skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basics may be AMZN ripping off successful sellers, but it's clearly not counterfeit, it doesn't pretend to be something else?
Having a purpose in life can guide decisions. I believe our existence continues beyond mortality; what we become (learning, practicing honesty & kindness to others) and our service are important. Earning an honest living to serve others, & supporting a family, are honorable and good.

There were some other HN discussions where I commented in more detail, and the containing discussions also have interesting comments (& maybe I like helpful lists):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129921 "Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452651 "Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867645 "Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553508 (part of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23550758 "Ask HN: How do you develop internal motivation?")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708786 (part of "Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19650044 )

And maybe (noting for future reference also): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266094 " Ask HN: Career progression vs. meaningful/appealing products?"

To me by far the best thing is to have an enduring, joyful, worthwhile, good purpose in life, that drives everything else (including maintaining one's health, balance etc). I have written much about that, at my own site (in profile, then survey or click "Other"). I link to other resources there also; nothing for sale.
Yes, and the link of it to Russia is rather thin.
Dave doesn't need a private key, the token just needs the ability to be traded.

One of the more complex aspects of OCAPy design vs the we do things now is that in a fully ocap world, the token wouldn't just be a string, but possibly a reference to a living object that Alice owns.

Then the trade (and any use of the capability) always goes through Alice.

That's why you don't need crypto in a real OCAP world.
The core problem of taxonomic classification of species is that they're semi-arbitrary, constantly-drifting centroids of similarity, not static, walled-off groups with definitive boundaries.

For those who aren't scientists, we are sometimes referred to as H. sapiens sapiens.

Neanderthals / Neandertals are sometimes grouped as a subspecies of H. sapiens as H. sapiens neanderthalensis.
This is a good opportunity to discuss Solaris in general. I've used Solaris for fun in the past. I couldn't get hooked on it. It seemed overly-complex and not very user friendly. I'm a very long time Linux user and I use BSD as well.

What were the primary use cases for Solaris in its prime? Is it still used anywhere now?
The same list that people told me in the late 90s and how it is going to take over the world and Windows / Microsoft is doomed.
I can send unlimited SMS for free with my 5€ monthly plan, so why should I pay?
I like the country wide LoRa networks that are coming up helping with this purpose, all you need is like 1kb per month lol
When did people stop reading the articles on here? this affliction seems to have spread from Twitter
Sites aren't merely re-written, they're abandoned, hosters/maintainers die, they're hijacked, bought and sold, or vanish in datacentre fires or other disasters. Entire TLDs may disappear or get transferred.

The foundations, in a word, are profoundly unstable. The entire ediface has little robustness.

If you want preservation, find a better mechanism. URIs ain't it.
Excellent lecture. The slick TED talk guys at the beginning kind of freaked me out but Eric Cline did not disappoint. This guy is a beast. Wish I had known about him back when I was teaching Art Hist.
I find much more interesting:

http://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

as it also fakes the definition.

But if you want to write some Vogon like poetry, the words generated by Fakelish might be just fine.
Why? If I ever get dementia I would like the opportunity to end my own life before it progresses too far.
Is suffering a valid reason to end your own life? How much suffering is the threshold where suicide is "medically necessary"? How can it be quantified, what are the units? Does mental anguish count, or only physical suffering? What about existential suffering?

This isn't a treatment, and it's certainly not compassionate. Joni Eareckson-Tada is a testament to the wonderful life that can be lived in spite of suffering, and she has much to say on it that is worth a listen.
I was addicted to cocaine and alcohol
Yeah, I'm a parent that was new to Minecraft during lockdown. It didn't take me long to figure out Bedrock and Java are incompatible, but I did have to explain it to other parents with kids that wanted to play with my kids (my kids play on Bedrock to be most compatible).

My biggest issue is the amount of friction when creating a new Microsoft account for a child. I have to walk through other parents in creating a MS account for themselves (if they don't have one), then how to make a child account with a username, then finding and ticking a bunch of checkboxes to allow online play, then launching Minecraft and signing in with the new child account. It's way too many steps with email verifications. It's >30 minutes. In just my circle there's several parents who gave up and sadly their kid can't play with their group of friends. People outside of tech don't have patience for that crap. This is all outside the fact that each console has their own form of friction in allowing kids to play online.

C'mon Microsoft, you can improve the new user process. Just make an optional in-game wizard asking parents a bunch of questions so kids can play ASAP. And if the issue is that it wouldn't fit in with the one-size-fits-all MS accounts used for everything else, then flag the "wizard-built" accounts as incomplete so parents can go through making a 360 account another day. Damn metrics.
Well, you know Apple watches can detect you are getting sick, before you experience any symptoms, via changes to your heart rate.

A maximally effective suicide AI should also be able to detect that you are a good suicide candidate before you even start having ideation, and proactively convince you of this fact.
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The only reason why there are no other hominids on this planet is because homo sapiens were the most violent of the subspecies. It's in our blood to enslave any opposition or rivals if possibel. When not, we exterminate them. We do the same within our own species too.
> His family sees it differently. His mother begs. “I want you to live no matter what.” But that ignores his pain and his dignity, Yoshi says.

This is my observation of suicide hotlines and ambiguous generic anti-suicide advice.

It seems this conversation is so immature, patronizing and invalidating.

I haven’t found people able to articulate their thoughts on the matter as they just invalidate my comments on social media platforms until they are no longer visible.

Do things compatible with self-preservation like me, or don’t.
Care giver here and someone who has directly worked with individuals who have done the MAID (medically assisted induced death). A person with Alzheimer’s would automatically be disqualified for consideration as they lack the mental capacity to consent to such a thing. This will most likely never be offered for that group of people. They typically are not suffering though some do get terrified at times but in general they are just lost in their world with not much insight as to why things are that way.
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Really would love a law on this issue.

"No company can disable a user account without explaining clearly what they did wrong and allowing them to appeal to an independent review group within the company"

Its not right they can just disable something you paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for.
It's not a pill, but a "capsule" in the "Japanese Capsule Hotel" sense.

I feel you. I'm the same, honestly.

That's probably the biggest danger of these "safe", "easy" suicide methods - some people just don't commit suicide because they are too scared of a cruel death, not because they are attached to life. Stuff like this will lower the probability of such a cruel death, making suicide less scary, raising the probability of pulling though with it. Not an easy topic.

But I really hope you can find something in life before you do it, so you don't have to do it ^^'
Same for me. That would be a deal-breaker.
You could calculate difficulty by having some amount of dials on engine strength (lookahead, eval complexity) and fitting them to a function of approximate strength. You could then try to plot how the position "real outcome" changes. You could also try to use different engines or otherwise introduce variance as this sort of thing can be a tad deterministic for stats
I rather thought that was a reaction to WW2 that lingered long past its sell by date.

Of course it also provides a highly obedient and compliant workforce which keeps the foreign investors happy.

That being mainly what Singapore is all about these days (foreign capital even dictated that chewing gum be legalized and thus it was so).
> The reason Singapore works is because people can leave, or go there, as they please.

Where can they go? Singapore Citizens have a right of abode in Singapore, and they have one of the most useful passports in the world for visiting countries, but they don't generally have the right to live anywhere other than Singapore.
Yeah I imagine there are some good game subreddits! I just am not into that scene so can't comment. Thanks for sharing!
And Douglas Adams could invent a hyper intelligent shade of the colour blue :)
Fascinating. It seems interesting that far more innovation has occurred in the service of corporal punishment (from the torture devices of the middle ages to the guillotine to lethal injection) than in the service of suicide (arguably cyanide tablets?).
How do you actually test that as a working ecologist, though? Given two geographically and somewhat morphologically district warblers (for example) you would need to convince two of them to breed (after capturing at least one) and then check viability of an offspring. It's not terribly practical...

Or, in this case with ancient human remains, there's no way to check viability when all subjects have been dead for a hundred thousand years.
It’s the ‘what’s a sandwich’ problem, which is hard. Is a stack of pancakes a sandwich? Is a stuffed pita a sandwich?

What is it that makes a PB&J clearly a sandwich, and excludes a stack of pancakes with butter in between - and doesn’t exclude a club sandwich.
You don't need Google Fi for Google to know your home address. An Android phone will do that. Or Chrome. Or really just broadcasting wifi. Really the problem is you have a home address and someone will sell it to Google.
This is undermined a lot by sheer will of modern Greeks to fight tooth and nail for the name of Macedonia.
You’re right, that’s a common mistake I’ve always made. I edited my comment.
> The energy used by Ethereum has nothing to do with contracts, it's all in the PoW.

Processing smart contracts requires processing power, which requires energy.

> the block reward[1] per unit of difficulty is less. That's the real determinant for energy used

Doesn't this go out the window as ETH's price goes up? Also EthHash requires a lot more energy than Bitcoin's SHA-256 (this [1] says SHA-256 is in the Th/s where the latest EthHash ASIC is in the Gh/s), so if the dinosaur BTC dies and ETH takes its rightful place, aren't things much worse?

[1]: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2019/06/15/mining-algorithms-proo...
Why do you think that "told you specifically what I was referring to" defines the discussion? Who died and bequeathed it to you alone? imchillyb explicitly mentioned stuff -- yeah, lots of stuff, including among other things false internments at Guantanamo -- so pointing out that your claimed "debunking" does not at all debunk those isn't "vague" at all. Any "vagueness" in their comment is only in your head.
Some states are experimenting with Nitrogen

Article from NYTimes from 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20210704140110/https://www.nytim...
/r/programminglanguages is second on the list! :)
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Due to your question, I just added this feature to Ardour. There's now a user preference that if set will only allow one plugin GUI window to be visible at a time. Lots of our users would find that irritating, but you get the choice now.

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/commit/c7b70c6318456b375ccb...
chrisco255's post was a textbook gish gallop. I would not blame anyone here for not bothering to do an item-by-item refutation.
> We had fax machines before we had email. You could have said that sending digital communications to one another could "be done and is being done by hundreds of companies without the use of bullshit tech"

No. No, I couldn't. The value of email was immediately evident and apparent. One of the major reasons fax survived for as long as it had is the lack of good/accepted digital signatures.

> and yet email is still better.

You said it yourself: email is better.

Is "run-esotheric-programming-language-on-worlds-most-innefecient-computer" better? While keeping literally every other part of the process either the same (litigation, proceding, money etc. are handled through the same old channels) or worse (everyone has to get onto this particular coin)

> it doesn't have to be brand new to be useful. If it eliminates some inefficiencies in some part of the process, that's useful.

Does it? Where's the proof it does? And "by eliminating some inefficiencies, how many new inefficiencies does it introduce"?

> Enough people think there is an advantage in implementing these things that require coordination using public blockchains to make me think there might be

No. Enough people are enamoured with the idea of getting rich quick that we are witnessing a never ending (for now) rat race to develop with and come up with justifications for the tech.

> But I don't think knee jerk dismissal is the right stance to take.

I literally provided reasons why this is bullshit. There's nothing knee-jerk about my reaction.

However, crypto-peddlers have the same knee-jerk reaction to any criticism: "crypto will magically solve all the issues because crypto" and "crypto is the next email/world-wide-web/fairy-pixel-dust/cure-for-cancer, you just have to believe it".
Such utter cringe, I couldn't even make it past the first paragraph.

> constant fear of the way COVID variants are whipping through their community ... It is fucking hard, in so many intersecting and unfair ways.

Amazing this sort of petulant whining gets past the editorial board these days. I guess less surprising when you consider the banality of the topic - an author for a failing magazine is trying to find meaning in a void but failing miserably. How about find work that is meaningful, that you'll care about a lot and will make a positive impact in the world? No, no, let's instead bemoan another year of misery in a crappy magazine instead. Grow up already.
It seems like an unnecessary accommodation for the easily offended. This sort of pandering cedes more and more control to the whims of sheltered, infantile crybullies.
It's definitely not to the extent that Israel is surrounded by states hostile to it, but I think there is some grounds to claim this, depending on how far back you want to go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald_House_bombing
Omicron Sounds the Death Knell for Globalization 2.0
Position for the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents (2004)
https://archive.ph/AUROw
An even closer option is https://marktext.app/. Marktext is open source and available for every os. It's also built on Electron like Typora.
> No, that's not the point at all.

It absolutely is.

> explicitly anti-racist policy is required to collectively get black people out of it.

That's racist. There's White people caught in that same trap. Ignoring them doesn't help anybody, it just codifies racism.

> I'd love to know how you think racial equality will be achieved in the US though.

Personal responsibility is an insufficient summary, but definitely a main thread of what the community needs to do.
Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150M
Is there a video so I can get an idea about speed of refreshing/tracking the pen?
Sure, but they are different tools:

https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#host-dn...

> host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups. It is normally used to convert names to IP addresses and vice versa. When no arguments or options are given, host prints a short summary of its command-line arguments and options.

https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#dig-dns...

> dig is a flexible tool for interrogating DNS name servers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried. Most DNS administrators use dig to troubleshoot DNS problems because of its flexibility, ease of use, and clarity of output. Other lookup tools tend to have less functionality than dig.

From:
https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#
Also mass locking Microsoft accounts that were created without providing a phone number[1].

For some reason they locked my completely unused Microsoft account, that was created for the sole purpose of migrating my Minecraft account to, due to "unusual behavior" (or "activity that violates our Microsoft Services Agreement" if you go by the error message instead of the corresponding knowledge base article).

The reasonable thing to do in such a case if of course to require users to "[verify] [they] are the account owner" by receiving an SMS verification code on an arbitrary phone number (they explicitly mention the possibility of "asking a trusted friend or family member" for this).

[1] https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher/issues/4093
What can a person do if they change their mind? I’m assuming it can be stopped. I think about those who jumped from the Golden Gate and survived. Them changing their mind after jumping.
I can't believe he said that with a straight face. He actually thinks you can write a computer program that can give humans permission to kill themselves. I don't think he consulted with a single engineer before making that statement.
Everyone has their preferred method of cat skinning, and as long as the cat is separated from its skin in the end you've achieved your goal. Use the tool you're most familiar with unless your goal is to learn a new tool.
The military might also be one of the only other places where you deal with the physical scale and speed of Walmart. They train to go set up a medium-sized city on 24hours notice. I can see why a logistics company like Amazon would see that as valuable!
I am not up to date with US lethal injection, but weren't the changes in lethal injections in the US "yeah, it's still a painful death, but we added muscle relaxants so it looks peaceful on the outside and acceptable to the public?"
Well I don’t know the details but I don’t think this is a suicide booth just anyone can use you would still need to have a doctor verify you had a terminal illness and then I could be left with you to use at the time you were ready. The AI is simply making sure you are of sound mind at the time of death. Which means you can answer a few questions and it wouldn’t be that hard to determine if someone was if sound mind there are plenty of mental state exams that a computer could give.
Add to that - it really is talking "how Hollywood works" - on the movie set. It disregards all that happen before and after and outside of movie set.

It also disregards that loads of projects/works are not "how Hollywood works".
I've had to do the same thing with pretty much all of my Logitech trackballs - https://www.brianlane.com/post/fixing-a-few-logitech-trackba...

They do last for quite a while, but eventually one of the switches will go intermittent, depending on how much minecraft the user has been playing...
Hardware should just work without any strings that lead back to the vendor.
My understanding is that it's the Taliban, and a cursory check of credible references supports this. That's a group formally alligned with AQ, but distinct from it, again, via credible references.

Other active entities include the Islamic State (ISIL / Daesh), and various organisations largely funded / supported and/or organised around Iranian, Syrian, and Palastinian interests.

Please note that this is not an area of personal expertise.
Omicron possibly more infectious because it shares genetic code with common cold
What if you had an advanced directive that explicitly called out that scenario? Not saying the law would cover that, but it plausibly could.
Yep, and logistics may not be glamorous but it does have interesting problems to solve w/ a lot of real-world impact.

Better world-wide logistics doesn't just mean getting your latest shiny gadget on time either: it also means better and more robust response times in humanitarian disasters or other serious situations.
Kind is also used as the reference implementation for kubernetes, so you know it’s compliant and won’t have weird mismatch bugs.
The changes are of the form that nearly every legit manufacturer of the cocktail refuses to produce it for the purposes of capital punishment.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/11/392375383/states-scramble-to-...
Pathetic begging Apple to listen. Just stop using their crap man. Dont be a fucking fool.
The a1.4xlarge has 16 cores, not 8. One of the sales pitches of the Graviton is that it has no SMT, so you get more predictable per-core performance.
Don't forget "solves problem with blockchain that enables one of the first two"
In your link it says ”Hadrian's connection to the name change and the reason behind it is disputed”. So I’m sure some theorizing is still warranted.
Funny you say that as one of k3s main difference to general Kubernetes is that it supports the use of sqlite instead of etcd, whereas kind is straight kubeadm clusters in Docker containers, so uses etcd...

I see the two projects as covering largely different ground. kind is brilliant for test clusters where you don't need long term persistence, but k3s is better for long-term low resource clusters.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwtgck/fakelish-npm/develo...

Basically a big probability map. I'm guessing this was machine generated though, and it isn't clear to me how that was done.
It's a controversy that predates Alexander. It won't get settled on HN.
you wont get on hours removed - think about it
The capsule itself is interesting, seems like a peaceful and pain free way to die. I don’t understand why they feel they have to replace doctors and psychiatrists with an AI in prescribing the procedure, one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.
With its exit, Didi sends a signal: China no longer needs Wall Street