skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s now a commodity business with a range of competitors. Do people at Stripe really become this bamboozled? You’re not changing the world anymore, you’re just making money. You’re mercenaries who've been fooled into believing you’re missionaries. The counter-factual of a Stripeless world in 2022 is the market share gets split across the other providers and the world keeps on trucking. Get over yourselves.
I went to a Vancouver Canucks game once. The concessions prices were still outrageous, but they were in Canadian dollars and after the exchange rate, they were perfectly reasonable.
Sorry, thought it would be obvious.

> Depression is a disease of despair,

> The question is really how to address the despair.

It's known that people have genetic predispositions to depression. People experience depression due to many causes. Not all causes are known and we don't have very good understanding of the mechanisms, but it's just not damn likely that we can treat this as a purely psychological / environmental issue.
It's mostly a placebo

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299662/
Thanks a lot @dmje, really appreciate all your support!
Maybe it's just me, but as a 17 year old who read Anathem a month ago, I still found some of the ideas in Anathem hard to wrap my head around. As a story, yes, a 10 year old could read it, as genuine philosophy, idk. (unless it's a super smart 10 yr old etc etc).
When an NFT is recognised as a legal contract in law and is able to preclude any copy of the asset in question.

Edit: and allows you to have all the terms and conditions any other contract is able to provide.
More people probably die riding the bikes.
> this article is about how the SSRIs don’t seem to be effective.

I believe they can be effective in reducing depression, it just has nothing to do with serotonin.
250k is like base salary for staff level. It is not that high.
It’s not a bad analysis but seems to overlook some important details on both SpaceX and Airbus sides of the table.

- that the next SpaceX rocket using methane instead of RP-1 will reduce the amount of CO2 per unit thrust. As well as the fact that making carbon neutral methane is much easier than making RP-1 grade kerosene biofuels means potential future impact to SpaceX launch costs may not be as large as he expects.

- that this is a prototype aircraft which has no long term lifecycle data on things like thermal cycling on the airframe or the solar cells, or motor lubricants and could result in a lifespan much shorter than necessary to make up for the difference in cost. Using the quoted $500000 cost and 5 year lifespan, Starlink operates Ming cost per satellite is $11.42 per hour, we’d still need the serviced area per drone and per satellite to do a proper comparison but effectively the total cost to provide equivalent coverage to 1 starlink satellite by the drone has to be close to or cheaper than $12 bucks an hour to make it competitive with starlink in a 24/7 internet service provider role, the aircraft industry has a lot of red tape that could make that prohibitively difficult once you factor in the rest of the operating and lifecycle costs.

- that while this can fly above the clouds and thus avoid most of the weather troubles of lesser aircraft, it now faces the wrath of upper atmospheric lightning, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning) more correctly referred to as a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) these are upper atmospheric plasma effects formed above thunderstorms. So while it wouldn’t have to worry about the normal reasons that make flying in a thunderstorm a bad idea, it may be negatively affected by these, such as when a stratospheric scientific ballon mission just spontaneously released its payload over a Texas farm in 1989 due to a large high voltage current causing damage to the electronics that controlled the release mechanism (http://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/1989/PAL-19890605.htm). This might necessitate ongoing operations to navigate around and avoid weather that could reduce revenue due to time not servicing customers, increase operational costs due to additional flying, and possibly capital costs in the case of requiring spare aircraft to make up for any losses due to such upper atmospheric electrical phenomena such as Sprites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)), Jets, Elves, Trolls, and Ghosts which are not as well understood as other thunderstorms related atmospheric effects, the sort you and I would normally call “weather” and that pilots and aircraft designers are used to. So while rain fade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_fade) affects Starlink (anecdotal example https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/nz611h/fyi_starli...), the loss of signal due to this does not pose a hazard to the satellite, which means there’s another increase in the potential operating cost variability compared to the relatively fixed costs of Starlink operations.
How are we measuring "better"? If suicide rates have risen significantly, then perhaps there are ways in which our modern paradise is worse than the past.
I think you might want to do some research as to why schizophrenics might end up non-compliant. Antipsychotics are serious drugs that, historically, have had severe side effects. Additionally, they’re rarely a complete solution (people can still have delusions and hallucinations while taking medication). Additionally, like other psychiatric medication, not all antipsychotics will work for people, sometimes they’ll stop working, etc.
A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
I always assume these things involve picking a peak period, rounding up, rolling in surrounding time (train commute while going through emails, reviewing reports on the couch, etc) and then allowing people to think that was a consistent average. e.g., it was more like 124 hours one week and the rest was 80-100ish. A workload stat doesn't survive in an article unless it's outrageously high or four-hour-work-week low, and even the latter is a redefinition and fabrication too.

I can get by on 5 hours/night sleep and have passages in any given year spending the bulk of a day at the computer, eating at the desk, etc. I enjoy the occasional all-nighter and find them memorable. So I think 18 hours/day of some sort of work isn't difficult for someone if they cope with less than average sleep, treat work as a hobby, have financial incentives or deadlines, etc. For months on end and always at peak productivity, probably not.
You don't even have to be broke to be trapped in the stranglehold of modern society and feel like shit about it. Just because you are paid well doesn't mean the work you are doing is remotely engaging or interesting or doesn't want to make you hate yourself. Being rich doesn't insulate you from toxic coworkers, in fact probably the higher you end up marching up the economic ladder the more of these narcissistic and toxic personalities you are liable to run into.

At the end of the day we are probably happiest when we are foraging for berries or mushrooms. This whole abstract 'society' crap we put upon ourselves leads to a lot of self directed scorn, embarassment, disrespect, and no doubt depression. How many billions of calories have been burned to fuel thoughts of worry about an outfit choice around the world? How many grey hairs have sprung up as a result of fretting about appearance? The stress society tries to shovel on you is such a waste of energy and does nothing to help you.
No, latin is the only language we'll ever need! It is much closer to the fundamental truth, unlike these modern languages that make unnecessary abstractions of what is really going on at the low level.
It's interesting that they were able to use creative assets as collateral but also the creative assets that would be worthless in a scenario where Marvel was unable to pay back the line of credit. If the movies do well, no problem. If they tank, who cares about the IP?

This is one of the many reasons I am not in finance.
You could say that what separates the einsteins from the idiots is a willingness to obsess over worthwhile projects.

And maybe the ability to locate worthwhile projects too, I suppose. That would be an important first step.
> The counter-factual of a Stripeless world in 2022

The author worked there from 2015-2019.
I completely disagree with that. If you are a westerner with a 50th percentile mind and follow every rule set up for you, you end up on a console for 8-10 hours per day, struggling with bills and health insurance and watching the land and culture around you be slowly eroded into a formless mass of concrete and advertisements.

"Depression" is a natural response to living an alienating modern lifestyle. The people who can appropriately "deal" with it (like myself) all have something extra going for then, like deep family structures or unusual minds.
Now look at what it gets spent on. Specifically, take a closer look at housing, healthcare and higher education. All three of those have risen far, far faster than inflation for many years.
Awesome, thanks for buying it! I'm glad it's useful to you
I may rescind my badmouthing of the diamondbacks…
The Powerful Role of Magical Beliefs in Our Everyday Thinking
Given the placebo effect is 75% of the effect of antidepressants, and placebos have a large effect on sleep, I would say that the placebo effect is the first thing that should be considered.
We don't do it for users but for certain user assets that are a pain to remove consistently without a background job or a job queue. Like user devices that have associated dependencies. The background job is automatic, it prunes objects evey x hours.
"What's life if it isn't personal" - Giuseppe Rosetti
If it is this easy. Why hasn't someone decided to DDOS hostage all the major Youtubers?
ITT: Gatekeeping what people are allowed to enjoy
Not necessarily, if the market bounces back the funding becomes cheap.
Are we talking about Stripe? Or you like to vent about startups in general?

If this is just about startups in general, I fully agree. I didn't know we have moved on to a new topic but ok.

I was responding to the parent thread regarding Stripe being a cult. No other cults pay most of their members in millions of dollars.
I've dealt with Youtube's copyright resolution process and I don't believe this story at all.

You're either leaving out material facts that completely change the story or making the story up.

For starters...Youtube's copyright strikes are geographical...IOW, you can't assert a copyright against a video posted by a user in another country.

Second, Google doesn't let you file a copyright strike on the basis of a single word in the title. Words, by themselves, are not copyrightable. Especially not when they deal with trademarks...

Third, after you file a counter notification, the claimant must prove that they've taken legal action against the purported infringer by providing evidence of such action. Generally, this means a copy of a complaint, or at the bare minimum a letter from your lawyer asserting your ownership and offering terms for a settlement. If they don't, Google treats the infringement claim as invalid and removes the strike.

Fourth, if you dispute the strike (by filing the counter notification), Google doesn't pay anybody for the video until they receive proof of the legal resolution of the dispute, because if they pay the wrong party they'll end up having to pay the rightful copyright owner.
Same here, but with Fluoxetine (Prozac).
However, I don’t think exactly that fluoxetine made me less depressed. It only made me more „aggressive“ and more risk taking, and the antidepressing effect came from the positive results of taking such risks. I just „don’t care“ about failures as much as I used to.

E.g. I finally started talking to girls, because I wouldn’t care about rejection that much. => Got into my first relationship and was happy.

Also, I started working on my passion project full time and I recently registered a company for it. Two years ago I would have not thought about doing this, as working for an employer is way „safer“.

But I don’t care about failing anymore.
Thanks @rrishi!!
Yes and by that point both Braintree and Square were in competition iirc. Probably others too.
That took like 20 seconds. Great catch.
You miss a lot with TV angles, depending on the sport. Like in hockey, you basically miss almost all the substitutions since they happen in real time away from the action.
A bus is public transportation. A train is public transportation. A bike-share program is, tentatively, public transportation.

Price is not a factor here- motorcycles are not public transportation because they are cheap. Bicycles are not public transportation because they are yet cheaper. Personal conveyance is not public transportation.
I believe the issue is that bash has no built-in method for creating a listening socket / accepting connections.

/dev/tcp can only connect to a listening socket, not create one.
Humanity could be trending towards less work than more work as technology advances.

So every example in that Twitter threat could be true.

On a related note, this kind of content is guaranteed be very popular on Twitter since Twitter is leans pretty far left. It justifies that it's ok to be lazy and that you don't have success because of the system rather than your intellectual ability or hard work. It justifies entitlement.
Nice way to get on HN.

Post a daft hot take.
That only works for outgoing connections, sadly
You have independently invented insurance fraud.
While I like the sound of a mentality that suggests paying attention to every moment, it does raise the question: pay attention at what level? Count the leaves on every tree?

This question motivates a different follow-up question: how should we pay attention? Our senses can be deceived, so we should also use reason and conceptual understandings to literally enrich (de-noise perhaps) our raw senses?

But some philosophies (e.g. Buddhism, or at least some variants of it) emphasizes that ‘conceptual’ understandings can distract us from reality, which is always changing.

Almost every philosophy has paradoxes — some of which have convincing resolutions. I’m hoping to hear more points of view…
No, Step 3A, is "if they disagree, they must sue."

If they don't sue the purported infringer, Google treats the original copyright complaint as invalid and releases the strike.
Yes I do something similar and it seems to help. I'll ask myself, "How do I imagine this person might currently feel when they think about __?" And rotate thru different scenarios. Often I'll quickly realize how uncertain I am about their internal situation. I like how you talk about flipping it, maybe I can imagine how that person might imagine how I'm feeling right now as well. Thank you!
Per user encryption such as you suggest does not address the problem. Systems that work this way have existed for decades and they have pathologically poor performance and scalability. Many classes of major optimization in databases don't work under these constraints. This isn't a novel idea, having been implemented for decades; it has been broadly rejected because it doesn't actually work in real systems without tradeoffs no one accepts, even in highly security sensitive environments.

You are overly dismissive of the technical challenges of actually deleting data, particularly in large systems. Technically naive solutions like having separate encryption keys for individual entities sounds good but it doesn't actually address the problem.
Yeah my kids don’t owe serving your sensibilities.

Stick to your day job. Human personalities and social networks are not yours to dictate.
The monkeys and parrots caught up in the California gold rush
It doesn’t matter if it’s surprising. It might be a measurement mistake, a mixed population, a fat tail or a poor sample. It’s different therefore an outlier.
Cops don't have to follow orders from a chain of command? They get to still be cops after refusing to follow orders from management?
One possible scenario:

He took over twitter. Fire the execs. Opening up all emails.

You can bet at least one person out of 6000 employees disagree with how twitter counts bot number.

Pick that email, point out that execs discarded a concern raised by employee.

Change the calculation of bot number to be higher. Report to SEC in public earning. Allude that the previous number was just plainly wrong.

Sue the execs for fraud... since SEC accepts the new number and approach which is materially different from the old number.

To be honest, just opening up all emails is already bad enough for execs.
56 million kWh. At current Australian wholesale prices that's $17m AUD to refuel.

Does that sound like a cheap tank of gas ?
Internet is bigger than the mainstream. It's not just YouTube and Facebook. If you really wish to have a side stream, maybe go on 4Chan or visit the dark web.

Because let's not pretend that the internet was easy to navigate back in the day. You wanted the alternative nichy stuff, you needed to work for that. That never changed, neither online nor offline.
It's possible the psychiatrist is using "low serotonin" as a simple shorthand meant for the layperson
I definitely want to try work this out but I couldn't find much in the way of documentation, I'll give it a go when I have more time :)
First mover. No other service will ever get the opportunity to amass an 87-quadrillion-video catalog to compete with YouTube's.
One example is criminals who’re hiding from police. Another example is just some drunk locals. Law enforcement is weak in remote areas. Think of Wild West, but without its romantics.
VanMoof has one to three. They contact the police but often don't get results.

Anyways, in Amsterdam mosr VanMoof's I see are still attached to something with a chain lock. I think tracking your bike is too much of a hassle. Also it is probably needed for insurance reasons.
Don't get me started on Gabapentin! I just got off of it after 11 yrs (serious spinal cord injury - neuropathy). Initially, after my surgery, I was on 12 different drugs (not all related to my injury). Over the last 5 years I've been slowly weening myself off of them one by one trying to figure out what was causing me so many side effects. It turns out that the last thing I quit was Gabapentin, which was last month. Amazingly, all the side effects disappeared once I stopped. I'll never take it again.
> I understand that YouTube doesn't adjudicate claims themselves, but I think this may explain why they don't. Their adjudicators are heavily incentivized to take everything down. As a result, YouTube is hands off.
Advice should be aimed at the 99% rather than the 1%, right? I guess Heroku and Stripe don’t have the biggest datasets in the world but they are probably larger than most folks will need to manage.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the prominence of depression is largely caused by a broken interface with the world at large. The traps created by modern society wherein you struggle for other people's benefit are better designed than ever before. What our social machine procedurally treats as progress is advances in subjugation. Depression may often be an artifact of "efficiency" with respect to extracting value from the population at large. We might need to dial back the exploitation of the currently-exploitable class to have a sustainable society, assuming pills don't work. In different terms, maybe we have too many rich people (exploiters) in a situation where it's clearly very foolish to keep growing in number (and productivity) to support them. Maybe we just need to rebalance our economy to make it work better for those currently exploited and endemically depressed people.
Right, so who’s correct?
> No doubt, but this article is about how the SSRIs don’t seem to be effective.

Where does the article say that?

> Given that’s the case, some drugs may help ease symptoms (depression being the symptom), but finding and correcting the root cause (if possible) is important.

It's not for lack of trying.

> Unfortunately, the medical industry as a whole has very little reason to try and “cure” these diseases / disorders. Why would a therapist? Why would a pharmaceutical company? Recurring revenue to ease symptoms is perfect.

That explanation doesn't have any legs.

By this theory, dentists have no incentives for prophylaxis, but in practice, that's a large part of what dentists do and it's very effective. By this theory, the medical industry wouldn't choose to eradicate any infections diseases, since it can make money from treatment. It turns out we can and do eradicate infectious diseases, but it is difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. We've only successfully eradicated two infectious diseases and only one of those affects humans in the first place.

If you look at other infectious diseases, there are tons of diseases which can be outright cured and tons which can't. This isn't for lack of trying, it's just that these diseases are different. You can kill bacteria with antibiotics, but if you get HIV, the best we can do is antiretroviral therapy.

Treatment of symptoms with pharmaceuticals is often a rational, good decision. There are simply too many diseases for which we don't have any known cure. Depression is one of them. The disease is too complicated, or the cure is too difficult, or our understanding of depression is too primitive, or some combination of all three. So we have stuff like SSRIs, which are known to work for some people.
Is there room in the market for a Takedown as a Service vendor?
While I only had positive experiences with SSRI so far, I can definitely say that substances can cause suicidal thoughts. When I took xanax, I had a lot of suicidal thoughts and really had to fight to not kill myself. It’s just like being on autopilot and having to fight against autopilot who wants to crash your car into a wall.

I could imagine that SSRI can activate this autopilot for some people and worsens their negative thoughts.
Came here to say this. Although few people are aware of it, it is said behind closed doors that for some people, it is a cure for depression, although it’s very controversial to make that claim in public, and obviously, it needs to be used carefully and with great respect.
I don't think I need a citation to back up the full statement. You chopped my sentence in half, then argued against that half.

I'm happy to discuss the full idea with you, and I'll try to reiterate it again more clearly.

The facts relating to topics and events that exist beyond our own experience, and the direct experience of the people we interact with in our lives have to come from somewhere. That somewhere is always a form of media (social or traditional).

The set of facts that we receive about these topics may also set limits on any independent ideas we, and others with the same set of facts, can come up with to explain them.

When the QAnon guy at the pub is delivering his ideas and talking points, he is doing so using a different set of basic facts that he has received about the topic. The set of facts that he has been exposed to are quite different to yours. So different that there isn't much overlap at all in the set of ideas and opinions that each of you can generate to explain them.

The interesting thing to think about is that we all place some trust in the media we consume (social or traditional) to deliver us the set of facts that accurately describes topics we have no direct exposure to. That includes the QAnon guy at the pub.
Sea Anchor
> Don't take it personal

Oh I take it personally. I’m alive today because I sought diagnosis and treatment. I very nearly wasn’t alive from the consequences of being undiagnosed and untreated. I very probably would be dead today if I had taken this “just person on the internet” more seriously than I already had. I’m more than tired of people offering their ignorant opinions about stuff they don’t understand.