jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just wanted to say, if anyone is having a dark time, make an appointment with a doctor and ask them about Prozac. Unlike most antidepressants, the side effects don’t seem very noticeable.

I think there’s a sort of stigma against talking about mental health (except in the third person), but it’s one of those things that should probably change. Taking Prozac doesn’t mean you’re somehow broken. It’s like a crutch: why go without?

Yet it’s surprisingly easy to go without, due to stubbornness. It feels like admitting failure to go get medication. But why? That’s as absurd as feeling like it’s admitting failure to go get a cast, or a tooth filling.

It’s fuether compounded by the fact that most antidepressants have severe or annoying side effects. So I just wanted to throw out my one datapoint: it’s not always like that, and your life can feel much better.

EDIT: Okay, clearly I didn’t emphasize enough that everyone is different and responds differently to different medications. But I know at least two people reading this are going to use that as an excuse not to go to the doctor and try it for yourself. That’s why I’m writing this.
> The only differnce is how a VPN provider can be incompetent or malicious.

Agree completely

> It is less likely for MS to be incompetent but so long as the nation state is a western nation,they are more likely to be malicious.

Yes, but as I argued in the comment you replied to the difference in maliciousness is effictively infinitesimal because the govt can get access to any VPN provider.
Ya I noticed that too and I think it's a mistake. It's a one off purchase for non business use at least.
This videos educate you how to properly wash your hands ang this pandemic we are all facing
HN is really showing their collective asses here. Way to thoroughly thrash someone who dared to open up on the Internet.
It's telling if Tesla doesn't have an explanation either. Remember when they had early autopilot accidents/fatalities there was an almost instantaneous response from Tesla--even Elon himself tweeting out detailed root cause analysis of accidents that would show the safety driver being impaired, the system working as intended, the pedestrian being impaired, etc.

So if an incident like this happens and we don't hear anything from Tesla it tells me there's a far, far bigger problem here with their failure to collect diagnostics, or failure to analyze these problems. Ideally we should see a hyper detailed root cause analysis even going into the vision model inputs in this exact case and exactly how they failed to classify and detect this cyclist, and most importantly how the beta software is being improved to fix issues like this. Silence is deafening here.
The rationalists’ heuristic is: no one else has experience or facts I need to understand this problem. I can approach it from first principles and my conclusion will be the best.
> When people say "there is no evidence of genocide", they mean it in a legal sense. No legal definition of genocide applies to China's domestic policies in Xinjiang.

Evidence has been provided specifically to the internationally accepted legal definition of genocide. [0] If that doesn't convince you, that's fine, but there is not “no evidence”.

[0] for which, see https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
That being said, it’s not like most people have a real-time monitor of electricity prices so those that can will actually reduce consumption.

It's worse than that, this was an extreme weather condition (temps as low as -2F/-19C) in a state where 60% of homes are heated by electricity and many of those use inefficient electrical resistance heating.

So even if residential users had real-time access to prices, they'd have to choose between paying any price or freezing. So it's not clear how elastic demand could be.
Kelly criterion is how I explain the importance of insurance. Insurance is a net loss and you’re better off on average not having it, but you’re betting your entire wealth on that working out.
Which drive did you pick?
As a fellow practitioner, I entirely agree. Actually, reading this article made something click for me regarding the oft discussed and denigrated “bias in AI” always brought up in discussions of the “ethics of AI”: there is no bias problem in the algorithms of AI.

AI algorithms _need_ bias to work. This is the bias-variance trade off: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias–variance_tradeoff

The problem is having the _correct_ bias. If there are physiological differences in a disease between men and women and you have a good dataset, the bias in that dataset is the bias of “people with this disease”. If there is no such well-balanced dataset, what is being revealed is a pre-existing harmful bias in the medicinal field of sample bias in studies.

If anything, we should be thankful that the algorithms used in AI, based on statistical theory that has carefully been developed over decades to be objective, is revealing these problems in the datasets we have been using to frame our understanding of real issues.

Next up, the hard part: eliminating our dataset biases and letting statistical learning theory and friends do what they have been designed to do and can do well.
A large college campus is 50-75k people. This is evidence that our towns can be human scale. A city is 10x to 100x that. I don’t think you can scale up the time that students spend walking by 10-100x and still be okay. You’re going to need some kind of wheeled transportation, and the layout might have to accommodate it in a way that a college campus with purely walkable trips doesn’t.
That's not how projection technologies work. The phone is the where the executables live.

If you want to learn more, please let me know.

Initially, you can check out the Android Auto wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Auto

"The most common way Android Auto is deployed is via an Android mobile device running the Android Auto app, acting as a master to a vehicle's dashboard head unit that supports this functionality.[2] Once the user's Android device is connected to the vehicle, the head unit will serve as an external display for the Android device, presenting supported software in a car-specific user interface provided by the Android Auto app.[2][3]"
> 3. Carbon capture

Algae capturing carbon and falling to the bottom of the ocean seems so obvious and so easy and scalable!
The idea that a senior US Congressperson or Senator would have the same rules as some IT contractor is ludicrous.

Her password is probably password123 or some such nonsense too.
Absolutely. Massaging video codec settings to exactly match the console hardware requirements and feeding video data in/out of each console's propriety video API is a royal PITA.

My feeling is that big budget games are prepared to jump through the hoops in order to wring the last drop of video quality (or add hours more 'content') but when timelines are short and engineers are thinly spread Bink is a great way to just get it done and move along.
Meanwhile, Airbus... I've always heard the French Government supports it, but it's hard to see exactly how.

and something interesting I just noticed:

"In 2015, Airbus Group said it was establishing an R&D center and venture capital fund in Silicon Valley."
I made it through, but had no intention of actually applying - the space just isn't very interesting, I'm not sure why I'd want to work for this startup in particular, and they're not sophisticated enough to work remotely.

Still, the challenge was fun and had a hint of the weebly job challenge to it (though that one was considerably tougher), to the point I was thinking about trying to come up with a series of these just as a weekly exercise to post on hn. Anyone else have ideas for this?
> [tech folk] are expected to write or use other frontends or tweak the output themselves

Weird how that expectation only seems to apply to tech folk using assistive technologies. I'm sighted and while I think HN is needlessly ugly and user hostile in some places the only thing I need to do to use it is zoom in a bit. But I guess that just means I'm more technically adept than someone who has to mess around with their screen reader or crawl through the pile of poorly maintained "UIs" to make the site work.

> It works and is lightweight.

That's quite the response to someone demonstrating that it doesn't work.
What! I've flagged about one article a month accidentally - should this feature have an "are you sure"?

I know I occasionally downvote posts rather than minimize but usually notice that.
philosophical point here: note the bb ceo's use of language. i hate to get pedantic, but this all goes back to the greek word γινώσκω (gnoscio), which means "to think" or "to know". from this word we get, in the english, words like "decide", "discern" and even "discriminate".

i'll quote mr. chen here, piece by piece:
"...policymakers should demand..."
--> children demand. policymakers (and i assume he means congress, which is the constitutionally-empowered entity that is able to make law in the united states) make laws. and laws are supported with the power of the state to do two things: tax, and kill (in fact, they are the same power). so what this means is "congress should use its power to use lethal force..."

"... openness not just at the traffic/transport layer, but also at the content/applications layer of the ecosystem..."
--> net neutrality is about agnosticism. there goes that word again, 'to think'. here, it's about not thinking -- particularly not thinking about whose data is traveling along your pipes. but once you move from the traffic/transport layer down to the content/applications layer (or heck -- in a chaostheoryesque way, once you move up to the operating systems layer) the medium is the message! this is the equivalent of a declining myspace begging congress to force facebook to allow myspace users to interact with the facebook users. the medium is the message here: facebook exists because it is not myspace. trulia is not redfin. people started companies because they disliked the platforms available and they sought to build better ones.

"...Banning carriers from discriminating but allowing content and applications providers to continue doing so will solve nothing."

there is zero comparability in this last statement. content and application providers are built atop an architecture that is by its nature exclusive and discriminatory. service providers are defined not by what is within them, but what moves through them. which is to say: teraflops (&c.) per second of data moving from various points to another. applications on the other hand are defined by what resides within them. music (spotify: beats needs to allow us to stream music to its listeners!). videos (vimeo: youtube needs to let us share their videos!). games (counterstrike: why can't people play our missions as the master chief?! ¡¡¡net neutrality!!!). the list goes on.

make no mistake: this is one more step down a road that leads nowhere good.
This seems like the perfect use for something like a mini LIDAR you can mount on a bike that detects a car behind you and just lights up a couple of LEDs on the handlebars.
The legislature can't fix all bugs. Case Law exists for a very good reason.
I'm finding that I like using Nord theme for much of my system UI where low-contrast reduces distractions (window decorations, buttons and other widgets, terminals, etc), but for my code editor I want something with slightly more contrast, and more saturated colors. doom-palenight fits that bill, and it compliments Nord fairly well on the rest of the screen imho.

nord: https://i.imgur.com/dsiX8Ow.png
vs
doom-palenight: https://i.imgur.com/8GYzIvW.png

in context: https://i.imgur.com/DQxha9r.png
It’s generally not trademark infringement to refer to the actual thing the trademark refers to (”nominative use”).
This would actually be a claim unlikely to succeed unless you are intentionally claiming that are writing the true original Harry Potter stories.
Not only that but now we have to pay a subscription for the trivialist of applications.
You're wording is oblique but the sentiment bears out. It reads like someone who really doesn't know what they are doing technically ("Perhaps it is stored as a unicode string?" makes no sense.)

It shows that being willing to be wrong in public (and not waste time thanking people who help you) is a more effective way to learn and grow than only speaking up when correct.
It would actually be a neat UI to show the person's contacts letting the person pick which one to try with a "match the hash" function that shows the one way hash generated and does a "ping" on the service to see if someone matches.

Won't happen, but would be a fun UI to do.
I know this isn't a fun answer but in my experience it's just bad process and culture

Basically nothing can be done / no decisions made without a meeting.
Why? Because X number of people feel they need buy in. If you don't get them onboard and give them a chance to voice opinions you'll be pushing uphill to get work done.

And meetings are actually a fairly effective way to do that -- you have a group's attention for a set amount of time. If you just sent a doc then you'd have to follow up, etc.

That sort of becomes the default, so there are meetings even when that sort of buy in isn't necessary, bc meetings are just how things get done.
>free Internet

A private company choosing who to allow on their platform? Seems like the freedom to me. And in the absence of any government action against these domestic terrorists (they have been planning exactly this violence for weeks), it's great to see private companies step in and take action.
Something isn't right? Perhaps that nearly half of the elected officials present were either complicit or actively encouraging what happened?
We'll see. Parler (two years old) in particular is especially young. I'm not sure if Gab (four years old) has the funding to survive another few years. Voat lasted six solid years before running out of cash, so that's going to be my approximate benchmark.

Parler might outlast both if politicians keep moving to that platform. In that case, I might be wrong. TheDonald.win is way too focused, though.
Very Cool! so much more newsworthy than most of the stuff that gets airtime.
Aren't white people more likely to die by police? (seriously asking, I remember this data point but it's not in front of me).
Moreover,

We've had free trade with countries that have rather specific development plans and policies around industrial development - we know China does. But more significantly, one might well argue Germany's private-public cooperation/policy has been a big part of it remaining an honest-to-God industrialized nation.
The header and the red/green numbers on the list pages are traditional HN Christmas decorations, yes.
Just ask people's opinion people! Its not that hard.

Find someone in the cafe that looks like they fit your target demographic and isn't too busy.
Put a smile on your face, walk up to them and say

"Hi ... my name is xxxx, I was wondering if you could help me figure out some possible problems with this business idea I've got.
And no ... I promise I'm not going to try to sell you anything"

Smile again.
Rinse, repeat and refine as necessary.
Get personally cashflow-positive without a job with iOS or webdev contracting and/or my new top-secret analytics project, hehe :)
Of all the screenshots, mine looks the ugliest. ( http://i.imgur.com/zX3tG.png ). Chrome Beta on OS X Snow Leopard.
While my terminal color is not exactly green, I still use the terminal and vim for pretty much all my hacking endeavors. What do you have against the terminal?

PS the people who can't use the terminal probably can never create a facebook (imho).
But why do that anonymously?
Most likely it's because he was only out for a few seconds. People fall down all the time, so that's a few seconds of waiting just to see if something is actually wrong or if it's just an odd occurrence. Add a couple more seconds to decide the appropriate course of action, and by the time you're going to respond, Nye is back on his feet acting like everything is fine.

More disturbing to me is that nobody realized during the speech that he was obviously having a stroke.
More system software in ML: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/HORUS/
Nye's current status: "feeling much better". I had feared a stroke, but he's saying that he had just been pushing himself too hard. Whew.

Dug up a story here: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2...
I've been happy with being able to just read my docs on my Droid. Light editing would be nice - it's not as if that keyboard is suitable for writing anything of significant length.
It looks like ycombinator.com is hosted by SliceHost (http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ycombinator.com).
Awesome! I have been using this for a while now and it really lets you look deep at your tweets and understand their individual impact as well as notice patterns in your tweets.
Why would inflation drive people to clear debt? I thought inflation drove people to obtain more debt because debts are in dollars, if dollars are worth less, the debt is also less.

In an inflationary environment it would make sense to borrow dollars to buy goods which increase in price under inflation: stocks, gold, etc.

Congress will never default on the debt. The debt is in dollars and congress has the power to print dollars. We are going to print our way out of debt.
I did tweet to @newscientist that I was unfollowing them due to them putting all their tweeted articles behind a sign-in page.

But it seems like it would be a rare thing.
i'd love to get an invite :) michael@joinbox.com
You say you never clicked an ad. If you are visiting sites relevant to your industry you should actually check out the advertisers to keep an eye with what is happening in your industry(new tools, new conferences, new competition...).

Most of the big sites have CPM deals so they get paid for every visitor no matter of clicks or not.

And yes I hate intrusive ads as well and I don't watch TV channels with ads(I mostly watch football and HBO about 1-3 times a week).
She's not in pakistan though, she's in Spain, where they have concepts like asylum for people that may be murdered if they return to their home country.
I find myself longing for less clever spam filters. Remember the good old days when you could claim that your spam filter ate someone's email? Ah, plausible deniability …
There are plenty of reasons to contact someone other than responding to an opinion on a blog.

I've got a dozen emails in my inbox right now from friends, contacts, and organizations like the choir I sing in.
Is there a specific reason it has to be an Apple monitor? I have an HP IPS monitor with DisplayPort that I use calibrated with my MacBook Pro. What am I missing out on?
Nevermind the fact that if the gods did cause such a collision to occur it wouldn't exactly be the end of the world. (And the accessibility of md5 more than makes up for this consequence.)
I'll only apply if I can get equity instead of a salary
I think it's actually pretty brilliant on NYT's part. They're forcing Google to fix the problem instead of working around it like Google has asked everyone else to do. This isn't Google's Internet; they don't get to tell us how to use it. It's their job to take what's there and index it in a useful way.
Yeah, I'm no electronics expert (far from it), but that part also confused me. Can someone explain?
It is definitely possible to arrive at a similar setup if you are technical. Numa is built entirely from free software. Our hope is to make these tools available to people who are not so technical.
SSL VPN, but it would likely be targeted anyway.
A couple of problems with the API.

First, why do you have to call checkDestinationQueue after modifying the queue? It's awfully redundant. I assume this is due to some kind of limitation.

And second, goingUpIndicator and goingDownIndicator are kind of sketchy. Can you activate both at the same time? What effect would that have? There should be a single property, directionIndicator of an enum type with the possible values up, down, and none. I don't think you can make enums in javascript though, but I don't know the language very well. I'm just explaining this in terms that I know; there probably is a suitable javascript equivalent or replacement.
My own VPN instances have been shot down within a couple of days of use, definitely IPS-style behavior.

I can't comment on commercial providers, but the capability to autoblock common VPN protocols is definitely there.
> If I'm working on a totally different work stream to somebody else

Why are you in the standup of people who you are not working with?

If the people on your "team" are working in totally different streams, it's not a team in any real sense.
Doesn’t this depend on scope? If you have 50,000 kids spending 5hrs on chess a day it’s one thing, if you had 5,000,000 it’s another thing.
My team of 3 finds it very useful.
Remote work (at least in industries where it's easy to do) as a norm is likely inevitable at this point and companies that push back against it will likely have to change their stances sooner or later. At least as long as tech workers are in more demand than there is supply. If we have another dotcom crash though, things could flip around.

What I find unfortunate however is how the high level discussion (yes or no on remote work at all) is preventing meaningful debates on how to best do it, and how to be inclusive of all types of people. The old model was that everyone had to have butts in seat even if it didn't work for them. The new model is that everyone will be remove even if THAT doesn't work for them.

"But most companies are giving people a choice!". Not really: the thing about remote is that "one remote, everyone's remote", at least at a team level. As soon as one team member is remote, everyone needs to deal with Meet/Zoom/whatever, conversations all need to happen in front of a screen, you need physical whiteboard alternatives (or at least use devices that project whiteboards), you need to share your screens, you need to be deliberate about all discussions, etc. Some people have real personal issues that makes these things very difficult for them. We're trading one set of challenges for another.

I find that remote works better when everyone's remote in a team, and vice versa for in person. But the counter argument is that talent isn't fungible, making this kind of split impractical.

More importantly, right now it's very hard to have these discussions at all, because any talk about how to optimize for the various preferences/needs is getting pushed back as if remote was a no brainer that's better for 100% of people with no tradeoffs.

Hopefully once people who want to be remote no longer have to be afraid they'll be forced back into the office, we can move on and talk about how to make it better.
> I wonder the degree to which people enjoy WFH is the same as the degree to which they enjoy working on a laptop.

I hate working on a laptop screen.

OTOH, I like the 34” ultrawide monitor I use at home attached to my dock better the twin 21” widescreens I had in the office, plus I get to use it, rather than a laptop, in the numerous meetings-with-computers, which were held in meeting rooms with in-person work.
That will be interesting! Will definitely try if i actually pull this together.
Not dishonest, and not FUD. I'm simply stating the obvious -- we have cultural norms around a balanced omnivore diet that happen to include a lot of these micro and macronutrients. Most people don't even think about it and will only be deficient in a subset of micros. When people swap to veganism or vegetarianism they don't have the same cultural norms to fall back on and struggle to fulfill micro and macronutrients, which results in stories like the one upthread. It doesn't do your cause any favors when you ignore people's suffering from lack of nutrition while trying to swap onto it.

As far as the extreme label goes, any highly restrictive diet is extreme. Veganism, carnivore, keto, etc.
Huh, you're right. I wonder when they changed that.