skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP's hot take isn't reality. Worked at a suicide hotline for a year.

The fundamental purpose of suicide hotlines is to take burden off emergency services, and to give folks a coping mechanism which doesn't involve 911.

90% of callers are frequent fliers, calling weekly to daily. In the year I worked there I only had 2-3 calls which required serious treatment.
I currently see

> We are currently offline for maintenance

On https://stackoverflow.com/, but I see nothing on https://stackstatus.net/
> All this happens on a copy of our program. Self-modifying programs were fine under MS-DOS, but modern operating systems won't let it fly. Renaming or overwriting is fine, since the original file is still unchanged.

This isn’t strictly true: Linux, for example, provides `process_vm_writev`, which can be used to dynamically poke the executable text at runtime. The Linux kernel itself even has a decent amount of SMC, although it doesn’t use that mechanism.

The `totally_safe_transmute` party trick[1] from last year uses a similar technique. Technically it’s on data and not code, but the effect is the same.

[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/03/16/totally_safe_transmute...
I upgraded to windows 10 a few years ago, even paid for the pro version to have it in my home computer.

I remember spending more than an hour, checking every possible setting I could to reveal less data. At the end, I felt somehow happy with the situation.

A few days later, an upgrade came. I didn't notice immediately but the upgrade has reset all privacy settings to their worst value (of course, default value is the one that benefits Microsoft).

I hated that feeling. I felt betrayed, angry and powerless. This was a terrible breach if trust for me (today, I know I seem like the typical naive user but years ago, I trusted their configuration menus).

I don't accept this feeling that my privacy should be in control of a small group of individuals who have absolutely zero respect for my privacy. I guess the fact that I had actually bought the pro version purposely to benefit from more privacy influenced my experience.

I uninstalled Windows and switched to Ubuntu.

Today, my problem is Android/apple. I'd like to get rid of them but I haven't solved this problem yet...
> The barriers to treatment for ADHD. The disastrous state of treatment for people, but especially women with autism.

I'm going to put "treatment" in huge quotes. Do these people need treatment or do they need society to stop bothering them and accept them the way they are?
Joe Lonsdale Interviews Charles Koch
What about rewriting CPU feature-detection code to remove branching?
As long as everyone is sharing stories, it was the late '90s in the bay area when I was in high school and poked around in our computer lab systems. Other than running Quake and Starcraft, which we were not supposed to do, it occured to me to install a keylogger on an NT4 machine that was shared by the students and our admin. After finding a stealthy keylogger, installing it and verifying it worked for capturing my own password, I went home excited and nervous. When I got into the lab the next day, I looked around for some privacy and quickly checked the logs. Imagine my satisfaction when her password fell into my lap. I remember it to this day, it was "dj3j". Those were the days, of short passwords at least. I proceeded to immediately remove the log file and keylogger and never used her password, am a white hat through and through. Hopefully she changed it by now...
‘Maus’ is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban
> I do not know if this makes sense at all.

It makes great sense, thank you. It's a cliche'd point in most situations, that people are products of their time, but in this case it explains and joins two mechanisms - the Beatles not only benefitted from 'ideal conditions', but were possibly driven (in part) by them.
The weight you’ve achieved sounds pretty good! But the runtime does not—I’ve never used a paraglider, and although I love the idea of finding and riding thermals, I know that I lack the experience to do so. What I really want is to be on par with gasoline engines in the brute-force dept, but with batteries. We are not there yet, but I hope we will be.

Thanks for sharing details! If you are fairly confident in your two-prop design, it might be worth reaching out to one or two paramotor companies to gauge their interest in it. Torque-steer from one big prop is something that all one-prop harness builders are always fighting against, whether electric or not. (I know nothing about building or flying any of these things, or much about business and IP, so disregard at will.). A two-prop engine seems like it’d be much nicer on the eardrums when compared to four. I’ve watched some videos…with the sound turned way down.
In grade school a class mate told me how to mail letters for free: print where the letter _should be sent_ in the return address, print anything for the apparent delivery address, apply no stamp, and drop in a public mail bin. The letter will be sent "back" to the return address because postage was not paid.

When I got home later that day I excitedly shared with my parents the new hack I had learned and they told me it was wrong because it was stealing. I had been so taken with the neatness of the scheme I did not register its immorality.
When I was 11 I social engineered the son of the computing teacher to get all the admin passwords. Then I fucked around with a whole bunch of stuff and showed a friend. When they figured out it'd been hacked they weren't sure who did it, but my buddy broke down very quickly and let them know lol.

I was banned from the computer lab for the whole of my secondary school years. It didn't matter though, because when I was 12 (~1989) the headmaster dropped computing from the school curriculum as "computers are a passing fad". They just used the computers for typing up essays after that.
I'm pretty security conscious, and I immediately double checked and replicated what I had done. The ad looked perfect, including the right URL, and includes the normal subsections, store finder, special of the day, careers, etc.

The home depot search result labeled as an "ad", but shown inline, with an easy to miss small gray font mentioning the URL. Much like if you search for ace hardware now, I did notice that home depot searches no longer shows an ad.

I normally have zero plugins enabled, but I did discover I had a keybase plugin installed, from before zoom bought them. I've since disabled it and am considering a reinstall.

The URL it sent me to was: http://34.220.130.1/window-security-alert/werrx01/, which at the time worked (visit at your own risk). But I tried it just now and it now triggered a chrome warning about "Deceptive site ahead".
The SEC will probably start investigating Wonderland in 2023 and they may issue a fine in 2025.
In one word, the Goths. Everyone has their own opinion, mine is that it mostly comes down to population.

The population of the Roman Empire decline due to plague, while the Gothic population and culture had grown with better agricultural technology. When the Huns pushed vast numbers of Goths into the weakened Roman empire in the west they further weakened it. Italy starved, and they lost the ability to raise effective armies. Rome itself eventually fell to siege and starvation.
Nvidia and Facebook are working on building the world’s largest super computer. The stated reason I heard was to power the metaverse but that strikes me as a red herring.

Things closer to this are probably what they want to do.

A slighty more pessimist take would be that they want to manage and crunch all that personal data they have more quickly, or for others that have lots of data to crunch that Facebook might benefit from managing/having (governments).
so do you save the 'feature on' setting to a specific customer. e.g. if they log in from a different browser could they fall into a different bucket?
You're right that would totally work with Google. In our case the boss is quite computer illiterate and trying to get him to use LastPass was hard enough. He will tolerate a lot of pain from getting locked out before he'll be willing to learn TOTP :-(

And for many of the SaaS that we use, TOTP doesn't help you avoid the security lock outs.
It's not just vitamin D toxicity, it's also Calcium toxicity.

For example, vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) increases Calcium absorption by 5-10x fold.

Besides, Calcium (surprisingly) are toxic for human bodies as well, in excessive amounts, and accumulates with age in body tissues.

Btw, vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) are commonly used as rat poison.
What an impressively biased article. Conspicuously omitting the word “mandate” from the headline despite its presence in the second paragraph, and the always popular racist-by-proximity libel. I cringe so hard when “my side” has to resort to dirty wording tricks instead of just having the better factual argument.
I can guarantee 100% my Prometheus instance will never be running on metered LTE. If such a situation arises then my operational metrics are the least of my concern.
I hadn't thought of it but I see that I'm high RAM, high curiosity. Haha we should make a Meyers-Brigg for this.

I agree about inputs. I have a list project I'm working on called "This I Believe". I'm trying to decode my deeply held beliefs so that I understand mself and can change those beliefs. The very first thing I put on it was "Better living through chemistry."
You don’t understand the real reason behind all this. The true naked reason is that people want more regulation and government interference. Step 1 is to paint a dire picture of the need for regulation.
I think it's actually someone demeaning and condescending of humans to consistently describe orcas' hunting techniques as similar to wolves. For one, it's incorrect. Wolves do not show any of the coordination that orcas do. Wolves hunt in packs, but that doesn't mean that they cooperate and coordinate with each other. This video is a good example of the chaos of wolves hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wl8ZxAaB2E

Instead, orcas hunt much more similarly to humans. They speak to each other, coordinate special roles, teach while they're hunting, and they have highly coordinated and practiced attacks. The way they kill whales is usually quite brutal, because it normally requires tiring out the whales first and then start in with bites. Although orcas are ridiculously powerful (their jaw strength is basically immeasurable compared to land animals), they can still be seriously injured by large whales'. So, orcas essentially exhaust the whales and then ram and nick at them until dealing some final blows or drown the whale. During these hunts, the orcas will switch in and out so as to not tire themselves out. As an aside, there have been instances of people seeing humpbacks intervene orca attacks on both humpbacks and other whale species.

I would not be surprised in the least if orcas are as intelligent or more so than humans, if such a thing could be determined. Either way, they are seriously intelligent, and their physical capabilities are second to none. They are awe inspiring animals in every way. And yet, we keep them in prisons.
Crypto spam is a curse. I get 3-4 reply to spams everyday. It is becoming such a nuisance so that I started a thread where I collect spam screeshots

https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1481033447397277696
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That's what decentralized is all about. Which regulator will regulate it when it's spread across the globe with a bit in each country?
So can you explain something to me:

We know how many people die of non-covid viral induced pneumonia in a normal year (and in a bad year). Most of it is caused by the flu. We also know that covid policies have demonstrably reduced flu rates to some of the lowest ever over the past few years.

So what other cause of viral induced pneumonia do you suppose is the one killing everyone?
Disclosure? Fiduciary duties? These kinds of burdensome regulations are killing innovation in this country! /s
well, among other things, he had absurd yet awesome videos made about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afl9WFGJE0M
If you have a decent understanding of the planets in a system you could potentially time your observations to when planets are in alignments that would beam lasers / radio waves your way. It's possible that you could pick up directed in-system communications that are overshooting their destinations rather than broadcasts intended for potential interstellar neighbors.
Everything but the most mission critical applications can get away without any of that. I get your point though.
What does “eat section 13” mean? The SSPL part? Are you looking to offer a cloud-based managed MongoDB database service to the public? If not, you can do pretty much anything you want with the code. There has been a lot of FUD posted but really, taking the community code and offering a parasite service like Amazon did with other databases is the only thing prohibited by section 13. And unless you have a lot of energy and time you probably can’t be competitive with Atlas, their managed service, as it has a lot of stuff built around the database. Just my opinion, but I am curious about the “eat” part. Of course if you are just allergic to anything different than pure Apache 2.0 regardless of the fact that SSPL has no business impact on you, that’s completely ok
I think they meant that person is sipping on the smoke out of the hose in a figurative sense. I hope they're not actually drinking the dirty water; among other things, I would imagine it tastes awful.
HP Wins Fraud Case Against Autonomy’s Mike Lynch
helping genentech scientists move to the cloud. I stopped being a scientist a long time ago and now I just sort of help scientists with the stuff I'm already good at.
jeez, really flagging this for what reason? i thought it was kinda funny.
As much as I love orcas, it is indeed quite brutal seeing those battles play out between orcas and large whales. Gives you chill bumps and reminds you how tough nature is.

However, I've never heard of orcas routinely killing for sport, especially large whales. Is there an article or study you know of? It is not an easy kill for them, and I was under the impression that they do it for certain delicacies. For example, they will kill great white sharks specifically to eat their livers, which is insanely high in calories, and then nothing else of the shark.
Not as long as the crest of greed is greater than the trough of loss.
Yeah, but wen the World Wide Web was 7 years old we already had MSN, Google, imdb, geocities, the Space Jam website, etc.

Nobody was pushing the internet to the general public in the 1970s, and hardly anyone saw it as a technology to be used by them anyway. When the technology became cheap enough for the general public in the late 80s, then first did we see experiments aimed at the general users and we got stuff like IRC, email, etc. soon after.

Blockchain technology—in contrast—has been available to the public from day 1 and and so far the record is far poorer then that of the Internet in terms of usefulness.
Killer whales hunting baleen whales in concert with humans of the coast of Australia is well documented and probably predates European settlement - search 'the law of the tongue' for more details.
I can spin this too if you allow me:

"genocide" of Muslims via constant war-waging;
"ethnic cleansing" of native Americans;
natural resource exploitation on a global scale;
"modern day slavery" (i.e. extreme capitalism) both domestically by trapping workers into lifetime debts, and overseas by outsourcing to sweat shops;
"deadly global pathogen release" by politicising pandemic responses while failing at it.

Rivalry states smear each others all the time. Also no contender for hegemony is morally superior than another.
Apple allows apps which enable tracking and trading BTC have you considered contacting them and requesting them to stop?
Changed to that from https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2022/01/a-suicide.... Thanks!
If cartoons trigger you, I suppose you may have a problem with oversexualising media. They r just drawings, when I read mangas as a kid I never thought and I still dont think about them that way. Why not notice the cute monsters? or cute dress? Some body proportions are comical, the eyes are drawn to portray emotions in a cute or exaggerated way. There may be a drawing or two that you might call fan-service, but not everyone looks at these cartoons and thinks that this material is for sex predators all the time. In asia not everyone is so triggered or oversexualising everything. Where is the innocence in people? have we lost the ability to look at things differently?
Unfortunately no; they're somewhere with the family photos in storage.
The most powerful cyberweapon is making sure every human understands an inkling of number theory
How is it an "emerging area?" It came out in 2008. In the tech world that is a lifetime.
To Chalmers' credit, he's been writing about this stuff at least back to 2003, when he had a paper called "The Matrix as Metaphysics" defending the idea that the claim that we're living in a simulation is not a skeptical hypothesis, and that such a world would be just as real, just one layer "in." (Probably not as wild of an idea now as it was back then.) Also a couple of other papers on VR since then and many on AI going back to 1990 [1].

[1] http://consc.net/ai-and-computation/
Sure, but the amount of 70F water that lasted for more than a decade might have been 1000x higher because of increased geysers, volcanoes, deep sea vents etc. Sure it might have been a vanishingly small fraction of the earth's surface and oceans, but still have an impact on the evolution of life while the earth was on average quite cool.
Other than arguably the level of communication, every single thing you describe about orcas hunting applies to wolves hunting buffalo.

ETA: There's also the under appreciated communication aspect of canines (and orcas) ability to take and obey direction from others.

There's lots of research on how despite learning from mimicry, non-human primate intelligence might be relatively capped by this limitation.
Stop calling it side loading. It's installing it and we've been doing it for as long as personal computers have existed.
Autonomy was one of those companies I only heard about through a billboard driving on 101 in the Bay Area (rather than through technical sites). When I looked at them it looked like a scam (ML in enterprise search, i actually don't know if it was any good), and I was surprised when HP bought them.
> How much business logic is there across all businesses?

Immensely more than tech logic, that's for sure.

Just implementing and updating something like a single country's tax code produces more lines of code than the entire Linux kernel, that devs like to brag about :-)
> I wondered if [Get Back] was the result of a man who, locked down in his Antipodean editing suite, had waded too deep into his material and lost control of it

Note that Peter Jackson is a New Zealander, and presumably was in the country while editing, so the editing suite was ‘Antipodean’ in the sense of the dictionary.
And the us isn't using their weapons against Ukraine. They are fully respecting their boundaries, just not going to war over them. Russia is clearly in violation, not the USA
I had a whole rant on hotlines, but I honestly didn’t know there were good ones. No one in my support group had a positive story about hotlines.

I am extremely glad good ones exist. If you have a list, I’ll share it with my support group.

Edit: removed my horror story… we don’t need another one on this thread.
At the least I’ve certainly seen a bunch of account recovery service scams whenever someone tweets about an issue with Instagram etc.
It isn’t as expensive as you think to 51% attack various coins.

https://www.crypto51.app/

You only mentioned BTC but that’s just one coin. Several alt coins (with multi billion market caps) have had 51% attacks including ETC and BSV.

But anyway the original point was that it is literally wrong to say that blockchains are immutable. You didn’t address that point at all, so I guess you agree with it?
StackExchange Is Down
Looks like there's an outage at the moment, though I don't see this reflected in their status page (yet).
Also mentions the Rocket Stove (new to me), which looks well-worth getting to know about. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mass_heater] (Wiki article describes several designs as well.)

"a rocket mass heater consists of an insulated combustion chamber where fuel is burned with high efficiency at high temperature, and a large thermal mass in contact with the exhaust gases which absorbs most of the generated heat before the gases are released to the atmosphere.... "
Their distributed governance actually seems to be working somewhat surprisingly

>Welcome to the Wonderland Governance Forum!...

>[WIP #4] - Wind down Wonderland, and give the treasury back to its holders

>The Sifu vote is coming close to an end, currently the vote stands at 86% to remove Sifu. The team feels strongly that this is the best choice for the protocol and it needs to happen as a first step to move forward with Wonderland.

https://twitter.com/Wonderland_fi/status/1487175603296116740

I wonder if Sifu/Patryn/Dhanani will get some grief from law enforcement over the 15,000 eth he seems to have from Quadriga, the bankrupt Canadian exchange he co-founded?
Mozilla, committed to carbon-neutrality in specific ways, mentioned accepting Bitcoin as a donation currency, and her conclusions were:

1. Mozilla doesn't care about the environment, and

2. I should drop Firefox and use Apple's browser.

I'm curious about Apple's App Store revenues from cryptocurrency apps, or about Apple's policy regarding their carbon footprint. I suspect that a company which has knowingly relied on child factory workers as part of its famously-vertically-integrated supply chain is maybe not as conscientious as Mozilla.

In that context, the author's snap judgement about how Mozilla must be totally reversing course seem a bit apoplectic and reactionary, given that she immediately went to Apple without taking even a cursory glance at Apples track record.
So, Les wrote UNIX finger?!? I clearly remember writing 'kiddie scripts' with lists of every computer in the entire school:

finger @w20-575-1

finger @w20-575-2

etc.

just to see who was logged on everywhere. Even though there was nothing to do with that information.
And the other part that comes with that is that no one that achieves what the Beatles did doesn't work as hard as they did. As you said, necessary but not sufficient. Hard work exposes you to opportunities, some people have better opportunities than others.
What wealth would be able to go somewhere, or stay? Stashed gold is quickly dealt with by spending more than you earn. Palaces get abandoned, fall into disrepair and get divided up by squatters, in any order and concurrency. Anything marble needs a good excuse to avoid downcycling in a lime kiln.

Without something like a stock exchange, wealth means having actual productivity under your control and that has zero inherent stability. It's well possible to build and expand over generations while the productivity goes on and the system facilitating that control (e.g. a rule of law) remains undisrupted, but when either of that stops being the case nothing remains. When there's no authority that enforces whatever letters of ownership or contracts you might have, they are as immaterial as ETF shares in a paperless bank account that has just disappeared some day.
The point is that if it were a MORAL issue as you suggested, then the US would not have sold their technologies to other countries whose human rights records are controversial. The fact that they had not problem doing that entails that it was not a moral issue, at least for the US companies.