skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok I've had to double check to see where we've gone wrong.

5.4% is the number of people who died by suicide out of the studied sample. It is not the number of suicide attempts resulting in death, as implied by the original parent.

It is actually 59.3% success on first attempt, and of those who failed on first try, 81.8% succeed in subsequent attempts within a year.
It reminds me of Sourceforge: they had a big PR disaster and though it was later taken over by a new owner the stigma remains.
> What often stops otherwise suicidal folks is that it's not an easy thing to do

Is the take away from this that if all people knew how to kill themselves efficiently, the suicide rates in general population would be as high as they are among vets? It's pretty grim to think that the only thing that's stopping many people from killings themselves is that they don't know how...
They hype is definitely similar, but the situation is entirely different. You don't have to take anyone's hype/story about AI on faith. The future state is uncertain, but the current trajectory is clear and verifiable.
> This would never work in a big(ger) town of say 50..100k+. Never mind megacities

Of course not, but what if a facility like this was made available for the segment of the population that doesn't mind doing this. Give them a perk, like no charge trash pickup and access to the "freecycle" store. Many seniors or others with time would gladly save the monthly fee to the city for trash pickup.
There are so many angles. So many angles. Before chrome there where a lot more competing browser engines, so that is already a solid YES. Then you have the handheld/smartphone market that was a lot more diverse before Google Android hit the market.

> at a fraction of the cost

Microsoft gave IE away for free and there where dozens of IE clones build on top of its engine, you just never had a reason to use any of them because in the end they where still IE clones.
just migrated off of PG to ddb as the main db for my application (still copying data to SQL for data analytics). Working with distributed functions and code hosted on lambdas, the connection management to SQL became a nightmare with dropped requests all over the place.
I'm pretty sure that's not the official subtitle
> but... yeah... i DO need to joke less.

Please don't; I thought it was funny once I understood what you meant by DSA. By awful terminology, I referred to the whole concept of disinformation (and misinformation and whatnot).
"So Far, X Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off"

This can be said about most new technologies at some point in their development cycles.
Right, because an Equifax data breach has never negatively affected anyone
The embedded browser approach doesn't really support anything natively (apart from webos maybe?), so I'm not sure that's the right question.
>no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work...

It's not a US work if it wasn't made in the US. That's the crux of the point you're replying to
Kudos to you. I feel like setting things up on real hardware is somehow needed in order to make things concrete enough to full understand. At least for me (I fully admit this may be a personal flaw) working with a vm on in the cloud is a little too abstract - even though eventually this is where things will land.
Fun to think about, have personally gone down this rabbit hole before, but I'd be surprised if this was permitted by courts.

> The key point here is that the shape of the glyphs themselves, for example, non-trademarked text posted on advertisements or products with printed text, are not copyrightable. So long as you’re not stealing the creative work, like the advertisement, itself, the shape of each letter is in the public domain.

There is a jump from this assertion to:

> This got me thinking, as all things do, on whether I could simply scrape the internet for public, non-creative, non-trademarked use of fonts

The missing step here is that the glyphs for a webpage are not embedded in some sort of rendered image or physical medium. They're _rendered from the copyrighted font file_ to the browser.

The font file is delivered to the browser and that copyrighted file is used to render the glyphs.

This pipeline might work for creating a font that is "inspired by" the available glyphs rendered in the credits of your favorite film.

But downloading the entire copyrighted font file, generating a character sheet from it and clipping the individual characters from that sheet? I can't imagine how any sensible court system would not consider that a derivative work.
> In no-growth parts of California

The answer is obvious.

Don't live in those no-growth places.
My little parrot died in my hands, and while it was sad, I was (and still am) glad that she didn’t die alone. She’d been ill, and I was about to take her back to the vet to have that final shot, so it was not shocking.

Be there for your friend. It won’t make the hurt go away, and it may even be a bit scary, but it will help your healing process.
This is something that I have found LLMs nearly completely useless for. I gave a talk on uses of AI for gamedev, and had some great things but I couldn't get it to write a blurb for the talk that wasn't vomit inducing.

This isn't so much a problem white LLMs themselves but the training data. The world is so inundated with meaningless marketing speak that when you try and get it to talk about a topic in even a slightly promotional manner it will create something that fits in nicely with the existing drivel.
I'm really excited about this as a customer. We're probably going to be able to save a lot of money because of it. So now, with the new Postgres compatibility layer and the "lower cost", it will be easier for me to choose Spanner when we start new projects.
Koshi's story is horrible. A bad cat owner who literally lets cats loose into the wild (Littering basically) sued her.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231010-the-acute-suic...

She committed suicide after bullying and people villifying her, and the POS plaintiff Jurmark (who litters cats in the wild) got the cat back.
Because a basic pattern isn't easy to obtain. If there is wind it will blow your spray around. If there is dirt in the nozzle that changes your pattern (until you clean it - but now you need to check if it needs to be cleaned). Sprayer booms can be 130 feet (40 meters) long, and sprayers go over the field fairly fast: those booms are bouncing all over the place and that is changing the pattern. Which is worse - too much chemical on a given section of ground or too much - depending your answer (which will change for different chemicals!) sometimes you want the nozzles to overlap the next and other times now. What is the viscosity of the chemical - this changes the spray pattern. How much chemical do you spray - a low quantity through a high flow nozzle will just drip, while a high quantity through a low flow nozzle isn't possible. Do you want to spray the just ground, just the plants, or both - maybe you can get a nozzle focused on this. Soil is not consistent across a field, so farmers normally apply different amounts of chemical in different sections.

The above is not a complete list of all the nozzle considerations I know of (I work for John Deere, but I don't speak for them), it is what I can remember in a couple minutes.
The TP shortage was most definitely exacerbated by some people buying 1000x as much just to be able to resell it at a profit. So I agree, if meats were in shortage you would see similar attempts (even though it's illegal) and worse - the hoarding would result in spoilage exacerbating it even further.
I bet you haven't heard all the arguments. Here's one that came to mind when I read the actual text of the repair law as to why there might be two of those three exceptions.

For agricultural and forestry equipment there is already extensive California law dealing with them in the the California Business and Professional Code (BPC).

To wit, the "Fair Practices of Equipment Manufacturers, Distributors, Wholesalers, and Dealers Act" which is Chapter 28 of Division 8 ("Special Business Regulations") of the BPC.

Alarm systems are also regulated under the BPC.

This new "Right to Repair Act" is part of the Public Resources Code. It is is Division 30, Part 3, Chapter 8.6.

Division 30 is "Waste Management". Part 3 is "State Programs".

Chapter 8.6 was the "Cell Phone Recycling Act of 2004" so presumably is getting renumbered to 8.7, and the "Right to Repair Act" is being inserted right before that, after the "Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act of 2006" (Chapter 8.4) and a chapter called "Electronic Waste Recycling" (Chapter 8.5).

(Why is this done as waste management under the Public Resources Code rather than under whatever California's consumer protection code is called? I have no idea!)

It seems at least plausible that the exceptions other than the video game console exception are there because legislators feel that changes to how those things are handled should be done separately via changes to the BPC.
Sure, he might be a competent electrical engineer, but he's a climate-change denying edgelord who even Trump called a "third-rate grandsander". Among many, many other things, he is pro-Putin, pr-patent trolls, and tried to force the House to meet in person a the height of COVID.
It's not like that's something new or exclusive to tech, right? Coke had cocaine and cigarettes were physician tested and approved. We should have learned from those things but we didn't, and so history will rhyme.
And you think everyone should have to make that choice? And that e.g. 4 years for an undergraduate degree isn't enough to become proficient in treating cats (at least for the stuff that's worth treating)?
Read "Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL"
Only the market can help drive where people live. As prices for energy and water go up people are incentivized to use less, augment supply, or move.

Expansion does not need to stop.
Maybe not trippy, but a simple set of examples are existence theorems, i.e. "Given these objects, X exists." An example are fixed point theorems.

Theorem: For any function g from a convex, compact set to itself, there exists a fixed point of g.

program f: g --> x where g is a function from a convex, compact set C to itself, and x satisfies g(x) = x.

If you can write the program and it is correct for all such g, that is a proof that such a g always has a fixed point (in particular, you output one). Note the "type" of g is "function from convex, compact set to itself" and the "type" of x is "fixed point of g".
> Most of what we think of innovation is really business model innovation, rather than technology innovation. We are more easily amused and excited by the latter, but what changes our lives more often is the former.

> Yet, many technology innovations fail to make it past the showroom stage. Often, it's because they are neat tricks, but they don't solve real problems. Or they are useful, but not just as helpful, or for enough for people, so they find new lives. Those innovations can, for example, become niche players. Segway is a good example. We did not end up rebuilding cities around "Ginger" as it was previously known, but they did become the vehicle of choice for mall cops everywhere.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/jokes-you-invented-bad-jokes
Situations like ‘08 happen cyclically and population wide? So over time you’ll have various percentages of owners who went through it and were so impacted right?

And those population level differences will definitely impact the data in the study, right?
My understanding is that that would be legal. The problem for those companies is they can't build and distribute a Linux kernel that contains those patches, because then that is a derivative work. So in practice they have to release their changes under the GPL as it's not feasible to ask users to compile their own kernel with their custom patches.
99% of the projects dont need dynamodb/spanner/ScyllaDB
I have had properties empty for months at a time. In the UK you get (maybe used to get?) a tax discount for empty properties.

There is an opportunity cost of course, but the actual money-out-of-bank costs were almost zero.

What costs are you talking about?
> Why would people living stressful lives choose to rent?

They live stressful lives because they're running after money

> it's more affordable to pay off a mortgage

Most people can;t afford mortgage. In most places they'll rent you a $500/month place but won't let you take a mortgage for $500/month. Not even taking into account current interest rates
AWS has increased prices, most recently when they started charging for static IPs (even ones attached to a running instance).
At that point, I'd go for one of the many legitimately open source fonts, some of which have been released into public domain [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces
> hardware is a lot more likely to be mathematically proven

Maybe that's a nitpick, but I would say it's fundamentally impossible to mathematically prove anything at all about a physical system. You have to assume some model to do the proof and have no way of ever "proving" (what would that even mean?) that model.

I guess you're referring to the fact that verification and formal methods are used in hardware more often than software. This is due to commercial reasons: you can't just reprogram a million chips once they leave your fab.
Riding a motorcycle. One of the best things money can buy. Depending on who you ask it may not or may not be considered a hobby. But taking a ride out after work is one of the best things for the mind and soul.

As they say, you can't find a motorcycle parked outside a psychiatrist's/therapist's office.

Also with experience, a motorcycle rider becomes a part-time mechanic, a part-time weather expert and part-time criminal.
without jumper..? I'm confused, how's this different from a normal breadboard? And what's being shown in the gallery?
Haha, yah, I'm working on that. :)

For family reasons I've been inconveniently far from offices for a while, and have a really good employer that allowed WFH (long before covid), but I've gotten pretty convinced at least 2 days/week in-office is probably important for my mental health.

I'd encourage anyone to consider if full-time remote is working for you; maybe it is, and for me I think it did for a time, but most of us humans (even introverts) are social creatures, and unless you're good about finding a third place, or making friends elsewhere, work is still a really good place to do that.
Cool, too bad I can't rely on Google suddenly deprecating this service.
How to Turn Your Pile of Code into an Open Source Project (2013)
This thread is already a damning indictment of google cloud. Price cuts alone won't attract customers -- google has sustained significant reputational damage with their crappy customer service and support. That's hard to fix
Future Food-Tech 2024 San Francisco Conference
Curious if anyone has attended? Is it worth the money?
> and collected seven millilitres of my tears.

Can you really collect half a table spoon of tears from tear ducts? How much tears are in there?
> I think what this means to be a “tech company” often. Benedict Evans recently wrote about Netflix, and how it not really a tech company [https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/31/Netflix]. Evans says Netflix is a media company that uses technology “as a crowbar” to enter. He writes that the main drivers of the business Netflix is in content. While the technical aspects are impressive, they are quickly getting commoditized, lowering Netflix’s competitive advantage.

I wholeheartedly agree.

In fact, I am somewhat relieved that relatively influential (if not a bit controversial) figures like Evans can comfortable call a company like Netflix “a media company that uses” versus a “tech company”. This seems like a new development. Netflix is located right in Silicon Valley in Los Gatos. It has tons of engineers. It’s the N of the FAANG.

This does not mean that the technologists over at the company are not doing innovative, technically challenging work. But it means whatever work they do, the company will live and die mainly by its ability to create as much original content a possible. The rest, as they as, are on the margins.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/everything-is-a-tech-company-n...
I don’t really know what the answer should be. I somewhat arbitrarily chose a vet, found the group they are a Bart of, and looked up their accounts up to autumn 2022:

Turnover 987 =
Goods sold 96
+ services 776
+ ‘health club’ 113

I didn’t look into the health club thing. I think it’s a subscription and it probably includes regular checkups, vaccines, and maybe some other random things.

Staff costs 442 (50% of turnover)
Lease payments 37

Profit 69.3 (~7% of turnover)

I’m not very good at reading financial statements and I didn’t try to dig through all the costs. There are things like buying new equipment as well as things needed for each operation. The group spent 118m on buying up other practices, but I don’t know how much leverage they had. If we take those numbers in a conservative “what if they were trying not to profit” scenario where they have no leverage, that’s 177 in “profit” out of 987 in income, or about $1800 if you assign it proportionally to a $10k skewer removal (or $700 if the acquisitions are counted as free).

I don’t know how those numbers look to you. To me, they don’t seem insane and I’m not sure the difference would matter much — I doubt the person unwilling to pay 10k would be willing to pay 8.2k. Also, I would guess that sort of surgery to be lower margin than routine things, though maybe competition drives it the other way.
Discussions about correlation vs causation aside I would say that I would not find such a relationship to be surprising.

Having grown up in socially rented housing (i.e. "council housing") and then lived in private rents as an adult, I suspect the biggest factor here is security of tenure. You have a different outlook on life when your tenancy might well not be renewed in 12 months, depending on the whims of your landlord. Medium term investments like DIY or redecorating are just not something worth undertaking if you might not be there in a few months. And that's even assuming you're allowed to. Imagine needing to get someone's permission to repaint an internal door or (in some extreme cases) hang a picture on a wall.

That's without touching on the performance/behaviour of small private landlords which I think it's fair to categorise as "uneven".
Is there a reason to believe this will happen?
That is a very interesting view point. Existence used to be cohesive, ritualized, we were all close to and part of every aspect of it. Now it's all industrialized, and it's not surprising that it's dehumanizing to people in charge.
Product Liability in the Farm Equipment Industry - https://youtu.be/NdN577BbnSY

Pay close attention to the standards section and the verdict allocation of case study #1.

> Farmer, arguably the person most at fault, is essentially immune from liability. This would be true in most states due to Workers Comp

> Jury cannot attribute % of fault to Gonzales because he used Employer's equipment. This would not be true in most states.

> Jury wishing to give Gonzales "something" has only Bush Hog and Massey Ferguson to fault. Cannot do a % reduction for fault of Farmer or Gonzales
Plus if you have someone just hanging around who's a font nerd it's fun, saves money, gives you fodder for the marketing machine, and you get a more distinct brand with your company's "handwriting."

It's not actually that hard to make your own font -- like you have to try to make an actively bad font. And since the value-add is mostly character I'm shocked how much people who license fonts jerk you around.
https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS1001/extension/an...

Link to pdf
It's a fair critique and an interesting thought experiment. Imagine a sci-fi alternative world where a smartphone-like portable device contained a compressed version all the world's knowledge (maybe a few petabytes?) and super-human intelligence (maybe 10x), but the highest level of communications was land-line telephones. It's not a slam-dunk that the world with high-speed Internet would be the superior one. Fortunately for us, we [almost] have both.
To take issue with the lede,

it's completely clear that the bet will pay off, just not for whom, when.

There is zero ambiguity about that fact that everything is going to change, for a pretty sizable interpretation of "everything."

That this hasn't been reflected in the quarterly numbers betrays either a droll sardonicism in service of generating clicks, or, a comical loss of perspective.
Exactly: I have to provision for peak throughput on Spanner. Average throughput is much lower than the peak throughput, so I'm doubtful of seeing savings no Spanner.

(But I bet that Spanner is much easier than DynamoDB to develop with...)
Questions about the "harms" of unfiltered information access aren't reasonable. The people asking those questions are being disingenuous. They are fundamentally unprincipled and are simply looking for plausible sounding reasons to restrict speech that they don't like.
"Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky. No changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps are required, providing seamless access to text, voice, and data."

"Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capability have an advanced eNodeB modem onboard that acts like a cellphone tower in space, allowing network integration similar to a standard roaming partner."

It looks like all that's new here is the website: the service itself has been announced for over a year now. Here's one story about it from March: https://www.engadget.com/spacex-is-getting-ready-to-test-its...

And here's a story covering the initial announcement in August 2022 as a partnership with T-Mobile: https://www.engadget.com/t-mobile-starlink-partnership-01253...
The problem is that your thought is at the level of sentences with your muscle memory being automatic and your visual system mainly scanning for errors. Your “what character do I type next” at speed is less likely to be driven via visual feedback and more by direct proprieception / tactile feedback. Also, it’s not like you have a fixed 100ms delay between each character -the display system is asynchronous and will effectively batch everything up. So that 100ms delay means 100ms after your most recently typed character, not an additive 100ms delay.

Again, I’m not saying you won’t notice it, but I know I’m a very fast typer and when I was working on Oculus AirLink we had a prototype virtual desktop thing and I know I personally didn’t really notice any lag despite our internal metrics saying ~100ms of latency (we’d artificially inject extra latency for studies). It may be people differences, but keep in mind that how you measure is also important and almost no one measures true key stroke to display latency nor do they run human factors studies to accurately characterize if there really is anyone who does notice it (even at Oculus - most studies are very poor quality often with limited sample size, skewed population, and very poor reproduction/analysis because the time allotted for these projects is just enough to try to get guidance on next steps)
Now if there is a way to identify dupes and consolidate, plus a way to instantly preview and dispatch photo libraries to new locations, these features would really answer the need to wrangle data.