skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, CBT was hugely helpful for me. I read The Feeling Good Handbook (kind of the CBT bible, a new edition of Feeling Good). CBT is definitely a tool that you want on your tool belt if you're struggling with anxiety/depression. It may not be the be all end all, but I like that it puts control and responsibility into the person's hands, namely the thesis that thoughts precede emotion. It's helped me reframe my mind to give me more control over what I think and feel, to separate the true reality of life ("that person and I didn't talk for long", "I haven't heard from a friend in 24 hours", "I'm not currently doing anything on this saturday night") from the normative, subjective spins your mind can put on reality ("that person didn't like me", "I have no friends", "I'm a loser with nothing to do").

There's definitely a discussion about whether CBT should always be the therapy of choice. Personally, I think you need to be at the right spot for CBT to be effective. For me, I was a functional person who could somewhat identify what I didn't like about my mental state and was very open to trying to improve. I'm guessing CBT is probably not as effective if you're experiencing severe mental health problems or breaks in reality, or if you have milder symptoms but don't want help/change. Sometimes when I'm really down, CBT essentially feels like "you're sad because you're too stupid to be happy!" At the same time, I imagine every therapy works better if a person is at an okay spot and open to change. And CBT can probably help people all over the spectrum to various degrees.

If you're experiencing mental health problems, give The Feeling Good Handbook a try! It's a large workbook where you read and work through written exercises. Very helpful to me so I try to evangelize it when I can (and give out copies to people I know who struggle). I never tried in person therapy but that'd also be immensely helpful too. The great thing about CBT is how simple it is though, so reading a book (aka bibliotherapy) for a self-motivated patient can do the trick. Indeed, he spends the first chapter reviewing studies that claim bibliotherapy is just as successful as in person therapy. (Not sure what I think of that... I imagine book readers are more self-motivated than the average in-person patient but they were experimental studies so I'm sure that's already controlled for... nevertheless, bibliotherapy was good for me.

About me: I lost my dad in high school, my mom in college, and my sister to suicide after graduating. Pair that with an interesting childhood (alcoholic mom, bipolar sister) albeit a financially comfortable childhood. It was (and still can be) an incredibly hard stretch of time. At the same time, I was exceptionally gifted at school and really looked up to my teachers so I was and am very lucky and traditionally successful. If you're struggling, get help! Take responsibility! Your mind CAN change in small but subtle ways in how you frame your life and the daily happenings of it.
Oh that sucks, thanks for the heads up. I wonder if this means Hulu will be getting phased out? I'm definitely not in love with it, it has some really awful original programming, but it gets the Orville and King of the Hill.
Yup, i'm not signing up to watch video. But there is some justification for it, they really only want consumers who are willing to sponsor content. My guess is that this is in lieu of advertising injected by the platform itself.

It's good that this is being tried, but i'm not sure you can get to critical mass this way.
> text is not actually text such as icon fonts

Which is also hostile. Why not use something like an img/svg?
I remember playing with x10 consumer devices I bought off the shelf from radio shack 25 years ago. The tech was slow but very functional even back then.
Huh. Looks like the certificate for got-it.com is hosed?

Maybe it was signed by a CA that is not in the standard list accepted by Firefox 71?
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> I was fed up with people learning languages because of job-related issues or infatuation with the culture (yes, they bothered me equally);

I'm curious why you feel this way (no judgment, genuinely curious).
I actually had to look three times before I spotted it. Good one!
Just for context, if you are new to the linked blog, Scott Alexander is writing from the perspective of a working psychiatrist, who tries to rationally evaluate the effectiveness of treatment methods for real-world reasons.

This essay about SSRIs was one of my first exposures to his writing, and I found it very interesting.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...

The linked essay is setting context for a series of reviews on various therapy books.
Link to try for free: https://colab.research.google.com/github/nickwalton/AIDungeo...
I feel like I'm missing something. How is this different than AWS providing a wildcard certificate for every S3 bucket via https://<bucket>.s3.amazonaws.com. Is it the same thing?
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Even if that's true, at least they're helping them. I'm sure when given a choice between being "not brainwashed" and being fed, most homeless people would go for the latter. Also, if you're homeless you literally have nothing, what's wrong with finding solace in religion? At least you'd have some comfort.
Just to clarify - why the hell didn't the FBI task someone to do what Brian was doing?

> So, each day for several years my morning routine went as follows: Make a pot of coffee; shuffle over to the computer and view the messages Aqua and his co-conspirators had sent to their money mules over the previous 12-24 hours; look up the victim company names in Google; pick up the phone to warn each that they were in the process of being robbed by the Russian Cyber Mob.

Just assigning an agent to that seems like a dead simple way to really quickly curtail that operation.
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>> To be fair, if I had 75% of my net worth in a single asset,

to be more fair, balanced portfolio theory generally doesn't account for creating 2+ billion dollars out of thin air which you then need to diversify. I think it's appropriate to include the singalling impact that his massive position changes have on over-all value.

So yes, he's making the locally maximizing correct decisions because let's face it, that's what the individual cares about; You could argue that the overall maximizing decision is for the founders to keep huge volumes of equity and bare the exposure that comes with this because, hey - they really believe they are changing the world for the better!
Emscripten has been able to compile to WASM since before WASM was implemented in browsers. It became the default output earlier this year.
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For some people Unix is the IDE.
Not invented here syndrome at it again, this time induced by Slack.
I don't even use this thing at work on Windows machines.
Not a book, but a video course, "Nutrition Made Clear" at TheGreatCourses.com. Unlike a lot of the other books I see recommended here, this is not a dieting advice book, it's a course on nutrition. The professor specializes in sports nutrition, so a lot of the anecdotes are along those lines. It's 36 lectures, about 30 min each, plus the guide book.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/nutrition-made-clear...
It fits with Linus's MO of making videos of how to build computers and systems 10-100X more powerful than you need.
Emscripten has a WASM backend, it was originally JavaScript only.
That's fine upto 15,000 ft for a maximum of 30 minutes according to aviation regulations. So depending on how you do your vomiting it may work :-)
I have a Kensington trackball and scrolling works fine with provided drivers or even without them. Just curious about hammerspoon was needed in your case.
Also not liked by Brave Version 1.1.21 Chromium: 79.0.3945.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Whitelist *-dsn.algolia.net, whitelist Cloudfront, blacklist telemetry.algolia.com, then you're all set. Nothing else is needed for the site's functionality, despite it wanting to load resources from like seven different subdomains, CDNs, and (I think) four different telemetry domains and subdomains.
Just yesterday I noticed a "Fork Activation" option in the Fork menu with fields for an email and a license key. I think you might be right, it won't be free for much longer.
I feel the problem with Netflix is the se as what happened to cable TV.

Rather than paying a fee to Netflix let's just make our own and what you end up with is 100s of providers that have 1 or 2 things you actually want to watch.
That's a good question. Eveyone focuses on rent/ mortgage. Do normal goods cost more cost you have to pay all workers more, do costs go up across the board?
This writeup misses a lot of information about this group's ties to FSB, here's a better source: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/12/the-fsb-s-personal-h...

Basically, it's founder married a daughter of a high-placed FSB official and enjoys full immunity for his actions.
For anyone wanting text only news, here's a gopher service: https://txtn.ws. With a http proxy it's almost as usable as via gopher.
Years ago I was recommended "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking"

It's not a therapy book really; it's listed in the self-help genre. Still, I love it because it talks about all the problems with self-help books. The author goes to motivational talks, finds a person who grudgingly and unenthusiastically yell, "I'm so motivated" and later tells the author his trip to the talk was paid for by the parks department he worked for; he don't really want to be there.

The author does a deep dive into what's wrong with the motivation book culture in general, how we should not be afraid of our failures or how the quest to feel good all the time might be to our detriment. It's a great read.

The article here seems to be arguing more that all therapy books are either the same or claim their method is better when it's not significantly different, or they promise exergerant claims of totally turning ones life around when they really don't; how therapy is often a slow though out process with gradual changes.

It seems to fit inline with stuff in The Antidote from the perceptive of self-help books. It's a good read.
We were able to build lots of physics telescopes and other 'devices' necessary for experiments, which were able to confirm/deny theories and move physics forward. E.g., gravitational waves with LIGO in 2016.
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Why? Routers, switches, small embedded computers, and a myriad of devices already use 12-24V DC and step it down internally to 3.3V or less for chip use. Laptops and even phones/tablets are no different. And conversion losses don't increase with voltage so long as you design your DC-DC converter properly.

5-6V is fine for small loads of around 10 watts but you then have to deal with line losses. A 5 m / 16 foot 24 AWG usb cable will lose 38.5% of its power from line losses at 5V, 2.5A (a measly 15 watts). If you wanted to get a low 2-3% loss for 5V, 2.5A at 5m cable length you would need 12 AWG which is massive. 24V does better but if you wanted 50+ watts you again have voltage drop issues.

So in conclusion, low DC voltages are not very practical for power cable runs of over 2 meters. Though it would be nice if the last meter could be more unified with a single DC voltage and connector (my vote is for 24V). Then we can consolidate multiple devices to one strip/brick and call it a day.
And so is so much of cultural interchange.

I think it's wonderful how global trade and connectedness let us patch small holes in our culture.

Japan likes festivals, and Christmas is all wrapped up to be a different enough festival to be foreign and romanticized, and is adapted enough to plug in.

In turn, bits and pieces of Japanese culture are romanticized and find subpopulations in the West to celebrate them, mostly in not-quite-authentic form.

We fool ourselves when we consider ourselves "cultured" from our associations with these things, but we also bring ourselves joy and greater variety in life.
True. I'm not sure how I'd feel about maintaining a 2,000+ line J codebase. It definitely feels like a "programming-in-the-small" kind of language.

It is impressive how much logic you can fit into so few characters. Even other terse languages (e.g. Haskell) seem wordy in comparison. Of course this is especially true when the problem has a fairly natural array representation, and that might not be true for many real-world problems.

I haven't tried it, but I feel that a literate-programming style might work well for J. The code itself is very dense, so I think it might work well to have a long-ish, plain-text explanatory document with bits of J interspersed throughout it.
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As an aside, I really dislike that so many of the US domestic charities are religiously driven.

I guess another way of looking at it is why aren't there more atheist charities? What is it about religion that makes people help other people so much more?
I have some ideas to change that. I have all of it on the website, but I will copy some relevant parts here:

"You will only see public entries from people that have both being included in your list and included you in their list. No stranges following you (or even knowing you have an account)."

"There will be no way to like entries, only conversations. Also, there will be no way to share content outside of the list of who posted. So no way to go viral and no instant rewards."

"All the design decisions above already point to a social network with less activity. Adding to that, you won't see any advertising on the site, so there is no incentive to keep you aimless wandering around here. Stay as long as you need to connect with your family, your close friends, and yourself. Then leave."
I would probably have to stop using a mac without hammerspoon at this point.

For me it is indispensable as a hotkey launcher, keyboard, window mover/resizer, clipboard history manager, stay-awake, GIPHY API lookup, pomodoro timer, and a snippet manager.

My most used combo is ctrl (remapped capslock) - ' as a launcher, then C for Chrome, J for IntelliJ, V for MacVim, ... keeps me off cmd-tab which keeps me off seeing notification number in mail and slack.

Hammerspoon is my #1 tool for modding OSX to make it more usable.
Just as a sidenote, here in Denmark, our Version of the 401k, its illegal to have more than 20% in a single stock, for your own safety.
> living within your means

This cannot be understated.
Hi Brian! Big Tile user here with some chemistry backround, this is super interesting. Couple of questions:

1. Can you go a bit more into how the battery is integrated into the device? If it's integrated, is it still using standard anodes / cathodes and redox, or is it a capacitor, or is the battery still a separate component? This is normally the trickiest thing (vs the printed circuits on thin films) so this is why I ask.

2. How durable are the tags? Tiles can take quite a hit and still function pretty normally, which is why people use them for things like tagging cats. Do they work underwater? Do they work after element exposure? Any testing around this?

3. How flexible are the tags? Can I wrap them around round objects (this would be huge for me, since right now I am duct-taping tiles to things that are round, which is sub-optimal.

4. Do the devices broadcast how much battery they have left? Tiles have a great feature that tell me early on when they need to be replaced.

Thanks!!
Beautiful Gibberish: Fake Arabic in Medieval and Renaissance Art
A big bucket or three of KFC with a bunch of sides isn't all that uncommon a solution to family-gathering dining in certain circles (probably a regional component, too?), so it'd be fair to say they're a pretty popular choice for any holiday save maybe Thanksgiving, I'd think.
Las Vegas has the same law as Boise (the subject of this ruling).

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/l...

Hopefully this will convince cities that putting people in jail is not a solution to homelessness.
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The problem lies in that you're pushing the problem into the hands of anonymous cable makers and clueless end users. It's really difficult to stick a standard plug into a 30 amp socket.

It's really easy to buy some substandard USB-C cable that lies about it's capability.
Yea, I used to work in a soup kitchen regularly with a group from my church, a lot of the work and the people doing it are great - but we didn't evangelize and I think that's how it should work. As a religious organization feel free to support charities and note that your organization accepts people from all walks of life - even include pamphlets if you'd like... but the aggressive evangelism is where it gets weird - if dinner and shelter that I require to live is contingent on me accepting religion then that shifts religion from a freely associated faith into an exchange.
*9% of GDP for China of course, not 95%!
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I don't know - I'm describing it, not justifying it.
How much do you have to spend on logistics so you end up paying $1 billion for a special plane program? Is transportation of parts is so speed-sensitive in plane manufacturing industry that you couldn't possibly use some other kind of transport?
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Line losses, see my reply below. Once you go beyond needing 10-15 watts and cable lengths beyond a few meters you start losing a lot of power through the wire.
Sorry, I was meaning Dan Rather being the trusted source of news for the populace. He was the successor to Walter Cronkite after all.
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You'd be correct if people used editors for opening only source code files. The problem is that people usually open data files too which can be not only larger than L3 cache, but larger the entire system memory. The magic of a good editor like Vim is the capability to handle such files.

The other problem with your comment is the support for Undo operation. Even if you use a flat array, you need a more sophisticated data structure for storing previous changes. Storing a separate array for every single change is not an option.
Nazi propaganda are legitimate historical artifacts. These belong on the internet as much as anything else.

Perhaps you instead mean neo-nazi propaganda or that belonging to some other political group that isn't wholly defunct.
Hmmm, we're using a Let's Encrypt Cert which is coming up as valid on Chrome, Firefox 71.0 and Safari for us. We have seen problems with OpenDNS - any chance you using that?
I would say work is a PQ of Queues - but overall sounds about right. As someone with a 25hrs/week meeting load, lists and lists of lists are pretty much my go to for keeping sanity!
Why do you dislike that? Religion is something that ties people together. The United States is by far the most religious country in the developed world. Americans also donate many times more per capita to charity than other developed nations. There is in fact a strong correlation between the most religious states and the states where people give the most to charity as a percentage of their income: https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/wh....

(Notably, it’s not like less religious places have devised secular replacements for religious charity. As a percentage of income, people in San Francisco donate just half of what people in Alabama and Mississippi do.
"Also, if you're homeless you literally have nothing, what's wrong with finding solace in religion?"

A significant portion of homeless people are actually 'invisible' homeless people- people living out of their cars, or sleeping on couches. They arguably do have things, up to and including a sense of identity and self for which any attempt of indoctrination must erode. I don't think someone who is sleeping on a friend's couch would be down for sleeping on a bed instead for the low low price of conversion therapy.

(FTR: I don't think religion is brainwashing/conversion therapy or whatever. I also just think this take is also very bad.)
Staff usually makes up less than 10% of people, and senior is above the median at most places.

Levels.Fyi further biases towards new grads. A more representative sample would likely move the median higher. And most people are at the low end of senior after five years, if that.

Let me reiterate that: the median silicon valley swe has under 5YOE.
I'm a fan of http://legiblenews.com

I think it uses Wikipedia as its source.
EDIT: Most consumer appliances will still need there own power supplies. You would still want a last step DC transform to house at a high voltage. If the appliance operates at the voltage DC then it would need no power supply.

Yes, and cheaper to build!

You can achieve the same efficiency with DC and AC do not directly effect efficiency across the line contrary to popular belief. It is simple about what the voltage across the line is.

AC was in because it allowed us to build transformers to up and down voltages to provide efficient across the line.

Nowadays, we can build DC transformers with Power MOSFETs which are cheaper, and more efficient then there AC counter parts (old [magnets and inductors] and new [You can do AC transformers with MOSFETS with some extra steps/components]).

Additionally, since most consumer appliances first step is to rectify the voltages most build in the past two decades are DC compatible. Additionally, newer ones could then drop the rectifier stage and become cheaper and more efficient.
I think in the end we may have a subset of JavaScript that compiles to WebAssembly. Something like TypeScript. Something that cleans up the mess of JS and keeps the good parts.
I created my own deepfake–it took two weeks and cost $552
I've been using the totally outdated Slate [0] for years now and it still works through multiple MacOS upgrades. One day I'll port to Hammerspoon I keep telling myself. It probably won't happen until Slate stops working.

[0] https://github.com/jigish/slate
Well done Cockroach labs team. This data is very valuable and much appreciated.

A small nitpick if you're reading. Fig 19: Sotrage: Azure Write Throughput the y axis has an incorrect label of "1,00" when it should be "1,000"
The problem isn't YouTube per se. The problem is third parties abusing the copyright claiming system to claim what is not theirs. YouTube is only involved because it's their system that allows such abuse.
You are totally right. I don't have better information, although I have looked. If anyone else knows what those companies do and why they were removed, I'd be happy for any good news.
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This line of reasoning doesn't defend their practices nearly as well as you think it does. For instance, paying homeless people to fight each other will certainly make sure they have money for food, and it might provide them some much-needed organized activity!

If the reason you help someone is because you want to sell them something or use them, you're doing help wrong.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dolphins-kill-porpoises_n_110... old news story