skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Word. My 2011 Ford Fiesta had bluetooth, AC, and airbags.

But to the OP/parent's point, my newer car is a luxury model and it has a touchscreen infotainment thing -- and I hate it. 10/10 would rather have nobs that I can feel physically, or even just elevated bumps on the plastic (kinda like braille) so that I know I'm on the "seek station >>" part of the touchscreen.
No, the point is that when you pay cash, you give more money to the merchant than I do. This enables the merchant to charge me less than they might if all their purchases were by credit card (although not necessarily—I remember reading somewhere that when Wendy's started accepting credit card payment, they saw their average purchase total go up. I know when I published a magazine, the percentage that I paid to the credit card processors for payments was worth the effort of not having to deal with paper checks—taking them to the bank for deposit, having the potential of getting hit with a fee if a check bounced, etc.), so your cash payment is subsidizing my convenience and cash back. The parent comment seemed to imply that the merchant paid a percentage to the credit card companies whether customers paid cash or credit.
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> If you argue it's unfair that people pay for UBI, how is that different from arguing that it's unfair that people pay for means-tested social security (or poor people's medical bills)?

There's a big difference between a welfare state designed as a form of social insurance to protect people from adverse circumstances and old age, and one designed on the assumption that those who want to work owe those who don't a living, and that the only circumstance that should affect how much people receive is whether they have the right citizenship.

Aside from the fundamental ethical rationale changing from contribution based social insurance to citizenship based entitlement, UBI would also represent a much larger bill, and a lower payout to the neediest.
on the front page already, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848039
If you show proofs, you typically will not get downvoted.
Well, that's a load off my mind
All of this is true, but it doesn't matter. Most programmers are put off by s-expressions, too.

Aesthetics matter.
Good point. Maybe it means "only we can see this data from now on, instead of the user, and/or our contractors and partners"
Such measures are theoretically mandated under GDPR if you have >50 employees. I'm not sure how that looks like in practice though.
Seems like the news sections on many wikis might be pretty close to that. For example, in Wikipedia's 'In the News' section right now:

> Comet NEOWISE (pictured) is visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere.

Or from the Mario Wiki news section:

> Donkey Kong Country was released on Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online on July 15, 2020.

A completely objective news source would probably be that sort of thing for every story on the site. They'd be about two paragraphs long, be almost a bullet point list of facts and dates, and likely not be all that interesting to read.

But I guess it could be possible.
If people defend it with vigor, it's probably something still up for grabs in American discussion, and not really an orthodoxy. You'll see this in modern, fresher orthodoxies, where even though most people would disagree it is assumed the audience doesn't need to be told why it's right, or even that it's right
Well, I guess the truth is, personal data of EU and US citizens is sent in secret to european agencies all the time. Such institutions are all exempt from GDPR.
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> All of that changed after going on Prozac. I don't know why, and I've heard from many others that Prozac was harmful to them.

SSRIs are some of the most widely-used medications. Tens of millions of people in the United States alone use SSRIs regularly with good results.

No medication is perfect, obviously, and at scale we're bound to see a percentage of people have negative experiences. The problem is that when tens of millions of people have tried SSRIs, even 1% significantly negative reactions adds up to a very large number of people. If 1% of those negative reactions make a point of blasting their negative experience all over the internet, we'll see thousands of negative reports everywhere.

Combine this with the fact that few people are willing to publicly admit that SSRIs helped them, and the bias toward negative reviews online is huge.

SSRIs are a particularly difficult topic, because they have a noticeable treatment lag (can take up to 1-2 months for positive effects, with positive effects increasing up to 6 months out) and can, in some cases, temporarily worsen symptoms during the initial ramp-up period.

Even more difficult, not all SSRIs are the same. It might take 2-3 trials before someone finds the SSRI that works best for them. It might also take several dose adjustments to find the right tradeoff between efficacy and side effects. Unfortunately, many people go online and seek out horror stories before they have a chance to go through a few rounds of medication adjustments to make it work for them.

Thanks for sharing your positive success story online. SSRIs aren't for everyone, but it would be a shame for people to spend years suffering from depression when a few SSRI trials might reveal an easy improvement to their lives. Worst case, they can taper off (tapering helps avoid discontinuation effects) and move on to different treatment avenues.
They do have customer service, if you pay for their premium service Google One. They also have support agents for YouTube creators above a certain subscriber threshold.
That's fantastic you found the right SSRI for you immediately, that's incredibly rare. I second the sentiment that when you find the one for you and everything clicks, it's a truly life-changing experience.

One thing to watch out for with Prozac is diminishing sensitivity in the nether regions, that's probably the biggest reason I tried a few others and transitioned to another medication.
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This guy jacks.
This is the second experiment/invention video of yours I've come across over the past year and equally enjoyable - keep up the great work!
This is a mathematical treatment of pseudorandomness, intended to prove guarantees against specific classes of algorithms . It’s not concerned with “practical” PRGs which don’t provide guarantees about the quality of their randomness
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From TFA:

> There is no evidence to justify the continued promotion of one-dimensional theories such as ‘chemical imbalance’.

The Lost Connections book, which I read a few years ago, really helped hit this home for me. Totally made me reconsider my view of depression and treatment.
I find it very hard to believe that the "real" reason for Google's shitty customer service is that it's for our own good.
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket on stable rust finally!
Brains are not machines like your phone is a machine or your car is a machine. They are complex systems and the result of an emergent process rather than designed systems with discrete components.

The analogy that brains are like machines is harmful because it makes it sound like there is some operating manual and simple cause effect relationships that are known. Our knowledge of the brain is in fact very little. It's a false reassurance and reductionist view to see the brain as a machine simply because it is made of material parts that seem to act in a reliable way towards some end.
2050 is probably too late (it probably is already too late!), but you're right of course. In any case fusion won't play a role before we decided our climatological fate.
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This is such bad take.

Perfection is impossible as well. But we should all strive to better ourselves.

Objectivivity may be impossible. But journalists can still strive to be as unbiased as possible.
EU residents enjoy a right to data protection.

US residents do not.

EU allows export of their residents' personal data to the US under different sets of rules or methods, one of which is (was?) Privacy Shield. Another is Contractual Clauses. The crucial fact for Privacy Shield is it was supposed to provide "equivalent" protections (ie protection for EU data hosted in the US equivalent to that data being entirely in the EU). It did not.

My take is that Privacy Shield was a sop to the fact that the US never had anything like equivalent privacy laws, but we are (were?) too big a trading partner to apply the law to. This realpolitik appears now to be in question.

So yes, one of the ways to legally allow a US-based company to process EU resident data has now been removed.
I like that someone in that thread found they could change the font and still post hashes. Makes me really curious how they implemented the regex on this bandaid.
How to engage with life when you feel down
Not to reduce a complex topic to an aphorism but: if the world is configured in a way thats antagonistic towards you, a negative response is understandable. A lot of this stuff fits neatly into a tradition of blaming people for their conditions that, by and large, they have little control over.

Oh, another aphorism that's always stuck with me is "the difference between 'crazy' and 'eccentric' is a million dollars."
Or, more charitably, the 90s?
What is wrong with the idea? I don't use it because i don't enjoy the content but I don't find anything wrong with the idea. Genuine question.
UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trials
When I have to explain to my aunt over Christmas that The Circle Game isn't some neo-nazi thing, it's a complete failure of the intelligentsia. Regardless of what actual racists are or aren't doing.
...and so young Raxxorrax set off into Google's vast, dark labyrinth of Privacy Settings, never to be seen again.
I'm sure they've publicly spoken about also having search and trending blacklisting, I've heard about it before. So these statements are not incompatible.
> a "panel" of "experts" discuss how "issue x will destroy america."

My friend who worked in news regarded this as the first incarnation of "fake news".
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SawStop does so with its table saws - instead of losing a finger or worse, they barely nick you (I've seen at least one report of it triggering and not even drawing blood).
I dont know if this is true of everyone but I definitely see this in online communities. People who have access to basic health services still blame themselves for their own conditions and seek individual solutions to collective problems :/
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I didn’t make any value statements of benefit.

I merely stated that the two aren’t comparable.

One can be used as a tool for subversion of a geopolitical rival, the other sells you things.

The thing is you can’t decouple large companies from their governments, especially not in China. It presents a very easy avenue for spreading propaganda and suppressing dissent

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
If it's anything like what Russia was doing on reddit in 2016, most of the activity is actually anti-Trump. They don't really care who wins, they just want the country to be divided and weak.
Facebook seems to prefer to let others do the first-mover work to carve out a social market, and then come in a bit later and use their existing scale (with FB, IG, Whatsapp) to copy the same features into their apps.

It’s basically what they did with Instagram Stories after Snapchat existed.

There’s the whole China aspect with TikTok, but regardless this is just how Facebook competes with whatever is popular.
Cheers :) Yeah, I was one of those kids that spent most of their free time programming or otherwise tinkering with computers. I started with simple systems scripting languages before moving to Ruby and getting a proper grip on basic OOP stuff, C then shortly followed.

I don't really have any use for C today, but it definitely taught me a lot. It was intimidating at first, but when the concept of pointers finally clicked I felt like I had a sense of control in the language, and things were relatively deterministic and predictable.

I did most of my projects in C for a few years, but eventually got sucked into the JS ecosystem like pretty much everyone else at the time. These days I mostly work in .NET - C# is constantly evolving, and with .NET Core it's seemed to strike a good balance between powerful tooling, cross-platform support, performance, and just fun language features. I'm pretty content for now :)
I've been going through some literature on the management of programmers and software engineers. This text stands out by far, both for its unique attention to programmers, and in the framework guiding the author's study.

It fascinates me how much remains familiar, despite the radical changes that have taken place in computing and software development over the last half century.
>"There is some truth to the metaphor, but I wonder if it’s doing more harm than good."

In my experience, whether the metaphor does more harm than good really depends on the individual patient.

When faced with the chemical imbalance metaphor, some people will bristle and say they're not "broken." Or they'll feel disempowered because they feel like they can't do anything but take a pill (or three).

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For others, it lifts a weight off their shoulders. Most people battling with mental illness have struggled and tried various coping mechanisms to feel "normal." The understanding that the issue chemical, not behavioral, lets some people forgive themselves.

Instead of "not being normal enough", the cause is external; it's something they can't just brute force their way out of. Externalizing the issue lets the person stop feeling guilty that they weren't able to solve their own issue. This clears the slate for the person and leads them to a path toward recovery from mental illness.

NOTE: I'm not a doctor. But everyone in my immediate (and most of my extended family has been diagnosed with a chronic mental health issue. So has my wife, our girlfriend, and many others in my life. So it's well-founded anecdotal evidence. And, for what it's worth, I'm in the second cohort I described above.
High speed to the first red light.. the database, IO, network.. I don't see the point of Rust here but whatever floats your boat.
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Swift as a language/ecosystem does seem to check all the boxes in contrast to other modern, mainstream languages; it looks, to me at least, like a much more ergonomic alternative for building applications compared to Rust and Go. It's considerably faster and more type-safe than Python and Ruby. And it has a drama- and shenanigans-free licensing model that I personally am much more comfortable with as opposed to the shitshow that is Java (and, to a lesser extent, .Net).

I've been reading lots of Swift docs/articles, and made quite a few book purchases from raywenderlich.com and hackingwithswift.com. My "gut feeling" tells me making the investments to become proficient in Swift, and eventually mastering it, will pay off big time.

As a web-focused developer, I must admit I found Objective-C and UIKit intimidating, but with SwiftUI, Apple seems to be lowering barriers to entry; if you know something like Ember, Vue, React, or Angular, you won't struggle too much trying to grok SwiftUI.

With Vapor becoming a mature framework, and Apple giving its official blessing for the development of server-side Swift libraries and tools, it does seem like we may soon reach critical mass on the server, and there is a lot of appeal in being able to consolidate and develop with one language across the stack.

If we can get a Swift-to-Kotlin compiler and a Swift-to-JS compiler (there are already Swift-to-HTML DSLs, and I have been experimenting with a Swift-to-CSS DSL - with my limited proficiency in the language - and it does not seem totally impractical), it's not unreasonable to imagine Swift becoming a "rule them all" language (I remember reading somewhere that Chris Lattner said his goal with Swift was "Total World Domination" and didn't think it was that far off, but can't find the source now).
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Actually, it is that easy.

Then you do it again.

Then again.

Then some more.

Suddenly it's not that easy anymore.
I've had lots of experience with people struggling with various forms of mental illness.

Their stories are not mine to tell. I've managed to squeak by with just a scoche of "on the spectrum," myself, so I am quite grateful, but I have watched (often in horror), as people have spiraled down.

People suffering from mental illness can often be impossible to help; regardless of how much we want to assist. They need to initiate and maintain their treatment.

There's so much societal "baggage," here. Mentally ill folks can often be profoundly unattractive, and it can be difficult to have empathy for them, or get support for them.

I remember once, walking down the street in the Union Square district of SF, on a business trip. As folks know, SF has a big homeless population, that is growing. We stepped around an obviously mentally ill man, and one of my employees shouted "Get a job!".

Would it were that simple, but his attitude is quite common.

But when treatment works, it can be absolutely miraculous, and worth every second of the pain.
I leave tech interviews feeling like I had just been through a hazing ritual.
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Former bus driver devises methods to reduce Covid risk in the air on buses
Um, nothing happens when I click the button. Is there a browser limitation ?

I'm on Firefox 76, Linux Mint 19
This is one area where you have to separate the EU from its constituent member states.

The EU's treaties explicitly reserve national security for the member states themselves (except for where there is unanimity or opt-in in specific areas).

As such, in most cases, the Commission and Parliament can't legislate to bring MS' own intelligence services under control.

To change the situation the treaties would have to be changed (which is a can of worms in itself) and all 27 members would have to agree to the changes (one or two would require a referendum).
Interesting. Haven’t used rocket, but I am intrigued by warp since it has a websocket server as well.
Maybe, but there was some agreement and one party is not respecting it, so let's say is not nice not to respect your contracts. Star Trek fans are probably reminded by this rule of acquisitions; "A contract is a contract is a contract… but only between Ferengi."
People need even more expensive coathangers? This is the ultimate endgame for any high tech exercise equipment.

The only thing I regularly use are some kettlebells. And I have bought a lot of hardware during the years.
Thanks for sharing. I've always been firmly grounded and positive person. And then a few years ago riding my bike down the road, I felt a immense wave of anxiety coming over me so intense that I felt like jumping off my bike and running away from myself. As an ex army special forces guy I found this particularly disturbing. And this was just the beginning. My situation continued in that general direction until I started experiencing pain in my liver area. I hoped it would go away but it didn't, so two months ago I decided to face it head on and get full tests done. Xrays, CT scans, ultrasounds, blood work. urinalysis the works. All came back clear. But I just felt it was not me... and searching my symptoms pointed to parasites. So I did a 6 day liver cleans (cant recommend this enough) followed by adjusted diet and two rounds of combantrin I'm please to be back to a very good place.

Depression and anxiety are nasty. I was surprised to learn they are symptoms of parasites.
They've evolved in such a way that they can manipulate the host into craving foods that are beneficial for them (not for the host). Symptoms among others include anxiety, depression and irritability.
Instead, let's end prescription advertising for medication. That's where people get all these stupid ideas in the first place.

We can write and read articles like this all day. But if Rx advertisers can create new, stupid ideas in commercials faster than we can dispel them, then there's no use.
>I’m extremely apprehensive about TikTok and how China is using the data.

There isn't any evidence that China is using any TikTok data, so why is this presented as fact here about five dozen times per day?

TikTok has got a distinct privacy policy for people outside of China, stores American data in the US and Singapore IIRC, and there hasn't been any evidence presented yet that this is not true.

'China' is literally just used as a derogatory term on this website, which is embarassing for a tech community.
And most chefs can't make good veg dishes.
>This is a pretty big assertion that the piece casually drops without backing

My understanding was that the results of the author's interviews were the backing for this assertion:

>As the interviews made clear, people adopted the biogenetic account because they thought it was based in science. The interviews also show how this account undermines the kinds of introspection and self-examination that can lead to meaningful self-knowledge.
>Mental health treatment needs to re-engage with the language of persons. This means suspending the detached, third-person stance toward patients, and attending to their actual experience and circumstances. And it means encouraging patients themselves to avoid this stance and draw on the normal ways that people make sense of their emotions and actions.

Or do you mean that the conclusion the author reaches, that we should be attending to people's experiences instead of using "biogenetic causal language," isn't justified by the results of the interviews?
This isn't a basic income experiment. It's a grant-based income subsidy.

What a real basic income experiment would look like:

- Take a nominally populated county.

- Calculate a baseline income requirement necessary to live in the county.

- Completely gut all of the economic service programs (carefully without breaking federal law).

- Pool all that extra money together and divide it by the population.

- Add some sort of VAT to county sales to cover the difference between what UBI should be and how much money is in the kitty.

- Do a test run of at least 18-24 months.

Things to pay attention to:

- County sales tax receipts.

- School attendance.

- Employment, especially seasonal employment.

- Crime.

- Costs of groceries, restaurants, contractor services, etc.

- Mean age of retirement.

- Employment of those 18-25.

- Rent prices

Things to consider:

- Are state pensions on the chopping block?

- Are you going to implement basic income as UBI + earned income or the greater of the two?

- Is there any opportunity to debit federally mandated economic support from the UBI totals?

Hurdles:

- Without buy in at the state level, how are you going to prevent people from buying their groceries across county lines, or doing most of their retail online?

- Unless you pick the county properly (a proper mix of employment + age demographics), you'll have large problems on your hand.

- Serious local, national, and possibly international pressure to derail the program.