skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper it's discussing is linked from the article but as you don't have access, here it is: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The rapid response to the article refers to the qualitative interviews given regarding the patient experience, later on in the study timeline, whereas the psychological outcomes are measured by standardised scales that can be analysed quantitatively, and which were first issued prior to treatment. It is the latter that are being used to examine differences from baseline over time, for psychological effect.

A key paragraph in the discussion regarding this:

"Young people experienced little change in psychological functioning across the study. We found no differences between baseline and later outcomes for overall psychological distress as rated by parents and young people, nor for self-harm. Outcomes that were not formally tested also showed little change."

This does not support the oft-made claim (outside of this study) that this intervention reduces depressive thoughts and suicidal ideation, and saves children from committing suicide.

(For example, a commenter I replied to above claimed it's typical to see a 60-70% improvement on these measures, though this assertion was uncited.)

The study you linked is interesting, but as the authors state in the limitations section:

"First, causation cannot be inferred due to the study's cross-sectional design. It is possible that those who historically have higher rates of depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors are also less able to seek or obtain [gender-affirming hormone therapy]."

"To better understand directionality, prospective longitudinal designs are needed."

That is, the study lacks sufficient power to support the hypothesis that this medical intervention improves mental health outcomes.
It seems like we have high employment but unemployment rate is being ravaged by Goodhart's Law after being such an important needle for politicians and the Fed itself. It doesn't seem like many of the employment options are good, but in order to keep unemployment down we have coerced our institutions to create low quality high quantity jobs.
The federal funds rate mechanically lowers asset prices. Wealthy people own assets, poor people do not. Lowering the federal funds rate literally mechanically reduces the portfolio value of people that own capital in relation to people who do not.
Well, before the big bang, there had to be some environment that was such that a big bang could occur. (Just as, before the computer was turned on, there had to be a computer there to turn on.)

The question may be unanswerable from the information available in this universe (or, in the analogy, within the computer), but we know that there had to be something there.
The car did have the right of way though, as the crosswalk had a red light on. As to why one of the pedestrians decided to stand in middle of the road during a red light, I have no idea.
> "With the Industrial Revolution, according to Galor, the value of human capital reached the point that parents chose to have fewer children and invest more in their upbringing."

Parents didn't "choose" to have fewer kids. The leaders of industrialized/industrializing nations encouraged/demanded/brainwashed people into having less children - both foreign and domestic. I guess being forced or brainwashed into having fewer kids is the saming thing as "choosing".

It isn't that parents chose to have fewer kids and invest more in their upbringing. It's that the elites wanted fewer children so that parents could spend more time at work making more money for them. It's about extracting the most value from a population.

Of course the flip side is eugenics. Where we encourage/fund/order the third world countries to have less children. The first major experiment was in hong kong where the british founded the eugenics league in the 1930s and encouraged a 2 child policy on the chinese people there.
Unfortunately this is my experience as well. Generally it's a misalignment of priorities. Since the people writing the endpoint don't have to consume it, they just do whatever is easiest as quickly as possible. And often many are dismissive of frontend concerns when challenged.
I've been developing software for almost 3 decades (if you count the C programs I wrote in high school... longer if you consider Basic!) I can count on one hand the times I've needed to use a debugger to debug something. I prefer my cave-man logging.

I do find that I use Python's built-in debugger often during development, mostly to inspect objects as I'm writing code. I'll stick a breakpoint() in my script after an API call. It's often quicker than looking at Boto or Amazon docs, for example. But I never use it for actually debugging.
Show HN: Android app that blocks spoilers on Reddit, YouTube, WhatsApp and FB
It's not just the region of the sky with the most radio signals, it's the region of the sky with the signal that's (arguably) most likely to be produced by intelligence, of the ones we've noticed so far - the "WOW!" signal.
Read The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. Might change your mind about what is arguably the most powerful institution in your life.

Admittedly the title alone kind of tells you they have a bias.

Edit: Why are you apologizing for people that do not care about you and also rule over your life?
The problem with the piranha analogy is you can apply the large number of possible causes and effects which occur in different directions to pretty much any science, social or otherwise. There are at any one time a very large number of pathogens competing for the attention of the immune system all associated with overlapping symptoms and thus many competing hypotheses about the cause of a particular ailment, but this doesn't make the study of medicine futile.

Even if you've got competing parties actively trying to nudge people in a particular direction, it doesn't mean there is no discernible effect; increases in political polarisation and emotional attachment to brands can be observed even as people consciously attempt to nudge other people in broadly opposite directions.

This doesn't mean the social psychology and behavioural economics experiments hypotheses are necessarily good ones or the experiments well constructed. But complex systems and competing hypotheses are present in all science and are what controlled experiments and statistical controls are for...
The only thing that keeps a blockchain appearing to be a rebase-only straight line and not an otherwise ordinary merkle tree is the consensus algorithm on what the "current state / last block of the chain" is.

The difference between a blockchain and a merkle tree in no way resembles that between a B tree or LSM tree. It's closer to the difference between a Binary Search Tree and a Red/Black Tree. They are both Binary Search trees and most operations are the exact same, but Red/Black Trees have an extra "color" attribute and rely on that for a better balancing algorithm than the "default" BST algorithm.
One of the coolest, most eccentric, & arguably completely insane professors I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing was a bit of a William Blake cultist. As a matter of fact, I believe he profoundly claimed he was the reincarnation of William. Made a church praising him & everything. Ridiculously talented artist, & I recently found out Steve Buscemi apparently has a private collection of his artwork.

Local to me for some time, he leaves behind a mural at Ohio University & various artworks in random places around the county. He apparently sold an earlier house of his that was completely covered in his magnificent paintings to a friend… who he knew had plans of painting over everything & was surprisingly okay with. Only a few pictures of it exist & it’s extremely sad IMO.

For the curious:

https://woub.org/2018/11/29/but-how-could-he-be-forgotten-lo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethelred_Eldridge

https://theoldhouselife.com/2021/09/11/23-acres-golganooza-c... (this is not the earlier house mentioned)

https://aethelredeldridge.com
(He has a personal website that I recall being much different than this, but I currently cannot seem to find it)

https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/alumni-magazine/aethelred-eld...

https://essexflowers.us/AETHELRED-ELDRIDGE

Edit: I believe this is his personal
site…. not sure why it’s down as it hadn’t been too long ago I’d checked it out.

https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/Albionawake.com

(Also, you can pull the site from archive.ph - was going to include here but it’s taking a while)

Anyways, super cool dude. Wish I would’ve gotten to be around him a bit more. If you’re ever feeling lost in life, consider being the reincarnation of William Blake.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Preservation_and_Res...:

Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EPR) is an experimental medical procedure where an emergency department patient is cooled into suspended animation for an hour to prevent incipient death from ischemia, such as the blood loss following a shooting or stabbing.

That page doesn’t say this is a net win or worked well at all, but it’s a difficult line of research. Not only are the first patients almost dead at the start of the process (as is always the case with high-risk of death experimental procedures), but there also is no way to know when a patient will show up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_hypothermic_circulatory_a... is easier in this respect:

Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) is a surgical technique that induces deep medical hypothermia. It involves cooling the body to temperatures between 20 °C (68 °F) to 25 °C (77 °F), and stopping blood circulation and brain function for up to one hour.

I think that’s a proven winner for some patients, but only at relatively high temperatures (“Profound hypothermia (< 14 °C) usually isn't used clinically. It is a subject of research in animals and human clinical trials”)
Phantom traffic jams are so common, where things aren’t moving as fast as they should because people keep slamming on their brakes and scaring the people behind them (who in turn do the same). Even if the original reason was good I imagine it makes a lot of real life traffic jams worse.

But if the cars are all driving themselves, wouldn’t they avoid that? I wonder if traffic jams would get smaller just from the lack of that one issue.
Absent legal/regulatory changes/waivers, the fact that MB is offering to cover financial liabilities would seem to be pretty much irrelevant to legal liabilities. So basically "we'll cover your costs" is pretty much irrelevant if you want to drive in a manner that would normally be considered reckless.

But there's talk of certification so this may be taken into account. One would of course want to see specifics.
The sample group...isn't great. Only for participants who had completely socially transitioned between ages 3-12, and enrolled in the Trans Youth Project.

I'm very surprised Princeton and UW professors would generalize from this group to anyone who socially transitions...
> Having to use a dedicated RSS reader really feels like a step backwards.

Not if you use a web-based RSS reader (I use Nextcloud News for this purpose) since that is always just one link away on any browser you might happen to use. This is far more convenient than having your 'feeds' in a specific browser on a specific device.
Ask HN: Mental Disorder and Neurodiversity in Tech
It's no secret that the tech industry lends itself to operating in a way that can have negative impacts on the mental wellness of its workers. This industry has a ton of pressure around maintaining adherence to strict schedules and is very demanding of constant productivity. In my experience(as a neurodivergent person) there is also a fairly high presence of neurodivergent people drawn to working in the industry.

Do you feel like your neurodivergence is ever a boon in your job? Have you struggled with mental health while working in tech? Has a diagnosis and/or treatment helped? Do you have tips to share? And finally... Can Neurodiversity make us better hackers?
thanks! great suggestions
There's a lot of crap posted on pubmed. And why didn't you just say... not well studied, not well supported, etc? If Cochrane were to review it would they say the evidence is weak for anything you could possibly claim.
Something that doesn't exist? You build it.

Something that you know of you check similiar companies.

If you are just browsing for ideas visit angelist.

If you want a great job you have to search. If you don't want to search you'll apply to places you know like big tech.

Another piece of advice is to get involved outside of work and you will be first to hear about the interesting positions.
Just pretend it's your mom bringing you a sheet of paper she printed of the website she wanted to show you, or worse, the ambitious mom that then rescanned the printout so she could email it to you.
Read what the Mercedes guy actually said, though. Swerving is bad, because it in no way guarantees a better result, and increases the risk substantially of making things worse. Any tire grip you use to swerve isn't being used to stop, and the best way to minimize damage to the car, and by extension risk to the occupant, is to get kinetic energy as low as possible and rely on the safety cage for the rest.

The magazine writer frames it as "Mercedes is making a choice in the trolley problem, and that choice is the driver" as if that's actually a decision being made, instead of the entirely expected result of trying to slow the car enough that regular safety systems are likely to save the life of the driver. Mercedes is doing the opposite of trying to solve the trolley problem, they're declaring it pointless to try.

It's much more plausible to get the car into the "driver is very unlikely to die" kinetic range than it is to get it down to "pedestrian is very unlikely to die."

So, back to your hypothetical -- the Mercedes won't be swerving for the pedestrians, because that'll statistically increase the risk to the driver. The car may very well still get hit by that truck, but now it'll be on the driver side instead of the front crumple zone. And who knows what else happens after the car becomes ballistic because it collided with something.
I joke about my procrastination with my team: "I looked at my TODO list for the day and there's no way I can get to 90% of it, so I might as well just not get to 100% of it". Sometimes there's a lot of truth to the joke, however.

As much as I know I should prioritize it based on urgency, highest impact, what I could delegate etc., if the willpower required to do that is more than the ramifications or not doing it, it can be a losing battle.

On days when I push through a ton of work, I'm energized at the end of the day. Compared to the feeling of guilt that I just wasted a day when there's so much to do and I achieved little. Yet knowing that still just doesn't provide the necessary motivation some days. I've yet to figure out a reliable solution for it.
I feel like the hype of social media has peaked a few years ago, at least in America. Numbers probably still are growing but it feels much more "okay" to not use social media at all nowadays versus a feel years ago it would feel pretty taboo to not use social media.

"What? You don't have a facebook account? Is something wrong with you?" - 2017

"Damn, that's a good idea to delete facebook, I wish I could" - 2022
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show
Game theory for repeated games actually says you want to seem like a fair or generous player so that the other side doesn't defect and keeps wanting to play the game with you.

Single-round best strategy is squeeze and defect.
Funny to think Blake should have chosen Newton as a symbol of excessive rationalism, given Newton's interest in alchemy. He was also religious, although an antitrinitarian - possibly not relevant to Blake's ideas of the divine.

Anyway, it is also strange to me given that when I worked in a scientific field, I had a poster of 'The Ancient of Days' on my wall. Oh well.
Is there an eBay/Amazon for ideas? Didn't think so.

Ideas are worthless.
I got very sick from drinking (well-boiled!) water when i was desperate on an island in the Caribbean for some water. For the next 3 years I had horrible gut issues and was basically told by a doctor that there's only management and not really any cure for it.

Then I heard about this probiotic bacteria called limosilactobacillus reuteri which was implicated in a bunch of studies as something that they used to find in people's guts back before processed food really became a huge thing and all these very clear links to a variety health effects (I'll just link the wiki page) [1]. When I went to the store it was the most expensive on the shelf, 40$, but I figured why not and got a couple of them. Haven't had any gut issues since.

I think there's worse things you can do to your guts than using the right probiotics for sure.
Tip: it's not an official grammar rule, but in colloquial terms, scare quotes [1] are often used to indicate that the speaker is being sarcastic or that the quoted thing isn't actually true. So a typical American reader might infer from your title that this app is not _really_ "private" or "free".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Thank you for your insights. I think the variability in writing is something I'm also going to personally experience. That feeling of satisfaction and happiness sounds great - good for you, and also thank you for offering such useful content for free!
The official ZT docs* say, "The mobile apps don't support custom roots." And I don't see any setting in the Android app to point it to any server.

* https://docs.zerotier.com/self-hosting/introduction
What MMOs use UDP? Asking sincerely because I have never seen one.
That would depend on the exact laws in particular jurisdictions where you might operate the vehicle. In some areas, law enforcement could cite you for using a phone even if the manufacturer had taken on the civil liability. Longer term some of those laws will probably change as Level 3 autonomous vehicles start to become more common.
4-5%!? Aren’t central bank rates in the 0-1% range pretty much globally still? My mortgage is usually around one percent over the central bank rate so it’s been hovering around 1-1.5% for years now.
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Keep posting constructive comments that contribute to the discussion at hand. You will get there eventually. For now, flag what you think should be flagged and move on.

Also, if you have better advice for the Poster. Feel free to post your own comment.
I primarily developed this to block spoilers about Marvel movies in social media apps before I watch the movie on theatres. But it works based on keywords, so it is not specific to movie spoilers.

I felt that social media apps spoils too much about the movies I want to watch and I wanted to block/avoid those based on keywords. And I found an amazing chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spoiler-protection...) that does exactly this, by blocking content from user-defined keywords.

It worked well, but I needed something for my mobile(Android) too since I use Reddit and Facebook exclusively on my mobile device and YouTube occasionally. After extensive research, I didn't find any existing apps that do this for me. So I developed one.

There is a demo video linked in the repo where I show how to use the app and there is also a link to the APK.

It uses accessibility service, so the blocking will not be instant as the app blocks the content only after that content is displayed on the screen. This means you will see the actual content for a split second before this app blocks that content, but it is good enough for me.

The app currently blocks content only from Relay for Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
How do you and GP feel about sharing half baked ideas with customers?

For example, replacing a table view that gets limited engagement with a feed with some workflow actions.

Half baked at this point might be some static screenshots from figma.
Hmm, not sure what I'm doing wrong. It displays correctly in PowerShell. In Windows Terminal, it shows a blinking cursor instead of the box, and it makes it look like the cursor is one to the left of where it actually is
You'll get to pay taxes on that Big Mac too.
Walking Around, Uninsured
> EDIT: Pedantically, I know that's not a 'transplant,'

On the contrary, I think that would generally be considered a fecal transplant. I believe the history of the procedure started with oral administration of the transplanted material, mixed into a chocolate milkshake.
I have rented from rent-a-wreck, and got used cars ~~4-5 years old and I was content. I expect that insurance is a larger part of the business who rents old cars - and they get none of that. Most fleets and car rentals have a ~~2-3 year cycle, mileage dependant, and they have odometers to judge when they want that car sold off based on the stats.
This pinches used rental operations between repairs to worn cars and the insurance grab, so it needs sharp management. There are a few local garages here in Toronto who will only rent to insured people renting a replacement vehicle as the car insurance covers many aspects of replacement rentals - not all. Some provide courtesy beaters if they are doing the repairs.??
That's the shocking thing. It's totally not hard in a Lisp. I could write the code for that symbolic derivation in an evening, tops.

The hard part is the compiler. The somewhat hard part is the efficient numerical integrator (if you want good convergence and rapid integration). The symbolic manipulation is easy, once you know what you're doing. If you want to know what you're doing, it's sufficient to see how other people did it:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...

And if you haven't seen it:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

If you're dumb like me, and can't write a compiler or an efficient numerical integrator in your spare time, having this interpreted and using a naive integrator is still good enough most of the time. Computers are fast. The authors of the above proved the motion of the solar system is chaotic with a very, very long, very, very precise numeric integration on hardware from decades ago, so they have super-fancy code. For the types of things I do, a dumb integration is fine.

Once you've seen how it's done, and don't mind lower speed, that's trivial in any language with closures (e.g. Python or even JavaScript). If you want to swing a double-pendulum, or play around with the motion of a solar system over shorter durations, it's easy.

And using the tool is even easier. Look at SICM (linked book). The things that look like code snippets are literally all the code you need.

The system, if you want it:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/installation...
I edited my comment to soften the tone a bit, while preserving the overall gist of what I wanted to say. Thanks for helping keep me honest.