skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As the primary drivers of iPhone addiction

That's an odd way of breaking the problem down.

Apple's one of the major drivers of smartphone addiction, but if you compare them to Google, they're a lot more likely to genuinely move towards limiting these sorts of issues. After all, their profits come more from the hardware sale, whereas Google gets their profits from ongoing usage of the device.
The site returns wikipedia articles, I found.
Hmm, interesting observation, but the causal link seems a bit tenuous.

Is it possible that only people with larger hippcampi and other cortical regions are good at memorizing large texts? (that is, the causal link is inverted)

Is it possible that people who learn or do something focussedly over a long stretch of time (practice music 4 hours a day) show larger development over those same areas than the average distracted person?
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No harm studying any of that lot. They are asking for a study not a ban.
Before you had to bring your own toilet paper (when I visited the Temple of Heaven for the first time in 1999), or you could buy some from the attendant for a few mao (cents). Now that attendants are too expensive, they have to come up with something else, while tourists from the lesser tier cities still see bathroom provided toilet paper as a luxury.
Being rich won't solve all of your problems. But wealth/funding does solve some problems, and reduces most of the rest by orders of magnitude.

In the same way, being in good physical shape, eating healthful foods, sleeping well every night, and not being stressed won't solve every medical problem. But a dependable and healthy body does solve some problems directly, and reduces most of the rest by orders of magnitude.
Looks like a big money grab by the companies that touts they can accurately track people
The was a guy named Loren Mosher who was the head of the National Institute of Medical Health (NIMH) who vehemently spoke out against the use of neuroleptics. He was removed from his position despite there being numerous studies (including one done by the World Health Organisation (WHO)) indicating that the use of these/ access to drugs were correlative to rates of chronic conditions. He also ran the Soteria project that had moderate replicable success without drugs by having patients live together in certain controlled conditions.
Completely agree. Personal responsibility is what you teach your kids, not how you design effective systems.
Similar. Our generation is more used to getting things done on our phones or computers, including human interaction.

I for one hate to run errand where i need to talk to someone. It is very inefficient, and socially awkward.
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Oh! I thought I had lost this terminal session due to another recent forced restart (there's a VERY annoying bug in udev, Debian Stretch, or KDE Plasma 5 ... but another rant for another day).

But I haven't!

The server was fe80::188e:1b74:da0:42e9%3.

Here's some of my terminal output from when it happened. I was on Netflix when the notification came in and Netflix stopped loading less than a minute later.

$ dig www.netflix.com
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 53897
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.netflix.com. IN A

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: fe80::188e:1b74:da0:42e9%3#53(fe80::188e:1b74:da0:42e9%3)
;; WHEN: Sat Jan 06 01:25:55 PST 2018

...huh, that's weird. I doubt this is a Netflix issue. What does Google say?

$ dig www.netflix.com @8.8.8.8
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48982
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 10, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.netflix.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.netflix.com. 824 IN CNAME www.geo.netflix.com.
www.geo.netflix.com. 1314 IN CNAME www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com.
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.25.169.106
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.39.122.191
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.35.217.11
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.26.64.50
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.33.220.134
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.33.159.26
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.35.162.191
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 28 IN A 52.39.27.188

;; Query time: 50 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sat Jan 06 01:26:00 PST 2018

...ok. And Verizon?

$ dig www.netflix.com
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 31554
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.netflix.com. IN A

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: fe80::188e:1b74:da0:42e9%3#53(fe80::188e:1b74:da0:42e9%3)
;; WHEN: Sat Jan 06 01:27:10 PST 2018

...Okay. What about YouTube, Reddit, HN, Google, Slashdot, my servers? Can I reach those? (Yes.) Okay, let's try reconfiguring this connection's DNS then to use Google public DNS.

$ dig www.netflix.com
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45369
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 10, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.netflix.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.netflix.com. 704 IN CNAME www.geo.netflix.com.
www.geo.netflix.com. 1194 IN CNAME www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com.
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.39.175.187
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.40.134.13
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.37.33.45
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.40.109.21
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.39.98.186
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.37.69.124
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.40.112.84
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com. 26 IN A 52.39.34.178

;; Query time: 33 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.4.4#53(8.8.4.4)
;; WHEN: Sat Jan 06 01:27:40 PST 2018

...Neat.

(edited to shorten it up.)
So politicians have a choice:

1) waste everyone's time and don't solve the problem (but appear to) but not be personally subject to criticism of sexism

2) actually solve the problem but open yourself up to criticism that you're "racist" (sexist really)

We all know how this is going to go, don't we ?
But we're soley not operating on "extreme suspicions because something is new" here. The letter does cite some studies, for starters. And you're mixing up "haven't always borne out exactly as predicted by the most worried people" and "have never borne out".

There was a time when using x-ray machines in shoe shops seemed totally benign, like a fun, useful thing. Suspicions about that "new thing" as well as others were correct. Including here, that list starts with "comic book" and ends with "internet and facebook" addiction, which are absolutely worth studying.
My understanding is how they reproduce. A cultivar reproduces "sexually", and is "true to seed". If you plant the seed you get the same or very similar plant (which produces the same seeds).

To clone is to trick an organism to divide into two or more organisms. This means they have the same strengths and weaknesses because they have nearly the same genes.

Cloning can be done by rooting cuttings of a plant or attaching a cutting of a desirable plant to a root stock of a less desirable version (or a version with qualities like limited height to keep the tree small)
While I am fairly vehemently against them and pro LSD as an option, I tried a short course of Lexapro and it was mildly helpful for about 3 months. A decade later I had the audacity to try again under different circumstances. Day 3 I had the worst and only panic attack of my life and decided to call it a day and use mindfulness techniques to deal.
If I could duplicate the work in a weekend, it isn't real art :-)
> I find myself far more impulsive about phone use on an iPhone than when I was using android devices

Looking through a tinted lens, is it possible that iOS devices are just nicer to use, leading you to use them more?
I'm building `react-qml` [1], a build-tool (and Qt plugin) to help you build native app (desktop/iOS/Android - any platform Qt supports) using JavaScript and React. It's not quite ready to use in production yet but I hope to have a beta release in the next few months. Here is what it offers:

- UI development in Javascript, using either custom React components or React-wrapped .qml components. You can use almost all of your beloved front-end library (react-redux, redux, redux-obserable, lodash etc.)

- Hot reload support! So no more `build/rebuild` in QtCreator (you still need to rebuild for C++ native components)

- Supports JS tools out of the box (React DevTools, Redux DevTools...)

- Use any programming languages to develop backend as long as it has binding with Qt (ie go-qml[2], qml-rust[3] etc.)

[1]: https://github.com/longseespace/react-qml

[2]: https://github.com/go-qml/qml

[3]: https://github.com/White-Oak/qml-rust
> I don't see how you can read that from the linked wikipedia page.

Here's how net neutrality is defined.

"Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication."

Blocking all TCP/IP packets with first two bytes set to 25, and not blocking TCP/IP packets with the first two bytes set to 24, is a clear violation of the Net Neutrality principle of no discrimination based on application. If I send a TCP/IP packet with source port 24, my ISP does not block it. However, if I change just one bit in that packet, my ISP refuses to send it.

An ISP blocking an entire class of applications from the internet (in this case, SMTP servers) is most certainly a net neutrality violation.

> If someone is actively disrupting the network, or is otherwise acting maliciously, then clearly as a network operator you're going to be permitted to block that traffic.

Where specifically in the definition of net neutrality does it permit ISPs to block such traffic? Blocking such traffic is a violation of the net neutrality principle that "Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same".

> Most major mail providers will outright block you for existing in [a residential IP block]

ISPs have blocked residential customers from using SMTP for over a decade now, therefore it's no surprise mail providers have little incentive to support residential SMTP servers. They've been forced out of the market.
Somewhere around the 100k revenue point. I don't recall the exact reason, it was getting more serious at that point, I guess.

I wish I'd done it earlier, as certain loans (SBA) are only eligible if you're at least 2 years old. If you might pursue bank funding later for this, incorporate as soon as possible.
Exactly! If it wasn't a problem before then it won't be a problem today either. Nothing fallacious about that. The evolution of technology usually has very limited impact; WW1 and WW2 were barely more destructive than the wars that preceded them, after all, and WW3 will surely be no worse.

Edit: The above is sarcasm. It probably deserves the downvotes, but at least I want to make clear that I don't mean this stuff. The amount of psychological research, behavior tracking, and personalization that goes into keeping people "engaged" with their phones has never been seen before. It just seems so outlandish to argue that it won't be a problem because we turned out fine despite having TV as kids, nevermind that it only offered a handful of completely un-personalized TV channels and zero user tracking (apart from the tiny fraction with a Nielsen box). I just don't get it, especially here on HN where I'm sure many people have an idea of what's going on behind e.g. the Facebook feed.
I'm sure Apple can create some more granular controls to restrict certain apps, but it's probably going to hurt CalSTRS.

I took a look at their 13F filing and some of their holdings include Google, Facebook and Twitter. They should probably start with divesting that if they feel really strongly about this.
This was a big disappointment for me in moving to North America — how little variety there is in the grocery stores, and how bland the tastes.

Actually I’m overstating it — there’s lots of variety in engineered food sounds like breakfast cereals (though interestingly not in potato chip flavors) but the fruit and veggie choices in the supermarkets are pretty limited and boring.
thank you for finally making clear the evil incentives behind US psychiatrist being less than drug peddlers.

always wondered how the drug industry managed to coerce a whole professional group into being so malignous to society.
Did any of the pre-internet Time sucks have the ability to monitor billions of people’s usage patterns and incrementally fine tune so as to increase time/money spent? No, I didn’t think so...
In particular, PageRank can't be used for corpora whose documents do not link to each other explicitly somehow - which, outside of hypermedia, is nowhere.
You’re talking about the Extremely Large Telescope, right? What’s the first “E” stand for?
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It might be and you would notice this is the norm with smartphones. Parents find it much easier to jam a smartphone in front of their child when out and about than to deal with their boredom.
If you don't mind sharing, I am curious about some of the dietary interventions you tried.
It is well attested that licensed London taxicab drivers (those with “the knowledge”) do in fact end up with different brain structure.

I haven’t seen any studies of what they might give up in the process, though it does involve a lot of sitting.

Example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memor...
> Also is search considered a solved problem?

Ha, not only is search not a solved problem, I would posit that search is getting WORSE.

Computer knowledge is a particularly good example for how search is degrading with time.

Try to figure out how to do X on the Beaglebone Black (I presume the Raspberry Pi has a similar problem, but it's not something I'm that familiar with).

The problem is that the Linux implementation for the Beaglebone went from weird distribution (Angstrom) to mainline Debian Linux kernel 3.8 -> 4.4 -> 4.14 in a VERY short time so the number of links to new stuff stayed flat.

Consequently, the old Angstrom stuff almost always fills the initial search positions for quite a ways even though it's completely useless.

This is occurring in other things, as well. Stack Overflow, for example, has no way to mark an answer as "This was correct 5 years ago but is now wrong."

Effectively, the web is becoming sclerotic and search engines are following it.

I REALLY miss old AltaVista's feature where it would give you a graphical representation of the clusters in your search so you could drill down into a less popular grouping. The fact that nobody has recreated this makes me wonder ...
So long as humans exist, there will always be a demand for other humans to explain things to them.
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On the flip side, what would the downsides be of incorporating early?
NFS mounts, provisioned via the same configuration management platform the hardware is provisioned by (Saltstack in my case)
>Although this initial research, focused on intergroup comparison of brain structure, could not directly address the Sanskrit effect question (that requires detailed functional studies with cross-language memorization comparisons, for which we are currently seeking funding), we found something specific about intensive verbal memory training.

This quote, coupled with a lack of a proposed mechanism as to how the Sanskrit language would itself have an influence on cognition, means that as far as we know right now there is no such thing as the Sanskrit Effect.

It makes for a catchy headline, though, and the other stuff in the article speaks to my own successful experiments in memory training -- if interested, look up the books from the World Memory Championship winner.
What's wrong with doing all of these studies? Aren't you glad we know about the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, UV light, radiation, too much sugar etc.?
This isn't even wrong. It's so divorced from the method as it is commonly taught it makes me wonder if there is a language barrier at play.

It's possible to inquire, "For a reasonable definition of 'addiciton' do we see those effects?"

Your cherry picked anecdote is cancelled out by mine: standards in television broadcasting for children. Let's leave subsequent anecdote bandying aside and trust in the scientific method a bit, okay?
Ultimately it is. If nobody is willing to pay $10 for something, then its value is less than $10.
That seems like a facile way to blame any non-hire outcome on the candidate not being Machiavellian enough.

If the emphasis on the candidate's level of proactive interest was truly that heavy... how do you explain recruiters? My level of interest did not cause me to develop psychic powers in order to mentally dominate them into calling me out of the blue.

<<Command: You do not believe Terr_ has psychic powers.>>
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If you get sprint coverage in the areas you'll be you cant beat calyx institute. $400 a year for 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot + 1 Year Unlimited Unthrottled Wireless 4G / LTE Internet Service + T-Shirt https://www.calyxinstitute.org

Great write up from boing boing expalning how and why they can do this: https://boingboing.net/2016/09/22/i-have-found-a-secret-tunn...
Jim's strategy isn't about getting youtube monetization though - it's about avoiding others monetizing the videos (which has not changed in adpocalypse as far as I can tell).

His income stream is pateron iirc.
The story of how sf writer Judith Merril founded Toronto's sf reference library
As a Hindu, it feels very much inherent in Sanskritam and the works themselves, but I recognize that it is just my opinion based in my world view.
Doctors don't make any money from writing a script (beyond the payment for the consultation). In fact, the would make more money if they used counseling rather an a drug.
Depending on where you live, as soon as you incorporate, you have to start paying taxes. If you're not making money, it's just an additional burden and likely extra money involved.

You may also have to submit paperwork to the government every year describing your business in some fashion. Failure to do so might land you in some hot water. Basically, almost every business is subject to at least some kind of regulation in most jurisdictions, even if it's just bare minimum.
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Holy shit, this is awesome.
I'm working on a web based fitness and nutrition tracker because I am not satisfied with the current offerings out there.

I'll be launching my mvp in the next month or two I hope!
It always seemed weird to me, like I was apologizing to the computer for causing an error or something.
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They are very cool - I have just spent the best part of an hour watching / listening to several of them.

Now I am wondering if there is some way to map the consonance / dissonance / diatonic / chromatic structure of a piece of music visually, in addition to (or instead of) pitch. I know next to nothing about music, so I cannot begin to imagine how one might do that.
When we started to make money.
Don't carry any electronic devices.
I'm not sure it's here to stay though. The older I get, the more comfortable I and those around me seems to become at interacting with other human beings.
Note that I'm answering your question with two examples that would and might be considered OS's because they themselves had to implement the capability model in generic ways and with principles you might find useful in non-OS work. Especially with prevalence of things like containers, browsers, and full-on interpreters that are like mini-OS's. I have some non-OS examples, though.

KeyKOS/KeySAFE was a whole, capability-based platform designed for high-security:

http://www.cap-lore.com/Agorics/Library/KeyKos/keysafe/Keysa...

Rees did a security kernel for Scheme48:

http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html

Waterkin server for web apps done with capability-secure version of Java:

http://waterken.sourceforge.net

DarpaBrowser was written in E language:

http://www.combex.com/tech/darpaBrowser.html

Pony is used for Wallaroo. It presumably uses reference capabilities:

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-wr...
https://tutorial.ponylang.org/capabilities/reference-capabil...

Edited to add Cap n Proto for IPC. Thanks kentonv for reminder. Should not have forgotten!

https://capnproto.org
The problem with one time pads is that you have to deliver the pad to your recipient first without it being observed in transit. This typically requires cumbersome physical security, and even then you can't be 100% sure.

Transmitting the one time pad over a medium that you can be positively sure nobody has eavesdropped on could make it practical. If someone does eavesdrop on the signal than you ignore that one time pad.

This is the technology that makes one time pads finally practical, at least in some cases.
The problem is that they don't ship well.

I was going to mention Hawaii too. There are at least 5 sweet varieties seen commonly in local stores and markets... and still more cooking bananas & plantains.

http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/crops/i_banana.htm
Navel oranges are similar. They are a mutant - one orange growing within another.

Navel oranges are characterized by the growth of a second fruit at the apex, which protrudes slightly and resembles a human navel.

According to a 1917 study by Palemon Dorsett, Archibald Dixon Shamel and Wilson Popenoe of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), a single mutation in a Selecta orange tree planted on the grounds of a monastery near Bahia, Brazil, probably yielded the first navel orange between 1810 and 1820.

Because the mutation left the fruit seedless and, therefore, sterile, the only method to cultivate navel oranges was to graft cuttings onto other varieties of citrus trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)#Navel_oranges
I'm pretty sure that there weren't studies about comic book addiction and dungeons and dragons addiction, although there were studies on the influence of violent comic books, and possible associations of violence and dissociation with reality with D&D.

Other than those two, video game, internet, and Facebook addiction are real things. And now, video games and Facebook are being intentionally and consciously designed to encourage addiction.

The only thing I'd agree with you about is that it's just as bad for adults as it is for children. Presumably, though, we generally allow adults to make their own decisions about their addictions, and just offer help when they want to break them. Also, kids are creating the habits that are going to be the substrate for their thinking over the rest of their lives. If you think somebody who got hooked on heroin in their 20s has a tough time quitting at 40, imagine somebody trying to quit at the same age but who started at 10.
In China, the government watches your every move. In the rest of the world, it's your phone.

Edit: No, but wait because this is published in the Washington Post, the same Washington Post who was declaring "No Pardon for Edward Snowden" just last September [1]. If its editors are so appalled by surveillance, as we should all certainly be, why are they not as appalled about the mass surveillance used by their own government on their own fellow citizens?

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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/edward-snowden-doesn...