skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50% of doctors are by definition below the average.

In reality, roughly 3-10% are good, the rest just go by standard guidelines only and/or punt you off to someone else.
Submissions with a lot of replies can get penalized if the secret algorithm concludes that flamewars are ongoing.

Reliability of the source: I read it on HN...
Haha I had almost the exact experience with Amway.

A co-worker and casual friend had gotten involved with it (which I did not know). He called me one day and asked if I could meet him at Wendys to talk about "an opportunity" and I said sure. When I got there, he was with some guy I had never seen and they started pushing Amway. I listened and though they pressured me to get on board said I would think about it and left.
The evidence is to the contrary--middle class and above are over-represented in the US military.

"Their median family income is more than $73,000, compared with $66,000 for civilians, and recruits are most likely to come from families in the middle of the wealth distribution, with median wealth of $87,000, almost $10,000 more than civilians."

This is for enlisted members. It's probably safe to have some intuition that officers will skew wealthier.
I use Konsole. It's written in I-dont-know-and-dont-give-a-shit-why-is-that-even-relevant.

It's free, does not spy on me, comes by default with Kubuntu and has great themes out of the box (including the Solarized themes).
Could definitely be abused, but I like the change honestly!
Helsinki was lousy with them when I was there a few years ago. Between the train station and my hotel, a 10 minute walk at most, every intersection had them.

I had one accost me and launch into her long spiel without me being able to stop her. When she finally paused to ask me something, I had to tell her I didn't speak Finnish.

(Of course she spoke english but didn't press after that. And now that I think of it, and on-topic I had a similar thing happen with mormons pitching me in German in the Köln area. When they found out I couldn't understand them, they - as Americans - switched to English and we had an interesting conversation between strangers about why we were all there. They did not try to further sell me on the religion other than some very fleeting "if you're interested" as we parted. Overall it was actually interesting to meet them. Maybe it would have been different if I'd got the German pitch, we had a few really awkward approaches from these kind of religions people (evangelizers?) in university that were not as pleasant, I don't know what faith though. )
> I didn't mean legally, I meant what the US population (western population generally), as an aggregate market segment, will tolerate.

Or maybe you mean people who don’t live in those pesky flyover states?
I am on anti-depressants. They are life changing for me. As close to a miracle drug as I can imagine. They let me function
A terminal that makes you sign in? I think I'll stay away from this one.
I found Johann Hari's book on the subject, "Lost Connections," interesting. It takes a slightly anti-medication stance on tackling depression.

On the other hand, a tiny dose of a well-tolerated SSRI medication helped me. That + therapy at the same time. IMO, the medication is useful to reduce the acuity of the depression/anxiety just enough so that you can start to make productive (and depression-reducing) changes to your life (such as establish an exercise routine etc).
So probably neither one of them had achieved much in the way of liberation from attachment to sensory pleasure (and the other four hindrances: hate, dullness, anxiety, and doubt) or the resulting cessation of suffering, which is the point of Buddhism.

So either Buddhism doesn't work or Kerouac and Watts sucked at it. That, in turn, means that they are not reliable sources for information about how to do Buddhism.

That might be okay if you read Kerouac and then go find guidance on the path from someone who really is liberated, assuming that's possible, but how do you as a novice layperson tell the difference between a liberated Zen master and a charlatan? If US seekers were good at it, Kerouac's and Watts's books wouldn't be the bestsellers in the category, they'd be eclipsed by somebody whose practice of Buddhism in their own life was actually successful and who had trustworthy, well-grounded insights to share. So you're likely to replicate the errors that led you to Kerouac in the first place by choosing someone like Richard Baker as your teacher. Then, instead of getting liberated from suffering, you just get sexually exploited.

In particular, Kerouac kind of glorifies living heedlessly, and it was precisely that heedlessness that caused his death. Also, it was Richard Baker's heedlessness that caused so much suffering to his students, leaving scars in the community around the San Francisco Zen Center that continue to cause suffering, almost 30 years after his departure. If you're looking for someone to give you permission to live heedlessly, to tell you that living heedlessly is the path to liberation from suffering, you are going to assiduously avoid anything resembling orthodox Buddhism, which says that heedlessness causes suffering.

It's kind of the opposite extreme, really: orthodox Buddhist doctrine is that you should do everything extremely carefully. And you can see this in Zen rock gardens, in the Japanese tea ceremony, in Thich Nhat Hanh's practice of singing a little verse to himself about washing his hands every time he washed his hands, in the absolute prohibition on drinking alcohol, and so on. As far as I can tell it's uniform across every branch of Buddhism.

I'm no expert, of course—obviously I'm no enlightened being or I wouldn't be posting in this cesspit of ill-will and ego. So my understanding of Buddhism should also be suspect. But there is at least somewhat less evidence that I have Buddhism entirely backwards than there is for Watts and Kerouac. Not only have I not died vomiting blood due to alcoholism, the only drug I'm addicted to is caffeine.

It's the same kind of problem we have with programming books, where incompetent fools like Herbert Schildt https://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn4e.html outsell Kernighan & Ritchie in the "learning C" category, and where the whole methodology and architecture category is full of snake-oil salesmen who have never successfully written a large program.
Never searched with Roku. It's basically the OS that runs streaming apps, and I never thought much more about it.
its not; or rather, it’s celebrated by the press as orchestrated by the founder because media is a key tool to influence how the world perceives them
I sincerely tried to disable cloud login, and could not figure out how.
It's undemocratic to allow Twitter to decide for itself what content it wants to allow on its own private website?

Wouldn't it be undemocratic for the government to force Twitter to publish content it doesn't want to publish, content that would, in Twitter's estimation, harm its ability to make money?
I took SSRIs, the side effects are manageable, and not too bad. Did not work for my depression but improved my anxiety a lot.

My take is taking or not taking SSRIs is depends on your situation. If you are in a position that YOU HAVE TO, then do it. Example of you have to: you have a toddler, not much money saved, partner is a stay home, you are risking losing your job and not getting another one.

If you have the privilege of sorting your issues out without SSRIs, go for it. Trying doing something exciting, something you love the most in life, for me its going to Japan, nothing else interest me right now.

The issue with SSRIs, is that they might not work. I won't avoid them to much as much as Benzos tho.
Location: Chicago, IL

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I comment a lot in threads when I'm bored. As for the swipe, it gets annoying when people wilfully disregard the point being made and just restate their opinion in various ways without forwarding an actual argument.
I went all in and used NixOS too, but things like managing CI with Hydra, running perf tests on Nix ops clusters, debugging 10K+ Nix repos… you start to get it down and then things change like with flakes… and all the tools like Nix2Stack, Nix2Cabal, Nix2Docker, managing secrets, user profiles, none of it is existing knowledge you can bring or really take elsewhere. If you’re familiar with the ‘innovation token’ idea Nix would take all of them in my eyes for a project.

Docker is more pragmatic unless you spend hundreds of hours on Nix, in my opinion.
It's a reference to Mao's Cultural Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards
Not everything is about financial value. What happens to this calculus when the man enjoys staying home, and the woman values that the man enjoys it?

If it were, you can also check the cost of hiring a surrogate. It looks like pregnancy and birth are worth $20-45k, at least in Canada, and far cheaper if you are willing to travel.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/surrogacy-agencies-expenses-c...
Hmm, I thought big.LITTLE implied that only one of the cores was active at once and all the tasks migrated from one to the other. M1 doesn't do that, all cores can be on all the time and they just start on one of them depending on priority.

Why does it have such a horrible name?
The Future of Terra DeFi
The real "agony" I find when flying is the faff of getting to or from the airport at weird times of day. From the airport onwards it's usually a pretty relaxed affair whatever the time of flight. Wish I had one button/dial to balance price against that faff!

Maybe it's just a London/big city thing?
Love it! Thanks for sharing, I just discovered Edward Abbey.

> Abbey also left instructions on what to do with his remains: Abbey wanted his body transported in the bed of a pickup truck and wished to be buried as soon as possible. He did not want to be embalmed or placed in a coffin. Instead, he preferred to be placed inside of an old sleeping bag and requested that his friends disregard all state laws concerning burial. "I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree," said the message. For his funeral, Abbey stated, "No formal speeches desired, though the deceased will not interfere if someone feels the urge. But keep it all simple and brief." He requested gunfire and bagpipe music, a cheerful and raucous wake, "[a]nd a flood of beer and booze! Lots of singing, dancing, talking, hollering, laughing, and lovemaking."

Putting Desert Solitaire on my reading list.
Doctors are full of shit on this equation. Find a psychiatrist or a therapist. Exercise, read, enjoy the Sun and be busy. Do not take anti depressants.
Haven’t some recent experiments done more energy out than in?
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
Kind of ironic.

Kerouac lived in the town I live in. He used to drink at Gunther's, in Northport Village.

That place is not zen ...
Need the go back and try to push on with forbidden West but man.. it was brutal even after just finishing ZD;not sure how approachable it will be after a long break.
Which term sounds better? Twittla, Tesler..
TikTok Made Fake Accounts with Content from Instagram and Snapchat
Neither of which work on Linux or BSD
In Firefox at least, it's disabled by default in private windows.

In Chrome, you may just be out of luck - I don't remember details, but uBo doesn't work as well there.
Such rule can’t fly nowadays. Anything goes unless the attacked person has a vulnerable identity or whatever. (cf Reddit content policy)
Nightwave Plaza
Thank you for your story, I'm glad you are in a better place now.

> without needing to saturate myself with intense stimuli (ie: competitive video games) just to keep the rumination at bay

I can relate to this so much. I have racked up countless hours (literal thousands...) on competitive games over the last decade or so, mostly as a coping mechanism. I have stopped a bunch of times because I realized even if I was good at these games I didn't actually enjoy them, I just played them because they masked the other things I was feeling.
Problem is that it can’t be done in PHP without on-the-fly rewriting of source files.

In JavaScript the caller decide how a module should be used by importing it to symbol, thus different versions of the same library can exist simultaneously.

In PHP it is the callee that decides how to be imported because of namespaces.

One and only one class with that exact name and namespace can exist at a given time, thus different versions of the same library can’t be loaded simultaneously.

That is why modules are far superior over namespaces.
In the US, this isn’t accurate at all.

> It means nobody is allowed to police public discourse

No, it means the government cannot restrict speech.

> Freedom of speech, also called free speech, means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government. [0]

Most people assume “free speech” means “nobody” can restrict it, but it is in fact only “by the government”.

For example, you do not have freedom of speech at my house. I am free to demand anyone who says the word “blue” on my property to immediately leave.

You also don’t have free speech on the public comment section of my blog. I can delete (or not approve) any comments that don’t adhere to a list of approved words, or are not sufficiently praiseful of my views.

There are some state and federal laws that protect free speech at private companies, but they are mostly around employment as you can read about in the article.

That’s why I think OC is stating that the definition of “free speech” is important. Are we talking about US law, or about an abstract concept that “nobody can restrict public discourse” that doesn’t exist in reality?

> The only complications have always been situations where private enterprise dominates or impedes on public discourse.

Not true. There are many, many complications to free speech.

> Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment include obscenity (as determined by the Miller test), fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising. [1]

These types of speech can be legally restricted, punished and censored. This list was not created in 1776, it was created over time because the line isn’t clear. What’s always been clear though is that there have always been complicated edge cases concerning free speech.

The issue is so complicated it’s been litigated in the Supreme Court possibly hundreds of times [2].

Keep in mind that the Supreme Court only takes on a case if it presents a novel problem or if they thought a previous Supreme Court mad an egregious error in judgement. So the sheer volume of cases means that there continue to be many unique, complicated facets to “free speech”, not all of which involve private enterprise. Protesting, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom to petition, compelled speech, false speech, etc. all can be complicated issues concerning individuals or public institutions.

[0], [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Uni...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Suprem...
Your original comment presumably talks about Facebook’s market capitalization (Facebook’s value going down), and that being a sign that the market does not “value” a sustainable service. I interpreted a sustainable service as one that does to grow by leaps and bounds and every year, and instead just chugs along offering a steady product at a steady price.

Hence my comment being that the market “values” businesses with sustainable services by offering to pay a premium for a piece of the business commensurate with the rate of inflation. Which is why Facebook’s stock price stalled, since their market cap had priced in much higher growth, and prospective buyers now do not expect that growth, and are willing to pay much less for a piece of Facebook.
Who would you consider to be "liberated"? I can't recall even some of the well-regarded teachers of recent times (Thich Nhat Hanh, Ajahn Chah, and others) making that claim about themselves, though others certainly made the claim for them.
Agreed - LightZone still feels like one of the more intuitive & powerful tools for applying and experimenting with types of filters. It's my preferred tool for doing some quick edits on photos.

On a half-way decent machine I find the performance excellent - what kind of slow issues are you finding?

Development, if you track the github issues, is down to one guy at the moment. I fear the relicensing of the project was just a smidge too late, and the field was already well populated, for it to attract more interest, unfortunately.
This is the reason why some people suggest not to listening to any comments. A lot of stuff here are factually incorrect:

1) MAOIs are safe, and Parnate specifically is extremely effective. However, requires a special diet to adhere.
2) Stimulants ARE prescribed very frequently to augment antidepressants in difficult cases, especially in people with serious illness.
3) Moclobemide has every effect of an MAOI in effective dosages, including diet restriction. There are no effective drugs without side effects. Moclobemide is not thought to be particularly effective(mostly because on-label dosage is far too low), there is a reason why it's used infrequently.
4) Etifoxine might be great for some, but it has significant risks of liver injury. There is a reason why Valium is still one of the most common anxiolytics prescribed worldwide.
Did he ask you to let him video tape you sitting on pies?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Squat%20Cobb...
How am I cherry-picking when I included several reviews? Find one review that concludes the opposite (or that such studies are "split" as you say) and perhaps you'll have an argument.

"based on your initial question to my comment, you are specifically citing athlete performance as evidence athletes aren’t suffering from heart inflammation"

How did I "cite" that in a question? That WAS my question, the answer to which I found myself.
What do you feel is the biggest risk to your success?
But, you wouldn't want to store the .sources or even .changes into git would you? The git-way is to have many small(ish) files so that you can merge them easily to another development branch. Having just 2 files in git doesn't seem to make sense.

I don't know how Pharo does it but I could see that every class had its own source-file, committed to git ?
> For many people, developing a trade is a much better and faster path to financial security than pausing your income for four years, loading up with debt, and entering the market with dubiously useful degrees.

You're absolutely spot on about this. Not everyone is cut out for college. Tradespeople do honest work and make a decent living.

> I'm a millennial, got my undergrad paid for via the military, and I feel like most of my high school classmates that didn't do that are just straight up screwed.

This is definitely a route that isn't touted enough. If you have the aptitude, you can get a degree paid for. You'll bust your ass for it though (at least in ROTC, which I dipped my toe into and nope-d out of when I found out it wasn't for me).

Going to college is one of the biggest decisions a person can make and it's not a decision to be made lightly. You need to make a serious effort to set yourself up for success by:

* pursuing financial aid and scholarships

* not getting a shit degree with no job market

* working hard to ensure your degree is finished in four years (or less, if you can manage)

* going to a cheaper school - consider in-state universities or community college and transfer credits
COBOL is mainstream?
They really need mathematics consulting:

"Amendment #1 to Agreement #20-97 with

Joanne Boaler
August 4, 2021
At the Board Meeting of November 4, 2020, the Board of Trustees approved
Agreement #20-97 with Joanne Boaler, in the amount of $20,000.00, to provide
TK-8 Mathematics Professional Development for Oxnard School District teachers
during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Amendment #1 in the amount of $20,000.00, is required to correct a math/clerical
error in the original agreement. The correct verbiage should read “Provide four
(4) two-hour sessions at the rate of $5,000.00 per hour for a total of $40,000”.
"
> His power is in blood diamond money from mummy and daddy during apartheid.

It's weird that people made up a fake biography just because they don't like when he tweets on Ambien.

In particular I don't think this was an advantage, I think it was a disadvantage, and at most he started with no more privilege than any other Stanford grad. (Which is a lot!)

> I wish I could find the article describing his efforts to get the model 3 production fixed. Endless issues because the robots weren't assembling the cars precisely enough. He was told they needed to go back to workers assembling the cars. Ran around screaming profanity at people, demanding they fix automation. Bunch of people got up and quit to his face.

I read that article and it was obviously made up. It claimed people were being sent through the air by machinery exploding like they were DBZ characters.
One thing to highlight: there's no "beating" depression--setting that as the goal will be discouraging. But as you alluded to, there are ways to cope, and to manage it, and to live a good + fulfilling life in spite of the depression.

I've had great luck with antidepressants. They don't "solve" the problem, but they give me a bit more space to operate and work on my mental health. As others have said, symptoms of SSRIs can be managed.

Mindfulness meditation--clearing your thoughts and focusing on breathing--for 15min a day can feel transformative after a couple months. I've fallen off that, but I'd like to pick it back up.

There's lots of little things that can contribute to better mental health. Meditation, exercise, diet, sleep: all are factors. But it's not worth suffering through, and it's worth giving medication a shot (in my opinion).

Medication is not a commitment for life, it's an experiment to see if you can find something to help your symptoms.

I do _highly_ recommend sustaining a therapy relationship, and simultaneously working with a psychiatrist. I haven't found therapy very transformative, and it certainly hasn't solved my problems. But it does give me some support, and that's yet another helpful factor in getting by.