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I don't know that there is any drug or intervention that prevents depression in otherwise healthy people, besides eating a balanced diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and getting sufficient exercise.

Preventing relapse in people whose depression is in remission may be a different story (and, one which I'm not terribly familiar with). Part of the problem is that the placebo effect in trials for depression is very strong. See, for instance https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24172161/

BTW, I am also a lifelong sufferer of depression. SSRIs have never really done anything for me, but bupropion has been a lifesafer.
There is a reason why the term "childless privilege" exists.
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Past has shown that it wasn’t. See swine flu vaccinations.
I am a middle-aged adult with no children who's worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the "resentment" of those without children have for "benefits" those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.

What's next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I?

If anything, I'm thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.
Maybe we should first distribute the vaccine to the elderly, then? It sounds like the trade-off benefits and risk would be different there.
My cynical side wants to think the start/stop is a planned obsolescence 'feature,' but obviously I don't really know for sure.

It's an attempt at squeezing the tiny last bit of fuel mileage out in the standardised tests, and they obviously don't care if it wears things out faster...
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I mean come on. Is anyone buying it’s just a coincidence? If you really do I’d take a critical look at what they want from you. Votes for Trump. I’d also be extremely wary of anecdotal chats as widespread evidence of anything.
>>Consider that your opinion on what is "universally hated" is mostly shaped by the sources of information that you consume.

Clearly I was not commenting on ACA but on the Websites people use to Sign up for Government Subsidized Plans under the ACA which have continually been reviewed poorly by the people needing to use them.
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This is quite simply false based on a worst case scenario of a 1976 Swine Flue vaccine level fallout, which had <10ppm cases for those given the vaccine (of which ~50% had severe effects or died).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_sy...

Your chance of getting COVID over the next year is certainly greater than 1% even if you live in a fairly unaffected area of the US (and are likely closer to 10% without extreme measures), while your chance of dying is almost 1% and severe effects (hospitalization) are in the 3-5% range.

https://covid19-scenarios.org/

About 20 million people are expected to get COVID over the next year and over 500 people per day are expected to die every day in the US until there is a vaccine. That is with current economic closure, before schools reopen, and with some fraction of people wearing masks.

Even if you think your chances of becoming very sick from COVID are <1/1000 (no pre-existing conditions <30yrs old), and you think you are so very careful that your chances of illness are 1% , and you don't care about spreading to anyone else... you are better off taking the worst case vaccine we know of.
Are people actually comparing the items that they received to the items in the fraudulent reviews made using their address? It seems unlikely, so I just assumed they weren't.
Tcl did it first, look where it is now.

Alternatives abound.
I would imagine a COVID vaccine would be put under the homeland security act like the smallpox vaccine was. Means you have to try and sue the government.
A few thoughts:

Expecting vitamin D supplementation to be some cure-all is silly on the face of it. It's like saying "Your building has a brick deficiency" after some disaster does egregious harm to it and then ordering a bunch of bricks or starting a charity to give away free bricks to the entire community after a hurricane levels things.

Yes, bricks may well be a critical ingredient necessary to rebuild, but getting a giant pile of bricks dropped at your front door is the start of the rebuilding process, not the end of it. And then you will find that you may not able to do anything with your pile of bricks because there's no mortar to hold them together or there are no skilled brick layers available.

The body is a very complex machine. It really shouldn't surprise anyone that a simple solution -- like "needs more vitamin D" -- isn't going to miraculously get it working better across all categories of things that can go wrong, either due to a deficiency or in a way that will cause a deficiency.
The NIH is attempting to develop a universal influenza vaccine. A clinical trial is currently underway.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/universal-infl...
As I said, it's an issue of what the account is primarily being used for. The important word is 'primarily'. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

There's another issue, which is that we don't see everything that gets posted to HN, even in the same thread. There's far too much material here for anyone to read it all. So if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Call recording is a complex situation.

a) You are recording someone else, often without their permission, which in many countries is a serious crime.

b) You open up the attack vector for apps to surreptitiously record your conversations and make them available to governments or criminals to do all sorts of nefarious things e.g. blackmail you.
Kind of? I mean, if you’re working on an infrastructure or platform team, and building some distributed database or data pipeline, that would be more “distributed systems”, in the strict definition of the term. However, I doubt there are very many teams working on these sorts of problems —- it’s a very specific niche.

Edit: I might have misinterpreted your comment. The actual architecture of scaling by adding more hosts is quite common, if you’re processing independent messages.
Cool your jets man. If you are an American you should be aware that criticizing the President is patriotic, not treasonous. It was patriotic to criticize Obama, just as it is patriotic to criticize the current president.
Personally, I struggle with these feelings as well.

It seems nuts that someone working 50%+ less than someone else is going to keep all the same equity, vacation, and salary. Then again it seems nuts that they don't.

All employees who had children or family members to care for before or after COVID get none of the same support. I don't think backpay is coming for those who were forced to take leave or even quit their jobs when they had family they had to care for.

It isn't "unfair" or something, parents with kids of certain ages have a much higher burden right now than most, and our society should support them.

That support won't exist for anything exceptional, and for diseases like autism, alzheimer's or cancer, we've normalized the experience and force individuals to just handle it. It's hard to see how far some companies are willing to go for parents today, when I see how little we do for others.
I don't think Ubuntu or any of its variants--or "flavors"--are really well-suited for old machines. I find them to be very "bloated", as it were. I'd pick a bare-bones, basic installation of Arch/Artix and go upwards from there, probably using i3 as the window manager, too.
Of course, this, I believe, the person I was responding to was somewhat implying and what I was hoping to hint upon in my comment. The discussion around nuclear, and really most politics, is around ownership and the limits to what you can do with what we call 'yours'. Just because I want to personally dump a bunch of waste, unprotected from my neighbors, doesn't mean I should be allowed to potentially pollute their land or contaminate their water. I find it far easier to have discussions like these when you remember that land 'ownership' (in the US anyway) is really a lease agreement to the government and your neighbors, our country may use the word ownership, but it really isn't in the most literal sense.
I was hoping for it to be more of a long form style place for aggregating opinions. Perhaps a minimum word count to ensure only more thought out opinions would be allowed.
This is literally where my brain was going and I was glad to see someone went in the same direction. Given the <img> tag’s addition of srcset in recent years, there is precedent for doing something more with href.
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As a kid, I didn't have that many spare floppy disks. Simple solution: write the first disk image on your father's machine you used for downloading it, start the installation on your machine, and as soon as it asks for disk 2, remove disk 1, insert it into your father's machine and write the disk 2 image to it. It took a while, but man was I proud when I saw that boot screen that looked so much cooler than that boring Windows 3.11 box.
Not necessarily limited to development roles, I feel like in every team/company, there are these pesky sources of friction that everyone has sort of learnt to live with because in the short run, taking the few extra steps to work around something is usually quicker than facing the actual problem. Actively push to remedy these, whether it's something you can take care of yourself in a few hours/days, or you need to campaign to get someone's buy-in. It goes a long way - not only in time saved, but also in mental capacity freed up.

This can be code, build systems (or lack thereof), missing automation, or even lack of clarity between various stakeholders.
I have a Capital One card and wanted to use that feature. As far as I could tell, the only way to use it was to install their "assistant" browser extension and give it permission to view everything you do. Then if you were on a merchant site it could suggest you use a new card number for it. I considered toggling the assistant on and off just as needed but instead said nope. Was there another way to do it?
I sympathize with the parents but this is just how life goes. If you have kids, you’re going to be more occupied than people without kids since we all have limited time on this Earth. And of course your career will be negatively impacted.

There are good things about having kids and bad things. This is one of those potential bad things. If you don’t want to deal with this possibility then simply don’t have kids.
I tried really hard to move to protonmail and detach from a Google ecosystem, but really struggled to import my existing emails (their import/export tool was incredibly prone to breaking).

You're also locking yourself into an ecosystem without open apis. If you want mail on your phone you have to use their client, if you want it on the computer you need to install the protonmail bridge (which seems to restart itself and overlay over the top of whatever you're doing)

The apps don't seem to behave well on MacOS either, something about how the windows are designed means that they won't show up in the Mac cmd+tab switcher.

All this means that their security model is irrelevant to me, if I can't do the basic things that I need to do.
I feel we are overweighting the importance of the political meta-game here and underweighting the real ongoing suffering caused by the virus (in terms of health, but also in economic deprivation).

But if we’re going to talk about the meta-game, I think a swift return to normalcy after the vaccine is distributed could do a lot for the public’s opinion of the importance of vaccination. It could marginalize the antivax movement for decades to come.
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Hacker news is a bit too broad, and Reddit is a bit too anonymous for what I'm hoping exists.
It can be done properly though. Take GrapheneOS. Or lineage with MicroG if you want to have a bit more mainstream capability.
At the same time it's kind of hard for me to be sympathetic. Their bowls aren't empty: they kept their cushy, white-collar, benefit-rich jobs while tens of millions became suddenly unemployed.
Google has 73.18% market share in Europe, so it's quite rare that all your friends are using iPhone.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe/
The way I look at it, they have some time to failure calculation for the normal and performance usage. That TTF calculation goes into the price of servicing the warranty and that goes into the price of the car.

You're basically paying for the warranty extension and that doesn't seem that bad to me. Feels more like overclocking to me.
Eventually, yes, it becomes a resource drain. If you want to know when, ask the finance people.
Maybe. You still have to be careful, though: your prior assumption is that older/sicker people are more likely to have side-effects from anything. It's also hard to find big enough groups of old/sick people to do sensitive statistical experiments.

Vaccine development is hard.
9 is part of google's attempt to deal with carriers and manufacturers who don't send out updates in a timely fashion. It may have side effects that make it harder for others to build de-googled android but that isn't the publicly stated main goal.
Do you have any source with more info? For "shadow APN android" Google first result was your comment with same assertion on HN from 5 months ago.
That doesn't mean it should apply to people who aren't citizens.

Applying Nigerian law to people who aren't citizens of Nigeria would rightfully be questioned. The USA is not exempt from that. Just because it's illegal in the USA doesn't make it illegal everywhere
I suspect people are less inclined to empathize with people they don't see face-to-face every day. Mass-WFH could cause a general drop in empathy, particularly when the circumstances are so stressful.
This is building yet another silo and point of failure. We can't pass the entire Internet traffic thru WayBackMachine as its resources are limited.

Most preserving solutions are like that and at the end the funding or business priorities (google groups) become a serious problem.

I think we need something like web - distributed and dumb easy to participate and contribute a preservation space.

Look, there are Torrents available for 17 years [0]. Sure, there are some unintresting long gone but there is always a little chance somebody still has the file and someday becomes online with it.

I know about IPFS/Dat/SBB, but still that stuff, like Bitcoin, is too complex for a layman contributor with a plain altruistic motivation.
It should be like SETI@Home - fire and forget. Eventually integrated with a browser to cache content you star/bookmark and share when it is offline.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-a...
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The company hired a new CTO. He's taken it upon himself to set the development stack for both back and front end development. Our application is migrating to micro services. Is it normal for a CTO to set a single technology to be used in all services?
Exactly! How are we supposed to know whether killing people, flaying their skin, and consuming their flesh is good or bad!? Should we just rely on our completely "unbiased" and "objective" media (CANNIBALISM BAD, HERP DERP!). There's literally no such thing as truth! We are heroes for eating the flesh of small children!
Interesting! I see you are maybe in UK? I'm not sure this product exists in ordinary grocery stores in the USA.
The doctors in my neighborhood (several of which work in the Covid unit) have been moving their kids TO in person education. For the smallest kids, where early childhood education is so crucial, the value outweighs the risk.
Have you bought cheap and slow cards or expensive and fast ones? Faster cards are more expensive but for phones it's absolutely worth it.
There is a team of 4 people. 2 have families, 2 don't. The ones that don't picked up the slack for the ones that did. Work quality was equal, but output was greater for the singles. The team has 2 slots for promotion. Do you ignore the fact that the single people put in more work or do you factor it in in the promotion decision?
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This is one of the biggest reasons I’ve chosen to forego parenthood. I can’t imagine trying to carve out a solid career in tech while being a parent. I’m sure there are so many here on HN that will say it’s not so hard, but employer expectations have historically been incredibly high at companies I’ve worked for, to the point that sacrificing one’s personal life is pretty much expected (although never explicitly stated).

The pattern of viewing non-parents as more accessible and therefore more committed has been incredibly noticeable, particularly among startups and smaller companies.
iMessage is huge in the US. Here in Europe it's all about WhatsApp.
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Here's my feedback after checking out this site for a few minutes:

It seems a bit strange to post credit card details at the same time that you ask a question, especially without needing any sort of an account.

The items on the Pricing page raise up when I hover over them, as if I can click them to get some more information. But they can't be clicked. I would expect to see something like an example question and response to know what I'm really getting, plus hopefully a link to find out even more details since these are some rather pricey questions. Given the shortness of the responses, couldn't I just ask the same questions on Stack Overflow or Quora for free and potentially get even more responses?

Another thing: when posting credit card details, if the card fails, then there is no response on the page. I tried this with a Visa test card and the loader just kept loading as if the request was being processed. Meanwhile, my Developer Tools showed that the request was rejected by the Stripe API.

Finally, I get a ton of CORS errors from Mixpanel when I visit any page.

Given all of this, and despite the assurance on the site that my card would not be charged, I would feel apprehensive about using this service.
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Well, there's a good argument to be made that having children is much more of a choice than having cancer. And yes, it's natural to be selfish, because employment benefits are at least something of a zero-sum game. More for one often means less for another. I could easily argue that those who demand extra benefits because of a personal decision they made (having children) are more selfish than those who resent that they receive them.
Its funny how you mentioned only India and Pakistan and completely forgot about Bangladesh. There were three entities that came out of that partition, not two. These tensions are mostly man-made and not even related to independence, its mostly about India's claim that the two countries should be united and the people living there are similar to them while on the other hand Pakistan claims, they are different, Factually speaking, the Western part of Pakistan is more similar to Afghanistan and Iran, the Northern to China and only the East has some similarities with Northern India, not even the whole. Then there is Kashmir, should we blame that on the poorly-managed independence too? What about the province of Hyderabad or cities of Junagadh? Did the rulers there wanted to join India? It's not a competition about who is tolerant or not, its more about how to play this tolerance game so that they can rule easily and sadly only the common man suffers.
Many of your articles are coming from real clear politics dot com. All they do is show an image and then forward on to an article. Would be better to cut the middle man out. Unless you also own RCP too, then carry on capitalist.
I'm using wxWidgets, so it's the Win32 API at the lowest layer. For accessibility I want to make it support the NVDA screen reader which I think would make it support other readers as well :)
Or a huge number of jazz musicians in general. In the jazz courses I took in college is was part of the training.
What are your thoughts about a SaaS having both a subscription and ad model?
Here, because Quora didn't help me and there are probably more founders here. (I'm new and a little apprehensive about posting questions on here so go easy)
I am building a platform to discover subscriptions after watching YC's 2019 intro video and realizing how many companies there are that provide SaaS services but how few of them we know about. Now, I'm debating whether I should charge a very small fee to users, at least early on, even though my best source of revenue will likely come from advertising. The problem is until I get a decent number of users, it's hard to get advertisers. And I want to make sure I have some data on the right way to show ads so I don't annoy people.
So, what do you think about having a subscription model along with an advertising model for revenue if I charge a very small amount which will pay for servers, tools etc? Should I remove the subscription model later on but it's okay early on?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated! :)
The problem is, people without children are told (or required) to pick up the workload left behind when the coworkers having children taking (multiple) weeks off. For once or twice that might be okay, but if became a chronic problem, no wonder they are not happy.
They sent me a forehead thermometer (turned out surprisingly useful, hey!), a crappy USB powerbank, and a very compact sleeping bag.

I dismissed the first as a hiccup, but it was weird enough that I took photos of the packaging just in case. When the second arrived, I figured something was up and tried to open an Amazon case, but gave up because the process was frustrating. When the third arrived, I did more research on the scam and persisted enough to open a case, and I think they must've done something because I haven't received any more.

What's odd is that it would be in my short-term interest to have said nothing, and continued receiving interesting goodies. But it's in my long-term interest to have a marketplace I can trust. Will my action lead to that? Fuck no, not until Amazon pulls their head out of their ass.

I'm not holding my breath, and I'm putting a lot more effort into buying things ABA -- Anywhere But Amazon.