skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "mental health" also implies specific value judgements which are relative to the dominant ideology of a society or civilization. It's these value judgements that determine how the "averages" or the data in general, is interpreted.

For example, if you lived in the middle ages and you were a radical atheist, no doubt that under that system of education and propaganda, you would have been deemed by that society to be "mentally ill" (or similar contemporary equivalent).

The charge of "mental illness" or psychological pathology in general, has throughout history been weaponized to isolate and/or suppress politically incorrect or heretical ideas that run totally counter to the prevailing world-views.
They could sponsor OpenStreetMaps and dedicate resources to it

According to the article, OpenStreetMaps was one of the data sources that Apple used and decided wasn't up to snuff.

The article doesn't specify what the problems were with OSM, or if there were any problems unique to OSM, but one of Apple's priorities is rapid map updates, which is something that can be accomplished faster if it's in-house.

In addition, Apple intends to update its new maps in real-time (new road opens and 100 iPhone users drive on it, it magically appears on the map). I don't think that's possible with OSM.
Every Seatteite should know the names of the downtown streets with this mnemonic - “JJesus CChrist MMade SSeattle UUnder PProtest”

From south to north the streets are:

James
John
Cherry
Columbia
Madison
Marion
Spring
Seneca
University
Union
Pike
Pine
Honest question, how do you use iTunes match without iTunes? I thought you'd have to add music to your library first in order for it to be matched and available on mobile?

My original comment was about iTunes on desktop, although the mobile version is also confusing and counter-intuitive, but much less buggy.
If you've agreed to it, sure. However, when someone has intentionally misrepresented the situation to take advantage of you. I don't know how you can possibly end up feeling good about that. Particularly when you've made plans in accordance with the information you've been provided.
Anxiety and depression go hand in hand. Modern life is hard on some people, fear of losing a job or making the next mortgage payment, or getting good grades, and so on can lead to anxiety in people who er toward flight rather than fight. This anxiety can trigger depression and then the horrible cycle begins.
I've played around with a number of languages and settled on Crystal because:

* Speed

* Pleasant to use type system

* Doesn't get in my way

* Catches lots of bugs

* Fun!

I wrote http://luckyframework.org/ to write web applications with minimal boilerplate and as few runtime errors as possible. Take a look and let me know what you think
Wow rly? Is this comment called for?
A Fluent Logging API for Java (from Google)
> You grasped the idea very well. Life in the West gives you a lot of "false idols," way more than just plain income (in)security and social acceptance.

TFA is set in Tokyo, which is decidedly not the West. Yes, you can take your skills and go to a developing nation where you will probably be much more qualified than most of the locals, but that's not the broader question at stake, nor does it really take into account what the lives of locals are like. I have faith that the world will, eventually, be filled with mostly developed nations. These problems increasingly seem to be plaguing all developed nations.
Ah, yes, good ol' could you code facebook.
It also sounds to me like the same rhetoric applied to unwanted immigrants. We don’t care about the circumstances, go somewhere else!

It’s cold and heartless.
HN as a community is so defensive about the wisdom and necessity of the spirit of the law (which isn't an unreasonably position) that a lot of commenters reflexively reject any claim that the implementation may leave something to be desired (just see the top comment in this thread). It's entirely unsurprising to me that the EU implemented this sloppily, for the simple reason that legislators all over the world are shitty at understanding tech, and sweeping changes have a high prior likelihood of being poorly implemented.
I've had to deal with this nightmare living in my head for almost 10 years now. I've accepted that it's my fault, and in no way am I trying to place blame on anything else. All the choices I made were wrong. It was wrong of me to drink when I was stressed about work. It was wrong of me to turn to adrenaline tactics to relieve stress too. It was wrong of me to flash teenage girls. It was wrong of me to try to get a software job when I knew I wasn't qualified for it. It was wrong of me to tease my family with a middle class life I realistically knew all along that I couldn't afford. It was wrong of me to not quit from my jobs when I knew I wasn't doing well enough at them. Everything here was my fault and in no way am I avoiding responsibility for any of it. This blog post is an obituary of my software career. It's written from that perspective.
I love your optimism.
The point of currency is to facilitate commerce and pennies don't do that. You can't use them in parking meters or vending machines (for example) so we're spending tax dollars to create objects with no function.
If someone is self medicating with pot, and pot is making their lives worse (which is the case for some users), the pot is a problem in and of itself.

Drug culture itself is riddled with such booby traps. Fallaious street wisdom backed by egos and peer pressure are powerful tools to indoctrinate a child into an unexpected lifetime of addiction to substances such as pot.
Stripe costs 2.9% + 30¢.

Merchant accounts have long been below that, they were just a pain to get, and generally required hardware from the bank.
There is only really one big company on earth that owns an entire map stack from the ground up: Google

Here Maps still exist... you might not have the app installed on your phone, but they provide map-related data, software and services to car manufacturers.
I'm trying to read through it and I have to agree, his math isn't that clear to me. What do you recommend?
There are studies that teens with a predisposition to schizophrenia and similar mental issues can actually be exacerbated by marijuana.

I haven't heard evidence of it doing the same for adults, but I'd have to check.

There are a number of reasons why children/teens shouldn't use it, and should be as tolerated a children smoking/drinking/opioid-ing
It's far from state of the art, but reading Computer Vision by Simon J D Prince [1] alongside David Barber's BRML can really help.

[1] - http://www.computervisionmodels.com/
Yes, and I can see HTTP frameworks in Rust useful for turning high-performance libraries into web services that can be used by other applications.
This is one of those cases where I might agree if these companies weren’t actively trying to monopolize, failing to invest in their services, or trying to charge hand over fist in every possible way. Since ISPs are generally terrible though, they absolutely deserve to pay through the nose for every failure. It has to be punitively bad for them to fail, or they have proven that they just don’t care.
>Why are they developing so many different mobile OS platforms at the same company ?

As the title say , Google is just investing in it. They don't develop the codebase of the OS.

They want to push their free services to collect data , it's their business model after all.

Also it's designed for emerging market , KaiOS phone don't have touch screen, they are supposed to be super lightweight, as a matter of fact they already have a billion users which I personally found to be insane for a startup I've never heard of.
That word 'testable', is very loaded. :) But I get what you mean. Are there things that we can't test that do exist?
Canada did! The last Canadian penny was minted in May 2012, and ceased the distribution of them as of February 4, 2013.

No real issues either (it still remains legal tender). Non-cash transactions are still denominated to the cent, the rest is rounded.

On the positive side the mint has more coin in their bank now!
Assuming you can survive the heat death of the universe, and other events not so friendly to biology prior to that point.

It just sounds dumb because it doesn't take into account any physical limitations that would make the curve reach zero.
doesn't it just use a webview and store cookies in an area shared with Safari (and maybe globally)? The auth token isn't actually part of the app's data.
ML/DL is certainly doing better than most but it still has the academic culture. It is increasingly more common to release code on github so the result can be reproduced and people can adapt their research.
There are massively important fiber lines being hung from a utility pole?
It's hard for me to relate to this. I smoke daily, and probably what most would consider a lot. I however also travel for work and or other reasons and often go days or a week without smoking. It has no noticeable effect on me.

It could be because I'm extremely active and fit. I workout basically 7 days a week, mostly because I do a lot of intense stuff 'for fun' (aka, play hockey 3-4 days a week, etc).

I'm not saying it's not true, just pointing out this could be related to things beyond just pot. Aka, inactivity, perhaps an already down mental state, etc etc.

I also take a shit-ton of vitamins and sups, I'm about to turn 51 and I train hard and play hard because I'm often skating against high-level 18-20 year old's etc, so I'm quite driven to stay at the top of my game. Possible some of the vits/sups I take are offsetting whatever the pot is doing to others.

Diet, exercise, sleep - so many factors goes into feeling well. Addiction though, man that's a lot more extreme than I would label my desire for pot. I mean I certainly enjoy it and even sometimes wish I had some on a trip, but it's a passing though more than anything.

Update: one point I should note, I only smoke Sativa's, or sativa heavy hybrids. Not sure if that's a factor but thought I was worth noting.
Sweden is about the same size as California but with about one third of its population (and about 2/3 of the population density of US), still it is in the top 10 internet access list in about every metric you can think of (together with for example Norway and Iceland, neither especially densely populated) so I don't think the density argument holds.
There's a free tier and we're happy to discussing pricing privately. Startups, individuals, open source projects are dear to our hearts and we want to make the product accessible to those that need it.
Cold climates generally have insulation meaning roof color isn't as significant as in warmer climates. Also cold climates also imply snow which brings us back to a white roof.
Plus it seems like this would weaken Google's partial stranglehold on the market is a side effect.
Half of football (soccer) is in the positioning. It happens in "dead" time as well, so the time isn't really dead.

If we calculated the dead time and added it to the stoppage time exactly - the most boring matches would drag forever, and the most exciting matches would barely change. Why lengthen the torture?
In six years nobody has corrected the fact that one of the propellants listed is not "Methane-Oxygen" but "Earth orbit to near-Earth asteroids", and the following is not "Methane-Oxygen" but "Hydrogen-Oxygen."
I agree. I recommend that you read Kaczynski's two books:

"Technological Slavery" (2010) and "Anti-Tech Revolution"(2016).

The second book is truly extraordinary and insightful. Here's a review by MIT:

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society."
-- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper
There are catapults: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/spinlaunch-2/
I don't think you meant it, but the way you put that makes it sound like you don't think people should ever indulge in things they enjoy.
I'm not sure there is case law to support that argument. I am not sure that there isn't case law to support it either. Even if there is case law to support it, the circumstances in which the case law is helpful are somewhat likely to be more expensive than licensing other music more explicitly providing more conventional copyright permissions. For example, assuming the premise that the copyright belongs to the user in a case where two different users enter the same (or even similar) parameters then one of their compositions is probably copyright infringing on the other author -- or both are on a third even earlier author who entered the same or similar parameters.

Again I am not a lawyer though it doesn't prevent me from thinking along the lines I have observed laywers thinking.
It's a bit sad, I do long for the stars and planets.

However, rramatically improving rockets might be like trying to improve the carriage to get a much faster personal transport, while keeping the horse.

It seems to be the case, that the cost of launching commercial payloads are still "low" enough compared to the cost of the payloads since there are few big budget ventures that tries to make lifting much cheaper through alternative methods.

I'm not saying that space elevators or other alternative lift devices are feasible, but we tend to get huge investments even into tech that seems absolutely implausible if there is a big market. The lack of these makes investments makes it plausible that the current launch costs are actually acceptable for all current, and expected near future commercial actors.
Well the question really is economic incentives. If it is too hard to do (say, doesn't scale) or can be simulated efficiently-ish on a classical computer -- no one will do it.
It reflects value to me. I want my connection to be as fast as possible. If I pay a fixed monthly fee, the incentive to the ISP is to throttle my connection at some point. If they have no unit economics, why do some ISPs throttle and cap after hitting a maximum?
So I've been thinking about this simulation thing a bunch lately and while I'm curious about Scott's answer here, I'll preemptively post my followup question in case anyone else has any ideas or he wants to weigh in here:

Can you use the premises of the Simulation Argument to make similar statements regarding the availability/capability of sufficiently advanced technology that would potentially impact our coming into existence?

For instance, directed panspermia. Would at least one of the following have to be true?

1. The human species is very likely to go extinct before we can develop the capability to successfully seed the galaxy with R/DNA-based life and spawn another biosphere.

2. Any sufficiently advanced civilization is unlikely to attempt to seed other worlds with the basic building blocks of their living system so as to initiate other biospheres.

3. Our biosphere was almost certainly initiated by way of directed panspermia from another sufficiently advanced R/DNA-based civilization that has existed.

For this argument, imo, (1) seems less likely than in the simulation argument since I'd think we're closer to being able to send out small ships with hibernating microscopic life than we are to building Universe-sized simulations. (2) also seems less likely since the cost/benefit analysis of seeding other worlds seems much higher to me than building and maintaining a universe-sized simulation.

So for (3) if we assume abiogenesis started a civilization which decided to start seeding other planets which then have a chance of leading to other seeding civilizations, then we'd need to compare the likelihood of seeded life vs abiogenesis to determine how likely it is that we are an abiogenesis civilization vs a seeded civilization.
If I understand the article, that would require either a new both radically strong and radically lightweight material for the non-propellant parts the rocket (assuming H/O propellant), or using non-chemical physics for propellant that exceeds the payment energy of H/O, and that is stable enough to be relatively safe. Or both.
Unsolicited life advice.

If you have to drink or do drugs to do your job, you should probably question your career path.

If you have to drink or do drugs to feel satisfied with your life, you should probably ask yourself what you have actually done to make your situation better.

Good for strippers, accountants, lawyers, anyone.
It's more common than you think, a lot of long distance links between cities are a varied combination of aerial, direct buried trenched armored fiber, underground fiber in ducts.

There are also a lot of long-distance links carrying DWDM traffic that are >95% aerial, not on poles that can get hit by trucks, with singlemode fiber inside high voltage AC transmission lines (https://3ee2108sdg.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/cropped-20140...).
And yet you have a number of useful and interesting projects on Github.

That stack takes quite a lot of twiddling configuration files and piecing together disparate libraries and unrelated tools, at least on the frontend, and especially so if JavaScript UI frameworks aren't your area of expertise. 3 days is not that surprising.

How about starting a SAAS lifestyle business? There are a number of threads on this site of the "tell us your one-man SAAS success story" variety. Might want to look to them for inspiration.
There is a theory underlying it all: relational algebra, as you mentioned. The bolted on parts are just that. My point is discard those (XML and JSON in particular) and SQL is not at all unfriendly. It is in fact the friendliest way yet discovered to deal with data in large shared data banks. XML and JSON (as a model for how to store large amounts of data) are an absolute disaster by comparison. XML and JSON features exist in databases primarily to check a box on sales presentations. They aren't needed. If you are using them heavily, you are making your life more difficult than it needs to be. XML and JSON database features aren't completely useless. They are one of many tools you can use to get data out of XML and JSON and put it into normalized tables where it can be efficiently and elegantly stored, accessed, and otherwise dealt with in the future. The relational algebra subset of SQL (tables, rows, columns, primary keys, referential integrity constraints, check constraints, indexes, joins, where clauses, etc.) will get you very, very far.

My second point is that something about relational databases and SQL just doesn't sit well with (many) software developers. As a result, we have a lot of XML and JSON blobs stored in key/value databases, a lot of software that doesn't work very well, and we are still dealing with a lot of problems that Ted Codd solved 48 years ago.
> The cost of bringing a single electronic product to market is $50-100/unit + variable amount based on the scale.

that doesn’t seem right... there is an abundance of electronics products priced under $50... are they loosing money on those?
Marijuana addiction is a whole load of baloney. Do you know what's highly addictive? Tobacco. Do you know how people roll their joints? 50% tobacco, 50% weed. See, there's the mistake. Smoke it pure, problem solved. You're addicted to tobacco (and nicotine), not weed.
Thanks will look into it.
The problem with beamed propulsion is that you still need a rocket, or some equivalent thereof to stop going, whenever you get to your destination.

Not an issue for flybys, but an issue if you want to get into an orbit.
Pennies are not effective as currency. You can't use them in places you typically use coins (parking meters, vending machines, automated road toll collection) so we're using tax dollars to fund the creation of useless zinc circles.
> Actually, the notion that pot isn’t addictive is the street wisdom, or was when I was growing up. This is in contradiction to the reality.

No, it's not in contradiction to reality; it's the results of clinical research. To the extent that "addiction" is a relevant term in colloquial use (it's neither a DSM-IV diagnostic criterion nor a formal pharmacological term), marijuana is not known to induce practically significant symptoms of physical dependence.
The problem with all prices being shown inclusive of tax is that the amount of the tax becomes forgotten over time. By having tax added and called out on the receipt at the register, everyone is reminded many times per day how much sales tax they're paying.
In your 35 second blurb, and the New York Times article, it seems like the point you're making is that interference is the main way that quantum computers work. But what makes quantum interference special over other kinds? You can get interference in sound waves, light waves, radio waves, etc. You also mention that magnitudes can be complex, but the same is true of other kinds of waves; complex numbers are used for discussing impedance in electronics.

These are even relatively simple to work with; back in high school, I set up my basement as a darkroom, set up a sandbox for isolation, borrowed a laser from my physics teacher, bought a kit online with a beam splitter, mirrors, lenses, and film, and made some holograms of various objects utilizing light interference.

You could set up an apparatus in which light goes through a beam splitter, reflects off mirrors to travel via different paths, and is recombined and interferes in the end to produce an interference pattern. You could probably encode a lot of information in the exact length of the different paths, perhaps in an array of mirrors which could be actuated to produce slightly different path lengths in different parts of the beam (after the beam is expanded), and use the interference to make calculations.

Other than the smaller scale, and greater difficulty of working with it, what is special about quantum interference that would make it more amenable to solving problems that are NP complete than some apparatus producing similar kinds of interference with light?

Also, has it been proven (or argued sufficiently convincingly) that quantum computation at scale is actually possible? I'm wondering if there could be an issue where it requires more computation to construct a quantum computer than the computation you get out, or require a non-constant number of quantum computers (with respect to the size of the problem) to actually get reliable enough results out, or something of the sort.

I think this is somewhat like the questions of whether certain automata are Turing-complete (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s_2-state_3-symbol_T...), when a sufficiently complex process is needed to encode the problem into the automata that it could be argued that the computation was not actually carried out by the automata itself (I don't actually know if that question was answered; Wikipedia references a mailing list thread that has a lot of discussion, but I haven't seen any authoritative conclusion).

Given that empirically, only extremely simple quantum computers have been able to be constructed, what makes us think that there isn't some kind of tricky scaling issue like this were the additional complexity of building, running, or verifying the results of quantum computers will negate the benefits?
How do you arbitrage differences if you can't get USD out of it?
How long have you been smoking daily? From the article:

> Unlike with opioids and stimulants, marijuana dependence tends to develop slowly: Months or years may pass before symptoms begin to affect a dependent user’s life.

The case is similar with alcohol dependence: it can take quite a long time.
Listening to the first episode, very well done. Just subscribed via Overcast so thanks for that RSS feed URL. Will fill out the survey when I've gone through all the episodes. Nice work!
No one agrees on what a nicer style is. Most proposals would either make the site less text-oriented or lower its information density. That's not nicer.
https://luckyframework.org