skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we are not even close to the youth suicides numbers of the 1880s … To me there is obviously no new epidemic

Do we have any reason to believe that the suicide numbers in the 1880s are at all correlated with systemic factors that still persist? i.e. were people committing suicide for the same reasons people are today?

Without this answer, it seems very difficult to support the conclusion that there is “obviously no new epidemic”.

It’s also worth noting that:

1. The mental health epidemic people are increasingly concerned about isn’t just about suicide rates

2. Regardless of centuries past, current concerns are based on local trends, indicating that something is indeed changing

Yes, we’re talking more about mental health now more than ever. But this is not enough to account for recent trends.

I’d be curious to learn more about the time period you’re referencing and how you’re comparing the systemic factors to reach the conclusion that these are the same issues we’ve always faced.

At a minimum, it must be acknowledged that the context has completely changed, and even if we’re dealing with the same underlying psychological factors, the world context in which they’re surfacing must affect people in new ways that were not possible in the 1880s.
I think you mean portrait mode. But yeah that immediately made me not care about whatever this is. If someone is too lazy to make their site responsive, that's fine. But when they go out of their way to make the site unusable, that's another thing entirely.
Through standardized base design that you can modify. In the same way that having the source code for vendor software often speeds up software development.
I mean, if you have a functional fast acting organization, maybe.

It seems in the vast majority of organizations I talk to, this is not how things work at all. To get a db restore on a different box you have to have at least 2 different teams involved. One to provide a machine/vm/aws instance to restore to, and another to provide the snapshot/backup.

With a soft delete all you need is the application administrator that has SQL access, which is typically far closer to the person that needs the data restored than the operations team is, hence it gets 'fixed' in a more timely fashion.
Thank you for the great work you've all done.
Minimizing all software phoning home as much as possible, and then watching for suspicious network activity.

Also dumping the flash* contents out with JTAG. And even better than that, physically disabling the network interfaces completely and not ever connecting the device to the Internet at all.

* = also the eMMC controller internal firmware, this is where a sophisticated implant will likely reside

It's also very unlikely that the hardware would be compromised, the government doesn't want to waste a potentially high value exploit on ordinary people. If they do, they risk having their exploit captured and exposed, and thus wasting it.
Related:

Last name contains invalid characters [2010] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769788 - July 2021 (2 comments)

Your last name contains invalid characters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438355 - June 2010 (73 comments)
That seems like a denial of reality. You believe if they don't have social media to tell them that they're working 2 dead end jobs and can't afford to place to live while choking on smoke all summer that they wouldn't notice and just be happy?
Also if you scroll down on the main page WikiHouse is a non-profit registered in England & Wales, and their "sponsors and partners" are very dominated by UK organizations.
For me personally, the ability to look at the sex offender registry and realize there are 4 registered folks within a mile of my house.
You should have fixed the oil leak with some duck tape!
The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
You are delusional, the iPhone was cheaper at launch than it has ever been after.

If they changed the price, it cannot be just a small change, and they cannot lower the quality that much (because the much cheaper alternatives are not that far). It seems pretty obvious that Cook's greed got the better of him and instead of absorbing the startup price of this new venture he decided to pass all costs to consumers (plus the usual fat margin of course).
If they drop the price in half at the second gen, it will look extremely bad, even by Apple's standard.
In any case that ship has sailed...
Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe
It's not powerful enough for that, 2018 chipset -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938330

"No subscription" definitely sounds good to get people in the door but it seems short sighted in the long run, can't be making much on $200 and the more it's used the more that margin is eaten. Presumably they will roll out a sub at some point for extra features but then you get the backlash of "You said no subscription".
I did that once in the Mohave. So much fun. Except I drove a functional support car and helped people get unstuck. Oddly it was the brand new Range Rover who had to get towed out and not any of competing cars.
Because DNS is an insecure protocol and DNSSEC adds a layer of security that protects against bad actors? It's beneficial to the business and it's consumers? Why do I put locks on my door, I've never been robbed...
Seems similar datomic.

https://www.datomic.com/benefits.html
Every problem has an amount of essential complexity, which as you said can’t be done away with. Imperfect engineering often adds unnecessary (accidental) complexity.

I think it would a mistake to approach a domain and assume nothing can be made simpler or more straightforward.
> no part of this project that actually emulates "a number of other peripherals"

It does - it's just that none of the emulated things go through the motherboard to be emulated. There is an Apple II HDMI board that can output Apple IIgs graphics from a II+ because it watches the peripheral bus for the signals a 65816 would make to setup a IIgs screen. Lots of Apple II accelerators emulate a number of things on-board and only use the socket to push peripheral IO.

> then build a "new" Amiga by putting that new SoC board in.

I really like this idea. A lot of the experience of a retro machine is the physical device. I've been toying with the idea of making Atari ST and Amiga keyboards with USB ports just so that the emulators would "feel" more real.

I have a PC-122 keyboard and using it in combination with a 3270 emulator feels just right (even when the mainframe is running on an RPi)
That's interesting, for sure. Modular homes in affordable areas of the US are $1k/m²
The local "country" music station keeps a log of the tracks played over the past ~12 hours. I see none of those artists on the list, and certainly no record of any bar musicians making the cut. The list is mostly the usual suspects – many of which were played multiple times – playing the aforementioned "elevator music", and curiously a couple of Elvis Presley rock spins in the wee morning hours.

While one station may not be entirely representative, I expect you will find a similar story across most country stations. I'm not sure you have made a compelling case that country has risen up to replace rock music.

You can name just as many current rock musicians doing great things. But that doesn't mean rock isn't dead. The topic is in reference to what is popular. There is a strong case to be made that country did die after the Cash era.
German rail strikes and farmers' protests disrupt Europe's biggest economy
I came here to say that

We had a herion addiction treatment service using ibogain in my country try

Worked well, as well as any addiction service

Till someone died

I learnt it is statistically about one in one hundred and fifty people will have their heart stop, and die, taking ibogain (I do not have a reference)

Knocks it out of consideration
Is going from high level to low level somehow worse?

I went from very high level (C# web and even webassembly) to C

and while I believe I learned a lot and my understanding of computers improved,

then I think the biggest lesson is that one of the most important programming ecosystems (C) is a very messy and painful.

Not because it must be painful, but because of decisions made decades ago, maybe some inertia, maybe backward compatibility, maybe culture, who knows?

Low quality compiler messages, ecosystem fragmentation, terrible standard lib (where are my basic datastructures), memory management being minefield, etc.
I would hope the open-source nature of it would mean the designs would evolve until they would pass a building inspection in the US, but I also know nothing about building inspections in the US.
Kick is narrowly avoiding the Truth Social/Gab "this is the platform where all the people banned from Twitter are" stink by basically throwing money at non-problematic streamers until they can't refuse the payout. The streamers saw what happened with Ninja during the Mixer shutdown (getting bought out of his contract, going straight back to Twitch) and probably want that to happen to them.
> Rightly or wrongly a lot of hope is being put into RISC-V as a way of improving the situation.

Those hopes are obviously misplaced. The ISA isn't why your hard drive's firmware is closed. Western Digital using RISC-V isn't going to make them more willing to open up about the non-CPU parts of their chips, where their competitive advantages reside. RISC-V isn't even going to make anyone change their decision about whether to design their own CPU core or license an off the shelf core. The only real impact RISC-V will have on the industry is to slightly improve the breadth and pricing of off the shelf CPU core IP available to ASIC designers—and that doesn't have any implications for the openness of products incorporating those CPU cores.

RISC-V cannot break a dam holding back companies from open-sourcing everything when that dam is entirely imaginary.
Something to be aware of as a computer person coming into biology: Biology only _looks_ like it has logical constructs, abstraction layers, and general computational frameworks. When you start working with it, you'll find everything is messier than you expected and everything interacts with everything at every level. There are no abstractions, there are no actual boundaries, and your outputs are subject to evolutionary pressures even when sitting in a flask. Many an engineer has washed aground on the rocky shores of biological indeterminism - it's not a machine, no matter how much it kind of looks like one when you squint at it.
If you complimented Mastodon why are you comparing with Twitter? Why not compare with Mastodon or other ActivityPub implementations?

Does your implementation match the features of Mastodon?
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Fuzzing and Bypassing the AWS WAF
Reminds me a lot of "Turning the Database Inside-Out"[1], but I think Red Planet Labs is overstating their point a little. TtDIO is a lot more careful with its argument, and it doesn't claim to have some sort of silver bullet to sell me.

[1]: https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...
PTSD is a dramatically different disorder to MDD though, no? It has pretty acute effects, and I don't know, but I would imagine it's less susceptible to placebo.

Not to say this trial is any higher quality than it is, or that your sidebar on MDD wasn't interesting, but I'm not sure it's that effective of a comparison.
Operating slower RF equipment isn't just affecting the single end user though. That user is affecting everyone else wanting to share that spectrum.
Are we looking at the same thing?

The NN pages are cluttered with navigation to other areas, links for "more this and that", related courses, etc. Everything is in six different font sizes, there are variously-coloured illustrations that pull at strenuous off-topic metaphors... it's a mess.

In contrast, the OP page is clear, simple, sticks to the topic at hand. Easy to read typography, eight paragraphs for the eight rules.
I have a really bad prescription (something like -12.5, -13), and I've had multiple pairs of glasses before. Changing from one pair to another gives me a headache. How am I going to use this device?
No, they store data in 'depots', which are append only logs, like kafka. There is no mutable state.
I am sympathetic to the finiteness of disk space and amount of actual spam they must ingest.
You can't prove a negative. How would you do it for an on-prem scenario?
And people post short comments that take strong positions in such a way that it's really hard to decide whether it's a complete beginner bluffing or an expert talking from a wealth of experience.
Indeed.

Python is great for getting things into a data.frame. But once in a data.frame, R is so much easier to work with for all things stats and ml-related.
Nvidia L40S vs. H100 vs. A100 the Video – ServeTheHome
How to Buy a Great Used Car (2016)
this guide just saved me $7k! thought the info is useful
Good thing nobody is forcing you to consume anything then.
Is this a Linux implementation detail, or is it a feature of POSIX systems generally?
Payment/accounting systems are the typical example of where transactions are critical. The sending and receiving accounts need to be updated in the same transaction that correctly fails if either account would become negative as a result of the operation.
So, the worst Swiss cheese.
Yes but we didnt' have the entire thing uploaded into our heads. To use Byung-Chul Han's phrase, you're both master and slave in one now. You're not even a subject any more (that has some places to escape to) but a project.

To tie it into the article, the social media dynamic, young girls seeing themselves as never-ending beauty projects that have to get lip-fillers, more clicks, more likes, compete with each other, is just the logic of capital without even someone needing to subject them to it, they're doing it themselves.

Capital's eaten all the physical space, it's still hungry so it's gobling up all the mental space, and information tech was the vector to jump from one to the other. And it does to the mental environment exactly what it did to physical spaces once its done harvesting them.
Jonathan Haidt is a very thoughtful researcher and has been looking at this and related issues for a very long time. I think your dismissal is perhaps a bit too casual.
Just ask it again so you can burn- and drive out the existing members with repetitive questions!
You can buy a Ruckus r610 for $40 from eBay.

It's not a package deal, but router hardware for Pfsense or OpnSense, or even a Tp link or Unifi device isn't exactly breaking the bank.

It's also vastly superior enough for the Open WRT to not be worth it.

Does OpenWRT appeal to people with a low degree of knowledge, time or skill? Heck no.

The most applicable scenario I can think of is someone who is very knowledgeable and has a lot of time but very little money, but OpenWRT exclusively as a device for people who live in India or Brazil is again not super compelling to *me* as a technological package.

Though I respect conceptually that other people might have different perspectives, I live in a country with an average living standard, so I can't really share it.
Straw man much?

I subscribe to receive emails or newsletters. I forward them to someone. They unsubscribe me. I stop getting them. I wonder what happens and blame the site. They couldn't even inform me what happened.

Developers are supposed to make the correct security architecture for things. Letting anyone who gets your forwarded email take actions as you on the site without any further authentication, is not the right security model.
Prime USED to remove ads site-wide, but that was shuttered. Turbo will probably go away sometime in the future as well, as it's mostly there to offer a product for developing markets where Prime doesn't exist yet.

I don't subscribe to any channels because Turbo exists; they probably don't like that.
So just like my codebase then
Are you not concerned with the CFAA?
After being a web developer for 10+ years, I'm getting into C for the first time. I'd had a bit of experience with Objective-C years ago when I did some iOS work, but that was the "lowest" I'd gone down the stack.

There's a lot of unfamiliar territory, but I'm really enjoying it. When it's complex, it feels like it's just inherently complex. Which is a breath of fresh air for a web developer. I'd gotten so sick of the bullshit complexity that comes along with the high-level work; programming feels fun again.
Recommend Electronics Books [video]
Computers only look like they have windows, digital signals and logic gates. It's all just pixels, noisy voltages and imperfect silicon.
US Is Weaponizing New Economic Tools to Slow China's War Machine
Sounds like many a codebases I've worked on haha
Yes.

But psychedelic studies are impossible with double blind

It is important to be rigorous in your study, but cannot expect too much

Psychedelic therapies are not like antibiotic therapies, they interact in complex and confounding ways with set and setting
https://archive.is/XH3af
> Is it worse in countries at most risk from climate change?

It doesn't have to be that. I would try and spot correlations between mental health and bombardment of this in the news.
I doubt anything there is "the real deal", "Swiss" isn't a kind of cheese either
Why would they? A person who picks Discord has no idea what knowledge discovery is.
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Speaking as a person who is healing their own intense childhood traumas, I'd try everything safer first, but I'd absolutely accept a 1/150 chance of death if there was even a 1/10 chance of being truly free of the hellish inner prison that such trauma creates.
For all the super libertarians out there who are outraged they can't do business like they use to with China, remember, this is save/prevent your death.
This must be what it’s like for normies who stumble across some JavaScript source code.

reading it is impossible to the point it’s actually fun to try.
I'd assume more of a concern troll type but you never know, there's more gullible/naive people that need things laid out in plain terms. Not necessarily knocking the person I was originally replying to, but don't forget half the population is dumber than the average. If we have to tell people not to eat laundry detergent than I can understand some people being not grasping military strategy or geopolitics.

Didn't know about that happening in Africa but doesn't surprise me, do you know of anything else like that happening in Southeast Asia? Might find myself in that area and would like to know what to look out for besides vodka and people yelling "cyka blyat"
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True. It is however finally in ICD-11.
See the movie Eighth Grade for an anxiety inducing exploration of this theme. My personal take is that not having community is devastating, and the issue with social media is that it makes you think you have community in your brain, but your body/heart knows that you are actually just alone in your room. Even worse, it makes you crave a kind of unattainable community, so even people with loving family and friends might feel alone because they are longing for something nonexistent.

To your pet cat, the difference between you scrolling on your phone and you staring at the wall is nothing.
You can indeed, if you slice off everything after and including the zlib adler32 checksum. In some situations you might need to add some extra (compressed) padding bytes to flush the pixel data you care about through the parser state machine. This works in every browser I tested (as a consequence of their ability to preview partially-downloaded files) but not in many standalone image viewers (since they usually expect whole files).
The I think about it is like this: Code is read and maintained by humans, so it is under selection pressure to be comprehensible by human minds.

Reality has no such constraint. If the biological processes of some animal lead to inscrutable irreducibly complex "spaghetti code" but the animal is slightly more likely to produce offspring... the complexity wins. The natural world doesn't care whether or not we can understand it.

(There is, of course, a natural selection pressure going the other direction. Brains that understand the natural world do seem to often be generally more likely to produce offspring, so there's evolutionary pressure for minds to understand the world, but not for the world to be understood by minds.)
The lesser known origin of Aquaman.
Required reading: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Ibogain is dangerous

Which is why researchers are looking at Psilocybin and LSD

particularly Psilocybin as it is short acting making everything easier and cheaper

I think they should look more at DMT. Businessman's acid.
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Ayaneo NEXT LITE gaming handheld announced with SteamOS Linux
I think this is more because we also are quick to shame what are more clear unintentional mistakes or not give positive rewards to good actors. I'm also not unconvinced there are people that want to up-play any controversy (not as any specifically collective and directed force, but an emergent behavior may look that way. More "never let a tragedy go to waste" thing).

But that's different than shaming. That's over-saturating the system with false positives. To combat this I'd encourage you to not respond, in __any__ way to bullshit fake controversy and to also give positive reinforcement for when companies do something good.

I'll give an example, you've probably seen companies like Meta occasionally do something good. For example, they released the source of LLaMA. But people tend to use those opportunities to not congratulate Meta for doing the good thing but rather complain about other bad things they do. Then yes, it fits your model, because you've reached bad steady state and you can no longer turn good because nothing you do that is good will get any signal to continue in that direction.

Us humans are weird and routinely shoot ourselves in the foot only to ask who fired the bullet, smoking gun in hand.
Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240110185343/https://theinterce...
The "I'm sure" button is sensible since the session cookie confirms it's you. But that button requires a second click. That would violate the "single-click".

According to the "single click" requirement, merely visiting the page by clicking the link in your email should be enough to unsubscribe you. Meaning, the GET request, which normally shouldn't change server state, should change server state.

The major issue with that is, if you forward the email, you are giving the capability to anyone else to act as you. It's a horribly insecure model, it also breaks HTTP semantics, but at least you can limit it to the "unsubscribe" action, I guess. Could be worse. Google could require other "single click" actions that may modify your profile or withdraw money from your bank account.

The only mitigation I can see is that the "you've been unsubscribed" email is a transactional email, and can inform the user that "if it wasn't you, then click here to restore your subscription to this newsletter, and don't forward your emails anymore, because Google says someone can unsubscribe you anytime and we can't do anything about it."

PS: Ironically, Apple's newest ITP scrubs information from tracking links in emails, so in theory it would make it impossible to even track whose account to unsubscribe from. "It will do this by automatically detecting user-identifiable tracking parameters in URLs and removing them." Apple ITP anti-tracking requires you to explicitly log in before doing stuff as you. Google now requires the opposite. It's impossible to satisfy both. https://www.peelinsights.com/post/ios-17-disrupts-link-track...