skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm dismissive of Allopathic Psychiatry because those doctors hurt my friend, and force her to take prescriptions to make her substance abuse problems worse.

No one should be forcing her to take anything, so that's a problem. Also treatment for substance abuse is a challenge unrelated to issues like depression, and given addiction often is a cause of depression (due to environmental and obviously drug/alcohol interactions) treating addiction before depression is what should really have been happening. If the depression was caused by the substance abuse, then that might work - but then abuse is often a response to depression in which case the depression would still need to be treated.

> Benzo's hurt a lot of people, without actually fixing anyone's problems.

Agreed, benzos are super dangerous, and they should be prescribed only if other things fail, or for very specific reasons - I was using them for a while as my knees are shot and getting to sleep was challenging. But I'm one of those people who doesn't seem to develop addictions to drugs so I only had to deal with the obnoxious "getting to sleep" problems while coming off them. Similarly no issue with Vicodin/norco, but there's also a general problem of over prescription of opiates where simple anti-inflammatories would be sufficient.

> My friend called me up and said she'd bought herself some lithium.

Lithium is a drug you shouldn't be taking unless it's the only option as it has significant focus, etc issues. Just buying them yourself without a psychiatrist who is aware of what else has been tried would be super worrying.

> 5HTP

5HTP is glorified tryptophan, and like so many "natural", "herbal", "homeopathic", etc treatments has no evidence to support effectiveness.

Depression is not a nutrition or metabolic problem in the vast majority of cases - otherwise there would be actual data to back that statement up. People who dismiss it as being "eat better", or suggest B12 (which can cause short term improvements), light treatment (vitamin D deficiency causes a host of problems, but not severe depression) are basically saying a variation of "this is your fault for not looking after yourself better".

> ECT tries to reset people's brains, without doing anything else. It's a simplistic treatment that needs to be treated like calomel/quicksilver (mercury).

Modern studies do show it to be effective, the older "do it while awake" approach caused many problems which have lead to the long term stigma, but that doesn't magically mean modern treatments don't work.

> Palliative drugs never fix the problem.

Except they do, for many many people.

I'm sorry your friend was poorly or mistreated, but that isn't the case for everyone, and dismissing the treatments that do work for people is not helpful. Dismissing treatments that have been shown to work is similarly unhelpful.
That’s interesting. I never “see” anything like that in my mind, but a few times in high school, I was explaining some geometric proof to a classmate; at the end, he noted that my verbal explanation and my finger pointing at the chart were compatible but out of sync with hand motion being about twice as fast, and then went to repeat both verbal and finger pointing, albeit at a slower rate, and they matched perfectly.
This happened more than once though not many times, and I considered it weird but kind of forgot about it.
This description makes me think I might have a mental canvas like this as well, except it might be a headless browser or something :)
> It does provide value to the business, but to the employees rather than the shareholders.

At best, unions provide a redistributive function (transferring income from high-performing to low-performing employees). In practice, their net benefit to employees is negative.

> The question is why should interactions with the shareholder reps be compulsory, but not the employee reps? Why is compulsion fine for one but not the other?

The shareholders own the company. They bought it from the original founders and employees who built it. Without shareholders, there would be no company.

Unions are just mafia bosses who showed up later demanding to be paid. They were never involved in value creation.
A living WHO guideline on drugs for Covid-19
I can relate. I've been pro nuclear my entire adult life, but in more recent years have added a lot more hesitations and conditions to that. Fukushima put me onto a similar thread of thinking. If there were any society and government you'd expect to have sober thinking and solid engineering around nuclear, it'd be Japan, let the way TEPCO and the Abe administration behaved in the opening stages of the emergency was quite shady.

That gave me pause for thought that our governments and institutions just might be up to the task of running something like nuclear. If you understand the physics and engineering, then nuclear done right is a no brainer. I have less faith in us doing it right that I did in the past.

Add to that the huge capital costs, and the trendlines in renewables + storage capital costs... it's hard to be enthusiastic about anything nuclear that doesn't fundamentally change the economics. And so far every attempt at that (eg SMR) has failed rather definitively.
Agent is not FOSS though. Only iSpy is.
Cryptocurrencies have shown that you can transform energy into money without any of that messy middle step of doing something useful.
I have the same vague suspicion. Nothing credible to support it, but it'd be an interesting data point to collect among the affected population
The computations are ok, but exchange with, well, non-crypto currency could be prohibited. Crypto would lose its worth of you can't convert it to dollars in a feasible way. Much of the market is driven by speculative investment and get-rich-quick type of schemes.

Of course, criminal organizations could still use it, but I believe it would be harder to launder money using crypto if banks no longer supported it.
The things I can read here..
This is exactly the logic of 1st strike lunacy that we avoided in the 60s by not listening to some military brass that wanted nuclear war.

You summed it up perfectly. If we had listened to these idiots in the 60s none of us would be here.
So, this kind of sent me on an emotional rollercoaster. I empathized with both parties.

That being said, my sites have thousands of subscribers. If subscriptions were off by a cent at any point in time, things would have been red flagged, and I would have contacted them (Strip, that is). I do have a backup payment processor, and assuming both are unavailable due to negligence on the providers' end or my own, I give the users the month for free. I had to do this exactly once in 15 years.

Stripe, without a doubt, screwed up, and the writer was correct in taking them to task, however, end users should have been let off the hook. It sounds like the write wanted to back bill them for it.

You should absolutely not be tossing this at customers, I would have thanked the customer, then I would have given them several months free while I resolved the issue.

Customers should be first. I actually had to archive a site recently due to declines in my ability to update it. The customers involved weren't unhappy about my ability to keep it updated, they were unhappy that I was shutting out their ability to support the site.

Treat your customers like gold. I promise you won't regret. I had someone try to donate thousands to me to keep a site online. I declined and kept the site online and archived for free.
Yes, I brought up the dam since hydropower is something that's typically seen as good; but still has the potential for big disasters. (I totally think hydropower is good on balance.)

Fossil fuels, and especially coal, have worse impact in total but they are typically more diffuse. So I left them out of the discussion.
Speed of light delay puts a lower bound on latency, but the actual delay depends on transmission error rate, buffer size, bandwidth, and utilisation.

Assuming that the link is close to saturated, real life latency will be determined by how big the buffers are at each hop.

Traditionally, internet providers have been optimising for bandwidth at the cost of latency. I wonder what Starlink does.
Not really. I haven’t been “stressed” about losing my job in decades. I keep my skillset up, my resume in sync with the market, my network strong, and have a go to hell fund.

The only time it has ever taken me longer than a month to go from “I’m looking for a job” to “offer” is for my current job. That was only because I wasn’t really looking and was focused on this one job where the interview process took a month to schedule.
I would like to respond to you in depth, but I think a better option would be to recommend a good book on the subject. “Economics in one lesson” by H Hazlitt. First published in 1945, it explains, in clear terms, economic fallacies which existed at that time, and I’m sorry to say are still prevalent to this day, and possibly even more so. He explains the concepts better than I ever could. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson
Not true at all. If enough hardware is available, pool only expands until reward covers electricity cost plus small margin. I.e. bitcoin mining electricity-cost bound for the long time now.
Ah ok, I agree. Sorry, I must’ve misunderstood what you meant by “the basic facts of this unprovoked invasion are more than enough to justify NATO intervention” in your original post.
That conspiracy theory could be accurate, but humans are perfectly suited to lapping up tribal shit. You don't need to do any serious work after casually throwing a landmine into a peaceful debate. Social media is the worst drug.
What would've been the benefit to employees with having a union in that case?
If you want to count it like that:

Both USA and USSR nuked themselves a whole lot more when testing nuclear weapons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests
The comparison with Australia is quite ironic. I would argue implementing drastic changes in a school system in a place like Australia would be much easier than Finland. These things work much better with the economies of scales afforded by large cities. The population density of Melbourne is orders of magnitude higher than that of Finland and let's not forget, more than half the OZ population lives in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

I found that Australians (in terms of politicians) are particularly probe to make these arguments how things can't be done here. The irony is that they go often both ways, either it can't be done because Australia is too big, or because its too small. High speed rail is another example, supposedly it's not feasible because of the low population density, completely ignoring the fact that the density is actually very concentrated, which is ideal for high speed rail. Just a connection Melbourne-Sydney would be perfect, that's (one of?) the busiest air routes in the world. This is all about political will, not feasibility.
It's not easy, but we've made massive progress throughout human history.
I think my position is well known. I am not the first person to argue that cryptocurrencies are negative because they generate waste by design and are a technical solution to social/meatspace problems. I personally don't really need a GPU right now (lucky for me I can probably hold off a couple more years), but I am pretty concerned about the future of the planet in general and have some increased existential dread and angst arising from the fact that we are finding new and exciting ways to accelerate global warming.

We can just dispense with the part of the discussion where we argue about why we think it is or isn't legitimate and just agree that we have mutually incompatible world views.
This is exactly the kind of war that is most unlikely to happen between two liberal democracies[1] according to democratic peace theory[2]. Only a leader whose interests are distinct from the public and who can work without legal constraints can make a personal error of this magnitude.

There is no real animosity nor cause for the war between Ukraine and Russia. Both countries lose big in this war.

[1]:liberal democracy: democracy with separation of powers, an independent judiciary and a system of checks and balances between branches of government.

[2]: Democratic peace theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory
In other comments, people are talking about how it's impossible for Russia to control all communication in Ukraine because there's always a way for the "resistance" to exchange information in a way the enemy cannot stop... yet, we also see comments like yours that assume Russians have no way to get information from non-state-sponsored actors, despite them being still mostly connected to the Internet (despite Ukrainian requests to remove them) and a simple VPN would give you full access to any website you may want to visit (and that a lot of international sources are still available in Russia - they just now cut off the BBC, for example, but it had been available the whole time before that).
I tried pretty much all of them, now I'm working on my own NVR(https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:nvr).

For the cameras themselves, Amcrest is good enough for me, but the PineCube looks like it has potential.
I’m no expert, but my understanding is that thinking was based around a tactical nuke being used on US or Russian forces, leading to escalation and eventual use of strategic weapons, not against a non-nuclear power like Ukraine.

AFAICT, the person you were responding to wasn’t talking about a nuke being used against NATO forces.
Oh absolutely. But the remedy for that is to be actively involved and hold them to account, not dismiss the whole thing as a scam.
The last time I tried to do anything with or for the Archive Team, it was a mostly "just watch us work" sort of deal.

The tools couldn't be built without additional knowledge that wasn't published anywhere -- because there had been drift from what was published versus what was working, and those changes never got folded back in. And there were multiple versions and variants of the tools, with different teams using different versions or variants.

And once you built the tools, you couldn't get your Warrior into the list to be used, although you could always run your systems separately.

It's not like you could sign up for a SETI@Home type initiative and just let your equipment run.

I understand why they work this way. It's a very insular crowd, and new people and resources seem to disappear as quickly as they showed up.

So, they let you watch.

If you stay around long enough (months? years?), then they might let you start participating. But I wasn't willing to wait that long.
This is so weird, why specifically “Wi-Fi”? Why wouldn’t wired internet or 4G work?
Interesting note there. One of the leaders of the early insurrection was Muqtada al-Sadr [1]. There's a lot that's happened in between including him going into exile in Iran, returning, the US droning his house when it was empty to send a message, and much more. But suffice to say the conclusion of this story is that he's now becoming the dominant political force in Iraq. This is particularly relevant today since I think given the chaos around the world, there's a real chance that his name will come to be much more well known.

But the point of this is that unpopular occupation forces trying to impose their will never really works in anything even remotely like the long-run. The only times it can work is when a genuinely popular (and not artificially propped up) leader is able to find common ground with the "enemy". For instance one of the best decisions we made after WW2 was with the leader of Japan, Emperor Hirohito. We actively avoided not only attacking him, but did not try him for war crimes, and let him retain control of the country after the war. He chose to lead Japan in a different direction following their defeat, and everybody came out all the better for it. It's very likely that had we executed him, or installed a puppet, that Japan's relation with the west would be radically different today.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr
What does crazy mean? Irrational? I don’t think so. He is currently following the Nash equilibrium strategy for fighting a war with a non-nuclear power.

Edit: by your terminology I would consider Ukrainians to be crazy. This a good thing and the reason why I’m rooting for them. They’re the underdog. The rational thing for them to do was to capitulate as soon as the invasions started. It takes a “crazy” level of conviction to the do the irrational thing here.
Residents of Ukraine’s fallen cities regroup under Russian occupation
yeah my brain removed the "at" for a couple of passes and I was wondering, what could they have done to get fired?

In some other universe there's a title from a complementary newspaper; "Russian soldiers fired for firing on firefighters fighting fire at nuclear plant".
Could you point me to the vim deck you used? I've generally taken the "learn as I go" approach but I'm sure I'm missing loads of good stuff that I don't know I'm missing.
Yeah, it’s why I feels so at home here and the primary source of my relationship issues.
There was a TV show where one of such oligarchs came to tears for losing two mansions in Italy, apparently :D so I don't think they are very happy or had time to "fix" the issues, at least not all of them.
I wonder how professional these criminals are. A crime syndicate would silently ask for money. This seems either a false flag operation for a group wanting something else, or much more likely a kid playing around and finding an unlocked door.

That last case, a kid pissing of a powerfull entity with a crime, generally does not end well for the kid.

I don't see NVidia publicly giving in and loosing face, so there seems no upside either for the criminal.
Oh, I definitely think NATO has ample justification to join the battle, and if the adversary were not Russia (or China), I think they already would have.

But I also think it would be a horrible idea to get into a direct war with Russia.
I highly doubt they wouldn't have found another way to purchase a car, though.

Exactly this. I'm guessing if they needed food they'd be out of luck.
They were, but the buyer sneered at them.
>I am being rewarded by both (but in very different ways).

I'm going to hell for this.
For me it’s mostly about the screen quality and size.
I definitely was not and am not a “10x engineer”. I spent most of my career until 2020 bopping around as an enterprise dev writing CRUD apps. It was never hard to get a job that paid twice the household income in the US - which is now $70K.

Just for complete transparency, I’m still an enterprise dev writing CRUD apps. I now use “boto3” and write a shit ton of yaml and I am a “consultant”.
Isn't that essentially the same as what everyone does with CPUs?
I'm a big fan of Zeal docs, and I wish everything used a standardized offline documentation format

Being able to look things up offline almost instantly really changes the role of memorization.
Russian forces seize Ukrainian nuclear plant after fire blamed on shelling
Eh, you can fix that problem much simpler: nvidia can raise MSRP.
That is interesting, I was using noise cancelling headphones a lot when mine came started.

Of course the morning it came on I was also recovering from being riotously drunk the night before, and I'm more inclined to believe something about that triggered it
I’m just saying that the US isn’t going to engage in a massive species-ending strike over the Russians using a tactical nuke in a conflict with a non-NATO country.

No idea what salami tactics means.
https://archive.ph/fUhWl
A VLAN is a separate broadcast domain in ethernet networks. VLANs prevent communication between different VLANs unless you set it up for inter-vlan routing. Thats why they suggest putting these untrusted devices on a separate VLAN (isolation). Typically you assign a whole new group of ip adresses for each Vlan ID.

For example:
camera network - vlan 10 - 10.0.10.0 255.255.255.0

wifi network - vlan 11 - 10.0.11.0 255.255.255.0

wired network - vlan 12 - 10.0.12.0 255.255.255.0
You think this is the slam dunk argument for your position but I think it is actually against. If you can make it so I don’t have to do some aspect of a job, that is desirable. I didn’t mourn the disappearance of so many specialized roles as the cloud took them. I celebrated that.

There is an abstract goal of human potential I have. I don’t want you protecting my job and stealing the future from mankind. No. If you can do my job better with a machine, then so be it.
> who saw their quality of life improve after it happened.

The end of the USSR is widely considered a humanitarian catastrophe because after the economy colapsed, people had no food, no medicines, no order, it was a wild west for several years (my wife was there, she tells me all about it)... where the hell did you "learn" that people's lives improved after the USSR fell??
Like an active war in the region, Russian warships in the vicinity, a history of aggressive action towards neighboring states?

Don't be pedant, especially when it doesn't even make sense.
> If their performance stats don't improve after the purchase, which means they have resold their hardware, they won't be allowed to buy another card.

And then you have people who lose their cards, or it gets damaged, or who don't want Steam, etc. It's a big can of worms.
That's how I chose the best startup.

Went through all worldwide & Ycombinator startups which are high growth. Registered at Workatastartup. Used https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ to see what they are searching for.

Chose 10 companies with positions where I have very strong hard skills. Interacted with the particular company's product. Wrote a nice paragraph on ideas how I can contribute.

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies

- https://www.workatastartup.com
If an AI can do my job, an AI should do my job. Do you really think a union will save you? Another company - even one from outside the country - will have a cheaper product.
That's what selfish people tend to say about moral principles they don't want to follow :P.
Interop is to make browsers comply to already existing specs. Why would they add new stuff to that...
Thank you. This was exactly what I've been looking for for a while now.
...but I would be surprised if the total volume of transactions were greater than that of traditional currencies (ie cash).

You cannot compare the two. If you are poor and someone gives you crypto, you still won't have better food or a better apartment until you turn the crypto into cash. It isn't surprising that a less useful, simple form of transaction notation (which is really what money is and always has been) has less transactions than the sort of currency that can almost always buy you food, let you watch a movie, and pay your rent.
I’d rather have no advocate than a moron advocate. The last thing I need is Charlie Kane as my agent.
P2P with fallback to centralized would solve a lot of it.

Unfortunately P2P projects always try to be replacements for centralized rather than supplements, and almost none of them aside from BitTorrent are what I'd call great.
> made myself to do it the "stupid" way first. Turns out I was definitely wasting my time

I think you put into words something that has been apparent for a while now with all the bloated software out there.

Software has become stupid.

Not because we're not capable of doing it smart, rather it's a accumulation of small instances of 'I'll do it fast and stupid' like that import, which 10-20 years ago would have been a long enough delay for the developer to do something about it.

Then across the multiple dependencies and imports you end up with an overall slow system since every one of those was implemented with a 'stupid but fast enough for this' mindset.
Tesla still got paid.
Found this in a subthread and thought it was too relevant to just stay there:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30551252
That or they want to remove software limits on performance to mine cryptocurrency faster.