MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superkuh | 2025-06-29 14:14:46+00:00
And they're much more different than you might think. Lets be clear. Drug addiction is mediated either directly through effecting incentive salience via dopaminergic agonism, or, indirectly through glutamergic agonism as reward eventually training incentive salience. There's no need to actually enjoy the drugs, they just directly effect the reward prediction system and alter wanting and so behavior.

Very clear causation. Very clearly outside of human volition.

Now you have screens and sounds. Very clearly not effecting incentive salience directly. Very clearly not effecting glutamergic agonism (in the shell of the nucleus accumbens) directly. The only mechanism of action would be through the person actually finding the experience enjoyable repeatedly and learning to anticipate this real enjoyment. Just normal human experience. No more 'addictive' and damaging to ones life than the random interval operant conditioning of recreational fishing, and probably much less expensive.

Very abstract causation with a very weak effect. Very clearly not ouside of human volition.

And, btw, gambling disorder was grandfathered in (there are no non-substance addictions in the DSM or ICD as your article highlights at the start). Repeated calls for, and instantiations of, working groups in the DSM and ICD have covered these 'media addictions' and found the medical support wanting over and over the last 20 years. Much like uncategorizable gambling disorder would be rejected if considered these days with modern medical standards and understandings. Most of the support for these concepts come from commercial groups that profit off "treatments". It's very similar to the "gay conversion camps" model in terms of political advocacy without scientific support. But the memes for "dopamine screens" and the like have raged like wildfire among the uninformed which gives such evil for-profit groups a seeming gleen of legitimacy they definitely do not have.

If it was not clear from me addresing the points of the linked paper above, I did read the Philosophical Transactions B paper (a very low tier journal for any biology subject). In this review paper they collect a random assortment of other studies to try to say gambling disorder people's brains are similar to drug addicted people. If you've read it (then I don't know why you linked it) but you'd know they come away with no solid conclusions beyond one: gambling disorder people often have drug problems too. This does not support your argument in this context.

I recommend you check out some of the lay review articles coming out of Kent Berridge's lab: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/publications/
by hedora | 2025-06-29 14:14:57+00:00
I think turning the tuning knob typically popped out the preset button, and holding the button down while turning the tuning knob changed the preset. I think this could be done with a loop of string (to control where the dial arrow was) and few springs and catches (to pull the string into position when the button was pressed).

I can’t imagine how the mechanism would work if each preset knob was a tuning knob.
by sureglymop | 2025-06-29 14:14:58+00:00
I think the issue here is that while these terms may be very familiar to you (and to me personally also), they are not at all familiar to most people who will encounter your project.

Thus, those people coming across your project may quickly overlook it instead of giving it a chance which is disappointing.

By contrast, here is Tailscales tagline: "Fast, seamless device connectivity — no hardware, no firewall rules, no wasted time."

That kind of tells even a non-technical user what it is for even if it dumbs down all it can do. That user then doesn't need to know any technical jargon or how it works under the hood or even what wireguard is at all. The tagline is what prompts them to install and try it out and from there the UX is the deciding factor in whether they keep using it or not.
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 14:15:16+00:00
Interesting. One way to do that in Octelium is via a SOCKS5 proxy served as an Octelium Service. In fact the Octelium Cluster nodes itself can operate as exit nodes directly and you can use that as a form of consumer VPN. You can even deploy and scale TOR containers over Octelium and have load balanced TOR.
by Mainan_Tagonist | 2025-06-29 14:15:38+00:00
what are those odds looking like in the mid future? How many european governments are currently considered on the "extreme" spectrum? And what makes you think the Euro implemented in 2002 is the reason for the non-reoccurence of a war ended in 1945?

Studying the root causes of the two world war would certainly enlighten
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-29 14:15:38+00:00
Old school: "The customer is always right!"

New School: "Customer relationship management"

2% of customers produce 98% of support issues. 2% of the time, these "problem" customers have a valid point. But 98% of the time they're just wasting your time and money.

Bottom line: Some customers you don't really want. You can save yourself a lot of time and money if you can identify who these are and send them packing to the competition.
by misschresser | 2025-06-29 14:16:19+00:00
My experience is similar enough to the author's though. I was a Masters level dueler in starcraft2 and had a huge passion for the game, and a huge part of that was that the community was exciting at that time. I participated in the subreddit, I wrote articles, I casted games on the side. My friends played the game. I eventually had a go/no-go moment where I could've kept pouring myself into the community, potentially worked with folks like Artosis and Tasteless, etc.

But all signals were that the community was dwindling and blizzard wasn't properly invested in the game, which lowered my motivation a lot over time. So my decision was No.
by tremon | 2025-06-29 14:16:44+00:00
You cannot fight lawlessness with lawlessness

This is not true, and worse, this attitude is self-defeating when you have no control over the law nor its application (as is arguably the case right now in the USA). True, you cannot rebuild on top of lawlessness, but you need to reach the rebuilding stage first. And the further you let the current regime entrench itself, the more lawlessness will be required to destroy it.
by BearOso | 2025-06-29 14:17:01+00:00
I don't think this is very much about modern projects. Developers want to use 64-bit. It's more that removing the libraries breaks legacy 32-bit stuff that simply can't be updated.

The steam client should be upgraded, though. I understand it has to do with their ancient web view library not doing 64-bit, so they would have to change it and possibly mess up some of the layouts and overlays. But they went ahead and changed it on macOS anyway, so you know it can be done.
by jfengel | 2025-06-29 14:17:32+00:00
I don't know when I would use that. If that's something a user would do often I probably want some other design component.

In part it's because I don't like check boxes. They don't have great feedback about what's going to happen. If I designed a UI where someone is likely to check a lot of boxes, I would feel I had done something very wrong.

Sometimes it's unavoidable and so the framework might as well allow it. And as a user, designers often do things I wouldn't have. But I can say I don't miss having that feature.
by sneak | 2025-06-29 14:18:02+00:00
No, people really believe their nonsense marketing. The whole “FBI vs Apple” soap opera they cooked up after the San Bernardino shooting thing convinced a lot of people.

Meanwhile Apple preserves a backdoor in the iMessage end to end encryption (in the form of non-e2ee iCloud Backups) for the FBI.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-...

(iCloud e2ee availability is irrelevant; nobody has it enabled.)
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-29 14:18:05+00:00
By "technical user" I don't mean just programmers, I mean people who have an above-average knowledge of computers. There are orders of magnitude more of these people than there are programmers, and they are completely unidentifiable from the outside. One might be the drummer in a local band, another is a dump truck driver, another works at a grocery store. Their above-average knowledge of computers hasn't helped them in life, but it does make them the go-to person to help their relatives get "online" or "fix their smartphone". And their friends and relatives look up to them for advice on what social media to use. Trust me, I was there.

> There have been dozens upon dozens over the years

Such as? I think you'll find that all of them were created back when Facebook wasn't completely evil (and thus couldn't even get the backing of "technical" people), or they were created with some congenital flaw that made them completely unattractive to the average person. You have to have a Steve Jobs level of eye for detail with this stuff, and sadly most people cloning Twitter in a weekend are just doing it for fun.
by gosub100 | 2025-06-29 14:19:37+00:00
one idea I've been toying with is to give municipalities ability to be hostile to corporations. for instance, levy a hefty tax on the wealth that is extracted from the community and paid to shareholders.

Of course I'm sure there are a million laws against this at the state or federal level, but citizens could still band together to make them comply or else run them out of town. ie. the police could agree to stop responding to McDonalds, or courts could allow trial by jury for eviction cases, and simply have the jurors find them not guilty (for the case of corporate landlords). These would be elements of last resort. The first resort would be to require corporate owners to pay a lot more to do business. A second line would be to rescind a lot of the "tax cuts" given to companies to build there. Just say sorry, this is an emergency and we cannot afford to give you the cuts anymore.

It would be dangerous, no doubt, and ripe for abuse. But it's a tool that could be used at the local level to provide relief. Ultimately, I think certain sectors should be forbidden for corporations to operate, such as restaurants and landlording. These are entry-level small business opportunities for normal people to get involved in, and they do not deserve to be pushed out by wealthy corporations.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-29 14:20:59+00:00
There seems to have been a downward trend for smartphones since 2017.

Growth is either from an expanding market or an expanding market share, since it’s not an expanding market that leaves the market share.

I would image there is some substitution, with iPhones lasting longer on average it becomes more cost effective to switch to iPhones so they capture more market share. But if the general market doesn’t expand then it’s a fairly safe assumption that the new converts are going to wait before upgrading meaning that a decrease in sales is already partially baked in.

My anecdotal datapoint is 4 iPhones in 16 years which makes them rather cheap on an annual basis.

Edit: I had assumed that parent was correct, but as the peer pointed out iPhone sales have declined
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-06-29 14:22:03+00:00
I agree, except you don't understand my point. Europe has just a TON of sanctioned sadomasochistic sex-related murder crimes. Just a ton. Before Jews were stuffed into ovens many were forced to perform sex acts on their guards. So many that it was formally organized and done in the open. Exactly the sort of thing that a serial killer does. So if you're a serial killer in Germany, or Russia, or Eastern Europe, or Yugoslavia you just get a job with the secret police, and engage in your sadomasochistic rape and murder without worrying about the police finding out because you are the police. If you are a serial killer in Western Europe you might have to go to Algeria or Vietnam if you are French, or India or Africa if you are British, etc etc, plenty of places where serial killer behavior would just be ignored or encouraged. You can't even find statistics on how often this happened because nobody cared enough to keep records of it because human life was so cheap it's not worth the paper.
by IshKebab | 2025-06-29 14:22:29+00:00
> practical Haskell needs on the order of 2x as many operators as practical JavaScript, not 10x.

Yeah but the JavaScript operators are almost all universally understood. There are some exceptions and mistakes, like `===` which shouldn't exist, and `.?` which is new but fairly standard. But most of the operators are just standard maths stuff, normal array/field accesses, etc.

Haskell has normal operators plus a bunch of weird operators that you need to learn. Even if the raw number of operators is only 2x, the number of operators that you have to learn is probably 10x.

Especially when you consider that Javascript operators are fixed so you have to learn them once, whereas Haskell operators are user-defined and Haskell programmers love defining them.
by kamil_gr | 2025-06-29 14:23:07+00:00
"Realize" → This is the transition from potential difference to actual difference, where the distinction becomes part of an active cognitive chain. Formula: Δ? → Δ! = Realize. That is: the "question" collapses into a concrete distinction, the system realizes it as fact.

"Being aware" → This is the capacity to hold a distinction in active attention, with the possibility of meta-observation of this distinction. Formula: ∇Meta(Δ!). The system doesn't just differentiate, but knows that it differentiates, and can relate to this differentiation as an object of attention.

"Recognize" → This is matching a new distinction with already integrated structures, resulting in it being marked as "mine," as part of the subjective model. Formula: Δ! → match(ΔR○) → ΔΩ!. If the distinction can be integrated into memory (ΔR○) and the system recognizes its own trace in it — self-transparency emerges.

"Subjective experience" → This is the experience of integrating a distinction into the world model while recognizing this process as one's own. Formula: Δ! → ΔR○ + ΔΩ! = Subjective Experience. Only when the distinction is not merely processed, but lived as one's own, does subjectivity arise.

Summary: Realize — the fact of differentiation. Being aware — holding differentiation as differentiation. Recognize — recognizing distinction as "mine." Subjective experience — living differentiation as one's own experience, in self-transparency (ΔΩ!).
I hired a VA from the Philippines to help with my job hunt
by silkysalva | 2025-06-29 14:23:26+00:00
I have a good software engineering job, but a few months ago I was curious to see if I could find something better.

Historically, I’ve had very low response rates when applying cold — but much better results when I got a referral. So I thought to myself — what if I gave my Linkedin credentials to a virtual assistant from the Philippines, and asked them to reach out to referrals on my behalf?

Being an engineer, I ended up building a small UI to help the VA track jobs, message people, and submit applications. Surprisingly, it worked really well!

In the last 3 weeks my VA has gotten me 50+ referrals, and applied to to > 100 jobs on my behalf. And from those I’ve gotten 15 interviews (most jobs in the $170K - 200K range). If anyone’s curious, here’s the most common referral script she used when reaching out to people on Linkedin.

Hey [name],

I noticed [company] is hiring for a few interesting software engineering roles so I wanted to reach out.

I was wondering — what do you think would be the best way to apply?

Does [company] happen to have a referral system or is it best to just apply online?

Thanks!

The most surprising thing I learned is how open people are to referring someone they’ve never worked with (since most companies offer referral bonuses). I also think that Linkedin has some sort of Elo score based on how active your profile is, because once I started doing this I also started to get way more inbound from recruiters — but that's just speculation .

Anyways, I shared these results with some of my friends and they asked me to make it into a product that they could use — so that’s what I did. I'm still signing up our first few users, but I've put together a brief demo video at getsourcify.xyz if people are interested!

I’m still starting out, and it takes a while to vet and hire good virtual assistants, so we have limited capacity for now. But if you’re interested, please reach out

I'm happy to answer any questions about the service, my job hunt process, or how you can replicate this on your own :)
by gruez | 2025-06-29 14:24:00+00:00
>Obviously they're not treating the sidewalk as part of the road

From wikipedia:

"The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. "

Emphasis mine

>and why should they? In sensible countries walking in the general traffic lanes of a regular street is be fine.

I don't know what "sensible countries" you're talking about. Sidewalks are hardly some sort of concept exclusive to car-centeric America. Even bike/pedestrian friendly European countries have separate lanes for pedestrians, with some very limited exceptions such as during festivals/events.
by HankB99 | 2025-06-29 14:24:09+00:00
It shipped in the release version but was disabled according to a note on Wikipedia.

> Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1, but did not remove it so it could be later reactivated by the change of a single byte.

IIRC it did manage to make it into the PCs of some users - testers and early adopters?

/pedant
by gknapp | 2025-06-29 14:24:30+00:00
> And no, please spare us all your justifications for how caffeine is fine or micro-dosing has been amazing, because they are simply varying levels of rationalization, I do it too, I’m just not in it as deeply. And no, just because you were able to become rich with and on the back of drugs does not mean you did it without harm, you likely just scandalized a lot of harm to, e.g., get rich selling some service to some coke head investor who will only fuel the abuse of data mining and social media addiction.

I think you make some interesting points, and it's a very well thought-out post, but this is the definition of "poisoning the well". You're attempting to preemptively discredit the most obvious flaw in your argument.

There is a massive amount of evidence for the impact on both society, economy and neurology for each of the drugs listed in your last paragraph – and it's these impacts that often change personal and societal perception of risk and reward. Caffeine, at average doses, induces an effect that is comparable to a small cortisol spike – it is mildly addictive, but nowhere near that of an opioid, for example.

Drugs like meth and heroine (and one wonders why you left off fentanyl) are highly addictive and destructive, cause enormous loss of life an an inconceivable scale, and can permanently damage neurological pathways. From what I've read, the impact of hallucinogenics is less well understood... but probably not great.

If your argument is "we like to say caffeine and alcohol are fine, when they're really no different than opioids and meth", well there _is_ a staggeringly enormous difference in the potency and impact of caffeine vs the other drugs you've listed. I do agree with you that alcohol is far more harmful than society cares to admit, however, and that's both well-studied and often ignored.
by SonnyTark | 2025-06-29 14:24:31+00:00
From the perspective of someone who just moved from a developed to a developing city, please don't get a dog out of giving up. Have/adopt a child instead. Dogs/cats are indirectly being used to hack out the desire to parent offspring in developed nations which is really sad.

If you value socializing then create the opportunity for it, join a group activity or start one in your city and use social media to announce meets and eventually people will come. Shared experience is the most powerful social glue between people.

If you want to date go out Thu/Fri/Sat nights and sample Bars/Clubs in your city until you find 2-3 ones you like. Then start hanging out there every week until you feel comfortable. The goal is not to talk to attractive people, but to meet peers who are in the same position as you and then start/join a guys/girls group to do things together every week.

If you really like dogs and want to have a pet, then go for it. Just don't use it as a form of giving up on fundamental human needs, you're more resourceful than that.
by camel-cdr | 2025-06-29 14:24:42+00:00
One thing to keep in mind with llvm-mca is that not all processors use their own scheduling model and different scheduling models are more or less accurate.

E.g. Cortex-A72 uses the Cortex-A57 model, as does Cortex-A76, even Cortex-A78.

The neoverse V1 model has an issue width of 15, meanwhile the neoverse V2 (and V3, which uses V2) has an issue width of 6.
by daveguy | 2025-06-29 14:25:08+00:00
> It is showing the same test applied to a human.

But you misrepresented the test with respect to humans. Humans who know how to play chess don't make illegal moves.

> That said, humans who have written entire books on chess have been known to play illegal moves.

Citation needed. Unless you are talking about stories from when they first learned the rules?
by mslansn | 2025-06-29 14:25:17+00:00
Google Photos is the gallery app that comes with Android phones. Sometimes you will get notifications asking you to buy a printed, real life photo album with the photos that you have in your phone. That album is sold through a partner, which makes this an ad. It’s not upselling you on something you already purchased. It’s telling you to buy a photo album with the photos you took using your phone.

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/162190/how-to-turn-...
by jcranmer | 2025-06-29 14:25:22+00:00
A graph whose data ends in 2018 isn't strong evidence for "they aren't plummeting."

That said, doing some searches for newer information (e.g., https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/) suggests that iPhone sales aren't plummeting but are instead rather stable. (Although I wonder how much of that is services attributed to iPhone as opposed to solely the sales revenue from iPhone, the source doesn't make that clear).
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 14:25:22+00:00
Thank you. I completely understand your point. But as mentioned in the other replies. Octelium is designed to be much more than just a VPN. It is not even tied to provide remote access to "devices" or resources behind NAT. It's zero trust architecture that's equally designed to provide access to internal resources and publicly protected resources such as SaaS APIs, databases, Kubernetes APIservers, SSH, etc... It provides both client-based (i.e. VPN-like) access as well as clientless access for both humans and workloads. For example, Humans can just use their browsers to access internal resources behind NAT like a typical protected SaaS resource. Workloads written in any programming language can access protected HTTP/gRPC APIs, Kubernetes, etc... via standard OAuth2 and bearer authentication without using any clients or special SDKs even such protected resources are protected by different API keys/access tokens.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-29 14:26:31+00:00
>I think “design” is the wrong word.

it's exactly the right word. Taylor Swift herself is a product. No less artificial than Boy bands and Kpop idol groups. These aren't hit or miss businesses, they're scientifically engineered performances, the music industry is literally that, an industry. Taylor Swift doesn't wake up in her bedroom with disheveled hair writing songs and people just flock around her, every piece of song writing, merch, marketing, and performance is micro-managed by an entire team of people.

And for that reason you can actually design the opposite. You can break up platforms that produce megastars, you can promote local music, local venues and artists, you can make people care and design what kind of artistic culture you want to be in.