skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depression, OCD, GAD, ADHD and most other neurological issues stem from complex feedback loops and deficiency in neurotransmitter systems.

They're labels applied to symptoms, not causes.

Like any complex system with feedback loops, sometimes intervention in the loop causes it to rebalance.

Sometimes the loop break is an intervention in serotonin, sometimes dopamine, sometimes GABA.

There is never a silver bullet. But there are bullets that make life manageable enough to break cyclic issues.
Poor analogy. You're welcome to address what I wrote directly if you'd like though.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davies would be happy to see this too.
Don't get me wrong, I recognise the snark, but GPT-3 already writes code if you ask nicely.

Biggest problem in this area, is nobody really knows what "consciousness" means (or if they are completely certain, then they also disagree with someone else who is also completely certain and/or deny the logical consequences of that definition).
Nice to see! Purchased back in 2015 and it’s been a daily driver since then. Props to Automattic for honouring existing purchasers with lifetime subscriptions!
> some monstrous IBM software and it was impossible to navigate

Was it Lotus Notes by any chance?
omg i didn't even realize i clicked on that story haha. thank you!
If the code is only being used for private internal applications who cares?
Too depressing to read.

I spent my childhood in the 1970s and 1980s terrified of nuclear war.

I’m not going to do that again.

If vile, selfish, psychopathic maniacs make the decision to end the world then so be it.

It'll prove for certain that humanity doesn’t deserve the world anyway, the rest of life on earth is better off without us.

I’m not going to give them my happiness and life. They’ll have to take it.
There are many components to such a calculation that can be split up amongst different research groups. I won't go into detail on all of those but essentially it boils down into two main categories of components to the calculation:-

* Analytical integrals - This is a big algebraic task where you're trying to compute an equation that can be written by hand. For example, if you have 1-loop diagram [1] then the particle in the loop effectively becomes an integral over all possible momentum configurations that particle can have. One-loop is a hard problem but reasonably 'solved', 2-loops is extremely challenging.

* Numerical integrals - This is typically using Monte Carlo techniques to numerically integrate over all possible momentum configurations of the incoming and outgoing particles. Because you can have many particles, it becomes a high dimensional integral pretty quickly. Monte Carlo scales well with dimensionality, but not that well. Therefore you need serious computation power for non-trivial numerical integrals.

Added to this fact is a fun feature of these calculations that infinities spring up all over the place. You have both a numerical and analytical game of getting these guys to cancel (they do, the calculation must be finite) but it is not a straightforward task at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-loop_Feynman_diagram
I'm sure it can, at least, run the 32-bit core close to real-time while the big core manages the rest of the machine.
(Thanks to fauigerzigerk for helping me post this to the right story on HN haha)

The HN conversation yesterday about the complexity of the proton, in particular how we poke and prod at it to suss out its qualities and quantities, got me thinking about the subatomic particles of my personal subjective conscious experience.

We can trace, with quite a bit of precision, how a certain photon cocktail results in me perceiving the orange title bar at the top of HN. But where's the orange paint in my brain? What is it made of and how could we inspect it like we inspect the guts of a proton? And furthermore, where's the camera that puts all of those particles of paint onto the same stage? We know where the visual cortex is, yes, but where's the camera that can see the whole stage at one time?

That part, the integration of all of our perception into a single 'stage', is where I've long felt there has to be some kind of quantum or possibly field effect at play. Then I wondered if it might actually be possible for there to be an 'afterlife' of sorts in which the quantum relationship between particles is sustained beyond our life.

Dunno. Trippy to think about though.
American manufacturing is very much “still here”, not unlike, say, American agriculture, despite also being crowded out of GDP by other growing sectors. So I’m not sure which claim we’re arguing about.
Pocket Casts has it, too.
Like it or not, you are your neurology. You are your synaptic structure, you are your neurotransmitters.

This trick of conscious self awareness doesn't trump neurology.

You can't meditate out of physical systems malfunctioning any more than you can meditate away a broken leg.

These drugs are like casts for broken bones. Just because you can't see the broken system doesn't make it less physical.

Get a cast. Heal the anatomy. Try and walk again.
Yes, but very tenuously, and as we all know correlation is not causation. Heartbeat evoked potentials are like a clock signal or drum beat through brain activity. The spin of these protons is synchronised with changes in these potentials, and the potentials play a role in cognitive function.

Imagine a band playing a song. The drum beat drives the rhythm and plays a central role in whole performance, but these protons may well be like sand grains bouncing on the surface of the drum.

Also bear in mind that nothing they studied or observed correlates in any way with the specific quantum processes that occur in quantum computation.
If a piece of copyrighted artistic work is only being used for private pleasure, who cares?

Copyright doesn't, for sure.
Devils advocate: If you signed the TOS for Github aren't you giving it away?
You just described why I preferred Assembly early in my career, and C/C++ for the majority. Making your own batteries enables exponential opportunities to improve and optimize a project, simply because one knows all the parts, they are not externally sourced "batteries-included" features.
I was wondering the same thing, there is very little reason to outside of the standard library in Python. Then you have the 3rd party the ones that have been solidified as basically standard as well.

You shouldn’t be downloading a package from Joe Schmoe.
Theoretically this could be addressed by looking for the earliest occurence of said code in github and check its license. Sure, there are some edge cases where original copyrighted code has been removed and only unlicensed repo remains but it would be better than nothing
there’s some very poor logic in this article. e.g. the first reason given for why pirates were supported was to protect their harbourers from the repercussions of hiding them in the first place.
> How do you work from home, when the power is out - your laptop may be working, but you have no Internet.

Obviously you can't and are too much dependent on Internet.
Maybe you should consider alternative. Use offline-first applications in future.
Calendar Versioning – CalVer
Interesting, can you elaborate on the pros/cons of the office for you?
Y'all need Aslan
For some reason I always assumed those battery-less electrical buses were super common abroad? They are everywhere in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

But yeah absolutely at this point its a shame such solution hasnt been widely deployed yet :/
I think the US is much more inclined to use parallel construction and the full extent of the legal system to bring down someone, which while can be similar, is not quite the same as someone simply never being seen again.
Automated Deal Flow
Exactly. Let everybody live without problems is pretty expensive (in the future, that is why politicians do not care about it).
The true hegemons beyond six degrees of freedom separation from Rupert Murdoch's news and sports media empire likely have a well stocked techno paradise buried under the snow in Antartica secured to wait for the return of first spring after nuclear total war.
Perhaps, but is it really detrimental to discuss it? HN is decently moderately enough to avoid flame wars, and sure there's a lot of anecdotal talk going about by folks who aren't doctors, but that doesn't mean that patients/the public shouldn't discuss health.

Perhaps a sticky/banner for health topics may be a good idea? Like "This is a health topic, please don't make unverifiable claims and mark your opinions as your own"?
Pocket Cast has a silence removing feature, but in my opinion it's rather bad (on iOS at least). It was the main reason for me together with artefacts when speeding the playback up to change to another podcast player. Both Castro (which I'm using now) and Overcast have a superb silence removing feature and artefact-free speedup.
Yay new physics!
If a computer game or software is only distributed to be played or used on private machines, who cares?
Washington Pizza Index (1998)
How can engineers help customer support launch automations?
Hmm no ... "Works for me" ... Google Assistant has been incredibly correct in what it recognizes.

Just to prove my point I will dictate this paragraph an expect Google assistant will transcribe it perfectly.

Nja... Not perfect ... but really close.
> The problem with treating depressed people is to get them to actually do the things that will help them. That can be incredibly difficult without medication.

The problem with talking about doing "things that will help them" is that we don't really have a lot of effective clinical interventions. Even the most common interventions (SSRIs, Congnitive Behavioral Therapy, physical exercise, etc.) are not really that effective at treating depression and have little to no effect in large parts of the affected population. That being said, these treatments _do_ work for some people so they should definitely not be dismissed out of hand (although it may in some cases be regression to the mean more than anything else, i.e. if you get better after a while on your own but have undergone treatments of one form or another you may erroneously believe your most recent treatment was effective).
I feel just as disgusted by stuff like this, but more at the industry incentives than developers as people.

There is a type of developer that adds more technical garbage to the pile, but their ranks grow when their peers see they are rewarded for that behavior.

It is the game that is messed up, many are just playing by the rules to 'win'.
I grew up with the interrupting style, but when I realized some people get very offended by it, I decided to switch to waiting. Now that I am on the receiving end of interruptions, I notice the main problem with interrupting- that the interrupters often think they know what is going to be said, but are wrong. This is inefficient and not a proper exchange of ideas (which requires thinking about what was said), which can easily feel demoralizing. I find that waiting is actually a lot more efficient than interrupting if everyone can talk succinctly and avoid useless tangents (which isn’t easy to do). You do have to lead by example here and often have to step back and moderate the conversation that way.

It’s mind opening to see some of these articles advocating for the interrupting style. I see how it can work well, and I will try to adapt to that style some more in some circumstances. And in particular try to develop more signaling abilities. However, in my experience interrupting is useful just when someone is not succinct- otherwise it’s too easy for interrupters to do a poor job listening and actually facilitate a good conversation.
The copyright holders care, historically speaking.

I wouldn't be surprised if lawyers/courts/lawmakers determine that current generative AI are on the "infringing" rather than the "inventive" side of things.

I think there is potential for this to change as AI gets better:

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/an-end-to-c...
Come to think of it, starting paragraphs/comments with syntax would be a decent solution. Like:

OPINION: I think....

ANECDOTE: When I experienced this...
Depending on how you acquired the work, copyright most certainly does care.
Natural gas pipelines can be upgraded to transport hydrogen instead.
I completely agree. I believe we have no idea how these drugs work at the moment.

For one, serotonin receptors are _everywhere_, notably the gut, which also has a strong relationship with emotional state. And as you point out, they don't just affect serotonin. Given we have a whole bunch of drugs that attempt to be serotonin selective, but where each one affects different people in different ways, it seems likely to me that the non-serotonin effects are likely significant.

Plus, what's the reason so many of us are anxious, depressed, neurotic, autistic, ADHD, etc. without obvious cause? Why would a huge chunk of the population have a imbalance of brain chemicals?

Ultimately I suspect my GAD/OCD is probably environmental, but environmental in a way that I can't easily identify or fix. Maybe it's the unnatural desk job oriented lifestyle I have, or maybe it's plastics in my blood, processed foods, lack of religion, social media or something else. Or maybe the neurotransmitters just sometimes need a kick up the arse to get them back into proper functioning.

All I really know is sertraline helps me live a normal life, and for that I'm thankful.
Space-based solar power is getting serious
why? why can't they let people install addons from the store and see what breaks and only fix those things? by this rate and how nightly can run addons, why not the regular folk?

why are they making this difficult?
Oh I would definitely also be worried about this specific app requesting this permission.

My questions about this permission are based on the other person saying "if Android allows an app ability to do that then that's a huge security hole". In this case it does seem like a security hole, but that can't be said as a general statement in my opinion.
Not the person you were replying to, but that takes me back! Back in those days I was in early high school and Jumper was one of the games I looked up to when I was learning Game Maker. I completely forgot about it.
If you claim a construction is obvious and dispells confusion, that construction should not have any readings that are obviously wrong.

Sure, charitable readings of informed readers will find it obvious. But less informed readers, or skeptical readers, will see the wrong interpretation. For a skeptical reader to then think "since they state its obvious, perhaps they refer to the general uncomputability of the reals", is not surprising.

Regarding the actual construction, once its well formulated, it becomes a lot less 'natural'. Since the definition is already taking about computable (or representable) reals, it is much less surprising that the result is a non-computable function.
The beauty of the example is that the definition of the function never refers to any ideas from computational theory. Hence the article serves as a counter example to the theory "You never get uncomputable functions in fields outside of computational theory".
On land, it can be hard to very accurately measure the horizon (mountains etc).

However you can use a similar technique by using a weight on a string to make a perfectly vertical line, and seeing the alignment between stars and that.
They do, you may also find this [1] interesting, it doesn't cover the starlight navigation system but the 19,000 piece Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (AIRS)

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30254/this-isnt-a-sci-...
> "Theoretically this could be addressed by looking for the earliest occurrence of said code in GitHub and check its license."

That's a pretty big hash-list you've got there...
No, read the TOS.
Another +1 for Sertraline. It worked wonder for me after 2 years of depression (classified as mild to severe using some clinical test).

I've been taking it for 4 months, and since my life has gotten back to normal my doctor has advised tapering off of it, starting today. We'll see how it goes.

I thought it was standard procedure to advise trying tapering off if your life got back to normal, and see how it goes (at least that's how my doctor presented it). I guess that's not a worldwide standard though.
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I'm so grateful for our individualistic society.
Your comment is execrable.
Python:
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So is joy, happiness and pleasure. I feel sorry for you if your life is only filled with regret and misery. For most people there are ways out of misery but it all starts with the realization that it's not a necessity. When you're depressed it's difficult to imagine ever being able to feel anything else again but knowing that it is possible can put you on the right track.

Maybe your need to pass judgement on my character based on two posts should tell you something about yourself. It really takes an inflated ego to, as a non-parent, talk about responsibility with a parent. Paraphrasing: "Responsibility as a parent is heavy as a mountain, deciding not to have children is light as a feather".
It seems so. I wonder how much can be compensated with Vitamin D supplements or light therapy.
The ticketing mess of Bangkok’s rail transit
Bangkok's urban rail transit system has three different operators that issue three separate tickets that aren't compatible with other lines.
It's not machine learning that's required to make computers better than humans at chess.

Non machine-learning chess engines engines based on alpha-beta pruning and expertly-crafted evaluation functions have been stronger than all human chess players for a long time now.

Given this blog post, one might ask whether replacing middle management with alpha-beta pruning and expertly-crafted evaluation functions makes sense.
Given that the lack of light can cause depression, it would be more prevalent the further North (or South) you go as the conditions aren't present at the equator. What would be interesting to know is if people who live in the more Northern regions are more resistant to seasonal depressions, compared to some one from Southern Europe or the Middle East.
There absolutely are RCTs out there for breast milk vs formula- here’s one example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939272/
Hmm, last i checked whatever Home Assistant comes with (and integration for some other tool) did not support that. Also, all the TPlink devices I have have their IP feeds capped at an hour, and there was no good way to reinit the stream. Maybe that's changed?
I’m someone who has dealt with mental health issues over the course of my life.

The main causes are the following:

1) Illicit drug use.
2) Stress/anxiety/fear/grief

The answer is to accept the hard truths and understand what is the root cause of your depression. Is it lack of friends and family? Lack of hope for the future? Lack of enjoyment in things that previously made you happy? Belief that somehow success/truth comes at the expense of enjoyment of life (“ignorance is bliss”). Is it past trauma? A job/relationship you hate? Body/health issues? Aging? Feeling like you’ve achieved all your dreams but you’re more unhappy than ever? Bullying? Feeling unsatisfied? Unfulfilled? Shame about past behaviors?

All of these problems have solutions. Figure out what is at the core of your problem, and then treat it. Every problem is different.

For me, I realized I was harboring an incredible amount of pent up rage and resentment. The rage was so deep that it was all I could think about. Then I realized, I had to forgive the people who’d wronged me. And forgive them I did. I genuinely forgave them, in my own mind. And just like that, all my happiness came back to me. Suddenly I was free.

Also, I believe that almost all of our problems can be traced back to fear. So stop worrying. It’s a waste of energy.

There are some mental health issues that do require hospitalization and a short stint of medication to get people back on their feet and able to function. But I don’t believe in long term medication. Drugs are not the answer.
> AI are on the "infringing" rather than the "inventive" side of things

Does it really matter? Once you embed copyrighted works into your learning dataset, any model you ship and any "creation" of that model is by definition a derived work, must have a license from the original authors and must obey the terms of that license. The extent of derivation is immaterial.

The AI crowd is on a hard collision course with an army of gavels.
Disabling billing, from your link:

> Note: There is a delay of up to a few days between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications. Due to usage latency from the time that a resource is used to the time that the activity is billed, you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped.

So still pretty useless. Apparently they do have real-time billing updates via PubSub, but then it's up to you to code what to do when you spend too much.
If you're in an exploring phase for [GCP PRODUCT X] you're not going to preemptively write a safeguard to turn off [GCP PRODUCT X] in case of too high billing updates.

It's better than nothing, but kind of a slap in the face that they do have all the tools to really allow people to have a hard spending limit, but they don't.

I've heard the argument "but it's too dangerous, people might lose non-backed up data", but that also happens if you set a Billing Limit, just that the billing limit will kill all your projects AND still let you rack days of over-the-budget billing.
I haven't read the article yet, but here's one approach: don't replace middle management with AI, just fire all of them. Much cheaper and gives 90% of the benefit of replacing these people with computers.
I have these friends. Husband and wife. Rich. Academic. Political. Both on antidepressants.

They get a dog. Beautiful white german shepherd.

Dog is a bit wild. So they consult a "dog psychiatrist".

Psychiatrist puts dog on antidepressants.

Why not a few weeks of Doggy Dicipline Academy? It's common to get german shepherds a bit of training.

"Nope" says the psychiatrist. "That would be cruel".

They worship that psychiatrist. Dingalings.
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Honestly, why XML? Isn't JSON 100 times better, smaller and easy to use than XML? why choose a legacy format (with known security problems in parsers, compability, and unnecessary use of bandwidth) in 2022?
If Vikings imitated/emulated the Romans in their funerary practices, arguably they did the same in their living practices too. If that's the case, why are the Vikings persistently dissed, at least in popular culture, as uncouth, violent, hard drinking, fornicating barbarians?

As a resident of New Jersey, I feel for the Vikings.
No doubt the billionaires have already retreated to their shelters.

Anyone seen Jeff Bezos in person lately? Peter Thiel? Other billionaires? If their missing from public life it’s cause they’re at their doomsday hideaway.

Peter Thiel’s doomsday retreat is in New Zealand. He became a New Zealand citizen just so he could buy it. I’ll bet you $5 he’s in NZ right now.
My point is, you deny by default and only allow your static ips at the FW.

You need a firewall rule anyway to let the wg traffic through.

WG was built to handle roaming, and the FW can do a great job of filtering by address already, so it makes sense to not bloat wg with extra code to me.
For anyone interested in a bit more context around microtubules, here's a video that shows how they are built and used to support cell mitosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JpOJ4F4984

I wish my biology class back in high school had videos like this.
> There is a curious hypothesis that the world arranges itself by the continued fraction powers of number e

Sounds intriguing. Do you have any references off the top of your head, or at least some keywords that I can google to learn more?