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> "Lithium also makes you rock, if you take it long-term.

My other friend called me up recently to tell me that she'd just bought supplemental lithium. She thought she was bipolar and needed more lithium. 12 hours later she called again, sobbing: suicidal. I told her she shouldn't have taken the lithium, and that it would probably wear off. She searched and found adverse symptoms associated with her supplement. I don't think she'll take that one again.

> The GF is on a mood stabiliser called Depakote.

That's what my friend was forced to take. She's been off it for nine months, and doesn't miss it.

Another response to my comment, from /u/eliasmacpherson, gets into orthomolecular psychiatry and "histadelics" (histamine, allergies) as an important causative factor in "mental health problems". That thread might be really valuable to you as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993001

> OK, so they're ranting specifically about US prescribing practices, the DSM, and the US drug industry. They're focused on anti-psychotics.

The essence of Robert Whitaker's books, Mad in America, Anatomy of an Epidemic, and Psychiatry Under the Influence, is that Psychiatry got idealogically-captured by the drug industry, and how psychiatric drugs arguably take episodic conditions and make them chronic.

Whitaker's initial forays into "mental health" was when he looked into Prozac as a reporter for the Boston Globe (newspaper). The trials for Prozac found that it makes some patients suicidal. The Germans FDA-equivalent wouldn't approve it...

Whitaker's organization spotlights more effective approaches to treatment.

> So I see my role as basically "support".

Often times it's hard for patients to notice how adversely affected they are by their medications, but the doctors thinks the medications are working fantastically even though the patient would have gotten better anyways, with just time and a normal diet. Followup visits are opportunities for injecting additional perspective... "What are you going to talk to the doctor about today?" might be a useful question to ask.

Thanks for your comment.
Are you familiar with Mogdilani-Miller? Being able to pay off debt does not increase the value of equity. The capital structure has changed but that makes no difference for the actual value of the business (which is determined by cash flows).

And, ofc, it is massively value-dilutive in practice for shareholders. Debt is extremely cheap and equity is expensive. And, in this case, massive amounts of value have been destroyed by issuing equity at a valuation that can't be sustained by cash flows. Indeed, what has happened is the exact opposite of what you think has happened: the share price has increased, and that has given management the opportunity to destroy value by rinsing shareholders. Debt holders that were facing total loss have been bailed out by equity. Whatever the value of the debt was, that is the close to the amount that has been lost (because the value of that debt was close to zero).

This is Corp Finance 101 but the marginal investor today doesn't understand this (unf, debt investors do, bankers do, mgmt do...they have made out with a couple of yards, equity got rinsed once again). Nothing goes anywhere in finance. All that is happening in AMC and GME is people trading capital loss between themselves (and debt investors finding someone to buy their capital loss at 100c in the dollar).
Tesla wasn't faking videos by rolling a nonfunctional truck down a hill. They're shipping almost a million cars a year now (looks to be like 850k in 2021 I think).
Mine took me to Yellowstone a few weeks back.

Now, sure, "overvalued" is a very reasonable argument. I'd even agree.

That's not the kind of rhetoric that was deployed against the company and you know it. Which is why people didn't believe folks screaming that Nikola was a scam.
> Only seven people were charged with fraud in self-directed personal care services in Arkansas in 2020, out of a workforce of more than 4,500, according to data collected by Applied Self-Direction, a Boston-based consultancy. The state secured three convictions, recovering $1,930 total – $643 per case. The EVV system has cost the state $5.7m so far.

How has this gone so far?!

I am profoundly disappointed that there are so many people happy to spend 5,700,000 dollars to "avoid" losses of $1,930, while simultaneously putting thousands of the most compassionate people under needless stress.

Everyone involved in drafting and approving this atrocity needs to be put in remedial math classes, and never allowed near a lever of power again.
The CIA probably has an assassination manual. It's probably not titled "Assassination Manual" in a poorly-formatted PDF.
Also regular schools, in most cases (both public and private).
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Can’t wait to get a kit!
I've noticed a big inflation of the use of the word 'harm' in the last few weeks actually!
https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1419715050529460225?s...

Governments are very much involved
My favorite is when stakeholders don't talk to devs to determine whether something is actually possible given the data we collect, but instead go off the recommendation of a technical manager who has never actually worked on the system or its data.

An assertive dev will look at the requirements, try to figure out how that fits, and then reply back to stakeholders if it's unfeasible. Everyone else will sit there for a week bashing their brains out against a keyboard and have continually increased anxiety because they've been assigned an impossible task. The time for a dev to be involved in the process is during requirements gathering as a partner to the process, not after a contract for work has been signed by the client.
To actually help make meetings more productive, I highly recommend the book "The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance" [1] ("One of the top business books everybody will be reading in 2019" — Business Insider). For a quick summary, watch the author's webinar "The Surprising Science of Meetings: Evidence-Based Insights Leaders Need to Gain a Competitive Advantage" [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190689218

[2] https://youtu.be/8rDuumUtfAM
> “how do we make a big portion of the world aware of the seriousness?”

A big portion of the world is pretty convinced that scientific community is full of shit. It might be the case that what they are saying might be true. But it is the boy that cried wolf at this point. But unlike the story, both the boy and the farmers could end up paying the price here.

Sad.
This is also why the canonical answer of turning it off and on again is a meme.
Yes...I think it is HTZZ now they are out of bankruptcy.
Devops, in general, is never complicated.
Still, it's not something I want to do unless I'm paid for it, and especially not for trying out hobby projects.
Your book was great; I learned a ton going through it. Congratulations on getting it to print!
It still gave some weird impression that contract canceling is something that hapens usually.
Are these particular tax professionals outside of say your normal accountant that you’re referring to?
But those ads can increase the number & frequency of pages crawled by Google.
Always good to see new apps for those of us who still buy and manage our own music files. Your app looks fantastic. Any chance it will gain support for macOS versions before Big Sur?
Or using whatever agency they had to direct the US voters towards what they feel is more effect public health policies and stopping millions of unnecessary deaths?

Look, I am not defending anyone, I am saying that _all_ things of this nature are political.
It's no surprise that low level healthcare employees are subject to the same cleverly crafted bureaucratic and accounting incompetence that screws them out of money that this industry has developed for its customers.
Calling man in a test and expecting the output to match some particular value is a much weirder thing to do with man than eating pizza in the morning.

It is honestly a lot more likely that the reason man is outputting ‘gimme gimme gimme’ at a particular time of day is something to do with your crazy test setup than that it is a feature of man.

So for the pizza analogy, think of it more as ‘pizza sometimes tastes metallic to me when I cook it under the hood of my car’. The car situation seems likely to be relevant. It would be surprising, when someone asks a question like that, to discover that it’s actually because the frozen pizzas they buy when they drive to the parking lot where they then cook them under their car hood actually contain iron filings that were put there deliberately by the manufacturer.
The whales died in agony before, as did the birds, and those delicate insect bodies are crushed, eaten, and dashed as quickly as they're made.

Nature's a beautiful edifice built on the back of hundreds of millions of years of suffering. You could make the argument the most moral thing to do, if you care about the well-being elephants and the turtles and the chickens, is to re-organize it as quickly as is practical and wise.
Indicts != convicts, fwiw.
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I used the website for my compilers class this last semester and it was great.

Recursive descent parsing and a hand-rolled lexer teaches grammars and general language design way better than other alternatives.
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It’s very much political and not science based when you have most states going one way versus a handful working with private companies for a health based system

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1419715050529460225?s...
Thank you so much for everything you have put out. The execution is always beautiful, the content is solid, licensing/pricing model is great, and the meta info about the layout/setup/journey is equally enjoyable.

As the saying goes, your books spark joy. Thank you.

OT: Do I need to purchase the pdf separately if I purchase the print book?
Nikola founder indicted for allegedly lying about “nearly all aspects”
For a time when stereo was new for recorded music, the Beatles and the Doors both like to really play with that ability. They would put some tracks on just one ear, so that only the people with the latest stereo equipment could truly enjoy the work as intended.
Sorry, you don't get to cite data incorrectly, get corrected, and then perform your own amateur epidemiology live on the internet to nitpick your way back to the argument. If you genuinely believe the vaccine is killing people, you need to find an expert saying that.
I had a look at this, and it looks to me like it's a 301 from another domain. Typically when domains get a manual penalty (primarily for spam), they drop in rankings overnight. So to counter this, you register a new domain and redirect it and overnight, your rankings bounce back. This technique is super common for blackhat sites like illegal streaming sites.

If the redirect is done as a meta refresh, then you can block it in your robots.txt from being picked up from SEO tools like Ahrefs, SEMRush etc.

These types of sites are called doorway pages and have been around for ages. They are most popular in Russia and on Yandex, but you do see them on Google for super longtail keywords with 0 competition.

The other important thing to remember is that doing SEO in any language that's not English is a walk in the park. Lots of SEO influencer types have case studies showing how much extra traffic they get by translating their content. [1]

[1] https://neilpatel.com/blog/seo-trend/
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Yes. The healthiest option, of course, is to just clean it properly after using it.
Clubhouse opens its doors to everyone, is anyone rushing to get in?
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After testing at the lab, the lab reports a potential positive, employer contacts you and says that you need to talk to the lab, and the lab gives a pass upon proof of prescription.
Ask HN: Has anyone launched their startup remotely in a foreign country?
I'm trying to launch my SaaS product (ecommerce store builder) in the US, while living in another country (Vietnam). From alot of the advice I see on the internet, acquiring your first customers is best done through your network. While I did go to highschool in the US, that was a long time ago and I don't have any network there. Some advice on how to get my first customers would be greatly appreciated.

I know it's a big climb, but startups and software in general don't exist in Vietnam unless you are willing to stay unprofitable. The market leader in my product category has been unprofitable for 13 years, running on VC money. So this is not just a move out of the blue, but rather necessary for our survival. Thanks for reading.
It may not be economiclly conservative, but Donald Trump and his Housing & Urban Development secretary Ben Carson both talked about saving the suburbs and single family zoning.

Further, if one looks at the voting records of Calforina Republicans on zoning reform, they tend to not support it at a state level. It's most Democrats who are voting for these changes.

Housing is weird politically, it breaks a bunch of typical political assumptions.
$60 is hardly expensive for a high-quality technical book. Cheaper books focused on prose are much easier to typeset, print, etc.
Talk about moving the goal posts!

So we agree that leaded gasoline in common use for aviation is not a significant contributor to lead poisoning in the population?

And perhaps that whoever hasn’t red tagged the houses sitting on a well know multi hundred year old superfund site should do so, or is being negligent? And that said site is not representative of literally any other type of situation?

And that eating paint chips is indeed bad for kids - even if they aren’t sweet?
As soon as I got the release email I came here to check if this had been posted to HN; it’s an incredible piece of work, and I highly recommend it. It sweeps away much of the mystery behind programming language internals in a clear, easy-to-follow, humorous way.

I worked through the first half of the online book recently, and am excited to buy the print version and work through the rest of it. I can’t get over dead trees, and as fun as it was using the free online version (thanks munificent!), the paperback version will be even better.
mandatory pre-registration is stopped a month or two ago.

can walk-in with aadhar and mobile phone (for OTP) and register on the spot and get vaccinated.
The slip patch (where the two tectonic plates slip past each other) of the earthquake did not reach the sea floor, so it didn't generate a big tsunami [0]. If the purple colors in the finite fault map (indicating >2 m slip) reached the trench (the top of the first figure, or the red line in the second), then the earthquake would have displaced much more seawater.

These finite fault maps are made using automated processing of the seismic waves from seismographs around the globe. It's pretty amazing to me that the resolution is so good, from what are not that different than sound waves. These tend to be pretty accurate, not just precise, and are validated from additional studies using different datasets over the subsequent years.

[0]: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000f02w...
I try, thank you!
>CA will have the strongest state vaccine verification system in the US and will require state employees & healthcare workers to provide proof of vaccination—or get tested regularly.

This is clearly different, as it allows testing your way out of getting vaccinated.
> It's a common issue: "I've got my entire tree gold, why can't I understand natives?"

As an alternative anecdote, I've been using Duolingo for years and spend some time in the forums + different Spanish learning communities whose users frequently use Duolingo and I have never seen anyone ever ask this.

It's always struck me as obvious to everyone that you would need multiple resources to become fluent, but Duolingo is useful as a good quality free resource that can be done anywhere at any time.

I'm not saying you're wrong, as we probably come across different posts or groups, just an another experience to share.
I can't find any references to that kind of a string by running 'strings' on /usr/bin/sudo or the sudo libraries.

Of course a more reasonable approach would be to grep the source code.
It would be cool to see the Dart script that you wrote to build the book’s website. I know it’s not intended for anything else, but maybe there are some good ideas in there for other websites?

Edit: I guess that’s here: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...
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The Australian regime has lost all credibility in democratically dealing with Covid-19.

Using the military to crush dissent and enforce police state dictates should be treated as a human rights violation.

As a New Yorker fearing the same authoritarianism come this fall, I stand with Australians protesting against tyranny.
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This is hilarious. Very creative. Thanks for sharing.
Literally hand drawn with my hands. Here's a video of me making one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1MsCXkPSA

It's, like, comically time consuming. But also pretty satisfying.
Nope. Dont Even try.
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I don’t think it’s realistic to place responsibility for the current situation on the decriminalization vote. Whether or not that law passed, Portland is still facing a plethora of issues around the rapid growth in its homeless population and lack of law enforcement response/resources. Even if we kept drugs illegal it’s not like anyone would be around to enforce the law.

Note that drug sales are still illegal. So the sense that “dealers are moving faster than mental health professionals” isn’t really true, there’s really just a gap in government services on both ends right now.
Enhanced driver's licenses are different: they have a chip, and right now they are only available in 4 states near the Canadian border.

https://blog.americansafetycouncil.com/enhanced-drivers-lice...
The people who answer Y without addressing X are far more annoying and detrimental than the people asking X.

If you see a likely XY problem, answer X, then explain why they might want Y, and then answer Y.
Pls expand the app to add support for stocks as well
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In this virtual workshop, you’ll learn the concept of Deep Work and how to get more done in less time. We’ll begin by talking about “flow,” the science of productivity, and all of the distractions that get in the way. Then, we’ll actually do a deep work sprint, where you’ll get more done in 1h than you have in the entire day!

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"I seem to have my identity, whereas you seem to have lost several thousands of pounds."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
It's all just trolling, all just for the lulz, until you it's not any more. This is how radicalisation works. It starts as a joke, but it does not stay a joke.
Big time, the world has (might have?) a severe lack of metacognition, diversity of thinking styles and capabilities (perceived upper bound), self-awareness, curiousity, etc.
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why do you need an app to fight back ?. Stay rebellious.
Not mentioned, but I believe this release finally activates mutable-noalias by default!
It's hard to overstate the insane difficulty of running an automotive company profitably. Tesla is an exception. I don't sympathize with Trevor, but I can understand why he did what he did. It's a fraud, but I get it why it was done.
More positively, they are offering you the opportunity to head-off braindead decisions at the pass.
Of course Rust has the longest list in something like this.

Thanks for the book by the way, I'm picking it up for the first time now
You mean, Terry won all of the debates ;)
“Interesting” is not a property of the discussion in itself but created between the reader and the discussion. Maybe the reader is also culpable for the perceived dimensionality reduction?

To me heavy disagreement usually makes more interesting of a discussion than mere conformity, and HN is one of the few places where it can take place without bans, kicks, brigades.

I can stand all but the arrogance of projecting one’s perspective as a conclusive “quality” to the entire discussion. It is an insult to the efforts of the well meaning commentators, it is an insult to the intelligence of the readers and their capability on deciding what is relevant or interesting to them on their own.
I don’t understand, the screen reader is doing the correct thing. People tweet math, code, all sorts of things that aren’t prose formatted with hacky unintended use of unicode. Maybe some form of AI could detect that, but I wouldn’t bet accessibility on it.

The real issue is that there’s a general use case for basic formatting of real prose, and perhaps unicode should accommodate that. But expecting screen readers to understand these kinds of workarounds is unrealistic, and expecting it despite knowing it isn’t supported is user hostile.
This prioritizes the wrong thing. If a nice formatting technique excludes people who use screen readers from perceiving the content correctly, and you are aware of this, then using those characters is dismissive, not just extremely but completely.

Pointing the blame at the screen reader software absolves the decision maker for a choice that they themselves control.

It's also really handwavy to say that in context screen readers should know to announce something different than the actual characters being used. What if I want to tweet an actual math formula, for example? How can that be solved for?

It's a hack, and it doesn't work in screenreaders because hacks are often not robust when context changes, otherwise they wouldn't be hacks, they'd just be "the way".
I find it disturbing that you view the concept of freedom as selfish.
I agree. If I'm sure my problem is not an XY problem, but I think it may well not look like that because it's such a weird situation, I will add all the context that explains how I got there.

Then either: I do know what I'm doing, and my explanation satisfies people, and they try to work on Y, or: it turns out I was indeed wrong, and I should have solved X some other way.

Either way it's a win for me (if anyone bothers to answer the question).

But it can be hard for either new people, or people who don't know the domain well enough to even know that it could be an XY problem.
Or you just send the input to the backend and have the backend tell the frontend to tell the user "backend said no"