skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans have long handled death in a very backwards and disgusting manner.

We have humans, who can clearly assert a particular desire when of sound, lucid mind. Yet we do not allow them to have any control over one of the most personal experiences their life will ever offer them, when in a medical establishment. We don't allow people to assert a desire to be euthanized gently. We force them to die on their own (by being unwilling to do anything more than remove care), no matter how much they may be suffering. Of course, we always have the option of taking matters into our own hands, with all the potential stumbling blocks that provides.

In contrast, we have pets, who can not verbally assert any particular desire, due to the lack of common language. We can't ask them if they want to stay with their loved ones, or if they're suffering and want to be free. Yet we make the decision to actively end their lives every single day in the world.

Logically, this seems completely backwards to me. It seems like we should err on the side of not ending a pet's life when they don't want us to, and that we should allow people of sound mind to articulate a self-aware desire to have a more dignified, gentle death as much as possible.
Whoogle: Self-hosted ad-free privacy-respecting metasearch with Google results
"Get Google search results, but without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both desktop and mobile."
the register isn’t generally spam.
> Your contribution ensures FUTO Keyboard remains ad-free and fully functional.

I would prefer an upfront cost and one that makes the product sustainable - instead of a free product with the danger of enshitification.
this good enough for you?

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-5-21-amd...
> Mass-producing adverts for non-existent positions is a method of defrauding investors

How so?
The tech enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and many became super rich between 2010-2020.

Now economy is going through a downturn, things are expected to be bad.

Economy rebalances. Things will get better eventually. But the shockwave will leave some remnants behind. Just need to hold on for a bit.
Nothing like this story of getting bullied to do something, but I once talked a director out of rebooting the cell phone switch that handled all cellular phone calls for I think it was 4 provinces in Canada. This is something I don't think we had ever done before, and was expected to be a 100% outage for all cell phones calls + 911 for like 20 - 25 minutes or something.

We were having elevated error rates due to an earlier outage, and had just run the next closest hail mary to recovery the switch by telling it to resync all temporary state. The problem was that resync didn't work the way anyone on the team thought it did and the director didn't give enough time for it to be effective. We later found out the resync for a particular record didn't happen until the cell phone itself checked in with the network for a periodic update, so we had to wait for however long that timer was to expire on all cell phones. Luckily there was an active 911 call on the switch which caused the team to delay long enough for me to get the right data (the real world failure rate was far below 1% and starting to trend towards normal after the resync command) and talk the director out of the reboot.

The funny thing is that equipment wasn't even mine, I worked on the internet side of cell phones, and I don't even remember why I was pulled onto that outage call since it didn't have anything to do with my part of the network.
Awesome! I probably won't write book for money but at least I want it to be useful.
I think Mathematica’s documentation is beyond excellent. Here is the documentation for the Flatten function:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Flatten.html

Just look at the amount of examples and details for this function. It is like that for every function.
I tried out RCS messages between iPhone and Android
I'm not sure if politics and media have changed all that much. Is it a possibility that your perspective has changed, now that you are wiser and see more than before?
Thanks, will check that out. I’m completely unfamiliar with the ruby ecosystem coming from the npm world
Hono is great, the context object is really just a collection of helper methods for returning responses, a way to store values through the lifetime of the request, and the Req and Res objects. I understand the concern but I wouldn't let that stop you from trying it out.
You've made a major mistake. It may be that vitamins do improve all of those things and would improve mortality as a consequence but something else keeps mortality the same, for example heart disease and cancer.
Just look at the release notes for every major release. They focus on what's new within Kubernetes architecture instead of what's new that benefits users.

Things like having to remove finalizers appended onto resources when you delete them and they hang.

Damn near everything about Custom Resources.

This isn't a dig at Kubernetes; I love using it. However, I agree that it leaks implementation everywhere.
Don't combine link shorteners with unguessable URLs, the result is a guessable URL.
I also see the content as discussion-provoking in a positive way.
I'd suggest shrinking the pool somewhat, perhaps by selecting from people involved in state-level politics already? This idea that any random person is fit to be a representative is bonkers to me.

The House should be filled with the Common Man, if you will, but I'm certain the authors were envisioning a parvenu bootstrapper like Ben Franklin or a Paul Revere.

But the Senate should change too--repeal the 17th amendment and bring the election of US Senators back to the state legislative bodies. It's a key element that made us a Republic and I'm failing to see how we can even refer to ourselves as such since 1913. I find it grating when people say "our democracy" because it is true now, but shouldn't be.
At this point it's safe to assume that any social science research that ends up viral on social media is fake.
People ready to die often don't care about pushing society forward or ensuring the continuation of the human species.

I always ask: for how long? What is the ultimate goal? If you don’t know, it's time to seek answers before pushing society forward carelessly.
I think that's why they said "most people":

> Most people your age can still exceed any physical accomplishment they've had in their lifetime if they really want to. E.g. they can play sports better than they ever had and they can achieve personal bests in any physical ability.

So not people who were at the peak of their ability/potential in their 20s – most people, however, do not perform at their limits in their 20s, simply because that isn't their priority, they don't train for it, etc.
This is like saying that a company, which is going bankrupt and may close, has the resources to keep all their employees employed and are laying people off because they would rather prioritize something else. It can feel true because there's a lot of complexity to the system, but complex systems can still fail given enough structural instability. At some point tough decisions must be made which feel bad to those impacted and weigh heavily on those enforcing the cuts.
I could be pretty conspicuous if I had a salary of 1.2 million
I did not read it as a "threat".
DRM and paywalls for thee, industrial-scale scraping for me. /s

It's time for us to build our own miniature versions of Internet Archive with the content that is personally important to us . The powers that be will take it down under the guise of defending copyright, while the bigcos continue to suck up every letter of every page that has a publicly available URL.
Denver Basic Income Project Results
> ImHex requires a GPU with OpenGL 3.0 support in general.

Why does a hex editor require OpenGL? (and therefore a GPU?)

Is there a good reason why it needs OpenGL or is it just for l33t-ness?
Very good now, thanks!
Japan achieves 402 TB/s data rate with commercial optical fiber
Thanks for your detailed feedback, much appreciated! I missed your answer so only replying now. I'm going to add a feature for having a way to switch between the high-level summary and a formatted transcript in each section (slightly rephrased/formatted for clarity), I will post here when ready, probably some time next week
I wholeheartedly support this point of view. Death should be an option freely and easily accessibile to anyone.

Why have people here who don't want to be here?
Thank you!

Have you considered adding any of:

- A few strips of duck tape, with peel-off backing. Those might be used for repairing shoes / clothing / makeshift shelters, improvising pressure braces for weak joints, and securing the mylar blanket or other possessions in windy conditions.

- Several sheets of "quality" tear-off paper towel. Cheap, and they're fairly good as ersatz washcloths and sponges

- A plastic hair comb
That's the problem. It's not personal, and humanity is not even a factor in that hospital's assessment.

Why does society refuse to allow people to have mental and physical autonomy in matters like this? Sure, they pay lip service to it, but when it comes down to the hard moments, we almost always end up erring on the wrong side.
The trick is not in having advice to offer. It’s in having advice they will hear.

Next month I’ll have been working in software for 30 years. Which means I would have a lot more common ground with me 15 years ago than most people will. that me with five years’ experience might not have understood at all.

Me with five years’ experience suspected many things that were true but missed some important one. I’d probably have to feed his ego by confirming some of those things before moving on to the difficult bits.

But who is to say that me with less Impostor Syndrome would be a better person? No, the main value in learning from the past is improving the future, not nostalgia or regrets or what ifs.
Could the reverse logic be used to design websites that are specifically ANTI-llm? as in making the website understandable for a human but confusing for any llm model
> She died in 1963 when she drove from her home in La Jolla to the beach and walked into the surf and drowned. The San Diego coroner's office listed her death as a suicide.

now that's impressive.
Svelte is a ton of magic, which is great if you like that sort of thing but every time I've tried it I've been frustrated and disappointed, and converted the project to something else.
>We see this in a very specific case, which is in the onset of heart problems. So basically its a more nuanced finding. The finding is not quite as strong.

The one divorce I can think of in my extended family came from the onset of heart problems. Properly speaking, it was the abortion she had that caused the divorce, not the fact that she would have died otherwise.
Tangent: I would note that a "password protect an arbitrary link" service could actually be made into a "thin, just-in-time" form of one of these services... by not being a redirect service, but rather being a dynamic, fixed-URL-prefix-route reverse-proxy service.

Hypothetical design:

1. you generate a password-protected link for a base URL https://origin.example.com/foo — this gives you a generated link https://abc123.link-protector.example.com/ (where abc123 is the generated-link ID.)

2. All *.link-protector.example.com subdomains CNAME to a single service.

3. This service's backend is an auth-protected reverse-proxy. On each request, it checks for an auth cookie unique to the subdomain.

4. If the auth cookie is good (signed by the backend, non-expired), then you take the happy path, where all paths on the subdomain will proxy-rewrite to paths under the original path /foo of the original domain.

5. If you don't present a good auth cookie, then all paths on the proxy subdomain instead redirect to a special /proxy-cgi/auth route, that has an auth system mounted to it. On successful auth, that auth system backend sets the cookie for the subdomain, and then redirects you back to the original path you requested.

(Note that the distinct subdomains per link are necessary here, to stop a malicious user of the service from stealing the cookie of a sibling proxy. You could avoid this by only using one auth cookie for the base domain, and then having every request look up the userID from that auth cookie to map it to a set of links that userID has been authed for — but that's a lot more expensive architecturally than this sort of "the LB can figure it out on its own" design.)

With this hypothetical design, at least the protection wouldn't just strip itself off each time someone fills out the password. Re-sharing the base URL — or any other URL navigated to on the same site! — would just result in the person who receives it also needing to know the password.

I still doubt there's be many use-cases for such a service compared to a vertically-integrated platform like Gumroad/Patreon. People who want to sell the resource would likely still much prefer to use those, rather than stringing individual components together. But I suppose that a password-protected reverse-proxy service would at least let you e.g. turn a public-but-anonymous resource (e.g. a page on a Pastebin-alike) into a members-only resource for a group.

(Even better for that use-case, though, would be if the reverse-proxy service allowed not only password-based sharing, but invite-based or group-based sharing, where link viewers must SSO-authenticate to the reverse-proxy. This would be like Google's BeyondCorp Identity-Aware Proxy, but for stuff outside your GCP VPC, and with one-click setup.)
> Karraker and her co-author did the analysis again, and found the results stand only when wives develop heart problems, not other illnesses.

This is p-hacking after-the-fact, right? Seems like the classic example: The broader hypothesis doesn’t hold, but if you look for ways to slice and dice the data you’re likely to find a (spurious?) correlation eventually.
The license: https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE....

Concerning parts:

> You may use [...] the software only for non-commercial purposes

> You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge

> you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor

----

Also, the button that says "Download from F-Droid" is super misleading. It's actually downloading it from a third-party repo that happens to be compatible with the F-Droid app, but it sure makes it sound like you're going to download it from F-Droid's repo.
I want to like Vue but the combination of buggy language tools and a buggy metaframework left a bad taste in my mouth. It's not surprising either when you look at the code quality.
Frontend devs were largely bullied into imitating traditional MPAs by people posting memes about SPAs and loading spinners. A huge percentage of pages could simply be pre-rendered (e.g. static landing pages and documentation sites), or they're behind a login wall in which case SEO no longer really matters. Deploying an SPA used to mean uploading a few scripts and html documents to an S3 bucket, and with CDN caching it was fast enough for many organizations. Instagram is still a mostly 100% client side SPA.
anyone have pointers on progress in symbolic reasoning vs context forcing approaches in LLMs?
Yep. I do a little bit of what someone who doesn't mind insulting carptners could call "woodworking". Having a concrete result is definitely one of the things I enjoy.
You don't need these kinds of solutions for license plates, take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19wgu5GZDhk
Sounds boring and unethical. I hope they don't.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240610151107/https://openknowl... (there was a 401 error when I opened TFA so here's an archived version)
There are anti-euthanasia atheists (E.g. Kevin Yuell).
Age Gating
My teeth are already sufficiently bad that I'll likely need implants in the future anyway; I don't want to lose them, but it wouldn't impact my life as negatively as, say, a permanent back or knee injury would.
This doesn't appear to be fakery but rather an error. This article points to the value of publishing the raw data and the software used to analyze it.

Just casually dismissing it as "fakery" removes the opportunity to learn from it.
The Apple II shows how amazing the C64 was
You can make the synthetic benchmarks relatively accurate, it just takes effort. The compile-time hit and additional effort is often worth it for the extra couple percent for important applications.

Performance is also pretty different on the scales that performance engineers are interested in for these sorts of production codes, but without the build system scalability problems that LTO has. The original AutoFDO paper shows an improvement of 10.5%->12.5% going from AutoFDO to instrumented PGO. That is pretty big. It's probably even bigger with newer instrumentation based techniques like CSPGO.

They also mention the exact reasons that AutoFDO will not perform as well, with issues in debug info and losing profile accuracy due to sampling inaccuracy.

I couldn't find any numbers for Chrome, but I am reasonably certain that they have tried both and continue to use instrumented PGO for the extra couple percent. There are other pieces of the Chrome ecosystem (specifically the ChromeOS kernel) that are already optimized using sampling-based profiling. It's been a while since I last talked to the Chromium toolchain people about this though. I also remember hearing them benchmark FEPGO vs IRPGO at some point and concluding that IRPGO was better.
It's crazy how people want to combine everything together such that adding some padding to a button on their pricing page redeploys their entire backend...

Typically I have a backend server written in a good language, an SPA for the app itself, and then some marketing pages written in plain html and js sprinkles, old school. It's great for SEO.
if only there was an additional option for the fetus, is anyone working on that?

we could short circuit these association choices if the hosts could become unburdened while the fetus is able to live
I’m surprised by how many people cannot handle 5 Why’s. It’s substantially the same people who like wallpaper and putty.
I am personally at the “nice tooling” level, but am currently building towards supporting other teams at the “business critical” level, so I try to apply the same rigour to everything that I do. It might make sense to also consider your dependents in similar scenarios.
The choice of.xyz tld is not the best choice for a security service. It is one of the worst tlds when it comes to scam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400
Wild seeing "19 years ago" as the last commit time.

https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver
With other FUTO products they ask that you buy them, but also give away the source. Perhaps they could use that model here as well.
> You need to take the time to understand why the bug happened, or you’re just going to be patching wallpaper instead of fixing the plumbing leak.

I think many would like to probe deeper but aren't afforded the time between sprint tasks. Management often pushes back for solutions that are good enough compared to exploration with an unknown duration until the solution is found.
I get the sentiment but this is very much an exaggeration. Vegetables might have 5% to 30% less micronutrients than 100 years ago if you believe in the accuracy of micronutrient measurements from 1940 (you shouldn't). But there's good evidence that the soil isn't to blame. Rather, we have switched to varietals which grow quicker and have less time to pull good stuff up from the ground.

In any case, vegetables are now many times cheaper and more accessible than before. As a species we have hundredfold better access to nutrition than a century ago.

The fact is most people feed themselves mostly on flour and oil. That's what's causing a malnutrition epidemic, not poorer vegetables.
Letter to the Soviet Leaders, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It definitely is a plus point for the target demographic to know their resources aren’t being pilfered to train something that could replace them.
My advice would be to make use of pre-launch platforms such as https://microlaunch.net or product hunt and other organic ways to gain traffic. Meanwhile, make sure your funnels converts, then think about Ads later on.
Tender has already nabbed a fast-food chain contract, and another $11M
IP isn't collapsing for anyone with the means and connections to enforce the law. Microsoft is essentially pickpocketing the peasantry, while steering clear of the feudal lords like Netflix and Google, who can hit back.
Hm. Male with heart problems here. I am in a happy relationship now but dating has been hard in the past due to not being able do do certain things normally expected of men.
Eventually every game developer learns the hard way that they must remove the bytecode ability from lua's loadstring() function.

E.g. here's a 12 year old blogpost on the topic from the ROBLOX developers: https://archive.is/oXPyM

To be honest, it would probably be better off disabled by default. Its legitimate uses are pretty niche.
What point are you trying to make by quoting the license?
Isn't London at risk of floods with climate change and sea level rise? Not sure that is the best place to invest in underground structures.
Cursor is amazing, and you can now use Claude as the backing AI instead of OpenAI, if you so wish.
> A multiplayer game where a server can be extended with custom code via plugins

A game called Mordhau (based on Unreal engine) had a built-in "message of the day" feature where server owners can put in a URL that loads an in-game browser when the player connects. No client side option existed to disable the browser and I believe the devs eventually disabled it completely but I'm not sure the status of it now.

Just shows how complex games / game engines are getting where you have an embedded web browser for seemingly no good reason.
Like chop wood?
It's exactly as useless as film, literature, art, and anything else that people consume as entertainment.
If you've never done at least a tiny bit of "illegal" RE, are you even a true hacker? ;)
Plenty of people who make the sausage don't want to eat it.

I never wanted to go into medicine. Thus I do not believe the preferences of a typical older doctor represent my preferences in this respect.

I read an article once of a nurse who kept CPR going on her husband for somewhere around 2 hours until they could get him to a hospital that was able to restart his heart. I believe he ended up okay. CPR obviously isn't invasive tubing, but it's still kind of hard on the body.
Hayek, the Accidental Freudian
Yeah, "full Trumpist," like the FedSoc members behind trying to get Trump removed from the ballot?
In this case someone generated malicious bytecode that the JIT compiler would not generate.

I would argue JIT is dangerous because it requires dynamic memory without the NX bit set, so if you manage to smash the stack (find an exploit) you can execute arbitrary code easily (leverage the exploit). That's a different dangerous than running malicious bytecode.
Working link at fao.org:

https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/80c590b3-9480-4c59-b387-...
I think so?

xkcd/882
'Addressing' can be ambiguous. Writing comments to explain why it's right and needs to be this way? Or changing the code without considering if they have enough knowledge of the rest of the codebase.

There's also a chance it's not understood yet to easily explain it.

A key part of joining a team is remaining open to the fact that just because I don't understand something, doesn't mean there isn't understanding in it.
I would've never used Linux and probably wouldn't have got into programming without https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723be (it took like five or six years to get mainlined). He's a hero.