skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to pull the full quote, which is more nuanced:

>As I argue in my book Chemically Imbalanced (2020), to defeat this othering and reduce stigma, clinical practice needs to move away from biogenetic causal language. Psychiatric research doesn’t support the notion of simple cause and effect in mental health, instead uncovering a far more complex and indeterminate picture of vulnerabilities. There is no evidence to justify the continued promotion of one-dimensional theories such as ‘chemical imbalance’. Nor does the beneficial use of psychiatric medicines require it. In fact, their precise mechanism of action and relation to troublesome experience remains a mystery. It would be more truthful for mental health professionals and public health campaigns to acknowledge this.

It's helpful to note the flipped the burden of proof here: the author argues there is no evidence for "chemical imbalance" language, not that there is evidence against "chemical imbalance" language. I see it as an admission of uncertainty rather than claim of knowledge; the use of the somewhat tepid phrases "need to move away from", and "complex and indeterminate picture" are a further sign the statements are not categorical.

Though I could have misunderstood their thesis. I'll find out once I've read the book, I suppose. :-)
How is “shiba” one syllable? Is it pronounced differently in Japanese?
I'm not old enough to have been aware of the rise and fall of the mainstream movement, very interesting! I am possibly just finding the first look into the theory as tantalizing as everyone else did.
Ah, this is proof I struck a nerve!
The increasing integration of the news cycle and social media serves to opinionize objectivity. If the notion of social media is tribes, and tribal adherence/management/connectivity managed by upvotes and downvotes one can logically assume "engagement" on social media if tracked by upvotes just exacerbates this example.

It would be more interesting if engagement on the newsroom side were met by the combination of actions (i.e up, down, retweet, reads, etc). At the same time that ultimately means that articles are now aiming for engagement - at the very least confrontational opinions and thoughts would be measured as "interesting".

This is dangerous thought control popularized.
Closest ever pictures taken of the Sun
'Chemical imbalance' as a causal explanation seems to me almost useless because every severe change in behaviour pretty much by definition corresponds to change in the brain. How else is it supposed to be manifest? Is there supposed to be drastic change in psychology without change in the brain?

There can be a company pouring lead into a river, psychological hazard during a civil war, and it will always manifest in the brain, what kind of explanation is this? Of course these things can be found in the brain, it would be crazy if they didn't.

That's not to say there's no diseases that are actual individual pathologies of the brain of course, but to use 'chemical imbalance' as a sort of first order response to what may have actual social or environmental reasons say, is entirely circular reasoning.
Nope, you're right, it was me that got caught up by it. :) Thanks, I'll fix that now.

https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/commit/fe241... (should roll out in a few minutes)
Part of the recitation of names mentioned in the article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7ktaSAjGA&t=1950

Less musical than I expected...
I bet you in this case not a lot changed. As you can see tons of accounts weren't "protected."
The perceived "hard" first two weeks abstinence struggle immensely benefits from foregone tries. It's a bit like fasting: first time is the hardest and after that there might even be some self-challenging pleasure fighting the urge to give up.

The real hard part, in terms of actually prolonged success, is that party six month later, one year later, two years later, ...

You will never stay a casual, 2-3 cigarettes a week smoker. You permanently fucked this up for yourself. YOU ARE AN ADDICT FOR LIFE!
> There's no "anti-trust" for your own marketplace within your own devices.

There certainly is in European law.
At Home by Bill Bryson

This is not a Sapiens-style retelling of the history of mankind. It's light reading - a quaint look at the history of the modern house, room-by-room, with many diversions into whatever topic that takes the author. But it ends up touching on a lot of interesting interconnections of how the western world developed.

It's a great read to escape the oppressive grind of 2020 while still learning tons of interesting things on every page.
Why Rizal Will Not Like the President Duterte If He Is Alive Today
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, or simply Jose Rizal is revered as a national hero, a truly deserving honor for many. He never fired a shot, or wielded blades like Emilio Aguinaldo, or Andres Bonifacio to incite an armed uprising. But his works awakened nationalism among Filipinos by exposing the corrupt practices of the colonial government officials and Spanish friars. Together with his fellow illustrados, they strived for equality during their stay in Spain.

Rizal’s approach to nationalism rejected violence. He favored peaceful means, and we could say that the freedom we are enjoying right now is his fitting legacy.

But then as I skimmed on the life story of our National Hero, it makes me wonder if Rizal would receive the same honor if he lived today. The question came in the back of my mind based on the current situation in the Philippines. But more importantly, how would he react if he meets the president of the Philippines. By the time this article is written, Philippines is headed by President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte never shied away from admiring Rizal’s heroism. The problem is Rizal won’t be too happy if he learned that the Philippines had a man like Duterte as a president.
So, When compared to paper ballots, I believe that your statements are true.

Many states use electronic voting machines. These run unverified code, without verifiable paper receipts (IE a public database of all the votes + receipt numbers, against which individuals may check their votes, and from which the official tally is calculated). This also has no chain of custody. I would choose mail-in ballots over electronic vote systems every time.
There are great deterministic random number generators, like: https://preshing.com/20121224/how-to-generate-a-sequence-of-...

Can be used to shuffle a billion points per second on the GPU with sufficient randomness for some use cases.
It's extremely far from a usable product.

The fact he couldn't cut his own hair, means he can't cut different hair, or different styles, or different textures or head shapes. No testing completed either.

This is really nothing more than a YouTube video.

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Japanese firms are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks than Western peers
Like Objective-C?
China should be substituted with CCP.

The CCP have done an incredible job of linking their government with the Chinese nation. Which to me is an absolute tragedy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
Yeah that's a hater. It was a youtube project showing some Engineering skills applied to a difficult problem. Not a product to be shipped.
Many neurological disorders are at least linked to gut bacteria, including autism and schizophrenia.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/gut-bacteria-may-con...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/balanced/201903/schi...
>I say "back then", pretty much just 200 to 300 years ago! It's still an undocumented tradition in other countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_cam...
I bought the first one five years ago and it is still excellent and valid, so this one will be excellent too.

I have to see what the differences are, but I'll probably buy this one too.
Is there any way to get off the euphemism treadmill?

First we had to create new terms because the old ones carried baggage. Now we have to righteously and victoriously claim the old ones because we should be proud of our baggage.

Call it chemical imbalance or call it people in distress; is any of this language vacillating actually enabling better treatment or is it just a way for people to get honors and headlines without actually having to actually produce science.
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It is nice that they have defined behavior for that now.

Though I try to always scrutinize any floating-point / integer conversions during code reviews. The default casting of a floating point value to integer is frequently not what you want, however. In the code we do, for example, you will usually round to the nearest integer instead, we don't normally need the more fancy rounding schemes.
> The thing is you can’t decouple large companies from their governments, especially not in China.

Funny, I'd say the US is just as bad as china with respect to government having their grimy little laws in large company data. Let's not forget how FISA can sign a warrant for vague national security reasons, and immediately have full access to internal company data, and they can also prevent the company from disclosing anything about it.

But let's not stop there. The Cambridge Analytics problem, and Facebook's ridiculously hesitant response to it, shows that Facebook's data isn't just distributed to governments or even the highest bidder, but literally anybody who waves money in their face.
can you do multi-label w/ Compose? Snorkel only supports single-label.
Indeed. The book Effective Java dedicates several chapters to how serialization works, what are the pitfalls, and how to avoid them (with care and effort, not automatic).
Another 1.3M Americans File for Unemployment
Wolfram has a lot of talks, etc but this interview seems like a decent intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VguG_y05Xe8

Let's implement Rule30, which is quite beautiful and he talks about it a lot: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule30.html

https://jsfiddle.net/zL6pgyo4/1/

We start with a simple seed and apply a set of simple rules over and over again. If you scroll past the first few lines of the output, you start to get very complicated patters. If you try other rules, you usually don't see any patterns or anything interesting, rule30 is kind of rare.

Wolfram's done some analysis and he says if you go down the central line (assuming the width keep on growing, which is not the case in my fiddle), and take each "bit" (which I represent as "-" and "X") and plot it, you'll find they're fairly uniformly distributed. Once we have these stream of uniformly distributed bits, you can convert it a string of integers or whatever you need.

For the math behind whether something is random or not, you can look up the "chi squared test", but I think the intuition is way simpler - random things are uniformly distributed. Random things look like white noise on old TVs. If you plot the frequency of their occurrence, each one should be just as likely as every other thing. In our example, if you take the output, flatten it into a string, segment it into chunks of 8 (representing a byte), then count the occurrence of each byte ("--------", "-------X", "------X-") they should have the same number of occurrences.
Unless they're getting 120 hours of productivity out of him, then no - they're just more in need of fewer generalists than many specialists. Specialization is great, but only if all of the other necessities get covered.
I should add that the tendency of adopting the hero role ("let bygones be bygones, but we need to get this done") isn't ideal since it leaves a power imbalance in its wake. A more effective response lies in Nonviolent Communication,[0] so saying, "When you say this I feel this because I value this. Would you be willing to do this?" This way emotions are managed and both parties begin exiting the dialogue understanding each other, and on equal footing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
I see health insurance on the same level as other health related services guaranteed by the society, coming out of your taxes. Sure, many people don't need health insurance right now, but many people don't need the fire department without having their house on fire, but they still accept that their taxes are funding the fire department.

As you said, these are "monopolistic public services", so for me it doesn't make sense not to have healthy people insured. The more healthy people are insured, the lower premiums are payed by everyone, and in case of crisis, no one gets left behind.
I know that where I live, state pensions can’t be touched, as the state Supreme Court has determined they are owned by the employees, not by the state.
A Juicy $3k Mistake: Starting with a Product Before Market Validation
You are inspiring me to make my own YouTube channel now!
It will move but in such a small range, that the wobble of the atoms is MUCH larger over a "short" amount of time, than the effective movement of the axle. So, at some point, the wobble would just shift slightly.

And tolerances exagerrate that by a LOT.
Show HN: GlitchTip. Open source error tracking, compatible with Sentry SDKs
Democracy is not a free pas to vote anything, especially if it is negatively impact some people, otherwise you justify gang rapes as a majority decision.
Safely tidy up the expensive mess in a Google Cloud project
Great work! Some day I might have a smart phone. Still using a $12 flip phone. For power conservation, could there be a hybrid mode, that comes out of sleep once per (user defined) interval to check messages, then go back to standby?
You should check out this company studying the gut brain axis :)

https://www.kallyope.com/
I've suffered with depression my entire life, or at least as far back as I can remember. Even as a young child I felt that way - despite the fact that my mother was a manic depressive (with multiple suicide attempts and stays in psychiatric hospitals over the years), I didn't recognise it as depression until I was much older; firstly because it was how things had always been, and secondly I guess because I got so good at hiding it that I'd subconsciously convinced myself.

I was always sad, and saw little meaning in my life, or in life at all, really. I cried lot. I frequently fantasised about killing myself, though I never got close to actually doing so.

I never talked about the way I felt. I felt ashamed, and I felt that people wouldn't understand - I've often heard "normal" people talk of how depressed people should "man up" or "get over it". Over the years, I got very good at hiding my true feelings. AFAIK, nobody ever guessed.

Maybe 5 years ago I started taking 5-HTP, which I believe has an SSRI effect (but one that is more short lived than pharmaceutical SSRIs). I actually started taking it for another reason (neuropathic pain, which has of course not helped with depression!), as I'd never considered treating the way I felt with chemicals, but within a few weeks the difference in me was incredible - I realised I hadn't cried in a while, and hadn't felt the immense lows that I felt every couple of weeks or so.

I still take 200mg twice a day, and get immense benefit from it - it's not a cure by a long shot, but after a lifetime of feeling miserable, the change is amazing. I seldom cry for no reason, and I rarely experience extreme lows (and when I do, they are less severe and shorter lived).

More recently I also started taking ketamine for my neuropathic pain, but it's actually further enhanced the anti-depressive actions.

I've tried SNRIs and SSRIs for my neuropathic pain, but am unable to tolerable them. If anyone else is in the same position, I'd very strongly recommend reading about 5-HTP and thinking about trying it. If you've tried SSRIs and they've failed for you, then it might be worth looking into ketamine (though I realise that may not be an option depending on where you live).
I don't know about AM4 but my TR4 MSI board definitely does report ECC errors (both corrected and uncorrectable).
At some point people are going to wake up and figure out that we are all human, and we all have a collection of unique threads in our fabric. There is an recent and pervasive behavior in American media and MegaCorp that is now engaged in straight out Rules for Radicals:

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it"

The emergent behavior in media is a closed loop cycle fueled by viewership. If we can increase outrage on each end of the "political spectrum" we can keep people watching. The same feedback loop is taking place on social networks with "The Stream(tm)".

I don't know what the solution is- But Hacker News commentators. I love you all.
Can't do it with Lego worm gears though. Maybe if you add some machine oil, but otherwise the plastic-vs-plastic friction is just too much.
Except facebook's base is aging and many of the youth are not interested in jumping on the next facebook offering. They had to purchase instagram to get a younger audience but their insta story pivot was successful. Gotta be honest, the last thing tiktok needs is a bunch of 40+ yr olds opening up accounts and creating content, as they are much more inflammatory than the fun content creators filling up my For You Page on tiktok. Tiktok is still very different than most other social media because its not really about following people you know as discovering interesting content nooks thru the For Your Page.
Booting Through the Network
Great comment, I mostly agree. There are clearly many people who've been helped.

Some of the other contraindications (for the disparate group in that 1% you mentioned) are still important to mention, I think.

If you're not certain you'll always have health insurance. If you may ever want to try MDMA therapy, or just about any type of psychedelic therapy (or use them recreationally). If you're uncomfortable with being on something like this super long term and/or are concerned about withdrawal issues. If you can't stand the thought of risking becoming a happy-ish, functional zombie with no sexual interest in your partner. If you're worried the doctor won't diagnose you correctly. If you're not sure you can emotionally handle going through potentially a year or more of trial & error and having to wait months each time for results. Then think twice.

I am extremely glad for the people SSRIs have saved, especially those who wouldn't have made it otherwise. It is also incredibly clear to me that despite my continuing issues with depression, they are probably the wrong approach for me.
Selfish Gene
In this case I suspect that there is an audit trail. It will lead to a Twitter insider who was “working from home” and had remote access to the tool, but had already left the country.

Banks just don’t give support reps remote access to accounts.
We all know juice is a healthy drink. But sometimes, juice can make a business fail.

This is the story about a Bangkok guy’s juicy mistake
> One can be used as a tool for subversion of a geopolitical rival, the other sells you things.

Facebook doesn’t just “sell you things”, that’s a gross oversimplification of their objective as a social platform. They’ve refused over and over again to police political speech on their platform coming from incumbents. What about that isn’t spreading propaganda?

You’re arguing that FB is just this place to see ads of things to buy when they’re constantly in the news for allowing race-baiting hateful political speech to spread. That’s absolutely comparable to some of what China does.
I'm the same way with ADD, getting on medicine changed my life. Unfortunately, i waited until my 30s to actually go to a doctor (at my poor wife's demand, i mean suggestion). All my life I had been told i wasn't smart enough nor studious enough to do the things i wanted and so struggled through it all. Getting on a medication changed everything for me. I use the analogy of imagining your day as a good, solid, sprint. You finish tired but you did it and feel good about it. For an unmedicated person with ADD it's a good, solid, sprint but up hill. Everything is just that much harder and exhausting than for a normal person.

ADD drugs obviously get abused and so I think they get a bad reputation and, for sure, can be dangerous and have side effects.

Same goes for pain medication. For real, genuine, chronic pain sufferers Oxycontin and the others are life changing. However, the drugs also get abused and are addicting so the real benefits can get masked.

The last thing i'll say is it takes a disciplined prescriber when dealing with these kinds of drugs. As software engineers, I'm sure we're all guilty of just throwing code at a problem. Many prescribers are guilty of just throwing Adderall at a problem or throwing Oxycontin at a problem without really understanding the root issue.
Kenya’s Internet balloons could help to bridge the digital divide
Open-access Plan S to allow publishing in any journal
Ask HN: Voice print software – how does it work? Best resources?
I'm researching a e-voting project and I really need to have a good understanding of exactly how voice prints are derived. Is there anyone with experience in the area that could point me in the right direction. Books, websites, blogs, etc.
I've started playing with https://obs.ninja for work-related WebEx conferences. It's surprisingly competent and doesn't require any additional application installed on the phone (just the browser).
Yes. I have backed it during the original crowdfunding and since a year ago I'm actually working on it at Purism.

The battery life and thermals got much better in the last few months, and there's still plenty of stuff to improve on in the software stack there. With my early batch unit with smaller battery (2000mAh) I'm now able to reach 6h of idle time with modem and WiFi on without utilizing CPU suspend at all (so the phone stays reachable all that time and you can, say, ssh into it - the high figures from the PinePhone blog post rely on putting the phone into suspend). There's still plenty of work left, but I'm pretty happy with how usable Librem 5 comes to be right now.

iMX.8M can be a power and thermal hog, that's right, but once you tame it in the kernel it becomes much more approachable ;)
Pretty bizarre! Just a few hours before this article got posted I was brushing up my compute shader skills and the first thing I wrote was Conway's Game of Life on a 4096x4096 texture.

baader-meinhof is in effect.
Not real UBI. I want to see an end to food stamps and housing subsidies and Medicare taxes before you call it UBI.
From my understanding, you start with a 0% chance to be in one state and 100%[1] to be in the other. Then the probability starts shifting more and more, till it is the other way around.

At least that is what I think it is, due to me having a very limited amount of knowledge in quantum physics. If a expert could confirm/deny my reasoning, it'd be appreciated.

[1] That is probably an exagerration as it would likely span more than just 2 possible states at any one time, but I chose two as a way to make it more understandable.
Here’s another good article on how to set up DANE/TLS using Handshake as your root of trust instead of CAs https://medium.com/@ca98am79/how-to-view-dane-tlsa-websites-...

The use-case above is what I’m most excited about for Handshake, because CAs are basically trusted backdoors — every time people browse the internet they need to trust that thousands of CAs aren’t compromised and aren’t responding to their local court orders around the world to issue bad certs.