skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I hadn't gotten a prescription for Prozac I probably would have killed myself by now.

The majority of people with depression just get better of their own accord, for no obvious reason. The NNT for most antidepressants is ~7, meaning you need to give them to about seven patients for one patient to see a clinically-significant improvement.

The evidence suggests that there's no significant relationship between SSRI use and suicide risk except for young people, for whom SSRIs may actually increase the risk of suicidal behaviours and self-harm.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353604/

>If you can't make your own neurotransmitters, store bought are fine.

There is no evidence whatsoever that people with depression are "deficient" in neurotransmitters. We don't really understand the mechanism of action of any antidepressant. Plenty of drugs that have no effect whatsoever on serotonin are equally effective as SSRIs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471964/

Antidepressants can be useful for some patients, but they aren't miracle drugs - they aren't even particularly good drugs. If you're depressed then you should certainly consider pharmacological treatment, but you should regard it as only one tool among many. Talking therapy is equally effective and the combination of drugs and talk therapy is more effective than either alone. You might need to try several different drugs before you find one that works for you and has tolerable side-effects, especially if you have been depressed for some time or have comorbid conditions. If your depressive symptoms are relatively mild, you should probably look at lifestyle interventions like diet, exercise, sleep hygiene and self-help before considering drug treatment.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg90
Horrible side effects, no tests for diagnosis, no actual cures (have you heard of these drugs actually curing depression? No. Once you get on them you are basically on them for life...)...

I think this "Science" of psychiatry has a long ways to go to actually get repeatable, scientifically proven results.
It probably depends on your use case.. It's a lot easier for me. I don't need to pull out my wallet, look for which card it is out of many.. while my phone is nearly always in my hand at all times if I'm walking to a store or something
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Lol @ you assuming that anything a company posts is spam. You can just unfollow them.
On the other hand, so is Facebook: their conversion pixel tracking, JS SDK (like button, login, pervasive as hell) is arguably significantly worse than Google Analytice.
It might just be that they don't even think about you as someone who is interesting in interacting. That they basically dont register that you exists. It is not necessary that they hate you.
Not everything in Twitter is about discussion.

Much of the platform is dedicated to users wanting to follow products, brands, services etc. For them the services I listed are a critical necessity. You can argue all of it is spam but then by that definition so is most of the web.
Not really (besides excellent answers from: AnthonyMouse,Pyxl101) share buybacks also shows the company's long term intention to give stockholders more value.
Maybe I'm alone, but I never felt the graph theory pedagogy I experienced was very confusing or boring (I did think this about plenty of CS topics!). There's lots of motivating examples to pull in, and better/clearer diagrams than this in may places. This just seems like a not very lucid description of theory that is very formalized and that many lectures and textbooks deal with.
I can’t even find words for how much I’d be against using what you describe while driving. From a UX perspective, but also from a general traffic safety perspective, this sounds like a dealbreaker. Why not just use AM or GM? I find the police reporting people mention here very dangerous and childish as well. Just don’t speed. It is quite easy.
throw tasks into a scheduler that will run them in parallel was never the hard thing to accomplish

Common mistake number 1. Goroutines are running in parallel AND concurrently - they are coroutines (common mistake number 2 is to think they are only coroutines). I suggest not to underestimate that, it's the big deal. Additionnaly, it's important to note that goroutines yields on sleeps (any kind of sleeps / waits, like disk reads, network requests, channel writes/reads, etc), and while it may sound like a detail, it's a wonder of cpu control. Due to that, there is also a rare elegance to the way Go solve sharing data via channels.

What's really hard is to break down a problem into parallelizable chunks, figure out as much independent work as possible to reduce the touchpoints, and coordinate all those tasks such that they keep the CPU as busy as possible and as a whole finish as early as possible.

That's exactly what Go is a wonder for due to the combination of parallelism, concurrency, yield-on-sleep and channels.
Why I’m Bullish on Gen Z
> claiming aggression is part of the "masculine psyche".

Aggression is highly linked to testosterone. Saying aggression is part of the masculine psyche is not some spurious claim, it is basic fact. And of course you left out "ambition".

> Seriously, w. t. f.

> my identity is [not] tied up in aggression

Huh. Maybe a bit of self-reflection might be called for?

(If it's not clear, your reactions sounds quite aggressive to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Anyway, aggression is not a bad thing per-se. In fact, most of what we call modern society was built upon channeling and harnessing that energy as ambition and in competitive endeavors.

> Nor have I felt I am owed women

Huh? Where did that come from?
You're doing something wrong - though I don't know what. Mobile payments - I've used both Apple Pay and Android/Google Pay - are the best. I pull out my phone, unlock it with the fingerprint scanner on the way, hold it up to the reader and cha-ching, it chooses my default payment method and I'm done. I use it every chance I get.

The other option is fishing out my debit card with a chip, inserting it at the exact right time, wade through whatever menus, entering my pin, waiting for the handshake to complete and then the honk-honk-honk for me to remove my card.I

Just tonight I was at the movies and paid for our overflowing snacks and drinks with one hand. No wallet juggling needed. And no change.

What's even better is that in many stores like Walgreens, mobile payments seem to shortcut the various "do you want to donate" and "want to sign up for our discount card and mailing list" screens, which saves even more time.

Best technology ever. I feel like I'm living in the future every time I use it.
I see. I‘m asking because the response came almost instantly.
There's the downside to litigation like this. Loads of people who've never heard of RedBox (like me), now do and have a cheap alternative for Disney movies.
Pretty much none of what I use Twitter for is discussion. You're assuming everyone uses Twitter for a very specific, limited purpose.
That's a problem with more demand than supply, fundamentally.
>But in a Tuesday ruling, US District Judge Dean D. Pregerson denied the studio’s request for an injunction, arguing that the warning that “Codes are not for sale or transfer” on the DVD and Blu-ray packaging did not constitute a binding contract. Furthermore, he wrote that the licensing agreements that Disney utilizes on the Movies Anywhere and RedeemDigitalMovie websites improperly forced consumers to give up some of their basic ownership rights.

Well now. That's quite a nice result. I wonder how well this will extend into other "basic ownership rights" in other digital fields.
And yet it has that many followers, some portion of presumably see some utility in receiving those tweets, even if that utility does not match your idea of what they should do with it.
Like I said, I read a lot of comments :)
The ease of setting up online payments is a double edged sword.

On one hand, it makes it a lot easier for someone to earn some money on their side project.

But on the other hand, it also makes it a lot easier for scammers et al. to accept payments from their victims. And that's not to mention that you can't do chargebacks with Bitcoin, unlike if I get scammed with my CC where I can ring my bank and reverse the charges.
Love the fact and the way that the topic presented. I find it hard to apply to other lines of work though, especially classic working class jobs and for example healthcare and teaching. How would you guys modify the list? I for one would rate the security much higher even tough I understand that it's not as important for everyone. For physically demanding jobs (practical nurses, nurses, construction workers etc.) I'd also rate long term health very high
Indeed, film and TV are very much not in any sort of "pay $10/mo for unlimited access to most music" situation, due to fragmentation. That said, they could be undergoing a transition towards it - the current models are clearly frustrating for some users, so there is an opportunity for a company that can make the supply chain work to clean up.

But, as with news, i would much rather have an à la carte model. I don't watch enough movies for a subscription to be worthwhile, but i'd pay 2 or 3 pounds to watch an old Bob Hope movie every now and then.
Does anyone else feel that there's a huge hole in the UI world?

I like the electron/react/react native ecosystem - I really do, and this is coming from someone who dislikes javascript a priori. But is HTML/CSS/JS really the best we can do for desktop and mobile applications? I know responsive-cross platform saves money for a lot of startups and orgs, and I'm not saying the web stack doesn't have it's place.

I frequently imagine something that takes the best ideas from react/redux and from other ui and layout frameworks and lets you build something that has consistent, cross platform (desktop and mobile, maybe even web with some kind of compilation pathway to js or webasm), responsive ui, without the huge web stack. Maybe Python? It's got lots of competent developers in the market to support it. Maybe Rust or Go, if something lower-level was desired. Or language-agnostic, though sticking with one might be valuable.
What happened here?

"macOS
Changed a macOS thing. #123

Windows
Changed a Windows thing. #123"
I'd imagine many of the richest and most powerful people in society have done this throughout history. Seems like the "story", if there is one, is that fiverr has found ample willing supply to bring the price point down to something affordable to the (upper) middle class.
Accounts that don't have interaction get filtered out by Twitter in their timeline.
‘This simple method will save you 100% of your speeding tickets and you will be surprised what it is’

Spoiler it is ‘not speeding’.

I recently bought a car with cruise control (the keep-this-speed kind). It was one of the only ‘extra’ options I was interested in at all and it has been great. I know most cars have this nowadays, but I came from a car without it. I was constantly watching my speed, even though I practically never go over the speed limit I semi-subconsciously checked my speed all the time, always busy with adjusting speed, especially in the city. Now with my cruise control I just set it and forget it. It is so relaxing. On the highway it is even better. Now I can just enjoy the drive without worrying about getting speed tickets and I can focus on the road better in order to prevent me from killing anyone. I am not sure the people playing with waze’s Ads in order to be able to speed can say the same.
> Scheme and parenthesis hell when writing code on the midterms....

Writing code on paper sucks in many (all?) languages. At least the ones I have tried. Python might actually have an advantage on that front, Haskell, too.
28,000 copied windows restore disks, and a fight to stay out of jail
I apologise because I usually abhor semantic arguments, but I feel in this case it might be illuminating. Rights are not granted by the Constitution. The founders believed rights were natural. The Constitution grants the government limited ability to infringe on our natural rights. So the question is not whether we should remove the right to bear arms from the Constitution, but whether or not we should grant the government the ability to infringe on our natural right to armed defense.

The semantics are important because it illuminates the philosophy of rights and the Constitution, and perhaps that illumination may help you to understand how many people see it differently.
I don't think encouraging people to download the precompiled Rust binaries and then blindly compile code downloaded from crates.io is that much different in practice to providing your binaries.
Look into government research on dental carries (they don't use the word cavities) you will find that no treatment works if bacteria grows in the cracks of your teeth. Where tooth brush bristles can't get to, and acid from food is an irrelevant issue. Therefore, fluoride provides no benefit whatsoever as it doesn't fill in the cracks. (plastic sealants do though)

Here's how toxic the fluoride is that used by dentists.

"Referring to a common salt of fluoride, sodium fluoride (NaF), the lethal dose for most adult humans is estimated at 5 to 10 g (which is equivalent to 32 to 64 mg/kg elemental fluoride/kg body weight)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_toxicity

From the New York Times, a child died from fluoride while at the dentist. (he ingested 3 times the amount needed to kill him)

"According to a Nassau County toxicologist, Dr. Jesse Bidanset, William ingested 45 cubic centimeters of 2 percent stannous fluoride solution, triple an amount sufficient to have been fatal."

http://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/20/archives/750000-given-in-c...
The former is enough, but having the latter makes it much easier.
could also have switched the verbs, i.e. "but will continue to advise the organization and donate"
Have you generated any revenue at all?

Perhaps you could ask for royalty instead of equity. It would effectively be the same revenue to you, but with less contractual complications.

Good luck! This is a very interesting proposition. Perhaps you could let HNers know how it works out down the track.
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam beg to differ. The armed population there did an excellent job of fending off a technologically superior force.
Introducing Storage Access API
Part of the benefit of living in the Bay Area – other than tech – is early stage exposure to large scale social and cultural experiments. Hippies, New Age, Eastern mysticism (translated into Western culture), libertarianism, futurism, biohacking, micro-dosing, etc. etc. All of them seeking to find a new but familiar frame of reference for being human in a rapidly changing modern world.

In the whole of human history, every thriving culture had a dedicated male right of passage where a boy becomes a man... every culture except one... ours.

While not mainstream, a few newer practices in the vein of cultural biohacking exist as nascent replacements for right-of-passage ceremonies. The ones I've come across are somewhat underground or at least offline. They're not a secret, they're just currently weird in the same way Steve Jobs using meditation for productivity was unorthodox a few decades ago.

While it's easy to downplay the role of right-of-passage ceremonies as archaic, their existence served a necessary function. It's where a boy gained his confidence and understanding in his role in the community. A time where he stood up as a man to face his peers and elders. An expression at the core of human experience: claiming individual identity within a group.

The need for these ceremonies has not gone away. We just now see the aftermath of what happens when our culture no longer serves the needs of the individual, opting instead to serve the crowd. With men causing most of the newsworthy problems these days, perhaps the culture is not optimal for adapting biologically and socially male tendencies into our present reality.

I've had a chance to attend a few different right-of-passage ceremonies. It's hard to explain how powerful an intentionally crafted ceremony can be in transforming someone until you've seen it first hand. It's nearly impossible to describe.
Nice demo but way too complex and limited (requires line-of-sight) for practical use. I would rather take a MagSafe-style zero-force dock.
how about fucking clicking it and looking?
I use secret-tool in shell scripts and I open my keyring on login.
Proof of stake has other flaws. One issue in particular is that forks are much, much cheaper in proof of stake. This means that you can achieve "51% attacks" with decent probability with a much smaller amount of mining ability.
Some people prefer learning from examples (inductive) while other people prefer learning the theory bottom-up (deductive). This article may be for the first kind of people.

Everyone uses both kinds of reasoning but I know I have deeper understanding of the areas that I studied bottom-up. Even if it might have been a bit more difficult and time consuming, because I didn't get to the applicable stuff as fast.
Simple. Some humans likely were always predisposed to obesity. But as a species, we have never had enough easy calories to get obese.

It doesn't matter if you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism if you have never even had a chance to taste alcohol.
They don't need to break encryption.

They can just "ask" any of the softkeyboard makers like Swiftkey, Swipe (Rip), Hacker's Keyboard, Google, Apple, Samsung etc.
Wrong question, wrong perspective. Even the very best jobs where everything seems to be perfect still have significant setbacks because of the nature of a job:

- Employees suffer from one single dependency which can make their live miserable—their manager; just compare: Entrepreneurs should be independent and build as many options as possible (e.g. not just one client but many)

- A job locks you in, means all side activities are forbidden or made complicated (because of IP, time, etc.) which again harms you because you are not able to build options outside the company

- The urge to stay employable + get high compensations, means: seamless job transitions with no gaps, min 2 years at one job, steady growth re titles, headcount, responsibilities—all to show that you are a good hire and it doesn't matter if your current employer is a pile of s* and you just have 7 months and need stay some more months

Getting jobs and being an employee has opportunities, it's easy for many in our industry to get 200K+ salaries but the price is high: reducing your options until you hit a depression.
I think one important factor to consider, that is not mentioned explicity in the post, is: Manager.

Your immediate manager can have a lot of impact on job satisfaction. A good manager would follow a bottom-up approach where he asks the team members what they need (time, equipment, etc.) and would try to get those things so that the team can succeed. This creates an overall higher job satisfaction.

An ineffective manager may enforce ridiculous deadlines coming from upper management on his team or hog all the credit of the good work done by the team or not be supportive which would lead to stressed, overworked, and unhappy work life.
Ask HN: Does changing post titles help or hinder?
tl;dr - changing titles makes it difficult to find articles subsequently

This morning I noticed a post near the top entitled something like "Growing a company that sells miniature cinder blocks to $17k a month".

Unfortunately I only noticed it as I was in the process of refreshing the page from the previous evening, and once refreshed it was no longer visible.

I searched the page for "cinder" but couldn't find it.

I used the search function for stories containing "cinder" but the most recent was a year old.

Luckily, some commenters had used the word too, so eventually I could find the article throught comments search.

The title had been changed to "Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k/mo"

What was the benefit of that change in title, and has title-changing caused anyone else problems?
Under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), employers can already charge employees more for health insurance if they don't meet BMI goals or participate in a weight reduction program.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20130516.373854/...
I couldn't agree more. I don't even use the default ssh key, I have separate keys for separate servers. Even separate keys for separate github repos.
This analysis look at effects over 8 weeks. The first four weeks on antidepressants you're feeling terrible due to onset side effects (on top of your depression). Once that settles, you feel better. But there is no way to tell if you feel objectively better than before the medication started.
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Recognition of Google; android is too broad term these days, like PC.
No, that's just a hash chain, and it has existed for decades, long before the blockchain ever appeared. For example, every POS software in my country was legally required to implement that before the Bitcoin paper was published. The blockchain is a particular implementation of an hash chain, designed to work well for transactions using some sort of distributed consensus algorithm (of which proof-of-work is a category).
Sooo, on a top of spying on us over mobiles amd internet, they also want to spy our financial transactions. I don't need any additional finance service, I was listening once some really old guy saying "the one who uses credit card doesn't value the money". And it was smart comment, with all the transaction details shared with data brokers (including google, microsoft, apple,...) maybe the "hard cash" is not a bad idea.
It sounds like you're just describing React Native (which, for example, has a UWP target, although it's still janky). React Native doesn't have a "web stack".
Memory usage of Java Strings and string-related objects
You will most likely come up with a sub-par rendering engine that is better implemented by Mozilla and Google. My hope is in Servo.
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Waze: https://arturrr.com/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/

I've experienced something interesting a few times in high-traffic situations (closed highways/etc) where byways produce time estimates which are instantly implausible as many people attempt to take them. It's interesting to think of methods Waze could use to predict optimal paths while accounting for its own effect on traffic.
I didn't read the paper but going off your comment and the parent - escitalopram was in both lists, whereas vortioxetine wasn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escitalopram
Thanks for the tip. We'll definitely explore that data type!
> don’t go spilling every hashed or unhashed password you’ve got.

Please don't store unhashed passwords. By now even PHP gives us the tools to do this right. You truly don't need secondary systems, or separate tables, or separate anything. Just hash the passwords.
It's amazing what humans can do :)