skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the real problem is that these issues have root causes which really need to be addressed, and that's why telling the chronically obese people "just stop eating" doesn't work, because it isn't addressing the root cause.

The problem, however, is that addressing the root cause is extremely difficult, or even impossible (for those trying to give advice), so people don't know what else to say. For the person in poverty, for instance, the root causes are numerous and systemic in that society, and pretty much impossible for anyone to fix anytime soon. So what else do you do or say?
When you are actually depressed and not just feel a bit down, those things seem unreachable.
Following up on this: "Amazon promises not to use customer purchase data for anything other than emailing receipts, but that leaves all of the data entailed in actually making the system work." (via Stratechery). Changes the equation a bit.
I've always wondered if Venus was as habitable as Mars on the surface which we'd choose. The lower gravity well of Mars makes it much easier to come back from which is practically a requirement to go there. But like you said, the jury is still out on how well we can live in lower gravity.

Getting back from Venus after just beginning to colonize it may not be possible with current technology.
>> Perhaps the Finder would be thrown out in favor of a Files app ported from iOS/iPadOS.

> ... wait, why? What does that have to do with ARM?

Catalyst is already bringing (or aiming to bring) iOS/iPadOS apps to macOS. Apple's own apps over the last two years have used it (take News as one example). Apple also demonstrates a tendency to throw things out and rewrite them without those being good enough replacements (we've seen that time and again, with for example, iPhoto replaced by Photos, iTunes replaced by a few other apps, etc.)
Then do not turn the array and do not put it at the pole.

Build a ring of static solar collectors at some respectable km distance out, such that some will always be in sunlight, and transmit the power back. It brings up the engineering challenges of high-voltage power transmission in low gravity, zero atmosphere, and various forms of radiation (e.g. how far apart one could place pylons); but I suspect that these are more likely solvable than some of the things that futurist ideas bring up. (As yet uninvented, or not manufactured in large quantities, materials with really high tensile strengths, for example.) And it avoids the problems (construction and maintenance) of continously moving large numbers of solar panels around in a vacuum. It even introduces redundancy.

Moreover we definitely already know how to cope with an electrical power grid where only some of the generators are currently supplying power. (-:
please, current software - not event thinking about Electron-like things, just the software that comes with operating systems, be it Finder, explorer.exe, even fucking photo viewers and music players or terminals - are already slow and frustrating enough as is, it's not like message passing is going to make shit happen faster.

I saw a Pharo (smalltalk) demo recently, the damn thing was so slow to react I thought it was a bad joke. Can't even begin to imagine what actual message passing would look like - oh wait, I do actually know due to spending 6 hours last weekend finding why a software had uncomfortable mouse interaction, actually caused by fucking objc_msgSend making everything async and slow on that wretched Apple OS.
They are not mere kooks. They are an organized criminal enterprise. They've engaged in arson, kidnapping, extortion, attempted assassinations, money laundering, and other criminal acts. They are actively malicious and that's as realistic a line for dividing who is and isn't right there is.
For remote meetings, having a process for writing down and sharing meeting notes is especially important.

As compared to in-person meetings, it's easier for someone to miss a key point and not be caught up on it.

When considering tooling, I'd recommend looking at ways to:

1. Enable live access to the shared notes during the meeting. This gives teammates the chance to clarify things that may have been misunderstood right away.

2. Make notes easy to find after the meeting - whether it's 2 days or 2 months later.

3. Highlight and keep track of the action items that result from the meeting.

We created https://bytebase.io for low-friction team notes. It's currently in closed beta - ping me for access.
Mars has a lot more benefit here, in that it has a normal-length day. Much better to reliably have sunlight for roughly half of every day than to rely on a few polar areas that are in sunlight most of the time. The equator of the Moon is more suitable for other reasons, so what are you going to do, put the solar panels at the poles and run long power lines down to the equatorial regions where the power is used? Nah.

Mars is better for solar power because you won't need nearly as much battery capacity, as you get light on a ~24 hour cycle same as Earth. The Moon with its slow rotation is much more challenging.
> Over time, we could evolve a branch of humanity, "Homo ares"

These were called Belters (as in asteroid belt) in the excellent book series The Expanse, which is also an excellent sci-fi show available on Amazon.
Vulkan itself supports both GLSL and HLSL (and any other shading language that can compile to SPIR-V), so you'd still usually end up writing GLSL anyway.
Social distancing and sanitary practices are hugely important for this.

It's not clear to me that large-scale travel bans are particularly helpful. A travel ban is about containment — keeping the number of cases in a region at absolute zero. Social distancing and other local behavior changes are about lowering the rate of infection and slowing the spread of disease in an area where it exists.

The latter is clearly important because it lowers the number of people who simultaneously need medical services in any particular area. A travel ban can help that if successful and it medical resources are easily shunted from a region with zero infections to a region that has them.

But once you've got a single patient zero in a region, the travel ban is fairly close to pointless. The disease is going to start spreading locally anyway.

At the same time, the economic effects of a travel ban do affect the daily lives of lots of people. So I think it's reasonable to focus mostly on local measures and slowing the spread.
We also use LastPass and it sucks so hard. Terrible UI, bad UX decisions, frequently breaks.
An example would be rocket fuel to leave, so you don't have to bring it all with you.
This is a pretty low-effort flame post and clearly violates HN rules.
"Asymptomatic" means "not coughing," surely even a developer could understand that. You should be glad they're taking this opportunity to learn the basics of a very important field.
Why wouldn't someone just use github actions and token scanning.

https://github.com/features/actions

https://developer.github.com/partnerships/token-scanning/
I know this was a week ago, but on the off-chance you see this, I spent today improving responsiveness throughout. Let me know if you encounter any more issues.
Intelligence chief declines to meet with Congress for election threats briefing
Someone here recommended David Burns' "The Feeling Good Handbook" and it was a very, very good read. I'm not going to say it turned my life around, but it taught me how to spot and disarm all kinds of cognitive distortions, defeat laziness, better align my expectations of others, assess my self worth positively...

It's also well written, fast paced, and sometimes even funny. It includes lots of exercises that are practical and easy to do.
Hoping you post to HN when you publish.
Thanks for pointing that out. I can't edit and correct my comment now. My intent was to point out the long gaps between hardware updates (depending on which line one follows).
The implication is that South Korea has the resources and technology to produce and distribute masks to its citizens.

But I'd love to hear the details from someone that knows more. That's potentially a lot of masks to be churning out.
The very long number in the code sample above was breaking HN's layout (it's our bug—sorry), so I added some line breaks to it. Anyone who wants to execute that code should take them out.
You would need a 50km long dredge. That seems completely unworkable; that's much longer than the deepest of deep mining operations we have here on Earth, and we aren't nearly as constrained on Earth as you would be on Venus. How would you even get such a thing to Venus? The only realistic way to do so would be to construct it of local materials, but now we have a chicken-and-egg problem.

Plus, keep in mind that a lot of the materials you would use for such a dredge on Earth won't work on Venus, because the atmosphere will corrode them.
Awesome, learned a bunch of things, thanks!

(One of which was that biologists have a more specific definition of "virus attacks X system" than computer security researchers, so my wording seems to have been off there. I was trying to say "seems to do something against its effectiveness, because we see cases of reinfection after a short time")
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It's an interesting analysis. But without knowing their goals, it is easy to come to the wrong conclusion. For example, it may be that WeChat aims to generate more quality content from select users? If that were true, then it makes sense for them to limit video creators. Anyway, I am speculating ... It could be quite true that they don't know how to innovate. MySpace faced the same issue.
Don't think we know why "nothing happened". I think the remediation was generally worth doing, but that's just a guess. There is no final reveal that tells you whether or not it was. We'll never really know.
This seems really interesting, but I am curious what headset hardware is sufficient for it as of yet. My experience trying this with Virtual Desktop was that my Occulus simply lacked the resolution to make these screens comfortable.
>Please don't recommend Phenibut. It's not an antidepressant. It's highly addictive and has severe rebound and withdrawal symptoms. Drugs that make you temporarily feel good should not be confused with antidepressant drugs.

This kinda sounds like drugs like clonazepam or lorazepam. They're also very addictive, and are not antidepressants at all, however they are anti-anxiety drugs and they work very quickly. And anxiety and depression seem to go hand-in-hand for many sufferers, so they do seem to really help some people, at least initially.

I think a big problem is the medical establishment really doesn't have a good handle on what depression really is (biologically) or how to treat it.
Prospect (2018)

A slow-paced movie, and pacing is its main flaw, but it's an interesting vision of colonies with a great visual style.
I see BitWarden recommended quite a bit here. Does anyone know if it is possible to share passwords between 2 accounts when using the self-hosted version? Or is it limited to teams?
I focus less on techniques and more on strategy and mindset.

There are thousands of 'successful' cold email templates and guides out there for free, for example. You don't need another one.

But they probably won't work for you - any more than downloading the Uber app onto your phone will teach you how to build your own ride-sharing app.

Instead, I focus on the fundamentals of sales - how to approach finding potential customers, understanding them, and creating a shared success plan that results in them 'default buying'.

A lot of that will be very useful outside of B2B sales...

- consulting
- hiring
- applying for jobs
- press outreach
- pitching investors

I assume someone has already created a great resource on press outreach which would be higher impact for you than taking this course, but it would definitely help.
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Since when? I've never been asked for a selfie.

If you must, it doesn't seem like a big problem still. Go to thispersondoesnotexist.com, hit F5 a few times to find a nice portrait, then Google "driver license template" and apply basic Photoshop skills.
I would love to finally see an article that has tips for a society on how to prevent depression, instead of the constant stream of self-help BS that is constantly directed at people who may have real reasons to be depressed.
Ask HN: What do you use as a whiteboard replacement for distributed developers?
What are you using in lieu of a whiteboard for developers collaborating in a distributed setting that you find works well?

The ideal solution for us would have a short learning curve (less than 5 minutes), be almost as time efficient as a whiteboard (minimal fiddling), and not require any special equipment.

Standard equipment in this case would be a touch screen phone and a laptop with a touchpad (no touch screen) and a camera. While it would be nice if the results were pretty enough to keep around, if trade-offs must be made, we have a strong preference for ephemeral use cases. SaaS is the ideal delivery model.

I know I'm asking for a lot, but we're ultimately going to have to come up with something that works for us very soon, so hearing about any setup you're proud of is helpful, even if it isn't quite the (impossible?) "ideal solution" above.

I'm sure there are a few other teams struggling with this as they ramp up distributed collaboration in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, so I figure I'd ask here!
AFTER FIFTY YEARS, billions of dollars of intensive marketing campaigns, and tens of billions of dollars of profits for pharmaceutical companies, it is still far from clear that antidepressant drugs are any more effective than placebo. The only group of people who have demonstrably benefited from the widespread use of antidepressants are pharmaceutical executives and investors.

I don't think this is accurate or helpful, and I hope people who benefit from medication don't stop taking them after reading things like this.
How do randomness beacons based on threshold signatures work?
> Is there a word or phrase for the act of poorly implementing an idea, then using the failed result as a way to discredit the idea?

It might not be that specific, but "faulty generalization"[1] might fit the bill. The Wiki article offers other phrases like "jumping to conclusions" and "fallacy of defective induction".

I would like to know if there is a name for specifically doing the poor implementation with the malicious purpose of discrediting the idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
Upgrade (2018)

What if you installed software on humans?
I used to workout 2 hours everyday in gym.

When I stopped supplements, I couldn't get myself to lift for even 15 minutes. I lost all my stenght and got depressed.
Nobody I know shuts down...
Contact

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Not sure where to put it, so I'll stick it here. Deals with the politics behind alien contact, which seems even more relevant in today's political climate.
For starters, that "just" is swallowing:

- Identify the relevant tokens you want to scan for, and create regular expressions to capture them.

- Create a token alert service which accepts webhooks from GitHub that contain the token scanning message payload.

- Implement signature verification in your token alert service.

- Implement token revocation and user notification in your token alert service.

And that would replace one piece of what this does.
You might call it that in a way. This is where the engine is hooking. We scan the entire source control and curate rules for you to use around technologies
I could randomly select any task and then randomly select a typical retail investor and they'd be unlikely to accomplish it. That doesn't mean nobody should attempt it.

Not that I'm advocating trying to time the market, but I don't buy the "the average person can't do it so you shouldn't try" argument.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

May be old-fashioned for some, but it's a captivating, action-packed wasteland vision.
I haven't heard any expert (doctor, epidemiologist, virologist,...) making the claim that epidemics can be extrapolated until the number of infected people equals the total number of people. Pandemics burn out eventually by their own way before that.
I like the tip about paying someone else to clean your house.

When you are truely inside of a depressive episode, all those tips probably won't help you. By definition, you cannot think straight.

Think of it more like a computer game: As long as everything is okay, you should make sure to save your progress. While you are feeling good, try to minimize the effect of an episode. This way the episode itself also becomes less bad.

This could be: Getting a cleaning lady (edit: or cleaning gentleman), setting up your bills to be paid automatically, saving money. Stuff you should do anyway, whether you have had depressive episodes or have not. Just setting up your life, so it can be slowed down a bit once in a while without catastrophic outcomes.

For me the logical consequence is to adopt minimalism, so there is less stuff potentially dragging you down with it, once things turn bad.
Oh well, there are ways. Let me introduce the Stellification Engine:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a48d58c84350

A mass of self-replicating hot hydrogen dirigibles powered by fusion. They use part of the energy to stay afloat in the correct altitude and to repair and reproduce & radiate the rest outwards.
Ideally no, but since Universal Basic Income isn't prevalent, yes.
The article is not about selling honey.
Are they Russians in Russia, who supported the Soviet Union? Or Russians that left Russia because the Soviet Union nationalised their land?

Most cases of "I know Russians and they say X" or "I know Cubans and they say Y" are claims in the West that are informed by the fleeing bourgeoisie that would of course be critical of the regime change.
Hello Shimon, nice to see your post here, all the best to you and your team from an ex-colleague.

Would you mind sharing an example of a custom rule?
Epidemics don't follow exponential functions. You are aware of that?
> I have yet to see someone run into sandboxing problems on MacOS (in production) that wasn't doing some evil shit that should be difficult.

What do you mean here? Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, Visual Studio Code, Adobe Premiere, Logic Studio, Final Cut, Unity, Steam, Chrome, Terminal, iTerm2, Blender, and Cinema 4D are some examples of applications that are not sandboxed. Are those apps all doing evil stuff?
Planet of the Apes (1968)

Partially an action movie, but poses a couple of good questions.
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It's none of those things. Doing a bad job at governing and then using your own bad work to discredit government is literally the Republican party strategy since (at least) Grover Norquist / Newt Gingrich in 1994.
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For me, doing those small things did seem impossible and even when I managed to achieve it, I didn't feel the reward. There didn't seem any point in making the bed if I felt the same whether the bed was made or not. Eventually I reached a mental place where I could turn that around: If it doesn't make a difference in how I feel, why not make the bed? I had to more or less take it on faith that eventually the rewards would come, and they did. Anyone out there dealing with this: Keep fighting, but don't kick yourself if you have a set back. You wouldn't kick someone else when they're down, so don't do that to yourself.

Edit: Just want to plug Allie Brosh here. This comic is maybe the best description I've ever read on how depression is experienced: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...
- Vincent Freeman = Victorious Free Man

- Jerome Morrow = Sacred Name of Tomorrow/The Future

> Jerome is a masculine name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek given name Ἱερώνυμος, Hierōnymos, "sacred name"; from ἱερός, hierós, "sacred", and ὄνυμα, ónyma, an alternative form of ὄνομα, ónoma, "name".

The names chosen were actually pretty genius, especially considering that Jerome's name/identity is the one used "to build the future", and in the last conversation Vincent has (with the doctor), is referred to as Vincent, his real name.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I have had a similar experience where the endless stress and burnout culture in the tech field led to total mental collapse about 5 years ago and I can't say I have fully recovered. How have you dealt with employment post meltdown? I have found better jobs since then, however, they all seem to introduce some level of anxiety to my life and I am contemplating leaving tech after 20 years but find that I am not "qualified" to do much else. Just curious if this is a just me issue or if you or others have found a way out of this mess.
and then there's the large caps on my AC compressor that tend to go out every few years.
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The Abyss (1989)

An adventure in the depths
and then what, run the spyware on my main phone, so it can have all of my data and my friends data?
I was depressed for sometime till I found I've low T, once I supplemented it depression disappeared. I wonder why doctors don't ask you to get your T level checked when they find you depressed instead of prescribing antidepressants.
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I gotta disagree. The physics in the show is disappointingly cartoonish in my opinion. The ship is not massive enough for it's gravity to capture the, uh, various items in the orbit shown. Even the orbital mechanics of the delay are just a plot device.
As s as formerly depressed person I can attest that this is the only thing that worked. DO stuff. Even if you feel you can’t, even if it feels hopeless. Do it anyway.

Somehow through the act of forcing yourself you find you’re actually enjoying yourself, are making progress and feeling better.

Saying this is also the quickest way to get shunned out of the room by anyone with depression.

Fun fact: research has shown that cognitive behavioral therapy is more effective at changing brain chemistry than drugs. Tricking yourself into doing things is a lighter form of CBT so I heartily recommend it to everyone.

Or as my psychiatrist once said: Drugs don’t mean you’re broken or that this is outside your control. They just give you the space to fix it. CBT is the actual long-term solution.

https://www.nature.com/articles/4001816
Definitely, can use it to power chemical rockets as well. :)
Rick&Morty (cartoon serries)
Not a movie, but does a really good job exploring consequences of alternate universes.
Thousands out of an area of 16 million people is small change. They are probably people who would have been heading home anyway. The Travel Ban in Italy doesn't mean nobody move, it means nobody move without a decent reason. The Italy ban is quite different to the Wuhan one, if you look at the details.

edit: To be clear, as well as restricting travel out of an area, we're also talking about reducing movement _within_ that area. So it ties into Social Distancing really.
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I think that self-care has become shorthand for treating yourself, when sometimes it means being responsible as well.
Wondering if there any open source project which does similar things? (surprised if it's not)
This was what I was thinking. I remember hearing that people are contagious some time before showing symptoms Also a large chunk of people only show mild symptoms. At the minimum all it would take is for them to infect a single person and for that person to only experience minor symptoms or to be not the type that goes to the hospital for some reason.
This guy was on a plane 4 days prior. He might not even be the actual original person.
Interesting, adding it to my list.