skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

>Nearly 80% of chronic mental health conditions emerge in childhood

"Normal adult" is relative. Just because a prior generation had to "weather through mental issues" doesn't mean the next one should too.

I also don't know where you got the "doctors whose only solution is medication" idea from. You can click through to the survey linked in the article. Here is the high level summary:

> In particular, CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] and exposure-based therapy continue to be the most well-established treatments for child and adolescent anxiety. These findings suggest that the class of interventions comprising CBT and exposure-based interventions are supported by a strong and diverse literature base and that clinicians selecting a first-line intervention for youth anxiety might search here first. Within the CBT and exposure-based interventions reviewed here, the treatment protocol that best meets a given client's presentation will likely be based upon multiple unique considerations such as youth and family characteristics, service setting, and treatment format.

Nothing about medication in there.
The cynic in me wonders if management and the soda industry colluded to make free soda a symbol of something deeper, namely, management pretending to care about their workers. Come for the free soda, and stay for the open plan offices and Agile Scrum meetings.

I once read an article, I think in the Wall Street Journal, about Levi-Strauss sending out promotional materials to HR departments about how to set up "Casual Friday" at the workplace. It was a promotion for their Dockers brand.
"Out of time to avert climate disaster" means beyond the point of no return where no reasonable act can reverse it. It does not mean we are suffering from extreme consequences currently..
Even the top estimates have less than a hundred million dead, mostly in developing nations, but kids in Houston have anxiety over that? Sounds unlikely. Surely sounds even more unlikely that kids living with MAD over their heads had less anxiety.
Link to the draft recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-r...

Past USPTF recommendations can be found here: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...
Cursive is super, super useful when your writing tool can't withstand repeat impacts against the writing medium -- like a quill -- or if lifting will cause your writing tool to leak against the medium.

Cursive is unrelated to quills and ink. Quills and ink existed for a thousand years before cursive was invented.

Cursive exists to relive the strain of writing a lot. Printing is much harder on the hands that cursive. If cursive hurts when you write, you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to hold the implement very loosely and gently, not like you're holding on for dear life.

the 'r' and 's' look especially inscrutable

The cursive "r" is an "r" with a bit on the right linking to the next letter.

The cursive "s" is an "s" with a bit on the left linking it to the previous letter.

The forms have evolved over the centuries, but they're still there. Even the weird capital F makes sense if you write it enough times. It's an "F" made without lifting the pen.

I went to public school early in life, and so didn't learn cursive. When I joined a private school, everyone was already writing cursive, and I had to catch up. It took me maybe three weeks. I remember getting g and q was hard for me. But people are able to learn new things every day.
1. Be wealthy and/or exceptionally skilled.

2. Get lucky.
Generally no. It’s all private and unreported. There are some statistics gathered, but they’re anonymized. So, for example the statistic will record that my firm represented an unnamed consumer against a named company.
I would also be very troubled of the possibility that mass testing in children would, itself, cause some degree of anxiety. I know I don't enjoy being tested.
Given the number of "Once in a lifetime events" I as an early 20 year old have lived through, I entirely understand the feeling of everything is going to collapse.

The house is made of cards, and there are people running around trying collect more cards than everyone else - even when those are at the base. Meanwhile, someones turned up the AC at one end of the house and the heater at the other, and we've got weird air currents blowing every which way.
Does your reasoning apply to other USPTF recommendations, or just this one? https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...
More broadly, the general job market -- "there are so many available!" -- seems to be cities bit by higher than expected CoL increases. Academia seems to be the same. Nobody wants to earn $20/hr at Starbucks if I have to pay $2k/mo for rent.
Eh, there's a downside to freebies, which is curation.

No matter how luxurious and all-encompassing, your free corporate fridges are not the supermarket, your free corporate cafeterias are not an east coast diner. They don't have everything you might want, just a decent selection.

We're deep in first world problems here, but there's a certain frustration to always drinking the drink that doesn't quite hit the spot, to searching the cafeteria menu for the least bad menu option. At least when you are paying the money yourself in the wider world, you can actually pick what you want.
Why is anxiety as an emotion so commonly conflated with anxiety disorder? Having anxiety is a very normal thing that everyone has from time to time, just like every other emotion. Having an anxiety disorder is very different.
Management frequently can't tell the difference.
They really aren’t. It took global political action to avert several past global disasters (CFCs and nuclear weapons for example - although we aren’t totally in the clear on that one yet). Climate change is simply harder because oil is more useful than spray cans and nukes.
I'm sorry but this just isn't correct. There is a clear structural bias towards medicating everyone who ends up touching the US mental health care system.
> I'm in my mid-40s now, and arbitration triggered long-dormant school-type psychological patterns of "ohmigosh I'm going to get in trouble if I don't do this perfectly", or "What if I get B-?". The attorneys on the other side may even try to deliberately trigger these, they know the deal.

I've seen this attitude in the padnemic and it's certainly weird. Health departments ride on that, and fail to do professional due diligence.

Context: There was a vaccine finders group for my region.. I mentioned a few helpful hints for those concerned at going to get the vaccine. (Being in contact with others is a risk). I suggested respirators (N95s, KN95s,KF94s). But the response I got before was "what is your credentials?! you're not a doctor! health department person x doesn't say that". I could point to numerous studies showing the effectiveness but if you're not a credentialed person.. sigh.

When I talk about the health department people, many of them just parroted what they heard from the CDC's dubious advice.
I still stand by my point.
My gf works in UX for a major bank and they simply issued her a bank account in her name (with her SSN etc -- it's a real account, with ATM and debit cards and the like). If she and some co workers want to test something out relating to accounts they actually use these accounts to minimize this kind of problem.

They must have some special code that says that these accounts can have their fees zeroed and probably are subject to some special out of band audits. I don't really know the details of course but I was actually kind of impressed.

(no she is not actually a customer of her employer)
OPs description sounds less like "intensive psychological screening" and more like "intensive sales pitch".
I think this is great. There are a lot of people who can’t do rooftop solar who’d like to, myself included. Hope they can make this work.
Nullable (Optional[Foo] / Union[Foo, None]) and Maybe[Foo] are similar but not quite the same thing. The difference is quite subtle.

Optional[Foo] is same as Foo | None, meaning you can operate on foo with Foo's methods, except that if it's None, you get NoneType errors.

Maybe[Foo] is an actual container. You have to map over or unwrap it to operate on Foo.

The big difference is ergonomics/opinion. You can't actually map over Optional, so every time you wanna use it, you have to manually check if foo is not None. Whereas Maybe, you can operate generically over it. Some folks think "is not None" is better. Personally I hate NoneType errors in prod and find that much more painful than a bit of indirection.
I didn’t realize only Bhutan had this metric. I was referring to Scandinavian countries which seem to be the context I’ve heard it in, but must be mistaken. In any event, I envy the concept and wish more countries adopted it.
> It shouldn’t be a difficult concept: if it says ‘recyclable,’ that means you should be able to put it in the recycling bin, and if it says ‘compostable,’ you should be able to put it in the composting bin," Lapis said.

Kind of makes sense to standardize this at some level.

Though realistically most bins in California are probably the landfill bin regardless of label or original intent.
Can we have the URL changed to the actual page - https://web.archive.org/web/19961102091029/http://desires.co...
Yeah, there's definitely an incentive to switch in the short-run. This is especially true for people who have had family plans in the past and part of the family wanted to cancel but didn't because they knew the other part of the family still used the service.

If competitors took the opportunity to crack down on account sharing as well, there might not be as many switchers. Honestly one of the things that NFLX might be testing out with these pilots is how the competition will react. Maybe they're giving Disney/Amazon time to get their systems set up for a crackdown, since that would help NFLX, and in the long run help all of them.
That particular link claims to be 100% Arabica.
We hope to operate a secondary market, may introduce some other form of periodic liquidity.

Ideally yes, you will own a real individual panel. But we may settle on a different structure if necessary from a regulatory or tax perspective (its a long story).
as one of the sibling comments noted, the king's father was kinda a little shit too, so you really don't know on that rolling of the dice, basically
I really meant giving each kid a therapist is not feasible. You can have a class on how to handle anxiety, I actually had those when I was in high school and it helped.
These are not the vehicles going under but the company itself. They've "de-SPAC'd" so to speak.
I've published a couple of papers in decent pure math journals with no affiliation at all. It didn't cause any issues.
Climate change will kill more people than serial killers or sharks that people also get seriously afraid off. But it’s not going to cause the kind of society ending harm that people often fear.

It’s hard to communicate bad stuff can be bad without it being WWIII kinds of bad. Imagine time traveling before the pandemic to your younger self in say late 2018 and describing what’s going to happen in detail, in such a way that your younger self feels the same way about it as you do right now.
How puzzling that the notes you need to keep checking don't include the explicit agenda of depopulation and halting economic development that is coming out of Davos.
> Apple's Open Source efforts with the Darwin project have been a failure. Apple failed to build a community around Darwin in the 7 years since its original release because it was not a corporate direction, but rather a marketing stunt. Culturally, Apple did not and does not understand what it means to be open source or to build a working community.

WebKit[0] would be a counter-example.

Maybe Darwin didn't have value beyond what Apple was doing with it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
> Much better that they weather through mental issues and come out a normal adult.

I once held this view, which changed when I watched my 8yo daughter, who was showing some _very_ troubling anxiety-related behaviors, be almost immediately helped when she was diagnosed with ADHD+Aspergers and given ADHD meds. We'd previously tried child therapists and pretty much everything else under the sun.

Do I wish that she didn't need medication? Of course. But for her the benefit has far outweighed the downsides, at least so far.
Point taken. Tesla is soon going to have to make its US network CCS compatible too; their European cars already use CCS connectors because the law there requires it.

It's kind of an unoptimal result because CCS is a big ugly connector while the Tesla connector is small and sleek: Tesla uses the same pins for both AC and DC, while CCS requires separate pins.

Oh well. VHS beats Betamax again.
Just doing a fork may be sufficient for something embarrassingly parallel, but interesting things are tightly coupled. Obviously MPI scales down to a single node (a distributed system anyway, these days), typically as real forked processes, but possibly with all the ranks in a single processwith an appropriate implementation.

Citation needed, as they say, for “run way more efficiently”, particularly as the conventional wisdom says shared memory in a single process (e.g. OpenMP).

“Acknowledgements: ... NUMA and Amdahl’s Law, for holding OpenMP back and keeping MPI-only competitive in spite of the ridiculous cost of Send-Recv within a shared-memory domain.” — Jeff Hammond, ‘MPI+MPI’
Already love it, but can you fit it onto an iphone SE display please! Im scrolling and zooming all over the place (some of us like small phones :)
That's quite interesting as I learnt to kayak in rivers and indeed it never occurred to me to do anything different in the few times I've been sea kayaking...though in those cases I remember being frustrated about how long it took to get from point to point. Thanks.
You should check out this Series on the US Educational establishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3vSwsHWbc
It sounds good but it's not historically accurate.
It's weird how general artificial intelligence isn't happening (that's not weird actually), but tasks like summarizing & blindly ascertaining/gathering meaning are indeed improving.

At Google IO recently they announced auto-summarization of documents... I'm expecting it does a pretty stunningly good job. Looking forward to many many interesting years of summarized books/book chapters.

Great experiment @simonw. Thanks for writing it up & sharing!
So can anyone explain to me in simple terms... if i can just screenshot one of these and upload that to my own page as an image.. then what's even the point?
Why would anyone (not incentivized by money) waste their time on this?
> Until GitHub requires government-issued photo ID in addition to MFA, I don't think you are going to properly discourage bad or criminal actors. To be clear: I strongly disagree with any notion that GitHub should require photo ID to open an account. But, perhaps a "verified user" option (extending to "verified org" if all users are compliant) might provide another path.

this is absolutely dystopian. Please don't give microsoft any more ideas.
$100k divided by several hundred employees and a year's worth of workdays equals a few bucks per person per day at maximum.

Last time I had this perk I was downing at least four sodas a day - same ballpark.
I'm not sure ~1million times faster is "slightly", lol
I believe the issue is not with SPACs that haven't merged with another company (as the money would be safe in escrow as you point out), but with SPACs which have already done the merger and taken another company public. They mention Helbiz (a scooter company) that was taken public last year, but may not survive another 12 months.
Of all of the amazing things I've learned/seen in IT over the years the one that had the greatest "jaw to floor" effect was when I first learned of VMware's Fault Tolerance feature (shortly after I learned about VMs and live VM migration, which was the previous "jaw to floor" winner). Fault Tolerance allows for a very similar cycle accurate continuation concept but trades off specialized synchronous design and near instant failover for a ~1 second hitch to gain the ability to do this with a non-specialized VM and software stack. For even more fun if you have more than 2 hosts when 1 is lost it'll rebuild a fault tolerant state automatically with another host.
I agree with the core of what you are saying.

However, space needs to be provided to do that growth safely, and in order to that there would need to be massive changes in Sign-up-for-everything parenting culture, A's-or-die school culture, and a myriad of other things in order for this to work. As it is, this culture takes the fire and throws gasoline on it, preventing healthy growth.

Even outside of that, there is a balance to be struck - while some amount of anxiety/awkwardness is expected, if it leads to suicidal thoughts, self harm, lashing out at others, or other destructive behavior, it has gone to far.
> We cannot possibly offer therapy to that many children

Why not? A 12-16 week course of CBT for even 20% of children, sometime during childhood (so about 1-2% of children per year) would be a rounding error in total healthcare expenditures. It would be a substantial increase in current mental health expenditure, and probably take a several years to get up to capacity for, but its not something radically impossible.
I think the following is a bit inaccurate.

> And NewtonScript influenced the creation of JavaScript, with its prototype-based object model, dynamic variable typing, garbage-collected memory, and fast interpreted design. Today, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world.

The reasons are understandable though (sorry if there are any slight mistakes as I'm writing from memory here).

Brendan Eich was hired to create a Scheme in the browser. Later, the requirements were changed to "make it look like that new Java language". He has said on record that he was familiar with the Self language. JS is often called "Lisp in C's clothing" because under the surface, it is quite similar to Scheme with a prototype object system (Scheme has no object system by default).

Apple created a language in the 1990s called Dylan that was also used on the Newton. It started out as something very close to Scheme + CLOS (Common Lisp Object System though it's more properly MOP -- MetaObject Protocol). Lots of programmers hate the lisp lack of syntax for whatever reason, so they changed Dylan to an infix-style language. OpenNewton is still a thing if you're interested.

NewtonScript kept much of the Dylan-style syntax, but changed out the complex MOP for the more easy to understand prototypal inheritance. I've never encountered even the hint that Newtonscript was on Eich's radar when he started work on Javascript.

There are definitely similarities that become apparent when you look at both language designer's inspirations:

Scheme + Self + C/Java = JavaScript

Scheme + Self + Dylan = NewtonScript

The result is two languages with the same core language ideas from Scheme, the same object system from self, and very different syntax inspirations from C and Dylan.

EDIT: Eich says in an interview he never saw NewtonScript before designing JS

https://wm-help.net/lib/b/book/2520193410/6
> Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I'm not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.

I've been looking for something like this that will let me edit in plaintext but also sync both ways with gCal for the benefits of plaintext but also the caveats that you mentioned.
> Don't worry, if you want to automate publishing in CI/CD you can use an Automation Token to allow for publishing via token only without 2FA.

From npm.

Does this no longer apply? People can't publish from CI anymore as 2FA is now required?
Ah, that makes sense! I guess I was assuming that "on" was in reference to it's placement _on_ the stove. But turning the circuit _on_ makes sense too.
How did I not know about cal after 20+ years of using UNIX-based systems?! Very useful!
If you’re thinking of CFCs, we banned CFCs to solve the problem.

If you’re thinking of nukes, we had New START, SALT, NPT, etc. and a shit ton of activism which significantly reduced the threat.

If you’re thinking of past claims that we’re “past the point of no return” for climate change, those claims were correct. We passed the point of no return for avoiding extreme weather due to climate change. Then we passed the point of no return for 1C of warming. Now we are nearing the point of no return for 1.5C of warming. Things are getting worse for the climate, which is why people keep saying that things are getting worse for the climate.

That said, apathy is counterproductive. We need hopeful children and adults to drive political and technological change. Therapy or other tools for reducing anxiety (e.g. exercise) could help people be hopeful.
There is this also, and it compiles on many systems.

http://unicorn.us.com/pub/cal40.zip

Rather nice
I really hope the age of "poverty is a choice" comes to an end. We need responsible states but the most important thing is that the state should provide as much as it sustainably can to people.

Health, education, housing, these are all factors that we need to be able to sustain ourselves in modern society. And at a base, but dignified place, they should be provided by the state.

Anyway, not everyone agrees. And most importantly, most politicians disagree. Arguments I often hear are the following: "I was poor and i was able to overcome it, it's possible" and "If we give to poor people, they are going to keep being lazy!". I think these two arguments have a lot in common: the notion that poverty is kind of a choice. It is extremely unfair that someone that is born in poverty has to put, 3, 5, 7 times the effort than someone that was born in wealth. Really, as someone that is privileged, I think it would be impossible for me to put in 3 times the effort that I have put into things. But I never had to do it.

Life is pretty unfair, but I think the role of society is to make it less unfair.
The fastest gui client I know of is gitup (gitup.co). Have you tried it? How does it compare to Fork?
help is supposed to be an option, not a requirement

this is philosophically and ethically wrong
I agree with what you are saying.

Coroutines are a very valuable language feature. One example is generators.

However, I think it is unfortunate that it is tied so much to concurrency. Even the names async/await suggest concurrency.
Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what it looks like for you currently? I am admittedly still learning how to best support cross-device compatibility. I have found that in the Chrome Dev Tools preview for certain devices, everything looks fine, but then in reality things don't fit properly
A bot that converts images/videos to whatsapp stickers
I didn't follow up with them on that. But the discussion was initially sparked because we were watching the news and the story was about how hard the farmers are doing due to the drought and were looking for government assistance.
I'd say we are 80% of the way there - every solar facility will have different traits and economics as an investment. We have the legal infrastructure and finance partners to make it happen pretty quick.

As with any investment, we can't make claims about financials until everything is finalized and vetted. That will have to wait until we have a pro forma ready to go. Soliciting 'indications of interest' is a fairly common practice across all industries.

To be clear, we are already financing larger $100K+ deals with friendly investors in our network as we design and engineer a product for a larger audience.