skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think UBI is an essential concept and believe will be no way around it in some fashion.

That said, "AB testing" it is really hard. The real idea behind UBI (for most advocates) is that it is a living wage granted for a very long time (something like lifetimes). $500/mo for a few months or years means that people need to still plan around that loss of income, and are unlikely to act too differently.

I like research, but I don't really see much benefit here. I think you justify UBI on these grounds:
1) administration costs are much higher for welfare states than UBI (the US spends more on anti poverty programs than it would take to distribute funds and make nobody below the US poverty line). This should appeal to fiscal conservatives. Our anti poverty programs have failed not due to resources, but rather due to centralized, command and control techniques a la ISSUE.
2) the number of people that are completely unemployable (they are not able to outcompete machines/AI at any narrow job function) will increase.

Number (2) is more speculative for most people, but having automated away many jobs myself, I can see that the only reason things are not more automated is the will of leaders to automate. Most people lack the will, but that won't stop it in the long run, only slow it.
I think all libertanians would agree with that logic :)

In theory you should be able to come up with some minimal necessary set of laws and policies, pass apropriate parlimentary bills once, and after that parliament becomes unncecessary, or maybe it just gathers in session once a year, to evaluate the need for new laws.

Also, to encourage long-term thinking it should be written into Constitution that any new law passed can only take effect 10 years after it was passed, not sooner.
Except we’re talking about a geopolitical rival that now has a lever to influence the minds and opinions via an opaque algorithm and moderation policies.

One wants to provide better targeted ads, the other wants to subvert a rival nation state to achieve geopolitical aims.

You can see how they aren’t really equivalent.
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I don't really understand the busybox step. Can someone expand on what is happening there?
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Are people using the same TikTok that I am? There is currently a single skippable ad when I open the app (that appears maybe 75% of the time). Other than that, its a bunch of people under the age of 35 doing skits.. What am I supposed to be worried about when it comes to election engineering here?
Most of the competing services are built on AWS anyways, so it's not like there's big problem switching back and forth...
“That’s likely because popular views on medicine have changed radically since 1848, when the above passage was penned. These days, it would seem borderline blasphemous to group physicians — now regarded by most as healers and helpers, sworn to do no harm”

1848 was before antibiotics and even before antiseptic hand washing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis).

Then, the correlation between “going to a hospital” and “dying” was much stronger than it is today. That didn’t do much good for the reputation of doctors. People really had to be desperate before they chose to visit them.
Tik Tok is INSANELY good at figuring out what you want to watch. At first it shows you a random selection of videos, but it pays very good attention to what you're lingering at, and starts showing you more and more of those types of videos.

My wife and I downloaded Tik Tok at the same time, were shown the same videos in the beginning. Now, I basically see only Call of Duty: Warzone clips along with a few prank videos. My wife (far more political than I) sees a lot of videos of the protests, BLM activists, and other stuff.

Tik Tok does not try to force you to watch videos that you're not going to watch. It's crazy good (and scary).
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Interesting. Metaphors We Live By is near the top of my list of theories that were once a popular mainstream meme that dramatically crashed and burned when applied in the real world. The Democratic Party's embrace of Don't Think of an Elephant did not go well. My memory might be flawed, it usually is.
The current "tech" job interview process is engineered to select for people that are both competent and secretly insecure about their skills, and to do this with little or no false positives. Competent employees are, well, competent and secretly insecure employees tend to have a need to impress. Both of these traits works to employers benefit.

A large amount of false negatives, like candidates that would otherwise be great employees but maybe just suck at whiteboard coding, is considered acceptable by most employers because research shows the cost of bad hires is much much higher than missing out on many good hires. Employers know the current process is miserable and leaves a lot of good people behind.
It is worse than that.

In order to do streaming well (i.e. to prevent consumers from running away and coming back), one needs take an incoming stream and re-encode it in multiple bit rates - 1080p stream would have not only 8Mbit/sec but also 2Mbit/sec, and 128Kbit/sec qualities. In addition to that for a decent distribution there should also be a 4Mbit/sec and probably 64kbit/sec streams.

As players either hunt down or hunt up, one would be carrying a pretty big number of random cold chunks that are unlikely to be requested again at the edge, which has a negative impact on hit CDN hit rates.
Customers almost always know "What" (they're not making this up).

They usually know "Why".

Then never know "How".

So, the "What" is theirs, the "Why" is ours, and the "How" is mine. All documented and agreed upon before a single line of code is written (except for a prototype, wireframe, or proof of concept).

Take the time and energy to do this up front or stop caring. Your choice.
Ha - sort of a shitty version of the DeCSS T-shirts, huh? I love it. Pity nobody would know why it's funny... Or maybe that's part of the appeal. I can't decide.
... as a result of decades of clear harms, demonstrated in court cases establishing case law that eventually becomes codified through legislation. The "conservative" values you mention are in fact regressive, and so-called classical liberalism is centrist, not progressive.
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Why not give the take home test in advance, and then have the candidate explain their solution in the interview?
[PDF] Direct link to report: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Advisory-APT29-targets-COVID-1...
whoa! I had to give up on my n900 in 2012, when it was clear they were not going to fix two major bugs (GPS often never got a lock, and calls got dropped because the phone app took so long to swap in). it was still one of the best phones I've ever had though; I'm looking forward to seeing what the pinephone can do.
Many depressed people are very resistant to accepting treatment. In a perfect world, people would have no hangups about scheduling an appointment with a therapist and/or trialing antidepressant medication as an adjunct to their recovery.

However, in the real world many people are resistant to the idea of therapy and/or medication as it feels like admitting defeat. Or perhaps they've read cherry-picked horror stories of bad therapists or medication side effects on the internet.

Giving people the "chemical imbalance" narrative is a way to short-circuit many of those internal objections. It gives people a notion that the depression isn't their fault, but rather they are a victim of a chemical change in their body not unlike getting the flu or having low testosterone levels.

In terms of getting people to accept treatment, it's a win. Getting past the ego can be surprisingly hard, but the idea that we're treating chemicals instead of treating the person is a clever trick to sidestep that obstacle and shortcut to the treatment.

In terms of giving people the tools to address their problems, it's not so clear. The more we reinforce the idea that depression is simply chemicals in the brain, the longer it takes for people to realize that they do have some power to influence their thought processes and voluntarily replace negative thought processes with positive ones.

However, it's important to remember what a typical course of treatment looks like. If someone is suffering from depression, getting them to commit to weekly therapy sessions with another person as well as following up with the therapy homework (that is, actually implementing what was discussed at therapy) can be a difficult proposition. Getting someone to stop by the pharmacy on the their way home and spend 10 seconds taking a pill every morning for the next 30 days is an easier proposition. The medication is often the jolt that gets people into a place where they're receptive to therapy, or they start making life changes to improve their depression. It's a quick and easy way to give people space to solve their problems, which is why the "chemical imbalance" sales pitch has become the entry point to getting people on board with treating their depression. Get them to lower their guard, get them started on the easiest treatment, and then work on scaling the treatment up to a more intensive, longer-term plan after they've seen hints of success.

I don't particularly like the "chemical imbalance" sales pitch either, but it really does function as a decent hook for getting people over their objections to starting treatment.
That's like the Kennedy-shoe-shine-boy thing. Kid on the street starts asking Papa Kennedy about some hot stocks he heard of and Kennedy realizes everything is wayyy too overheated and pulls out. Market implodes a little while later, and Joe is able to buy up whatever he wants.
Marketing language is not always a reliable source of information
Yes, but those technicalities were not well understood (by any party). The law in this area is poorly defined and has not yet been well exercised.
Bias which way?
> We keep blaming “the media” for our ails when all they do is show us the things we want. Maybe we should look in the mirror?

The problem I have with your comment is that it states that "the media" are not a uniform group with hive mind, but then it implies that the whole population of the Earth is.
(all they do is show _us_ the things _we_ want
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Although it is probably not a cure in severe cases as that described in the article, I would also recommend paying attention to one's magnesium intake. However, I found that taking supplements is not necessary. Just find a mineral water that has a high magnesium content (100mg/L +), and it should get you covered as water has a pretty high bioavailability for Mg.
The Quran.
Are you telling me that the BBC is impartial?

No, it cannot be for two things:

1. It's a state-owned media company.
2. TV licensing is a tax in the UK owners of TV appliances must pay to support it. You also have to pay if you ever visit the BBC on your computer, and so on.

No way such an entity might be impartial.
Another thing to consider: not being impartial is not a problem per se.

However, when combined with state actors, this is unlimited unchecked power that can be a massive problem for society. It can brainwash people by imposing a view of the world fabricated by government rulers.
One company wants to keep advertisers happy. The other wants to keep the CCP happy.

With those incentive structures how can you even posit that the two are comparable?
US-EU data agreements are also about geopolitics.
This is a valid point. I’ve never seen a response to how you make sure the spending goes to the resources. While one can argue that the people should be adults, reality shows that is not true. Having the infrastructure to pay rent automatically by the government means rent is paid. What do we do when people piss away their UBI and don’t have money for the necessities?
Same, it seemed like the story was building up to something and then ends abruptly with that quip.

I think at some point, the average poster on that subreddit started posting longer and longer stories rather than just humorous short ones, and that’s when it became less enjoyable to read. There are folks who post stories with “chapters” that become wildly popular, but they’re always very light in substance. I don’t see the appeal.
While not exactly a note taking method, Flash cards a la Anki come to mind.
Yes. Psychology must be treated cybernetically, as a historical system of self-environment relationships, which produce state changes within the self.

For anyone interested in "chemical imbalance" theory, I highly recommend reading Carhart-Harris and Friston's paper "REBUS": http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/71/3/316 -- the basic gist of Friston's model is that the brain functions as a prediction engine, whose "prior probabilities" are "programmed" by past experience (within some environment). This paper addresses the role of serotonin: it reduces the "weighting" of our "prior probabilities" which gives them some malleability, meaning we can allow ourselves to adjust more fully to a new environment (or, if you flood yourself in serotonin, like with psychedelics ... it can nudge your highest-level priors, such as "who am I"?).

So from this perspective, we can see depression as a mis-adjustment between one's self (i.e. adaptation to past environments) and one's current environment (no chemicals involved here), and serotonin can provide a little nudge toward re-adapting.
There are probably other factors involved, like access to other information used for MFA and compromising those mediums or using information related to them to assume identity.
How would they do that? Push to my stream more content made by the small userbase of young Trump supporters? Have you been on tiktok? Cause that doesn't not end up well for most of them as tiktok is INCREDIBLY woke. This isn't facebook with a bunch of older users reposting lies. If tiktok alienates their young userbase, they have nothing. Not to say that things cant change, but not by november 2020.
> In promoting a biogenetic causal theory, anti-stigma campaigners – as well as psychiatrists, the popular media, and others – hoped to convince people that mental illnesses are ‘just like’ other chronic physical ailments, such as ‘heart disease or diabetes’, to quote the APA, and could be medically addressed.

We're very caught up in naturalistic thinking. Speaking of a soul or the mind is frivolous at best, and superstitious at worst. But look where this way of thinking has brought us.

The brain and the heart are two different organs. But while we can use science to gain an understanding of the brain, the mind is understood by philosophy and religion.

Case in point, I once asked a friend of mine if he could prove that he loved his wife. He said if he were able to freeze time, and gain knowledge of every synapse, every chemical reaction, every electrical potential -- he could definitively prove that he loved his wife, and she loved him.

"When you get home," I responded, "remember to duck when you tell your wife you want to go have her brain scanned to prove she loves you."
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Except that is all the evidence we have to go on for this conversation. Verified fake tweets have been sent from prominent democrats, and not from any prominent republicans.

Of course you're right that we don't know is if this is political, or just a distraction from whatever their real goal is / was. But the optics are clear here, and there is no reason to muddy the waters.
> If you've been put away for committing crimes, and the conditions for staying free...

Abstraction is often useful, but its application here seems reductionist to the point of being deceptive.

This 15-yr-old girl (Grace) was not "put away for committing crimes" - she didn't narrowly avoid incarceration, then violate the terms of her parole. She wasn't "put away," in the first place, because her "crimes" weren't worthy of incarceration.

She got in a fight (hair-pulling and biting a finger) with her mother - who's currently distraught that her daughter's not at home - and stole a cellphone (which was later returned) from a schoolmate's locker.

> If ... the conditions for staying free are doing your homework, you _better_ do you homework.

Grace was allegedly locked up for not doing her schoolwork, however her caseworker later mentioned that they didn't actually know (or even attempt to check) whether or not her academic requirements were being met. Additionally, her teacher stated that her performance was in line with most of the other students in her class (despite her losing the extra academic support she received due to her ADHD when her school switched to online classes). In any case, she had definitely not failed to meet the academic requirements dictated by her school. I wonder how her studies are going now that she's locked up.

I don't think the title seems "clickbaity" - I think your comment seems like a callous and misleading apology for authoritarianism. It brings to mind the "Black Codes" [1] that were passed throughout the South, following the U.S. Civil War - specifically policies related to vagrancy laws [2] and convict leasing [3] - whereby many black Americans were legally kept in conditions similar to those of their prior enslavement. By making it illegal to exist without a proven means of support (frequently only attainable via employment on the plantations of former slaveholders), and instituting forced labor as a punishment for committing said crime, Southern states were able to partially perpetuate their antebellum social and economic structure.

Put differently, If you've been put away for not working the cotton fields, and the conditions for staying free are working the cotton fields, you_better_work the cotton fields.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy#United_States

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing
Weird sentiment to think the researchers wouldn't identify and correct for such an obvious factor.
People who master C++ already know easier languages. Business start with a prototype nocode(web solutions/excel/filemaker), then go to prototype dynamic language(js/python/lua/ruby), then to a prototype static managed code(java,c#), then to prototype production and optimization(C/C++/asm). It's a lot of money to make something fast and stable, so the business idea must be good enough to pay for that, and most business ideas aren't good enough, so they bankrupt before than production. Sketch drawings and natural language texts are most of the time a better solution for that temporary trend than code, that's why html would be enough "code".
>> Alpha: No. Since we have little time, it is important that you complete one powerpoint screen at a time and NOT go back to it. When it is done it is DONE. I absolutely do not want to hear that you are rewriting code that has already been completed.

This reminded me of something an acquaintance had once said, about "the least productive workers", by which they meant programmers. It seems this is a common theme among non-technical co-workers at tech companies. Basically, there is a sense that programmers somehow overcomplicate things and that everything would go so much more smoothly if only programmers learned to do the simple thing that everyone else can see is so easy to do. Common sense, innit.

The same spirit is behind requests to do something "simple" that "doesn't need much work". "It's just a few lines in SQL, you can do it real quick". Of course, it never is. But if you say, "yeah, it's easy, I'll do it" (because you haven't learned yet) it will take a lot of work, you will take much more than a little time and they will be displeased with you because you're "taking so long for something that is so easy".
I figured that details like that didn't matter in the context of the joke.

He was a smart and productive person that designed an ugly programming language.
Just watched this last night with my wife. Was cracking up the whole time. The combination of cheesy humor and engineering chops is fantastic. I also enjoyed the one he did about making a basketball back board that ensures you always make the shot. Good stuff.
Yeah that one is amazing. Also the auto-correcting basketball backboard that makes your shot always go in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycDx69px8U&t=457s
Also, since we have no good permanent waste storage facility, with a great deal of waste generated being stored in the generation sites themselves, we'd be absolutely glowing with nuclear waste.
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills
Sublime Text is nice if you care about good engineering and performance.
> Except we’re talking about a geopolitical rival that now has a lever to influence the minds and opinions via an opaque algorithm and moderation policies.

There are American companies that seem fine with influencing the minds and opinions of users via opaque algorithms and moderation policies (looking at you, Facebook). How does the fact that I'm an American and it's an American company (with a global reach, I might add) benefit me or us as a society?

If you have a problem with companies influencing minds and opinions, the nationality of the company is a really strange demarcation line, no?
Yes, there is a grey area as the guideline says, and "targeting EU residents" is interpreted very widely. We will have to wait for the courts for an exact interpretation there.
I don't buy it. Unreal Engine is a larger project that does many more things, and the speed at which it does them compared to Electron is not even in the same universe.
If you have been close to a psychotic person who refuses to take antipsychotic medication (a common enough problem that I have faced with multiple people), the "just trying to sell drugs" story gets old very fast. A lot of people really do need the drugs in order to stop harming themselves.

I think this article does a disservice by suggesting that people on such drugs are trying to get over a minor breakup. And actually that does a disservice to very depressed people and somewhat misunderstands them too. (There is also such thing as psychosis in severe depression, btw.)

It might be true that a trauma and stress that appears benign to someone else triggers such a terrible condition. But once the sufferer gets stuck in that loop... The drugs are very often the best idea available. Avoiding them can be harmful to the health of the sufferer.
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Everyone in this comment chain is being downvoted hard, I have no idea why; I can only assume trolls have finally hit the karma threshold for downvoting:

To answer your case (and risk downvotes in doing so, gah):

I think that the situation your company was in was almost exactly the reason GDPR was conceived, data custodians have an obligation to treat that data with the value it actually has, especially in the medical industry.

GDPR was not, actually, invented with google/facebook in mind, it was due to the fact that people were selling data, and _also_ not taking care of it when they had it..

Imagine a world where there was no such thing as, idk, PCI compliance, say.. and while some people were treating card info as something they didn't want or stored very well--- the vast majority of people were instead saving them into text files and passing them around on open windows shares in order to process payments.

For a lot of companies, GDPR just exposed their shortcomings, and yes, it's expensive to fix, but the point is that it's unhealthy in the first place, much like destroying the planet will destroy us all; unless there's a financial impact to the company itself, the company will continue to salt the earth without regard for anything. (contrived example, I know).