t get the NT 4 guest (or the NT 3.51 guest, or the 98 guest) to connect to the QEMU-launched smbd and I can’t be arsed to configure Samba and the relevant NAT and/or bridging myself, whereas the builtin FTP client mostly works out of the box except that I need to set up some network interface stuff on the host. (The last memory I have of seriously investigating Samba is when I read the entirety of the Samba HOWTO with a view of assisting the school network admins back when I was around 15 years old and—as I now recognize—knew next to nothing about networking. I probably still have something of an ugh zone around it.) I expect it’s because NT 4 only talks some sort of obsolete version of SMB or its underlying stack that modern Samba doesn’t enable by default, but again I just can’t bring myself to care when it’s a 30-minute hack whose only purpose is to get IE onto the VM and then I can bootstrap my way to saner things.

If you just happen to know the solution off the top of your head, please share it, by all means, that’s half the reason I posted that in the first place. But today is not the day I delve into the guts of old-style Microsoft/IBM networks.

The thing with mouse desync is similarly weird, because for me the mouse doesn’t desync when connecting to the VM over VNC using MultiVNC on Android, on a frickin’ touchscreen, but always desyncs when using either builtin Gtk, builtin SDL, or SPICE on Vinagre (which uses VNC under the hood supposedly?..) locally on Gnome Wayland, except the HiDPI-host bugs are different for each of those. In all cases QEMU is emulating a normal PS/2 mouse that shouldn’t have any support for absolute positioning. I mean, what? How does that even work? It’s not even the fun kind of “how does that even work”, just a lot of imperfect, subtly mismatched emulations stacked on top of one another. Monkey sad.
The real crypto was the friends me made along the way.
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Because SetWindowLong can be used to set a callback function, i.e. a 64-bit pointer - but LONG remains 32 bit on 64-bit Windows. Backward compatibility stipulated the need for a new function name
Isn’t it obvious that this is a memeing initiative that ran wild?
Trustless in the context of crypto means you don’t have to put your trust (if you don’t want to) a 3rd party because they don’t have the option to not do the right thing. It gives you the ability to know exactly what you will lose and what you will gain when you press confirm on a transaction. It doesn’t matter whether or not you trust the other person because they simply don’t have the ability to do anything other than the code–that you both can verify–says.

(This isn’t to say that there are no bad actors, but that a wolf in sheep’s clothing would be forced to act like the sheep it presented itself as.)
Should be possible with "SET CONSTRAINTS".
As someone who has written a forth, and knows a tiny sliver of what lisp can do, the huge difference is that Forth can't deal with arbitrary data structures in anything close to the ease of Lisp. If you want to ingest a chunk of source code, tokenize, parse and put it all in an abstract syntax tree, you're far better off doing it in lisp.

Forth doesn't really do data structures. Stoical is a forth variant that did, but it died out.
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FWIW as someone who is both a native English speaker and who grew up in a community where 90% of residents went to church every Sunday, the only usage of "ecumenical" that I'm familiar with would be "open to all religions" or "including people of all faiths", not Christian only.

It's not a super commonly used word, so I'm unsurprised that the definition you were taught is not how it's contemporarily used in middle America. Probably a case where if enough people use a word "wrong" then the "wrong" definition becomes a valid usage.
Is there a website for compiling the "most vintage hackernews (american/hyper-libertarian/indifferent-to-human-suffering) comments"? Yours would be there. Simultaneously both astoundingly callous and utterly lacking in empathy or understanding. Bravo.
The fact that the NFT sold for more than the original print after the act suggests to me that the "sacrifice-value-transfer" is not an exact 1:1 process, since the resulting NFT had a different value. Yes, the owner is probably delighted that the NFT is worth more, but then I'd argue that "uploading a physical object's value to the digital realm" is no longer the right way to think about this.
I can't speak for other Americans, but as much as I try to see this as "organized by a bunch of kids for fun," I also feel a strong emotional attachment to the Constitution and an original copy of it. So I try to balance that "cool experiment" with "wait, what are they doing with a sacred document?" I say it genuinely, I feel torn by the excitement at the experiment and frustrated/angry at what seems to almost be a parody of the Constitution itself.
CLI tool to rescale your Hetzner server daily to optimize your budget spending
Lightweight CLI tool to programmatically rescale your Hetzner virtual server daily to optimize your budget spending, scaling to a cheaper machine when you don't need or need few resources, and scaling to a more performant one when you know the load will be higher.
That's a pretty reasonable approach, and similar in spirit to what I find to work well:

- Create a template with necessary extensions, or just install them to "template1" which is the template if you don't explicitly specify a template. Installing PostGIS, for example, takes a few seconds - which is annoying if you create the schema from scratch in test runs. (`create extension if not exists postgis` can still be around in your schema, it'll just return right away)
- Create a template for the test session, based on the template you've pre-installed extensions in, and apply the schema there.
- Create a database based on the second template for whatever scope makes sense for your test.

If your Postgres cluster is only serving test workloads, `fsync=off` can speed up things as well. (Which a stock postgresql.conf will point out can cause irrecoverable data loss, which I don't care about for test data)
> Who should users trust more: Mozilla or their local government?

Is that really a question to be taken seriously? One is a private organization, completely unaccounted for and in a foreign jurisdiction, who sets their own rules and follows up on themselves.

The other is accountable and audited by independent auditors in a system which upholds separation of power and keeps independent media?

(Just to clarify: Neither Mozilla or anyone else should accept QWAC or any other standard in the face of legitimate concerns, of course. That's not what trust means.)
That's a technical problem that will improve with time and has been actively improving for decades.

It also won't be long before we have artificial wombs and can create embryos more expressively than the current 1 male 1 female demands of nature.

I see a future where one waits even several hundred years and dozens of careers and lifestyles before choosing to combine their genes and memes with others to spawn and raise a new consciousness, maybe even committing to a hundred years to raise it.
My partner and I talked about our health (and mental health) in the context of deciding if we wanted to be parents to a kid. I like to think that's a normal enough conversation to have.
It’s a theory I heard from Michael Saylor interviews. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. What if inflation was already very bad, far worse than reported, and our efficient markets were merely illustrating this to us.
Until the invention of Bitcoin, the only place you could stash fiat in order not go poor slowly was Stonks. It still is stonks, mostly, but some crazy folks like myself have an alternative.

I’ve been watching fiat depreciate against the Bitcoin for a while now…
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It wasn't a "defense", so much as a statement of fact. I enjoy using emacs, but I don't go around trying to get the whole world to use it. I know that emacs occupies a very specific niche and is not for everyone. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how much market share emacs has, it has enough to keep marching on, and that's about the extent of my concern.

But the point remains. You can't really understand emacs (or a lot of other things for that matter) in the abstract, you have to use it. So use it or don't, but you can't really offer meaningful criticism without have it used it a fair amount. There are plenty of warts on emacs, any emacs veteran (which I'm certainly not) will freely acknowledge that. But it does seem that most criticisms of emacs come from folks who haven't used it much.
Oooh, very cool! I'll check it out and maybe port to Go.
At high levels (meaning you've built up some nice Forth words), I disagree. The main difference is that most Lisps and Schemes have a GC, so you're not in charge of allocating/freeing memory like you would in Forth. That doesn't stop Forth words from implicitly referring to a variable that actually contains memory allocation addresses and hiding the actual underlying details of the allocation.

I think Forth certainly starts you out at a level of abstraction only somewhat more rich than an assembler while a Lisp runtime certainly abstracts more away from you, but once a Forth has been built-up, they become similar. Gforth gets a lot of flack in the Forth community for not being minimal, but it's a good example of a feature-rich Forth with support for things like exceptions, filesystems, sockets, and more. The Forth community itself is split into broadly two camps. The minimalist camp, (where Chuck Moore likes to live) which believes in bringing up custom Forths for custom platforms, creates small Forths that try to limit abstraction. The more featureful ANS Forth community tries to focus on a more batteries-included experience and these have more in common with most Common Lisp and Scheme runtimes.