skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point. And in a sense, the analogous law there is the right to medically-assisted sterilisation, which also exists (albeit, carrying a somewhat lesser impact in terms of finality).

I don't necessarily think a discussion down that line is entirely without merit, and one could of course "delve" into philosophy of benefits to society vs rights of the individual vs sanctity of life etc ... but this is not the main point I was making here.

For me the distinction is less about reproduction-aversion versus suicidality needing to be forcefully "cured" or not (or one of sanctity of life, for that matter), but more about one of capacity in the case of exercising reproductive rights as compared to exercising suicidal rights. At the risk of a bad analogy, the former is more like wanting a questionable piercing that others may think is a bad decision. Yes you may well also regret it as a bad decision eventually, but if you have capacity in your decision at the time, then there is little reason to stop you from exercising your right to self-mutilation if this is what you want. In which case, yes, if someone was claiming, either that "skin is sacred", or using circular logic that the very fact you want a mutilation proves you're sick and you need to be 'cured' of it, I would have had the same response as you.

Whereas there are good reasons there are lots of legal protections for proving or disproving capacity when dealing with people with dementia signing away their will to a total stranger, for instance. Yes, it's possible that the demented person still has enough cognitive capacity to sign away their will to a total stranger, despite the fact that cognitive capacity is the very thing that is compromised. And so, similarly, yes it's possible that the suicidal person still has enough capacity to judge the extent to which they wish to live, even though their ability to wish to live is the very thing that has been compromised. But I would be sceptical, and would want to see some guardrails before providing commercial services to help demented people exercise their peaceful right to sign away their wills. And we have enough medical knowledge currently to know that, capacity-wise, suicidality is much more like dementia in this context, than it is like wanting a bad piercing or deciding on reproductive rights.

Which is why it's rather frustrating to watch, and a very dangerous line to walk, when legislating such a provision away purely on the basis of a debate focusing on "personal rights vs sanctity of life", without having that discussion about capacity and obligations to attempt to restore it / protect it as the first priority.
That changes depending on when it is issued, and which coalition is in power when that passport was issued.
Exactly, loyalists is what they want
People quote these figures, and I wonder: what would a reasonable ratio of MAID vs "natural" death be?

I understand that Catholics and others will assert zero, full stop. Fair enough. I am grateful they have argued their case so well in the UK.

But for those that approve of it in principle, how many is too many?
> What is the steelman argument for why it's okay to help people kill themselves a la MAID, but not okay to execute murderers?

I would assume it's something that centers personal bodily autonomy above all other competing moral considerations. Under that libertarian moral framework, the murderer who does not want to be executed cannot be killed because they don't want it, while the person who want MAID can be killed just because they want it.
Always doing "just good enough" logically results in a product that's barely good enough. Customers may find a competing product that's better than barely good enough.
> Ofc teens should be kept away from this for obvious biological reasons.

Why of course? Is the reason this is obvious to you unique to teenagers? When they turn 18 (or 20) do the reasons to restrict their freedoms immediately go away? Is there no possibility the 'obvious' reason in your mind couldn't occur for a different person in a different age bracket?
I know it's morbid to discuss but the relief of financial burden on society is also significant. Not only do they die with dignity, but they are giving back to society.
Sounds to me like your family friend’s mother would have died more pleasantly if euthanasia were legal.

There are plenty of ways to pressure people into death, as you have already demonstrated. That’s not going away.

Emotional burdens to encourage people to live as long as possible even if you think they’re suffering are likely a far bigger problem. People know it’s unethical not to euthanize animals that are suffering. Lacking the social apparatus to suggest euthanizing humans is almost certainly a huge moral weakness.
So glad I didn’t throw out my utensils after the last thread here on HN. Saved nature a little and confronted fears induced by media. Although I must admit that I was scraping the pan with the constant realization that I might die, for more than a month.

A reminder to not believe everything you hear about on the internet, even if you feel smart and scientific about an article having a link to some paper or something. Didn’t read tfa back then.

Edit: now I read this thread, ugh.
Ah thanks! I was going to ask in here to see if anyone knew because the explanation about overwriting the same vector seemed pretty off base.

Never worked in Rust though so wondered if the iterator api had some weird optional notion of size that could be utilised throughout the chain.
I do that in Manhattan. I also do it for yonder mountains.
The wall was performed live in only 4 cities (LA, NYC, London, Berlin) because it was too big and expensive to move. My dad saw it and to this day it’s one of his favorite experiences. They literally built a styrofoam wall in front of the band as they played until at one point you can’t even see them.

Well anyway about 15 years ago I’m showing the old man YouTube for the first time. And I ask him, is there any old memories we should go look up, he says, see if there’s any videos from The Wall. And there is! An entire bootleg of the concert from 1981. It was magical, I gave my dad a Time Machine.

Thanks YouTube!
Wow, thank you. TIL!
If you believe that Microsoft is stealing Recall data behind its users' backs do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users? If Microsoft isn't doing that could it be because that would be suicidal from a business perspective?
I'm interested in using it for exercise, what apps do you use?
Which terminal? Was it chromium based?
> So you have a DOM, but if the target renderer is not webview or browser, you create a DOM in some other way?

Yes - we have a project called Blitz which is trying to emulate just the DOM without the browser. It's built on Servo/Firefox tech.

https://github.com/dioxusLabs/blitz

> The browser is already there, and called webview on all major platforms. I'd say Electron is popular for maturity reasons, that architecture makes limited sense even if you are using web. Tauri would be a better comparison.

The default dioxus desktop/mobile renderer uses the system's webview for exactly this reason. The blitz stuff is still young but is planned to eventually replace the webview renderer. Fortunately, webviews are on many platforms already.

> .. That also means users have to come up with the cross-platform API surfaces themselves, right?

Yes, but this is a challenge in every cross-platform framework. Flutter has pub.dev, react-native has expo modules, etc. In 2025 this will be a huge focus for us, and in all likelihood we'll just find a way to bind to existing widgets in the respective ecosystems. Easier than to try and bootstrap a pure-rust ecosystem (though it would be nice). Projects like our SDK do this, but the surface area is quite small when compared to what we eventually want to support.

http://github.com/dioxusLabs/sdk
Hey now, that microservice happens to violate data protection law in 40 jurisdictions per second, that’s basically a criminal mastermind.
I have never felt the loss of ctrl+key combinations on my phone. For what do you use these things? For example, if I'm already using my finger to select text, I can just long press to copy.
I find `foo.iter().map(|x| x.bar()).collect()` almost always easier to read and better at expressing intent than a for loop.

The other direction is more interesting to me: Those are the awkward cases where people sometimes overdo it with the functional iterator heavy style.
“DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field” by B. S. Alexandrov, V. Gelev, A. R. Bishop, A. Usheva, K. O. Rasmussen (Submitted on 28 Oct 2009)

"Abstract: We consider the influence of a terahertz field on the breathing dynamics of double-stranded DNA. We model the spontaneous formation of spatially localized openings of a damped and driven DNA chain, and find that linear instabilities lead to dynamic dimerization, while true local strand separations require a threshold amplitude mechanism. Based on our results we argue that a specific terahertz radiation exposure may significantly affect the natural dynamics of DNA, and thereby influence intricate molecular processes involved in gene expression and DNA replication."

https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294
played around with a few colorization convolution kernels based on density and thought they turned out nicely:

rusty: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6cec75da-3366-4ce...

ocean3: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6dbdc099-2dc3-433...

forest4: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dc77bbfd-bd15-4e4...

rust105: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d80733c9-b435-49a...

ocean105: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d717a3f1-32bb-449...
Convincing your drunk friend to go to the suicide clinic and kill himself is the absolute pinnacle of "thing that's the most hilarious thing in the world while you're smashed but is absolutely horrifying the second you wake up the next morning".

Anecdotally, I've heard that there's a strong link between heavy boozing and suicide, especially via firearm. One wonders if it's determined people needing courage, or drunk people becoming determined.
> It’s the same frequency range as cellphones, just at far lower power.

Cite?
Please note that kubectl also contains something similar: e.g. kubectl explain deployment.spec
Worst product ever. I think Microsoft's "telemetry" initiative has acclimated them to the point where they're just making naked malware features now.
It looks like a dozen people found this helpful. As a related idea, it's one of the main reasons batch inference is so much more efficient in ML. You transmute the problem from memory-bound to compute-bound.
I love Pink Floyd and The Wall, though I think it works better with visuals than a standalone album. It's a shame they were unhappy with their own footage of the few stage shows they performed of The Wall. My dad saw the New York show, for which I'll forever be jealous.

If you're a casual PF fan, I'd recommend two overlooked albums of the 70's - Meddle and Animals. Meddle is probably the first album to sound like what the public recognizes as Pink Floyd.

Animals is, to me, a masterpiece. Gilmour and Wright, especially, are amazing. It's dark and cynical, but maybe not as hopeless as The Wall. "Dogs" may be the best guitar work Gilmour has ever done, aside from "Comfortably Numb". Sadly, it seems like most of the band didn't like Waters controlling behavior and the dark turn his lyrics took on this album.
Thats unfortunate I'm sorry to hear. But it is also a sample size of 1.

My experience, working part time for 6 months, is that my side projects have differentiated me from other candidates, and get me a foot in the door for interviews. They usually say most candidates are the exact same, and the only way to differentiate and get an edge is: Perfect GPA; Successful projects; Sought after niche skills; Leadership experience.

But I've also had 2 relatively successful side projects (and tens of failed ones), so without those I'm not sure how I'd go
I mean sure, and the fun part of LEGO is making new creations. But before you get to that point, building several sets by instruction helps build associations of how to get certain results.

For someone new to cooking, the recipe says "slice thinly" and they have no idea if they are doing a good job or not. They could simply ask an AI if they are doing good and it could provide feedback.
In your first example, I suspect there was probably other things present you weren't made aware of. Currently the requirements in Canada include (only copy those relevant to your example).

-have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability (excluding a mental illness until March 17, 2027)

-be in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability

-have enduring and intolerable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be alleviated under conditions the person considers acceptable

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html#s1
Li Air battery for the wings??
North Korean Nationals Indicted for Carrying Out Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme
I have used fold for converting strings to a bitset in advent of code

let string = "ewfsan";
let bitset = string.bytes().fold(0u32 |acc, ch| acc | 1 << (ch - b'a'));

This is a idiom that I have used many times so this being more consice than a for loop is a plus

Of course if you have never seen a syntax before it will make less sense that anything you have seen before
Perhaps you might consider technology like this to help assist folks in learning how to do complete basic car maintenance. After all, the first time you changed a tire you probably needed some kind of assistance. Similarly knowing how to follow a recipe is one thing, but knowing what a soup needs to adjust its color or taste is a skill which you can help with.
If you know an ancestor with Alzheimer's or other generic "you just kinda decline" diseases, they "die" long before their heart stops beating.

I haven't been able to talk to my grandfather, or hear his stories, or learn about him, or share anything with him, or even be a part of his life for at least 5 years now. He will probably be "alive" for another five years. He mostly just coasts through life. He doesn't really get to interact with friends, because the ones that aren't dying, he doesn't remember. When I see him, he asks me about graduating high school, which I did over a decade ago now.

I doubt he would choose to die, but when I get to experience the exact same thing in 40 years, I'm pretty sure I'd rather chew on a 12 gauge. Having a more reliable and less terrifying option is important.
It isn't pointless pedantry. The claim was that "a bit over half of all American voters" voted for Trump. This is simply factually untrue, as nowhere near all American voters even voted.

>I'm having a hard time imagining how you'd accurately measure who a non-voter would have voted for.

No claims are being made about the hypothetical votes by non-voters, so whether and how that metric can be measured isn't relevant to the claim being made, which is about people who actually voted. This is measured through a count of the actual votes tallied by state.

>Like how would you verify if someone is even eligible to vote?

Every state has their own methods to determine voting eligibility. This isn't relevant to the claim being made, as the set of "all American voters" is presumed to be equal to the set of "all eligible American voters."

>Lots of Americans (Eg green card holders, kids, felons) can't vote.

Individuals who cannot vote are also not relevant to the claim made, which is about the set of people who actually did vote, and what fraction of the entire electorate they represented.
How are VR goggles different from referencing a textbook, Googling a tutorial or watching a YouTube video?

Perhaps it’s the more instantaneous nature of it. Maybe you are making the point that it is more advantageous to memorize common life skills instead of needing a technical crutch. But how often do we need to change a tire? And when we do, wouldn’t it be better to have the fastest reference guide?
A bit old, Bluesky is about to cross 25M, in the next few hours or so
Withholding aid is morally fundamentally different than proactively ending someone's life.
> Never worked in Rust though so wondered if the iterator api had some weird optional notion of size that could be utilised throughout the chain.

Fwiw, this does exist: [Iterator::size_hint] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#metho...)
RTL-SDR is the basic SDR (software defined radio). RTL-SDR.com and NooElec are the best brands.

There are better ones but they depend on what you want to use them for.
This is referenced at the very beginning, just after the table of contents.
I wonder how many of these deaths are due to the fear of living in destitution, because Canada's overall QOL has plummeted in the last decade.
Interesting. It seems a bit slow but perhaps that's my laptop.

Why are the boundaries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden not shown for the Kalmar Union? They are for England at Scotland in 1620 when they were under the personal union of James, (VI of Scotland I of England). What's the reason for the difference?
The issue is that every OB/GYN has seen patients that regret the decision. And for most they will have seen instances where that regret ultimately led to suicide.

Do you really want to be the doctor that didn't press for more consideration for a patient that ultimately takes their own life?

I get the idea of giving women control but as a doctor it's also their right to refuse a procedure to not bear that burden. It's similar to the theory of justice that states it's better for 99 guilty men to go free than 1 innocent person to be punished.

It's easier to deal with a lot of angry patients vs one that commits suicide.

At least with the euthanasia there's not really going to be any rebounding patient regret to deal with!
The risks of teflon are well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stick_surface#Health_conce...

The risks of ceramic coatings less so, but still concerning: https://foodpackagingforum.org/news/nanoparticles-released-b...

Either way, neither is safe for higher heat cooking. At the very least, ceramics will rapidly degrade if used for such.
XBase / Foxpro / Clipper apps are probably still used in India, widely, in small department stores, grocery stores, factories, medical stores, etc.

They are much faster to operate and more efficient for CRUD type apps then GUI based ones.
What do you need from grandma, who is in constant pain and desires to die?
“I realized I had spent too much time on startups and not enough on building relationships. So I decided the only way to fix it was another start up.”

Huh?
My Oma went through Alzheimer's. Sbe went from being a functional adult, to forgetting how to speak English, to mistaking family members, to recognizing no one, to being unable to feed herself over the course of 10 years. But she seemed happy most of the time, usually smiling, would light up when she saw people, she would attempt to sing along to whatever music was playing. So I'd say she remained happy most of the time, which made it much easier to deal with from our end.
Sorry, I didn't meant to imply that it was a problem with you on a personal level. In retrospect I see why you interpreted it that way. My mistake.

I mostly meant to say that there seems to be something wrong with society at large and that it's leaking into our language. I view it in terms of psychological framing (or something like it). We use these very utilitarian and transactional phrases more and more frequently, and I suspect it may reflect a deeper change in the way we think about others.
In the same way that everything is physics.
Free advice is often worth as much as you pay for it.

My inlaw is constantly saying things in convincing ways. I know for a fact that half the things they say is incorrect. Friends and family just want to make conversation. It makes people socializable, it often just feels good. In the back of your mind always think, it is probably in good faith, but still to be taken with a large grain of salt. That's the only rather safe way.

That said, paid advice is not guaranteed to be correct.
Diving into the Flume Water Monitor
The coolest hack in here is definitely the way that the 4G base station can be (mostly uniquely) identified after the RF signal for a packet is run through an envelope detector through a low-pass filter, as opposed to the normal (and higher-power) method of using a high-frequency oscillator and a demodulation chain.
AirPods Like Normal – Better AirPods on Android (By High Schooler)
It wasn't animal density that led to the spread of prions previously (vCJD, "mad cow disease"), it was feeding contaminated meat and bone meal to cattle.
I am not sure what to make of the accusation that Hacker News is more and more a haven for alt-right. I certainly saw a shift to the (MAGA) right along the general maga-isation of the US right and I occasionally see unhinged comments of the type you probably can find on truth.social (why do I feel they should have called it TRUTH full caps, that'd be more like them ) but I feel like the moderation of the website works reasonably well at weeding out the unhinged and providing people with somewhat reasonable conversations (the ones with real bits of argumentation inside). They keep repeating the accusation but they don't provide any actionable demands to make things better. Even then not sure what the "administrators" could do about it. Saying that targeting individuals for how they want to live their lives is bad in the guidelines ? Would that make much of a difference ?

EDIT: I just check and of course they use full caps in their logo, I should have guessed
This is Ev Williams new, new app / startup...

Curious to see how this one turns out... solving social needs (issues? problems? something else?) with technology. We all know how Twttr and FB turned out :-/
They made us more "social" and "connected" , but alas, the societal costs...

QUOTE:

“I was doing a lot of reflecting,” Mr. Williams said. “In this stage of life, I really wanted to focus on relationships.”
Pouring so much energy into his start-ups was one reason he had this problem. But maybe a start-up could also help fix it.
...
But Mr. Williams still didn’t want to run a company. Through mutual friends, he met Molly DeWolf Swenson, an entrepreneur, who became a co-founder and the chief executive. Last month, they raised $6 million in funding from Obvious Ventures, an investment firm co-founded by Mr. Williams, as well as WndrCo and BBG Ventures.
...
On Thursday, they plan to unveil their app, Mozi, which is aimed at helping people foster in-person connections with their social circle. It lets people tell their friends about upcoming plans that may overlap. Those who join the app will see a private friend list based on their phone contacts. They get notifications if a contact plans to visit their city or attend the same event. Profiles include user-supplied information like dietary restrictions, relationship status, family members and pet names.

/QUOTE

Source:
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/technology/ev-williams-tw...
NJ Drone Sightings are (maybe) just Joby Air Taxis due to recent FAA rulings
It's a theme he.... revisited.

This is the best visit, though.
Not to mention sleazebags hounding every woman on social media to do an only fans.