skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really sorry to hear this. I know it’s frustrating (I really do) but keep trying.

Over the course of 25 years I tried 42 different anti-depressants (practically all of them across all classes), atypicals, mood stabilizers, off-label Parkinson’s drugs, off-label anti-seizure drugs, benzodiazepines, you name it. Often multiple times (because time, age, etc) in incredible varieties of combinations, dosages, etc, etc.

The 43rd changed my life.

It’s rough, frustrating, and long but you need to keep trying keys until one (or more) fits the lock. Whether that’s these kinds of medications, ketamine, mushrooms, therapy, selling your worldly possessions and becoming a monk, whatever.

It doesn’t really matter how you do it - it’s life or death.
But… shouldn’t we compare with depressed people who don’t take SSRIs? Could this be a side effect of depression rather than the drug?
Circa 2013? I remember vividly implementing gitlab at a certain cable company I worked at because they were too cheap for GitHub. I remember sometime in 2012 some merging of worlds of GitLab CI and GitLab.com, it was around that timeframe until 2015 or so when the unofficial runner because official and CI and Repos were merged? You work there, ask the oldest grey beard if this was the case. I could very well be mistaken and have false memory.
Yeah, and it's pretty easy to test by just buying two (a red and a white) bottles and trying yourself. Of course most red food dye the wrong color and you would probably taste it if you used that much... so just blindfold your self and try.

The lack of tannins, malolactic fermentation, and often the lack of oak will make it pretty obvious they are different. It's like saying you can't taste the difference between a Guiness and a Bud, because you've never had them before? Maybe you don't know which is which with a blindfold on, but you can taste the difference.
About 7 I'd reckon.
There are lots of other explanations for that. For example, it could be confirmation bias. It could also be that a lot of the kids had long COVID and the effects are wearing off over time.
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Well, in this case, leave the house…
The first party adapter is $9 and better than plenty of audiophile equipment.

It doesn't fit a charger, but it should be able to use hubs now.
I wonder if there is a word for this kind of trickle-down knowledge. I see it in games (big in Dota, even baddies are pretty good now), and suspect the same thing has happened in software.

Not to say there aren't differentiators between good and bad still, but the floor has risen so high compared to what it once was.
And a quest log is a universal framework to give the player feedback on progress.

Look, I'm good if you want trivial achievements, you can play your way. I however don't want such gamification. Allow me to turn the feature off.
I am not sure that either of those two things are correct, or that they are connected with each other
I would only trust it if the name were some inscrutable string of lowercase letters, preferably referencing a programming in-joke about recursion.
I went to the grocery store a couple of weeks ago when my giant bottle that I had accidentally gotten before the shortage ran out. There were a couple alternatives there: Ox Brand and Kroger brand. I have only really used the Ox Brand so far, but I thought it was pretty good.

I guess I'm not so set on it having to be exactly the same. As long as it's got kind of the same chili plus garlic notes, I'm happy enough.
Big ticket NFTs are worth a lot of money and highly liquid. Also drainers will siphon eth and erc20 tokens as well.
Lots of discussion on the official post over here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344
Fine. At the time when it ran that time it was the fastest, and faster than practically every sports car ever made.

The nurburgring is about the most sports car track ever made. I don't really know how to measure anything about a car's sportiness other than its speed around the track generally agreed to be the most "Gran Turismo" style.

If you want your own personal gatekeeping standards for "true sports car", whatever. When batteries double in density in the next ten years, your gatekeeping will look even more ridiculous.

The ICE drivetrain is a zombie at this point that is surviving on inertia and the incompetence of legacy automakers.
The LIRR is the same way. As an occasional user every time I've gone the track number gets posted a few minutes before it departs and it's usually between tracks 16-21. Even if it's during the late evening (off-peak at 8:30pm'ish) you often have to make a mad dash or you won't get a seat. I can't imagine how bad it must be during prime time peak hours.
What is evil and why does it differ from other wrongdoing? If it's supernatural in origin, then are humans the ones responsible? If it's natural, then we can come up with an explanation for why people acted badly. Cause and effect means there are always reasons for why people act the way they do. You can't just draw the line at consequences.
Are you talking about the 1/2/3 split platform? That drives me nuts as well, but I don't know if you'll make a single-issue voter out of me.

New North-South lines between Brooklyn and Queens, however :-)
I personally believe this is going to be the biggest security nightmare of the next ten years. All those npm/gem/pip/deb packages that are imported by thousands of projects and Docker images, with maintainers who are retiring. So easy for a malicious actor to just slip in some code, and who has time to audit all those dependencies for every single update?
Try playing Disgaea, you can grind on that forever and not hurt yourself.
> Why have you still not sent me your dissertation? Don’t you know that I am one of the 1.5 fellows who would read it with interest and pleasure, you wretched man? I promise you four papers in return.

If this was a fair trade I would really like to read that dissertation.
Are we stuck in a loop here? I'm not arguing about the price of any particular model. I'm arguing that (a) most people buying iPhones are not doing with "longevity" in mind, they are just buying the "most phone they can afford" and trade every 2-3 years and (b) even the ones that are buying iPhones based on "longevity" (i.e, TCO) are ignoring the fact that there are other alternatives with similar characteristics while being better from an ethical standpoint.

I don't know where I am losing you...
And this related post:

The Death of Unity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486431
I can't even get people to distinguish between a forward and backslash... :-(
I can attribute a great deal of poor school results due to books and timed or take-home handwritten assignments.

I had a 40lb backpack for school filled with books and notebooks and implements required for class. Forgot a book? Lose a mark.
Random checks on note-taking during class. Forgot your notebook? Lose a mark. Protractor split due to the compression between two books? Lose a mark.

I walked to school on many days. My back hurt permanently.

I write with my left hand. Nobody knows how to teach this. Letters smear into the next. Ball point pens get jammed. Can’t read your handwriting? Lose a mark. Know exactly what you want to write but cant produce it in time? Lose a mark. Hand is cramped from P.E. from doing 30 pull-ups? Lose a mark. Its a pain to think faster than you can write as you watch the clock run out.

When it started being possible to turn in typed assignments or timed tests, life became easier.

Don’t do this to kids.
What's a reasonable number of categories? 10?
School teachers are true believers. They often work at public schools for way below market rates. That often balances this between the two.

That being said the reason you pay for private schools is specifically so you can exclude those who aren’t interested in education
And we go back to revenge killings and mob justice, which have been determined to be worse than a reasonably functioning state (North Korea and Nazis Germany not being considered reasonable).
Definitely not, Apple cables (not just Lightning, the old Magsafe ones and laptop USB-C ones too) are the worst for crumbling under stress at the point they bend near the plug. That rubbery coating just seems somehow worse for it than anything I've seen made/sold by anyone else.

I noticed (I don't have one) the new Magsafe ones for the current MacBooks have changed to a braided fabric looking coating/sleeve instead.
That and the €50 ($55) entrance fee proves that the contest is more of a marketing stunt for Gilbert & Gaillard than a real test of wine-making ability.

Many industries have these "contests". Photography publications, for example, run contests that collect entry fees, and winners get featured in the publication. There are writing contests run the same way. It gives the publication content, and instead of paying artists they charge them money.
A lot of word pushing around something that has no definition.

Oh, it can't be sentient if it's "nothing more than an encasement of electrical wires and chips coded by algorithms designed by humans".

But if it's a wet clump of cells randomly evolved from molecules on a rock, then it can be?

Thanks, I'm so much better informed now.
Just because they release a new phone each year means you have to buy it.
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> has since clarified that transmission of the runtime over the web via streaming

How's that affect twitch streamers?
I regularly go back through my videos of my kids and watch them, and show them to my wife next to me. We then both feel emotional seeing how small they were.

And since the Photos app introduced the memories feature, where it creates montage videos of themes like "baby years" or "summer 2022", you don't even need to go back yourself.

We might be the unusual case, but we exist!
Ask HN: How do people send system messages to (human) clients these days?
When building apps/websites I often need to send messages to the business owner / admin.

The messages range from almost logging type messages such as

- "Payment failed for Order 123, please manually process the transaction"

to generic contact forms on a website:

- "FirstName LastName sent a message with the following text: something something something"

My knowledge is rather old and currently I just send email via smtp.

I'm finding email is becoming increasingly unreliable.

Sometimes the smtp server gets marked as a spam server which can take a few days to resolve.

Or the receiver implements a new mail filter, accidentally blocking all the messages.

More and more things are happening that result in emails not sending or arriving.

I've been looking at email api/services such as postmark, mailgun, sendgrid which seem a good idea, but I'm curious how other people handle messaging?

Emails still seems a very convenient messaging style (disregarding issues) and often requested (e.g client will just ask for these messages sent to admin@thing.com).

What are modern messaging practices? Is email still acceptable if you go via an email api? Should I be looking at something completely different?

Thanks guys
This short post has always resonated with me:

https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/ive-never-had-a-goal-c8921...
I'd say another factor is that microcontrollers are less equipped to run memory checking tools like Valgrind or ASAN than desktops, and lack separate address spaces between processes, increasing the "blast radius" of memory errors.
Yea, I feel like that's true of spirits as well. It's easier to get an acceptable Scotch or Rum than it used to be, but at some point, the cost to age something for 5, let alone 10 or 20 years just isn't something you can shortcut, and it produces different flavors. Not to say that a 10 year aged spirit is better than a younger one, but if you do like that flavor, then there's not much else you can do to get it.
Keep in mind that with electric the equation is different when you have a home. For most, they can charge it to full each night and have it warm/ready the next day. 110v/15A is enough to keep it from discharging and a warm battery but below freezing a 220/30A or more is better. The install isnt usually that expensive for 30 or 50A if the panel has room too. And in new builds in many places, charge to the car will be required. But always being full each morning changes how we see it, the infra is for those that travel and long trips which are not the norm.
>Obviously I can make some basic heuristics, but I can’t reasonably evaluate all of the components of trust for every library, package, container, framework, repo even at a regular interval, let alone fast enough to just maintain patch levels (nevermind being reasonably productive).

Related: have you tried throwing a file (or a hash) at VirusTotal lately? If it's executable, they'll run it in a sandbox and give you a forensic report of everything it touched and did.

I'm so suspicious of software I can't at least review the source code of that originates outside of trusted channels that I probably wouldn't run anything meeting that description that I couldn't compile myself if it weren't for that (and similar) tools.
Onion Futures Act – US law banning trading futures on onions
It is also originally a quote from the King James Bible. I'm sure your Wikipedia page mentions that but it's just too interesting not to mention explicitly here as well :)
We constantly joke that Brooklyn is a village. I know like 20 people in the city, but somehow run into 1 of them every time I go out for a walk.
Why not hide the screens in default setting? That way you cannot damage them (for example during vacuum cleaning or with kids) or get dust on them.
Polyester Is Hard to Recycle. What If Scientists Could Fix This?
Faster (higher power) charging.

(Current) MacBooks don't have USB-A.
Does someone has a successful local-first product used by paying customers?

I am interested in your take on local-first.
Stephen Collins has done some work with probiotics to demonstrate reducing symptoms of depression for those suffering with IBS. Maybe in the future we will learn more about microbes or “psychobiotics”.
Sean's a really nice guy! More people should say hi to Sean. Let's make it a meme and totally overwhelm him!
>The problem is when you work out the math on rocket that can sustain 1G for multiple days with any Earthly isp you realize the math just doesn't work.

>our best chemical rockets are more like 450 seconds

If we're talking about leaving the Solar system, and 1G rockets, why on Earth would you ever even think about primitive chemical rockets? Obviously, nuclear rockets are a mandatory first-step before getting close to that level of technology.

And given that we already have nuclear power plants, as well as designs (untested) for nuclear rockets, why even bring up chemical rockets?
Ever install docker on a pet Linux box? That script saves a lot of time.
NYC, Boston and Chicago ?
There was a company recently launched by some of the people behind Godot that is specifically aimed at providing game console support in line with what other engines offer.

https://w4games.com/
I would personally have supported both applying the ban, and then subsequently removing it. It made sense at the time. The price variances since the ban suggest it's time has passed.

ie, it's not wrong to try, and then change your mind.
Is there a way I can check if a particular cable or company on say Amazon or AliExpress is certified? Obviously those that aren't certified will say they are certified, so if there's like a database of USB-C certifications somewhere that would be super helpful (particularly if it includes all the misc. stuff about USB-C that fall through the cracks like data rate, PD, supported voltages, etc.).
then we live in a world with extremely low adoption of this standard. why race to replace lightning with a standard that doesn't have good market penetration?

if you can't walk into the store and pick up a usb-c cable (because we've agreed that cable sold at the checkout counter isn't a real usb-c cable) then why does this standard matter?
This is highly nuanced. There is certainly a case for punishing a family and its generations when the culture in that family is to do evil (example any crime family).

But to punish a family for the evil of one member who goes against the cultural aspect of that family? That is a different thing altogether.

There is also a spectrum between these two extremes as well. This is not an easy subject.
They have very different applications. Laser cooling has extremely low cooling power but can reach low temperatures. It’s good for cooling a gas of atoms or even individually trapped atoms.

A dilution refrigerator, as are used in superconducting quantum computing and other low temperature condensed matter experiments, could cool a sandwich. We’re talking maybe a milliwatt of cooling power. Electronic cooling — I don’t know.
> One of the most interesting takeaways is how often founders never fully felt PMF

Perhaps it's a shared trait among great makers. Like an industrious person feels their work is never done, a good maker feels they've never fully achieved PMF.
I think you missed my point. It wasn’t just ROM limited, the ram controller they used in the LC did not have enough address lines to address more than 4MB per SIMM slot, end of story. No amount of firmware hacking can ever make it support 16MB SIMMs without what amounts to a total board redesign. Given the 2MB soldered to the board (which took the address lines for two of the slots) that meant the machine was physically limited to 10MB unless you wanted to break out a soldering iron. Yes, the ROM has a software limit, but it reflected the actual limits of the HW (and more likely was due how the ROM went about detecting the ram then any explicit intent to limit things… it is not shocking that the software only works with supported physical configurations and not board reworks).

The LCII on the other hand is a bit less excusable since it could physically hold 12MB but only 10 was usable. As I said I suspect the reason is that it was a fairly quick revision they squeezes in before the redesigned LCIII and they just didn’t rev those parts of the ROM, but it still seemed pretty bad).

If you want more info there is a pretty deep dive on this here: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/technical-explanatio...
Missing the point.

Power-only cables should be specified to have a different connector. Vastly different speeds should have a different connector. It should be physically impossible to stick the wrong kind of cable in.
Eating too much black licorice (50g/day over a couple of weeks) can have detrimental health consequences for some people. So, moderation. Also some people get palpitations from black licorice.
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The Apple XS just got a new OS version. The Pixel 3 from the same year doesn't even get security updates anymore.

At the end of the day despite what the Lineage OS flashers will insist, lay-people want updated features. Give them updated features for their old phones and they will keep them longer. Keeping them longer is the most you can do when throwaway tech is the norm.

If you need empirical evidence, 5 seconds looking at any market for used phones reflects that.
CASE tools?
Related to CASE: round-trip engineering.
>The thing is, you can't actually feel motion at a constant speed

In a vacuum. If you roll the window down, or if the atmosphere starts ablating you into a hot plasma then you may realize you're going very fast.
I found this sometime last year somewhere, that shows a list of companies/apps/technologies and talks about starting local first.

https://localfirstweb.dev
I have once started to add checks for that in my CI/CD.

I used a self hosted instance of LanguageTool [1] (they also have a free API plan).

For checking links I used something self build. It checked all links (including in already published articles), archived them via archive.org and if they changed (e.g. offline) link the archive.org link.

After publishing, I also send the published article to archive.org and published links to social media platforms. Back then I also thought of publishing parts of the articles automatically to dev.to, medium etc. but never went through with it.

[1] https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server
I was exploring an interesting local-first component earlier today: cr-sqlite, which adds CRDTs to SQLite so you can have multiple databases that receive writes and then sync up and merge their changes later on.

My notes here: https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/cr-sqlite-macos
If we follow the analogy the article gives for rebuilding the surface but not the tracks:

> It’s like having a big, clunky jalopy that doesn’t go more than 20 miles an hour, but instead of replacing the engine, we’re going to give it a paint job and hope that solves the problem.

then Moynihan was, unfortunately, more like a spit and polish. It's prettier to look at, but the main thing it did was move access for some trains a block further west (presumably away from the densest users as the article suggests of other plans). The basic experience is pretty unchanged (at least the Amtrak & subway experience, which I can speak to)
Yep, play it safe Apple. Pretty colors, more mega pixels, top widget bar thing zzz…

Phones have peaked just like desktops did long ago.

Onto the next thing already Jesus Christ!

They are the IBM that Jobs used to scoff at, big and stagnant.

Unlike IBM they may be commercially thriving, but it’s clearly the end of ambition for this dinosaur. They’re well set in 2007.
My favorite sentence in his article still rings completely right-on:

"the ends themselves are conceived by personalities with lofty ethical ideals and—if these ends are not stillborn, but vital and vigorous—are adopted and carried forward by those many human beings who, half unconsciously, determine the slow evolution of society."

Half unconsciously: Explains a lot. You've got your Joseph II's and you've got your Suhartos.
Which one did you get? I've been looking to get one recently but have heard that they're kind of a crapshoot and not very polished in UX.
Many bakeries put black currants in their scones --maybe not all over the US but I think major metros.
> Basically, this boils down to a simple means versus ends debate; "preventative" punishment cares only about results, while the author only cares that the "means" (the act) punishment is morally right.

Yeah, after thinking about it some more I edited my comment slightly to emphasize the "means versus ends" idea that I think the author is getting at.

The part that still bugs me is that the author seems to be taking a middle ground where punishing the innocent is okay in arbitrarily extreme cases, but they don't accept that a consequentialist could just use the same trick to say that punishing family members is wrong.
What do you think the hiring process looks like? I'd guess it's a bunch of 3rd party consultancy or operator vendors
wow, I never heard of "60 FPS CRUD"... that must be next level of form filling efficiency :-p
In that sense Apple was a victim of their own success. The iPod (and maybe early iPhones had the 30-pin, I can’t remember) we’re so successful half of the hotels in America outfitted themselves with alarm clocks with the same connectors. 3rd party accessories for it became sort of ubiquitous, but it’s s big wild to think the alternative (should Apple have listened to the complains) would be to just… never improve their connectors? You really can’t please some folks, any change breaks someone’s mojo.