skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what is needed is a change of perspective around news / media.

IMO, the money and the passion is there. I don't see why there can't be an NRA / Sierra Club / Red Cross type organization for true investigative, insightful, trustworthy journalism.

The issue is that people can already get "news" for free, so they wouldn't see the need to support such an organization. We as a society need to rebrand Fox, CNN, etc as current events based entertainment media.
In this case it sounds like the user is calling ETrade, so unless the user calls a wrong number that just so happens to be a hacker it's unlikely this would be an issue.
Worst for me was for Rakuten when they asked to basically implement a complete ETL pipeline to populate a mini-datawarehouse. It was easily more than a week's worth of 2 hours per day work that was supposed to be done within a week and worse, they didn't even bother to provide feedback.
Thanks for your insight. You may very well be right about the client looking for more resistance.

How could I have given more resistance? I don’t see how I could have had more of a “spine” without it turning into a shouting match. But perhaps that was what the client wanted?

Having had all my opinions so completely disregarded was very frustrating. I seriously do not believe it would have been possible to somehow educate the client and help them understand the need for my suggested changes.

The only option left was dropping them. Or was there any other solution?
So anyone who gets access to your Facebook profile can see all your bank data.
they struggled against the dehumanising notion that their thoughts, feelings or behaviour were mechanistically caused.

The realization that thoughts think themselves was one of the most profound moments of my life.

Identification with your thoughts is a recipe for unhappiness.
That's because GPUs are insane and purpose built. For an honest benchmark, you'd only look at instructions executed on the CPU which won't be any rendering, but stuff like world ops, AI, game flow. Some of those are not really that taxing.

As an example, Stellaris had performance issues that were CPU bound for a while and it's gotten better. It's not a visually demanding game after all.
> array[i] will check to make sure that array has at least i elements.

At least i+1 elements, right? Or am I getting caught up by one of the three hardest problems again?
In game theory, the optimal strategy is often a stochastic one. In those games, if you play deterministically there’s always a way for your opponent to gain an advantage; playing randomly from a particular distribution is strictly better for you.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_(game_theory)#Mixed_s...
I don't think calling it a machine is implying that we understand how it works internally (to a much greater extent than we actually do). Or even that we fully understand how it tends to behave in practice, out there in the "real world", as part of larger systems. But I guess if many people view it that way, then using slightly different language might be better.

What I was getting at is the fact that there is no fundamental difference between "I did it" and "my illness caused me to do it" (other than maybe probability).

Or in other words, no "free will", in the way that some people view that term.
It's personal data. Which is defined in the GDPR as:

any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person
Are you saying that the impossibility of objective truth is objectively true but effectively useless?
I'd have to put up a sign notifying cars will be towed. I simply don't want to have to deal with the problem. Why should I have to deal with this in a residential neighbourhood where my expectation is to have an actual neighbour who understands his property line?

Putting the onus on me to deal with his guests is a problem that bothers me in of itself.

If you had the same situation I am sure you'd grow tired of it pretty quick.
a very good point and something that will never discussed as it gets into threatening Google's core business.

This is meant to be PR statements to try and prepare for increased scrutiny and data privacy they see on the horizon.

This is, imo, meant to be a way for them to tell the masses "look we automatically delete you data!", expecting them to not have any understanding of models that can be built from the underlying data.

Unfortunately, the tech press will cover this at face value praising Google, as their livlihoods are all dependent on Google Ads / YT and free services like AMP.
The psychological and resultant behavioral impact on tax base whales and the liquidity of labor are the most important things to study. I can't reasonably think of a means to study those outside of an academic scenario.
I completely agree with the fact that the “chemical imbalance” idea is a gross simplification, but it also makes a lot of sense why psychiatrists would be prone to this type of mindset. When all you have is medication with relatively well defined effects on neurotransmitters(mostly GABA, serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine) everything looks like a problem of getting those in the right ratio.

Personally having experienced depression myself and knowing many others who have experienced it, I’m of the opinion that a lot of mental issues are either symptoms of some other condition (like diarrhea or coughing) or the result of learned behavior / maladaptive coping mechanisms. Or simply us treating emotional states or personalities that aren’t socially acceptable as illnesses (of course this doesn’t include things like psychosis, nor is it meant to diminish how serious depression and anxiety can be). That’s a bit uncomfortable for the existing mental health complex though
Pushing divisive content is what social media does, regardless of owner. But I gotta be honest, the reason I use tiktok is that is does not do this. When I see content I dont like, I skip past it or even mark it as not interested. The algorithm adjusts. If it didnt, tiktok would not be as popular. It is a very happy place to be compared to any other social media app out there.
My wife just started Prozac after years on other medications, and has had a similar “miracle”. Her mood has been the stablest of the last 10 years I’ve known her. It’s been life changing for her and thus myself, as selfish as that feels. Anyway just really glad to hear another’s similar story.
I've always been depressive and pessimistic person as far as I can remember.

I've been looking at other people only to see how happy they are and how
content they with their life. They feel motivated, want something from life
and in generally think that being alive is alright, which I just couldn't
internalize no matter how hard I tried.

Essentially, I've come to the conclusion that there _must_ be something wrong
with my neurotransmitters that I just can't be happy as fellow friends around
me.

Many doctor appointments, many different prescriptions.

Antidepressants did their job and I started to care less about what's going on,
but they didn't make me any happier. They just made me less miserable. On the
other side, I've started to see the world through some kind of fog, which
blocked most of my previous perception. My long-term memory started to
degradate.

Now, after many years of taking various SSRIs I'm beginning to realize, that
there's nothing wrong with my brain.

That's perhaps who I am, maybe either percepting more than many people around
or just more sensetive and therefore reacting stronger even on slightest
stimulus in a much stronger ways. I have opinions and thougts on a topics that
many do not even care about.

So instead of supressing thoughts and emotions I must accept them as they are.
One of the ways that Prozac helps people is by increasing allopregnanolone in the brain [1]. This is a well-known effect of Prozac, and perhaps the other SSRI's. Allopregnanolone "is a neurosteroid and acts as a positive allosteric modulator of the GABA-A receptor, the major biological target of the inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)" [0]. GABA -> relaxation [2]. GABA supplements don't work very well on account of the blood brain barrier...

An evil pharma company recently got their version of allopregnanolone approved to treat postpartum depression. Cost of treatment: $34,000. It's cheaper to go upstream: progesterone, pregnenolone, or figure out why the body is having trouble making pregnenolone from cholesterol... Vitamin A? Thyroid?

One theory of why women experience postpartum depression is that their progesterone levels "fall off a cliff" after they give birth. In theory supplementing progesterone would help postpartum depression better than allopregnanolone. No one can afford to do that study because there'd be no pay off, as all the important patents have expired.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopregnanolone

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=allopregnanolone+fluoxe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Aminobutyric_acid
This was a big problem in the early days of online banking (early ‘00s). A fair number bank fraud losses were due to rogue internal employees at call centers creating or changing then selling off online banking passwords. Ran into this when I was with a startup that launched bank to bank email money transfers in Canada around 2001. Banks cleaned up their security pretty quickly though, adding deyailed audit trails for one, and variety of other security controls around their own employee access (like double sign-offs). There is a general principle that banks have understood for as long as there have been banks... not all threat actors are outside threat actors.
Thought it was who you share what with, so including the auth/authz as parent asked. After sharing happened all bets are off.
Last 3 days: the US almost got as many new Covid19 cases as Germany had in total
Hm, I expected more of the article. I did my thesis for my bachelors degree about the agenda-setting theory, with nothing really remarkable, but learned a lot in the process. So here are my takes.

> A new generation of journalists is questioning whether, in a hyper-partisan, digital world, objectivity is even desirable.

Journalists that use their position as a way of aggressively pushing an agenda are not outliers nowadays. I'm not sure about the US, but in Spain this people reads Gramsci & Laclau and similar people, or it's familiar with their theory.

When I stumble upon news that smell like propaganda I always do the same, see who wrote the piece, look at his name in social media, and 99,9% of the times is someone who's actually very partisan of his particular ideas. I've donde this with Spanish and US news with similar success, not so much with Portuguese and French (maybe cos I have a lower understanding of the environment), but still.

This people is not even trying. You could argue that everyone defaults to his biases and we do a very good job of tricking ourselves but IMO there seems to be a conscious effort of framing and priming information, and as a broad patter of behavior in journalism.

In my particular case, when I watch or read mainstream news, I do it almost as an anthropologic exercise, what they want people to think about? How they want people to think about it?

There are so many instances of propaganda that it's not worth to filter any more. I just go to some finance, niche blogs or specialized publications when available.

> And so objectivity became journalism’s new lodestar. As Lippmann put it, the journalist should “remain clear and free of his irrational, his unexamined, his unacknowledged prejudgments in observing, understanding and presenting the news.”

And

> A study for the API in 2018 found that 75% of Americans could easily tell news from opinion in their favoured outlet, but only 43% could on Twitter or Facebook.

The problem is that people in newsrooms are perfectly aware on how news are consumed today, so they mix information and opinion in their pieces and their opt-in channels which is typically social media.
Often true, but it's also true that many people don't realize how affordable therapy can be under their insurance plans. YMMV, obviously.

Depression is notorious for making people assume the worst. Many depressed people will assume therapy is inaccessible or too costly without even checking. I would encourage everyone to at least take a few minutes to look it up or call their insurance.

For example, I've walked several people through the process of finding a therapist, checking with their insurance, and scheduling appointments to get them started in the past few years (United States, corporate insurance). For most of them, therapy visits were billed with a $20 copay with a limit of 24 visits per year, which is more than accessible.

However, even if it's not, it's important to put the costs in perspective. How much would you pay for a magic pill that improved your problems? Does $1000/year sound worth it? That's 10 x $100 therapy sessions.

If professional therapy is out of reach, self-directed CBT using books or self-help resources have been shown to be effective as well. Not as fast or effective as professionally-guided therapy, but certainly a worthwhile starting point.
If you do that to a head of state its very visible and leads to major changes.

Same as when a journalist in the UK got a temp job in BT's office in Edinburgh and looked up the queens unlisted phone numbers at Balmoral - lead to a major security incident and massive changes.
For many, many things its not really a questions of 'normal people creating" resources. Because most goods are not made by people on assembly lines any more. That's pretty much a tiny fraction.

Automation means, only the Engineers and Maintenance people need report to work to keep the goods flowing. Its been happening for 20 years, and accelerating.

The UBI may not be quite ready to deploy, but its coming. If we try it too soon, then some goods will indeed become scarcer and thus more expensive. But many things may continue just as they are. We want to make sure that's enough to keep everyone healthy and fed.
Not trying to dazzle anyone with anything. Just trying to understand the problem And have discussion. I’m not a cable engineer but these are very practical considerations.

I did a quick calculation with a simple assumption and admitted that my initial estimation of added length was incorrect and it’s not an issue.

The bends around a narrow diameter cable are a potential issue for both added loss and cable reliability as are the different rates of thermal expansion.

You don’t need to take my world for it on the loss.
https://amphenol-ns.com/Blog/post/bend-radius-protecting-fib...

As far as the reliability goes, I wasn’t sure so I looked it up, see Table 1 on page 6 below. There’s an example of cable failure for a typical FTTH network. If you see this, then you’ll note that the number of turns and the radius of those bends is important in predicting the reliability of the cable plant. It’s worth noting that the cable plant failure mechanisms are dominated by breakage due to other things and not mechanical fatigue.

As long as the bend radius is >10mm the failure rate should be <0.5ppm per turn. For a 38mm diameter cable the failure rate <0.1ppm/ turn.

https://www.corning.com/media/worldwide/coc/documents/Fiber/...
> Is this fundamentally different than your next door neighbor replacing their SFH with a 4 story apartment building?

Yes, with actual long-term neighbours I only have to tell them once where the property line is and how to deal with trash pickup. Also there is zoning and bylaws regulating multiple occupancy homes, and I can look that up before purchasing my house.
We Put Together a List of the 20 Most Common Email Patterns in the B2B Space
Throughout my professional career, I've had to guess at emails in order to make contact with the right people. I wanted to put together a resource for people to do the same if they ever need to do so.
Yup, there are a ton of people, myself included, who would love to be able to build an all-in-one router/firewall/WAP box for a small environment where such a thing makes sense, but we like pfSense for the router/firewall part. FreeBSD's wireless support has been horrible every time I've tried it compared to the same hardware running a Linux-based platform.

I don't mind using (and in fact generally prefer) separate WAPs in cases where I expect to want to expand (most businesses and larger homes) but there are occasionally cases where an all-in-one device does actually make sense. Mostly small mall businesses where you have a coverage area of ~150 square feet and need to cram all the equipment under the front counter.
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In 1984 KenThompson was presented with the ACM TuringAward. Ken's acceptance speech Reflections On Trusting Trust (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html) describes a hack (in every sense), the most subversive ever perpetrated, nothing less than the root password of all evil.
I'm a utilitarian social democrat and I don't think I ever been downvoted because of that, despite living in a world completely different from SV. I'm not american, I'm not rich, and some of the problems that SV like to focus at seem childish and/or absurd to me, but here I am, still thinking that HN is probably one of the best communities.
There has been an accidental larger study: https://www.wired.com/story/free-money-the-surprising-effect...
I had an annoying micromanaging client like this once that insisted on designing an entire UI and then just having me implement it exactly as is, of course the design was terrible.

When I suggested why he didn’t just write up some code to go along with it, he told me he doesn’t know how to write code.

And I replied that I was confused, because until now he seemed very confident doing shit he knows nothing about.

Never heard from him again.
User testing the UI is a powerful tool to keep scenarios like these from creating scope creep and bad design. Your client wants to design? Sure, we can test that design and see if the target audience can use it to accomplish your business goals.
Ask HN: Is there an instant messaging app which has a tree like view?
What I am looking for would be similar to treeverse for twitter? (https://treeverse.app/)

It would be interesting to visualize and browse telegram threads in a similar way.
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52 minutes a day is average engagement. 800M users. 32,000 man years or 400 human lifetimes of attention wasted every day (if I got my mathematics right).

We could be colonising mars or something instead of watching short videos of something totally ephemeral. And I’m sure in time it will be used much like Facebook to polarise people.

Then again I’m shitposting on HN so perhaps I’m just a hypocrite :)

Edit: the colonising mars thing was facetious and I probably should outline that. The issue is that our attention and mental health is more valuable than wasting on these shitty platforms.
And how exactly do you do that when an existing neighbour can start his business after the fact?
> The final reason for the turn against objectivity is commercial. The shift away from partisanship a century ago was driven partly by advertisers. Today, as ad revenues leak away to search engines and social networks, newspapers have come to rely more on paying readers. Unlike advertisers, readers love opinion.

Readers love opinion? How do they know this? Is it because Ezra Klein said so in the following sentences, that people want to be coddled by their media?
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Wow, this is a very interesting story. Another person might have just resigned themselves to their angst-ridden fate, and never gone beyond psych meds. It seems like generalist doctors (I’m sure lot all!) think, or at least act, as if there’s no link or causal relationship between mind and body. I did a three day fast which reduced my anxiety symptoms immensely for months, glad you sorted this out.
I would question the implied premise that Facebook does not want to subvert rival nation states (or subvert the United States government itself) to achieve geopolitical aims.
Sure, but good luck if you are in Hong Kong given that your innocent 'cat videos' are being surveilled for any criticism's to the CCP, which will get you arrested or thrown in jail.

Why do you think TikTok was withdrawing from Hong Kong after the security law was passed? In the UK or in the US, I can criticise the government on Facebook without them throwing me in jail. If I were in Hong Kong and did the same thing to the CCP on the other hand...
I was the complete opposite, maybe I'm a hater.

The hard part isn't done. Controlling servos and motors is school level work. Combining it with 3D, a 400 level class.

But it doesn't actually work. Saying "I can collaborate with a stylist" is not the bottleneck. It's the precision, the irregularities between clients, and obviously more.

Its a cool YouTube video if you don't know design Engineering, but I was utterly disappointed and was surprised to see people praising him..
Lots of loaded words in there, and not really fairly.

Nobody 'owes' anybody a living. The situation is, we can give most folks a living, without everyone working. And those that continue to work, of course are better off because they earn money for that. No unfairness at all.

I think its the old Protestant work ethic, this attitude of "folks not working are immoral". We have to get past this, to make UBI a thing.
Three out of four times MySQL was involved in the success of products and companies.
If they control the recommendation algorithm, they don't need to make their own posts, they can just recommend existing content that fits the message they want to promote.
The big problem with (1) is that it's unambiguously falsified by widely available data.

Approximately 75 million working age US citizens are 'economically inactive' in normal times - i.e. they're not working or paying income/payroll taxes, and in most cases are ineligible for any other type of benefit. The US poverty line is 12k.

You're not finding all that extra money from admin costs
> Aren't most PRNs made deterministically?

All pseudorandom numbers are deterministic; that’s what the ‘pseudo-‘ prefix is meant to indicate. There are other kinds of random number generator that observe physical entropy sources instead. Perhaps the most iconic is CloudFlare’s wall of lava lamps[1].

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
When America Tested Nuclear Weapons on Itself
You don't have to listen to everything your brain tells you
Does nobody have a counterargument to this?