skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but it is really important that you follow up with psychological help.

Sometimes I wonder if suicide prevention measures like this just remove the last bit of agency that people have, and while they will live on, they will just suffer silently. Maybe suicides are not thoughtfully planned out, but they are often preceeded by a very long phase of suicidal thoughts and rumination, and sometimes fixation on specific methods (e.g. a certain bridge, or in this case a fan). Similarly, by not reporting on suicides you prevent some, but you basically take away their last voice. I don't know, I think it is a very hard dilemma.
Thanks so much for reporting a bug! You created the first issue for the project! I'll definitely have a look into this and push a fix
There's actually a good incentive for moderators to be in on this, as they aren't paid by reddit for their (in sometimes massive) unpaid labour. If a marketing company comes along and says, 'hey, you've done this so long, don't you think you should deserve some money? just let us run our campaign on your subreddit and we'll pay you!' quite a few moderators would agree. Admins might not notice.
Suicide isn't logical or rational. It's almost always the result of a temporary state of mind, therefor it matters how accessible the means of ending one's life is.

Easy and instant access to firearms for example leads to way more successful (and even just attempted) suicides because it takes less time to take out a gun and shoot than virtually anything else.
I understand the underlying message but I prefer the equivalent following phrasing: "check test suite coherence".

It moves the deletion as a means towards the coherence rather than as an end in and of itself, and also includes refactoring as an option.

I hope it helps the less experienced developers grab the intention more explicitly.
Same. I'd have got repeated calls from PagerDuty, and probably not that much sleep, if we'd seen any impact from this.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the ability to play without logging in on lichess.

Very convenient when you want to play with a friend.
It does exist in the form of Roblox :)
This no limit to maximal lifespan has always stuck me as this is in total contradiction with the evolution theory as defined by Darwin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism#:~:text=Darwinism%....
… i said another flavor and im clearly commenting on the driving factor behind engagement. But yeah it has threads.
Yeah, simultaneously believing that you are free to do with your own body as you like, whilst also inflicting upon others a forced medical procedure in the name of the "greater good"
You might want to study your farming books again before you write your next condescending rant? It will be a while before permafrost becomes farmland but luckily there is a huge - and I mean enormous - area which has not seen permafrost for thousands of years but simply is too cold for many crops to be grown profitably. If the planet really ends up those 1.5°C to 2.5°C warmer than it is now (but cooler than it has been) growth zones move up and farming those crops becomes profitable where it currently isn't. This is something you know but for some reason decide to ignore only to indulge in apocalyptic fantasies. Why is that? Why do you - and the many with you who show similar behaviour - choose this path of rapture? If you think this makes people who do not follow your beliefs take them more seriously realise that it achieves exactly the opposite: the more outlandish the proposed scenarios of doom, the less likely non-believers are to fall in line.
They missed the obvious option, to firbid high schools (this will remove students)
Git – The Stupid Content Tracker
Using Xcode trick to quick generate Swift Protocols
This is fascinating. I was one of the biggest collectors of video games in the late 90s and early 2000s. I would have shit like the 64DD shipped overnight on day of release.

But I never even heard of the Casio Loopy until today.

Now I want one.
Whelp, I guess you're not using Cognito then. It has no user account syncing feature so you can't have a user group in more than one region. Grrrrr!
I think making suicide less accessible will result in fewer suicides on campus.
And I think making it more accessible will increase its rate.

Seems obvious.

But the headline isn't about that. It's about tut-tutting this backward institution. Because we, and the students union knows everything the school is doing to curb suicides beyond removing fans.

Can they do more? Maybe. How would I know. I've never heard of this school before.
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But, isn't that what everyone on hackernews keeps advocating for?

The notion of self-hosting is that you have to hire expensive operations staff and maybe you have sub-par experience due to lack of investment.

There is often an argument about "lack of core competency" too.

Facebook famously runs their own infra but that didn't work so well for them.

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FWIW I'm actually of the other notion; I truly believe that you should minimise external dependencies. But that's because I'm a sysadmin (now: SRE) and it's my job to worry about reliability of systems. Less complexity and less external dependency ususally coincide with higher reliability.

A person could reasonably argue that it's in my interest to prefer companies run their own stuff, since it might be my job to maintain it, so it's self-serving. So I am not unbiased I suppose.
(Former expat who spent a few years living near Delhi) you’d never see a person going crazy on the streets in India like they do in California. Their government provides some services to help people in those situations. Many families provide support to members with a mental illness.

However there’s little safety nets if you lose your job and your family relies on you, there aren’t as many chances to “catch up” or “get back on your feet” like you could in developed countries which does lead to suicide when people struggle with school or jobs. This unfortunately impacted many in the early Covid days. That looming fear of “one mistake and this all is over” is just a lot of weight to hold on your shoulders.

Indian readers, this is just my interpretation of things from spending several years living there. Please point out any inaccuracies in my thoughts as I’m still interested in understanding these issues better.
Tiktok is not really based on your social graph. I think it’s kinda like Reddit in some ways but far less in depth content and actual interaction.
> Most of our current methods depends on P != NP.

Not really. They depend on guessing being slow. P, just P, can do slow. P can be bigger than the universe even with low values of n.
There are 2 main differences

1. This is article is describing a therapy, not prevention. Your sensibilities will be influenced if you already have a deadly illness.

2. This would be a choice and not a mandate, like chemotherapy is today. Or at least I imagine it would be.

I'm sure many anti vaxxers who've died from covid would've accepted the vaccine on their death beds if it improved their chances of fighting the disease at that point.
Will do! Thanks for the feedback
Maintenance type work tends to be chasing issues you don't personally care about in increasingly arcane edge cases or trying to intuit why someone else, who has moved on to something that sounds way more exciting than this, came up with a specific solution.

Even more so in a lot of orgs maintenance work gets hit by the "cost center" mentality and management only rewards not hearing about it.
They are replacing ceiling fans with wall mounted fans, otherwise non suicide death by heat exhaustion would increase. India is a poorer developing country, so actual AC in the dorms is still out of the question.
Fair point. For contrast, here's a list of reasons why I think Reddit's new UI sucks:

1. Stability: videos rarely play for me. Sometimes I break Reddit too (their words, not mine).

2. Slow: if I want to read the comments, I have to wait 3-5 seconds for them to load. I know that the comments could load instantly because the i.reddit.com interface can do it.

3. Unhelpful interface: it is not easy to identify how to expand a comment thread. But more important, the interface often won't tell me that a comment chain keeps going - it looks as if it just ended, even though it keeps going several levels deep. You can keep reading the chain if you click on the last comment, but again, why would you click on it if you don't know whether it keeps going?

3b. In relation to the previous point: I saw your comment because I was scrolling pretty deep into this thread. In the new Reddit UI it would have been cut off.

4. Annoying: if you're not logged in, content is kept from you just because. Again, the i.reddit.com interface shows everything, but the "regular" interface keeps pestering you with "Log in to see this content" or "Open in app". These popups cannot be dismissed.

All of these changes are pro-metrics and anti-user. Sure, the interface itself looks fine (once it rendered, if it renders). But interaction-wise? It sucks.
> has it actually been proven/researched?

Yes.

"The Wire has confirmed the numbers of at least 40 journalists who were either targets or potential targets for surveillance. Forensic analysis was conducted on the phones of seven journalists, of which five showed traces of a successful infection by Pegasus."
https://thewire.in/rights/project-pegasus-list-of-names-unco...

The forensic analysis was conducted by Amnesty International's Security Lab and was peer-reviewed by Citizen Lab
1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...
2. https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/amnesty-peer-review/

Also,
"In the midst of the heated West Bengal assembly election, the phone of poll strategist Prashant Kishor was broken into using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to digital forensics conducted by Amnesty International’s Security Lab and shared with The Wire."
https://thewire.in/government/prashant-kishor-mamata-banerje...

Govt of India in parliament on NSO group (Dec 3, 2012):
"There is no proposal for banning any group named NSO group"
https://twitter.com/A2D2_/status/1466700684573642752
I don't use Wikipedia any more, they wouldn't leave me alone with their constant begging. I could just set up a block for the things, but I'd rather just be edgy and never use the site again. The content has been going downhill for years anyway. A lot more fun to find specific resources on cooler websites.
My sympathies. You are merely suffering from work overload and a little-bit of burnout + "Imposter Syndrome".

First off, DO NOT RESIGN from your post of CTO. Your Experience, Knowledge and Seniority is what got you that role, so no need to give up something which you have earned and which can be made more manageable by changing perspectives, work habits and learning.

The basic problem is that as you went up the career ladder you took up more load without shedding any. A CTO does not have to be a Super-Duper Developer (there is simply not enough time) but needs to know enough to understand the product/service. The CTO is a "Technology Strategist" i.e one who can understand Technology deeply, see how it can affect Domains/Markets and how to marry the two. You need to be somebody who can connect the dots and push towards a goal. The view is overarching and not local i.e. you "see the forest and not just the trees".

So dial down your desire to be a "nitty-gritty Developer", understand broadly what every role (IC, Tech. Lead, Architect etc.) entails, interact with them all and only take responsibility for the "Global Company Strategy".
My understanding is that there was no legal grounds for giving every student access to a basic education prior to these amendments.

The 13th Amendment gave slaves rights as citizens. The 14th Amendment gave freedmen and non-assimilating immigrants rights to claim access to public services (including education) where they’d previously been denied. The 15th amendment guaranteed every man a vote in who gets to administer those public services (unfortunately took another 50 years to include women)… fast forward 100 years and LBJ signed Elementary and Secondary Education Act (among other civil rights legislation) because these constitutional rights were being trodded over in the worst of ways. Title I of ESEA set forth a federal tax base to ensure equal access where states (that previously made most policy decisions) could or would not.

So that kinda established a good path that led to todays bad outcomes. I work a lot across U.S. K-12, including with large district superintendents, but I am by no means a policy or reform guru so take this with a grain of salt.
That's not the reason. The work itself is not fun.

Even if the whole project has no career purpose, it's more fun to write new code.
How is it in total contradiction?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)?
AWS Outage: Building a Resilient Infrastructure to Overcome Outages at Scale
The tournament UI has been broken on iOS for years. It doesn't register taps properly and some UI elements are not shown where they should be.
OTOH, the website works pretty well on mobile, scrolling aside.

In general, I also had the feeling that the lichess UI is a bit more immediate, it was easier for me to get around.

But I think a big difference is not in features or UX, but the behaviour of the players. Because of its free nature, lichess has several problems that I haven't seen on chess.com. I do use chess.com significantly less, but I've always had civil interactions there.

On lichess:

* people are free to act like jerks, since they will likely get away with it. My chat's turned off, but I can't do anything about people abandoning games when they lose, trying to pretend that they've left so that I don't pay attention and lose on time, etc.

* severe lack of gentlemanly behaviour. As an example, I don't think I've ever seen someone concede a game, it's almost always a bitter fight way past the point a reasonable player may accept defeat.

* Now that I think about it, lichess brings the worst in me. I want to crush my opponents and taunt them. Yet another reason why my chat's turned off.

Blitz is a vicious game, full of trickery. :)
For contempt?

I don't know which jurisdiction you're referring to, but certainly in Illinois state courts it's an unlimited offense. I don't think there are any statutory restraints on it. I've seen people be sentenced to 20 years for refusing to testify as the sole witness to a murder.
Perhaps, thanks. I'm always open for suggestions.
You are being too literal.

Meta

Verse

Self referential artistic expression

Artistic abstraction of self; ones ideation, concepts; is not limited to Zoom with Mario64 heads.

Extracting the idea of a web of documents into web 1…

Any concept can be a metaverse. The creator outputs an abstraction arising within self.

Zuckerberg has a specific thing to sell. Don’t go coming up with your own metaverse to play in.
To 1, telomeres;

I need an expert to confirm or deny:

I think to remember having read that the telomeres aren't really an issue. That that they get shorter is a consequence, not a reason - they are not needed because death of the cell occurs earlier. I also think to remember there actually is a mechanism (a protein) to extend them, it's just that in places where it wasn't needed it is not used and evolution therefore removed it, because it had no consequence.

I think it was form one of the books of (biochemist) Nick Lane. Myself, I only took the basic bio-chem course so I never got to such advanced specialized topics.

EDIT: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1933587/

> 1. Do telomere biology and telomerase activity determine aging?

> The first aspect to this question is whether differences in aging rates among mammalian species are caused in whole or in part by species-specific differences in telomerase/telomere biology. A very brief consideration of this question will show that this is unlikely.

> There is little evidence that commonly observed changes in older individuals, such as anemia and impaired wound healing, result from impaired cellular proliferation, which would be the anticipated consequence of shortened telomeres

(ofc there is a lot more details to consider)
Influencers can unfortunately formalize their channels into business entities and Thailand knows this so I’d imagine there would be filters for which category of careers would be allowed if they offered remote work as a legal option.
Aside from Rails 7 release, what I'm more excited about is the new homepage which also got updated with this release.

For the longest time, I felt the Rails homepage did not do proper justice in explaining the true potential of the framework, especially to the folks who are not aware of Rails and visiting the site to gather some ideas.

This new homepage does a phenomenal job of providing good idea about the framework like who uses it, code snippets, mission statement, helpful links and the good old DHH video on how to build a blog.

> Ruby on Rails scales from HELLO WORLD to IPO

Also, this statement hits home for me. Exciting time to be a Rails developer.
looks around Yep, yeah, nothing consequential happening around the world. No widespread unprecedented flash floods in multiple areas of the globe simultaneously. No megafires burning on multiple continents. No temperature records being broken and re-broken by wide margins multiple times a year every single year. Nothing really at all. I don't know what they're talking about.

...is "Greenland and the Antarctic are still cold" really your hot take on climate change?
I have been teaching my daughter too. She is younger (she just turned 5), and En passant is one of the rules I voluntarily skipped (together with Castling). Pawns rules are already such a mess without it!
He's not wrong. Bitcoin has failed at being what Satoshi originally envisioned it to being - a peer-to-peer (decentralized) electronic cash system. Now it is a 'store-of-value' somehow.

I cannot use Bitcoin (or Ethereum) to pay for my groceries without waiting more than 10 mins for the transaction to confirm and spending more on the fees itself. There are other cryptocurrencies that can do this much better and will survive regulatory action in the future.

Many meme-coins that have 'no use' will likely wither away once regulations come.
Web Server Gateway Interface. Simply put, it is just a convention for forwarding requests to Python web applications.

More info here:

python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/
I would not march in the streets in protest if laws were passed curtailing proof-of-waste cryptocurrencies.
Very excited about this! Rails has enabled me, a non-developer, to build great webapps.
It is rhetorically pretty direct to talk about "Brain scientists and rocket surgeons".
ZFS just works so well. Especially on FreeBSD where the documentation is great. About 12 or more years ago, MacOS was rumored to change to ZFS as default filesystem. I was using FreeBSD too at the time, so I pre-emptively started using ZFS on my Mac. It worked well for a few years but for licensing reasons ZFS by default was canned and I haven’t used it since I replaced that laptop.
Lots of talk in the comments about the restrictions on gpt3.

The reason is that gpt3 has a Jekyll and Hyde personality and can be extremely rude, offensive and unkind. They’re trying to control that because the evil side is very bad publicity for gpt3.
Which animals? Octopus have a glitch where their digestive tract shuts upon reaching sexual maturity, so they starve to death yet keep passing that gene on, just a few years into their lifespan. F for Failure (At least we dont have to compete on this planet with older smarter octopi)
This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think that working in an environment where time-to-iterate is high is actually very beneficial for improving your skills. It's one of those things that may feel overly burdensome in the short term, but is better in the long term. I say this as someone who taught programming with beginners, and observed what many of them will do when given an IDE, which at the scale of the code they're writing, makes the time-to-iterate very short (press a key and you instantly see your changes). They end up getting into a "dopamine feedback loop" that causes them to continually make tiny changes and rebuild/run, and the code written as a result of this looks exactly like what you'd expect: it barely works, and is full of redundancies, "dead ends", and other evidence that its author was probably not thinking of anything more than the next line or two when writing it.

In other words, reducing the iteration time reduces the motivation to get it right the first time, and the associated deep reasoning/"mental execution" skills which are required to do so. In order to develop those skills, one should strive to write as much code as possible before running it, and a high iteration time assists with that.

Also, I'm tempted to continue the title with "...unless it's APL".
Thank the gods.
To be honest, maven is not the best, but I would take it any day above npm, pip and composer. It's definitely orders of magnitude better than many 'modern' package managers out there.
Newt Gingrich, as Speaker of the House, was the Republican who enabled the creation of the federal department of education. After that was started, everything went toward the average as measured by standardized tests.
They replaced the ceiling fans with wall fans. The wall fans however might be less effective, I’m not sure.
Recently decided on using TDD for some library code and aiming for >90% test coverage at my dayjob. Frankly, things do take longer to develop this way and i needed to put in more thought into how the interfaces should be structured, vs just doing what people sometimes do in other projects - just relying on concrete implementations or using frameworks that use reflection to do what they want.

However, the experience itself feels like a positive one - even if the code takes longer to craft, it's much easier to work with, since now i don't need to worry about sloppily written if/else chains that depend on enums or runtime type checks, but can utilize different implementations as needed. Also, writing the actual tests allowed me to be sure about how everything would actually work, all the way up to discovering that Paths.get (Java) on Linux accepts almost anything as a valid path string, whereas Windows has actual validation rules, leading to many headaches in regards to the code coverage quality gates that i set up, since the coverage differs based on which platform you run on.

But i guess that my point still stands: in certain circumstances slowing down might actually be a good thing, when you really want to know how your code will work under most circumstances and make it maintainable.

Of course, on the other hand, compilation speeds and other factors in regards to the speed of iteration definitely shouldn't be overlooked either, and having everything else apart from writing tests and actually thinking about how everything will fit together be faster is a good thing! I'm not sure what i'd do if my test suite took 10 minutes to run instead of 10 seconds as it currently does. Probably drink lots of coffee.

I guess it depends on slowing down for good reasons, vs just wasting time because of tooling or other sub optimal circumstances (e.g. what was described in the article, personally i've also seen a local API service be pretty chatty with a remote DB which was slow over a VPN, yet no one had a local DB with all of the migrations in place, and a bunch of other things like that).

Offtopic: Anyone remember how fast Pascal compiled? Now that was a really nice stack to do some stuff in, it's a shame that it never got as popular as Java, or didn't have tooling like JetBrains has, it felt like a more ancient Go (which is also pretty good as far as ergonomics go).