skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think of mental illness like myopia. Many people used to be blind, but then we figured out the technology, it got cheap, and now 60% of adults wear glasses.

As there is an incentive to classify mental illness for insurance, occupation, and drug development reasons, there is going to be 60% of people on ‘mental illness’ treatment, because we have an ‘ideal human’ (20/20 analogy) that we are trying to reproduce.

As the ideal changes (e.g. homosexuality was thought of in the past as non-ideal, so it was a mental illness, now these things have changed in many parts of the world, so those parts of the world do not classify it as such anymore.), the treatment options/norms change.

tl;dr, it is entirely possible due to biology that eventually ~60% of us will have some classification of mental illness that we will be treated for.
Spreadsheets really are the fullest realization we've seen of functional-programming-without-code, and with a built-in (rudimentary) database too. It's no wonder they kicked off the microcomputer era and remain essential to this day.
Rich people and the government should spend more. Workers should spend less.
I think the point here is that people with heart disease needn't worry too much about coffee/caffeine intake. Heart disease affects a large part of the population and even among those who are not effected heart health is still something to be conscious of, especially in middle and old age.
Great looking site. I just grabbed the app because I've been using the "What Knot to Do" app forever now, but find these animated single page descriptions more concise!
I remember reading a few months (?) ago that China was looking to consolidate the electric vehicle industry because the government incentives led to 500+ manufacturers who like to "move-fast and break things" and caused problems like vehicle fires.

imo that would mean a lot of these towns wouldn't be in business for very long.

Edit: found the discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617681
sure, pack of cigs a day u can also become 100+ years old.

don't forget about the impact on your mental processes and other effects these substances have on you though. they are arguably much worse than cutting off a few of your life years...

i used to drink loads of coffee. now i only drink it on occasion, and really it's helped my attention become a lot more stable. caffeine and other substances have varying levels of effect on people. for me it's pretty intense, but for the person next to me, they feel nothing of it.

long story short: listen to your own mind and body when it comes to your diet. it will tell you what is good and bad if you listen carefully. if you don't listen, perhaps it will become ill as a form of yelling at you to get your attention... ;D
You can easily fit 6 windows of apps that aren't wasteful of screen space on one monitor, even without overlapping them. I find that quality Mac apps scale gracefully, whereas things like Gnome 3 apps have giant CSD chrome and don't scale particularly well. And if you do overlap windows, you can fit even more if you arrange them well so they're easy to access quickly.
i’m a 5.10 moccasym convert :)

as generalist all-day cragging shoes go, they’re very hard to beat.
Makes me wonder if there's a market for an Excel clone whose files are easily machine- and human-readable, and version-control friendly.
You could offset by paying to actually take carbon from the atmosphere, rather than just not producing more. Climeworks can do it for $600/ton, and will probably drop quite a bit. If they get to $100/ton, flying Lisbon → Brussels would still be cheaper than taking a train.
Another good article from the same site about this issue:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3002533/no-sle...

Some are trying the "996" every other week thing now.
> It helps to be a dictatorship that can force anybody to do what they want, and send to camp people that don't. It also helps to have millions of cheap workers, and a gigantic, rich, soil. And it's easier if you not care about destroying everything in your way.

Is this about China or the US? I mean it's got prison / slave labor, cheap workers (minimum wage, what's that?), huge lands, etc. Don't think the US moved away from those practices a hundred years ago, they're still doing it, they're just calling it differently and it's coming from financial interests now instead of political ones (e.g. private prisons that make sure to keep their cells (over) full and their cheap labor supply up)
That's unsurprising in a way, but does it really make a difference between $180/year vs $60/year? Both of those are pretty in the noise.

CoolEffect seems do be doing a nice job of both marketing and explaining and verifying their projects. I have no problem paying a premium for that. (remember this thread started as surprise that it could be SO CHEAP)
Not really. I checked with my employer, and they told me it is at least a 10 year wait for GC, for my case. I'd like to start something of my own, but apparently it is not possible and I don't feel like waiting for a decade (for something that is not guaranteed anyway).

I don't think I am special or valuable. I guess I was lucky to come to U.S, but not lucky enough to stay here all my life.
Not in all use-cases. If your backend is serving long-lived HTTP streams (big downloads; chunked SSE streams; websocket sessions), it may make more sense to close and re-open those sockets between sessions, since they live long enough to establish TCP window characteristics that may not apply to the session succeeding them (e.g. an interactive-RPC websocket session, reusing a TCP connection previously used to stream a GB of data using huge packets, will start off quite a bit slower for its use-case than a “fresh” TCP session would.)
> Cinema attendance looks very healthy,

The problem with cinema attendance, at least here in the United States, is you can't trust the numbers anymore.

Take AMC, they have their A List that allows you to see 3 movies a week for a monthly fee, if you head over to /r/AMCsAList/ you will find a good number of people that will go see movies they have little interest in JUST to use all their 'free' movies each week so now you have someone that may have seen 2-3 movies a month, seeing 12 movies. Occasionally you'll even see threads over there where people brag about how many weeks long their streak of seeing all their movies is.

Similarly there was MoviePass (I think it's mostly dead now) that was allowing people to do the same for over a year.
> It is essential to our economic prospects and our demographic sustainability that Scotland continues to attract the level and nature of migration it needs.

That’s the policy of pretty much every western nation. Which they’ve all benefited from greatly.
There are plenty of churches where you really don't have to believe in God or even feel pressured to. Particularly left leaning mainstream denominations like Episcopal or PCUSA seem to be a mix of believers and people who just like the community. Universalist Unitarianism is a little more blatant about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
You could always hedge and sell half your shares. There’s not much extra info to be parsed here; the market price reflects all publicly available information. The question is whether you’re comfortable with a high-risk bet, or think you’ve understood something about the risk landscape that most others haven’t :) This is completely plausible.
Two things:

1. I have the feeling both this study and the ones it is trying to contradict are not reproducible, like 99% of other health food type studies

2. Your kidneys are probably going to be the bigger sufferers in this scenario
"But his survival is not unheard of either. Tipton has examined 43 separate cases in the medical literature of people who have been submerged in water for long periods. Four of these recovered, including a two-and-a-half-year-old girl who survived being under water for at least 66 minutes."

Wow, 66 minutes! Amazing.
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I think you hit the nail on the head. I prefer the look of dark mode, but because many UI elements don't support it, I stick to light mode across the board and lower brightness. There is no brightness level that is appropriate for a random mix of bright and dark mode, and trying to find one is worse than going all in on either.
For me (a nearly full time open source developer) the more technical conferences are a way to stay inspired, resolve /dissipate conflicts and try to figure out hard plans. I've yet to find anything that comes close, especially with people otherwise distributed across all timezones. And yes, I find the hallway track more important than the talks.

None of that is served by local meetups / watching talks online.
Random Forest vs. Neural Network
Another way of stating this: Many SaaS companies are just CRUD apps for niche verticals. (That's not a diss at those companies.)
Yes, I remember that from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513727
Amazon definitely has a monopoly on audiobooks and ebooks.
Can you at least hint us the region you are from? Do you think it'll hurt you in your visa/emigration process?

When you say 'nationality gives zero advantage' I think you're from somewhere that is regarded as 'worrisome' by some prejudice-filled cultures, like you're from the middle east.
Off-topic: the visual aesthetic of this blog really has its own unique charm. It's truly something else and nonetheless seems to do the trick pretty well.
Thank you so much for your work on this! Really hoping you expand this to elements. (See my comment at the root level.)

This is a game-changer. We do all or nothing semi-annual educational events and fraudulent chargebacks are a HUGE source of anxiety.

.4% seems to be a very fair percent as well to charge to make this problem just go away for businesses like ours.

We happily refund customers that go through normal refund channels, but fraudulent chargebacks are a significant source of stress and revenue uncertainty.

Just last night I was shaking my head as I stumbled across an email from a customer confirming that her friend referred her to our event and that she was coming. But then a couple months later she changed her mind. We told her it's way too late for us to give her a refund on her deposit (which was clearly stated to be non-refundable in the first place). So she told her credit card company that she doesn't recognize the charge.

Even though we added her emails to our dispute evidence, and submitted evidence that she was aware of the non-refundable policy for ticket deposits, we still have no idea whether we'll actually win the dispute.

Incidents like this are a major source of frustration, and your solution is going to help us operate with less uncertainty.
I'm curious what the legal issues would be; could you expand on your concerns?
Honest question: who are you people that never took civics class or never listened? I don’t want to believe this is just more trolling.
Besides these lecture notes http://www2.masfak.ni.ac.rs/cmfp2013/Nis%20lecture%20170113.... I haven't found a curriculum. This is one of the goals of Robert Harper et. all involved in type theory research https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/popl-2018-t...

There is a guy however with a rational foundations of Math curriculum, doing algebraic calculus and rational Trig that I find easy to work with (ie: building a library) https://www.youtube.com/user/njwildberger/playlists
My point is just that Japanese homes are not built with any ductwork at all, aside from a vent above the stove and in the shower/bathroom. A "whole-home" device like those you linked would require installing air ducts to every room, and the homes just aren't designed for it.
Yeah, sometimes scientists moved to another lab overseas, but rarely on a whim, and for longer periods. Still, there are so many people around, surely there must be some that can challenge our thoughts or enrich our network without having to fly planes.
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Holland is quite easy to get into for skilled people. I don't know your field but if you're in IT, finance or anything healthcare you should be fine.
Your salary will take a hit though, it's not the salaries you're used to from the U.S
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Do you have any sort of written out process for managing this? These are all spot on, and I think a literal manual for new remote employees would be helpful.
That can all easily be fixed. I'm currently working on a short term job at Statnett in Oslo. The office is all open plan but there are loads of small sound proofed rooms of various sizes that you can use for a work conversation. It's frowned upon to have a long or loud conversation at your desk. You just pick up your laptop and go to a little conference room. Some are just big enough for three people but they all have a big screen and conferencing tools.

Each floor also has an area where you can relax with a cup of tea or coffee and read the newspaper.

Desks are all motorised so you can adjust the height and use them standing if you like, the desks are not personal although those who work most of the time in the office do use the same desk all the time.

The environment is quiet, the temperature is pleasant, there are automatic blinds on the windows shut out the sun when it is too strong.

For me it works really well. If I have a meeting then I go in early, find a desk and work, go to the meeting, back to the desk and do some work, then finish the day just as though it was an ordinary office day.

But I agree, there are plenty of places (I've worked in some) where all of your negative office conditions apply.
A few tips to scale with PostgreSQL
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20078429

Also discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142

And discussed a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16710838
To offset the CO2 on a US-to-Europe round trip flight would add around $500 per ticket. As the efficiency of airplanes and CO2 concentrators improve, that should drop.

That seems reasonable to me and while it will make flying to Europe too expensive for some, it wouldn't make traveling to Europe something only the rich can afford.

For a typical family flying from middle America to Orlando, it would probably mean one less day at Disney.
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and yes, everyone makes coffee exactly as strong as the next person :D obviosuly
The co2.myclimate.org website shows 1.6t CO2 emitted with an offset cost of 38€ for a flight from Finland to Japan[0].

For example, according to the Carbon Footprint Factsheet published on the UoM website[1], beef is only 6.61 pounds (~= 3kg) CO2 per serving (4oz ~= 0.12kg). You'd have to eat a lot of meat to produce an amount of CO2 comparable to that caused by a single flight.

Newer cars in EU are emitting around 110g CO2/km[3], so the Helsinki-Okinawa trip would result in an 8157km*110g/1000 ~= 900kg of CO2. Still less than a flight. However, according to Wikipedia[4], the flight CO2 emissions in EU are at ~100g/km per passenger which contradicts the co2.myclimate.org calculator unless the global efficiency figures are much worse than EU. Flights also emit nitrogen oxides which have a stronger effect at higher altitudes.

A carbon tax enforced by the governments would be the most effective measure[2] AFAIK.

[0]: https://co2.myclimate.org/en/portfolios?calculation_id=19789...

[1]: http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/faq_carbonpricing

[3]: https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...