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Precisely. It's another form of off-loading some of our cognitive processes.

While books reduced the frequency at which we practiced memorization, and thus diminished the average effectiveness of that process in man, they also paved the way for new developments and enabled us to devote further cognitive resources to other kinds of processes (e.g. pattern recognition, experimentation, etc.).

Smart phones, I'd wager, have a similar effect, in a perhaps more extreme fashion.

In spite of this, memory remains incredibly important...somehow taking the effort to memorize something, perhaps because it requires approaching the material repeatedly, also often leads to a richer understanding of the material--at least that's what I find.

I'm constantly shocked and embarrassed at the frequent fragility of my own memory, and my own susceptibility to distraction--and I spend no time on the common distraction centers of our epoch (facebook, twitter, etc.)--still, constant, reliable, and immediate access to the internet is enough to hold your attention hostage.

Another unfortunate side effect, I think, is a general decline in the practice of self-reflection. The most impressive people I know make a point to spend some amount of time in their day doing nothing more than thinking or reflecting--i.e. engaging with their thoughts alone--an endeavor that's ever more difficult to undertake when we're constantly bombarded with alerts and entertainment. There's some merit to those old disciplines of prayer and meditation--even if some of their attendant metaphysics seem antiquated.
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Hmm. When I was a kid we were all boiling our brains by watching too much tv. Meanwhile I learned a great deal about the world and got my lust for scientific knowledge by watching tv. Mind you, channels with commercials were strictly banned in our house.
I have read the memo, I have looked at the studies. The studies suggest that there is a large overlap between men and women concerning personality traits. Further more there it suggest no correlation between these traits and other things we deem import in engineering like intelligence.

You speak of willful ignorance, yet talk of studies you don't even link nor explain why they have anything to do with this. Why would this study about spatial reasoning by more important than e.g. SAT scores? How does that actually relate to women becoming engineers when there is no shortage of women who are capable of completing a CS degree?

You also seem to suggest that Damore's voice is important because other people aren't talking about this. As well as that people who disagree with him doesn't do so legitimately but because they don't like his opinions. That people don't talk about this isn't true, they just don't reach the same conclusions. Here is one example from the summery of the study "The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics":

"We conclude that early experience, biological factors, educational policy, and cultural context affect the number of women and men who pursue advanced study in science and math and that these effects add and interact in complex ways. There are no single or simple answers to the complex questions about sex differences in science and mathematics."

So why doesn't Damore, or yourself, mention a study like this that can be easily be found online?
Funny you bring up political violence in Mexico from 1900 onwards.

Mexico had a revolution at the beginning of the century. It lasted 3 years at first, and then the US ambassador was involved in the murder of the President, which extended the violence for at least another 4 years.

Mexico has a cartel problem now. It also happens to have in its northern neighbour the biggest consumer demand for drugs in the world. And said neighbour will rather export its problem and fund a war south of the border with billions of dollars, torture training and illicit arms smuggling [1], than address its public health issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mérida_Initiative#Criticism
There are some that seem to work like that. And then their site is a tiny thing lost in the middle of your 24" monitor... :)

You.cannot.win!
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Yeah, I remember seeing a flicker of 1.3M at the very start.
"With rent control, people who might otherwise move, don't."

I'm failing to see the problem. Unless those people would have moved for reasons other than soaring rent, them getting to keep their homes is a GOOD THING.
> Conservatives/Populists groups are literally salivating for discovery to nail google on other things.

This is probably a discussion where painting with a broad brush muddies the waters. Specifically because we're talking about distinctions between individuals within the group you're calling "conservatives".

Also, I get the impression that you're conflating conservatives and populists on this issue. Is that intentional? Because populism and conservatism seem pretty orthogonal to me.
I was hanging out with a group of people a couple days ago and all of a sudden 3 or 4 pulled out their phones at the same time with this giddy expression on their face [for HQ trivia].

It was pretty jarring, though not necessarily in a bad way.
For Google products please always put in the title if it is new product or discontinued product, thanks.
Yeah I think it's unfortunate that Rogan gets cast that way. His interview with SargonOfAkkad is pretty telling in that regard. He pulls no punches there and says pretty emphatically that he doesn't identify with a lot of what he says.
> YouTubers like Stefan Molyneux, Jordan Peterson, Mike cernovich, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin, Steven Crowder, etc. is suspicious. [1]

Some of these aren't like the others.
Modern kernel GPU driver knows enough about the GPU to switch video modes (and usually also enough to detect connected monitors) and setup some kind of linear framebuffer mode. The first font used for FB-emulated console is statically linked into relevant module and usually gets replaced with more complete font by initramfs code.

IIRC on my desktop the switch to graphical mode happens about 300ms after loading the kernel. Funnily enough grub2 before that also runs in 4k graphics mode, which given the 8x16px font is somewhat absurd (and the screen redraw is slow enough that you can see that it for some reason happens from bottom to top)

Edit: this is with amdgpu, but both intel, nouveau and ATI rage XL on server motherboards (which is somehow suboptimal :)) behave similarly on debian. Maybe with nvidia driver you still get native text mode on consoles (for a long time nvidia driver was known to interfere with operation of linux framebuffer infrastructure, but I don't known how this works today).
It's okay for his conclusions to be wrong. It's not okay to misrepresent his argument and publicly shame him for it.
This sort of generic ideological flamewar is exactly what we don't want on HN, even in an abysmally politicized thread like the current one.

Since you've repeatedly abused HN this way and ignored our requests to stop, we've banned this account. (No, that's not because we're $ideology ourselves, it's because the spirit of this site is intellectual curiosity, it needs protecting, and ideological flamewars destroy it.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use HN as intended in the future.
Yeah, brought a SRL history/photo book to my first week of work, my manager was both slightly terrified and also happy he hired me.
9/11 (an incident of mass murder) caused the US to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, surely that sold enough guided missiles, attack helicopters and radar systems to make the quarterlies for a few years.

It also sold a ton of those bomb search machines and led to a couple of huge wings of the government (NSA and TSA).

Cheney's Haliburton stock being a singular example of this type of violence being beneficial to certain corporate interests.

People with power and money are much more cynical that we'd like to believe.
> Could this not be said about drugs and alcohol? And while it may indeed be beneficial to use drugs and alcohol in a balanced, well moderated way, the downside risk seems to great to me to be suggesting this to a society.

Over half of fatalities in cars have nothing to do with DUI-type impairment. Would you ban those as well?

But lets say you ban alcohol and re-create the problems of the Prohibition.

Banning the way individuals can use their personal freedoms to ruin their lives is generally worse than the disease you are trying to cure. People are very, very resistant to their vices being interfered with.

But, also, if you are comparing video games to drugs and alcohol...you are massively distorting the scale because video games are not killing _other_ people. They are just ruining the life of the addict.

DUIs actually kill innocent, blameless individuals.
It's a love-hate relationship. I live in Detroit, Delta's 2nd largest hub by number of flights. It feels like I can fly direct to almost anywhere in the country.
It is the tool too.

Former teacher here: I taught open project classes, one class with old school desktop computers and one with iPads. The difference between the two techs was immense.

Desktops are made for productivity. You have a mouse, a keyboard. It's easy to type weird characters, copy/paste, save, use office suite, etc. Yeah, you know that. You're HN.

Ipads are made for consumerism. They lack a good typing device (I admit this specific point is more opinion), menus for more complex tasks are not so easy to use. With an iPads (or a smartphone) you typically scroll, scroll, scroll. Simply saving text students wrote on ipads was such a tedious task for them. I feel most smartphones fall in this category, and as such, I think they have no place in the classroom.

Internet in the classroom? Please more. Internet usable only through touchscreen? Never ever.
> Nope, regardless the technical skill or his actual personality, his public image is forever ruined.

I predict he'll be able to find a nice tech job eventually, and the biggest barrier he'll have to overcome is this lawsuit. There are plenty of companies who aren't so sensitive to this kind of PR and and flap around his hiring will die out quickly.
> probably came a generations of web programming tinkerers

Neopets allowed "pet pages" containing HTML when I was 10 years old, and this was my first foray into programming.
> Obviously, it doesn't hurt to bring a paper map, but you'll find that you're not going to use them at all. We live in the future.

I disagree for multi-day or technical trips. I have done expedition style trips where I am camped in the mountains for weeks. I have been using a Garmin 60CSx GPS for years and love it. It has topo maps on it, typically at 1:24k, and they are invaluable. I have tried bringing a phone, but I don't like phones because touch screens are a royal pain with a hand that is gloved or in mittens. Phones also don't take AA batteries like a GPS or headlamp and are battery hogs. So you need to bring along more junk to keep them charged.

For within the US, the National Geographic Trails illustrated maps are awesome. They are rip proof and printed on waterproof paper. And they are large when unfolded, so it's easy to quickly scan and find things unlike trying to scroll around on a small phone screen.

http://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/trails-illustrated-maps...

For lots of hikes and climbs that are more on the technical side, your route information ("beta") is probably going to be written on paper. When you are climbing something that is very steep or in canyon country, GPS is useless. You need visual information on the route you need to take and that may be a photo or sketch. And this is easy to keep folded in your pocket and remove with a gloved hand. On a summer weekend in Colorado on the summit of a more difficult 14er (think Crestone Needle or Capitol), you will see many people with printed guides from 14ers.com. So its just not me. I don't see many people using their phones for navigation (but they do for pictures).

And in a cave, there is no substitute for a paper map. But that's a different ball of wax.
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Note that if you install Rust through Debian, it likely won't be new enough to compile the latest version of ripgrep. I believe Debian packages Rust 1.14, and the last version of ripgrep to work on Rust 1.14 was 0.5.2. So, `cargo install --vers 0.5.2 ripgrep` might be what you want on Debian.
Recommender Systems, trained to maximize revenue, are punishing kids for being curious.

I'm specially refering to YouTube here. Take for example the "cell biology" subject. In a few videos ahead you'll start getting non-scientific videos, as "recommendations".

Suffices to say that those videos speak about widely discredited life theories but with nicer stories.

These recommendations exploit the human brain in ways that even the creators can not comprehend.

We could, for example, use these technologies to teach children to solve equations. Use ML to find the optimal, user specific, series of teaching material that takes a child from zero to "can solve any equation involving +,-,* or /". But no, "we don't have the resources". Ah! want to go from cell biology to cute animations of pidgeons? Yes, we have de optimal path to get you there for free on YouTube.
> Actually, I wish Rust had done one thing that Go did: namespacing the pragmas.

Yeah, of all the papercuts that the Rust 1.0 macros system had the idiosyncratic modularization/namespacing rules were the most unfortunate. Happily there's already an accepted RFC for the design of macro modularization (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1561-macr...) that simply makes all macros operate under the same namespacing rules as all other items, and it looks to be mostly implemented as well (though it won't hit stable Rust until the larger macros 2.0 initiative is finished). And as for future-proofing, I'm not too concerned: all the "standard" macros can be exported from the stdlib prelude without a problem, and any libs that update to macros 2.0 can easily export the updated macros just like any other public item and consumers can update their code with only a single `use` declaration (it's not like the old macros system doesn't require explicit importing anyway, it's just unique and janky). Very much looking forward to the simplicity and consistency of the new system.
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Yeah I think it's because most of the laws were written a few years ago, where in-car Bluetooth wasn't common but one-ear headsets were. Lawmakers probably didn't want to outright exclude phone use in the car, and figured having one ear in use was "good enough".

Most modern distraction laws (the ones actually written nowadays) are very thorough. WA just passed one last year where you essentially can't touch your phone while driving. BC has had one for a few years now which includes any non-fixed electronic device while the car is running.
Just add /privacy to the url.

I can't include the full url here because my posts don't show up. I assume because I posted about it too much or some vast right/left wing conspiracy against my startup :)
It was also probably a stressful and frightening flight. A lot of people believe that this can increase the chances that a woman will go into labor [1], although a quick round of Googling didn't turn up anything convincing on whether or not that is true or just a myth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyRrz9Soutw
> All three of them are solidly classical liberal, which is probably right of center today

Classical liberal just seems like yet another rebranding by people who don't want to just call themselves conservatives. I've yet to hear a "classical liberal" who doesn't seem like yet another libertarian/conservative.
I would go on a 1 on 1 interview with Cenk Uygur.
> Mexico is a country at civil war and in denial about it.

No, it's a country split into trafficking fiefdoms with some violent disputes about the divisions that's in denial about that. But there's no general civil war.

> Yet when the central government tries to take action against them

The central government sometimes rearranges which traffickers are allowed which territories, which results in an upswing in violence. It rarely moves against them generally, though it uses that as the cover for shifting arrangements.

It's funny that you recognize that public officials involved with the cartels are a major factor, but somehow seem to exempt the central government.
> no smartphones

Half-measure until they take computers out of the classrooms.
Oh, I have zero experience in iOS stuff. I would like to do something for Android, but my experience there is less than 1. Maybe I'll try something in the future, then I'll come back here.
> I usually conclude that small societies are optimal for quality of living.

I came to the same conclusion. Sadly many 'libertarians' often gets dismissed as disliking all forms of government and regulation, which is not the case, rather preferring a limited one. But I guess intentional/unintentional misrepresentation is a savvy and common political tactic because it's effective.

My question to you is how do you achieve a limited/small government (without a revolution)? I believe controls like this are one way to achieve it. Much like how the strict policies of the Constitution (or Bill of Rights) have limited/stopped potentially hundreds of thousands of overreaching policies in the US alone over the last two centuries.

The constitution, aka strict pre-emptive limitations, are good. But I believe post-defacto limitations and reviews are also a necessity. Because as I said, some policy does seem rational at the time - which then becomes out-of-date or a bad idea with retrospect.

We currently have no good tools to deal with those outcomes...
You will never achieve social justice with hate.
>The issue is that it doesn't matter.

It does matter. As technology becomes more deeply embedded into our society the assumptions made by the people that designed that technology get amplified and hardened. Have you not heard the story about the soap-dispenser that wouldn't recognize black skin? It's a minor annoyance now, but it won't be when the technology is responsible for more critical stuff.

https://mic.com/articles/124899/the-reason-this-racist-soap-...

>For example, women are a majority in health care but a minority of doctors. Why?

Becoming a doctor requires an immense amount of capital and free time. There are structural barriers that prevent women from accessing this capital and free time as easily as men can.
I have a 4 and 6 year old so they are not interested in phones yet, but I'm concerned about giving them a device in future with unrestricted access to the internet before they are ready to deal with everything they might see there. (I'm not ready for most of that, but I'm old enough to know I don't want to see it. )
It's rhetoric, I presume nothing about your youth or your parents. Literally every generation has had that said about them so it's a pretty safe guess.

You don't need a smartphone to engage in gambling or other addictive behaviors. If children are seeking out skinner boxes it might be worth exploring why they aren't getting fulfillment out of their life.
Has that ever been tried in practice?
I used to watch 3-4 hours of Saturday morning cartoons without on-demand. At least now there's no commercials.
Second-order effects are difficult to study in general. My comment was driven entirely by fundamental economic modeling: price controls generate harms by forbidding beneficial trades, and people move to reduce their commute. There are other reasons why people move, and I expect to find these situations as well. For instance, people tend to downsize their housing after their children move out, but who would downsize when the smaller apartment is more expensive?
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Okay, but running to Molyneux is instant confirmation of the things people thought about him.

and actually yes, do some prep work and go on a show that will be hostile. Not crazy, but potentially hostile. Someone who will reject the ideas and force you to defend and/or clarify them.
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The article has Professor Grant himself (the guy who is cited in all of these discussions) rebutting what Scott wrote in the blog post. It's well worth the read.
This is partially why I mentioned keto, keto keeps your blood sugar level very even so you don't get hungry as much. I find eating once per day to be quite easy as long as I eat the correct ratio of fat/protein/carbs. Also I worked up to eating once per day so that helped. (14 hrs for 2 weeks, then 15 hrs for 2 weeks, 16 hours for 2 weeks, etc.)
You're agreeing with me. I think his conclusions are wrong for many of the reasons you outlined. My issue is with people who misrepresent his argument and publicly shame him for it while denying there's an intellectual discussion to be had.
My wife and I are going to have a son in a couple weeks. We literally were discussing today. We came to the conclusion we don't want them to have a cell phone until they are fairly old. We plan on actually installing a landline instead.

We subscribe to the theory that, to some extent, we need to struggle to grow. So, I've actually convinced her to pretty much let our son (and additional children) get free access to a computer though. The only catch, is it's going to be an older computer with linux installed.

Myself (and many people I know) learned so much from just trying to make our old machines keep working. I remember figuring out how to disable parental controls, figuring out how to remove portions or all of applications I didn't need to free up space, etc. I think it's important, and if my son can figure that out he's earned it (of course I'd help).

We both found it scary regarding cell phones, because it doesn't breed this kind of improvement. Children don't even need to learn to be responsible and meet where they say to meet. Parents can keep in contact at all times. I think there's something to be said for letting children learn to fend for themselves, but also be responsible.

We did agree on perhaps super old phones, that they can then figure out how to speed up - yet still call us. Too slow for modern games and probably even social media.
Is hacker news one of the digital distractions?
> I do wish the persistent config file enhancement had a significant chance of becoming a reality.

As the ticket says (I think), tt's going to happen. It's just a lot of tedious work.
My point of contention is that professors who do not teach or do so badly, should be treated and considered differently.

There should be a title of Graduate Advisor, and Teaching Professor (those who teach others to become a professor/teach in a classroom). There should be specialization on being an effective teacher. There should be pathways to success. Pushing all students into research and half heartedly force them to learn how to teach only re-enforces this idea.

For those "graduate professors" who just consider advising and mentoring grad students teaching, you have to apply that same logic that by mentoring anyone in the field, you're now a teacher. (That's a dualism)

My big issue here: we're completely ignoring the issue that a student comes into the university to learn. (Even if it's a research institution) By assigning "professors" that don't actually teach you're doing a huge disservice to everyone. In those cases students are left to their own devices, they're not going to do well for research, community, or industry. Really what's happening is people are paying for an apprentiship to become a researcher.