skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got to be a bit careful though. Top "influencers" hire food photographers for perfect shots, they'll pose casually in a $400 sweater etc. It's not a 100% true snapshot of real life.
Did you read the article? Or even the post title? No one is talking about kids getting "worse", they're talking about trying to explain an uptick in things like suicide.
Russia tried that for 3 years, now they use normal time the hole year. It seems only "summer time" is not a good idea either.
Completely agree. I also believe that YouTube can have similar results. Kids watch videos of "professional" YouTubers having nice cars, traveling all the time, living in nice homes, etc... We have had to significantly limit the amount of time our kids are exposed to YouTube (and Instagram) simply because of the "I want it now" and "I want that one" mentality it has caused on some occasions.
I agree with your premise here and might be taking it off topic but Western media tends to portray China striving to be a global power but, I would propose, aren't they already there?

They're a key manufacturer and exporter in the world economy, are making inroads in terms of military prowess, and has some of the biggest influence in their region and probably soon, via the soft power infrastructure projects, in Africa as well. The US and Russia are still playing games in the Middle East but there's not a day that goes by that you don't see some news out of China.
Interesting. So please let us know your about your experiences and strategies on maintaining applications across several platforms (iOS, Android, Tablet and Desktop) while keeping binary sizes small with comparable functionality and good user experience. I'm willing to learn and improve on that topic.
Content is incredibly cheap nowadays. I used to spend most of my paycheck in high school on CD's.
That sounds great! Could you give us a pointer how to add a protocol like freenet: to Firefox (or ext+freenet:, as long as its not in the whitelist)?
It's mentioned in the article. They refer to 3 other studies - one was based on randomly selected people who had to give up fb and they felt less depressed as a result; the other two found out that spending more time on social media led to unhappiness, while unhappiness did not lead to more social media use.
Yup. I stopped reading the article after I realised that it was simply an eloquent argument against a straw man.

I have yet to encounter anyone who actually calls themselves neoliberal. This term is used only by the political left, who prefer to argue with a political ideology they themselves invented.
What's clever about this? It's a little obtuse and overly permissive. How do most developers parse arguments? I suspect it would be a for loop with nested if statements - since you can't switch on strings. If you expect a value to follow the flag you increment the counter in your if block and 'continue'.
Yes, There Is Gravity in Space
Agreed, this sounds terrible. I can understand why the author quit after just 3 months.
I wish I could have down voted you because your objection doesn't make any sense to me.

I lived and worked in few countries and non of them worked by the sunlight but by the clock.

Is there a country where people go to work when the sun rises and come back home just before it gets dark?
>Note the key difference here: invest vs. spend. Time spent on writing good automated tests is an investment. That investment pays dividends every time the test suite is ran. On the other hand, time spent manually testing is lost. If you ever want to run the same test, you have to spend the same amount of time.

Well I totally understand the benefits of automated testing. That's not the point here. My motivation for asking this question was to see how much time does it take for others to write automated tests (measured as % of time spent in coding the feature itself). If it's significant chunk of time, can we build some tooling to speed up this process?
Exactly. I've carefully tailored my feed so it provides me with a huge amount of dog photos. Now every time I get on there my mood is usually boosted seeing cute dog photos and videos.
Another reason that negative research will garner little support is the lack of citations such papers are heir to. If your paper can't appear in a major journal, then it needs to show that it attracted mind share via a large number of subsequent citations. But because confirmatory research is generally seen as a dead end, especially when it's negative, it's unlikely to receive much attention in subsequent research. All the more reason not to rain on someone else's parade.
Just a reminder that if you want the WebKit team to be aware of bugs or things that do not properly work or features/standards that need to be better supported, file bugs at https://bugs.webkit.org

They also have a mailing list, and one of the things they asked before this SW work started was 'let us know how important this is to you and what your use cases are'. I bet they are still listening and that they would love feedback.
Parks are not free - they're supported by taxpayers.
Who is paying for that 1 years salary?
It doesn't even need to be "stored", an XSS attack can pull information that is simply displayed on the page.

When it comes to web-apps, XSS is game over. It's the web equivalent of remote code execution.
There are other small areas, but as far as I can see they all correspond with known resorts and such, places where you'd expect upper class people.
If it's faux-gambling now, at what point does it start to fall under some sort of real gambling regulations? Doesn't the US at least regulate online poker and similar games?
Would that be a problem? I think CET is way too big anyway.

UTC makes sense for Spain and maybe France, UTC+1 is a perfect fit for Germany and Poland could be UTC+2.
I abused vicodin, taking 40-50mg of hydrocodone at a time explicitly to get high. Once I ran out, I shrugged my shoulders and that was the end of it.

Some people have addictive personalities. Some don't. I don't discount people turning into heroin addicts from the stuff. It's my favorite drug in the world.
Another viable strategy might be to countersue the hotel for all of the things that were wrong, especially if any of them had health/safety implications, violations of hotel-related regulations, or constituted fraud of any form.

I.e., if the hotel comes after you with the torte-law equivalent of a flyswatter, return the favor with a torte-law sledgehammer.
This is the most terrifying thing I've seen that moves us toward the potential for real authoritarian societal control. The reason is we have a terrible history of being able to legally correct incorrect information in these separate local and national databases. So you can use this as another way to suppress disagreements and suppress protests against those in power. I'm an american citizen and it's my right to protect. Imagine there's a big protest and the next day the local police or fbi comes to your house to ask why you were in the neighborhood where the protest was. It can happen now. I can turn off my phone or choose not to take it, but transportation is required to get there. My bus pass is also a history of my travels.

I just contacted my us rep and senators about this. I would be surprised if we can stop this, but we should try.

Read David Brin's "Kiln People" for an interesting take, he foresaw this issue, also read "Transparency"
Nah, I think this was legit. I lived in a place that had the same thing. I think it's because some doors lead to a place that is near a location where cars might be.
At least it prepares kids for how the real world works...
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>You have to curate your feed. Curate curate curate.

So the counter-argument is that Instagram is not so depressing provided that one uses as little Instagram as possible ("curate, curate, curate")?

That kind of proves the parent's point (which wasn't that one can't possible ever find anything non-depressing/jealousy inducing on Instagram).
I worried about these things as a teen over 30 years ago. No social media then. Teens worry. It's part of the awakening of adult patterns of thought.
I sure was. Misinterpreted my parent comment. My apologies!
Canonical is not of the same opinion, they just gave up on Wayland for the next LTS release.
I was thinking that it's analogous to ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ where the character dictates how the surrounding characters are rendered.
The great majority of people opposing daylight saving don't really appreciate it's purpose: DST does not screw up winter, it makes summer better, much better.

During the winter, there is limited light no matter what time you use. In a world without DST, social conventions evolve so that work hours, business opening and close times etc. find a compromise that allow most of the activity during the day - a clear preference of the human species that also maximizezes productivity and satisfaction for most people. It's irrelevant if that time is called 7 AM or 54 APM, you will tend to start working at the time the winter daylight starts. That's our baseline.

Since we are no longer use sundials and enjoy predictable schedules, that time and schedule is maintained for the whole year; however, as summer arrives, the days get longer and they stretch both in the morning and in the evening symmetrically. And since most people like to start their activity in a short time after waking up, and the wake time is now fixed by the wallclock to be the same as during the winter, a good part of the daylight that we enjoy happens before most people are awake, say 5AM to 6AM.

This is where DST idea comes into play: if the morning daylight is "wasted" since most people don't get up so early, why shouldn't we "move" that extra hour of light in the evening, so that most of us can enjoy a longer summer day and late twilight evenings by simply moving the clock ?

Incidentally, DST reduces electricity consumption, but the main benefit in my opinion is the increased quality of life during the summer, for a very modest price: you wake up an hour earlier one day a year, and then enjoy 183 days with 1h more of light each. The reverse, going back to winter time by sleeping 1h more is essentially free for most people. I love DST and would hate to see it gone for a misunderstanding, it's impact over the winter days, when in fact that's unavoidable and it's real purpose is to make summer better.
That's not using Instagram in general anymore though, that's heavily censoring Instagram towards very non-typical streams.

It's as if responding to someone that said that one can never find any positive stream on Instagram, when people actually complained about what Instagram, at its majority, and as is used by most, is.
I already use this feature but I can reliably find my driveway on the heatmap so either a) they aggregate everything into the heatmap regardless of the privacy sphere or b) it's from my friends visiting, picking me up, etc.

Either way, there's a very clear route that leaves the road at my house and follows my driveway. It doesn't take much effort to find many, many more examples of this throughout the heatmap.
What Mental Models would you want to instill in your children?
I have two sons, and I want them to grow up with useful mental frameworks about the world. What mental models have you come to believe that you wish you had adopted earlier?

Here are three I've been contemplating.

1) When I fail at something, it is not an indictment of my moral being. On the contrary, failures make me a better person.

2)My formal education may incentivize me to find correct answers to solvable problems. But I will explore problems that don’t have an answer, since these are the ones that change society.

3)Curiosity is the foundation of understanding. When I disagree with someone, I will seek to understand rather than attack.
Even if half, it's still true that driving while black is a thing with police.
Probably for exhaust from cars idling at the entrance. You'll see a similar warning in the walkways to your plane in the airport.
In my experience, GPS doesn't work well when the device is in a pack or even a thick jacket. Also, batteries don't work well in the cold. Combine those two things, it's hard to get continuous GPS tracking in cold environments.
Many of you are speaking about the social aspects of smartphones and social media, but I think a big issue is also the cognitive impact of short-term gratification due to internet/tech addiction. Happiness often comes from feeling competent. If teens attention spans are dwindling due to this addiction, they are going to grow up without the grit to persist and develop skills.
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> The road to hell truly is paved with good intentions.

If only the statists of this world would come to the same conclusion...
The crazy thing is that the workers actually creating those games are worked to the bone to get them done by the deadlines. The economic model is abusive on both sides (worker and player).
Still it did fulfil a market, servers for Apple shops.

Now there is only Mac minis for it.
Thermoshocking rock; thermoshocking the establishment.
..but it strongly correlates with it.
Why is he being downvoted ? Is it false ?
More than a decade. A century. We've been steadily increasing the number of RF sources, but also at the same time, reducing their intensity. RF noise is weaker now than it used to be.
I can honestly see this as a DND scenario:

“I roll to see what I can find out about their supply routes”

20

“Ok, you can see from their strava heat maps their supply routes go north to south along this particular road”

“When do they happen”

“Roll for perception”

20

(Fuck this guy)

“Ok, you see that they result every Thursday at noon”

“That’s when we’ll attack!”
OTC = over the counter. There was a huge spike in prescription pain medications which has steadly declined over time.

While 2017 numbers are not in. 2016 Prescription pain medications are down 6% from 2015 and down 18% from 2012. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/maps/rxrate-maps.html

And again, we are talking less than one prescription per year per person on average. With many of these prescriptions for 2-3 days worth of pain management. Though again, a minority of people get a lot of pain medication.
When these statisticians, engineers and developers stand face to face with one of their beloved "whales" who lost his wife, children and home to his addiction will they say "I was just doing my job, could you ever forgive me?" or will they say what they were thinking when they implemented this shit:

"Thank god you're so predictable, sir! You're not an idiot, really, we're just really good at our job! But, now you're spent."
Non-ionizing radiation, like the one from cell towers or your smartphone (or radio signals, or TV, or even from power lines) does not cause cancer. It just can't cause cancer, as it can't even rip off a single electron from an atom (definition of non-ionizing).
> If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awesome programmer, but you're not yet a reasonably experienced C programmer. ;)

That's the beauty of C. It can both amaze and terrify you at the same time. It's the programming equivalent of Philippe Petit. It's walking on a tight rope between the twin towers without a parachute or safety net.

If anyone here enjoys awe and terror of C, look through the ioccc submissions.

https://www.ioccc.org/winners.html
Back then Stallman worked in a secure space with trusted people where physical locks were between him and people wanting to just wreak havoc. Not using a password was a measure of not restricting good willing people.

Blindly askilg people to apply that to todays computers chickens out from the need to distinguish between very different situations.

Your message is not just an ad-hominem ("blindly"), but also a try to play someone for an idiot.
Thank you. That’s pretty much spot on for my thought process and interesting, possibly even positive for the future. At least I’m not going crazy. Or if I am, I’m not alone :)
Toxicologists often say "the toxicity is in the dose".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
You might want to run it again in 10.13.4 beta :)
Maybe they are guessing that you might not have updated your profile, when they recruit you inaccurately. (More realistically, they have a quota to fill...)
Yeah I was surprised they mentioned bullying in the article as a possible "real life" cause of depression, and not a "smartphone" one. Social media does make it easier for a bully to "connect" with you.
This is almost certainly fake: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7qhcxo/ai_is_...

(Regardless of whether it's fake or not, it definitely brings up a lot of interesting questions as a lot of stuff described here is not impossible...)
My takeaway is the keyword's really just a hint anyhow. And that's borne out by the code dive.
>How is this any different than society at large? How is this any different from TV and newspapers?

I suppose social media like Instagram makes the experience different, more intimate perhaps. Reading newspaper accounts of super-rich lifestyle is still a bit like hearing tales of life of Kublai Khan: it's something that happens far away, half mythical and half magical. A magazine publishes an article how the super-rich enjoy their life, sailing around the world on their yachts? Maybe it was an overview of the phenomenon in general, or if it was an in-depth portrait focused on some particular celebrity, it probably was a story about what they did maybe weeks or months ago. And in any case, when you've read the article, you put the magazine away, and continue with your life.

Following people on the internet service, looking at the pictures and stories they personally share with their followers in near real time, it's a bit more like observing a person doing all those things on first hand basis. And that could make it more soul-crushing as an experience.

But this is all conjecture. Someone pointed out in other comment that the true reason might be the economic downturn.
I see this in the students I mentor. Every single one of them cannot focus on a single task for longer than 60 seconds, which is severely hampering their ability to think deeply about abstract programming and data science problems. It's very frustrating, but they just cannot stop checking their phones for updates
I really wonder how much psychological trick one can play on it's post surgical pain. You know if you're in a blissful happy environment and not a post-butchery waiting room it might change your day from dread to "ok".
Title is clickbait. This practice was banned in 2016 so should no longer be an issue, at least in the US.
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This seems almost calculated to create backlash, yes. Who says that it’s a rational response though? I could imagine being emotionally blind to the situation and instituting this policy out of ignorance. By the time the hotel realizes they made a bad situation worse... explosion sounds. Any large hotel chain will be like most customer facing business, in that they will have a professional social media presence. Hopefully that person or department would dissuade management from this kind of misstep.

After all, a carefully worded response to the review is far better as an option.
Over The Wire challenges are awesome. Bandit is very educational and easy to start. Others are quite a bit more challenging.
Areas that were late in getting accesd to power grid, radio stations, landlines, analog TV... This "experiment" has been running for a good century now, and we would have seen effects if they were strong...
Why? What's wrong with just upvoting those things?
Paper published by the World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/health_financing/taxed_based_financing_dp...

> Tax-Based Financing for Health Systems: Options and Experiences

> social insurance, private insurance and general taxation

Social insurance is the German model.

> By contrast, Germany's policy to combine its sickness funds into a social health insurance system -- generally credited as the first effort to enact universal health insurance coverage -- dates from the second half of the 19th century.

or see:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.628...

> Social Health Insurance vs. Tax-Financed Health Systems—Evidence from the OECD

SHI -> German model.

> it was in Germany and neighboring countries that SHI began

Also see:
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/how-health-care-is...

Options discussed: Taxation, Private Health Insurance, Social Health Insurance, User charges as an additional source of financing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628174/

> Current Trends in Health Insurance Systems: OECD Countries vs. Japan

> There are three major types of social health-care systems: social insurance systems like Japan, France, and Germany, tax-based system like the United Kingdom and Sweden, and the United States—limited service to the elderly or disabled, called Medicare (Table 1).

Again, Germany has a social insurance system, not a tax-based system.
We don't really have mechanisms to iterate on regulations from a societal perspective. The body polity needs to be able to evaluate the effectiveness of regulations in order to iterate on them, and that's so far outside the capabilities of the voting public as to be unimaginable.

Public choice theory would suggest that the iteration is happening on the political and public manipulation front, with rent-seeking market incumbents growing more effective at selling the public on the need for steeper barriers to market participation, and persuading political representatives to institute such barriers.

The story of the "Money Services Round Table" would be a good example of this:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20110510/in-fifty-days...

Some empirical evidence:

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/McLaughlin-Regulation-...
'battery saving" location mode uses cellular signals to triangulate your position. I've seen this happen before on the map in gFit app I guess when gps wouldn't lock
Websites are like salespeople and the police: they can and will use your data against you.

The first time I was told about Strava, I immediately dismissed it as useless. (After all, what service could they possibly provide when I'm unwilling to tell them precisely where I go to work out?) I almost gave a quizzical look to my conversation partner, but that would have given him more insight into my thoughts than I cared to share, so I surpressed the expression.
This brings to mind the wireless warning controversy in SF a few years back:

https://ehtrust.org/policy/san-francisco-cell-phone-ordinanc...
I guess people really hate daylight saving :)
Exploring what loneliness does to the human body
Which one is easier? To arrange all businesses and public institutions to change working times so they can continue do business for the first and last hour or have a central authority that does it for you?

What if one school pick one time, a bank another and a business another? What if they do it at different dates? You used to take your kid to school at 9 but now for two weeks you have to go to work late because the school changed the working hours 2 weeks earlier than your workplace. Oh also the bank now closes earlier, good luck with that too.

It's much easier if the clock changes overnight. You usually have few people who oversleep or come to the office too early and you have a laugh but that's it. These days all the clocks are computers and they just take care of the change and you don't even notice it.