skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on setraline - a pretty light dose, these days (can't remember it off the top of my head). I've been prescribed a bunch of stuff over the years, and have developed the impression that the prescription process is more art than science. Doctors tend to overprescribe, so you get sledge-hammer style effects. A good psychiatrist will usually prescribe two or more anti-depressants in light doses, so you don't really get side-effects or weird stuff.

Obviously, starting and stopping drugs is always rough, but I have tried living without them, and I see no benefits. You do generally get side-effects to some degree (I have very dry skin at the moment) - but if you have even the most trivial depression, you'll probably find you prefer them to even a light episode. Also, they aren't a silver bullet. I still have depressive days, from time to time - but the difference is, it's not my life anymore. I can hold down jobs, have relationships, etc.
I think that’s it: it seems everyone (at least Google and Microsoft) is going after SAP and salesforce to become the infrastructure of businesses.
That point exists, but it's contextual. You could draw the line at shared identity. Or political boundary. Or the existence of a body of literature. Or a certain bar of recognition. Or a certain number of university programs. Or some concept mutual intelligibility. Or whatever. But these distinctions will conflict with one another, so there is no clear line.

I have no real authority, but to me, I see no reason why Scots shouldn't be a language. English and Scots would certainly not be the most similar languages to be considered distinct. Plenty of other varieties of the English continuum, for that matter.
Had commuter cycling without helmet was really so dangerous as you claim, there would be way more head injuries of commuter cyclists. As is, they are quite rare.

I understand fear of someone who actually was in one, but please stop forcing your fear on everybody else. Just because you are afraid does not mean not being afraid is irresponsible or any more irresponsible then not having helmet in car crash.
The security of proof-of-work based blockchains (which most of them are) is based on the assumption that the majority of participating nodes (or rather miners) as measured by the work they do, i.e. computing power, are honest.

Attacking a big, established blockchain like Bitcoin would require you to get more mining power than the rest of the network, which means massive datacenters of special purpose hardware.

Attacking a small blockchain still requires you to get more mining power than the rest of the network, but since there are not too many miners, you can rent enough mining power to have more than the rest of the network for an affordable price.
Update: tried lmt and it works great!
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099488
"They would be not as good at four legged things as "normal" four legged animals, and not as good at arm things as "normal" armed animals."

So, like seals, penguins, walruses, mudskippers, and many others? That is, there are many examples of species which don't fit well as sea creatures or terrestrial creatures. But they are just as successful, evolutionary speaking, as you or I.

In any case, the evolutionary argument is our early tetrapodal fish ancestor found that it was (likely marginally) better to sometimes be on land - like a mudskipper. Since there were no other animals in that niche, the descendants who could be more effective on dry land were even more successful in having children, etc.

How well would you do if you had to live in a place which was flooded over your head for a few hours day?

It is really hard to think about "deep time" like this - time long enough for mountains to form and disappear is also time long enough for species to change by quite a bit.
I recently spent 2 months in China

1. WeChat and Alipay. It was hard for me to get vendors to accept paper money.

2. Google Translate

3. The plane ride might be hard if you normally use your devices. I was not allowed to watch my devices. I had to only watch pre-approved content from the planes entertainment system.

4. VPN. I even went as far and carried a portable router that supported vpn and tor.

5. I bought a cellphone there and a cheap data package and used this phone for everything including Baidu Maps. Translating. Paying. If doesn’t work here in the US even so I will save for my next trip.

6. If spoken to by the police answer then. Same with customs and border patrol. Don’t be a smart ass.

7. People are open to talking. They know about the great firewall and their countries politics. Don’t say anything negative about President Xi. You may offend the people you are talking with. The locals would much rather ask you questions about the USA.

8. Try to learn some basic Chinese. It will help. I could give you a crash course if you want.

9. Depending upon where you are staying you may get cards slid under your door advertising prostitution. I asked friend about this and they were mixed wether it was a setup or not. I noticed it was a high school age boy that was sliding them under the doors. His after school job I guess.

10. I took my own laptop. I was never searched. Nothing ever taken from me. I used security precautions just in case though.
The article is very nice, but I have to disagree with the "absolving the citizens/users" part.

It is not like these bikes self-dump themselves in rivers, not Obikes in Melbourne, nor Mobikes in Manchester [0] or in any other place.

That the Obike is (was) a sort of get money quick scheme or not and that the bikes were not particularly comfortable/easy to use is not a valid reason for the amount of vandalism reported.

Surely it is nothing "uniquely naughty" about the Australians, but it is something "universally naughty" that shouldn't be IMHO dismissed so easily or simply considered a "new normal" of some kind.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/16/manche...
I get why people think they should/could object to war and think choosing projects is enough.

If you work on OSS, you're contributing to the military industrial complex indirectly.

If you pay your taxes, yes, you pay for schools, but you're also paying for an intelligence system and armed contingent within your country. Most HNers are contributing to NATO.

The Internet started life as a DARPA project in order to coordinate response after nuclear war.

Be a conscientious objector if you wish, just don't build stuff on the Internet and complain about how evil all things related to defence are.

And I'd be fascinated to know what forms of profiteering you consider ethical.
I dont think this is the problem itself. A lot of the problem is the user directory is a mess of both user created data and system data all jumbled about.

File copy speed itself is rarely the problem. IOPS, where hundreds of thousands of small read and write operations in the registry and other small files dominate the process.
> When you say "Experiment, find what works for you" keep in mind how offensive that is to people who feel they were lied/coerced into a taking drugs that in some cases ruined their lives.

Right, like suggesting people find employment is offensive to people who have experienced slavery.
Generating and Modelling Compiled Cryptographic Primitives
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think such people's hateful opinions should be counted when speaking about such things. There are always going to be people who do not think murder, slavery, and torture are not wrong but right. They are a small minority and while it's important you make note that such scum and their opinions exist, it's also important to note that they do not represent a significant portion of people either in number or in strength of opinion. There will always be outliers but I'd say most people and all decent people agree that slavery and the nazis were both wrong.
This is an excellent observation about white-labeling.
Enterprise offerings have strict data usage guidelines.

Aka Google can't use the data.
https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...
I think this list is great.

As AI begins to be applied to problems like driving that affect the real world instead of just information, I’d add:

Ethical use of AI should not create negative externalities - negative impacts on people other than those making the choice to use it.

This includes the example in another post about bias in hiring perpetuated by implicitly biased historical data sets.

It also includes pedestrians dying or being maimed because autonomous vehicle developers want to test their vehicles in real world conditions before they’re truly ready. And some of the proposals I’ve seen that would force pedestrians to change their behavior to accommodate autonomous vehicles or blame pedestrians for their own deaths if hit by a self-driving car while not carrying a special sensor.

An ethical AI would not be able to park itself illegally (snarling traffic because its double parked or parked in a bus lane; potentially endangering cyclists who have to ride around it if it’s in a bike lane, for instance) until police are sensed in the vicinity — even if the owner directed it to.

AI should not be used to triple Uber’s fleet size in NYC without hiring more drivers: doing so would bring already clogged streets to a standstill, costing billions in lost productivity [0]. (In 2009, when the streets were less congested than today, the externalized cost of driving a car into midtown during rush hour was $160 [1].)

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/newyork/new...
[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/07/03/how-driving...
It's a three way street. One third of candidates don't try, one third can't do the only question that is to print numbers from 1 to N, one third succeed.

It saves a lot of time for everyone. Including time for the phone call with the team lead/manager where you will have the opportunity to discuss the role and the company in much greater details.
I was a team leader at a USSOCOM unit and had to take a poly to be read into a couple of three-letter agency programs. In the middle of the test, the smug 23 year old fresh college grad administering the thing tells me I'm being deceptive and obviously support jihadi terrorism. This as I'm getting ready to leave on my 12th deployment. I've never wanted to so violently break someone's face as right then in that moment.
DHS says no reason to doubt firms' China hack denials
The whole point of these bikeshare services is that each bike has a GPS and the central system can livefeed the guaranteed location of nearby available bikes to a user's phone. If O-bike didn't have GPS, then it wasn't a real bikeshare service.

I wouldn't trust Mobike to be more about the bike than O-bike was, though. A few months after joining Mobike in China earlier this year, they decreased the default scale on the location map in their app when you first open it. Within a few months, the usual number of nearby bikes had noticeably decreased, but this was obscured in the app map because of the smaller scaling. It seems like they changed the app map scaling because they were planning the decrease in bikes in the local area. Perhaps they had collected enough deposits in this district, and moved the bikes in bulk to another district of the city with fewer signups to make it look like bikes were always available there, thus encouraging people there to pay deposits.
What exactly are the positions that you believe are being attacked? Be more specific.
Diplomacy breaks up relationships.
If I go to start a personal project, I very rarely get anywhere unless I'm approaching it from the perspective of solving a specific need. I have to hold that need in mind and let it carry me through to completion, otherwise the inspiration gets blunted when yak-shaving turns into distraction.

Just going home one day and saying, "I'm going to work on something" and then looking for something to work on never yields anything of use at the end of it.

A need has to burn before I can make appreciable progress on it. And once it's burning, it has my undivided attention until I can call my intervention complete and I can relax.

Companies can waste all kinds of money on building things that don't yet have burning needs. But if they want to be efficient with their spending, they need to treat that sort of thing with the same kid gloves as any other kind of research. As money you probably won't ever get back and won't lead to immediate revenue growth. As something you don't understand but hope to as a result of the process.

Because building 'infrastructure' is planning for a future that doesn't exist yet. Either solve a need, or go looking for one. The two should never be conflated because they require different mindsets.
Detachable Google Pixel Slate Chromebook Leaks Ahead of Launch
I disagree (with the first paragraph). I think we're sending a completely wrong message. The message we should be sending is, (1) protect yourself (i.e. personal responsibility, holds true for all members of the society, but unfortunately a highly controversial suggestion), (2) say "no" (if you boss asks you for sexual favours), and (3) report them to the police. Instead, we're promoting mob justice, lack of due process, lying (most of the false accusers get away with it unscathed) and sexism (believe women). I also wouldn't be surprised if this sets back the "equality movement" significantly, as more CEOs implement the "Pence rule" of not spending alone time with women (including employees).
It might be shocking to you, but it is exactly the manager's main job. If people would magically communicate well and work together fluidly, we wouldn't need managers at all. It would just be team leads talking to product owners.

You can try to hire around this, and sometimes this works, especially in small teams or early stage startups. But at some point this breaks down, humans simply can't be rational and social all of the time.
It's ok for a company to be biased as long as they don't claim to be neutral.

Zuckerberg to US congress:

> Congressman, I do agree that we should work to give people the fullest free expression that is possible. That's what — when I talk about giving people a voice, that's what I care about.

> [...] And I think that that — it — our general responsibility is to — is to allow the broadest spectrum of free expression as we can ...

In the same hearing:

> I'll ask — my — my question is, on this, do you agree that Facebook and other technology platforms should be ideologically neutral?

> ZUCKERBERG: Congressman, I — I agree that we should be a platform for all ideas, and that we should focus on that.

Transcript of the hearing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/11...
Very little time is spent in replacing actual files. Huge amounts of time are spend in the registry and other small IO operations. Also .net rebuilding wastes huge amounts of time.
OK, I get that lawsuits would be a good example of "liability", but my question is this: Are you really not liable for the things you mentioned (GDPR, customer data) if you're the CEO of a UG/GmbH and it falls back on you because you're the one that designed the whole product?
In thd gig economh, the machine isn’t doing any of the work. When I order something on instacart, it’s not functionally different from calling in an order to a human shopper. The machine isn’t doing any part of the shopping or driving. Indeed, instead of displacing human labor, like you suggest, it’s increasing the amount of work available by bringing previously non-market work into the market. The machine does that by reducing the transaction costs to make outsourcing that kind kind of labor feasible. Relevant reading: Ronald Coase’s Theory of the Firm.
Did you forget /s? or are you really that paranoid?
No. You’ve had my opinion, I’m not arguing with you, I’m telling you.
You can put out a lot more code when you're starting from a blank page than when it has to integrate with thousands of lines of existing code. Not to mention that at the start there's basically no refactoring, debugging or rewriting target, so you can just pump out new code. Whether 1500+ LOC on a weekend is realistic is another matter.
Like leveling up in an RPG!
See also previous discussion about the DHS press statement from 9 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18158560 (48 comments)
He was sentenced to 2 years btw

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/23/douglas-wil...

Still absolutely mindbogglingly. The whole situation reminds me to much on the emperors new clothes.
Awesome article Jay.. impressive stuff - looking forward to the next article!
I am also a bit skeptical when strong anti-Pharma opinions are expressed, based on personal experience only. Meta-analyses have shown that for severe depression, antidepressants are a first line of attack, only seconded or aided by CBT, but not interchangeable in terms of efficacy. It's kind of stupid to counterargue with yet another personal story, but for me not being able to take SSRIs has proven to be a real problem. I developed a somewhat rare side-effect with both SSRIs and SNRIs, I basically covered up in unexplanable bruises and given the increased risk of internal bleeding, am cut off from this medicine class completely. The only time in my life where I was not crippled by anxiety was on these meds. I continually try relaxation, CBT, DBT and whatnot, but unfortunately I am one of those who does not respond as well to therapy as I do to medication. To be really honest, I am on the other side of the fence: I hope big pharma comes up with something else than benzos and SSRIs for anxiety, so that I can be relieved from the task of living my life spiting anxiety 70% of the day.
When I started on venlafaxin, I used to fall out of chairs. I think part of what gives anti-depressants such a bad rap is they have a god-awful beginning and end.

I still go around evangelising them, because I just can't bear to imagine all the people who get put off by the (horrible) start and horror stories, and live in purgatory for years with no light at the end of the tunnel. Because, as far as I can see, side-effects usually just mean the dosage is wrong, or the drug-combo is wrong.
This has never happened to me at all regardless of how I was passing through.
So Apple directly responsible for the state of the after-market of Apple replacement parts, but you'd rather just blame everybody else instead?
Amazon staff said to be taking bribes to leak data
I'm picturing that scene from The Rock where Ed Harris chews out that young staffer who questions him.
The underlying Wikipedia politics are horrible. Tons of crazy people fight each other using rule lawyering and other tricks.
So you have to buy 5 copies of windows under a volume license so your computer doesn't reboot?
This is a trip down memory lane. Back at HuskyCon 2009 I was on a board with Brian Ecton. When it was my turn to read orders, he stepped away from the board for a smoke. Since he was gone I made up new orders for his fleets. Boy was he livid when he got back.

Unfortunately it seems like the face to face hobby is aging out. The last decade has seen several luminaries of Diplomacy retire from the game or pass away.
Back when I worked on cars, the configuration parameters the firmware devs used for the control units were all in excel spreadsheets, with some plugin or other and a bunch of macros to flash the hardware. As far as I could tell, the main benefit of this setup was that the devs didn't have to build their own UI that looked good in a table, and allowed searching and sorting.
Hey! I'm wondering how long it took you to get diagnosed as bipolar 2, and who diagnosed it - GP, psych? This last year I've been suffering depressive episodes that have really affected my capacity to function properly. They're always interspersed with really good days, maybe too good -- heaps of planning and ideas, unbridled optimism etc. It's hard to know what's considered to be the baseline for normal mood fluctuations.
> democratic socialist politics

Do you mean social democratic?
If they get interview scheduling integrations right they are already better than 99% of everything else out there.
It's a balancing act of-course. The total file is ~200 lines at the moment, breaking it up would create some very small files, and generate a lot of 'including' boilerplate.

Moreover, it would make it more difficult to understand the whole thing. The lexer and parser are closely coupled (by the data type for the tokens) and the parser and 'processor' are closely coupled by the data type of the syntax tree.

I could still see it happen that it does get split, and there are certainly coding styles that would have split this without question.
Too much opacity in these markets, from the worker's side.
American use of antidepressants comes up at dinner conversation every so often. Stats are readily available, but what's less apparent is why it's so widespread in the US. Does anyone have any ideas why this is?
It can be licensed through Microsoft Open License, but minimum order is 5 items.
It is also available for free in BizSpark subscription, if you have it.
I agree, I think they're complementary arguments. In London you need a helmet - the cycling environment demands it. In other places it sounds like that's different, and I envy people who live in those places!
You're making an extraordinary claim here. Care to provide a link backing it up? If not, this is just a slur.

You're implying that people who go to breitbart are mentally ill. Maybe they need help? Should be committed to an institution for their views? That worked out so well in the Soviet Union...
You may have missed that GP is referring to special relativity which is a lot simpler than what you are referring to (general relativity).
seems plenty active to me. Am I not active enough for you either?
I don't disagree with this at all. But warning users that their bootloader is unlocked seems more important in this case though.
The Google Applicant tracking system is most hostile toward deaf job applicants, EVAH!
> My feeling is this is a separate team as it's in the end hosted on hire.withgoogle.com. Probably the team got acquired and it was initially run as an experiment. Anyway, this is just an assumption.

You're correct, it was a startup they acquired - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bebop
Which in turn would naturally include anybody Google has chosen to blacklist from their services for whatever opaque reason. Google's vision of the future seems to have changed fairly starkly in recent years and in a very bad way. Hopefully this is yet another Google service flop because the alternative is edging rapidly towards dystopia.
That works if you need to usually only work within a section. However, in many cases switching files can be more distracting than scrolling to a different section in the same file.
Well, if you click set my preferences, you can see that all tracking is OFF by default (at least from me, in Europe, it is). So there is an option to opt out, and you only need to click two buttons, settings, and save.

I agree that they need a "no" on the initial screen, though.
Other posters seem to have concerns about google siphoning data from this product. I wouldn’t be especially worried about that.

A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. Will it be around a year from now? Will be around but utterly neglected as whatever opaque process inside google causes it to lose interest in yet another project?

I’d rather buy recruiting software from a company in the recruiting software business.
At the same time, are you running it on a faster SSD?

Disk IO is a huge bottleneck in the setup process.