skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicide is a permanent solution. Sometimes it’s a solution to a temporary problem; other times to a permanent problem.
I'm glad more options for a peaceful chosen death are becoming available.

Between a sudden, unexpected death and dying in pain from a progressive disease, my "ideal" way to die would be chosen death before a progressive disease becomes bad enough to cross some personal threshold of suffering.

At the same time, I plan to do whatever I reasonably can to prolong my life (and its quality) for as long as possible.

Hopefully by the time this becomes relevant more options like this capsule and others will be readily available.

Having said that, his quote about an AI giving you permission to die seems a bit preposterous. The actual method of death he described sounds reasonable, but I don't know that I'd want a machine to permit me to end my own life. Not that having to get a doctor's permission sounds any better. Ideally, nobody should have a say over a life but the individual themselves. I recognize in saying this though that it isn't really that simple, and that there are complex nuances with potential undue influence family members or others surrounding a person can have in the situation.
You know reparations don't have to come in the form of cash payments, right? Like investing in infrastructure, entrepreneur funds, institutional investments etc.

The welfare state is the only thing keeping some people from starving to death. I know you libertarian types are OK with that though, as long as you don't have to watch people die.
What’s/where’s the best “available now” service that takes foreigners?
That's awesome! I've had Ardour on my systems for years, since the first Ubuntu Studio, thanks for all your work!
Of course. I'm well aware of Quake's impact, legacy and the competition at the time.
Why should that be the best explanation? Surely many factors affected the collapse, but that doesn't mean many factors caused the collapse.

The systems collapse theory strikes me as a theory that's been elaborated to the point of untestability, and a violation of Ockham's Razor.
Counterpoint: Meds have probably saved my life. I know at least two other people who would say the same.

Meds don't work for everyone. Just because they didn't work for you doesn't mean they don't work for others. It's up to the doctor and his/her patient to determine the best course of treatment.

Intentionally stigmitizing medication is not only contributing to the problem... it can be downright dangerous. Any mental health professional will tell you that.

Your anti-medication rhetoric throughout this thread is not useful. Please reconsider your approach.
Ah, well, that’s certainly a timeless way to end a conversation, to call your interlocutor a dumb jerk!
Unfortunately I can see requesting a blank contract early on in the hiring process being a huge turn off. Maybe even at any point.
In some countries "piracy" of itens you own is a gray area, because in the past you could make copies of medias, such tapes, as backup.
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But so does replacing it with an algorithm that randomly says "yes" or "no" ^^

(Costs shouldn't be an issue, switzerland has pretty good medical insurances AFAIK)
Desktop Linux succeeding (if we're talking about mainstream consumer use) seems like it would be too late at this point. We need mobile Linux on phones, tablets, and AR/VR devices to succeed.

And this is where it gets confusing to me. 'Linux' to me is for general purpose computing, a creators platform. Mainstream consumer mobile devices are not that, because many/most users don't need it to be. The closest thing that might be a mobile creator-capable device is the iPad Pro or Surface Tablet. Desktop Linux was an elusive but seemingly achievable/well-defined target. A mobile Linux to catch up to an iPad Pro for general users seems much less well defined or achievable. Even starting with Android (AOSP) doesn't seem close to a creators device.

A good device in the meantime could be a (open/degoogled/jailbroken) Android phone that works well in some desktop mode connected to a USB-C display and bluetooth kb/mouse running standard Linux server and development software. This view (and I) may be too old and instead that device only needs to be a client for cloud-based development.

TL;DR the Linux Desktop ship has sailed, aim for the next target.
My point was that this isn't appropriate for HN, it's more appropriate for specific Reddit communities, Facebook, Twitter, or the like. Thanks for replying in a rational and polite way, though, since often these topics cause comments to become very contentious. I'm done in here though, I prefer the more interesting conversations and this topic is like a dead horse.

See the off topic section in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hard disagree. Christmas is everywhere. Try and avoid it some year and you'll notice it's impossible.
Looks like a pretty decent solution for the average person, I like it.

My OnePlus 7 Pro has a feature that's supposed to limit charging based on your usage habits, but in reality it never works and always charges to 100%, and you can't configure it manually for some reason.

I ended up using a wifi plug with home assistant to turn off the charger when my phone hits 80%.

The biggest downside is android is not smart enough to realize this is a full charge, and the battery stats never reset until I do a charge to 100%.
Like it! <3 Installed it yesterday, tested today. Easy... and it works like a charm :)
I suppose prepaid cards are still connected to an underlying bank, even though they're not a debit card.

I've never used one myself but Amazon claims to support them in general.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html%3FnodeI...

I wondered if there might be some mention on this page about large transactions or unusual addresses, but there is not.
I find Reddit to be insufferable when dealing with code, simply because of how terrible a job it does with code. But many of the communities are vibrant and helpful, despite the less than ideal venue. Discord on the other hand is phenomenal.
My concern is that “the law” is incompetent in this domain.
Directing government funds by race is racist. An extreme evil abhorrent idea.
I don't think we need to make this longer than it should:

Yes. It's bullshit.
> We know all or almost all "species" since and including Homo Erectus were able capable of interbreeding, meaning they were actually single species.

While this is what we were taught in grade school, actual biologists don’t use this children’s definition anymore than actual quantum physicists say atoms are like little solar systems.

There are plenty of separate species that are physically capable of producing fertile hybrid offspring. Dogs and wolves and polar and grizzly bears are a couple obvious examples. Also plenty of species don’t reproduce sexually, so defining species in terms of sexual compatibility isn’t even well defined.
I would try to compile

- QuakeSpasm-Spiked, modified QuakeSpasm with framerate-independent physics and other improvements: https://triptohell.info/moodles/qss/

- FTE QW, will let you play singleplayer, multiplayer, and I think even Quake II (and III?): https://fte.triptohell.info/

- QuakeSpasm (sibling comment has a link)

If all else fails, I know some QW guys are playing on M1 using ezquake. That's really a multiplayer engine and I wouldn't recommend it for SP but it could do if you're desperate.
From the FAQs:

> Does this Work for My Mac M1 or M2?

> No one has reported trying to run this on a Mac M1 or M2 yet but since these run ARM we don't feel that it is a good laptop to be using if you are deploying to X86 servers. At best you will experience slowness as the machines will need to emulate a different architecture. This isn't something we expect software updates to fix and both Docker and VMWare state the same thing. Even if you wish to deploy to ARM servers we don't feel that the M1s and M2s are going to be helpful as they are very different from most commodity ARM servers.

Erm... they're not Mac people then...

EDIT: I was probably being a bit grumpy - read the full replies below for further context...
I can imagine it getting into a catch-22 scenario where wanting to die is considered a sign of mental illness and mentally ill people are excluded from using the suicide machine.
Not to be grim, this is a very "adult" subject that most adults have a hard time discussing.

After seeing friends and family struggle with severe injury / deformities and Alzheimer's / mental decline (cancer with grueling treatment as well) - I can as a currently happy and healthy person say that I would likely use some form of firearm to end my life. It's quick, hard to mess up and above all my right as a human being.

I generally dislike political spats regarding labor / "obligations" to society in general - but I think the most sacred right is the right to decide whether you contribute by living. Both capitalism and socialism demonize the idea of suicide because each needs some form of a worker and the pursuit of a certain constructed life to work properly. Something that I'll never understand and that I believe is more morally wrong is family deciding that someone should "get over" their own choice to no longer live. In my opinion nothing is more selfish and less respectful of what life should mean to an individual.
Without being at all patronising, you're lucky to be able to have such a binary view of mental and physical health.

There are so many non-temporary conditions that people live with that can lead to wanting people, very rationally, to speed up end of life.
You self-promote your blog too much.
there's a working Android version for the device - the work is in building a FLOSS set of drivers for the display etc.
This perspective seems common, so I’m curious where you are keeping your money that you have been seeing returns in the 5% range given that basic S&P 500 index funds have turned in a 10-year average of closer to 17%.

What types of investments are you using to generate the perspective that 7% is rather optimistic?
Two New Satellites Mark Further Enlargement of Galileo
But that was not what was being argued.
> what would one have to resort to, to increase revenue?

Well, subscriptions are out…
And possibly incompatible.
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Yes, but same premise.
What a load of nonsense...
It's also the name of a not-very-exciting town in California (Gilroy's less-glamorous neighbor).
If you click the link you'll see a picture of it. It's not a pill, it's a giant capsule you step into.

Also, I don't know you, but I'm confident that dying is the wrong solution to whatever problems you're having.
That's why we have 'ignore' type annotations/pragmas/etc.
I believe so, there was talk about putting servers in Guam for that reason a while ago around regular QW.
I argue logistics and ops are more glamorous for the reasons you enumerate.
Sometimes the problems are permanent.
The network effect was what was wrong with Google Wave, which was better than email in practically every way.

If it had been possible to send a Wave to an email address (some sort of embedding?) and receive email to your Wave address, I think it would have succeeded in replacing email.

Instead, for reasons I'll never understand, Google tried to replicate the limited number of invitations system that had worked for Gmail, despite the fact that only having a limited number of people you could communicate with made the product effectively useless.

It worked for Gmail because you could send email from Gmail to anywhere, and receive it from anywhere! Missing that Wave was fundamentally different to me is one of the worst tech marketing failures I've seen.
well actually I am not familiar with the phrase before, so maybe KineticLensman knows the proper meaning.

That said for that specific meaning I would prefer something like - The novice fears simplicity.

Maybe throw in a - The expert loves it - at the end.
The joke that crypto is a libertarian speed-run to regulated banking is somewhat apt.

(I do own some crypto)
This is a very very very dangerous subject for your career. I'll be honest I'm not sure any legitimate journal would publish anything further along in this line even if it was replicable, which scientist would risk peer reviewing something that could lose them their job.

A domestic dog, wolf and coyote can all breed together and all produce fertile offspring. Then you look at genetic variation between the three species.
As an Engineer, I wouldn't necessarily be against it if it made EOL decisions more available to humans. I would prefer no program at all, and just have a waiting period of 14 days to nullify those who insist that all suicidal thoughts are just spur of the moment things.

But given access to data and an appeals process for those it turned down, I would be morally okay with writing the software.

We let parents have as many children as they want, why shouldn't those children get to say if the life they have is worth living?
Completely optically isolated Ethernet couplers requires a power source on each side, but it can be done; the most accessible one is a set of media converters with a very short optical patch cable. In this particular case to protect both the garage and generator side keeping the CAT6 cable underground you need one optical double conversion on each side and an independent, sacrificial power supply for the copper part converters. Doable, but too complicated.
That’s sort of humorous that the law is the problem after $10 billion+ has been lost to crypto theft and fraud. Maybe the tech is the problem?

“Maybe I’m out of touch with the rest of the developed world? Impossible, it’s everyone else demanding the enforcement of laws and regulations around value transfer, storage, and ownership who are the problem.” (Not you personally, crypto folks in general)
> the ability to mandate suicide

'to mandate suicide' is typically reduced to 'commit homicide'
I joined reddit just because of r/selfhosted.
64 bit processor in 1995. AMD64 wasn't released until 2000. From memory Sun/Solaris kit supported far more memory than anything X86 based.
As Tim Ferris shows brilliantly in his famous book (four hour workweek) "Firing customers" can be greatly benefitial to all.

Or, to stay in your analogy: striving to make a food that is 100% safe for 100% of the people will result in bland, poor food. It's fine to use gluten in your bread, or peanuts in your sause, even if x% of potential customers will get sick and can die, if they eat it.
Fire those customers. Be clear: this is not for you. It makes the other customers happier. And consequently your stakeholders happier.
I’ve been thinking for a while that all dishwashers seems to use the same method of refilling rinse aid, but the mechanism is so unintuitive and unlike any other appliance you refill.

Anyone know why they are designed like this?
I think there's always been a paralytic involved. The idea was to knock the person out with a barbiturate, then stop the breathing with the muscle relaxant, and finally stop the heart with a bolus of potassium chloride.

It's not so much to pretend it's peaceful, as it's a error in how the drugs are administered and availability of appropriate drugs.
I feel like you must be trolling between the whole spending 4 comments arguing that TCP/IP is a platform thing... and now saying MAUs and DAUs are the same.

MAUs are how many people used Signal in a month. DAUs are how many people used WhatsApp in a day.

The DAU/MAU ratio for an app is never 100%. Ever.

20% is like a "good" rating, and 50% is like a best-in-class rating.

So WhatsApp having literally an order of magnitude more DAUs shows the gap in their usage.

The gap in their usage is not something for you to start making excuses about, it explains why Signal has no way to deal with fraud, child porn, spam, etc besides calling the police.

That flies precisely because Signal is small potatoes compared to the platforms I mentioned.
The law isn’t perfect but we aren’t seeing banks getting robbed or hacked and people losing their money, also I’m sure all the people with money in that exchange would be loving from FDIC insurance right now, sure it’s only $100k but a whole lot better than nothing.
the entire idea of 'giving up' freedom isn't right. Abstract freedoms are always embedded in a social context. The reason you have the individually free ability to walk across the road is because everyone else follows the rules. If everyone drove through traffic randomly, you wouldn't even have the capacity to exercise any meaningful freedom. Part of having a proper understanding of liberty is that recognition of authority is a precondition for it and not an obstacle.

Personal freedom does not stand in contrast to, but is embedded in social order, and that's why Singaporean's aren't giving anything up. Ask a woman whether she's more free to walk through town in Singapore at 1 am or a bad part of any typically 'free' city. It's not without irony that people in China basically faced barely any covid restrictions over a year while here in Europe everyone was locked into their apartments for months by government mandate, complaining about the lack of freedoms in other parts of the world.
It's not even about reading, this guy did not even click the link. If you do, the first thing you see is a picture of the thing.
Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.
> actual biologists don’t use this children’s definition anymore

Can you link me to the definition biologists use? I googled for a minute and didn't get very far.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species): "A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction."

What is the correct & concise definition?
Ritalin is not an anti-depressant.
The identity here would be based on cryptographic signatures so it would look ultimately have to look like some sort of key fingerprint.

For example, an OpenPGP identity contains one or more email addresses. So the fingerprint is all you need to give anyone. In practice this can be provided in the form of a QR code. There is even a standard way to do this.

A secure mail list running on a server has to reencrypt the message to each recipent (it has access to the messages). So you would give the mail list server something like a key fingerprint. The original signatures would ideally survive the trip through the server.
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Thank you for this! I use Trello as KB as well, I think this is a handy tool. Any instructions how to get this compile in macOS?
Given that conceivably you could print the pod yourself, unless the AI automatically notifies someone no one would know so you would sit in a pod full of nitrogen until someone found you.
Anything that holds value is a self-paying bug bounty.
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“Permission” was just a bad way to put it. I'm sure what they are actually talking about is making sure that the person is making the decision in clear mind and not under the effect of drugs, strong temporal emotions and is not being forced by someone to do this.
It had ECC memory and networking built in. which at the time I think was hard to find on PC hardware. And the networking just worked. I remember trying to get ethernet to work on a PC with early linux. Nightmare.
Probably the same way that curare was made — by throwing everything and the kitchen sink together and seeing if it works. Curare has what, 90% of ballast that does absolutely nothing?

Or maybe a random hungry hunter-gatherer ate a few things that looked edible and had a "religious experience".

What I'm saying is it shouldn't take much to combine the necessary ingredients without any help from "God". It's nothing compared to modern chemical synthesis with 50-100+ steps which you absolutely cannot invent without years of painful deliberate research.
Uh...

>Our aim is to develop an artificial intelligence screening system to establish the person’s mental capacity. Naturally there is a lot of scepticism, especially on the part of psychiatrists. But our original conceptual idea is that the person would do an online test and receive a code to access the Sarco.
I thought at first you were referring to September 12th and then February 12th, quite far apart those events XD
> All debit cards are linked to your bank account which always have a statement.

OP clarified that it is not a debit card, it is a prepaid card.
> The second turned out not to be aesthetically pleasing. For that and various other reasons it’s not the best one to use.

Also on the list of concerning statements. Why do I get the feeling that “various other reasons” play a bit of a more important role than he’s letting on there?
at that level you talk to the salespeople, not the engineers.
This only makes sense for smart contract run exchanges where the code, in theory, is always right. Otherwise this is no different from any other financial hack.
This seems like way too much bother, and it looks expensive. I've read the same thing can be done with a plastic bag over the head and helium gas (maybe nitrogen works just as well).

I still believe people should be allowed to have a safe, painless, unmessy death if they want it, for whatever reason. I don't understand why it's such a controversy. Why does a person who wants to leave have to resort to messy, violent methods? Our pets have more access to humane ways to die because of bad situations, than humans.
Edit: or an oscillating multi-tool, though the manual for the one I have says it’s only for short jobs to reduce risk of overheating. Also, be careful of repetitive stress injury. There are some models that reduce vibration on the user end.
A new technology will not kill FAANG. What supports them is not "web2", it is a social and political structure. To defeat them requires working in, or around, those structures.
Then its not lost and isn't a problem, to the current owners.

The prior owners were hodling it wrong.
Unlike the crypto exchanges, which are paragons of competence.
I probably should have clarified:

There's no such thing as a "Mac M2" for a start. (Yet)

But I also found this paragraph a bit odd, because the machines I use locally never match the architecture of what I'm deploying to. In fact (in my view) it's largely irrelevant.

I develop on Macs and deploy to Linux and Windows servers, with a mixture of ARM/Intel. I don't quite understand this sentiment. Not to mention the fact that they start off by saying that no one has even tried it yet (presumably to run Nanos in a VM on an M1 Mac).

It just seems a bit uninformed and unnecessarily opinionated. As a Mac user it puts me off digging much deeper into the project. Maybe that's the wrong takeaway, but that was my first reaction.
That's a good point, it also seems to gaming press too.
Are you incapable of making an argument that isn't a garbage-tier leading question?

Like sorry but that pisses me off a bit, have the basic decency to present your point without the theatrics...

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It's acceptable to make a system that makes it incredibly hard to get your account unlocked in very rare cases just to make fraud a lot more difficult.

You see hundreds of these posts a year and billions of people use these devices a day.
Social media are not primarily communication tools, they are content consumption and aggregation platforms. So if a new platform offers good content (say, pretty pictures - Instagram or funny videos -TikTok), they can build a critical mass of users that will attract more content providers etcetera.

For communication platforms the network effects are paramount, no one will move to Mail2 just to send plain old emails that almost no one can receive. If you can build a new email with much more attractive features, then you can disrupt email, which is exactly what I said.
#zrythm on libera IRC is a very active channel (as is #ardour, #lad)