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Interesting article. I've been diagnosed with bipolar type 1 myself. I still struggle with accepting having that particular mental illness for two reasons; the way it is depicted in media and popular culture, and it being seen as a lifelong thing you can't possible get rid of. This despite having a psychotic episode twice. You'd think these things are clear cut. But they're not.

The first part of the article is spot on, really. Even medical professionals have strong biases that are pretty visible even when you're institutionalized. Mentioning drug use is almost guaranteed to put you in a certain classification bucket. What's more, once a history is taken, while being psychotic or (hypo)manic, you are once again put into some kind of classification bucket, despite not being well enough to frame things properly.

I don't mean to be
completely negative here.
Once you are institutionalized, this is needed to get things back on track, start some kind of medication or figure out some first line treatment. However, the stigma afterwards is very real. GP's, psychologists, even surgeons take in this information after the fact, and its almost factual.
And the effects the author mentions are very much there; imagined or not, they are there for the ill person. Being extra careful not to seem overly rash, overly emotional, too impulsive around doctors. Just because they have your best interests at heart, doesn't mean they're free from bias.
> There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution.

As someone who grew up poor in America, these talks about “revolution” have always perplexed me.

We have one of the highest median incomes in the world, and we live in a country that pushes much of the world forward in terms of technological progress.

People have always flocked to America for opportunity, and if we cut welfare so we can expand immigration again, I guarantee there will be another giant influx.

This country allows people of virtually all income levels access to an abundance of food and pleasures through our capitalist system. Grocery stores with packed shelves aren’t something you should take for granted.

Revolution isn’t the path to become like Sweden. It’s the path to become like the USSR.
Same.

I've worked at my current company over five years and have been a really strong IC. I used to talk to lots of people in the office from many various teams and backgrounds. Now I only talk to my lead and a handful of others.

Work drags on every day and feels inhuman. It never "ends" now. I don't find any joy or satisfaction in it. I hate this, and I don't know how much longer I can put up with it.

I don't even use our product. The thing that kept me happy and productive was the other people. Now that's gone.

I need a sabbatical. WFH is awful. I'm so burnt out.
It started out as kick-ass book series. But yes, the TV show is pretty good too.
Why? Should we pull the flu vaccine off the market even though it saves lives?

Even when the flu vaccine isn’t dialed in for that year’s strain, it still generally makes symptoms less severe.

If these vaccines turn covid-19 into a typical cold style coronavirus, that is 100% a victory.
100mcg is usually a full dose. Usually micrososing is 1/10th of a typical full dose so 10mcg. Your tolerance is already quite high if you're at 64mcg/day and not actively feeling any tripping.
Stallman did some things right but doesn't understand freedom.

How is this dual licensing (with GPL 3.0 at that) different
from selling proprietary s/w licensed to the buyer together with its source code?

GPL 3.0 means one has to release changes made in-house to the s/w whereas a proprietary license would free them from that _obligation_.

For many users a non-OSS approach would work much better and be cheaper too (no legal BS, no need to review changes and release them). Tiny minority (those who'd fork it under GPL) would prefer Stallman's way, but it's easy to see how Stallman's "freedom" wouldn't work for 95% of users...
Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
This sounds like a great idea! I might want to try that.
"Your intolerance will not be tolerated!"
Hackernoon: Design Principles to help you became a better developer
Nope, it specifically covers "preaching of intolerance", that's not "just someone's speech you dont like".

Lets say I speak about gardening without pesticides, and someone with a pesticide factory does not like that speech. How do you think the "the paradox of tolerance" can be used to shut me up in this case? You can't. Case closed.
Yeah, it's got less cruft than Ubuntu. Apple doesn't need to put adware into their OS because they make enough money from selling hardware and appstore commissions.
Yes. There is the fact that macOS on ARM does not appear to have a standardized boot method (Apple says the boot sequence is "based on iPadOS"), and there is the fact that Apple also uses their own GPU architecture for which they're only motivated to make mac/iOS drivers.

Getting Windows to run on this is a pretty tall order, and without significant investment it won't happen. And significant investment from whom? Not Apple surely. I'm guessing Microsoft has more stake if anyone. At best we're going to see Windows on ARM virtual machines.
My understanding from the research is that the aetiology is not well understood at all, and that certain individuals are more susceptible to triggers. Note that although you may be genetically susceptible to a disease it does not mean that another cause (or organism!) might interact with those genes and result in said disease.
You know when a mechanic has a sign out front that says "free brake inspection", how often do you think he says "brakes look great, no work needed"? You should only take advantage of a offer like that if you already suspect something is wrong or in the case of a orthodontist when you think your kid needs braces to begin with.
Why don't we just stop building all this infrastructure, and move to a micro-community or individual model?

My parents' farm is on a well and septic, and a dirt road. Water purification is done with a UV filter. The infrastructure costs are almost nil.

We are in an age now where houses don't even need to be on the power grid -- a set of solar panels and a lithium battery makes traditional power distribution obsolete.

If it costs a typical suburban house $10k a year to maintain infrastructure, that's outrageous. Move to individually or community based infrastructure.
Affirm the status quo, as in the currently elected US president?
Exactly. Sometimes this is needed.
If you look at the inflow/outflow of funds explicitly I can see why you'd arrive at that conclusion. But one of the biggest benefits of being in the EU is being part of the world's largest trading bloc. Particularly for France who have a leading role.
The parent commenter explained it in a somewhat obtuse way.

I don’t doubt they meant to be clear, but reading it they were not and raised more questions than were answered.

As an example:

Wouldnt attributes be better served as details about the current element?

Wouldn’t elements be better served as “I am a child of the parent”?

Why would I use an attribute as a “non-repeating child” when semantically that doesn’t make sense when looking at the document? The attribute is inside the element’s definition, and seems to me attributes should be used to further describe the element being presented itself, and not be structural or describe itself as a child in any way.
I see people recommending commenting systems here, but have we stopped to consider whether we need comments at all?

My personal experience is that comments are usually content-thin, and not worth reading. I publish my email address prominently, and people who want to tell me something do take the time to email me, and I enjoy the more personal conversation over email as well.
Digging up roots with a wooden stick works as well, and got us going for thousands of years. It's just that technology makes everything more efficient.
How so ? I can't recall any major free speech issues on HN. Being downvoted and having your comment hidden is not exactly something HN can do much about, seeing that it is up to the users.
In a nutshell: Poor people stay poor because they can't save. That is why income tax is repressive - it guarantees economic stagnation, since nobody wants to work for the man.

Spending tax means that, no matter who you are, you will pay your taxes if you want to purchase something, whether its a commodity or product or service.

The rich will still be able to be rich - in fact, there will be more rich people - but they won't be encouraged to spend any of it without sharing it in the form of taxes.
Anyone with a rural home should know how to clear a fire zone around his humble Adobe unless they’re prepared to lose it.

Once cleared, it’s easy to cut trees down to keep it clear when these trees are smaller.

Same thing with maintaining MANY fire-lines (wide cleared path) crisscrossing their precious forest.

Modern folks expects modern firefighters. And one of the modern tools for today’s firefighter MUST be clear-burning and control-burns.

But do modern folks know this? Noooo, it’s just a pearl-clutching, collective-gasp that their poorly-trained notion expect firefighters not to start fires and ONLY to stop fires.

Me think firefighting unit and forestry management needs to be a bit more cohesive either in principle or practice.
What a confused mess. What’s the message here?

Is this one of these ‘we can’t be sure so let’s just wait for five years’ pieces?

I also love how we’re all supposed to listen to the experts. Except you know, those experts, in this case the people who approve these protocols.
I built Kingdom.so today and already made $600 to plant trees
I just launched kingdom.so to fund my startup project and plant trees

https://kingdom.so is a mix between board game and the million dollar homepage.

I already made $600 in a few hours.

Can't wait to have your feedback.
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A simple step by step tooltip helper for your products
I've worked with Docker before but I found it too resource intensive on my local machine. I now use docker to get consistent deployments but for local dev I find it too heavy. I'll have to look into NixOS and Guix
High seawater is honestly a minor issue compared to the rest if our climate heated up enough for the entire antarctica to melt...
This one is really interesting to me since it's an extreme case (due to the building structure) of "if they leave, what's your plan for that space, exactly?". Could they survive by firing lots of people and basically hibernating for a few months / a year?
If ("if" ;P) #18 is real, I'd love to read that change.
Could Our Entire Reality Be Part of a Simulation Created by Some Other Beings?
I've not been having these conversations since covid, and yes I miss them a lot. I prefer to flesh out ideas by kicking them around with others, and this is has suffered significantly. I've noticed a real lack of engagement in online communication at work, by others and by me. Personally, I'm bored of online communication having used email since the 90s and seeing it degrade into an ad-hoc workflow mismanagement tool. I suspect others are weary of opening their emails in the morning, too. The surge in online communication due to covid actually makes me more weary, and the dwindling engagement I see in Zoom, Teams etc suggests to me a similar creeping dissatisfaction. When it's feasible, I plan to ditch email other than transactional necessities, and conduct all work interaction by phone or in person. Webcam feels unnatural to me, it's more like being on show than being in a conversation.
I'm sorry, it's not obvious to me why this would be downvoted. Would anyone care to elaborate?
The freedom to disagree with others. The freedom to marry who you want. The freedom to move about freely in nature without having to worry about property lines.

In some places that are less free, these things are frowned upon.

Edit: you can read about the freedom to move about in nature in certain countries here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
Judging by the speed, OCR is done online which makes this less useful.

Pressing the play button after a OCR, did nothing for the three scans I tried.

Good idea, keep at it.
My intuition tells me you'll get quite different answers from different people, especially introverts vs extroverts.
Nailed it.

A lot of the "I did this and it had great effects" are compounded with "I did this and it ruined my life" and a bit of "I did this and it ruined my life and everyone around me". I suspect the human mind is tailored to promote the first outcome and stick it's fingers in its metaphorical ears about the last two outcomes.

Turns out we need actual formal studies and even those aren't necessarily conclusive so it's best to err on the side of caution.
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It is the frequent brigading by the Donald sub that makes free speech argument sound hollow. That sub was not banned for supporting president or discussing politics, it was banned because it became nuisance too people who wanted to discuss their own things.
I schedule my team a weekly zoom ‘group hug’, where we just basically take a break for 30 minutes and talk about our pets or various desk tchotchkes (which I think are important to have some small objects that can provide temporary joy).

It can be a bit awkward at some times, but it seems to be a nice change.
I've often heard arguments like this for infrastructure spending, but I've also often heard that point 2 doesn't ever happen. You get a short term boost in jobs while the project is underway, but you don't get enough economic boost out of new roads and such to actually raise the tax base appreciably. It's basically just city maintenance work and businesses don't reward it as much as people think. Mind you, businesses will move out if you don't do it, but you won't see 2X tax revenue or whatever from that new waste plant, regardless of how it got sold to the locals.
What size micro dose?

Personally, I've concluded I cannot be productive with even as little as 100-200mg of cubes.
Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com They sometimes makes these changes.
I pay an equal amount in federal and local property tax. Property taxes also pay for public schools.

Ironically, while people get in arms about how the federal budget is being spent almost no one knows what’s going on in their city or county budget. And that determines your quality of life just as much.
The Linux kernel and most other open source projects have primarily been built by fully remote teams. But every few days there’s a thread full of people wringing their hands about how there’s no way to do spontaneous, creative, collaborative work remotely.
I strongly disagree with you on one point:

> When the unwashed masses are involved, rational argument doesn't work at all

I believe this is an extremely illiberal viewpoint. Someone who can make this argument could well be a monarchist, fascist, or totalitarian at heart. The foundation of a democracy is the belief that the "unwashed masses" can hold informed views on politics, and at the very least should have the right to.

Also, the average person DOES care what a rational argument is. A significant amount of Trump's 2016 voter base understood him to be a populist to the left of Hillary. His campaign rhetoric of isolationism and ending the wars spoke to large swaths of the population, which swept him into office.

Now, all the issues you point out are important, and must be tackled, but I don't think the right way to tackle them is to label groups of people with a broad brush.

If we understand that people are capable of being informed, we should ask: "how can people be informed>", and "what can we do to make sure that informing people in an unbiased way is possible?". I don't think social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit have asked themselves these questions, at least not with any sincerity.

I think HN is a great example of the principles of (nearly) free speech in action. Look at the discussion we're having now!
HN is heavily moderated and posts that cross lines are quickly removed. It is not even secret and HN does not pretend it is not so.

The reddit rules are much more loose. The subs that were banned on reddit would not even had achange to start here.
We have "construction robots" already. It's called foreign labour and no one in the West would dare suggest bringing them in for one-off large infrastructure projects regardless of how many cost-benefit-analyses you can get the smartest economists on Earth to produce, nor the willingness of the laborers to do it.
> If they use that one-shot money for running expenses rather than investments (in e.g. subways), then the town will go bankrupt when there are no new buyers of parcels.

This is what happened to Mississauga, Canada (a suburb of Toronto): for the last fifty years builders had to pay developer charges which was used to build the initial infrastructure.

However things were constructed in a typical North American, car-centric fashion. Now that most of the available land is covered in large-plot, low-density housing, they kind of realized the money train has reached its destination and they now have to maintain all of this infrastructure.

The same mayor (Hazel McCallion) was re-elected over and over for forty years, and so the same kind of thinking was perpetuated over that time period because no fresh thinking was introduced and things basically ran on inertia. She is often labelled the "Queen of Sprawl".

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/how-hazel-mccal...

* https://archive.is/DpKKp

There are of course some plots left, and over the past few years they've been building medium-density townhomes, as well as more and more mid- and high-rise towers.

* https://www.insauga.com/is-hazel-mccallion-wrong-on-this-hug...

* https://torontostoreys.com/issue-of-the-year-mississauga/
You can start by not referring to the public at large as ‘unwashed masses.’ With rhetoric like that commonplace among the media elite, are you really surprised Trump won?
I have a (research/thesis) master's in mechanical engineering and currently work as a research assistant in a university research lab that works on many topics, some of which related to robotics.

It's fun, interesting work with many upsides, like working with very smart people, flexible work week, possibility of teaching classes as a contract lecturer and making many contacts in industry, especially with R&D departments, since I work on many projects with industry funding. Not to mention, on campus daycare.

The downside is salaries don't compare to industry engineer salaries since, at the institution I work at, all RAs are unionized and on the same pay scale, no matter if your topic is law, biology, english or engineering. Moreover, it's a dead end internally: to become a PI/professor, I'd have to get a PhD and complete at least 1 postdoc, most likely in a different institution that is considered elite, and even then it's a crapshoot.
Idk I thought the problem isn't so much self-hosting by end-users (commercial or not) but "cloud vendors" able to provide services build by others in aggregations and at price points those others can't meet, precisely because of their development costs.
I was not involved in tech growing up. In high school I was more interested in sports (XC/track, wanted to run in college) and science.

I did my undergrad in neuroscience with the intent of going to grad school and getting into research. After getting some research experience in undergrad (genetic research on DNA transcription patterns of certain bacteria), I realized that I didn’t really enjoy research. It might’ve been that the professor I worked for was an awful mentor and it might’ve just been the nature of the beast.

So I broadened my horizons and decided to apply to PA schools as well as grad programs. Wasn’t accepted to any of them, so I spent some time getting healthcare experience in nursing. I got a job in a critical care unit at a hospital. I disliked the job (for a lot of reasons, I like to think I’m not a terrible person for disliking it) but I learned a ton about working with people well, dealing with hard situations, and prioritizing what is important in crises situations.

Another round of applying to PA and grad school got me nothing even when talking to profs who were interested in my work and helping with theirs. At this point I was so frustrated I decided to go a different route. I was really good at stats so I started teaching myself “data science” and Python. I contacted the nearby university about what it would take to get into a masters program for software development with little to no prior experience. Thankfully they let me in and my life changed pretty dramatically.

In school I ditched data science and instead got interested in security. I got really interested in exploit development especially in kernels. My masters work actually was still a data science tool because I partnered with a local security company, but now I work in R&D at another security company and my current project involves developing applications with BPF in the Linux kernel.

I feel like I’ve come a really long way, but I gained many skills along the way that I noticed many of my coworkers don’t have. Namely, because of an academic history I’m better at starting projects from ground zero knowing little to nothing about a technology and I tend to have stronger communication skills. I have some ways to go to be as solid of an engineer as I’d like, but I’m very happy where I am in life and I’m happy to be in tech :)

Sorry for the essay! Hope someone enjoys it!
Plain-text email with a well-admin’ed listserv, yes!
Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? (2008)
This is honestly not something I can relate to. HN has always had a policy of using titles of the articles themselves, and apart from a small subset of them being editorialized by the mods (typically because they’re misleading!), this is still the case.

And I haven’t seen a noticeable uptake in pro-drug/pro-medication posts compared to, say, a decade ago, and frankly I don’t understand how that has anything to do with this.
You're mixing up a lot of things.

Child abuse is a physical act and isn't speech. Recruitment and instructional videos are speech. Assange is speech, but, he wasn't a journalist with protections for handling secret information. Copyright used to have a limited term before it dropped in to the public domain where it would become speech.

These are all different things with their own problems.
Can anyone confirm if this is accurate or not? It sounds pretty dire if so.
To the extent that this is a history rewrite, it's not a new one: them not referring to him as a co-founder (and getting some flak for it) was going on more than ten years ago while Aaron was still alive to participate in the discussions.
> Great, but if it doesn't translate into quality of life metrics for a large portion of the population, you're still not there.

Tech companies aren't a great example for this kind of argument. Employee compensation among FAANG is basically unheard of everywhere else except maybe finance. That a lot of the money goes to landlords is, incidentally, a problem of regulation.

If you're looking at manufacturing and the Rust Belt issues, you are correct. You cannot establish free trade, make blue-collar workers compete with China and expect this to have no effect on their quality of life while the profits of lowered costs go to capitalists alone. I believe this to be a major reason why trump got elected.
There is also moderation by administrators of course, otherwise HackerNews would be a spammy free for all like the most visible parts of Reddit.