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> 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.

I don’t think we disagree in almost any of this.

I’m simply pointing out depression may be caused by environmental factors, one which can be treated. It could be why they found “nothing convincing” in the study.

I have yet to meet a depressed person or almost any person who couldn’t use more community. I suspect most peoples depression is a rational / emotional response to lack of basic needs of some kind. Whether that’s community, sleep, job, food, etc

That’s not to say all people have environmental factors or that drugs can’t help people cope. I’m merely sharing what struck me and for some reason hadn’t clicked with me prior, even seeing people get out of depression.

The people I know who overcame depression all did the following: worked out, improved sleep patterns, joined some activities. One could argue correlation (ie as depression reduced, they became more active). But it didn’t seem that way looking in. Anyway, just an observation and contemplation really.
`pip freeze` doesn't generate hashes, so you can't be sure that the package contents haven't actually changed but maintained the same version string.

Also, `pip freeze` doesn't include platform-specific dependencies for other platforms. So if you run the following on linux and again on macos, you'll get different results because `ipython` depends on `appnope` only when running on macos.

python -m venv env && env/bin/pip install ipython==8.4.0 --quiet && env/bin/pip freeze
Useful feature that should have existed from the beginning. If it did, the sudo mistake wouldn’t have happened.
I assume he is trying to establish a dividing line between acceptable and not. For example, I'd consider all mentioned uses to be unacceptable and hopefully illegal, but I think others may be fine with it.
> 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.

Don't all those rich people also get depression? I think that rules out a marxist reading here.

If you're going to go this general direction, i'd say a better way would be, we now live in a system where work is never done, stress is pretty constant, and labour is less physical but more mental in the modern world. Perhaps our mind is just not made for continous mental labour. Being a farmer in pre modern times sucked, but at least you could turn your brain off more often.
Or ”fuck you, we still made money”
No, it's not, and no, you aren't. Tax brackets only increase in rate. Tax rates don't start coming back down for the super rich. If your income was in capital gains you would pay the capital gains rates. If the billionaire's income came in through salary they would pay income tax.
Applied to stock, the main unstated conditions is the game conditions are actually positive EV for every bet, not neutral like they implied.
If that were the case, people in France would be obsessed with wanting to work :)

The improvements you list are all good things, but they’ve got zilch to do with wanting to work
Even if the wildest dreams of transhumanists come true, that would not be the permanent abolition of death, merely postponing the inevitable. With every passing millennia, the odds of dying by accident or homicide would only grow. Even supposing mind uploading works - that strategy might keep you safe from accidents, but eventually you’ll die in the heat death of the universe. Schemes proposed to beat that are so extremely speculative-they are no more believable than religious afterlife claims (maybe even less so). Entropy always wins in the end-with the possible exception of unimaginably long timescales-eventually, maybe, we’ll all be resurrected as Boltzmann brains, or endure this exact life repeating an infinite number of times without change (Nietzsche, meet Poincaré). But odds are you’ll die long before that. Or our simulators will get bored with us, and turn this universe off.
Gold. I'd add that even people who have those "get paid to do what you love!" or "dream" jobs don't want to work, most of the time. Working, approximately meaning doing things on any kind of schedule, is hard and I've never met anyone, no matter how passionate or talented, who wasn't just getting through it by doing the minimum, some of the time.
> But I don't quite worry about the fact that I'm growing bald or wearing a 15 year old tshirt half the time.

That's a very good example, and I use it for a question.

Let's say you are growing bald, you have been single for years, you have problems finding a partner, and it happens that (it is largely true according to my experience) women prefer men with hair (there are women who prefer bald, but having hair allows you to razor shave, so it means you can do hair and no hair).

It is expected that a hair transplant, for which you have the necessary money, will increase your chances of finding a partner from 10% to 70%, however you want to interpret these numbers.

Do you think that undergoing a hair transplant means (a) worrying excessively about the opinion of others, and thus you don't do it, (b) realizing that the world works a certain way and that listening to its feedback and adapting is, at least occasionally, a wise decision, and then having a transplant?

I am for (b) (I am a woman, but still).
This is established IP in an adjacent media. Marvel first line of business used to be comics which in turn generated sales for tie-in products. In this context it was probably relatively easy to see how much these IP made every year.
Did Einstein say that? (2018)
Fair criticism as usual and maybe I should have been more specific, but I didn't say anything about the 1700s or prior specifically. If we talk about trends in the lifespan of people alive today (which represents a huge number of people) the picture is much different.
I would love to work!

I lost 2 jobs in biotech due to vaccine mandates. I'm consulting presently, but may need to completely change careers if the situation stays this way. That or find a startup where the founders care more about talent than optics.

I'm improving my python skills and studying machine learning, but I world rather be doing wet lab experiments.
Each of the A steps is discretionary and optional. They can abandon the process at any time-- in which case Google shrugs and moves on with life after a timeout expires.
For good in-depth investigative journalist approach to the topic, I highly recommend the book "Lost Connections" by Johaan Hari.

The author himself was diagnosed with depression and prescribed SSRIs for the longest time. Through talking with experts and understanding the roots of depression (in short, a lack of connection with the world and community), he now no longer takes them.
That’s so sick. I have been into minidisc for about 4 years and never knew this :)
You can have a shortages in one area of chip manufacturing but still have a surplus in others.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-predicts-end-of-ch...
I suppose we can follow memes or facts.

Please note I never used tensorflow on that computer in fact I never used tensorflow, but this is my experience: https://gist.github.com/takeda/89ec29501b6e8641415668f22f3e9...

It succeeded after first try.

I do see that in their repo[1] they use a non standard way to build the package. They use Bazel, but that's Google for you. They never do things everyone else is doing. I'm not sure why this is Python problem rather than package problem.

They have tons of open issues around building: [2]

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow

[2] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/labels/type%3Abuild...
Come on there is nothing untoxic about telling a newcomer they don't belong. At best this person may not have ramped up at the same speed. There are much better ways of giving this feedback instead of being hostile no? What you now want this new employee to walk in eggshells from this moment onwards?
Does the Internet not contain a vast amount of ugly design, slow pages, and sex services? That’s just a function of humanity, the medium it’s expressed through doesn’t alter that.

I think that many engineers laud the minitel network because it’s a legitimately separate design from the current internet monoculture which despite its seeming diversity on the surface, has some foundational technology that everyone uses. Like did minitel require using http? Did minitel have outages once or twice a year from a main provider wiping their bgp tables?

Those aren’t even sarcastic questions, I’ve only lightly learned about minitel but was fascinated because I’m under the impression that they took a different tech tree than what The Internet has
I knew someone would say this.

"Never roll your own cryptography", despite the ambiguity of its phrasing, means never use uncertified crypto in production unless you're willing to take the risk. It doesn't mean to never build cryptography without an expert's permission. Everyone who has ever published world-class cryptography has rolled their own crypto.
> When everyone gets it, it becomes baked into rents or mortgage payments

True, unless there’s a land value tax. But a man can dream.
Not unless demand goes down because the next generations are much poorer than the precious ones.
Agree, I would love to shadow someone who claims they regularly (and productively) work 90-100+ hr weeks of focused, mentally-taxing labor aka System 2 thinking. Otherwise all of us easily "work" 100-112/wk if we simply limit our downtime and count any sort of order/structure-producing tasks as work.

Finance bros like to whine about their hours but I struggle with the notion that updating an Excel model and/or plowing through market research is mentally taxing beyond the volume of reps. The best tales I've really heard of sustained & taxing performance comes from the the SOF branches of the military, medicine, or game development.

I've only ever met one genuine short sleeper so far who thrived on 3-4/night and was not a caffeine-riddled jack-in-the-box - he had superior physical performance as a gym trainer and there was plenty of evidence he worked the long hours, but his job was not as mentally demanding.
Millennials are NOT the "home computer generation", per the article. You've missed the point; the home computer generation were the ZX81/Atari people, who had to work out how the equipment worked.

The "mobile first" people are developers; honestly, users don't give a shit whether developers want to prioritise mobile. And developers aren't users; on the whole, developers understand the tech in ways that modern users don't have the first clue about. That's the same as it always was: the "home computer generation" wasn't a generation; it was a subculture. Most people knew nothing.

Now everyone has multiple computing devices, annd they have no idea how they work. Back then, you HAD TO figure out how they worked, or they were useless.
You seem to have missed the “having/owning nothing” part. It’s an admirable goal.
As someone that fairly recently spent many months trying to shard a large mongodb system, this is patently false. Mongodb is not sharded “by default”, and sharding it is a lot of work and comes with a very heavy performance impact.
No surprises here, no wonder streaming services are seeing less subscribers when the digital subscription model is just as annoying and costly as cable TV.
Hence why Jony Ive got the boot from Apple.
Yes, it's good real wages are declining given the inflationary backdrop.

But politicians fighting inflation with higher wages and stimulus checks, as well as the chorus of idiots cheering them on, repeating the same mistakes as the 70s, is quite mindblowing.

How far do consumer sentiment and approval ratings have to drop for people to wake up to basic economic realities?

They didn't have the internet in the 70s, by the way.
Phones already have a lot of these protections, costing over felony theft amounts these days, registered by the manufacturer and cell phone provider, tracked via cell tower, yet they are routinely stolen. Criminals are smart. They know how to take out a sim card and throw it in the trash then how to part out the phone on ebay. They will know before long how to make whatever security is present on an ebike irrelevant enough to make some money.
When there are no paper ballots or printing of ballot receipts, I take it that the quiet intent is not to have a paper trail so that election fraud can be more easily hidden or for plausible deniability. Often, such methods, are to be used against the votes of minority groups or minority parties.
I always wonder why it didn't take off elsewhere. It was basically the 80s commercial version of a national "world wide web".

We had a knockoff using the same tech (even the same terminals) in the Netherlands but there was a hefty service fee per minute and it was hardly used. You could use a computer too but you needed a modem with this quirky 1200/75 baud mode (1200 baud down which was bog standard, but 75 baud up which was not). My 2400 baud modem couldn't do that (it could only do 300/300, 1200/1200 and 2400/2400) so I never used it.
As an American in (Germanic) Europe, I was struck by how positively people think of the word "competent". In America that sounds like "not doing your best" or "having no passion". Here it sounds like "doing your job properly". People expect the plumber (or more to the point, the waiter) to do their job, but they don't expect passion or excellence.
t. no idea how books and articles are written
Umm sure this could be the noblest thing but nothing in the constitution about being love with the company mission. It is a job. They pay you, you provide labor. As long as the employee isn't acting maliciously or maligning the company what gives?
Thus leading to the over use of surface water, depletion of ground water, extinctions, and environmental damage we are seeing right now..
I had the same feedback talking to a few professionals. There is doubt about the exact effect of the prescription and the science behind it, and they regularly have patients that get no clear effect from commonly prescribed treatments.

But they also see other patients showing measurable improvement, and trying different prescriptions until finding one that seem to have an effect is a common practice.

All in all, this is very murky situation, but drug prescription can still be effective and might be the only option for some patient for who other approaches didn't work.
I want to support you, also toward HN, that I do take it personally and am pretty exhausted by people all the way back to both of my parents denying I have a condition.

People of the internet: there are better things you can be doing than playing armchair psychiatrist, especially by invoking notions that can ultimately be harmful to a class of people who have forever been told they just need to put in more effort. You don't know what it's like to live with this so please stop with the conjectures. Thank you.
I would love to see an experiment where various HN users create bogus - yet original - content (say, a single person saying "Hi mom", or something), then other HN users file copyright claims claiming they own "Hi" and / or "Mom". I'd grab my popcorn watching the results.
Watching characters smoking on film often gives me cravings, but just seeing the words "menthol cigarettes" makes me want to run out and grab a pack. Thankfully, they're banned in Canada so it would be a long drive for me today. I'm not black, but most of the kids in my neighborhood were, and these ads certainly impacted us.

The article doesn't really dig into what's so bad about menthol. It makes the smoke feel cool, which provides sensory relief. But it's like drinking alcohol to feel warm -- it increases an individual's mental tolerance without doing a damned thing physically. It even seems to make the cigarettes more addictive, which strongly resonates with me, probably because they diminish the body's "stop that, it hurts" response. Clove cigarettes have a similarly numbing sensation (and delicious flavor). As a teen I couldn't understand why those were banned in some places... now I only wonder why menthols didn't get the axe when other flavors were banned in the US, though I've always harbored a suspicion about the brand of Obama's guilty pleasure.
> what kind of taxing scheme would make it so you want to work again?

I stopped wanting to push my business forward when my govt has forced me to get computers and internet access in my grocery store for sending info about each transaction. That equipment slows down a number of people which I can serve per minute. The software I have bought is ugly as hell and prints 5cm of advertisement on each paper check I use to give to a client. Excuse me trees, I do not know how to fix that.

In a perfect world, RMS' advice about tax rate based on the fraction of any given market that the company controls seems a good start.
Inflation measurement is a political tool.
If the total effective tax rate was higher for higher earners and lower for lower earners we could collect the same total tax and leave more money in the hands of people with less. This is only one way to achieve making work pay more, of course.

If we did that, GP might be willing to work since the effective pay rate would be higher.
I think only in moderate climates. Concrete tends to crack when it gets really cold and then warm.
Sounds like youtube doesn't feel obligated to restore content after a valid counter notification: https://www.newmediarights.org/copyright/DMCA/youtube_refusi...

I guess, as long as they comply with the takedown, they feel sufficiently safely harboured, and don't feel compelled to implement the other part of the process since like what are you going to do, sue youtube to force them to host your video and run ads on it?
I know and I don't care. Just leave my numbers as is.
On the one hand when I made crappier wages I was real concerned with liking what I was working on, but then I got my first real good wages and that needing to like to perform went away. But then after a while I was used to getting good wages and then I started having the need to like what I was doing again.

Good wages after a bit are not going to help you if the work sucks, but it is a good initial motivator.
It's only obscure for people who arrived at the scene long after the distortion of terms already took place, and never studied where the terminology comes from.
Engaging. Would read again. [directed graphs]

Author has a few other interesting posts, such as musing about "approximate sorting algorithms" [no conclusions there].
Am one of the black sheep of my Electrical Engineering batch who moved to software. Why? The steep learning curve that involved loads of memorization of long formulae and static values which sucked for someone like me.

An easier, and more forgiving entry path based on self-learning ("hack my way through") in software development as compared to the entry barriers of EE - especially in India where Oscilloscopes and other equipment were crazy expensive some decades ago.

20% of my batch has moved to software over the last 25 years, compensation being one key factor.
> Why worry all the time if you can just worry when something actually happens

At least in the USA, one small mistake in trust or lack of safety in certain things ("something happening") could cause you to be on the street within months, even for people like those here on HN who generally have good jobs and such. I think it's getting a bit primal due to that here. We're acting like animals because we've been treated as such for decades and generations and we're finally sick of it. That's my opinion, not really backed up by anything.
But they mostly don’t get paid in salary do they so it’s a strawman. The amount of tax paid is proportional to the general utility of the money (wrt day to day living), rather than the inverse. It’s dumb
Amazon sues more than 11,000 Facebook groups that brokered fake online reviews
The document you’ve linked to is whacky propaganda from the Church of Scientology.
But I can't choose whether my income is in cap or income and the people with the most in capitalism pay the lowest effective tax rate.

Who cares how you came by the money? It is fungible.
Seems accurate. My understanding is the Pro versions always come with a better cooling solution than Air
I'll take competent over passionatly aiming for excellence every time. Especially since competence gets the job on hand when it has to be done, even if the job is quite the opposite of glorious or fancy.
No universal healthcare or education, high infant mortality rates, no subsidies for childcare at scale, no mandated sick or vacation time federally. 12 million children living in poverty. Limited or no options for getting mental health care. “We live in a society” in air quotes. When your country provides so little, it is difficult to establish a debt is owed back to it and society.

And the thought of having my kids join the meat grinder for yet another meaningless war for people who care so little for you a random underfunded non profit will have to fill the gap when they come back permanently broken? And your risks of chronic homelessness and/or suicide skyrocket? Absolutely not. Save your life and fight in you for something that matters.
Oracle also had issues around the same time:
https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/incidents/ocid1.oraclecl...

Obviously the weather is easy to blame, but I wonder if the underlying cause is the same datacenter. It's kind of annoying when clouds use availability zones as such an opaque thing, it's not possible to map a zone from one cloud to another and potentially your failure domains overlap.

Shameless self promotion: I have a map of all the cloud regions (but not going into as much detail as availability zones): https://cloud-regions.bodge.cloud -- the clouds just don't publish the data.
In the US, low- and lower-middle-class income households often do face very high effective marginal tax rates - sometimes north of 60% - due to the combination of direct taxes and benefit cliffs and phase-outs. State income taxes and benefit programs can exacerbate this. Slightly dated reference (2012) but [0] is still pretty representative.

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...
Yes, docker solves all these issues (because your app carries all of its environment in the image), however it is a bit cumbersome if you want to distribute your app to many unknown users. They can't just download something and run it, as Windows users are used to doing.
Android is thinking of adding ads to lock screen
Who wants to...

"...do what they love doing"

"...build their dream"

"...help people in a way that is truly needed"

"...create shareholder value in a mind-numbing hellhole for minimum wage with a boss who constantly complains about your lack of motivation."

Anyone who says, "nobody wants to work anymore" is outing themselves as a lizard-person who lacks awareness, people skills, and even the most basic level of empathy for their employees. Never work for somebody who says this.
The phrase is usually trotted out in comparison to the Good Ol' Days, when people did want to work. The person complaining about it has a memory of Their Day, when people were eager to show up on time, do quality work, do it efficiently, and without a Sense of Entitlement (i.e. for shit pay).

I've caught myself thinking this a few times. This twitter thread is a great antidote.