skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any progress being made with regards to gut microbiomes causing depression? it's such a new area of research that it has the potential to bring out a cure for depression if we figure out why it's caused. I don't believe it's some un-crackable enigma living in the mind, because neuroplasticity is very very easy to change.
I've been using Google's 2FA app for years but switched fairly recently to Authy because it allows for multiple devices to be used as authenticators. It would also allow you to wipe a device and add it back.

I'm using an iPhone but used to use Android. It's surprising to hear that there's not something equivalent to the measly 5GB of online storage that Apple gives. Terrible for backups but good for sharing state from apps.
Podcasting is hard work! I have a podcast called Jesus in Books. I read a book about the historical Jesus Christ, then discuss it. It's pretty tame stuff compared to, say, Dan Carlin's epic Hardcore History, and a lot shorter too. My episodes rarely go longer than 20 minutes, but the time to prepare, record and edit the episode is about 20 hours.

So yeah, podcasting can be time consuming, but I find it's a great way to commit what I've read to memory and formulate my own opinion on the subject matter.

Here's my podcast for anyone who is interested in checking it out: https://soundcloud.com/jesusinbooks
> Until costs exploded, it worked.
What costs are you talking of, specifically? Moving manufacturing to lower wage countries has actually reduced costs of goods quite a lot, and productivity gains throughout the world have consequently increased wealth.

The real problem seems to be income inequality; whereas right after WW2 inequality was low, it has recently exploded with the implementation of reckless tax cuts for the wealthy and cutting down on essential social security nets.

Its a shame really: the US has its problems, but the American middle class has generally been a source of prosperity and stability, and it seems to be rapidly fading away.
Relevant background:I'm a psychiatrist.

"Talking about it" and "talking with a therapist" are different, and a good therapist using an evidence-based approach to therapy is effective. Evidence-based therapies are different than "chatting with a buddy."

That said, finding a good and well-trained therapist is often difficult. In approximately 10% of people, psychotherapy makes things worse rather than better. Sleep hygiene and regular exercise are always a good idea, and in some cases medication is worth considering.
I recently watched the documentary The Patent Scam with the XPlane guy... it was disturbing to say the least. My question is this... With "method" patents being an absolute joke, what would stop me from patenting, "A method of acquiring patents for the sole purpose of litigating infringement without actually creating a licensable alternative"? I'm serious, these patents seems so stupid, I don't see why you couldn't just get that patent and sue all of these people?

Then again, if it is patentable, I'm sure some troll owns that one too.

Good documentary, though. It's currently on Hulu.
>>>The weird thing you realize when you start exploring the law enforcement space is that the vast majority of people that break the law are just, pardon me for not mincing words, just monumentally stupid. They don't take basic precautions

I think you mean most people that get caught breaking the law are monumentally stupid

There are plenty of people that break the law everyday and never get caught, unsolved crimes rates are HUGE

>>>Police wind up dealing with the same people over and over and over and over again. You'd think they'd wise up and learn how to not get caught, but the mindset that leads to criminality is pretty far away from the mindset that leads to careful action.

Recidivism is a complex issue and is not simply down to "you'd think they would wise up", it is mix bag of untreated Mental illness, lack of education, lack of support structures, lack of opportunity, and then even further reduction in opportunity due to a criminal record, and finally once you are "on the radar" of the system the police become aware of you and will target you for greater scrutiny

>>>So as a result, dragnet-style police tactics are often extremely effective at accomplishing their aims.

I would agree here, but only because their aim is to have a nice press release to "show their effectiveness" and justify their budgets, dragnet policing is pure security theater. it is a show for the taxpayers nothing more
I personally use medium for the distribution. I also like the distinction between views and reads in their analytics -- I'm sure it's not perfect, but at least you have some metric to say if people are just clicking or not.

There are also some "side" effects on being on medium. You'll start with low reach, but the more your posts grow, the more you get visibility, and publications will start reaching out to let you be a contributor. For example, I'm now a writer for Hackernoon, even though I don't publish that much.

To give you a sense of the numbers, let's get my latest post:
https://hackernoon.com/solo-the-first-open-source-fido2-secu...

I'm currently at around 1k views and 650 reads. Plus 1.3k of RSS feeds (all from hackernoon). I get usually 50-100 reads by posting on hn (without getting to the front page). This warms medium up, and hackernoon brings most of the rest. In 2-3 months these numbers will be at least double, thanks to SEO.

I'm not saying that you can't achieve these things with your own blog, but it's certainly harder and slower, unless you have already a decent followship on other socials.
I have some level of social anxiety and it helped me a lot to talk to someone who accepted it as a real thing. Previously my experience was that people wouldn't want to hear how I felt and just told me "go out, talk to a few people and have fun".

I think it's the same for depression. It's nice to not have to live in hidden shame where you know that something is wrong but nobody accepts it as real.
The movie that almost killed Disney (Black Cauldron)
It's not a shift.

It's the language used by the rest of the industry including manufacturers, not just private owners.
+1 Blocking deploys on a Friday is a symptom of a lot of room to grow your operation maturity: the on-call person should be on-call, and able to handle most issues (in this case, probably a rollback) and that's if your tests didn't block the deploy in the first place

Code freezes (and that's what blocking deploys are) are a great tool, but primarily for managing your on-call more effectively.
Do you see the valley in the histogram?
Wrong. Human perception of color is not physics dependant. And perception is everything.
I'm glad a celebrity is willing to come out and talk about this stuff, it makes me feel less insane for suffering through it myself.

But there's not much actual advice here. It sounds like the main thing that helped him were pills.

Also:

> as a white, heterosexual, cisgender man in America, I live life on the lowest difficulty setting

What a pathetic, and wholly incorrect thing to say.
Are there any interesting papers on formal verification of some of the most modern machine learning algorithms?

Clearly when we "verify" Waymo or Tesla auto-pilot, we're going to want to use that stuff, right? Surely they won't just provide insurers with some data about the billions of miles they've driven without accidents and how humans can only drive like a million miles without an accident and try to get the insurers to give them policies...

Just like when we hand out licenses, we always check to make sure the 16 year old took some formal driving classes from professional driving instructors... I wish things were better but we don't care about this stuff as a society until much later usually. When did the car first appear? When did the first seatbelt law appear?
>Don't be daft. It would take you all of 10 seconds to find out FC is an extremely common acronym for fulfillment center.

This is not just an accident caused by people who have a "problem" of paying attention to those signals (that show where the tweets come from), but exactly as Amazon intended it. They wouldn't bothered to write those is they didn't think they'd have an effect on people -- and effect which is designed to work whether you glance or not.

Plus, all of this is beside the point. Whether people see what exactly this is or not, grinding your workers in all kinds of hellish ways, and then having PR "ambassadors" write feel good tweets about their condition, is not just dishonest, but a moral failure.

This might be acceptable in this world, but I don't want to be part of such a world, and will never consider it acceptable myself.
producing technology and selling it to the third reich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Engineer the Future – SpaceX [video]
If it brings people joy then that's the very essence of being useful and productive.
There's a lot of evidence that copyright doesn't actually help most creators, and significantly holds back progress.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3198147

The same arguments generally apply to patents. There are monetization models like live shows, subscriptions, Patreon, advertising, sponsorships, etc that work very well for creators.

Especially in the internet age, we shouldn't act like copyright and patents do anything to stop people. Creators would likely do better if the publishers weren't in the middle controlling access to their works.
If you go down the GraphQL path be aware you are trading the simplicity, flexibility and universality of HTTP, which you can debug via cURL, to a custom protocol and fat client owned by Facebook. It isn’t even an open standard. The last time Facebook tried to make HTML better we got FBML, remember that?

Be wary of tech that promises to solve all your problems that you yourself don’t understand and haven’t solved. You’re going to end up with at best another set of problems.
The majority of the professional world runs on Windows. There are many advantages:

(1) Stable platform that's backward compatible over long periods of time.

(2) Very good rapid application development tooling, e.g. Visual Studio which is probably still the best IDE overall.

(3) A huge trained developer base making it easy to recruit. Same goes for IT personnel.

(4) A huge pool of software, custom dev firms, etc.

(5) Certification for US DOD and other certification-heavy environments where Windows is used heavily, which may be important for an aerospace company.

(6) Integration with everything in the business and government world is already done.

(7) Windows has a lot of complex user, permission, and policy management stuff. Active Directory is The Standard for UAM in the corporate world.

The cost of Microsoft licensing is chicken feed compared to the cost of building and launching rockets.

Overall I don't think it's a bad decision. Not everything is an Internet startup or hacker project. Right tools for the job.
There are tradeoffs everywhere. The parent made it sound like libraries and frameworks are always going to make you go faster, of course that's not always the case and I don't think the parent believes that. It's very often worth it to descend a level or two to do your job, some things can be done faster, lower, though it's rarely worth it to descend all the way to the bare metal or deeper (but sometimes necessary). Another but echoes your conclusion, sometimes a bit of knowledge at those layers will indirectly help at the layers above.

When the subject of many layered JS frameworks and dependency graphs with hundreds of mini libraries comes up I'm always reminded of Rasmus's 30 second ajax tutorial: https://web.archive.org/web/20060507105529/http://news.php.n... (And the modern equivalent: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/) Very often libraries and frameworks are brought in because they "help us go faster [because of x,y,z]" with some x,y,zs like "we don't have to think about that problem" or "the global architecture/structure is taken care of", but the cost of dependencies sometimes outweighs the cost of thinking about the problem and doing it yourself. Libraries and frameworks are tradeoffs, you'll likely use a lot of them if you look at every layer you can actually influence, but they're not necessarily net boons.
>> My life is, by every objective measurement, very very good.

> Clearly not if you're suffering.

C'mon, you know this statement was meant to illustrate the fact that even if everything in your life is going your way, it doesn't mean that you are immune from depression.

I can see where you are coming from on your other points, although I don't share all your sentiments myself. So ok, he probably shouldn't become a psychiatrist. And maybe the next talk he gives at a mental illness conference could benefit from some of this constructive criticism (I agree on that whole "I live life on the lowest difficulty setting" bit).

But overall, I see this article as a big plus in the fight against the stigma of mental illness, and the struggle for those afflicted to find help. Sure he's not an expert in the medical field, and his style of sharing his own story maybe isn't for everybody, but surely there is more value to him sharing than just that he is getting help for himself.
> We have the luxury of operating at much higher levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs than generations past.

IIRC, there's is strong reason to discount Maslow's heirarchy as an explanation of anything across different times and cultures, as the number, identity, and order of groups of needs had been shown to not consistently match his and to vary both culturally and, within a culture, in response to changing circumstances.
I once ran an "embedded" Linux on a $10 marvel SOC. It was a pretty vanilla kernel running a basic Debian install. 10MB out of 128MB RAM used most of the time.

Obviously you can go much slimmer, but a $10 board is surprisingly capable.
I feel like capitalism separates people based on intelligence because value is added to businesses/society by your ability solve problems/create.

Manual labor is something literally anyone can do(barring major physical disability).

While this isn't a new idea in human history, the intelligent have always had it better, it's become a new problem recently that people who are of average intelligence cannot live decent lives.

This is just a theory but I feel like up until the past 20 or so years even if you were of average intelligence you could live a very decent life just working, raising your kids, etc.

Factory workers of the 60's made enough to do well for themselves and family.

Now with automation, outsourcing, etc, only the people who create the automation and can compete with the best minds from around the world have decent jobs, (i.e. STEM which isn't accessible intellectually to a fair amount of people).

So we're ALL competing intellectually now whereas before only some people were needed to be the brains and the rest could live a decent life.

I feel like constantly having to compete on this level with your mind having to constantly perform at its peak... not just to get ahead...but for basic survival without a foundational safety net, really lends itself to mental disorders or exaggerates existing ones.

Just my personal theory.
Have a read of openbsd's pledge & unveil
I'll just note for posterity that I was arguing that these stereotypes about 'foreign people' are just as toxic as stereotypes about 'black people', not that I believe in these stereotypes about black people or foreigners.
What kind of blogging platform is this website built upon? Also, the theme is amazing, is it available for download?
Grew up in USSR. We had a good deal of humanities in the school, it was just rather ideological though.
Oh okay, thanks for elaborating! Yeah, most of the people I know looking for places work at a famous multinational, so I guess that explains why I haven't seen the issue even when self-selecting places from online listings. And other friends might be just accepting the pre-filtered options from their agent.
First Google result answers this question. (ok, it's a meta answer meant to be funny and I'm sure you didn't want to hear this answer)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8nwz76/what_is_s...
Go 1.11 Released
The popular esp8266 wifi microcontroller was initially sold as a wifi interface to other microcontrollers, communicating over a serial interface, using AT commands. Indeed this was the first esp8266 I came across (ESP-01) - a cheap wifi interface for an arduino. Later folks discovered that the esp is more powerful itself than an arduino, but I think the stock firmware that comes on the chip is the serial-wifi interface using AT commands.
An old coworker at a clearing firm once accidentally rebooted two very critical servers during a very critical time. From what I'm told, it ended up costing the company about a billion dollars in fees and fines.

He managed to keep his job.. just with no more prod access. :)
West of House (Zork in OCaml)
I can see how that works - you fill in papers, wait forever, get back a ridiculous response, appeal, it takes forever, and so forth. My experience with US agencies with poor reputations is generally more positive than their reputation would suggest. Eventually, I have reached higher up humans who treat me logically and reasonably. The problem when you’re dealing with something like health is suffering and/or dying in the meantime.
I think a lot of the issue that I had for that is that it comes across from me that he mixes speaking from a point of view of himself from the exterior then builds up a case of what was happening internally.

To me, the 1&2 just came off as "look at my accomplishments" rather than a humble and personal "I did well, and I felt that a lot of people saw me as x,y,z" Comments: He's been well known for being outspoken and aggressive towards people he disagrees with.
At the Athletic, a Hiring Spree Becomes a Story in Itself
Or Musk suffering from the Dunning–Kruger effect.
I think it's a case of what is seen vs. what is unseen combined with "you get what you measure."

"We're paying more for programmers than almost anyone else in the industry!" is an obvious thing a bean counter would notice and point out. Productivity is harder to measure, and all that time lost to training on the job doesn't immediately leap out in spreadsheets because it's blended with actual work.
Because it is crazy. Ideas aren't patentable, nor are they copyrightable.
You haven't seen anything good about patents in years? Look around you, do you like the objects you see? Many of them exist because of patents.
You've been downvoted because it sounds like you're rejecting Wil Wheaton's core point, which is to bring into the open a topic that is still pretty taboo in American society. He's doing this to raise awareness, and help other people who are suffering alone get help.

To address your points:

- This is planned and calculated only to the extent that it's a speech meant to get a point across. It is revealing personal vulnerability in order to help others who might be suffering from similar conditions, or those who have friends or family suffering from them, recognize the symptoms and take action.

1. The term "trigger warning" is sadly overloaded these days, but it is still useful for those suffering from the anxiety and depression he's talking about. Those are the people targeted by that paragraph, not you. Note that this speech was addressing NAMI, "National Association on Mental Illness", so it's likely some of those people were in the audience.

2. The word "objective" is the last sentence is key here. He is contrasting how other perceive the quality of his life vs how he's actually living it.

3. He's apologizing to his mother because she is likely going to hear or read this speech which reveals some pretty personal information, and she will likely blame herself. More generally, it's a message to people who have lost loved ones: don't blame yourselves.

4. Yes, he's trying to raise awareness and push for social change. Activism is part of doing that, and of course publishing this speech is as well.
You have to look away from the road to look at your speed on a regular dash too.
> Manual labor is something literally anyone can do.

No, it's not; people can just as easily lack the physical capacity for manual labor as they can lack the intellectual capacity for knowledge work. There are plenty of people who can do knowledge work but would be unable to do manual work.
>There were no clothes, no laws, no social signaling for the most part. If you didn't like your tribe, I'm sure you were free to run away and eat berries in the forest and try to figure it out yourself.

What archaeological or anthropological evidence are you basing these assumptions on? Why would hunter gatherers not wear clothes, when they can offer useful protection against the elements? Why would they not have common customs or taboos ("laws?") at least at the level of families and clans when even gorillas have some semblance of it?

It seems as if you're just assuming the past was some idyllic and anarchist inversion of modernity.
If your actions are motivated by greed then the problem is your greed and motivation not governance, is good or bad governance forcing corporates and businesses to act unethically? This is not a tenable position.

The myth floated by libertarians of the CRA causing the subprime crisis was thoroughly debunked as early as 2008, yet we are in 2018 and this continues to be repeated never mind the facts.

The crisis was a result of systematic and willful fraud by private players not subject to the CRA. $3 out of $4 dollars of subprime loans were not made under the CRA. [1] [2] [3]

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2008/10/subp...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/02/13/no-ma...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/loans-to-low-income-households-...
What's a clearing?
I'd be more comfortable with that explanation if it was from people in the auto industry. I'd like Tesla to have better QA than developers normally do.
Given the research on blast induced brain damage, shell shock probably was significantly caused due to physical damage.
Or an Arduino Nano clone for half that, even.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1pcs-lot-Nano-3-0-controller...
Please tell us about this mythical company whose processes are so airtight, that bad code is never deployed.
I have some colleagues that talk about hardly much else, and it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

It’s irritating and off-putting.
Datomic can fix this with cross-database queries, and I have more to talk about, email me if you are interested - email in profile
The U.S. Constitution does not apply to non-citizens because the United States of America has NO sovereignty outside its borders.

Human rights treaties should be arranged through the U.N. as intended that's why it was chartered, if we are not using it that way that is not the responsibility of U.S. Citizens to solve.
Every society has the government it deserves.

I say this as someone from a country that has had several decades of terrible governments.
I think we exchanged physical suffering for emotional suffering, but maybe its about the same.
Omnibus with raconteur John Roderick, and quiz kid Ken Jennings is one of my favorite podcasts. Light-hearted,odd history.

https://www.omnibusproject.com
In that the people who do not love it choose not to be Tesla customers, sure.
That's not true. "GraphQL requests" are _just_ POST requests with a JSON that contains "query" and "variables".

So it's not the request itself that is not debuggable, but maybe the query interpreter on your backend with the framework you're using.