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+972 magazine is EXTREMELY anti-Israel and anti-semitic, so this article is written through the lens of despising Israel and Jews. Here are some of their other article titles, which you can find on their home page:

1. Hebrew University’s Faculty of Repressive Science
2. The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism
3. The first step toward disintegrating Israel’s settler machine

As such, their view is not at all balanced or even-handed. Objective truth obviously matters very little to them since they exhibit such open bias and loathing towards Israel and the Jewish people.
If you accept something as an axiom and other people don't then it's not a very good axiom. I.e., you will have to justify yourself and your actions to others, who think your actions are wrong. Besides, an axiom is something assumed because the way that the ideas are built off of them are interesting, not because the axiom and the result are unquestionable.
An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet
Note that OCaml has been using autoconf since OCaml 4.09.
> we have Microcontrollers running at 600MHz+

The RP2040 has little tiny processors dedicated to bit banging. I think at this point the only thing you need FPGA's for is mega bandwidth stuff.
Thanks. Because giving idea to other founders. Sharing numbers is really helpful as I feel.
> Euthanasia for incurable cancer patients is a no-brainer

This is absolutely not a universally held belief.
Everyone's Racing to Replace Redis – Who Will Win? [video]
Rough read.

It's hard for me to even imagine such a state of mind, and the suffering one experiences. Somehow the fact that the euthanization takes place in your own home gives me the creeps. I really wonder what drives people to work in this space? In the case of pets or animals being put down it's a vet that does the deed, is it doctors in this case?

Also, her therapist claiming that "There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better" sounds like an enormous red flag for me. Some authority should take a long hard look at a professional therapist speaking like that, especially considering the proximity/possibility of human euthanasia, or just suicide in general.

I was positive to euthanasia before this article (I had considered it primarily for terminally ill people and such), but this really turned me off. I can't believe we made suicide a legal depression cure before when there's been so much talk about shrooms/acid and such perhaps being helpful.
My BIL suffered from depression all his life - ups and downs and sometimes he had to get electroshock therapy when the meds did not work.

The last time I saw him he was just like a zombie from all the medications he was on.

He committed suicide just before Xmas a few years back and I had to wait for the coroner and the cops before I could move the step ladder and they kindly removed the rope from the beam.

I wished he had a more dignified option available to him and that his wife did not find him like that but I doubt his family would have accepted his decision to end his own life.
I don't think we should trust 'the state' to force people to do anything.

We generally need them to force people not to do a few really bad things (e.g. some basic laws), but in recent decades it feels that the concept of freedom has been under relentless attack and in an era without religion, the state is almost becoming a substitute for a god.

But these days it seems that our leaders are motivated almost entirely by profit. They will not do what is best for the average individual.
I am now going to use

LIP "Lipid Imbalanced Person" (just made that up) for both fat and skinny people.

and

LDP "lipid deficient person" for skinny people

when I go for my next cofee at my local cafe I shall ask for an LDL "lipid deficient Latte". Oh my I do feel like I am mixing with the coffee snob in crowd.

I do wonder which phrase is the most damaging to the human psyche.

Oi mate! your looking fat bruv
Oi mate! your looking obese bruv
Oi mate! your looking overweight bruv
Oi mate! your looking LIP bruv
> leftovers can kill you

Still probably worth a try, I mean doesn't seem like a big deal at all considering these circumstances.

Also IIRC modern(ish) MAOIs are a lot safer.
This article is disingenuous by only referring to expert opinion from a Christian university, which is obviously against euthanasia. Experts from other universities would provide a more nuanced view on the subject.
Furthermore when the article discusses an increase in numbers, they don't mention that 60% of euthanasia is performed for individuals who suffer from late stage cancer. Most others are generally very old, and will only suffer without remit for the rest of their lives.

The procedure for this woman to have been granted euthanasia is not something that is easy to get through. It is mentioned she has suffered from this disease for all of her life and there is no cure. Multiple medical doctors need to be in agreement before a request for euthanasia is granted in any case. There is even more scrutiny when it is about a young person as well as when the disease is mental in nature.

In all, I hated reading this article, because it's extremely far from the truth about how the Netherlands have implemented their euthanasia laws. I suggest reading up on it from more reputable sources than `the mirror`
My gut reaction is actually the opposite of yours, I feel a bit relieved knowing there's one less human living in unbearable pain.

Life is complex and it is not within me to fully comprehend everything that everyone around me is feeling, all I can do is help to the best of my abilities and respect others decisions.

As for the reason why this is an article, it's probably because this is quite new for a lot of people, like when antibiotics was first found. At first it was the news of the century and was advertised on the news, now it's just common practice and you don't even know when doctors use it on another human.
If a person has tried every other option and there is still no end to their pain, either physical or psychological, they would sooner or later try to end their life anyway.

It is in the best interest of everybody to offer assisted suicide at a set time and date instead of taking the matter into their own hands and leaving family, friends and first responders with the trauma of discovering a body.
You seem to be using the word "good" as if it's universally understood and agreed upon, but that's not the case.

Why do you even think you should have the freedom to decide what's "good" in the first place?
What would be a more dignified way?
The act of taking your own life has no reliance on countries 'recognizing' it nor promoting it. You are by definition free to do it. Being assisted in doing so is another topic.
Canada's also recently changed their laws to allow 'mental health' as a reason I think...
The ultimate endgame of euthanasia is that you'll be offed once you no longer have any economic value to the state.

I don't see how anyone can look at what's happening now in Canada, for example, and deny the existence of the slippery slope.
Do you think the state should allow parents of children to kill or neglect them if the parents want to? I don't personally and I'm happy for the state to try and save such children. There are countless other examples like this I could come up with.

EDIT: the second and third paragraphs were added after I wrote this message
Feedback on the website: I see 'cc-by-4.0' license on https://iconbuddy.com/twemoji but I can just copy or download an icon without getting prompted informing me of my attribution obligation.
Awesome work on it, glad to see the app not die. More power to you!
I really appreciate them putting actial numbers in here! So many places are deliberately vague on numbers.

A $100,000 base cost for the entire system is unbelievably cheap!

To put that in context, you could offset the entire worlds CO2 emissions for just $35 trillion worth of these! That might sound like a lot, but it's technically achievable, being half the USA federal budget for 10 years.

The energy requirements also aren't impossible, about 350TW of power, easily less than a 100km x 100km square of solar panels. (Admittedly, this is several times more expensive than the Terraform installations, but we need power anyway and will be getting more efficient at solar panel manufacture)

Interestingly, this also puts an upper bound on a reasonable CO2 tax of $1000/ton or around £1.8 per litre of petrol, so lovers of fossil fuels and flying can still drive on the track or go for a flight on weekends.
Uh, yeah, euthanasia?
It seems to me you're conflating two different things - control systems and intelligence. We already have pretty good engineering tools for control systems and better ones are discovered now and again.

LLMs aren't meant to control individual servos, although it appears that transformers can do that too. The human brain doesn't use the same architecture for controlling the heart as it does for processing vision, for example.
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Doesn't help that a lot of companies still just allow anyone with access to the phone number to gain access to the account (via customer support or automated SMS-based account recovery).
I feel sorry for her decision as well, but this is not wrong. Think about it for the moment.

- She can schedule an euthanasia.
- She can throw herself in front of a train.
- She can hang herself somewhere.
- Many many other "traditional" way.

The difference here is, if she schedule euthanasia, the people provide the service will have to finish everything up for her, and they should be less traumatise compare to the train driver in the hypothetical example.

We surely shouldn't take this lightly, but this is not wrong at all.
Also the need for this long term storage is never quantified by those we need it. Put a twh number on it and the problem melts away. We're actually producing batteries by the twh per year now.
Thanks. I really appreciate your support.
Do the IDF analysts who are being interviewed also despise Israel and the Jewish people?
Only recently someone here on HN posted a video about some big hall in the US, where nazi supporters gathered in droves. It made it seem like they had significant ideological footing in the US as well. Unthinkable what could have happened, if they had had even more support. Not exactly this video that was linked, but this seems to be about the same gathering: https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=r4zRZ7XLYSA
For someone who is physically functional, opting out is a "natural right" in the sense that it can't be removed: they can always find a way. Removing nicer options just means they'll go for messier ones, potentially causing more damage to the society, and to the individuals who have to witness the event or it's results.
> Maybe because leftovers can kill you if you're on them.

What?
Enter = one key

Cmd+whatever = annoying chord.
These icons are open source and users can use these according to the open source licence and all of them allow to use these icons in to there project.
The comments here betray a significant misunderstanding of both the Python ecosystem and open source work.

Getting to a consensus is hard work. They have a vision for how Python packaging and tooling could be better (I assume cargo-like), and a roadmap for improving that. They could have tried to convince the pip maintainers their roadmap was best, but with large fragmented communities like Python it is impossible to reason about how the community will receive changes to tooling. It’s better to build something and get feedback to prove the hypothesis.

The choice of Rust is just because they like the developer ergonomics in that language (I suspect a big reason is that they wanted to ship a single binary independent of any Python env). CPython is written in C because… Guido started to write it in C.

Many comments here don’t understand that their competitors are actually NOT just pip but the conda ecosystem including micromamba (written in C++) which does not attempt to maintain pip interop at all. Conda realized that there are millions of Python programmers who are not developers and could not debug a GCC error message when pip installing scipy.

There are thousands of Python packages that are basically tested on whatever version of Python and libraries the author had installed at the time they wrote it, and literally millions of Github issues that are something like “this doesn’t work because I installed version Y of package X and package Z requires < Y” all vaguely for solveable reasons. Many of these include C/C++ code that builds via custom setup.py scripts.

If you haven’t lost days of work to solving stupid dependency issues in Python I’m not sure you can relate.
Of course not - no belief is.

My point was that it is drastically easier to believe that euthanasia for cancer patients is okay, than for depression sufferers.
"Fascist" began as a neutral description of political-financial relationships and was later made into a household slur by the Soviets to take the heat off after people started likening them to Nazis thanks to their short-lived military alliance, their shared "-ism word", and their common interest in techniques of political oppression (search term: "Gestapo–NKVD conferences"). In this context, there is no logical connection to philanthropy much less to "white supremacy", a term that's almost always used monomaniacally.
> It also begs the question, are the people in these situations even mentally fit enough to make the decision rationally? With the limited context I have, I don’t think so.

Without euthanasia. A person in that situation can and will choose other means to kill himself/herself.
Folks at gitbook are kind enough to give me a LLM over my notes https://til.bhupesh.me
>...there might be certain interest in this being out of the ordinary.

I think, maybe, you weren't aware of it's legality; especially, in the Netherlands[1]?

[1] - https://www.government.nl/topics/euthanasia/euthanasia-assis...
It's a very difficult choice to make and I have full sympathies for the lady. I also respect herc choice, considering that it was made by her own free will and complies with the law of the land.

However, I still feel a bit conflicted about this situation. As per the report, she is physically fit, has a loving boyfriend, a pet cat, and doesn't seem to be in any monetary duress. Plus, she happens to be living in one of the happiest and prosperous countries in the world.

When I compare her with a vast multitude of people in developing countries who continue to toil against all odds (physical, mental, societal, economic, etc.), I feel that she should have been encouraged to not give up.

An old song that has always stuck with me has lyrics that say, "there is so much pain in the world; (comparatively) my pain is so little. When I saw people's pain, I forgot my own."

Of course, these are just my thoughts. I fully respect her (& everybody else's) rights to decide what's best for them. May she be at peace with her decision and enjoy her remaining days in a better frame of mind.
20 seconds "to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male". And then "for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians".
Yeah, all the productivity improvements could be used to make everyone's lives better, but hey, some people really need yatchs, cars they can't really drive, multiple houses and more.
It has little to do with an "inviolable right to self ownership" -- the overwhelming majority of the world already have that. You can eat until your jaw breaks while dedicating your life to proving a flat Earth, you can go base jumping off a cliff, or you can tattoo obscenities on your forehead. Or all of it at the same time. And it's perfectly acceptable as an action of autonomy and self-ownership.

Euthanasia, or suicide, is instead a problem of diminished capacity and whether or not suicide could ever be a decision of someone who is of sound mind. Much like we don't let babies walk into traffic, believe that a 9 year old is able to consent or allow severely mentally handicapped people the ability to refuse surgery -- having legal frameworks that don't encourage these things isn't about stripping away the right to self-ownership.
"Just following orders" huh?
I can't believe I'm being offered Will Smith analogies as apologia for an actual genocide. This is one of the most of awful (in all senses quality, content, intention, execution) posts I've ever read in my entire life.
>> What if it's just a phase they'll grow out of?

Nonsense - you clearly never had somebody close to you suffer from it.
My daughter suffers from depression - it is not a state of mind or a funk you can snap out of.
It's disheartening so many don't see the brain as a physical part of ourselves, just the mental. To describe this individual as suffering from "crippling depression" but also "physically healthy" when they clearly suffer from long term mental health problems feels like an oxymoron.

I'm not sure for what reason people think everyone needs to be alive and live long natural lives. If she doesn't end her life humanely and in the comfort of trained professionals, she can just simply do it at home in a far more unpleasant way. Hope it all goes well for them.
Except it won't stop with people who are truly living with unsolvable pain. You're painfully naive if you can't see that.

What's the limiting principle here exactly? If we normalize the idea that suicide is a solution to any problem, it's inevitably going to start being used as a "solution" for more and more problems: treatable illness, poverty, old age, disability, dependence on those who'd rather not shoulder the burden of caring for you.

It's already happening.
"You're not allowed" implies that someone else has the freedom to decide what is and is not allowed.

All roads lead to freedom. There can be no tyranny without freedom to tyrannize - there's just no way around it.
This is so cool! And the fact that you can use Ollama as 'llm backend' makes it sustainable. didn't see how to switch models in the demo, that might be worth to highlight in readme..
This makes sense to some extent (terminal illness or such), but one can argue as someone did above that if you're willing to make the permanent decision to "destroy" yourself, are you sane enough to legally make decision? Are you for sure not under temporary delusion, distress, or other threat? You can always "legally" "destroy" yourself through suicide, but if you want to involve a medical professional it seems very reasonable that you have the mental clarity to make the decision.

Should it be illegal for the doctor to deny me an amputation that I ask for? After all, I should be "free to destroy myself" absent any justification?
I made it clear it's something reporting itself as "Twitterbot". Unlikely to be your web browser, unless you went out of your way to impersonate Twitterbot. Still, I only quoted two octets out of the IPv4 Class B address, even though I feel that it would be fine to reveal the full address of a bot.
You can actually electrify much of metallurgy, and this is already happening. Things like cement kilns are much more difficult, on the other hand.
I tell the story of how I failed to validate it, and the exact steps I took and the what I learned and discovered from each one.

Let me know what you think. What could I have done differently?
6 year old article in dutch [1] about Zoraya (the woman in question) already back then planning her premature death:

> She claims the right to a dignified ending: euthanasia. "You can buy a rope, you climb up an apartment and a train also runs. But why is it made so difficult for us? Why do you have to be 75 before you have a completed life? Say that maybe we can get better? That's what you say not even against a cancer patient who has completed treatment."

Rough read. Jesus.

[1] https://www.tubantia.nl/oldenzaal/zonder-juiste-medicijnen-w...
How can she be "physically healthy" if she has depression? What is causing the depression, if not a malady of her physical body, such as her brain? It's an organ and it can be irreparably damaged, just like a kidney.

"But what if she gets better?", some say. What if she doesn't? What if there is no cure in her case? You may have gotten over a case of depression yourself, just like some people have recovered from a cancer. Does that mean that all cancers patients will eventually heal? So what makes you think that depression is any different?

Either way, if an adult is unwilling to live, they should be allowed to end their lives with dignity. Your desire to not go through with it yourself is not sufficient to deny it to others. We are all adults and can make our own decisions.

May the earth be light upon her.
Tinytapeout 6 closes in a couple of weeks https://tinytapeout.com not too late to knock out your own chip.

The basic idea is that you buy a chunk of a die, your design's pins get multiplexed to the outside, you pay a bit extra and get a dev board

Chips take time - I taped out my 2 TinyTapeout CPU designs over a year ago, the board arrived a couple of months ago, TT3 is (as I understand) almost in the mail (I have a PDP8 there), and TT4 silicon has just come back (I have a RISCV subset there), TT5 is at the fab, and TT6 tapes out in 2 weeks.

Real silicon works like this, you start on a (big) design, do the creative stuff for a couple of months, for a year you test it to hell, by the time you tapeout you're done with it, then you start on the next design, about the time you're in the middle if doing the fun creative bit the old silicon comes back
It's not weird; grain is cheap. Totally understandable.
It's really great. Shear amount of work is huge. It seems difficulty level is on par with introducing fat pointers/array views into stdlib and C standard.
> You can save a few bits of text any way you want.

So I can keep them on the same device that I keep my passwords, right?

> Or just keep them in a few copies of a password manager db in a few different places.

Great now you no longer have 2FA but just a longer password.
You have misunderstood.

That sentence is not a reflection of my opinion - my whole second paragraph was a mock example of how mental illness skeptics think about depression.
So we should go about enabling the "better" committing of wrong acts?

A killer set on killing will kill anyway, so maybe we could pair them up and have both happy?

The "they will do it anyway" argument is as absurd as it is dangerous.

Heh, it's not like it backfired in the past at all, is it?
Fundamentally this is not different at all from suicide. Every physically healthy and conscious person is capable of committing it if they were strongly want to. So why would we as a society want to make it more acceptable and encourage people to see it as a perfectly viable option?

Also where do we a draw a line? If we're talking about terminally ill patients it's usually fairly clear. Surely there are many mentally ill (suffering from severe depression etc. not intellectual disability) people who are incapable of rational reasoning (in general or under specific circumstances) so do we end up with having death panels determining who is allowed to kill themselves and who is not?
Maybe some day in the future this will amount to an "organic" way of accidentally building up a simulation of human society, that will be the only thing remaining for some far into the future aliens, who come to visit our planet. And what conclusions they would draw from this.
How many Jews do you know?
https://strudel.cc/?lxYj8fRH-Fb0 sounds amazing,
can't wait for this to get MIDI output so i can use it with other music software