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I have fallen into many pits of depression over almost 20 years now, even now I am struggling to get out of a deep one. Seems this is just a cycle in my life, unfortunately. You ca…

Probably wise. Also relatable, I have tons of old notes of ideas at some point I thought were potentially profound, only to realize they were half-baked and/or already explored. I'…

How have I misrepresented it by saying it is as effective as a self-help book? The thing about therapy, is that you usually want benefits to last for a duration that makes the effo…

Speaking from experience, you analysis is spot on and this is a very common coping method in social work as well. It is done because otherwise in the 9/10 cases where things do not…

I mean... I don't agree with "harmed," the author's tone, or the title alleging some sort of coverup, but otherwise, Yeah, of course. If you look at a longitudinal, high-quality tr…

Serious question -- How do you nominate someone for a Turing award?

So what would you suggest to replace it? Obviously there needs to be some federal law enforcement agency... And as much as their past has portions that are super fucked up, wasn't …

Oh wow, summit.news! Those other headlines are stellar, be sure to give them a look. What's next for HN, Breitbart? I love the topic too, a comedian whining about "cancel culture."…

I'm far from an expert in this subject but doesn't this ranking of large text compression algorithms with NNCP coming first suggest that neural-nets are pretty great at compression…

Fork yeah, that's very exciting, thank you for the info. I'm not a Rustacean but these memory related CVEs need to stop. Any small steps toward a memory safe(r) OS is good news to …

I'm talking about both. When I was comparing them to competitors like Symbolab I was using the Alexa ranking for alpha. I find it faster and more accurate to use a specific package…

Nobody should try anything new in the DE space because more mature things have been established with far more engineering hours? That's odd to me. You don't think they'll look at t…

Oh man, I just did a thesis on using a memory safe language like Rust for the kernel. The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory…

Thank you! I am trying to argue with myself more. Partly because I can be a bit of an opinionated know-it-all which is unpleasant and very foolish! Also I think about how young we …

It's still around but I imagine it is experiencing a bunch of competitors biting chunks out of it. A lot more people can script now, so open source packages of computer algebra sys…

Hmm, I think it's dangerous territory to use disbelief or skepticism of personality disorders as a potential diagnostic criteria. There are a lot of incongruities in research surro…

Devil's advocate: From an evolutionary perspective, our bodies were designed as mere vessels to propagate our genes. They were not designed to survive 7-8 decades regardless of die…

I like to fast for a couple days, simply because I find it helps a lot with mental clarity. However, I think you make a good point. Fasting absolutely can have downsides. The link …

Initially I thought that the reason for this would be that most people with transplants live less than 10 years, and eligibility requirements of who gets transplants (and therefore…

Working in the trades the guys that yelled and blew their fuses constantly were always clearly in over their heads and were failing to cope with the stress. I'm fond of the term "M…

Indulge me with an odd potential counter-point though. What if human knowledge is fundamentally both more inductive and collectivist than we care to admit? After all, Hume's proble…

>"Perhaps the best defense against epidemics like this one lies in choosing to look more closely and more sympathetically at the people in those hoods—to put a higher priority on c…

I really appreciated this, thanks. Here's a nod back.

When I was younger I was a big fan of existentialism. "Life has no prescribed inherent meaning, it is whatever you want it to be!" seemed very freeing. Then I suffered a disability…

This is the best guide I’ve found: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a50/1230517/ Goes into depth debunking most of the conspiracies I've heard of. My best ELI5 for the one…