skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a lot of depressed people, medication can significantly improve their life. This has been proven time and time again through double-blind clinical trials, just like any other medication that gets sold.

While for some people the medication becomes a permanent part of their lives, there are others it just helps get over an episode. Are they suffering from the same disease, just with a chronic vs episodic form? Are they in fact separate diseases? Are the drugs curing some people but only 'sustaining' others? I don't think we have the answers to these questions yet, but that doesn't mean that we don't have a wealth of evidence that these drugs can do more good than harm.
> Those are not consequences of modern society or government.

In fact, the fear of those are the reason for government!
Nobody would frown on me for wearing a mask where I live, even before covid.
> Organizations like Google and Facebook are known for their quality standards.

Citation needed, especially for Facebook. The parts I saw are full of vile hacks, committed by an endless stream of new clueless devs --- young developers are of course better by the dictum of Mark Zuckerberg. I'm curious how his code looks or if he ever wrote anything substantial.
What does that have to do with iMessage?
Thanks for proving my point.

Edit: Oh, you're the grandparent comment. I explicitly wasn't talking to you, since you're not even pretending to argue in good faith.
Appreciate you looping back on this. I’m personally curious whether there was something about the wording that got you the reply.

If it was full of “Silicon Valley” culture, for example.
Rick Dickinson – Industrial Design of the Spectrum Next [video]
That, or he knows the trick of human psychology he is using to get people hooked and also knows how to make oneself immune? If you want to learn how not to get locked in a chokehold, you could certainly do worse than learning from someone who teaches people how to lock someone in a chokehold (though I appreciate there may be a better teacher who understands the art of defense as being different from offense or something, but "whenever someone does X the stuff I teach doesn't seem to work, so do X" is a pretty great starting point).
This is what you want to read: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1621
Wood pellets are efficient, produce low pollution, and are one of the most renewable fuels.
Thank you. This is a much more intellectually honest response.

> That isn't a reason not to use them.

To give one example of where this is unclear, consider antipsychotics. Brain shrinkage is a known issue in schizophrenic patients that hasn't been ruled out as not coming from medication due to ethical issues in conducting the associated studies. Some schizophrenic patients also recover without them.

Comparing a valid concern like that to anti-vaxxers seems disingenuous to say the least.
Saving you a click - "it's efficient if you count waste heat as useful".

As a rule of thumb, a good PV panel and a good thermal engine will give you similar efficiencies - a little under 20%, more if you want to spend lots, but really very tricky to exceed mid-30s. A thermoelectric generator, quoted as "1/3rd as efficient as PV" - sounds about right, so maybe 6%.

PV panels consume land. A wood-fired generator as suggested would need at least 10x the land to grow the trees for the same energy input, even forgetting the difference in efficiency. Probably closer to 100x.

Oh, and PV works in literal deserts, where land is cheap, because it's useless to grow food or as a reserve, so you're sacrificing nothing!

The closest practical variant of this is district heating with a regular fossil- or nuclear- turbine generator. IIRC, a few towns in Russia have genuinely too cheap to meter heat because of this.
Negative karma for stating a fact? Does someone disagree that this is what AnCaps believe? Or do we just suppress heterodox ideas here?
In NA, it's common for software dev. employment contracts to prevent you from working on software in your own time, and/or to claim moral rights to anything you do work on, regardless of field or business interest overlap.

I have no idea about enforcement, and most coworkers I've had have ignored those clauses.
Humans are vain, it's just how it is.
Yes and no. Theoretically domestic violence is bad. Practically, it is more prevalent then in west and often seen as dirty familly issue. Local preacher and familly will focus on forgiving, make familly together and that kids need dad.

Likewise, equal pay sure, but dont you dare to point out when it is not. Naturally woman is the one expected to primart focus on kids and home, guy is more likely to be promoted of course. It is not seen as "not a woman place" to be leader - but it is happening less then incapable guy being promoted. Basically, there is more sexism but less hostility.

Jobs are not closed to women, but people perceive you weird putside of proper gender bounds and talk about it openly. The different expectations of boys and girls are in the open too. You wont find male teachers much, super rare.

Divorces seem fair money wise, except really guy will get less access to kids. But no alimony, she is expected to work. Access to familly planning is good.
fond memories -- spent couple years coding away on that :)
> These all seem like things wealth protects from

This sounds to me like Silicon Valley solutionism. Getting rich only works for some time in a world with widespread crop failures and the many other effects of global heating. [1]

When that happens I'd say it's only a matter of time before the pitchforks and guillotines come out...

“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”

― Eduardo Galeano

[1] https://archive.is/mXJ1B
The typical suggested alternative is "treatment", ie. hospital -jail!
Does everyone that is going to benefit from the system (receive notices, click attend, etc) have to download an app? That will be an powerful hindrance. People inherently don't want to download more apps, there is a lot of friction in that process. Remove as much friction as you can there.

Narrow your action / marketing focus to get started. Perhaps see if you can promote your app at destinations (to the co-benefit of the destination / place if at all possible; tell the owner you'll market their business on your app in exchange), rather than focusing on trying to get users outside of active context. Go to where the activity is occurring, where people are doing the thing you want them to use your app for (eg at a bar). If you're willing to grind, that approach is probably your best bet (short of a huge, expensive ad blitz). Where people are doing the thing in question, they will be most receptive; outside of that, their receptivity plunges toward zero (unless referred by a friend in the moment of / before / during an activity).

You better be a very social type, because you need to be out in the thick of it. You need to be of the people, in it, pushing this thing to every human that will listen at every location that will tolerate you. You need to be the social manifestation of the result you want out of the app (since it's a very social app by its nature), network user after user after user. This is an example of doing something that doesn't scale, you're going to go out and sell every initial new user on the app, where the app is going to live most of its life (at destinations, events). After a while, the snowball momentum will take over, if you're lucky, and you won't have to grind for every new user.

Messaging people is a dead-end in most cases. It's like a spam email or cold call in how it lands in the brains of the people receiving it. Go to where the action is, sell (promote) your thing in its proper environment.
This is a great way to work
Here's a nice recent article with maps showing the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/climate-change-behind-rise-an...
How do rules get enforced?
Who enforces them?
Who decides who enforces?
Do rule enforcers therefore have power over other people?
What if people, or large groups of people don't like the rules and refuse to follow them?
> just an evolution of the phone

My go-to example for this is the Cambodian tuk-tuk driver taking a YouTube English lesson while waiting for a fare. This is radical change. The democratisation of knowledge is huge. And it has unwanted side-effects: everyone does their own "research" now, and then we have to un-democratise some knowledge so that lies don't get passed off as truth. It's going to take us a couple of generations to work out how allowing everyone to publish anything they like, and read anything they want, is actually going to work in a sane society.

> ... rabbit hole of "what is art"

Agreed :)
Not to denigrate the post, but the TI-99/4A did color out of the box; this post is talking about a modern adapter board to work with a modern display instead of TI's proprietary monitor or a TV. I know because I first programmed on a TI-99/4A and we didn't have the space nor free connection to hook it to the living room TV, so I used a 13" B&W TV in my room for years before ever seeing the color that it was capable of.
If you solve (most apps don't do a good enough job) a real (most problems are imaginery or tiny) problem, getting users is not hard.
Since 2001 we've spent $7T killing a million people and turning millions more into refugees. The only result is that the money was spent and the people are dead and in exile. This evil folly didn't make us any safer. The "really evil people" I can think of were the ones who did that. I don't want to live in their society, but what choice have I been given?
In some sense,mesh WiFi doesn't seem spectrum constrained(considering home use) - just install enough mesh AP's.
I've read some terrible narratives written by humans, too ;)
> Thankfully there are plenty of fixes available. Here's one of them

Sounds wonderful, along with the accrued online karma points. As great as one person is, they will never be the upstream source.

Here's my ppa also, I have a proven track record of updating browsers with security hotfixes hours before anyone else, but on the downside I really don't secure my system at all and leave my laptop unattended in Starbucks, please subscribe:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:TOTALLYNOTMALWARE/chromium-beta
sudo apt update
sudo apt install chromium-browser
Love the idiocracy reference there
Perhaps it was bought for them.
Syntax vs semantics?
Linking to an arbitrary article that is somewhat related to the topic is not helpful. Please try to at least give some context for why you believe the article contains a relevant response to your parent comment, out of common courtesy if nothing else.
Microsoft Office has become much better and more popular since they started focusing on subscriptions and they don’t have to keep forcing more useless features to convince people to upgrade.

Office 365 is a great deal for $99 - 6 users each with 1TB of storage and I can use it with my iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows PC etc.
my friend got into biking recently (bicycle) and wanted me to create an app so they can organize bike rides (cause they go in groups), extra functionalities would be share gps routes and status (heartbeat, speed...).

I answered him to take a look at the app store, and if there's less then thousand apps just like that, I worked create one for him.

not to be a dick or anything, but these kind of things I don't believe would fly. you have your WhatsApp groups, your Facebook groups, your telegram groups... how the hell am I supposed to compete with that?

why people would left a app they already use to for a while to use mine?

I think the same questions apply to your project.

Again, not to be a dick, just my opinion
Show HN: Quick Efficient Frontier
So I recently started working on stochast.icu. As it currently stands, it is an implementation of pyportfolioopt restricted to CAPM modelling returns and Ledoit Wolf shrinkage estimation for the risk matrix. My plan would be to introduce a Backtrader server so that one could see, based on a scheduled rebalancing rule (implemented daily, weekly, etc), how they would perform over time. Of course, this will later include the full suite of pyportfolioopt as well as some screeners I am working on implementing soon. The idea is to make a tool which require little setup (e.g., versus Portfoliovisualizer) so one can make quickly tinker around with different tickers when exploring their options.

Also note that I am obviously not very good at UI design... lol.
Or

We are talking about the human body a lot more now the media can make a headline.

If this is from C19 one imagines many other things we don't care about kids getting also can do it.
> India's defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great

It was not India, but one kingdom that Alexander's army fought against. Also, there is no indication other than ONE Greek source that says Alexander won. In fact there is more evidence to the contrary - that Alexander lost very badly in his first encounter in India and that caused his expedition to end prematurely.
I hope that fast.ai courses do not and will not use this library - it would increase required effort to understand the code in lessons.
Who exactly is suffering because of Microsoft? Surely not the normal users, Macs are expensive and Linux is garbage outside the tech crowd's needs (a big shock considering who it services). There's plenty of competition in cloud development, office software, and system administration as well. The only losers are European style mom and pop scale businesses but those are relics of a bygone time (probably why Europe likes them). Where's the damage?
bueda fixe pa!
A Tesla engineer designed the perfect chocolate chip
... or protection for the rich only.

Which leaves the poor to have to come up with other ways to get protection, which opens the door for a local "strongman", which turns into a type of government, rinse, repeat.
Ding ding ding. It was also a base model that cost £870 with Apple's education discount.
Lol. I think you should give US more time to fail? (I guess). It's only 260 so years. That's too short if you place it into human history.
For me, Proudhon [0] said it best, 180 years ago (did a bit of tidying, e.g. de-capitalization, paragraphing):

> To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

> To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.

> It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.

> That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

Edit: and I must include his canonical line, adapted for modern times:

> Whoever lays their hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare them my enemy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Anarchi...
Rust serialization: What's ready for production today?
There is no industry standard for SWE. In startup 5 years experience might be senior but in S&P500 might be just a mid level.

Listen to theirs expectations. Senior position might be not necessary scary. A lot of places expect more communications/mentoring skills than coding from senior.
When I find a bug in the tools I use, I will check to see if someone else has reported it and whether it'd be of any help to add my 2 cents.

It's almost always yes for the former and no for the latter.
Is this not the FBI's own report? Why would they admit to something of questionable legality? That's like trusting the internal investigation from a police department.
I had senior support agents from Apple support tell me that they do not advice doing bootable APFS backups, since it interferes with the ids the T2 chip somehow burns into the file system for "security" reasons.

At our company we try to buy refurbished T2 free hardware only for this reason.

We'll probably jump ship if a great surface studio 3 comes out.

After almost 40 years of being a Mac Design shop...

We're just sad and want 2005 back.
Finding a real problem is hard
Fair point. :)
Maybe invent a mouse which sprays a little bit of disinfectant with every click?
I wouldn't say all of those are a waste.

Notably the first. You fixed a bug, you contributed, you did your part but it was ignored. Did you learn anything from that? Beyond "Open Source is a waste of time" I guess?

It's easy to look at things negatively, but there's often positives to be found if you simply look for them. Not to say you're wrong, just, trying to offer some perspective.
Any reason why the course recommends AWS/DO vs. running something locally with Docker?
>Polish Mathematicians never getting things named after them because their names were too hard to spell
[c]onditional and Boolean both have meanings, and they are not the same.
You've linked an article that cites one study which found weak evidence for the effectiveness in depression of one particular medication that is not widely approved for use in depression.

What is the point of this link supposed to be? That we shouldn't be prescribing bupropion to patients? Perhaps - most likely SSRIs and other drugs are more reliable, but it doesn't hurt to have a wider variety of classes of drugs to try.
Either way, I'm glad we can agree that it's important to be precise with words. Thanks for making my day a little brighter.
To echo that, just for cycling, there's Strava events, which have decent functionality. I've seen a lot of events organized through that. So this is a solved problem, like I believe, OP's is.
If we solve that problem, we'd be halfway to solving them all.
Sounds like Facebook to me... not a good sign.
Not sure if that's a fair judgement - It seems particularly endemic that it's almost a meme/stereotype in itself in Singapore; that all cab drivers are discontent with the government
I don't think the most useful info you can get from someone's Github involves the sort of deep analysis you're attacking in your comment.

Nobody is deep diving your code like this, btw.

Looking at someone's code projects can tell you some things like how they might write a README, if there is one. It might present a concrete project they built that you can discuss in an interview; what was the hardest part of this project? It can tell you where they are roughly on the scale of "barely started programming" and "clearly are experienced" (an experienced developer can glean this very quickly from someone else's code—even what they choose to paste from Stack Overflow—it isn't as hard as you think).

Reading the code line by line looking for "strong code" is something that beginners think employers will be doing, but they don't. Just like developers don't evaluate libraries like this, they do a more topical, holistic page-through.

Of course it isn't going to tell you exactly how someone will perform on the job. That's not the goal post (the absence of Github usually means you have nothing to look at at all). It just has a few useful signals like looking at a chair that a carpenter has built.

It seems like you are suggesting that the chair a carpenter built in his own time couldn't possibly give you any reliable signal about how the carpenter works, because what if the carpenter was in a rush? Well, let me point out that a rushed veteran and a rushed beginner will cut completely different corners. Kind of like how a skilled artist with only 10 seconds to draw something can still express a great deal of their expertise merely by how they attacked the problem.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fft%281%2Fx%5E2%29
This is the fastai library used:
https://docs.fast.ai/

You don't directly use fastcore for most things, but fastai underneath uses fastcore. If you want to extend fastai for custom and advanced tasks, fastcore is actually very helpful to use.
Poor people pay for their policing today, but don't get much for their money.
I like Framework Design Guidelines by Cwalina, Barton, and Abrams. The 3rd edition was recently released.

It's targeted at developing .NET frameworks with a broad audience so some of the guidelines aren't appropriate for internal APIs or applications.
Linux is only useful if your time has no value. I use it on my server but that's about it. Couldn't use it on the desktop. it's just as bad now as it was back in 2007 when i first tried it. in fact i think it's actually gotten worse in some aspects. it' definitely slower and more bloated now for sure.
I built a similar app for a client. It's called "Festi." It's on IOS and Android with web app as well... Getting traction has definitely been difficult, but is slowly growing.
Strange. You'd think they'd be aware of the features of the email service they signed up for.
"We"? are you a doctor?
I can tell you hundreds of real problems in a minute. It is just that millions of people tried to find solutions and have failed. Thus they are extremly hard problems. The things is finding a real problem that you can actually solve.
Regulatory capture is profiteering off something other that value added.

Which US institutions are profiting?
I'm pretty sure modern historians use a lot of mathematical tools: statistics, information science, digital archives, computer imaging, etc. It's very hard to search for this, though, because all of the results concern the history of mathematics. You have to examine the tools and methods used.

Pretty much every field in the social sciences and humanities requires their undergrads to take at least one course in statistics. Sure, these students may complain about it but they need to be trained to not make common statistical errors in their publications. Unfortunately, they still do, which highlights the importance of mathematical education even in these fields.
well....get to work?
> It makes it easier for me to see how a prospective candidate works and thinks

Be careful making even these assumptions. My GitHub is a subset of my side projects combined with some old work stuff that was reprioritized. Many of my repos lack tests because they're for such a small number of users it's more efficient just to test manually and handle issues personally. That doesn't mean I don't write tests in my professional life. Similarly, many projects may be older and my habits have evolved since then.
Boeing Union Girds for Battle over Where to Build the Dreamliner
> Never ever heard of an anarchist that thinks the US prison system is anywhere near of justifying itself though, but that's probably something all radical leftists agree on.

I don't think you have to even be left of the centre to realize the US jail system had serious flaws and need major reforms.

Just looking at the incarceration rates and the number of reoffences compared to international levels show that something is completely off.
> anger over teammates who are parents.

I recognise my younger self in that. How stupid I was!

Bringing up kids is the most important job in the world, and employers have zero loyalty.

Do your eight hours, or however much you need to support your outgoings, and then focus on the important stuff.

Edit: This applies whether or not you have kids. Your employer being understaffed or having unrealistic goals is not your problem.
Oh so it does! Sorry I'll ask Hamel to change that - he's just being generous with his credit. I didn't write a single word of it!

Sorry for the confusion. :)