skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may treat PR like a state to some extent, but it isn't one. The Feds have far more power and discretion there than they would in, say, Texas.

I don't have specifics about what they should be doing that they aren't. I just know that the outcome so far looks pretty bad, and the guy who's ultimately in charge of all of this stuff is spending a lot of time golfing and whining about football while it's happening, and his supporters don't seem to be willing to acknowledge that responsibility ultimately flows up to him.
> Imaging right now. No problem. Humans are humans

> Your suggestion that doctors are all professionals

I'm saying the level of professionalism displayed by doctors is way above the average level of professionalism in software development.

I've worked in QA and have had dozens of developers blatantly lie to me.

How many doctors routinely lie and deliberately mislead their coworkers or their patients? 20%? 30%?

I've been a hiring manager and have interviewed hundreds of software developers and a huge proportion have misrepresented their actual skill set.

How many surgeons will claim they are experts in X surgery when in truth they sat in on an X surgery once while in med school?

What proportion of doctors knowingly push suboptimal solutions because it looks good on their resume or because they personally find it interesting?
Google won't because the browser isn't their product. Your data and attention are their product, which they acquire in exchange for a free browser.
When I was depressed I went for lots of runs, walks, bike rides, did plenty of sets. All it did was make me feel worse because it caused massive amounts of physical pain, and not in a "good" way.

I think diet and exercise can do wonders for mild and maybe even moderate depression but the odds that it can cure severe depression are very, very small. It's dangerously simplistic to say "you just need some exercise, man."
The Fold - Peter Clines - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164927-the-fold

Well written, without too much hand-wavery and awesome twist in the middle.
Maps.org is the best place to get the latest resources and to learn of current clinical trials (mostly for PTSD).

I did my work on my own with a trusted guide. Though I have been asked to write up my experience to serve as a starting point for more research.

Basic format was 100mg + 50mg booster at 2 hour mark. Eye mask, couch, blanket, music.

My interface with western psychiatry was a diagnosis of schizophrenia (at 18) and later bipolar (at 33). And I've experienced everything from anxiety, paranoia, depersonalization, depression, suicidailty, panic attacks, etc.

I'm med free, feeling very healthy inside, in love with a wonderful woman. My relationships are nourishing and my internal compass is much more trustable. I'm 36 now, so it took a couple years once I decided to "fix" the problem. I also feel like I let go of a lot of the defenses I was hiding behind and quite enjoy life from a vulnerable and honest place.

My biggest challenge now is just cleaning up the debts and general mess left by my healing process expenses and getting a bit more consistent income. But both of those seem possible and manageable. And I also have been able to help / coach a lot of other people along the way.
It’s actually really good, I played it quite a bit earlier this year. The main thing that makes it a lot better from the original rct2 is speed up button. It’s also entertaining to peek at the C code and figure out how they are calculating certain things like excitement rating.
They might take over the world (I think it's unlikely), but in my opinion, the main reason isn't their political system: it's human capital (1/7 of the world population) and homogeneity (very cohesive culture due to China's history). Western countries lack the former, India and others lack the latter.
I've been doing the same thing for years. I have two bins each for socks, underwear, and t-shirts. when the dirty one fills, I wash it then dump into the respective clean one. The trick is to buy a full loads worth of socks, and a full loads worth of underwear which is probably an unusually large amount for most people. Throw hardware at the problem!
> What does not fighting look like on a practical level?

For me, it goes "I'm feeling depressed. Okay, I feel depressed. That's interesting. Now what is it that I must do right now at this moment? Get out of bed. Okay, done. I'm still depressed, but what's next?"

In other words, I don't bother fighting it or avoiding it. I just acknowledge it and then figure what needs to be done next.
There's always going to be someone with a shit situation worse than yours. Using the better situations of others to justify your lack of risk taking is just lame. If you don't want to take risks, don't.

There's plenty of risk taking that didn't pay off.
You Are More Likely to Survive a Plane Crash Than Click a Banner Ad (2011)
I would guess it's closer to a Daydream or GearVR type experience. Which is a significantly better experience, even if it's roughly the same hardware as a "google cardboard" device. What makes it better is better sensor/OS/system integration (as well as good enough sensors and the right screen tech).
A big part of psychedelic therapy is the second part - "therapy". Psychedelics by themselves may help or may hurt, it's a bit of a roll of the dice. The thing being fast tracked by the FDA includes guidance by a therapist and isn't just taking E in your bedroom. These treatments can _absolutely_ be helpful, but it needs to be done the right way. The GP comment isn't saying that they aren't helpful (and neither am I!), only that it isn't a magic bullet. Set and setting are important.
To add another anecdote to yours, as a woman dating online, the vast majority of the messages I've received from men are "hey you're cute" or worse. The messages I've received from women are much more likely to be better, but there are much fewer of them.
Or it means that ICMP traffic is not working. Misconfigured networks are incredibly common. There is a massive misconception that ICMP is not needed or should be blocked for security.

For example, you can google "should i open/block ICPM" and none of the stack overflow answers will tell you what's the right thing to do.
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Probably not a great idea to start eating dirt because it may contain M. vaccae. Let's not forget that clostridium botulinum is also present in soil.
Facebook Bundles VR for Business
I only found out I was underprivileged (grew up not so well off, no formal education, etc) when I started talking to the privileged.

Once I became successful, those same people said I wasn't underprivileged anymore, but was privileged (parents didn't divorce, white, male, etc).
On stackoverflow, it's mostly videos of bugs which isn't that interesting
I think we are in agreement that taking constant little actions is the wise course.

To me, that is fighting.
Good question. I typically would use 5HTP and some other supplements for 3 days before and after the sessions.

But I also learned that the "come down" was also a useful state of consciousness for me.

It was like the water level was lower and I could see / feel the topography of my subcocious more clearly. So sensitive points in the following days became useful if I was able to go more deeply into the difficult experience, just like what the medicine allowed me to do.

I often would feel like the medicine would give me a preview of the work I'd need to do in the coming weeks internally, and then when I encountered similar emotions in the weeks after, it was like the training wheels were off.

So in short, the "come down"c which honestly was never anything major, was something I was able to use for further healing and exploration.
I'll be very interested to see how this plays out over the long term.

Positive:

- Adds the voice of a civic minded, non-profit entity to the board. Maybe less brutal than pure capitalism?

- Less risk of Frankenstein's monster (e.g. dual use adware)

Negative:

- Govt is now married to them, and the tech graveyards are littered with the corpses of behemoths who lost their edge.
For me depression comes from thinking I should feel differently than I do, so fighting only makes that worse, whereas not fighting is better.

Could be this is a cultural problem. In our culture we’re supposed to like work and everybody is expected to shut up.
The last time this was posted I hacked up a quick and dirty Python client for Send: https://github.com/nneonneo/ffsend. I just updated it for recent Send changes, which streamlined the crypto and removed some redundancy.

Firefox’s JS client requires the whole file be in memory in order to perform the encryption, and has to decrypt the whole file in memory in order to download it. My client doesn’t have that limitation so it could theoretically upload much larger files (subject only to the server’s upload limit).
Hmm. I roller-skated into a carpeted wall at very close to full throttle. I woke up on the floor maybe 30 seconds later. My concussion left me with a brain that worked just fine, except for one thing: Numbers didn't correlate to the real world any more.

I looked at my watch. It said 6:18. I could read the numbers just fine... but what time is that? Is it early? Late? When is that?

I drove myself home (mistake - do not drive when you're brain's messed up, but I got away with it). I stopped for gas. It was 86.9 (yeah, this was a long time ago). Again, I could read the number just fine, but... how much money is that? Is it a good price? A bad one?

Two days later, numbers made sense again. I have no side effects that I have observed.

One thing I have in common with the writer: I don't remember the impact, either. My memory ends with my head still about a foot away from the wall.

Note well: This is completely and totally not saying "this is what you should expect". It's not saying you're a wimp if you had more damage than me. It's my experience; nothing more. (It's also not a demand that everyone carpet the sides of the sound booths at roller staking rinks, though that isn't a bad idea...)
I occasionally hear about students in US colleges having to compete for places in classes like this. How does it happen? Why does the college admit more people than it has class space for? In the UK they don’t enroll more people than they can teach so everyone has a place.
This ignores the far bigger reaching impact of online dating, that which includes some uncomfortable gender dynamics for hetrosexuals; The top percentage of men get the lions share of the dating options and presumably more frequent sex with no reason to commit to the ladies in question while lower tier men suffer disillusionment from their lack of options. The OK Cupid blog page is a filled with these sorts of nuggets, such as women rate 80% of guys as worse-looking than the medium: https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...
$1M house in Southern California isn't really saying much. Down here in San Diego: 3 bedroom, 2 baths, 1000 square feet homes going for $1M. The housing market doesn't reflect real wealth imo. Owning a house in Southern Cal is akin to playing hot potato
Google makes it possible: http://www.naergilien.info/my-costumes/medieval-renaissance/...

About two weeks of sewing (14 days) with approximately 7-10 hours per day (every day!); resulting in approximately 100 hours of work before the dress was finished.
Thanks, that worked :)

I usually try that with paywalls, but this was a different enough block that I didn't think of it.
Really? You didn’t even mention reducing system calls? That’s basically what full_write does: try to output a whole buffer with one system call.

In your regular program, even with just a normal setvbuf call to set up block buffering would make a huge difference.
Fortune favours the bold.
This is really good advice. Anyone strugging with depression should definitely start with the basics:

- Regular good sleep. Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day.

- Good exercise every day. This will help with the sleep too.

- Eat healthy food on a consistent schedule

- Avoid alcohol

- If you don't get much sun, check your Vit D levels and take supplements if needed

These things will almost always make big difference. If you're still strugging you need to see a psychologist or try some medication. Medication is hit and miss so you'll probably need to experiment with different types to find something that works for you. And of course some people just don't respond to depression medication at all. Cognitive behavioural therapy is often helpful and there are other therapy options too.

Depression is multi-faceted and you will usually need a variety of treatments to get the best results.

Some people recover and go back to normal, but many sufferers will have manage it for their whole lives.
https://visualping.io/ can do this, although it sends email alerts rather than SMS messages.

I used it to notify me of new Hololens events, listed on this page https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebI...
You hook AWX up to git or similar. It will pull playbooks, etc, from git before execution. I was a Tower sceptic at first, but it's actually really great.

(edit: disclaimer .. I am a Red Hat employee!)
> Adds the voice of a civic minded, non-profit entity to the board.

Wat. We are talking about the PRC here. A totalitarian communist regime. "Less brutal"?
The most important of the unanswered questions:

"10. You have said you are committed to protecting election integrity and supporting democratic ideals. However, there have been reports that you have built tools to censor speech in certain authoritarian countries, such as China, where you hope to be allowed to operate. How will you choose which elections and democratic processes to protect? When promoting democratic ideals conflicts with your corporate goals, which will you prioritize?"
Beijing already has its direct hand so far up these firms it can reach the back of their teeth. Most likely this is Beijing offering a little liquidity to pay off some connected shareholders.
Take Back Your Blog Just Sprinkle Notifications and Cryptocurrency
> civic minded

China? Civic? What? Is today opposite day?
This is what you can't say in America - that the "democracy" is not so democratic.
For me the experience often went like:

1) notice I'm depressed
2) create space to feel emotions more and use something like Breathwork to loosen up my ego enough to get out of my default mode of shutting down / numbing out.

3) having a deeply personal / visionary like experience of seeing old events in my life or relationships or choosing to forgive someone.

4) am actually emotional release, like crying and feeling like I was able to be back in my body vs being stuck in a painful loop in my head.
Um. Please be careful, ingesting soil can lead to stuff like Botulism. As for the GP - I've also been there, for many years. I'm not going to suggest treatments because you have a whole thread full of it, and it wouldn't do a damn bit of good unless you happen to be in the right state of mind for it anyhow. I don't know you, but if you do happen to need someone to chat to, I'm down.
That last rust example is less readable than modern template-metaprogramming variants of C++.

There is something elegant about being able to beat it out on speed with about 30 lines of C
It's not April 1.

It's not URL hijacking.

They have an EV cert.

Ok, you got me, I have no idea how you're pulling it off. Some kind of silly hacker trickery must be the explanation, because there's absolutely no way that a company with such a long track record of tasteful design would intentionally put something that hideous into production. Right? Right??!

:/
Using the right data science tools for the right job
Ta for replying.

I have already deployed ULA (and discovered a few wrinkles) and NPT is the only game in town for getting multiple WANs to work. You may recommend against it (I hate NAT too) but what is the alternative?

For example, you are a small business (say <£1M t/o pa) You have a 80/20MBs-1 FTTC (UK - VDSL, copper last mile) internet connection and you want to get some sort of redundancy/backup for your internet connection. So you get another line in at the same rate. In the UK, we pay around £30-£40 per month for this (if it is available.)

So, ISPa gives me a prefix and ISPb gives me another prefix. My router, via SLAAC, causes various addresses to become available but my endpoints are stupid - OK they do not know what to do because they are not routers. Knock out ISPa and they will not automatically fail over to ISPb. Nor will they do the really best thing and use both ISP links simultaneously.

I understand IPv6 very, very deeply (I've used it for years) and it is wanting. To be fair, the addressing scheme is spot on but the ISP addressing model is badly wrong and absolutely right at the same time (depending on who you are).

If you have a multiple GB connection and a /48 prefix through a 99.999% trusted supplier or a home grade VDSL link that you don't even know what is happening, then all is probably OK for IPv6. I look after rather a lot of people and businesses that don't come into those categories.

Is NpT really the best that IPv6 has to offer?
I used to have a similar setup, except it announced the name/number using festival TTS. Now I've replaced the landline with VoIP and an Asterisk server, so instead I just use a perl script that does the same thing, with the added functionality using my local LDAP server to match names with numbers.
Having all my friends, family members and contacts in LDAP has made it easier to automate another task: keeping my antispam white list updated.
Testosterone is not that simplistic that you can infer aggressiveness based on it. Take a group of men (or boys) and sort them based on aggressive behavior, and then measure testosterone, and the later will be very a poor predictor for the first.

For example people have tried to "treat" crime by chemically castrate violent criminal, but it did not work. Researchers expected an increase in testosterone levels to inevitably lead to more aggression, and this didn't reliably occur. Only at levels far above normal variance (roid rage) can such effect be measure, and you need either a medical condition or injections to have that occur. Research about testosterone and aggression indicates that there's only a weak connection between the two, and when aggression is more narrowly defined as simple physical violence the connection all but disappears. In fact, in a study of men castrated to calm them down, nine out of sixteen died as a result of aggressive encounters.

Testosterone does have an effect on inter-sex competition, such as tendency to seek social rank and dominance. If one consider a function of testosterone is reproduction, this make sense. A high social ranked male in say a baboon group will have better reproductive success than other males, but a indiscriminate violent male won't. Interestingly, testosterone also increase after gaining ranks (such as winning contest), implying that the body is "telling" itself that it should focus more on reproduction because of the new increased chance.

A group of boys will compete for social ranking, but so will girls. If school yards has anything to show it is that kids of both gender need to learn to harness and focus that energy into cooperation and self-improvement.
Use wrong pronoun for transgender senior? California may punish you
The big brother gets his hands in everything. They want to turn tech giants into corrupt, in-efficient, state-run companies? It is not going to be good for the Chinese tech giants. I feel bad for them.
To be more precise, I meant storefronts, a few bike lanes, some trees, and then an "open air sewer for automobiles that pay no direct usage fees but still take up huge amounts of urban space per person" ;)

Snide remarks aside, there are nice drawing of Octavia Boulevard in https://www.amazon.com/Boulevard-Book-Evolution-Multiway-Bou... and an interesting (at least to me) backstory of its development in https://www.amazon.com/Street-Fight-Struggle-Mobility-Franci...
> If someone tries this for several years and it doesn’t help them, would you consider your theory thoroughly debunked?

Yes.
I'm pretty sure it's a criticism of people. That said, if it is helpful advice to some people, maybe they should take it?
Thanks for making this service and sharing on HN. Is it possible to provide more contact info for the relevant journalists? I usually rely on Google News alerts to find new & relevant articles for my investment / finance startup. What gets me though is when I find a good article, the author's contact information is usually nowhere to be found so it makes it pretty difficult to do PR.
Also, this same link with this same title was posted maybe 4 hours ago. I was probably the only commenter and upvoter because the thread seems to have been deleted, which is against the HN rules.