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>Their insistence on framing depression as if it were a biological illness (and not a result of the complex and historical interplay between psyche/desire and environment) is repulsive to me. Feels like blatant propaganda to discuss depression as "merely" an economic problem, in "scientific" american no less.

It's not one or the other. It's both, bio & environmental, like near-everything else.
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The thing is, though, that there are probably new technologies (or at least technologies that are new to you) that you'd probably find interesting.

The key is finding them and giving them a chance.

When I was young I hadn't heard much of Lisp, and what I did hear didn't sound that great (Lisp was old and maybe it was great back then, but technology has advanced so much, I thought, that it's probably not worth bothering about)... but when I did finally learn it I fell in love and wished I'd learned it much, much earlier.

And it wasn't just a copy of something I'd learned before, as were many other technologies that I'd learned.

That said, when you are seriously depressed or burnt out (the two go hand-in-hand), it's tough to find anything interesting, even things that you'd normally be fascinated by.
If it's for dev, I'll use jupyter notebook:

- one file

- support markdown

- export to pdf

- you can run the code to check if it's right

- you can run the code in multiple languages

- you can run the code DURING the prez
Not sure this is exactly what you're looking for (non-dev here) but I had a chance to interview Michel Feaster (HP/acquired Opsware/mentored by Ben Horowitz/founded Usermind) and picked her brain on how to create something.

The conversation centered around how to create a category but I think the process applies to side projects as well.

Copy/paste from Google doc didn't work well on mobile so here's a link to the doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F0ex-c-vmitYQiDnSSODUZCW...

Michel’s playbook

Look for 3 big shifts in the buyer’s world

Conduct day in the life interviews

Asking
When you walk in in the morning, what is the first thing you do every day?
How many applications do you log into?
What applications do you love and why?
If there was a problem I could solve for you, what would it be and why?
Who do you report to
What are you MBOs

Looking for

What did they do all day
What did they love
What did they perceive as pain
What were they promoted for if they did well
What are their challenges in their interactions with their boss

Make sure you understand

Technology landscape
Daily work life
Responsibilities / mission

Look for patterns in the data

Common pains / problems
Value attached to solving it

Find a gap you can solve

What’s the value to the user?
What’s the impact on the organization?
What’s the ROI of the impact? Value of solving?

Market

Start with a bottoms up TAM

How much do I think they’ll pay me for this? Shoot for 10% of the value, eventually.
If I achieve 20% share of the market, is it a $1 billion company?

Then do a top down TAM

If I could redirect 1% of category spending, what would that be?
$100b TAM = great for B2B, $1t for B2C?

Product

Break down what you’re going to build

Is it defensible enough from the way our competitors are currently doing things?
Is there mental space for a new Kleenex?
Whiteboard the solution

Identify 3 core capabilities you must build

See what’s out there for each of these
How difficult is it to build each?
How defensible is it?

Time horizon

Is anyone out there doing anything close to this?

Positioning / differentiated narrative

Can you define the narrative?
How difficult is it to copy?
How different is the platform?
Can you get your competitors to sell on your narrative?
Ex. No Software, Inbound Marketing, Conversational Marketing

Value

Early days you’ll only get 1% of the value you create
As you grow, you’ll have more leverage and will be able to slowly bring that up to 10%
I didn't say it was a good reason.
Are you implying that having a politician on their board lends them credibility?
Or, more likely, we don't know right now.
That's part of it. The other half is that whenever you link the library, you get the current version of each symbol, so it's possible to change the behavior of a new version while preserving a bug-compatible previous version. There's an extensive mapping that provides the symbols for ranges of versions.
> this is absolutely, without a doubt

The standard in this phrase is also exceedingly high. Even a test with just a 1 in 1000 rate of false positives would not pass. But are you really going to doubt a test that only has a 0.1% chance of being wrong?

I want a rate. Are half being misdiagnosed? 20%? 2%?
Haha, that aligns my original expectation and it sounds like you are not in CA ;-)
Actually not. That takes way more delta-V than it can do. Even starting fully fueled from Earth orbit.
This works until the interest rates rise resulting in falling house prices and possible negative equity.
There's a site called theync.com(I suggest not going there), which was always more gruesome than LiveLeak.

I never understood how they operate. Always thought search engines should ban the site or something.
So why did the Orisa buff result in a Rein/Zarya meta? She wasn't in the meta before, she was changed, she wasn't in the meta afterwards -- but the meta changed. What's going on there exactly?
What if we put all this effort into improving our infrastructure, transport and heritage and don't host the olympics...
Yes that's the point.
Enough people like him could damage and eventually destroy many American companies, I'd think. That'd create unemployment and weaken the country, so seems to me it's something worth to try to stop and discourage, from the DOJ's point of view, even if the company doesn't want to sue? Netflix even withdrew their lawsuit -- but then the DOJ continued anyway (if I understood correctly) good that they could do that I think
Great idea! I had plans to add in a few examples for context, but showing that visually is something I hadn't considered yet; thanks for the feedback :)
Anyone interested in this should also check out SmileBASIC 4 for the Switch.
I assume it depends upon the person. For me: If I am dead, why not. Our main purpose was followiup of whoever would mail him, just as would happen with physical letters.

We did in fact have access for a few hours by using his cell phone, for which he gave us the pin code. But moving the phone to another country triggerred some safety mode and Google wanted the full password.

Trouble with Google was: They agreed we had right for access. But their process was built with the assumption that only people in the USA could die.
Maybe they were referring to the other politicians that have actually made calls to violence, like Maxine Waters, and have not experienced any consequences for their actions.
I usually let it churn around my head for quite a long time before I do anything about it. Then, suddenly I'm inspired, and code like a mofo for a few hours. Then either it's good and I launch it to the world, or it's crap, and I quietly file it under "let us never speak of this again" and move on.
US Civil War was also notable for

* trench warfare, and "charges" into enemy lines so disastrously repeated in WW1 -- the lessons of the power of repeating rifles had not yet been learned.

* the first engagement between two "ironclad" ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Merrimack_(1855)

* an early war that used railroads and telegraphs

* the first war that was photographed and had photographic journalism

* rifling + minie ball -- the US civil war was the first war using rifled muskets with special grooved bullets that could kill a man a half-mile away (800 meters), often shattering bones. It was the main reason why there were so many amputations.

* The gatling gun (predecessor to the maxim gun) was the first machine gun capable of firing a continuous series of rounds without reloading (the innovation was the creation of a belt of bullets that could be fed into the gun).

* medical innovations such as anesthetic inhalers, recognizing how to deal with chest wounds, life saving amputations, military ambulances, facial reconstruction surgery were invented in the US civil war (and contributed to much higher survival rates than in the Crimean War)

* Aerial reconnaissance (via balloons)

* naval torpedoes and naval mines were invented in the US civil war
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I don't care, I only care why Valve does nothing against bots pandemic in TF2.
Pyston is a fork of CPython and aims to maintain drop-in compatibility. PyPy is a completely separate implementation which is not fully compatible with CPython.
Not to “well actually” on a sport I don’t really care much about (and might be repeating bad info) but my understanding is that the “world” part is because it includes Canadian team(s?) and therefore is international.
Huh, I'm the complete opposite. Working in dribs and drabs like that gets me down, and consumes a lot of brainspace.

I'd rather wait till I have a whole day or weekend to devote to it, and go very very hard.
Why is genocide in quotes?
I think what's gained is a visceral appreciation for such events which prompts further action.

There's a reason why, when spruiking for donations, organisations like UNICEF like to show pictures of suffering children, and read first-hand accounts. These are the things that motivate people to act. We're not perfectly rational beings. We're all well aware that there are poor and starving people in the world, and mostly we do nothing about it. It's that emotional reaction that prompts us to act.

Reflecting on it instead might be sufficient, but if so then it's demonstrably not what people do, or else those pitches wouldn't be as successful as they are.

That action, to me, is the point, and it comes in many forms. Some active, like for instance donating to a cause. Some passive, like changing opinions on an ongoing war that your country is party to.

Sure, some people are watching it for entertainment value. Is that a big problem, if it changes opinions nevertheless? And from reading the other comments on this thread, I think it's apparent that it changes opinions.
Link didn’t work, but seems the book is “A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness“
For a mechanical engineer, working at SpaceX is not making a major sacrifice. You're earning a serious pedigree from a place that is on the cutting edge of your field. If you're a frontend developer, you're going to be paying the cost and not collecting the benefit. It would be nice to hire a React dev from spacex, but we all know they'd be the same as a react dev from any other startup. That is not true for people in engineering career paths. A SpaceX line on their resume will help them for the rest of their career.
Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra may be written in JVM hosted languages, but they're widely used outside the JVM ecosystem.

Kafka is a distributed append-only log widely used in data streaming.

Cassandra is a distributed NoSQL datastore.

Not sure why you raised that, though, given they're not mentioned in the linked article.
Same but with sc2.
Flamewar like this will get you banned on HN. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Maybe Elon could give Japan a insider tip before he pumps Doge again and everyone call it a day.

In all seriousness though I think Japan has plenty to gain by acting as a global leader, it’s not all about money, and even if it were all about money then unfortunately sometimes cutting loses is the best you can do...and no one really knows how it might work out legally/financially, there may be refunds, or more accurately legal remedies for many of the contracts and investments, and there could be untold amounts of insurance coverage.
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If there were ever 1 million people heading to the PNW coast collectively, even on 4 July, the PNW would know it. Routes like the 26 out of Portland or the redwood highway in Oregon / California cannot handle that much traffic. The road to Gerlach, NV gets jammed up by Burning Man traffic, so that should give a good estimate of how many people there can possibly be out there.

Also, unlike in California or the East Coast, these are not quick jaunts to the ocean.
I mean, that's 99.6% of everyone that gets it.

In which case everything everyone here is saying has been blown out of proportion.
Wow. You're not kidding. And apparently they're not alone: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/asia/japan-south-ko... (April 17)

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/05/01/national/japan-... says 1.3% as of May 1. It appears things have been partly delayed due to ... well, it's not clear:

> The EU said on Monday that it had authorized some 52.3 million doses made in European factories by companies including Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. for export to Japan, the highest volume among all 43 countries to which vaccines have been shipped.

> As the revelation caught fire on social media, vaccines minister Taro Kono tweeted that the numbers were wrong. His office said in an emailed statement Friday that only 28 million shots from Pfizer had arrived in Japan. Chief Cabinet Secretariat Katsunobu Kato confirmed on the same day news reports that shots of the Moderna vaccine — which the local drug regulator has not yet approved for domestic use — had also been received though did not disclose the number of doses.

And the latest numbers Google gave me was indeed 2%. So it's climbing, but not quickly. They're at least two months behind schedule, I'd suggest.
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They call it a recession. But the stock market is up 30%
> We use 11th Gen Intel CPUs and the product is approximately the thickness and weight of a MacBook Pro 13-inch.

Does it dissipate heat efficiently or will it nearly melt down the second I type make into the terminal like every other laptop I've ever owned including gamer laptops with at least 3 noisy fans?

Linux support?
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I absolutely agree with this. Depression is a wide array of emotions - and emotions have driven pretty much all human development to this point.
The common cold generally doesn't cause people to cremate bodies on mass in the streets, which I suppose proves the grandparent's point.
Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date of birth?
Way back when, as a privacy preservation measure, I set up the account with an off-by-one birth date. Today, on attempting to log in to Gmail, I was blocked at a screen claiming

Your date of birth is missing. This information is needed to comply with the law.

I figure this happened because Google learned the true date, by other means.

Anyone else seeing this?
If you had missed that renewal payment deadline for the DMV, you get an automatic fee+60% fine on top and the only way to pay is via cashier's check, which you can find out by calling the most punitive phone tree/hold system I've ever experienced. I think it took something like 5 hours to actually reach a person, by which point it was after hours and they had gone home so the system hung up.

I had simply made a transcription error on the account number and the letter took 1.5mos to get back. That was a few days after the deadline.
I don't think it is "quibble". These articles pull out these massive values for shocking headlines about how some minor delay or incident is costing millions per second like its some debt which at the end we will have to pay back when the reality is that things are as efficient and profitable as they have ever been in history and these incidents didn't "cost" anything they just represent the failure to achieve the most optimal result which has never been achived before.
Post and pier foundations aren't ideal for earthquakes. In general though, wood performs better than masonry as a quake resistant building material because it can flex.
Thank you. I fixed it, but that is the book.
Honestly, good riddance.
What reason is there to believe that repealing laws is any less susceptible to the same kinds of influence?
Its not like they have customer service anyway. If you message them about an issue, good luck getting a response.
Really impressed with how forward thinking Coinbase is. First with banning distracting and unproductive politics at work, and now embracing full remote work. They will do well in attracting talent while big tech companies linger on with their archaic commitment to physical workspaces and tiresome commutes in expensive places.
I have not seen anything that indicates Rainier or other volcanos are "overdue" for an eruption. Rainier, like others, goes through periods of greater or lesser activity. It's hard to predict the size of any particular eruption, as we saw at Mt St. Helens in 1980.

The biggest risk from Rainier currently is lahars, aka mudflows. You don't need an eruption for those. The last big one was Kautz Creek in 1947. If you live in one of the valleys around Rainier there's a reasonable chance of seeing a lahar in your lifetime. (Hopefully from somewhere out of harm's way.)
If people in the building have private offices, and the buildings have floors, there are a lot of psychological barriers that people either didn’t notice of have forgotten about because we’ve been trying to do our best imitation of a feedlot.

I’m not going to go across a building and up steps to ask someone a question unless I am out of other options. I’m not. You’re not. I’ve done too many 5 Why’s where one of the answers was “they made a guess because they couldn’t be arsed to cross the building to verify things”.

We might message that person, if we use it and they actually read their messages. At which point being in the office isn’t quite as transformative.
Ask HN: Freelancers and consultants, what do your project proposals look like?
When you send a proposal for a project to a new client, what are the headings? How long? How pretty is it? Can you share an example?

I've been freelancing for a few years now, and am pretty ad hoc about the proposals that I write up. I'd love to see examples of how others approach this.

FWIW, my headings are usually:
- background (summarises my understanding of what problem the client has)
- vision (what they have asked me to build, in a sentence or two)
- solution (gets more specific about technologies, etc)
- features (details the specific things it needs to do)
- other considerations (browser targets, mobile, data management etc)
- out of scope
- optional extras (sometimes extra sections describing bits that they would have to pay extra for)
- pricing and timeframe: how much I'm charging, how quickly I agree to deliver, and milestones for payment/review

I don't think it's perfect. In particular, I think I'm missing a good way to communicate the quality I'm (not) promising, what kinds of iterations/feedback/bugs will be acted on, and various other assumptions.
Umm maybe, but that's orthogonal to whether the Tokyo Olympic Games happen or not. Tourists would visit Japan for an actual Olympic games (if they could), but have you ever heard of anyone visiting a place because it hosted the Olympics in the past?
For context, I've had almost exactly the same set of diagnoses as you, except my manic episodes were shorter so they called it type II.

I largely agree with you - diet, exercise, close friends, time in the sun and so on are fantastically useful and underrated. They solve a lot of things.

That being said, even when I had lots of close friends and was in fantastic shape, I wanted to kill myself. SSRIs stopped me from thinking about suicide every single day of my life - they literally changed my life. Lithium largely fixed the mania. If there are real, objectively bad things happening and taking a drug can stop them, I'm all for it.

I definitely think that psychiatrists don't know WHY a lot of things work and I think they way they diagnose and treat patients is basically just "try these and see if they work" but I don't think it's worth throwing everything away just because the solution needs a lot of improvement.
The natural resources of the earth are completely insignificant if you have access to infinite power. We could travel to and mine planets that are about to be consumed by blackholes or stars.

..and with infinite power, even that isn't necessary because we could simply create whatever matter we wanted directly from energy.
I have seen that message on one of my Gmail accounts, but it didn't actually block me I think.
Persian seems to me the Zig[1] of naturals, the more I learn. Ruthlessly picking all the practical parts.

[1] https://ziglang.org/
Circular saws, mitre saws are sold with protective elements where I live. To respect, but it won't jump out and hurt you.

Angle grinders are next level, fundamental "respect or you'll be maimed" stuff.

Angular momentum is not as fundamentally easy to judge and is easily underestimated.
“3 days in, 2 days out” is what they’ve been saying for a while.

The news here is that they’ll allow some employees to work in remote offices, and some to go fully remote.
The US media also just likes to try to protect the emotions of the consumer. Some of the articles I've read of scuba diving accidents in the Mexican press are very NSFW by contrast and they'll just show you a dead guy in a wetsuit. In fact a lot of lifeleak content comes from new stories in other countries. Most Americans don't want to think about death and their own mortality or anyone else's mortality and want NSFW warnings splashed over anything remotely unsettling.
Jumping on somebody like that is seriously not ok on HN, and breaks the site guidelines badly ("Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.").

Taking the thread noticeably further into ideological and gender flamewar, as you did here and elsewhere, is also not ok.

You posted tons of flamewar comments in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. Please stop and don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everyone comes from a lineage that committed great violence in the competition for resources vis-a-vis other groups. If your ancestors did not do that, you would not be alive today.

Let us not forget the Zambians, themselves foreign Bantu invaders who genocided the native Khoison population (but perhaps the Khoisons genocided who was there before them).
How about hearthstone? They release new content regularly and have significantly extended the game with new modes of play over the years.

I think it has its own set of problems but they seem different from the ones you mention.
Looks like that that's not a valid monad in general.[0] And also, I feel like it's a stretch to say that "almost all specific monads" are traversable.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42284879/is-the-composit...
..we don't say such things outloud here...
What possible value could depression have?