jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>The reality is that most (but not all, obviously) people don't have terrible side effects from modern antidepressants.

I wonder how many of those side effects might be from people put on antidepressants who may not actually be chronically depressed.

I've known people who have been prescribed antidepressants after going through periods of depression, rather than it being an ongoing chronic problem and they have sometimes had some troubling personality changes that lasted even after stopping them.

But I have met people who have taken them long term because of chronic depression that seem a lot better on them.

I really do feel like we take too much of a 'one size fits all' approach when it comes to mental health. Every person's mind and brain are unique.

I know, as humans, we like to put a factual, observable cause to things, but I really don't think mental health always works like that.

Two people who may be suffering from long term depression or any other, mental health issue(I personally dislike this term greatly, but can't really think of a better one.), may have very different reasons and causes for their depression and the same approach may not be helpful to both.

It's great we have access to medications that are helpful in improving people's lives, but I do wonder sometimes if we should focus more on addressing why someone's experiencing these mental states that are causing problems, rather than just working on correcting it.

I can't speak too much about it suppose, I don't really know.

But I had a good friend who I feel like was neglected by the system and didn't get the help that would have been good for him.

His mom was going through cancer treatments and he didn't take it well. He got pretty depressed and didn't get out of bed for a couple of years. He started getting these worries about getting the urge to walk into traffic.

So he went and tried to get some help. He was immediately prescribed seroquil, Zoloft, ativan and some other things.

And...I have no other way to put it...it fucked him up...

I'd get phone calls from him randomly asking what time of day it was, he'd forget things that happened moments before, he hallucinated watching new tron movie 3 times in a 4 hour period...the movie's like two and a half hours long or something, he managed to unplug my internet around 1am so, he wouldn't have even been able to finish it the first time.

It was really sad seeing what happened to him and I couldn't help but feel like maybe if someone had just talked to him for a while before prescribing him those drugs, they could have helped him without him ending up like that.
From what I can remember from Tolkien's letters, he apparently introduced Tom Bombadil as a deliberate enigma. He does not belong to any of the known races of Middle Earth, nor is he one of the Ainur. I thought he made for a nice change of pace in FOTR, a great tool for world building.

LOTR is not an action/adventure book, but the Jackson movie trilogy is. I was very bitter that some characters like Bombadil, Glorfindel, and the Druedain didn't make it into the movies. But the movies are not the book, and I doubt it's possible to make a LOTR movie that's true to the book.
contradiction:

I have a personality type which crumbles on every occurrence of some challenges in life, and I’m havin nearly panic attacks about almost everything. part of that emotion is “why me, I don’t want this problem in my life”.
and frequently for short periods of time I’m on the verge of giving up.

what my therapist is trying to teach me that all events in my life are kinda inevitable, and it’s up to me to decide how to handle them, and I thing therapist is trying to develop some resillience in me by explaining that some trauma in my life is just unavoidable. getting older is unavoidable. diseases (albeit preventable) unavoidable. economic crisis inevitable and so on and so on. so having resiliency is a good thing, regardless if you prefer to have that trauma or not. and you should be proud that you handled it well.
I'm sure that required a lot of fiddly details to get right, but it pays off hugely. And I can imagine it's the kind of thing that lots of people wouldn't even think of as important. Well done!
> Income taxes shouldn’t exist in my opinion. The government can already tax consumption. Why do they need to bilk citizens out of both ends?

> To pay for war. That is always the answer in the USA.

Almost every country in the world has income taxes, even neutral countries such as Switzerland ( https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2011/12/switzerland-in... ), which haven't been in a war for 200 years.

I imagine most folks here are American, but not everyone is out to get the average US citizen, some ideas just are good ideas and at some point they basically become universal. The US government is not some special meanie, in this case :-)
To add to this, the article mentions the need to be more specific when facing challenges and stressors.

A big trend, at least in PNW leftist activism, is looking at the entire system while focusing in on flaws. No improvement is acceptable unless it is total and complete, and partial steps are even worse than doing nothing.

Myanmar coup? Time to protest global capitalism. Bad conditions in a jail in Wyoming? Time to protest global capitalism. Trial outcome isn’t exactly what you wanted? Time to protest global capitalism. Frustrated that people aren’t paying attention on the 170th night of increasingly incoherent, demand-free protests about issues over which locals have zero control? Time to protest global capitalism.

Then on Twitter, after every protest, you have to complain when global capitalism wasn’t dismantled. If action was taken in response to protest, you have to tweet that it isn’t enough, because it didn’t abolish all borders, dismantle global capitalism, give all land back, and eliminate all government and corporations.

If people had an internal locus of control, they might think about how they can accomplish things, and that might involve identifying solutions to fix parts of the system, rather than demand the whole thing comes crashing down (with no actual thought on a replacement).

edit to clarify: none of the protest triggers leading to ‘time to protest global capitalism’ is meaningfully connected to or specifically about global capitalism; that’s the point. The folks I’m talking about don’t actually have a solid conception of the world and how they specifically want to change it, they’re just angry and don’t really think they can, so they act out against the entire system (I think in decades past it would have been ‘The Man’). Right now its trendy to hate on global capitalism, and assert that it fundamentally is linked to colonialism and white supremacy, among all other social ills. I’m not defending this thinking, just describing it, since it was so foreign to me and apparently to others.
The anti-discrimination logic applies very specifically to protected classes, and only protected classes. So yes indeed bake that cake.
In theory. We’ve had drastically falling prices for computer and communications gear for decades, and it hasn’t stopped people buying.
How is anything WebAPI does, better?

Its routing is rubbish - waiting for V2 for fixed routing (AttributeRouting support so its not hidden away)

Its terrible to extend.

Its slower than Nancy.

Its hard to test out of the box.
But that is not saying the same thing. Your interpretation of it is "Yes. I am saying that +1s make no difference in Google rankings." but that is not what cutts said. His answer leaves it up to your interpretation. He could be saying "people who say +1s have an effect have no way of knowing that for sure" because we don't have access to their algorithms.
Exactly. The stubborn application of law is not justice. It is authoritarianism, which Wikipedia defines as "a form of government as well as a personality and social trait [that] is characterized by absolute or blind obedience to authority, as against individual freedom and related to the expectation of unquestioning obedience."

It seems people are quick to point out that Manning broke some rules, but are too narrow-minded to look up and see the big picture. Manning undeniably made a service to the greater good, which is the good of his country. Whether he broke some rules internal to his organization should not even have come into play in this trial.
I'm not convinced I see a crime committed. From what I saw and heard, I don't believe three crew members woke up that morning and decided "let's kill some civilians today".

Remember "mens rea"? We HNers all seem to think that's an important concept, except apparently when it's people we don't like (US military).
The margins don’t work out for UA with Apples cut. Think of it as tax you pay on income. It’s harder to compete if you are smaller if you pay the same tax as entrenched players. So yes extra margin would help, and a flat tax doesn’t help. Also given that Apples store is a monopoly, it makes it even more unfair.
Now, replace "government" with "human social organization," and you're more correct.
Does V8 actually run compiler optimizations on WebAssembly? I thought it came pre-optimized and it just executed it.

My impression of WASM was it's ok but it's not very expressive for an assembly language - at least it has integers though. gcc.godbolt.org doesn't give you any library functions for it, even memcpy(), so I couldn't do a lot of testing.
> is the difference simply...because it's voice?

I am not sure if you have seen the difference from communication via text only vs. voice/video. (ex: work or relationships). The later clears so much misunderstandings.

For those who choose not to talk or ask questions, you can just listen in. But instead of a tube of biased information fueled by an AI algorithm (most social media today), you get to have a diverse group of people (up to 5k and expanding) all in one room, each able to participate.

It is a two-way real-time dialogue, like in a conference panel discussion or an university class where the professor is lecturing, but also facilitating discussion among students. ex: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvard+justice

As for the invite only and tech oriented people, it is done for now to cope with bandwidth due to server limitations and also to have content quality control. It will be open to all eventually, they are still figuring it out. HN is an example of the complexities of moderation to maintain quality.

Of course the human brain is going to be naturally biased and the development of content recommendations will eventually led to the same tribal mentality problem, but this is to be seen on how the creators moderate the platform to avoid the disasters from the past.
It intrigues me that an Italian writer would choose to make his main character American. Particularly given that a Belgian writer, Edgar Jacobs, chose to make his at least equally famous characters Blake and Mortimer British. Is there a pattern of continental writers creating Anglophone characters for adventure stories? Or is it just these two cases?
1. How does one distinguish between software that can be used for surveillance and software that cannot?

What is the killer app for the technology under discussion? If the killer app is improving camera filters to make more vibrant pictures but it can also be used for surveillance then you do not worry about it being used for surveillance. If however the killer app is surveillance then you worry about it.

As a general rule surveillance however is not the killer app of these technologies, surveillance is just an instance of the killer app, and the killer app is the more general one of privacy violation of which surveillance is an instance.
Usually a referral guarantees someone at least looks at the resume.
There's obviously a difference between the broad understanding OP is talking about, and the low-level physics that goes into a computer.

Also, one could say that there's a stark difference between saying people who do not understand how misinformation works on a platform should not use that platform, and for example saying people who don't understand toasters shouldn't use toasters.

For the record, I don't understand the low level physics of toasters. As far as I know, they're magic bagel browning devices.
Instincts evolved with nature and time. Thinking did too but with the coevolution of poor thinking and negative self talk and bad advice within a short period of time.
See how well that turned out in Gaza. Regardless of final status outcomes, defended borders will remain. If only the PA did not pay for slay[0] and had enough money to secure vaccines on the open market.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...
I just started an aerospace company making planes in my garage. My company has killed less people than either Boeing or Airbus. Does that mean I make safer planes than either of those two companies?

A sentence can be technically correct while also being actively misleading.
How is it immoral? Ok, lets see. Its cruel. Its selfish. Its corrosive to the social contract. Its probably discrimination. And its unnecessary. Honestly, I get chills when I see so many postings that claim to find morality invisible or unknowable.
Carbon-14?
/jk
I'd be interested in alternative methods as well. I wrote the algorithms within readability, which are far from perfect.
Note: I'm not the author. Just noticed some traffic coming via this to my personal site (http://dailytechnology.net) and originally intended to post it to see any comments associated.

The original spreadsheet is here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJ...

Original HN post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467
Principle of least surprise.

If programmers want a "good enough" random value they will try random() first. If you really have a need for a better random value (e.g. usable for strong cryptography) you can be assumed to already know that random() is not good enough and can be trusted to search for a better substitute.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Poor man, constantly libeled due to lazy book writers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell
I'd have more faith in an app that claims it can teach me new words, if "coffee" was spelled correctly when I use it! ("...help us buy a coffe")
Sometimes a picture is just a picture.
Do you have an entry detailing all of the stuff you are traveling with (not just your tech gear)?
The article leaves out one big factor in why gold is valued. Similar to "why does the dollar have value?" (answer: taxes), a fundamental source of gold price support is that central banks all around the world - by longstanding official policy - horde gold (in metric tonnes) and treat it like a reserve currency/asset.

Central banks could change their policies in the future and (e.g.) sell all their gold for bitcoin. If that happens, gold price will go way down and I will look for a 3d-printer that prints with gold filament. :-)
You still have to plug in two wall wart style transformers (one is for reference voltage, the other is to power the box) into a real power outlet outside the box, and then get those wires inside the box. Or commit some electrical code sins and wire that inside the box too.
Isn't KVM also a type-2 hypervisor?
Care to explain or elaborate? I'm in utter confusion at every hacker news discussion that touches on unions. I live in a country that is heavily unionised. Its almost unheard of to not be in one. And, y the benefits are so prevalent, that I'm just confused reading the things I read on hacker news. It's just, weird. I have my suspicious, but I'd have to keep those to myself due to the guidelines here.
The first eight are really bad predictions, not lies. The ninth was true. The tenth was a premature announcement of a deal that actually existed but fell through.

So 0/10 of these were actually lies.

Edit: missed the sub, which actually existed. Not a lie, although the whole episode was in very horrid taste.
Malice, apathy, ignorance, or simply don't care. They all look the same from a distance. With the same outcome.

You eat your ham sandwich. But did you hear the pig cry out at the slaughter? The same people reading your comment right now are the same people sticking the knife in you.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair

In 1998 people turned their back on the FSF and joined the "open source" initiative. Everything that has happened since has been inevitable.
> 500MB

What the hell is a idle chromecast doing everyday? That's absurd. Is it outbound WAN traffic or just local network traffic.
Yes, we actually weren't aware of motif until we onboarded a few users were who die hard Motif users. I think the value prop is quite similar but there are some important differences. For example, my understanding is the fees on Motif were somewhat high. Zero-commission was likely a disruptive force for them. Also, the number of sophisticated retail investors was much smaller when they started. The number of intermediate to advanced retail market is growing rapidly now that the onramps are much better.
While I agree that they're probably not running ffmpeg on a flight/control system and that they do update the software from the earth after launch -- in fact, they did it soon after landing to switch to the ground software from the flight software -- I think it's possible to be more generous to OP's overarching point: even if you can, you don't want to have to debug and update buggy software, even non-critical software, running on another planet and that ffmpeg's stability and capability make it an excellent choice.
The Institute for the Future has some of the most prime real estate in downtown Palo Alto. At the same time, it has window displays about 3D-printing bacon and shopping at "Trader Gene's" that look like they were out of paper-mache, by young children. It is a comical example of excess money having no outlet.
"I turned my side project into a unicorn job. It only took about 10 years of hard work...but I did it the hard way."

Sounds fascinating. Could you give more details? What was your sideproject? What did you do to turn it into a unicorn job? Thanks in advance.
Nothing revolutionary, but someone had to do it. (Of course, you would take something expensive in software and implement the logic in software. Of course you can get by implementing only the most common requests: GETs to a small subset of keys.)

I don't intend to criticize this paper in particular, but, generally, I don't see small performance improvements in such software to be very useful for society. Academia just becomes a research arm of corporations that might even be a net negative for society: eroding privacy rights (Facebook et al) or introducing volatility into stock markets (HFT could use this paper's insight just as fruitfully.)
I'm not super fond of the assumption that someone is bipolar simply because of going in and out of frenetic periods of activity, that isn't really what bipolar disorder is. I have bipolar (II), so here's some things:

Since I only have bipolar II, I have never experienced "true" mania, but I can tell you that even hypo-mania is not what is described. Hypomania is more like having your throttle stuck on wide open and nothing you can do will make it stop. You just keep moving a mile a minute, even if you're exhausted. The thoughts just keep moving, faster and faster. You become impulsive. Have you ever bought 20 plants because you were sure it was a great idea then killed them when you became depressed? Bought $400 worth of sushi because, shit, it's a Tuesday? Those are some things that happen, out of the blue, and the thing that's maddening is that anything you do while you're manic is going to get fucked up as soon as you become depressed.

And the depression isn't just melancholia, at least usually, it's something far deeper, the _inability_ to do things. You can will yourself to have motivation to do something for hours, only to find yourself hardly able to do it. It isn't even really a sadness, or disillusionment, it's a fog, it feels like you can't even think straight.

As a programmer, it's a special hell, because it feels like my brain doesn't even work right. And while Lisp is great, it is no salve to that.

So no, this isn't the Bipolar Lisp Programmer, this is the Stereotypical Smart Bored Youth Programmer.
I wish people would stop throwing mental health diagnoses around. The article is mostly intelligent, but it bears no resemblance to any disorder. It's just a standard behaviour of the smart and bored.

Me, I was like that till 16, when I met a teacher with such enthusiasm for his subject matter it carried me all the way through university. (Modulo some hiccups.) He was enthusiastic about maths, so I ended up becoming a mathematician. I imagine if he'd been a chemist I'd have done that.
Don't be afraid to drop a project. I tend to have a handful of projects going at any one time. A good project will stand out and it will pull you through to completion. Pretty much all of my significant jobs were spun out of my side projects. My current job started as a side project that I prototyped in a few weeks. A company was built around it and now our company is part of Google. This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs

Take note of things that inspire you. For me, books or other people's projects. Show your work to your friends and try to convince your friends to work on projects with you.

Find programming languages / environments that make it easy to spin up a simple project without too much overhead. Start small. Last I counted, I have about 140 folders in my dev directory. Each one has a small project I started up. One turned into a successful company. Another won a DARPA challenge. A few others were released in various forms. But most got dropped because they just weren't as cool as something else. And I think dropping projects isn't just ok, it's great fun and will help you find that project that's worth completing.
Author Here. My point is not that YAML is a programming language, and that is horrible. Instead, it is used sometimes used to embed a vendor-specific unnamed programming language in, and that is horrible.

People start with some YAML, and everything is fine. Then a simple condition is added, so ok, we are treating code as data, LISP style but in YAML. Then the logic and branching grows, and we introduce templates.

It not that anyone wants to get where we've ended up. It's that each step along the way seems to make sense until you end up trapped in complex templates, and scripts to configure your config and it's too late.

It is a vicious local optimum that everyone keeps falling into.
>Ultimately that reality is what makes rent-seeking professions so attractive

This is what peolle that want a programmers guild or union want. Put up barriers to new entrants so they can protect their prestige and positions.

I do hope sites like Hacker Rank set a model for finding workers on pure talent rather than degrees or anything else.
Does his argument work if and only if the ratio is 95 to 5? What if it is 80 to 20 or 66 to 33? Would agree/disagree differently with what he says if the number changed but stayed along the same lines?

The charitable reading about the "qualities that make someone a great programmer" is the raw human potential/talent - obviously it is currently not the case that 95% of great programmers are not from the US, due to various factors. But his point is that, since humans everywhere likely have the same potential ranges, the ratio of US to Non-US programmers is going to trend toward the population ratio as remaining countries are brought up to speed, and we should prepare for that. Wouldn't you agree?

> Is it not Graham's responsibility to provide reasonable detail as to how the United States could actually accomplish what he proposes?

Really, no. He's allowed to talk about this without being irresponsible even if he doesn't outline the implementation of the solution.