skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I see it, the whole "chemical imbalance" thing is just one of many approaches, or ways of interpreting, psychological problems.

You could say "This person is depressed because they don't have enough serotonin" - which seems obvious, of course the unhappy person doesn't have happy chemicals, if they did they'd be happy.

Or you could say "This person is depressed because their avoidant defense mechanisms don't allow them to experience positive emotions in fear of getting hurt" - which of course would also lead to a lack of serotonin.

Though to be fair, the chemical approach can be useful for treating things "top-down": instead of working through past traumas, building new coping mechanisms, etc, you can pharmaceutically bolster the lacking neurochemicals. This isn't ideal but in some cases is the only feasible solution, and in other cases it can help the person get into a functional enough state to address their underlying issues and build up better habits.

That being said, I agree that most psychiatry is "bullshit", at least in a sense. I'd leave the self-medicating for the later stages of healing though, once you've got a grasp on yourself and the world, as giving someone with maladaptive coping mechanisms one of the most convenient and potentially harmful(if used incorrectly - which they will be compelled by negative emotions to do) coping mechanisms is likely to end badly.

And I 100% agree about therapy. It's useful, but often used incorrectly. To be honest I think this comes down to incompetence, it's far to easy to get a psych degree and a therapists license and start "helping" patients without being nearly equipped to understand and navigate and repair the mind of a person with mental illness. This is an insanely complicated task that requires some specific and uncommon talents in my opinion, in addition to a large amount of knowledge and theory. On this front I think psychology/psychiatry has been moving backwards since the days of psychoanalysis - there are still branches of analysis being advanced and improved to this day, but they are the fringe, while the majority of resources and effort is being put into more reductive methods while, while easier to train the average person with a bachelors degree to implement, are never going to lead to the level of understanding necessary to make leaps in progress in the treatment of mental illness
It’s not exactly a secret, but ensuring people are aware is good.

There’s an old South Park episode about cartman
Being outraged at the vegetarian school meals until he realizes they are highly processed goo and then he’s okay with it.

I actually like beyond meat and find impossible meat good in pasta with red sauce. Yeah they’re vegetarian and tick two out of the three main reasons people go vegetarian but I doubt it’s any healthier, the third reason.
I agree about tire and brake wear but the air in cities will be incredibly better with only electric cars.
Pandemic Prevention as Fire-Fighting
You only need a segment of humanity to be immature for a war to start.

To be specific, don't blame Ukraine for this war, or humanity in general. Blame Russia, and specifically Putin.

> Everyone involved in a war is a loser.

I agree with you on that point.
Because it costs money to provide services? You could not argue that with the same reasoning, because there is no labor involved for air to exist. However services need to be run by people using hardware created by other people, all of whom need to eat, which is only possible with money.
Nah, he is actually right. Tony Fadell agrees with him too (hid book has a full chapter on it).
He is not PC in his language, but he is direct. I feel like more people are responding to his phrasing, not the message.
Building products requires focus and intencity. Staying human and healthy requires taking time off. Both things need ti be balanced, Google not necessarily does it the right way.
>without a clear explanation as to what they will be using it for?

No one lies on the internet? Those Nigerian princes are very clear what they are going to do with the money you send them, but it doesn't make it true. Providing 3rd party access to an account should come with over sight abilities.
Off topic, but one of my favorite things to do when I was younger - around 7 to maybe 12 or so - was having my parents drop me off at a local library from open until close. The library was decently sized (and has been renovated to expand to a second level) and was like a wonder of the world. I read books and magazines while there and checked out movies and video games when it was time to go home. It was my first experience with Metal Gear Solid, my first time reading Lord of the Rings, and my first time watching an R-rated film (An American Werewolf in Paris, which sucked).

All that to say: libraries, at home or otherwise, are fantastic.
" You can't buy some car for 2 weeks and then return it." for the record, I've met, while travelling around N America , multiple people that did precisely this. Generally with old Japanese cars. I wondered how they did it, at the tine I didn't think to ask as it wasn't something I was planning to do as non-resident. Its possible of course they didn't insure it. Or maybe they got some kind of worldwide travel insurance that covered it. Would be interesting to know.
Brake wear yes, but the resistance to forward motion still has to be transferred via that tires.
Find My Device: open-source, E2EE app to find your phone/device
That is not an announcement.
> If they are using missiles produced in recent months then that argument seems debunked to me.

Or they had a bit of a chip stockpile; the NYT cites "significant stockpiles of the components before the war began" as a possibility. (They've also apparently been canibalizing consumer devices; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/11/russia-...)

> What basis is there to assume that Russia lacks the ability to mass produce the less sophisticated components of these missiles?

Historical. Iskanders have been produced in the dozens-per-year quantities pre-war, Kalibr in the ~100 range. They're using that many cruise missiles in a single day's attacks now; that isn't be sustainable long-term for anyone.

You should re-read the NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/politics/cruise-missil...) you cite; it openly states it's not debunking what you claim it debunks.

> Whether Russia has depleted its inventory of older cruise missiles is unclear. But militaries often use older munitions first in combat because they typically make up a majority of a nation’s stockpile.
Roblox is a gambling addition mascarading as a game for children and really it should just be banned outright for anyone under the age of 21.

The current laws surrounding video games are naive and are akin to letting minors into casinos in vegas as long as the casinos put a couple of cute teddies here and there.

Yes Roblox looks like a game for kids, but it doesn't play like one, it's not even trying to hide the obvious gambling aspects, but because it's done using "funny tokens" suddenly kids of any ages are welcomed in with open arms.

And that's just one shady aspect of the game, then there's the child labor practices and the whole pedofile scandal.
I'm in the market for a new car after living car-free downtown for several years. Interestingly I actually have some anxiety about the resale value of ICE cars - when I sell in 5 or 10 years, the value will be inherently tied to the price of gas, and how widespread the electric car roll-out ends up being.

If gas spikes again like this year and some pending ICE sale and area bans come to fruition... I have trouble seeing ICE valuations keeping up with electric.

That said I'm a bigger proponent of investment in transit over perpetuating car dominance, but that's a different thread to pull on.
You may be happy to pay more (sounds a lot like "the bread is expensive ? let them have brioche"), but that's not the case for business owners of small restaurant, bakeries, etc, that have an electricity bill which has doubled, tripled, or even more in some cases, not even talking about the state of mortgages.
If everything is something, then something isn't a useful category. Sure, all digital design is in some sense and to some extent a metaphor for real world objects. But skeuomorphism was always referring to things that were to an extreme extent following the design language of the real world, well beyond what was required by their digital constraints or expectations of the user.

That is a useful category of visual language description that is lost when you start with all-design-is-skeuomorphism. It's not wrong it's just not a useful model for anything.
Thanks for pointing that out, percentage and amount of donations are probably not a good metric to determine the amount of employees of each political opinions.
Tempeh is noted in the study as a good exception; the fermentation process breaks down phylates which normally inhibit iron uptake. So, eat more tempeh!
Haha EU isn't perfect, but from a super high-level and personal point of view (and there are millions of nuances within Europe), but generally there's more emphasis on the common good as a society, than what I've seen in the US

(I grew up in France but part of my family lives in the US).
Certain companies can
Big, united Russia with lots of nukes can afford to use them much more than 5 small, weak post-Russias, each with some nukes.

If nothing else, these post-Russias would struggle to afford even more to upkeep and upgrade the stash of nukes. And would be easier to neutralize too...
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These $5k cars already exist. The Hongguang Mini has about a 100 mile range and sells for about $5k in China. Let me buy one. The US has a high level of safety requirements on cars not just to protect people but also to protect domestic auto manufactures from cheap auto imports.
There is stress that ends another stressor.

If you are permant stressing about your job, your life your mortage and you boulder for the first time, you might eperience mortal fear, from falling. Which makes the other stressors less substantial, thus "deactivating" or back-queuing them. After the fear for your life, the stress bodily reflex does not return usually in full force.

You relax. One good "short" stress ended alot of bad stress. There is no good stressor that is permanent.

PS: Thanks to the prof at college teaching us about this. Stress is pure poison, inlcuding flooding your body with cortisols and supressing disease symptoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol#Immune_response

Resulting in the ilusion, that stress keeps you healthy. Meanwhile disease eats you alive and re-appears once you are a wreck.

If you regularly experience stress episodes for months and years, you might as well be a living corpse.
So much this. Adobe Sign (available with the free Adobe Reader) for example offers a self sign solution. Organisations can issue their own certificates and use Adobe Reader’s certificate signing feature if you do not want to use a paid service like Docusign.
Most people also don't understand that with Stripe, you don't actually have your own merchant account (this is why they can setup your account so fast).

This can become hugely problematic as your business grows since you're a sub-account of Stripe business, making you beholden to their business practices and costs.

My comments aren't intended to sound negative. There's Pro's and Con's to different business models. Getting quick access to the robust tools Stripe offers comes at the cost of you giving up some control over your companies operations.
It's exactly what happened with the Cambridge Analytica scandal fwiw.

Users logged in to a quiz with an oauth token that asked explicitly for a huge set of the users Facebook permissions which then led to scraping and spam.

Oauth isn't very safe. Users don't read the grant prompt and mistake it for a login dialog rather than for an authorization to act as you dialog.

Facebook basically took oauth away after Cambridge Analytica. Note that the 'login with' authentication flow is different to this authorization flow they removed.

Oauth may have practical uses for users on GitHub but a warning dialog of the permissions granted absolutely is not enough. I think Cambridge Analytica can be treated as precedent here but ianal.
Norway publishes total taxable income, tax paid, and taxable wealth. Sweden e.g. publishes salaries. This kind of thinking tends to e.g. help root out scammers, help investigative journalists looking into e.g. a politician's unstated motivations, eliminate gender pay disparity, keep the divide between rich and poor from growing massively, produce a more egalitarian society, and has created some of the least corrupt countries in the world.

This talks a bit about the larger mindset behind this particular decision: https://theculturetrip.com/norway/articles/norway-country-pu...
Big "if". The Irish DPA is about as useful as a marzipan dildo due to being chronically underfunded.
I'd recommend IRC. There are still many users and since it's completly out-of-fashion, it's not contaminated by the very graphical and instantly-rewarding culture of meme, gifs emojis and likes.

It's still mostly text and a good medium for conversations.
> which makes any vegetarian or vegan diet suboptimal because of all the processed and overly packaged foods

I don't get why vegan and vegetarian food are highlighted here. People eat plenty of packaged or highly-processed meats, too. If anything, most raw items that don't require cooking are probably vegan, and there is no shortage of low-prep ones.
Signatures are also only on the signature page.

This has always struck me as a fatal flaw, and yet in practice it seems to never be a problem.

I don't know what to make of this. The easily-drawn conclusions (power of law, ambient human honesty) from these conflicting ideas feel inadequate.
> If West can run quantitative easing for 15 years

Who did that? US did 6 years starting in 2008 due to the Great Recession and less than 2 starting in 2020 in response to the unusually deep, if quite short, pandemic recession, and the latter of those, because it wasn’t tapered quickly enough for the circumstances, triggered the highest inflation seen in a long time.

> why not Russia?

Russia can do QE as long as it wants, but QE is just self-inflicted inflation. It is a band-aid for incipient deflation, which isn’t a problem Russia has.
one of my (many!) objections to using python for automation tasks was what a gigantic pain in the ass it is to transfer a codebase from one computer to another. i once helped a coworker install my python scripts, which took the better part of a day. given that i can now compile my automation app as a single binary, i am in no hurry to add yet another external dependency. and i tend to avoid anything from microsoft whenever possible. i remember when they were doing their dead level best to destroy tech innovation in the eighties and nineties, and i still don’t trust them.
I'm not vegan or vegetarian. It sounds like you simply haven't cooked vegan meals before. Vegan isn't raw carrots and boiled vegetables. Vegan curries, sauces, soups are all delicious and aren't processed. The satiating aspects of non-vegan food are mostly the same ones as in vegan foods. It's mainly the staple carbs that fill us up and they're all practically vegan - potatoes, yams, corn, rice, wheat. As for "tastes good", well it's subjective but fat carries flavour and coats your mouth and lingers. Meat comes with fat already so it's easy to make it tasty enough. Apply the same process to vegan food and make some roast potatoes in oil. Taa daa tasty and filling. Probably about as unhealthy as fried meat. Your comment just seems like you need to actually try cooking some vegan food. It's easy af to make any food delicious by covering it in salt, oil, spices.
Atom Touch – artificial human arm, coming 2023
> a violation of their ToS for related products that they control.

I don't actually think so, but that's not my point. If it was against their ToS, fine. Take it down

But they didn't just do that. They made baseless accusations of malware against this (open-source) project in order to spread misinformation and make people even more hesitant to use it. That's not just an abuse of their platform but an abuse that goes outside their platform
Ask HN: Am I Being Paranoid?
I've been using Signal for years; I like it, but some things made me frown (having to provide a phone number, server software becoming closed-source, thus non-auditable; integrated crypto and so on). I then discovered Session - and I liked the fact that they avoided having a single point-of-failure, by having many servers, in various geographical locations. Still... something bothers me with Session: the devs say that maintaing a server incurrs a non-trivial financial burden ($15,000/year), while claiming that all those servers are maintained by volunteers around the world; most of the servers are in First World countries (US, Germany), but, a couple of days ago, once I connected, one of the servers appeared to be in Ukraine. Seriously? Fifteen grand a year is not peanuts even for someone in the First World, let alone for someone residing in a country with a collapsing economy and battered by an active war.

What are your thoughts on this?
Digital Contact Tracing – a mini series in 4(+1) parts
I want to avoid the bots spamming random Discords, and also to have the chance to say hello personally.
Is "Sign-in with your Hacker News account" a thing?
I arrived at this post by googling "I want you to act as a Linux terminal." I was expecting to find some standard prompt that I could paste in to chatgpt to start a session. I pasted it in without reading it and had...quite a surprising convo with chatgpt before going back, reading the prompt, and cracking up
For these charges, according to my research, about a third of offenders get off on parole, and the average sentence is about five years. Ten years in the gulag for less than a gram of THC, with a prescription and a guilty plea is clearly an attempt to make a statement.
What's also in violation of GDPR is sending your contacts to Whatsapp, as the app nags right and left to do, and as Whatsapp claims would be required for unrelated functionality such as seeing those freaking Whatsapp/Fb status pages of others or publish your own I guess. Phone numbers are PII, so even if you have individual consent for every number or number/name pair to pass onto third parties, which I very much doubt you have, the holder of that data in addition has a right to request data stored at Whatsapp/Fb and cancel storage and processing.
Who can this be propaganda? It is reporting, not advocating. No one is trying to convince kids to take allowances in robux, parents are telling the story of how their children are asking for robux instead of dollars in allowance.
some are useful
Why is fame your yardstick for whether someone’s education was successful?
Not a vegan but I disagree with this as someone who has lived with one and dated two. Rice, beans, lentils, Indian recipes, mac and “cheese” made with nutritional yeast, pasta with tomato sauce: all filling, all delicious when seasoned correctly, all (relatively) unprocessed.
No, because (despite what we tell ourselves about social progress) our world and society aren't that different than the world Huxley lived in and was commenting on.

Dystopian fiction is outlined by an author's attempt to take notable societal patterns in their own time and extend them to their most extreme conclusions (sometimes modulo an interesting plot); one shouldn't be surprised when the most compelling works do a good job of capturing and explicating one aspect or another of the author's society.
regardless, that's not the point. The point is they didn't simply take it down. They actively spread lies about the project
> Not to devil's advocate, but this sounds like an argument which might apply at least as well to the USA as it does to Russia.

It would, if USA was pursuing QE with already-high inflation.
Yes I forget. Russia is the bullied one here. And is constantly attacked by NATO, in Georgia, Ukraine... Seriously poor Russia for being so unfairly treated.

Even now, if only those pesky Ukrainians would stop shooting back at them, peace could be introduced overnight.
Even if that estimate is off by an order of magnitude, which given the weight of modern web pages it easily could be, 20,000 drives to store the entire web seems way more doable than I ever would have imagined.
Quick google says regenerative breaking has ~65% efficiency at energy recovery, but that includes the 10-20% lost when converting stored energy back into kinetic energy.

So it sounds like regenerative breaking would covert ~75%-85% of kinetic energy into stored chemical energy. I'd expect to see similar reduction in tire and brake wear as well, maybe even more it probably depends on how break dust is generated, if it has a curve where more is generated with greater breaking force applied, by dropping the force on a break pad to 15% of it's previous value we might see an even greater reduction.

This is all speculation though, I am not a physicist.
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Well, I guess that was my fault for giving you an opening to dump all the thoroughly-debunked copypasta. In the post-WWII international order where lines on the map are generally respected to avoid war: Russia attacked, and continues to attack, a sovereign country. Period.

If you pull it into some other paradigm than the post-WWII international order, where Russia presumably has some inherent right of conquest, then sure, you can come up with justifications of why Russia "had" to act. But as I alluded to in my last comment, if you are an American or European taking that post-WWII order for granted, you are gravely mistaken.
Beavers have fascinated me since I was a teenager...
On a technical level I agree this can be an option. On a product positioning level that's not how it works in general. You buy/chose a product based on it's overall feel.

There's a reason minivans don't come with an option for supercharged v12 engines. In theory you can say that people can just "not chose that option" but there's something deeper about how the product is positioned in the market there.

Just like you wouldn't expect an option on a minivan for drag racing mode, you don't expect an option for crazy routing on a mainstream app. Grandma can activated it by accident and cause huge traffic trying to make some impossible left turn. It's not worth it.

Or rather, the group of people in Google who are in charge of this product are reaching the conclusion that it's not the same thing. I don't know the details of their thinking,I can just come up with my own thinking for why it could make sense.
the person only did the signature page

I have witnessed that as well. I made them scan the documents again. It doesn't even have to be a major change in a document to change the context entirely. Sometimes just changing and to or, or our to your can drastically change the agreement. That is easy for a busy lawyer to miss.
You can make SF/Seattle/coastal money without participating in leetcode interviews. There is a fascination on this website with these cities, but you can make just as much from just about anywhere without going through this popular hazing process. It will limit the amount of opportunities offered, but there will still be opportunities regardless.
> I use reveddit a lot on threads but never thought to use it on my own account. Thank you for making such a useful tool!

No sweat. FYI there's also an extension for alerts, linked below. My main goal was to alert people to their own removed content. I'd love to know if there's a better way to route users in this direction. There's currently a little note in a blue box that appears if you've never visited a user page.

https://www.reveddit.com/add-ons/direct/
theres no difference. stack overflow has never been better than AI generated code. every answer is just "get the camera like this bro: ((Camera)GetFactoryProvider().CreateThing().GetGlobalThingContext("somestring"))".