skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I personally know many people that were once far worse off than that gentleman, and are now doing quite well

This sounds extremely callous unless you were the dead man’s therapist or close personal friend. Surely you’re not going to infer you understand the situation from news articles.

> proven alternate solutions

Plenty of people seek help and yet still die of alcoholism despite trying to fix the addiction. There is no 100% guaranteed solution, and unless you are intimately familiar with the dead man’s life I really don’t understand how you can assume he didn’t try to get clean.
It’s not even an REIT. If they had purchased the properties instead of long term leases they might be able to transition into an REIT and slurp up real estate on the cheap.

But that’s boring and not investable.
> anhedonia

Possibly slightly, but not life impacting.
I wouldn't be so sure, a big part of growing big as an organization is becoming extremely sensitive to the political winds, and Youtube's "content moderation" is really a function of politics in the West. Were Rumble to grow to a comparable size it too would face the same political risks and at that point it could only remain as it is if there was a sizable political force backing.

Someone already mentioned Odyssey and I too am more hopeful of that platform - a decentralized platform is the best positioned to avoid political interference and censorship.
It's connected though, when assisted suicide there, is not just legal, but increasingly accepted, nornalized, or even encouraged as an invididual solution to not having a safety net.

So, the cause of the problem isn't the suicides - but they are offered (and used) as a way-out of it. This eases the burden on the state to do something to solve the root problem (why improve their condition, when they just off themselves and they wont be bothering us with their need for help anymore?).
Good luck with travels!

https://medium.com/personal-growth/travel-is-no-cure-for-the...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34684593#34689275
I fully agree, but what does this have to do with letting workers work less as productivity increases? Are you implying that stage would only occur if productivity gains are spread equally across the world?
7 out of 10 tick mark checker specialists chose SolarWinds®™!
Whether or not we "need" it, it turns out that in practice the Semantic Web was actually harder than AI and we're getting the latter before the former.

This has really always been the disconnect between the semantic web advocates and the skeptics like me. It's not that I don't buy your analysis of the benefits... it's that I do not and never have bought your analysis of the costs. The only question I have is how many orders of magnitude they undersell it by. It's certainly a non-trivial number.

What AI will do is basically swamp the semantic web. The problems the world will be dealing with with AI, like the deluge of AI-generated meaningless garbage, training AIs accidentally on other AI-generated garbage, the complete overwhelming of all human voices by AI voices by sheer weight [1], will be so large and pressing that the problems of the semantic web will just get washed away in the flood. And, sadly, the tools of the semantic web will be effectively useless to help; all the signals they are based on are even easier to forge than a human voice in arbitrary text. No help at all.

[1] What will it look like to live in a world where for every kilobyte of bespoke humanity I produce, an AI can produce megabytes? What will it look like when someone can afford to use AI to build an entire Reddit, just for me and only me, and isolate me there?
I’m not sure that I follow, but yes. I think that severely punishing those who abuse special authority will improve that aspect of the government. I don’t think it will fix society, but having a functioning justice system certainly can’t hurt.
Intel is planning to build an enormous billions of dollars fab just miles away. It makes total sense to build up the semiconductor education there. OSU is a fine state school with a well regarded CS and EE department.
You have to bribe drivers with rewards. The pool of people willing to drive around others for the actual $10 an hour they clear is not high enough to keep the market going (in many cities at least, sure it’s easier in huge cities)
You will get a ton of denial about this but you aren't wrong.

On the other hand it is really easy to not get married and not have kids. Then the equation is quite different. 40s and 50s isn't all that different than 22. I would even say better in most ways.

Your vision of marriage is even kind of romantic still. The married guys I know it is more like depression because of separation and knowing the wife is fucking a Tinder guy while your kid is sleeping in the next room. They even know her date outfit because she posts the picture on social media.

I have two friends right now that this is their exact life. One of them I thought was the absolute perfect couple at 30. Women know their value and aren't going to waste their life with the flame having gone out.
Can you expand on some good guard rail metrics you've used/seen please?
That’s not the interesting bit. Countries with less punitive laws have better crime stats although of course you could argue causation goes the other way.
I don’t have any quantifiable data, but although I’m certain the majority of the weigh has been fat, I’m sure I’ve lost quite a bit of muscle too.
I mean, your experience in the US is exactly like mine in European public care system looking for a psychiatrist or other more niche doctor: Multi month long waiting lists, doctors who are full and don't take any new patients, needing to go private out of pocket. Even the good private ones are booked weeks into the future.
> Hasn't that always been the case for Freenet? I'm pretty sure this is in no way revolutionary.

No, the original Freenet was more like a decentralized dropbox, not a general purpose decentralized computer like the new Freenet.

> but do I really want to serve as a host for CP unknowingly? I guess it might be possible to block known unsavory content, but that just seems like an endless game of cat and mouse.

The new Freenet will have a reputation system that will strongly punish anyone's reputation for posting anything like CP. Also, when your computer is part of the (new) Freenet network, it acts more like a relay than a host.

> Anonymity is way more important than resilience.

For some things, not for others. That's why anonymity with the new Freenet will be a service, not built into the OS itself.
The bogleheads ideal of investing in massive index funds helps somewhat avoiding these, but it just means you have to be a big enough scam to get on the index.
Not to mention the feeling of sucking resources away from those who need it to stop the inevitable. I hope I can be brave enough to say no to treatments when I am near, but it’s cheap talk.
Hideo Kojima's new studio could really use an IP like this!
Ask HN: Thoughts on not complying with RTO mandate?
I enjoy working at my current employer. I’ve been productive working there remotely the past three years. During COVID, there was more remote hiring so I work on a distributed team.

We were informed on Wednesday of this week that starting June 5th, employees within 30 miles of an office need to work from the office Tuesday through Thursday. I am considering to continue working remotely and not complying. I wonder if others have done this without it resulting in termination.

I won’t be happy if I need to be in the office a set number of days each week for no compelling reasons. I’m more than willing to come in for all-day planning meetings or occasions where extra collaboration would be helpful. We have remote leadership and engineers across the US, India, and the Philippines. The people I work with aren’t near me.

Many team members are disappointed with this announcement. The short notice has negatively impacted employees with older children who now need to find summer camps for them to attend etc.

What bothers me most about this requirement is the hypocrisy when we have remote employees and a few individuals get special exceptions. I’d love to hear how others are handling this situation or if they have any advice. I’m also curious why management makes these types of decisions when there’s not evidence it will improve the business in any meaningful way.
do you get actually productive after 10pm? or more like being awake watching a movie, surfing the internet etc?
Thales seizes control of ESA demonstration satellite in cybersecurity exercise
> Should people quote DFW as an authority given his suicide?

Why not?

It sounds as if you presuppose that it's always wrong to take your own life, and that anyone who thinks otherwise should be "cancelled".
WeWork buying a small country would have been amusing, if disastrous for said country.
Depending on your definition of 'success' he may be one of the most successful. After all, he apparently managed to profit off a business that was worth little to nothing.
> "eight years of help and 21 stints in rehab" sounds like they tried pretty hard to find a better solution.

First step towards that would be to ditch Anonymous Alcoholics and other religious cult-based "rehabs".
Can this implement/emulate something like Python Black?
This model is probably workable, but more under a airbnb type model where other people hold the liabilities and rent over a platform. The parent (ie wework) would take a cut, and companies could lease excess space over the platform. Instead wework holds the liabilities, which they got at high values, and now can not rent them. There was a long bull run, and money was flowing at many types of different projects - many which have or will end up failing. It is the same cycle as in the past which really shows itself after a few years of the run where suddenly it seems bear markets can't happen again, dumb ideas are making money and if you are not in you are loosing out. Covid led to work from home, which really killed wework's concept, but if it wasn't covid it would have eventually run out because it didn't make any money.
> Now if you want to see Canadian "politeness" in action…

In my experience Canadians are quite polite to other Canadians, but not necessarily to non-Canadians
> Google wants you to acknowledge an ad to unpause a video.

You can just press play as normal
Exactly.

Sometimes you play a game, and you realize, shit I invested points in these attributes but upon reading strategy guides, I realize I fucked up the distribution and there's no way to reset my character. What is the solution? Abandon the character.
I worked on a campus with alot of semiconductor investment and education for a somewhat affiliated entity.

The thing I noticed was that the crunch work was brutal, parking lots were full till 11pm half the year. The parking lot told the story - the execs had Teslas and BMWs in their gated lot. The troops were in 7-10 year old Hyundais and couldn’t afford to buy lunch in the cafe.

If you want to be in the semiconductor industry, the real winners are the tradesmen. They were all driving $70k pickups. Pipe fitters, electricians, operating engineers, etc make bank. If you know how to build the supporting infrastructure around some ASML tool, your income is limited by your desire to work. I can think of a dozen serious contracting companies in those lines of work that spun out of building that place.
It looks like resource allocation is a future feature. Is there a place to find the current thinking on how to reduce resource abuse by clever actors?
It’s the definition of judgmental to say someone is wrong like that. You’re judging their actions as wrong.
David Foster Wallace's description of a person in a burning building struck me deeply. That said most people killing themselves are not in fact in a burning building; they just think they are.

I've never considered suicide but I remember being deeply unhappy as a teenager. it's not that looking back on it I can't see why but at the time I didn't know why. I'd consider my circumstances and realize that whatever problems I had were both trivial and fixable but still feel utterly miserable. The thing that frightened me was the idea that I would lose that perspective.

Now though, now I'm an old man. I know that at some point the odds are good that I'm going to be in that burning building for real and I don't know what I'll do.
Our Constitution is neither a self-actuating nor a self-correcting document. It requires the constant attention and devotion of all citizens. There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it."
Yes, because the semantic web required people to mark up stuff semantically, which they didn't do.

The LLM web doesn't need people to explain the role of headings, paragraphs, etc. It can figure those out. It's faster, cheaper, and more effective than manually applying markup.
One of the founders I worked for mentioned that all of his businesses actually started in the corner of a real-estate office. They just rented a few desks to work from, then whenever they grew they moved up to a small lease.
Aren't both mailbox.org and tutanota based in Germany?
So... they both can be legally back-doored? No?
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Is success making lot of money for yourself. Or building a business that in general makes money and world a better place. That is generates societal wealth.
Asked a former champion shearer, who said that maybe 1% of sheep being sheared get nicked, more likely by inexperienced shearers. If the skin is not held taut, nicks will happen. For people who shave their faces with a blade, how often do you nick yourself? Saying "half the sheep's skin" is a ludicrous claim. It's not like skinning mink - you want the animal to survive the process!
The tree sitter ecosystem is very cool. I'm happy it exists.

My research into programming language parsing started with a very specific problem: I like folding code, and I like disabling ("commenting out") code to test behavior. Well, but (with rare exceptions: Xcode and nowadays some languages in VSCode) "commenting out" code breaks folding. I never got around to really solving it, but the learning involved (including about tree sitter) was very cool.
I’ve often thought the same thing, but I also wonder if my future-suicide is just a line of mental gymnastics I put myself through to pretend that I have complete control over my mortality.
tardigrades are far more interesting to look at than bacteria. Basically all the tiny animacules. You need no more than 5X-10X and are quite easy to see when they're still alive.
Just to be clear, in case anyone doesn't read the article: the man chose by himself to be euthanized, not the alternate reading I first thought.
what is the value on which the tax is levied? I think if you follow this train of thought to its logical conclusion, the tax would be levied on a value that is "arbituary", since these water rights are granted, and not purchased at a market price.

I think the gov't paying to buy out all existing rights, is better than allowing arbituary taxation like this.
In Unix everything is a file. Linux is not Unix but tries to be like Unix. This all files represent a resource on the system. It’s hard to separate this from POSIX requirements. Lose POSIX compatibility and you end up with a half implemented system like Windows. And then you must recreate the entire application ecosystem yourself or you end up with this funky BeOS/Haiku style POSIX compatibility layer that excludes a good subset of applications that already exist.

PS /proc isn’t a file system, it is an api (that can be accessed by the file system)
I'm a bit confused by the video, because it mentions several times that the Habbo staff actually did impose restrictions (attempting to shut down casinos). So perhaps under-regulated capitalism is more accurate. Which is also similar to what we have in real life
India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)

US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow
The April 2023 Netcraft survey: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-surve...

nginx is at: 26%
Apache is at 20%

It doesn't sound like nginx is even close to having this wrapped up; which is a really good thing because I've tried nginx and the config and design sucks. Apache does so many things well.
I remember saving for months to buy each game. Would get 1 for birthday and Christmas. So a new game maybe every 3 months on average.

3 months on the same game and you get good at it. Do this several times and you need a hard game to not just finish it an hour.
> even picking individual stocks a few winners tend to massively outperform the losers as long as you are not doing something like buying massively on margin.

Evidently not since I have never seen an investors offer a minimum return equal to SP500 + x%.
> I know people who show up for a couple meetings in the morning, leave for a three hour lunch and then go home every day

In which country is this? Where I live now in Europe I've never seen jobs that let you get away with that. Maybe those people you know are well connected with the bosses that they're allowed such lax work behavior.
I think I'm a cynic. I always read things like this as, "Here's the problems you'd have if you won a bunch of money and this is how I would deal with them."
Can you remind me again why Comey was fired? What rule did he fall afoul of? I was always under the impression that the FBI is an incredibly conservative institution in every sense of the word, so it's not surprising how the biases play out. What is strange is when they get caught up in intra-conservative-world politics.
What does it mean to say you want to see the Great Wave when it was created on woodblock?
Believe it or not, traveling and partying gets old. Most of us have an evolutionary desire to have kids. You may not, but it can take time to manifest. Look out for feelings of hollowness, boredom or depression. Parenting may be hard, but I've never felt hollow or bored or that life has no meaning.
I hate hypocrisy in others :-)

I did not fail to notice this. But in failing to read every word of the article I was not causing any other human to have a bad experience.
Humans represent a tiny fraction of stock trades, telecom bits sent, hours of video created.

If you're happier with a unique personalized reddit, is that worse than preferring video games to movies?
Reminds me of talking to brewers and winemakers. The brewers said they could experiment as much as they want because the worst case was you get some different beer.

The winemakers had to follow things exceptionally carefully because you basically couldn’t improve anything, but you had innumerable ways to destroy the wine and end up with vinegar.
Yeah but that speed also means we can go from idea to broad release quickly which both means quicker to market to deliver value but can also mean that a screw up scales quickly too.
That lines up with my experience as well, and I’be caught myself doing it too in the past.

Interestingly, it can also be right, but ‘new’ - and just caught up in the excitement of learning.

90% of what everyone says (near as I can tell) is what we’re saying to ourselves.
That flows with what I’ve said: rules for thee and not for me. As a private citizen my city, county, state, or federal enforcement agencies would have no issue charging me and putting their best effort toward conviction and sentencing. Meanwhile when those same agencies have very public crimes within their ranks abusing the power they’ve been given, nothing happens.

How did New York deal with crime in the late 90s? Not by ignoring it.
Public school teachers are not required to be parents with children in that system, and their compensation and placement are not based predominantly on merit.
I think you've really hit the nail on the head here. I think substance abuse is often treated as the underlying root problem when its just a symptom of a much deeper trauma or mental health problem. The lifestyle changes (often) required to deal with the underlying problem can't be forced on the person once the stint in rehab ends. They are usually right back to their old situation with their old friends in their old routines, or they stop taking their medicines or any number of things that lead to relapse.
He was only allowed to break onto the scene because Hollywood had grown stagnant and their formulaic money makers stopped making money. Many of our best filmmakers of our time came of this brief period of rebirth. Perhaps if superhero movies stopped being so successful, we might enter into another golden age of movies.
To be fair, a lot of hobbyist operating systems have a fairly unique 1990s lock
I think the deterministic requirement was what made the semantic web nearly impossible at scale. Aligning on the schema for all the entities can be challenging within a small group, yet alone the world. Doing it continuously is impossible today. Wikidata has tons of abandoned and branches which are no longer relevant or even wrong.

It seems like LLMs and vector representations for words are more practical ways to explore semantic data. Then the specific, reccuring queries may be optimized through graph representations.
That's kind of racist, tbh.
> We may have not experienced prolonged pain, but we all have experienced suffering

Sure, but people rarely consider suicide due to momentary suffering, or even suffering for a few weeks or month. People typically consider suicide when they can't see an end to their suffering, and while this is sometimes irrational there are also many cases where it isn't.
You can grow new brain cells
A similar thinking point might be: Do casinos mean we don't need jobs?
Ask HN: What do you use to stress test your web application?
I've had my eyes on wrk2 [1]

1. https://github.com/giltene/wrk2

But I am curious, what does HN use? Any tips?
Perhaps the government needs to step in and declare certain “important national security jobs” except from taxation or something.

Probably would just drop the salaries to minimum wage :(
The roadmap is misleading - sorry, that feature is code complete and awaiting integration.

Our approach to resource usage is that peers keep track of the resources used by each contract or on behalf of each neighboring peer, and compares it to the value provided by the contract or neighboring peer to our peer or the network. Peers or contracts with the least bang for the buck will get dropped by the peer when it is resource constrained. See [1] for how this works with contracts, and [2] for implementation.

[1] https://github.com/freenet/locutus/issues/244

[2] https://github.com/freenet/locutus/blob/3e5a31780f235e04f7b2...