skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify, and not by way of disagreement: you're speaking to what motivates folks and claiming it is altruism. I agree. I was talking about the incentive structure as it is, which is much less about altruism and more "what is the benefit folks involved."
I think it's very reasonable to reject one method of treatment just from the side effects alone. I also think it's important to look at the "risk/reward" by looking at how much more effective ECT was against ketamine.

> The overall pooled SMD for depression symptoms for ECT when compared with ketamine was −0.69 (95% CI, −0.89 to −0.48; Cochran Q, P = .15; I2 = 39%), suggesting an efficacy advantage for ECT compared with ketamine for depression severity.

> Both ketamine and ECT had unique adverse effect profiles (ie, ketamine: lower risks for headache and muscle pain; ECT: lower risks for blurred vision, vertigo, diplopia/nystagmus, and transient dissociative/depersonalization symptoms).

Perhaps you'd reach the same conclusion as you did, and I think the paper puts it best:

> Although ECT may be more efficacious than ketamine in the acute phase, treatment options should be individualized and patient-centered, considering different adverse effect profiles and patient preferences.
Memories disappear in depression on their own already. Whole spans of my 20s are just gone.
I’m also a scuba diver and have also touched sharks while diving. They reacted in a similar way to a dolphin or a seal or any other large aquatic animal, as in it all depends on how they are touched. If it’s a gentle “pet”, they don’t seem to mind. If you punched, poked, yanked, or some other aggressive action, then the response would be different. Also note, there’s many types of sharks and not surprisingly, some more aggressive than others. I can’t speak for GP, but I’ve never touched a bull/tiger/mako shark, let alone a great white.
Peak power: hydrogen to be injected into UK station for first time
I used to feel similarly. But (most) businesses today can barely see beyond the next quarter. We're always cutting corners, we're always up against insane deadlines that started as estimates, etc.

I'd care a lot more about the long-term effects of the code that I write and the systems that I build if I was given ample opportunity to actually engage with long-term planning. But I'm not, so I care less about what impact I have a year or two from now with each passing day.
I'm not sure you have the correct definition of a low trust society. If the US was a low trust society due to it's gun ownership Mad Max would be more than a movie. In fact, Mad Max is a perfect example of a low trust society. All but the most degenerate Americans believe murder is wrong... so I'm not sure what kind of point you're making about guns. That alone is a shared ethical value. An important one, too!

America is very high trust. It still has something that resembles a democracy, private property rights, businesses, etc. All of this signal that Americans can have shared ethical values - a fundamental point of high(er) trust societies. None of these would be possible if people fundamentally didn't trust each other. Despite what the media portrays Americans as almost none of it is true.
While I think memory loss can vary from person to person, I know that the effective of ECT can be temporary for some people and moreover, sometimes the second just doesn't work (as happened with a friend of mine).
It's not just keeping fragmentation in check, above a threshold ZFS switches allocation strategy. The "nearly full" allocator is typically slower, IIRC because it tries to find better fitting free-space holes than the default allocator.

I can't recall if the threshold is 80% or 90% right now, but around there.
Along with low density car based transport. Used to live in the suburbs a few years ago and had very few social interactions because there was way too much friction. Easier to just play video games or watch TV. Now I live in a high rise and have a few friends in the same building. Social events are spontaneous, I'll get a message like "Hey we are having a party now, come down to level 5" so I end up spending a lot of time with friends and building social groups.
>1) fix your link

Done (albeit in a reply to myself, as it is too late to edit my comment); I apologize for that.

>2) This absolutely does not match my experience:

I invite everyone to peruse the link that berglof kindly provided the current version of, at <https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...>. Note the total absence of any language or employment requirement for obtaining Swedish citizenship.
It depends which dictionary you are reading. Many of them say things like “to injure or kill with an electric shock”
Your argument is a “unique insight” isn’t enough to provide an enduring competitive advantage (or “moat”). But that’s not what the OP is talking about.

A unique insight (and great timing / market) is often enough to get to early PMF (and - like you mention - to Series A).
alternatively: https://archive.ph/UU7Jc
To that point, llvm now has an "ml inliner" that's been trained on a lot of open source code to allow it to make the best inlining decisions.
If it's that fragile, then is it a friendship? It's more of an acquaintance, except on HN we don't know who you are.

We probably don't know your name, so I don't even know it counts as an acquaintance, unless you're famous externally and have linked that to your HN username, or have used it as your name. And even then we know it in the same way as a roll call in a crowded lecture room or business meeting, and not as the individual.

I think classic online forums did provide scope for building up social connections, but I think the Reddit-inspired social news sites, including HN, simply do not.
Thought this was gonna be about sleep tracking and the related cottage industry and how Apple was poised to be the next Sleepopolis.com or sleeplikethedead.com by leveraging the watch data for recommendations or something…
A simple usecase I had was submitting a contact us form from a static marketing site and being able to route it somewhere.
My thanks to you for providing the current URL for the page I referenced in my earlier comment.

>We're all equal under the law, it's just that diffent laws apply to each of us.

Indeed.

I invite everyone curious to visit the above-mentioned page; as I stated, note the total absence of any language or employment requirement for obtaining Swedish citizenship.
The social aspect to GitHub is very much not front and center, so it seems very innocuous. How are badges toxic?

It certainly seems like a waste of their development time. I looks at these badges for a moment and think "neat" but nothing else. And profiles I just ignore, especially the ones people Myspace-ify...
I don't maintain a repo of that size but I have to say this sounds more reasonable. I guess it totally depends on the project. I guess tons of PRs could be annoying _but_ if they are actually useful PRs, then it would be nice to have smaller, more manageable PRs, no?
My guess is subpixel rendering. The single pixel lines ending up halfway across a pixel, activating more green than it intended to do.

This fix (https://stackoverflow.com/a/22925525) removes the green shine despite being prefixed with -webkit. It's not longer a pixel-perfect match with Windows 98, though, so CRT users may notice the difference!
I've been marketing TigYog as a "course platform" because it's a concrete market where I think TigYog can be quickly profitable. But I agree the format is general. Let me know if there are features/assumptions in the TigYog product that stop you using it for other things, and I'll try to help out!

(p.s. agreed on video - it'll be redone soon!)
I adore the design language of Haiku / BeOS for the same reason.
Could it be people using CoPilot trying to score brownie points? lol
It just shows that ten years some plugins have come and gone as have many GUI text editors however Vim endures
Thanks for clarifying.

Yes, we believe we have PMF and I wanted to illustrate with an example that we did not have any issues with 'finding' it because we had the problem to solve - even before we decided that this could be a product/startup.

Too often I see people asking "give me an idea for a startup" but in reality it should be the opposite way "give me a problem to solve".

Yes, one customer is not necessarily a market but in most cases the problem that one customers faces is not isolated and if it is faced by a multitude of customers I believe you can call it a 'market'.
Well, it has just become available recently. But, since this is a project from 2020, this hadn't been an option then.

[1] https://web.dev/state-of-css-2022/#customizing-select-elemen...
One of the amusing 20th century historical anecdotes which I am constantly pointing out to mainland Chinese is that the lauded literary figure Lu Xun of Shaoxing actually advocated for the replacement of written Chinese with an alphabetic/romanized writing system based on phonetic transposition. China then invented pinyin, which is a relatively well conceived and elegant system, but refused to support the replacement of characters and instead advocated for "simplified" characters (which are approximately as hard as the originals, but provide a convenient cultural gap). While Lu Xun is now taught in all mainland Chinese schools, they conveniently leave out the part where he advocated for leaving characters in the past. His primary argument was the years wasted on rote learning that Chinese students require as a precondition to literacy.
I disagree. The issues Japan is facing look very similar to what the west is facing: loneliness. Here's a 12 year old article stating the same thing about Japanese men having no friends[0]. We see similar trends in Korea and even China. Yes, there are other contributions to the population declines. The parameters have different values, but I'm arguing that the same parameters exist. That the models are actually quite similar.

In China we are seeing the Lay Flat movement as a response to 996[1]. One could argue that the loneliness is forced upon these people because of their working hours, but I don't think that as different as you make it out to be. There definitely is a linkage to higher work hours and lower number of friends.

[0] https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/growing-n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
I worry just a bit that we will hit a critical mass of recruiters who don’t know any better, and these stupid achievements will begin to matter.
I just came from the beach where there were many smiling and happy families....so I'm gonna say no.
> “If we look at where the United States are, two things are clear. One is that we have a degree of strength and resilience in the labour market and household balance sheets and in business investment. That is continuing to move our economy forward, and that’s really important,” Deese said.

> “The second is that we are in a stronger position than . . . frankly, any other country to navigate through this transition without having to give up those gains.”

Uhm, what do you expect them to broadcast prior to the midterms? The Fed interest rate hike to 7% will likely result in a big slowdown.
Came to mention this! That is one of my all-time favourite TED talks. If nothing else, it's a fascinating story told well.
> an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to finite planetary boundaries

This is a stupid premise. People illiterate in both physics and economics seem to think that economic growth is bound by the laws of thermodynamics.

This is easily proven false by contradiction:

Let's say you have a few 2x4s and nails, by rearranging them into a chair you've created economic value. No extra raw materials were required to get from the planks of wood to the chair but value was created anyway. Find a better use for the wood and nails than a chair and we have economic growth.
I am a firm believer that the world has always being going to shit.

It's called change and accepting that has made life much more bearable.

While change is increasingly happening faster, the changes are (mostly) smaller. We're in one of the longest periods of “peace time“ and threat of war/death continue to decrease (while not evenly distributed that's not a reason to lose hope).
I think there are some key factors:

1. Lower trust society, probably made worse by increased political division.

2. Loss of social skills. People are more testy and angry or on a hair-trigger. You look at photos from 70+ years ago and people seemed friendlier , more approachable, and more gregarious. Same for online, in which people have gotten angrier and more intolerant with each election cycle. Campus guest speakers have been shouted-down when trying to give talks, such as Charles Murray. This suggests poor social skills.

3. Individual preferences. Perhaps people are choosing to withdrawal or be alone, because it's more enjoyable. Maybe the internet, smart phones, Netflix, and social media are more enjoyable than social outings. There are more ways then ever for people to do things together, such as group events which are posted and scheduled online, yet people are voluntarily choosing to be alone.
How a celebrity hacker upended one of the world’s influential social networks
I’ve got one! https://dmd.3e.org/erdos-bacon-number/
Great work! What strikes me the most is how accessible the components are. So easy to make out the different states of each component at a glance. Would love to actually build something with this!
I just have my .vimrc and plug-ins in a Github repository. I also have a minimal, no plug-ins required version.

Now that I think of it, maybe I should put it on my website so I can curl it onto a server if there is no git available.
Making an app you spend significant time in every day more useful & powerful can be a path to PMF (see Slack vs Hipchat, for example)

I’d argue Superhuman does have PMF - just in a smaller market of email power users.
I’ve stayed at every previous professional job I’ve had for 3+ years. One was ~6, but probably should have been 4. One was ~3 and ran out of funding, otherwise I probably would have stayed much longer. One was ~5 and definitely should have been 4. My current job is approaching 2 years, and I can’t foresee ever wanting to leave it.

I think jobs that are good are pretty rare (my current one really stands out here). But among “good enough”, I think staying longer can be valuable depending on what you value, what you’re looking to get out of a longer tenure (and how motivated/positioned/stubborn you are about getting that), and just plain how “good enough” it is.

The 6 year job should have been 4 because my potential and existing skillsets were outgrowing the scope of the job, with no business reason for room to advance. The 3 year job I would have stayed at longer fostered tremendous professional growth for me, and erased significant comp disadvantages I’d accrued before it. The 5 year job which should have been 4 didn’t produce such tremendous growth, but did produce several surprising opportunities to grow in areas I’d never anticipated, and it further erased some comp disadvantages; it should have been a year shorter due to burnout and various incompatibilities that grew over time.

My current job is wonderfully meaningful to me and has almost all of the right balances (for me) of potential and real impact on a global scale, responsibility and agency, life balance. In short it’s the closest thing I could describe as a dream job. This I agree is rare, and I think the set of things which could make a given job fit that kind of role in someone’s life will vary wildly person to person.

But for “good enough”, the prior jobs I’ve had largely lasted as long as they did because I focused (albeit imperfectly) on only having jobs that are high on the “good enough” scale, to the extent I have that option. I optimized for wanting to stay long term, even before I realized that’s what I was doing.

I’m certainly leaving figurative money on the figurative table, and probably many other nice things I haven’t considered important. But I don’t want to work anywhere I won’t want to work when some arbitrary timer reaches zero.
if i may be so bold, this is an encroaching effort from multiple large players, FAANG included. its a pretty ham-fisted, transparent attempt to get the kids excited about code in much the same way your spanish teacher tried to pump the kids up to learn with a fiesta.

The idea is to increase the number of programmers, decrease the median pay rate of the average programmer, and recapture the excess capital lost from the past 60 years of nerd-shaming that led us to consume more code and tech than we produce.

the only people whining about code not being fun and pushing gamification are the very people who shouldnt be doing it.
That is, at best, an ephemeral acquaintance. I would have no problem doing anything on that list with my actual friends. Well, except for going to a pub- all of my friends are sober. If I had a friend who went to pubs, I'd go with them though.
Non-biologist me suspects this is a case of 4n+1; an initial year, then an "emerge! fly away! party like it's spring break in Ft. Lauderdale!" signal with peaks every four years and the biggest peak during the 3rd (13 year) or 4th (17 year) cycle. (There are also two- to eight-year species, but I'm not finding any references to an 11-year species). Broods have stragglers that are usually off by 1- or 4-years from the main body. [1]

The benefit would be that above-ground predators are overwhelmed during mating season. [2] Since adults eat very little, almost all resource consumption occurs during the underground phase, when all species and broods are feeding at the same time. Since it's not a resource issue then there's no benefit to avoiding emergence in conjunction with another species or brood. Theoretically it would help overwhelm predators even more, but there's probably little practical benefit to 17x (one species) vs. 34x (two species). What you don't want is a different brood every year; that would eliminate the feast-or-famine problem for predators.

The timing between broods is just a random walk. Assuming stragglers are due to environmental or other non-genetic happenstance (4-year multiples are very strongly conserved), then if stagglers happen to survive one year their descendants would establish a new brood baselined 1- or 4-years offset from the original. Such straggling and establishing of new broods would obviously be very helpful in avoiding a species disaster during a bad year.

[1] https://cicadas.uconn.edu/stragglers/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada#Life_cycle (third paragraph)
You don't get to the addiction and tastiness without social acceptance first.

Hmm...the size of the dieting, weight loss, and fitness industry would seem to suggest people are aware it is bad. Few fat people want to be fat.
Our technology and all that was accelerated/amplified thereby exceeded our socio-cultural development as a species by a lot.

We won’t learn without catastrophe, and it’s anyone’s guess what will be learned from that.
To give it some credit, CRTs handle such contrast quite differently to modern screen technologies. The CRT itself added a tiny bit of colour bleed and blurring and the fact the colour is radiated out (rather than filtered out, like on LCD based technologies) gave it more contrast than you'd think looking at these colours now.
If memory serves me right, this is the blog post that got me into vim when it first made the rounds.

Prior to that I was just another developer googling "how do I quit vi."
Yes, he was, and he was rightfully flagged and deleted for it. Do you expect a banking/legal/money laundering case to be aired out on HN? Come on.
Kiwifarms is a forum, it doesn't itself harass anyone, it does as much as Facebook or Twitter do (they don't, their users might be). Facebook wasn't taken down when the Christchurch event was streamed there.

> However, as the pressure campaign escalated, so did the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site. Feeling attacked, users of Kiwifarms became even more aggressive. Over the last two weeks, we have proactively reached out to law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions highlighting what we believe are potential criminal acts and imminent threats to human life that were posted to the site.

I don't think you've heard the other side of the story.

Although not mentioned, I am pretty sure they are referring to this post https://i.imgur.com/S1z3Po2.jpg which was taken down in under 30 minutes - as soon as the admin saw it. Making the comparison to Facebook again, the shooting stream was 36 minutes, they claim "no reports" until 12 minutes after it ended (which I doubt, 200 people were watching it live and 4000 watched it afterwards [0]) and no indication of time to reaction for a company with so much resources.

There are some theories that people that wanted the forum taken down made that post; even if that is not the case, does it mean that making a threat on any platform that allows UGC (for example, HN) and takes more than 30 minutes to get it taken down means that platform has to be taken down?

Again, this post is not talking about any web hosts, it's about an ISP. It's the same as if every bottling company was pressured into stopping to do business with you so you made your own bottling company. Then, your water spring was pressured into stopping to sell water to your bottling company because that bottling company sells bottled water to bad people. Springs are probably easier to find or buy though.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18272342/facebook-christc...
Ketamine has been schedule III since 1999.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Ketamine-202...
It is hard to feel empathy for rich SF voters or SF leadership they elected, for decades. I'd say, let it rot, but then I think about the working class, the lunch servers, kitchen workers, ride-share drivers whose livelihoods are getting destroyed.

Karma is a circle and it will come back to hurt white collars.
Direct and Indirect Communication
A single data point may be a interesting, but strong evidence it does not make. Nor does speculating about a doctors caution without citations.

Ketamine in recreational use has equally documented side effects, some quite severe. Extreme circumstances that have caused irreparable damage are rare, but not unheard of.

There are also numerous other anecdotes from people that have undergone numerous session of ECT with minor side effects.

I'm not for or against ECT or ketamine, I just find the language used and conclusions reached from so little evidence extremely dangerous.
If you develop serious conditions during 30s, you're going to enjoy them longer. I think the aim overall should be balanced life oriented towards future. If whatever I am doing now seems unsustainable it's not gonna be sustainable in a year (I will just learn how to ignore it).
> I don't want the war at all, but Xi does. I can't change Xi. That leaves one choice: prepare for war.

I agree. But at the same time I also think the average Chinese person feels the same as you and I. Maybe they think it is Xi, maybe they think it is Biden (/US). But does that matter? The point I'm getting at is that those in power are able to paint this narrative, even if it is of their own doing. They make the story they write a reality by getting people to follow them.

> are a contradiction. You are trying to make one size (no gods) fit all.

Gods, not god. (I think you're also not giving that comment, which has a history older than our combined age, a good faith read)

> If there is no one size, then conflict is necessary, and war is just a degree of conflict.

This too isn't true as flexibility exists.

> My view is bottom up

Actually I think both our views are bottom up. I think you see the differences in our opinions and are creating a larger divide than there actually is.
I wouldn't call the changes "smaller". Climate change is an existential threat. Possibly the greatest one we've ever faced, certainly the greatest since WWII and so far we're definitely NOT rising to the occasion.