skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that UK veterans get relatively poor treatment from the NHS, especially for mental illness.

This is partly because there's often comorbid alcohol problems, and removing alcohol services from the NHS and dumping them in public health (eg, underfunded LAs) has been catastrophic. And there's often lack of clarity about what gets treated first - the mental ill health or the alcohol misuse, so people get ping-ponged between services.

You mention PTSD: Soldiers find it hard to engage with NHS mental health services because their experiences are so far out of the mainstream.

I know that staff at 2gether NHS Foundation Trust[1] needed extra support because they were being told stuff that was so distressing they were getting sub-threshold PTSD themselves.

For these reasons the Armed Forces Covenant is a good idea. We're not yet giving veterans equal treatment to the rest of the population.

[1] who provide MH services across gloucestershire and Herefordshire
whoa thank you for catching this. will look into right away.
The one thing I saw missing from the application was a salary floor / expectation. I currently support my wife on my salary, and wouldn't be able to work for less than a certain amount. I would apply through this for a lot of startups, but I wouldn't want to go through the entire interview process and realize that they can't pay me what I need to support my family.
I'm fine paying a transaction fee.

I'm not fine paying seventeen of them for my swarm of little $1-3 pledges that get billed as one monthly transaction.
I have looked into Mastadon several times, and I still don't understand what problem it is trying to solve.

* Replacing Twitter -- Part of the appeal of Twitter is that it __is__ centralized. I can find and discover arbitrary tweets or threads by popular people all in one place. On Mastadon, I, presumably, have to explore several different servers in order to find the people I want to follow, which throws up barriers against something Twitter does really well.

* Creating interesting communities that can interact with each other -- See IRC, Slack, Reddit, forums, Wordpress blogs, etc.

Honest question: what problem are they solving, and/or why should I use Mastadon instead of older platforms such as IRC or Reddit?
Reminds me of a "real world" web language shootout I once read, which included accessing a database populated with a large dataset.

The author used a query along the lines of:

SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1

Except for the language they wanted to win, which was basically written like:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = RAND()

Which, of course, resulted in it their favorite being the clear winner.
So you thrown bad money towards Ponzi scheme. Can I now stop throwing good money towards it?

Note that "we voted to confiscate your assets" is NOT a valid vote. "No taxation without representation" fails where we have no hope to recover what we've wasted here.

Or, as you seem to be suggesting, we're just waiting for a big crash while making sure it will be real big, while crunching in process.
Cross-pollination is one of the low-hanging ways one can contribute to a discipline, and all professions are very eager to have people bring in ideas from other domains.

Even if a domain is over 1000 years old, some domains have only existed for about 150-200, which means that before, the world did not have the benefit of those lenses. Now that we have them, it is only natural to mix and match to see if easy insights come out.

Is there not also a risk of arrogance to demanding that another field understand everything about yours before attempting to share knowledge? It suggests that the time of day is so limited, and you have business of such importance, that you will not hear ideas below a threshold. That seems like a fine strategy for accruing quality up to a point, but it can run into local maxima more easily.
> Looks like a somewhat interesting user-testing glitch to me. Perhaps their sample of patrons wasn't representive, or when you sit people down and discuss a new feature 1-1 you can be more convincing than when broadcasting it to the whole world in a blog post.

Or perhaps we're all just a raving mob waiting for the right inputs, and early sentiment by influential individuals actually shapes our thoughts and actions far more than we like to admit.
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I could also imagine that they didn't actually show the fee details, and just pitched it at a high-level.

As a patron, I'd be fine if Patreon just added transparency on fees, showing exactly how much reached the creator and how much went to fees, which is equivalent to "passing on" those fees. (They're effectively paid by the patrons either way, the only question is whether it's made clear what fraction of a pledge goes to the creator, what fraction to Patreon, and what fraction to processing fees.)

In my opinion, they made two critical mistakes here, and transparency on fees wasn't one of them. First, they un-aggregated charges, so that a $1 pledge costs $1.37, and ten $1 pledges costs $13.70. Second, they effectively increased all the pledges by individual patrons, rather than just being transparent about fees on the existing pledges. Effectively, they said "we're going to increase everyone's pledges by the amount of the fees (and hey, would you look at that, we get more money now)", rather than "we're going to show you exactly how much of your existing pledge goes where, without changing your existing pledge". Of course that led to a revolt.
Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals to HN. If you know more, please teach us by adding relevant information. If you don't want to do that, that's fine, but then it's better not to post.

Either way, please drop the swipes, and for bonus points we can leave out the internet clichés as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I kind of think war could happen, not for the reasons you listed, but because the odds of the US winning such a war might be good but will only go down with time, which is the kind of dynamic that leads to aggression.
It also heats very evenly, eliminating hot and cold spots.
They can just take a larger share of creators’ aggregate earnings if they need more money. Obviously the creators won’t be happy, but it wouldn’t destroy the “many individual $1-2 donations” segment, as this change would’ve done.
All AS's can be hijacked. Your suggestion is meaningless.
> I'm not sure what that data shows us.

It shows that women were interested in tech, but something happened in the 80's that mostly killed that interest.

So the problem isn't that females aren't interested, but that something kills that interest. What is that?
So, just to get my own biases out of the way first: I'm a big webpack fan, with no qualifications. I think it's a fantastic tool, and I've had the complete opposite experience of the OP.

This response comes off as kind of snide, as does the post it responds to; I don't care to tone police, so that's fine, but I do want to try to understand the perspectives here.

I'm imagining you're coming from a place of: you have a (fantastic) tool with unique challenges, and it's incredibly frustrating to have that tool judged a) based on requirements it wasn't designed around and b) (likely?) based on older versions of your tool that has since been improved. Those are fair things to take issue with.

A couple things, though:
"Hey thanks for the candid opinion!!!" - This seems pretty obviously disingenuous.
"Maybe it's been awhile since you have taken a look at our documentation!" - Comes from the position that OP is simply out of touch, and that their issues aren't valid. They may or may not be, but this is "Maybe you're wrong!" and not "Maybe there's been a misunderstanding!"
"So if you have great ideas, please let me know. :-D" - In context with the above, this is more like "Let me know when you actually have a great idea" than it is like "Please open an issue or pull request so we can actually fix it". The OP does clearly have an issue with Webpack - "You spend 2 days getting it into some semblance of a working state, and never touch it for fear of introducing a new issue" - and that issue can be addressed, if developed into something more actionable, or may already be solved by the improved documentation of 2.0 & 3.0. As it stands, though, it seems more likely to me that nothing comes out of it, which is a shame.

Not trying to put words in your mouth, I just expect you're more frustrated and want to make a better tool than you are trying to necessarily defend your tool, and I'm not sure you're communicating the former over the latter. Would love clarification if I've misinterpreted something, or correction if I seem totally off the mark. And again, lest I come off more aggressive/dismissive than I intend - thank you for all your work developing and maintaining Webpack. I imagine it's a relatively thankless task for the breadth of what it offers.
There are also card lockout procedures (usually not destroying funds) and dispute procedures.
I'm glad they're reversing these changes. But these developments scream loud and clear that no creator should ever rely too heavily on any single platform. If I was a creator I would certainly still be on the lookout for alternatives.
Court document points to Kaspersky Labs cooperation with Russian security service
Guy seems to fit every characteristic of a psychopath. Glad he's finally been taken out of power and society.
I know of a writing service that works well for handicapped people (or single parents, etc) to make money flexibly. The service profitable and working for them helped me get off the street and back into housing.

They have no goal of "solving homelessness." They are just looking to be a successful writing service. People who sign up are 1099 contract workers. I am not the only homeless person who ever worked for them.

I am currently in the process of trying to figure out how to foster more of this locally. I would like to help people with the kinds of barriers to employment who are at high risk of homelessness to figure out how to make money online. I am going to public meetings and talking with folks. So far, I have been well received. It has not been a discouraging experience.

What I have to show so far from the little amount of time I have invested up to this point is a new website aimed at becoming a resource for Independent Digital Workers:

http://independentdigitalworkers.blogspot.com/

The cheap rental I currently live in that got me off the street is market based housing. It is a for profit thing. It is not part of some homeless services program or other charity. My landlord is making money off getting me off the street.

I have also applied for a job where I have proposed developing Independent Digital Workers further as part of that job. So I find myself sitting here wondering if there is any way to "take your bet."

If I get the job and some local organization pays me to help reduce homelessness locally, would that count in your eyes as profiting from my solutions? Or would you find some new excuse to simply be dismissive?

I suspect the answer is the latter. I am pretty appalled at hearing you say that some people don't have positive unit economics. Pronouncements like that tend to be self fulfilling prophecies. There are myriad ways to sabotage someone's efforts to make their life work and see to it that they are incapable of having positive unit economics.

People with such attitudes in online forums were the bane of my existence while I was homeless. They not only would not give me useful answers to my questions about "How does one make money online?" they also were contemptuous, dismissive and actively did what they could to undermine my efforts to figure out how to make money online. I firmly believe that if I had gotten genuine support instead of this nonsense, it would have taken me less time to build my online income and I would be in better shape financially.
The key thing here for my use-case is this point (which took a lot of digging to uncover when I last dove into this a year or so ago):

> Data in transit inside a physical boundary controlled by or on behalf of Google is generally authenticated but not necessarily encrypted.

Previously I believe this was not explicitly called out, but this is very important for GKE! In the default configuration, Kubernetes can arbitrarily bounce Service traffic between nodes, since the cloud LB selects a node at random, and then the Service iptables rules redirect the traffic to a node which hosts a pod that backs the Service.

So if your regulatory environment (or SLA) requires end-to-end encryption, you are not covered using GKE out of the box.

Options I've found to resolve this:

1) TLS to-the-pod

2) Using source-IP-address-preservation to ensure that the Service doesn't reroute your traffic to another node.

I'd really prefer if Google made this limitation a bit clearer in their GKE docs, since it's a major security gotcha, and took me a lot of digging to piece together. But it's definitely a big step forwards that the encryption policy is spelled out explicitly here.
I was able to find a PayPal for all but one of mine, and sent three months worth of pledges to them.
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How can we bootstrap anything with those payments, where they all go to the retired already? Can't spend same payments twice. And the balance isn't becoming better here.
Many years ago I read "An underground history of American Education", written by a retired two times New York teacher of the year, which argues that the US system (and really most of the education systems in the West) are based on the system Prussia developed to create their army and the entire goal is to create compliant soldiers, workers and consumers.

The book did sound a little conspiracy theorish, but on the whole it was rather interesting and well there is an entire unschooling movement exactly trying to undo/avoid the damages of the school system.

On a personal basis I didn't get my love of reading, computers or math from school, and mostly it was a waste of time. Did learn the official way to touch type though, so there is that.
stop by any time, we always like talking to developers.
Similar thing happened to me way back in the 80's. The history teacher assumed that every family had a video camera, and the big assignment for the year was for each student to make a video.

When I protested that I didn't have a video camera, she didn't believe me.

Being a resourceful youngster, I managed to get my hands on a second-hand security camera and interface it with my parent's VCR. I ended up getting a D on the assignment because the resulting video was in black-and-white.
The researchers don't get the money that's being discussed, the journals do.
One entity not mentioned in the article : https://www.plos.org/who-we-are
I don't think any of the blog posts Patreon made said that?

What they said was: "We're changing our business model to make every subscription a separate credit card charge, instead of bundling all subscriptions into one monthly charge. The credit card processing fees will be radically higher, so we're passing them on to you, but we won't make any extra money from this ourselves"

Personally I found their decision pretty baffling, as in my book the monthly aggregation was the main thing differentiating their product from Paypal, Stripe and suchlike.
Thank you for elegantly explaining what my quick riff did not.
Yes, pinkifying is not a real term, but the truth is, I was trying to describe the stereotype and couldn't for boys. I thought girls stereotypes are they like pink, flowers, dresses, sparkles, dolls, etc. And then I chocked on boys, I wouldn't be able to go ahead and "masculinize" something, because I wouldn't know what that means. I'm thinking boys like fighting, to argue, the color blue or red, trucks, cars, heavy machinery, computers, video games, etc.

This surprised me. My stereotype of boys is that they like things which leads directly to professions such as politic, business, engineering, policing or war. While my steteotypes for girls would seem to lead to low professional value activities in comparison, like house-wife, florist, artist, hair dresser/makeup artist, care taker. With the exception of fashion and lucrative care taking jobs like doctor, the rest doesn't pay well.

I make nothing of this, I think it might be a telling observation, but I'm not making any argument of it. I do find it intetesting. What would be other people's stereotype for boys vs girls about what we might think they "like"? I think that's a good exercise, and a good place to start better understanding the problems related to them.
This app sounds really cool!

I installed it but wasn't too impressed with the quality of the emoji. (This could be because I look kind of weird; eg I have pink hair.) It's really easy to take photos and see how the emoji look; I encourage other people to try that out.

I'm excited to see whether this technology ends up working well in future.
This is what Upwork did. Freelancers weren't happy, but the anger died down and the company is still in business.

Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626864
At what level in the IT industry do you feel that this is not the case?

Education (at home, early, primary, secondary, higher?), in the workplace (companies are biased against women?), or somewhere else (conferences, meetups, trainings, etc.)?

It seems that lack of "acceptance" is thrown around to explain this phenomenon, but it's not clear what and where should be improved to change this.
It was my impression that patreon needs to find a profitable footing to continue existing. Generally I would see increased revenues as a good thing (it helps to ensure that a service people appreciate continues to exist).

Given that - why has there been such a push back against this?
Yes, as I said photons (X-Rays, Gama etc). Protons are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_therapy

You can add helium nuclei (Alpha), electron's (Beta radiation) etc. Arguably the worst Neutron's which are not directly ionizing even though they carry a lot of energy, penetrate most things, and often cause what they hit to become radioactive.

Again it's really not about the carrier. We call it radiation because it's high energy that's causing problems. It's not like 450nm photons are deadly unless you have an insane number of them. But, if you had enough you could still kill someone with blue light.
Nice to see someone explaining drying oils, a discussion usually buried in woodworking forums. That said, in addition to flaxseed oil there a few other drying oils that can be food safe, depending on the additives, like safflower oil, walnut oil, soybean oil and tung oil. In their raw forms those oils are edible, but if they contain a metallic dryer catalyst to accelerate the drying, they're not food safe. I've purchased raw linseed (aka flaxseed) oil in a hardware store in fairly large quanity, labelled as being "safe for farm animals". On the other hand the "boiled linseed oil" sold in the same store contains the chemical dryer and has a label indicating it's toxic. The boiled variety is better as a wood finish when you don't care about it being food grade because it dries much, much faster. For wooden bowls, etc. the raw linseed oil is preferable as a food-safe finish but it takes a very long time (weeks) to dry unless aided by heat / sun.
I see you haven't answered giblaz's questions yet. Valid answers to his questions would clear up much of the confusion about your arguments. Please answer his questions, and continue. How would G10 nations kill the crypto bubble by banning Bitcoin business by banks? Why is this a better move for crypto's future?
I made a comprehensive list of shells here:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources

Of course I think my own project, Oil, could be a "21st century shell", or I wouldn't be working on it :) It's designed in a principled way, and it's also the only one that's compatible with bash.
Recmend: The Yelp of Instagram
Recmend is now available in the Apple App Store! Recmend is an ios mobile app search engine that serves to connect service providers on the Instagram platform with clients looking for them. Recmend is location based, that allows users to rate, contact, review, and recmend service providers to their network.
According to the expanded initial blog post, it would not have been all at once, but over the course of a month, corresponding to when you created a pledge.

Not a good model imo, but at least it wasn’t totally insane.
A benefit is strong typing. A change in the model breaks the queries and the code doesn't compile. You change the database when you are using stored procedures or direct queries and your code still compiles fine.
It creeps me out to no end when corporations mimic human social behavior using community relations teams. It's made worse by people thinking that anything about the content of the apology matters. It was literally crafted by an expert actor. The only thing we should care about is the reversal and whatever concrete action Patreon takes to prevent a new fiasco (which I see no mention of). The company executed a business decision with bumbling incompetence, then was forced to back it out because of their customers. That later bit is interesting, the fact that it was accompanied by something written by a trained parrot is not.

I'd still be looking for alternatives, the original decision was a gross breach of trust and revealed that Patreon's business 1decisions are not coming from the authentic place we may once have hoped for.

edit: to clarify, the content I'm looking for in a real apology is a plan of action so that this isn't repeated. Patreon needs to restore trust. Apology language doesn't do that. Rolling back the act of searing incompetence was step one. Making sure it doesn't happen again is the real apology.
I was actually just thinking, “WebVan and Kozmo were just ahead of their time” — now both businesses had major issues even aside from the .com bust (I haven’t seen E-Dreams in at least 10 years but I recall it glossing over many of the whys behind the company’s failing, probably because when the director started working on it, it was a different story. Startup.com did a better job pivoting in that respect), but the ideas of nearly 20 years ago are now finally ready, thanks to improved logistics, customer mindset, and infrastructure changes.

Speaking of Kozmo, I was in high school when Kozmo was briefly in Atlanta, and I knew it couldn’t last. I would have DVDs and candy delivered to class for almost nothing.
All of the creators I support use Patreon as a donation platform.

They paywall some stuff, but not nearly enough to justify the price.

This might just be selection bias though, as I mostly come to them through youtube; which means that the ones I see tend to release their work publically anyway.
The GP is talking about the new store pickup ("huge digital tablet") but you're talking about the old one ("pager on the card reader").

Your store should switch over to the new system sometime soon.