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by Herring 1y ago
Maybe your society. Finland is doing great with media literacy and resilience to misinformation in Europe. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-f... As a general rule, you can sit t
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by Herring 1y ago
Reminder that the research says the interview process should match the day to day expectations as closely as possible, even to a trial day/week/month. All these brain teasers are low on signal, not to mention bad for women and min
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah research says the interview process should match the day to day expectations as closely as possible, even to a trial day/week/month. All these leetcode and tricky puzzles are very low on signal. They don't tell you how a
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It’s an ancient lesson that has to be relearned over and over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcutter_and_the_Trees
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by Herring 1y ago
Nope, even conservatives find leftist causes more moral: https://www.psypost.org/new-psychology-research-finds-leftis... It's easy even for children and many animals to understand the Golden Rule: treat others like you
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by Herring 1y ago
Flag it. Flag it immediately.
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Ironically, that's my point right there. Zero real thought, zero follow-through. There's plenty of research but nope, it's all vibes no data.
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The interviews are wrong. Check with your favorite frontier LLM. There has been a lot of research on what's predictive for job performance and what's not, but it's largely ignored. An easy example: Google's "Proje
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“Average Joe” is an American phrase. I’m so sick of hearing people moan about problems without any effort at all to find proven solutions. You’re part of the problem.
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> Yet at the same time, economic growth has mostly kept going, but it isn't translating to improved quality of life for Average Joe. Yes ... money has diminishing returns on happiness. Americans often have a really hard time under
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To be fair though, China has its morons too. If you can't deal with Republicans where you share a common language/culture/history, how are you gonna deal with a Chinese Trump on the other side of the world? In the last electi
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They are a threat to American supremacy, and almost all Americans - republicans and democrats - think that supremacy is good for them. It's nearly impossible to convince them otherwise, USA#1.
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I used to play a lot of Coup in college. In that game, I can bluff about having a card that lets me steal 2 coins from you. Our group quickly learned that if you let someone get away with that bluff once, not only would they steal from you
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by Herring 1y ago
Again, you need a better solution than just blaming individuals because that isn't working at scale. The US is a significant global outlier in healthcare. It spends substantially more per capita and as a percentage of its economy than
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah I was also getting much better results on the Gemini web ui compared to the Gemini terminal. Haven't gotten to Claude yet.
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Advising people to exercise doesn't work and doesn't scale. Gyms are for people who have plenty of intrinsic motivation and money and time. To improve physical activity at the population scale and over a lifetime, it literally
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by Herring 1y ago
Is distributing it to individuals the best option? My suggestion would be to first identify the best option, eg improving education usually has a fairly high ROI. That's how taxes are supposed to work. > “Every dollar we put into h
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by Herring 1y ago
Naturalized citizens are up next.
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I worked with similar data in grad school. I'm not surprised. You can have a lot of data, but sometimes the signal (or signal quality) just isn't present in that haystack, and there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes yo
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Talk is cheap. Good educators cost money, and America famously underpays (and under-appreciates) its teachers. Does he also support increasing taxes on the wealthy?
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If you look at the state of the US right now (eg what Trump said yesterday) and you still don't believe there's a lot of latent hate in this country, it's really you who's not trying very hard to understand what's g
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by Herring 1y ago
OpenAI released this a couple months ago https://openai.com/index/healthbench/ Give it a year and that benchmark will probably be maxed out too.
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True ...
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> Are economic moats anti-competitive, or just good business? > A "natural monopoly" is "often the first supplier in a market" [0] How is being the first, thus more time to grow a market, anti-competitive in its
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by Herring 1y ago
What’s with the comments here? Forget the official reports, we should ask a couple randos on HN about their inboxes?
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Going by this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_moat Those are all anti-competitive things. The article even links to "natural monopoly" and "barriers to entry". It doesn't matter if
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> Mobility is not just about assisting the those in need, its also about having opportunities for advancement. I think it's really hard to do one without improving the other. They're inextricably linked. I only like to focus
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More generally I'd say it's a power grab, like a monopoly. Yes abuses always happen, but even if it was all legal and above-board, the main problem is this mentality of "more power for me less power for you". Most Americ
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According to the election and the polls, this is exactly what Americans want. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/americans-vi... > 41% of Americans say the government should provide more
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Your "nukes" are leaking into the water supply. Inequality shows up a million different ways that Americans don't fully understand yet, eg inflation (dominant companies increasing profits), teacher shortages (low wages), stud

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