skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a similar boat, with a 6 year gap. I've had the same DL number my entire life.
From the article: "Once used, these could be dumped in landfills with a clear conscience."

Naturally biodegradable waste is not landfill material. A well-informed reporter not realising that shows how much work there still is to do.

The EU single use plastic ban [0] is coming in July 20201. Is there any US equivalent yet?

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190321IP...
I think they are real. Just because they are a temporary state or contradicted by other real feelings doesn’t make them not real. For me it has been helpful to remember that how I’m feeling now is not the only way I’ll feel and how I’m thinking about a subject is not the only way I have to think about that subject. Feelings and thoughts change, as you said.
Israel does have a powerful lobby. They are not a complete puppet. They do things for our security state, so they can exert leverage. The US establishment also is fine with Israeli lobbying because they want to maintain that relationship as an outpost and a place they can outsource certain intelligence operations to. It's kind of a virtuous cycle that is very much more dependent on US imperialist designs than it is on Israel.
Ah I thought it was the Steven Pinker pattern. I don't see it as self-pity, or pity at all. The world is a dark place and our children are the bright lights of the future. It's the older generation that enjoyed the bright life and the millennial/z-gen is dealing with the world for what it is.

This is the cold, severe reality of the day. I can't hand-wave away facts of my community for the tail end of the industrial revolution applied in Africa.

I have my optimism that in the darkness life will be conserved and born anew. We don't need another aphorism extolling the virtues of how bright some corner of the planet is and how that is a worthy trade-off for personal or collective suffering.

I'd prefer to live in the '90s when you could keep a secret and have a life that was not inside a panopticon. That was safety, not this metaphysical slavery to a set of advertising megacorps that pushes our behaviour around by statistical application of recommendations. I miss going on holiday and coming back with stories of the new world, rather than being able to bring up a 4k photo of every location within 250ms. I miss being able to fight people and gentlemen's agreements on the back of a handshake and a word. We have lost a lot, I pity those that forget so easily.

Living in the 50s with a stable job that can support two adults and some kids with appliances that never die and vaguely drive-able cars seems a hell of a lot easier and safer than now. There are always brighter moments in the past, it's pointless to even make the rebuttal about living in the past, as if we could.

Your work depends on pulling dark information on genomes into yet another database for a client. I doubt I'm going to sway you on the damage of recent progress. GATTACA is closer than I'd (we'd?) like and you probably won't be around to see it. The worst part is that it's likely to be secret, no blood tests at the gate required. Just sort a database row and you have your secret candidates for the next task.

A two thousand year semi-respite from the naturally severe realities of life is ending and nobody seems to having anything to say about the shining beauty of a mankind that valued truth, a good handshake and gentlemanly behaviour. Is violence such a bad price to pay for freedom? I guess you can buy people off with iphones and widgets while they get slowly locked up by a system seeking absolute control over their lives.

C'est la vie, long live man.
This poll would be more useful if it was bucketed by PHQ-9 scores.

Who doesn't experience at least one depressive symptom?
I agree about the "dumb magic numbers" but I don't think any digital system is the answer in the short term. Look at the complete disaster with ransomware, cryptolocking of databases shutting down or severely hampering businesses and health care orgs, the disclosures of data from organizations at every level of size and presumed technical sophistication, credit cards skimmed at will at ATMs, retailers, and online. It's a house of cards built on sand. Is the worst that can happen is the disclosure of public keys? What about the undetected exfiltration of the private keys that are used to issue everyone's certificates? Or the the random disabling/ransoming of the verfication infrastructure leaving nobody able to transact any business?

I don't think we're close to being able to pull it off at anything approaching scale. It's not just a technical problem, hard as that is by itself, it's also a political problem, and a public trust problem. Right now, half the country would reject it based simply on which party is in power. "It could get complicated" indeed. I think we are a decade at least, maybe a generation away.
That statistic, though I'm still skeptical of it, doesn't really surprise me that much. At least 20% of the people I know are very neurotic, and I could picture them traumatizing themselves over the possibility that they might die from COVID. I know several people who are deathly afraid of the disease, and a few whom are hypochondriacs to begin with and haven't left their homes in the last 8 months. I would bet good money that, if they became infected, they would give themselves permanent mental scars over it.
> It’s how Islamic State managed to establish themselves in the first place.

No that was widely credited to the power vacuum created by the United States of America when they publicly hanged the President of Iraq for all the Muslim world to see. [1][2][3]

Serious error of judgement by White House royalty trying to make their ancestors proud. The US gave the Taliban a decade of training, funding and weapons.[4][5][6][7] They gave ISIS the perfect environment for them to grow big and everyone knows it.

It doesn't matter what business you are in, everyone is always trying to create more work for themselves, the military and intelligence services are no exception.

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/americas-failed-strategy-middl...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/23/...

[3] https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/iraqs-power-vacuum-cou...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

> described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency."

[5] https://theintercept.com/2019/08/21/taliban-peace-talks-afgh...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%E2%80%93al-Qaeda_controver...

[7] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/who...
I’m don’t mean this in a mean way, but if I were you that would not give me a great deal of confidence in my IT department’s level of talent. I’m assuming you are talking about setting up a Synapse server, not the Element web client.

I’ll admit, the documentation isn’t perfect. But it’s pretty good, and they should be able to set it up. There’s a few things I think could be more explicit in the docs, but even a mediocre set of sys-admin skills should be able to fill in the gaps.

I’m not an IT guy, or a sys-admin. I’m just a lowly, mid-level web developer :) But I was recently able to successfully setup my own Synapse server as per the docs, the very first attempt.

However, to your point. A more streamlined, or ‘automatic’ installation option would be fantastic!
don't obsess over any of it. Thinking about it, analyzing every sleepless night, bad feeling and chest pain is not healthy at all

On sleep, exercise, etc., you are absolutely right. And I see what you're getting at with your general comment, but I this part I highlighted implies that a depressed person may have a degree of control over their mental state & ruminations that many people experiencing hardship do not have. For those people, it may, to some extent, be possible to develop coping mechanisms to get there, but if a person lacks strong coping mechanisms then developing them is often sped up significantly through some form of treatment.
For some reason, I thought about survivor bias.

You are right that not all successful business started with an original idea. You are right that not all of them required significant upfront investment, and you are right that there are great newcomers who find a niche in an established market.

There is only one thing you are missing. How many businesses like that have failed. Is it 1%, 10%, 50%, 90% or 99%? I would guess that it's somewhere upward of 90%. BTW. And you won't even hear about failed companies because these 170 competitors are survivors.

Having capital increases your chances of being able to experiment and find market fit.

Having limited competition increases your chances of being noticed.

Having a fresh (doesn't have original) idea helps you laser-focused on what you are trying to solve.

BTW. I am not trying to discourage you from trying. However, if you want to try, I recommend doing this with your eyes open.
are you enjoying working towards your goals?
they're mostly right when they say it's the journey not the destination. goals are good when they're a part of the journey. as a means to an end... that's what they are. the end.

trust me young person, I've been on disability for depression for the last ten years! it's all been a purgatorius bad dream. align your goals with the work you love and tell yourself it's ok if you don't meet your goals.

I've reached many of my goals. for instance; flying an airplane. but i never was a fighter pilot like i wanted to be.

we are all a set of experiences. unique in this regard. that's the beauty of it all. so don't be less in by the prestige [see my recent posts on prestige ;]
It's ridiculous that the DMV is passing the buck at all on this. The DMV are the originators of the data. It is their responsibility to make sure that any third party who has access to this data has the appropriate security in place to protect that data.

This isn't some far-fetched premise, either. "Third Party Risk Management" is a basic part of pretty much every cyber security framework I can think of. It is even part of the NIST CSF, which every government entity in the US is supposed to be following.

Vertafore's failure is the DMV's failure, and heads should roll at the DMV.
Incidentally, S3 GUI in AWS web console recently changed to be much more foolproof—even if bucket as a whole is set up to be public, each time one uploads files into it they seemingly default to non-public visibility which requires at least two clicks to override, one of which a la “I understand the danger”. (Although, of course, uploads via CLI or API work as usual.)
My fathers friend owned a gas station in a small town that was on the route out of town to a large packing plant. One day the company was bought out by a larger competitor and within a few weeks the flow of trucks and employees dried up along the road. He went out of business about 6 months later.

This isn't a new thing, and we should stop pretending like the internet somehow invented parasitic businesses.
This article really resonated with me. I got into a very prestigious university, and then developed an anxiety at each career stage that my next move would less prestigious than my last. It took me a long time to realise this was how I was thinking about the world, and even then the 'prestige anxiety' drove my decision-making.

In the end I finally managed to take a job at a small environmental startup, and then an NGO, and am much happier.
Let's see: 10k/record x 28M = $28e11 or 2800 bn. Quite a bit more that Finland's GDP in 2019. That kind of debt amounts to a corporate death sentence if ever enforced. Too bad it's only for medical records.
> Everyone has a smartphone today with a video camera and data.

No they don't.
Red Queen Effect
They are all buggy. Mine does not beep after the door is open, but rather the start / +1 minute button will start the microwave with one minute, or add one minute if the microwave is "cleared" or running. If it hits zero seconds, then you press the button it does nothing until you hit clear.
This is questionable advice to someone who’s struggling. A dog is a lot of work, which might be great if it motivates someone. And a dog is a fantastic companion, I know that this past few months would have been a lot more difficult for me without my pup. But they’re living beings, they deserve to be brought into homes where their care is assured. You don’t just “get” a dog. It’s a commitment and a lot like caring for a person. It can also be that rewarding. But a dog isn’t something you go pick up at the store on a lark to feel better.

As a person who’s now glad to have a pup: go spend time with a dog or three. Take your friends’ or neighbors’ dogs out for a while and see if you feel like the company is beneficial and if you want that responsibility. If you do, awesome! If you like the hangouts and don’t want one of your own, awesome! If it’s not for you, now you know but you tried a thing and that’s awesome too!
Your meaning would have been absolutely clear in any discussion other than a nuanced discussion of vegetarian vs vegan options, really.
So I'm not so cynical.

My comment is not either, it's just realpolitik.

Remember the entire region was under Ottoman power for 500 years, and then WW1/2 and the inability of European powers to wield real influence ... and so you have raging ideologies, clans, Oil, vendettas filling the vacuum.

Frankly it's normal.

We had some very scary moments between Israel and neighbours, but that has subsided.

Now we have 'Iran vs. Everyone' but even that will stay under wraps as long as there are 'real powers' to contain them and there are.

It will take another 100 years but it will settle down.

Much like the Israel/Egypt tensions have faded from the memory of many people, those tensions will fade.

A commenter hinted that it's 'bizarre' that Israel+Saudi have come to terms, it's not bizarre whatsoever it definitely mostly in their mutual self interest.

The 'bizarre' issue is that the benefit of stability in the ME is not nearly so apparent anymore: the world doesn't quite depend on Saudi Arabia so much, and most of the Oil from there goes to China!

The US is 'paying' for Chinese resource protection. That's bizarre.

Hopefully, oil dependence will wane (it's not going away though), and tensions will subside.

And FYI there's a lot of social and civil progress throughout that part of the world, we don't talk about it but the amount of access to education, information, awareness is shocking. The inter-generational divide in the ME is interesting.

Consider MBS murdering a journalist. 25 years ago - no problem. Today? It made the news, which means US politicians 'have to care', and because his hold on power is tenuous, it means repercussions. He probably won't do it again.

Look at Jordan. They are quiet and 'play nice' not for 40 years. Oman is not even on the radar.

The 'odd ingredient' is Iran, because it's hard to see where their endgame is, the regime they have there is inherently unstable.

Give it a few generations, it will settle down.
Why not try it, you'll see by yourself, you don't have to believe me.
I wish I knew this coming out of school. I think this is also another reason why people prefer prestigious schools. Those who own and operate these cash machines tend to send their children to elite schools.

I can't even begin to count the number of people I've met at Stanford whose parents own "X," where X is a little publicized, privately held business with >$10M in revenues.
Bagasse is short fibers that absorb water and oil readily. Adding longer bamboo fibers seems to increase tolerance for both. The stuff that's out there now wouldn't hold near-boiling water for a minute much less 2 hours, which is their claim.
I think (so this is a personal theory) what we are seeing is that a version was circulating earlier that was highly contagious. It got to Wuhan and maybe through an accidental cross-infection, potentially an individual working at the lab, inherited some RNA to mutate into something far more deadly.

What no one is saying is how the earlier version differed, but was obviously not killing that many people or we would have heard about it. Anecdotally there was just a spike in hospital pneumonia cases.
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> I'm buying a new phone soon due to mine being too old and slow

And you don't think this is related to Google Play Services constantly running in the background, searching for networks, location, open & installed apps, and OS metrics, per the linked article?

Reading through r/BlackBerry, it seems my KeyOne is only useable because I've disabled Google Play Services - otherwise it would be dramatically slower with much worse battery life.
Well, it seems better the original "depressed" or "not depressed".

At the same time, perhaps multiple polls phrased only slightly differently but yielding significantly different results is a lesson in the overall problematics of polls, surveys and questionnaires.
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I have said for a long time that SS numbers, birthdates, mother's maiden name, place of birth, date of marriage, street you lived on 10 years ago, all the standard "secret" info should be presumed public if not in fact made public. None of that is hard enough to dig up that it should be relied upon to prove identity.
Ok let's suppose that consulting salaires hit $1M by age 40. What fraction of new hires make senior consultant? Partner?

If your firm is operating on leverage of 20:1, sure you can make $2-20M annually. But, realistically, what are your odds on the margin of making partner 25 years down the road?
Assuming you've tried the medication route, there's one that not too many psychiatrists are aware of for its off-label depression use, specifically for treatment-resistant depression: Modafinil.

Don't let a cursory search warn you off, it is not a traditional stimulant, and not considered addictive. It can also be an excellent second-line treatment for depression. It's what keeps me functional during periods where depression bleeds through my normal treatment plan. Check out this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16035049/
I've learnt about it. I've also commented about it in other threads here.
It's not perhaps a surprise that they're similar to lenses; what you've written is a part of the lens hierarchy (they're setters). This is why people often say you end up just recreating the lens hierarchy anyways if you work with nested data structures a lot. Lenses just combine getters and setters (so they're just a pair of two functions; libraries like Monocle just give them a name instead of making them a literal pair).

They're nice if you have nested data structures that aren't records (e.g. naked product types a la "MyType Int Int Int").

But yes in general flat records are the way to go (but what about nested message types? Turns out that the lens hierarchy helps there too in the form of prisms. Or it would be nice if Elm had extensible union types so we could have flat message types too...)
One reason for sines and cosines is that they are the solutions for a particular differential equation that seems to show up all over the place in physics and engineering.
A filesystem should systematically from the ground up be designed to be safe, specially one making the claims of BTRFS.

BTRFS however went threw a number of cycles where it was considered save and then end up having issues. Of course there were always features considered unstable. It eating my own data, using non of the unstable features at the time. Maybe I could have recovered it but neither me nor the best IT person I know could recover anything.

My file system rule is simple, eat my data once and I will never use you again.

Maybe its all fine now, and all these issues are gone. Likely this is the case, however I will not use it again.

I would not recommend people not use it, but I'm simply not going to.
What you're saying might/might not be true in general, but it is not relevant to Intel. Intel has for decades had internal teams compete. It's a purposeful choice that they stuck with despite despite the numerous times it has failed them, the blood on the floor, and the departure of engineers they wanted to keep.
How much of this compensation is equity appreciation? Is it realistic to expect this 10 years from now?

Not like interest rates can get lower or search could get less competitive.
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That argument applies to literally any product that another business wants to built their own product on. I don’t see how that doesn’t turn into every business being required to make the business model of every other business whose products are built on theirs work in perpetuity. If you make a commercial OS, are you arguing you can’t ever remove any feature in a future version if it would make another company’s product impossible to upgrade?
Most of that aid has to be spent on US weaponry so it's really a backdoor subsidy for the MIC. Something to keep the fires burning when we're between wars.
Okay, interesting - good luck! (I guess it would have been reasonable for me to have assumed you two have a particular situation and I could've avoided my snarky question :) )
I really wish there was a batteries included vim-like console editor with all the power of the jet brains suite of IDEs and convenience and lightness of vim.

As it stands right now I end up using both an IDE and vim.

Maybe emacs is the answer but honestly if I look past all the yak-shaving to get emacs to the power level of an IDE does it really get to the point where it has everything that say CLion has?
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the computing market. Microsoft basically did at that time.
Almost all paper nowadays is made from managed forests (ie. Plantations) and paper is perfectly bio-degradable. So I'm not sure why it's a big problem.

I use a mug because the 50c off pays off within a month and the mug keeps the coffee warm longer than the paper cup and no, the barista pours my coffee directly into the mug
Have people won in small claims over data breaches before?
Texas spreads their drivers license info far and wide. I worked at an online traffic school for traffic tickets that is licensed in Texas and part of the requirements is that you have to buy, update monthly and store all 28 million drivers license info on your system to make identity questions out of.

So if you signup, an example identity question might be what are the color of your eyes, or weight, or your zip code, and so on.

They deliver these files on a ftp server with a zip file.

On top of that you have to create identity questions out of the cars the person owns but it is not a downloadable file you have to scrape the contents of an online site you buy access to which gives you access to every car the person owns.

Lastly, to complete clearing their ticket in Texas they have to have a certified copy of the driving record from the DMV. I would login as them using a script, purchase, then mark-up from $15 to $25, a pdf.
The problem with this kind of microwave is the UX is just too complex. I don't want to navigate a UI to select the exact type of food I am cooking. All of my microwaves have had this and I have never used it.
A neat bit of history is that Fourier analysis was originally developed by Fourier to solve a problem - the heat equation - which has no waves in the solution, just diffusion!