skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine someone whose behavior triggers a 911 call is much more likely to be violent than the average person, regardless of any mentally illness
No, but taking 300mg of Effexor (venlafaxine) every single day (for reference, the maximum allowed dose is 375mg).

Venlafaxine is known for being one of the hardest antidepressants to stop taking once you start. It's like being physically addicted to it, if I skip it for just one single day, I start having seizures, dizziness and feeling like a zombie. People can take years to stop taking it by gradually decreasing the intake dosage very slowly to prevent the discontinuation effects or getting depressed again (been there three times already).

That said, I feel great right now. Not that I don't have some days that I'm mildly depressed (meds aren't a panacea), but I've been able to get to work in another city and get out of my parent's house for 2 years in a row since I've started psychotherapy. I'm now working on a great startup, earning enough to save every month, have a stable relationship and plans for the future.

If you're depressed, don't dismiss psychotherapy. It may take time to find the right professionals and the right meds - I needed some years, but lots of friends got it right on the first try. There are some DNA tests available to speed this up (they match drugs that are more prone to work with your genetics). I recommend everyone trying it. All the cons and side effects of venlafaxine definitely worth it for me - and you may not even need to take it to get as better, as there are antidepressants with "lighter" side-effects known to be very effective.

Take care of your mental health, HNers.
The Universe Is Always Looking(Quantum Decoherence)
This is supposed to be hard of course, but I'm very glad that you've handled it so well!

>last paragraph

I wish more whitemen were like you
The front page is giving me an inconsistent idea of whether this has somehow supplanted the other strawpoll thread, so I'll just point to my comments there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25098076) and note that the second one involves me trying to ramp into accepting little code commissions as part of trying to stabilize (nudge me at profile email if you want to, low-effort one-liners accepted).
The proposed models described in the article are not proofs. Physics is not the same as math; you don't prove things in physics. You propose models and test them against data. The models being proposed have not been tested against data, so it's way premature to say they resolve anything. They are interesting proposals which hopefully we'll someday be able to test.
If you recall, back when the first iPhone came out, the idea was that Apple itself would be the only provider of first-class software for it, and everything else was relegated to web apps.

It didn't work out for them back then, and so we got native apps and the store. But I can't help but think that Apple still sees it as a sort of compromise of their ideal vision of what the platform should really be like, and thus dev ecosystem evolution is mostly on the backburner. Just look at how long it took for Swift to appear, despite Obj-C being really dated by that time.
That’s fair as long as we also talk about the constant campaigning for increased military spending and the number of defense industry lobbyists in the administration or why the Secretary of Defense position is empty in the first place.
I'm also not a big fan of his snark in this particular video but it's not that big of a deal and he doesn't usually come on as strong in his other videos.
Lol.

DMVs sell just about everything, using fairly standardized contract models that the association of DMVs coordinates,

In some states, it’s illegal for DMV to give other agencies, say a tax department, most information, so the other entity buys the data from a broker. Similar to the contracts with companies like LexisNexis and Thompson where the government needs to pay for a subscription to access its own laws.
Firstly, thanks for posting this article, I found it raises an interesting yet sometimes overlooked point: what scientific basis do these apps have in reality?

I think it's apparent people trust their phones. When they're presented with data, it's implicit that it must be correct. You must have walked 12,121 steps - not one less or 50 more. It just...knows...right?

Yet, the mental anguish of presenting this data and actions/consequence that may follow; what decisions to people make upon seeing this information? Do they book a GP appointment because their smartphone says they must?

The Covid apps demonstrate this effect beautifully; apparently Bluetooth is such a well designed and implemented protocol people use it to judge whether to stay at home and isolate...As if I would ever trust what a smartphone says, there is not enough evidence and scientific backing to suggest data taken from sensors is even close to being accurate.

Yet these apps were flouted as a way to 'help stop the spread', 'protect your loved ones'.

We need legislation over any and all health apps, they need to prove their models and presented data is accurate (how the heck can it be? it's just a sensor, it doesn't 'know' anything).

Easiest solution: turn these apps off, even better if you can: get rid of your smartphone. It's become a hostile enemy spy, not in your favor, but prides itself on selling you to anyone who wants it and supports an insidious industry.

I'm getting used to not having mine with me all the time, I no longer use mobile telephony and mentally, it feels amazing.

In the future this will be considered a revolution, as today your phone wants to try and determine every faucet of your life...

Maybe it can estimate when I am likely to die, based on this 'data'?

That'd be poetic.
Looks like we can make mario :D
I used to really enjoy taking a long walk after work to get some sunlight in. Now by the time we're allowed to stop sitting at our desks the sun has already set.
Let's not forget the inherent elitism of thinking everyone has a gigabit internet at their disposal. I happened to live in a developing county for years and this "waiting up to half a minute until the program opens" has been my daily experience for a long long time.
I just went though what might be covid. I'm 22 and have a prior heart condition, and all week I felt like someoned had taken a baseball bat to my chest and was very tired. What was I doing during this time? Dealing with crammed in homework for 4 high level engineering classes that didn't keep up with the shortened length of this semester well. I think not experiencing dread and depressive symptoms in my situation would be weird.

Universities and Colleges right now are pretending to be accommodating, but the stress on students is outright dangerous right now.

Oh, and the cherry on top? My university is going to have a football game on campus the same day as many of us are taking on-campus finals. Brilliant.

So, I'm both depressed and pissed off. Running on fumes of rage? Motivated by the existential dread of my impending student loans for a semester of education worse that I could have gotten off of YouTube? I don't know man. I just want to not feel like death and have time (and the ability) to breathe.
Thinkpad T460p on arch linux for me (after getting macbook pro 2017 15 inch keyboard issues followed with cablegate immediately afterwards).

The T460p is a 2016/17 secondhand machine which cost USD235 which I then added a ram upgrade and a new 72Wh battery to. I don't miss the mbp at all and prefer the linux OS anyway.

It probably took me until this moment to realise I was largely falling for marketing in thinking only the best specs would do ...
Are you married , live with a SO or have another person or relative in your life?

Have you perceived any income in the last 12 months?

Are you able to legally work in the country you live in?

Do you own a house or rent a place?

Do you have any friends?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you are already doing way better than me. I am not depressed. I know it does not work like that, but sometimes a little bit of appreciation for the things we already have helps.
Given the tone towards your comments in the article, hats off to you for such a civil and constructive response.
Kudzu is certainly incredible, but other invasive species in the southeast US (where I live ) are nearly as impressive. Wisteria comes to mind; it's not as obvious until it's in bloom. Other honorable mentions: Chinese privet, Asian Bittersweet, elaeagnus, and English Ivy. All of the aforementioned grow in my yard and their aggressive growth is unbelievable (especially elaeagnus... It's a shrub that can climb like a vine!).
Corporate tax rates can be lower, ideally at 0, but I doubt our current system incentivizes corporations retaining profits. On the contrary, recently many needed to be bailed out because they paid out too much to shareholders instead of saving enough for a rainy day.

Making a better product also doesn't necessarily lead to profits. That's an oversimplified perspective. There's a far greater correlation between monopoly power and profit. In some cases this monopoly status comes from truly groundbreaking work. Not in all cases though.
It's easily arguable why lenses are not needed.

The author himself admits that getting a value from a nested record is easy, so we don't need lenses to do that.

Setting a value from a nested record can be easily achieved using plain functions -- no need for a complex abstraction.

updatePersonDetails : (PersonDetails -> PersonDetails) -> Model -> Model
updatePersonDetails fn model =
{ model | personDetails = fn model.personDetails }

updateAddress : (Address -> Address) -> PersonDetails -> PersonDetails
updateAddress fn details =
{ details | address = fn details.address }

updateLine1 : (String -> String) -> Address -> Address
updateLine1 fn address =
{ address | line1 = fn address.line1 }

Notice that these functions are almost identical to the ones he wrote in order to build the Lenses.

This update functions can be composed easily:

updatePersonDetailsAddressLine1 : (String -> String) -> Model -> Model
updatePersonDetailsAddressLine1 fn model =
updatePersonDetails (updateAddress (updateLine1 fn)) model

or, if you are feeling fancy:

updatePersonDetailsAddressLine1 =
updatePersonDetails << updateAddress << updateLine1

On the other hand, nesting records is discouraged because it brings no benefit at all and it creates the problem of having to write extra boilerplate. He wouldn't even have the problem that lenses solve if he had just stuck to the "flat" record.

Btw: I think it was a great article! I didn't mean to sound too harsh criticizing; just wanted to clarify that point.
I've been thinking about this the past few days. I am not being sarcastic here - I believe we need an immediate executive order to roll back the daylight savings time. It is two miniature public health crises, for both vitamin D absorption to mitigate covid as well as mental health. It is going to kill people.
pg used to use them quite a bit. There have been a few on the front page since he left but not so many, because they were starting to get overused and I penalized them. Then they started to die off, which was not the intention, so I removed the penalty—but the population has not yet recovered and the species remains endangered.
Yeah, if looked at in the larger context of them booting iOS apps from the app store that don't pay the 30% Apple tax for any in app payment - it's clear where they're going. It's just a boil the frog slowly strategy of making every major OS update more restrictive and trying to placate (with amazing hardware) those who complain.

Personally I drew the line at Catalina, and I think an order of magnitude more will draw the line at Big Sur.
It sounds like he’s gearing up for a huge kinetic war in.. Asia.

Get ready for The Draft boys.
> she estimates that cups made from the new material would cost $2,333 a tonne. That is half the $4,750 a tonne cost of biodegradable cups made from polylactic acid (fermented plant starch), and only slightly more than the $2,177 a tonne that it takes to make plastic cups.

There you go. The dagger for non-biodegradable plastics come not just from invention, but from invention and value. ~7% increase in price is enough to disrupt.
> one still technically at war with a nuclear-armed hermit kingdom.

If we're going down that route, every country in the world can be described in an equally alarmist manner.
Much of that money was borrowed.

Still, that alternate universe where we didn’t waste money on two wars of occupation on the other side of the world, didn’t bail out loads of banks and large corporations during the financial crisis and weren’t actively looking to spend more money on unnecessary crap, with the top notch infrastructure minus the enormous cost overruns and CEQA and CEQA-like review processes of the past 20 years, must be pretty nice. Maybe they even kept their Nuclear Arsenal up to date, didn’t kill the F-22 and kept their medical stockpiles in stock and in good condition.
You’re being sarcastic... but your premise is wrong. I can build for windows and android from linux without issue. I can build for linux and android from windows without issue. I pay nothing in any direction.
We're talking about the growth rate of energy usage. California's weather has not changed since 1975 in a way that would reduce per capita energy usage.
Ori Pocket Office
Trying to take 0.01% of a market from existing businesses who'll fight hard to retain their customers is immeasurably harder than trying to grow the market by 0.01% by looking for businesses who aren't yet buying a product in that market. Unless you're launching something in a completely saturated marketed it's always better (cheaper, faster, easier) to find new customers than trying to take existing one from other business.

Bonus: Growing the market by 0.01% gets you more customers than taking 0.01% of the existing market.
Since when does Hacker News have polls?
> Vertafore says the company has known about the breach since mid-August. So we asked why they're just now announcing it.

> The company says they reported it to the Texas Office of the Attorney General, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, and the Texas Department of Public Safety and wrote, "Vertafore’s notice was delayed at law enforcement’s request."

Hard not to see this as purposefully delayed until after the election.
> Besides, you can still run non-notarized binaries if you want to. The UI does make it difficult, but not impossible.

On ios and ipad (from your first sentence) you cannot.
Yea, I'm a big believer in setting goals, and then taking the "most likely" path to get there. My career decision method (disclaimer: it might not work for you) boils down to this:

1. Estimate $X: how much $$$ investment do I need in order for my family to live off interest for Y years so I never work again? For me right now, $X is 5M and Y is 40 years.

2. What do I need to do right now in order to get closer to $X? Maybe it's "study computer engineering". Maybe it's "get a job in tech". Maybe it's "apply for a FAANG company". Maybe it's "Go for promo". Maybe it's "Add more to my retirement savings". Maybe it's even "Change my entire fucking career, I'm at a dead end." Whatever it is will be different for whatever stage of life I'm at.

3. If not at $X, GOTO 1.

4. Retire and do whatever I really want to do with my life.

That's pretty much it for my state machine. I wish I figured this out in my 20s--if I did, I'd be much closer to step 4 than I am now in my 40s.
Possibly someone(s) not familiar with the reporting that implicates the possibility that speculation is correct.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO5laZ7CiIA

Video of Ori Studio Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZiDT8Jp6LI
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Yes. Treatment resistant depression for about... 5 years or so, with it getting so bad recently (in this year) that I've just about given up on life.
For apple they are 100% forced to. Not sure what you’re getting at but have you ever seen an iphone simulator on windows or linux?
"He says drivers should freeze their credit and change their account passwords."

Why would I want to change passwords? Either he doesn't know what he's talking about, or breach is worse than reported, e.g. DMV website passwords were stolen and they were stored without salting/hashing.
You are describing my life
We are collectively going through the equalivalent to PTSD. We may not have been through a war. Witnessed death. We have though seen the effects of what isolation, lack of touch, loss person to person interaction leads to. Its depression. Plain and simple. Our minds are designed so that we are effected by our environment. We have collectively been feeling anxiety. We do not know what tomorrow will bring. And so it's 'normal' that we are all depressed. And surprisingly as someone who is naturely optimistic feeling this way is alien. And admitedly a strange thing.
Underestimated doesn’t necessarily mean unvalued or unhyped, it just means that the future value will be dramatically higher than people expect, even if what people expect is high to begin with.

So having said that: machine learning.

It’s basically been proven that throwing more compute and data at a problem gives proportionally better results. Getting to GPT10 is just a matter of money at this point. This straightforward scaling scenario leads inevitably to more resources spent on more compute (and different kinds of specialized computation), which simultaneously drives down prices and pushes forward performance.

Siri is the Altavista of AI. When the Google of AI appears in the next 5 years, it will rock our world harder than anyone expects. No one expected Google, even though plenty were hyping the internet. The same thing is happening with ML today.
id love to see this for single use containers like the ones they use to ship strawberries, etc.
> Why wasn't enough thought put in in the original Redux?

Because times change, ecosystems change, patterns change, and user bases change.

Why isn't React still using `createClass()` and mixins? Why were ES6 classes and hooks invented? Why did JS add arrow functions and `async/await`? Why did C++ add an `auto` keyword? Why is there ever a new version of a language or library? Wasn't enough thought put into them in the first place?

> Just make it easier to use

And that's exactly what we did :)

"Modern Redux" code is different because:

- We've seen how people have used Redux in practice, what they wanted to do, and what problems they've run into

- We've seen what solutions and other Redux-related libraries the community has invented to solve their problems

- And there's new tools and APIs that have come out since Redux was created, like Immer for immutable updates and React Hooks for writing reusable logic in React components

Like I said, this isn't about "new Redux concepts". It's still state, actions, reducers, dispatching, and subscribing in the UI. It's just much less code to do it, and prevention of common mistakes while using Redux. That means smaller bundles, faster development, and fewer bugs.

This tutorial page shows how Redux Toolkit simplifies all the older Redux logic patterns:

https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re...

I can't force you or anyone else to use RTK, or to use Redux. If you've got other options that are working for you, please use them.

I'm just pointing out that we _have_ specifically addressed the very concerns you're raising, and if you are genuinely concerned about those issues, you _might_ want to take a look at what we've put together... and I've got a whole lot of enthusiastic RTK users who can vouch for how it's made their development lives and Redux usage experience a lot better.
Is there a reason the submit page doesn't have a link for making a poll? Perhaps the lack of discoverability is hindering this somewhat? I had no idea polls were even a thing here (first I've ever seen, thought it was a 'beta'/test feature).
Nazi Germany attempted to take tiny Malta from the Britsh for two years and failed.

The Japanese held many untenable defensive positions in the Pacific for months.

Unless China is willing to nuke Taiwan, (what would be the point?) a military offensive to take over Taiwan would be extremely unlikely to succeed within a few months - and assuming the US/Australia/UK/Japan/South Korea provide support - almost impossible.

Doing any kind of amphibious landing offensive is incredibly costly and difficult.

China's best hope would be that Joe Biden is under CCP control.
> This isn't true. People are removed from platforms and go to another service where they won't be censored or banned and then a bubble forms.

I’m not sure the bulk of the people currently flocking to Parler were ones who were removed from Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit. Especially when they use those sites to announce their move.
This is a kind and thoughtful reply.

I would push back on the notion that there has to be a cause for depression. Maybe there is, but it can lead to the dangerous conclusion that it’s somehow one’s fault, when it’s actually a maladaptive behavioral state; a disease.

Fully agree with your advice to talk to a professional.
I had the same response when I first got started with it. Thing is, that's not what it was designed for. There's tons of other resources to use when actually researching; scihub just makes sure that what you find, you can access.
It seems easier to masturbate than to post this.

Edit: I am wrong, it is astonishingly easy to post here.
Important to note that "feeling depressed" and "having depression" are two different things.

Everyone feels depressed sometimes. Maybe your mom died, maybe you're getting divorced, maybe you lost your job. Feeling depressed is normal, but it doesn't mean you have clinical depression.

Clinical depression, or Major Depressive Disorder, is a specific condition and people often don't know all the symptoms.

If you experience the following, you may have clinical depression.

- you experience a change in your previous functioning
- symptoms occur for a period of 2 or more weeks
- at least one symptom is either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure

- plus 5 of the following, experienced in the 2-week period:
You feel sad or irritable most of the day, nearly every day.
You’re less interested in most activities you once enjoyed.
You suddenly lose or gain weight or have a change in appetite.
You have trouble falling asleep or want to sleep more than usual.
You experience feelings of restlessness.
You feel unusually tired and have a lack of energy.
You feel worthless or guilty, often about things that wouldn’t normally make you feel that way.
You have difficulty concentrating, thinking, or making decisions.
You think about harming yourself or suicide.

If you think you have depression, contact your doctor and/or a psychotherapist, or review resources here: https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/help-for-depres...

(i am not a doctor)
>If you extended the meta-powers, you could create/delete tables by inserting into/deleting from the “tables table”, and similarly add/remove/alter columns by manipulating the “columns table”. Your schema then becomes data, and your power has become a super-power. I don’t know if any DB has implemented this, or if the advantages would be really compelling over normal DDL.

That's interesting. Has anyone heard of such a meta-relational database?
This poll isn't particularly well formed, particularly it lacks an option for chronic depressive symptoms, every day.

It seems likely the options are lacking in the lower end of the spectrum as well, there's a big jump between not at all and several days worth of symptoms
Just stay calm and let it happen Dan :)
Hahaha, well, indeed. Time to search elsewhere.
Is there any way to unflag it?
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free version of the findings -- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112113139.h...