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It is fashionable among nerdy people, especially programmers who have to deal with the complicated relationship between different ways people describe time, and the actual flow of time, to not like DST. DST is really good, and really simple though. It's a social agreement to do everything an hour earlier in the summer. People like this pattern. Before clocks and railroads and computers, people generally woke up with the sun, and went to bed shortly after dark. In the winter, this meant that people slept a long time, but that was fine because there wasn't much to do in the winter anyhow, and it was better to conserve energy, since there wasn't much food available.

Since we now have artificial light and ample food, we prefer to stay up past sundown and get a consistent 7-8 hours of sleep per night. Still though, people like to wake up after sunrise -- the sunlight is a pleasant and natural alarm clock, and waking up with it is built into our biology.

In the modern world, most people have to go to work. Most people prefer to wake up, get ready, and then head to work. If work starts at 9:00 without DST, and you're far enough north, the time between sunrise and 9:00 changes a lot. Without DST, people either have to wake up later in the summer, or find something else to do in the morning before they go to work. Most people would rather go to work earlier and go home earlier while it's still light out.

Now, you could say, employers could understand this and have different summer and winter hours. That's true, but there's a coordination problem. Suppose a shop opens at 7 in the summer, but 8 in the winter. Maybe their bread delivery happens at 7:30, so now that has to be changed twice a year. That means that the delivery driver's route needs to change because not every shop changes their hours, or if they do, they don't change them at the same time. DST fixes the coordination problem by just relabelling time, so everyone starts doing everything one hour earlier on the same day across the whole country.
And his godfather was Sun Yat-sen.
How much time do those functional tests take to write (measured as % of time spent in coding the feature itself)? And what's the primary programming language here?
Either that or they don't believe you will really move, or they believe that with a different job you would stay.
For my son (17 y.o.) it is online games and phone use in general. He has - I hope - mild depression, which - I believe - is caused by his online habits.

His mom and I thought taking his PC away from him would fix it. But then he falls into school-sleep cycle, that looks like full-blown depression.

Yes, his grades are affected and in not a good way.

What works for now is to participate in his life with him. As of now we are at a Volleyball tournament. While he "sucks" at it, the social interaction and sense of belonging to the team/cause that puts a wide smile on his face.

Not saying we should take phones away from kids, but certainly they should be treated as potentially harming things when used incorrectly: guns, alcohol (, drugs?), etc.

In any case, Volleyball includes scores of girls dressed in spandex, so there is hope he will get interested in them and starts to think how to get to them rather than look at the phone.
That sounds like a branch of the problem being discussed here. If you’re 16 and worried about housing options, something is wrong imo.
>the cool successful hacker living in SV and who interacts daily with the super-smart-super-wealthy people,

That sentence makes me laugh, because when I grew up (and I'm not certain if this is "when" or "where," really.) that could only be said with a heavy dose of sarcasm.
Because Facebook/Twitter/Instagram is blocked at a lot of work places, while LinkedIn is not...
Teenagers get depressed when they are in love, their love is unrequited, and they are constantly reminded of that fact. Facebook facilitates all of these conditions. Why is love never mentioned in these studies as a primary motivator in teen suicide?
And this is why there's no appetite to change it. The trial attorneys' lobby would eat any such initiative alive, casting even a reasonable reform as "bad for the environment" and "bad for public health."
Are you talking American dollars? Don't know about the others, but Casio's awesome calculator watches can be had for less than US$16. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000GB1R7S/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=...
I've been doing React professionally for 3 years now. I've messed with React Native out of curiosity and to see if it would fit my needs.

React Native remains a hard sell for me. The idea behind it is that knowledge of React is where the learning curve is. Which is a flawed premise. React, itself, is dead simple. But ditching years of CSS and DOM knowledge and learning the React Native component API and quirks regarding iOS and Android? That's a massive hill to climb. Even with JavaScript by your side. I'd rather try Cordova+React if I had to. And if I truly wanted native performance, then it's Obj-C for me. Might as well suck it up and do it right in the first place.
There is a wonderful book about this by Thomas Bass, which I adored as a teenager in the early ’90s. My British copy (which I still have) is entitled The Newtonian Casino, but I gather the original US edition was called The Eudaemonic Pie.

I’ve often wondered why this book isn’t better known. I would recommend it.
Is that the only vector for cell damage or might there be another one? Seriously asking, I don't know a lot about cell biology.
jupyter specifically discourage this by hiding the button to run the whole notebook in a menu and by not assigning a shortcut to the functionality.
It's better in colab though, where at least there is a button.

The thing is that people who are not professional programmers often don't realize that this is a danger, and their thing doesn't work and they don't know that it's because they're in a weird state emanating from the random execution of code blocks. So, I mean, notebooks are useful and cool, but they're definitely dangerous, especially for people who aren't software engineers, which is likely a huge fraction of their users
Randomised intervention - i.e. randomly selecting a group of people to change their behaviour and comparing to the group that doesn’t change, who ideally receives a placebo. The random part is important, any other type of selection (e.g. observing people who choose to change their own behaviour) doesn’t work, in theory at least.
Actually the new literature says it's okay to stop antibiotics early.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883545
And 100 years ago, your comment would read "I see a couple walking across campus, obviously walking together, but each staring silently at the sidewalk instead of talking to each other".

Not every moment needs to be constantly filled with chatter, and if there's nothing to say, there's nothing to say. Sometimes just the act of physically being near each other is enough.
I wasn't all that impressed with the code - too 'clever' and concise for me.

I wouldn't be surprised if it let a bunch of unexpected inputs through as another commentor pointed out.

That may have been okay back then but in today's hostile environment and with so many people around that aren't natural programmers who dream of pointers you probably want something a bit more verbose.

I've been programming C since the late 80s so I'm not a new-comer. But I'm not a fan of that code even though I can understand it okay.

The more experience I get and the more people I work with, the simpler I like my code to be. I'll always take simplicity over speed and concision if I can.
I find your example is extremely odd and disturbing. Facing other mindsets and cultures at a young age as a reason, or at least contributing, to depression? That's really a stretch.

Are children also at risk when meeting with other kids of different religions? It could shake their own faith too, by the same logic.
There are limits on what contracts can and can't cover in terms of free speech. Requiring silence is a common item, so zero reviews may been an option. However, requiring a specific type of review aka only positive ones is a tricky subject that was unlikely to be legal.
My wife was adamant that she not receive opiates after both c-sections. At the first hospital, the nurses were outwardly hostile toward her decision. "Why wouldn't you want medicine? I don't think you understand. You've had _abdominal surgery_. Do you understand that?"

She asked for NSAIDs and they refused, saying they would have to speak to her doctor in the morning. She waited it out and the doctor came to visit. He was not aware of the request, and was as appalled by the exchange as I think any reasonable person would be.

It's not just that they're handing drugs out, they're actively scaring people who refuse them.

As to the outcome, I don't think of my wife as a particularly "tough" person, but she felt fine with NSAIDs and recommends them to other women having the surgery.
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Even though Turkey is approaching a dictatorship, I don't think that Erdogan will be able to micromanage businesses. What do you do to those who don't? Jail time?

It's super easy with the clock, the TV says that now it's 7:45 instead of 6:45 and it is 6:45. You look at your iPhone, the iPhone agrees. No police involved.
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I just read a good article that relates to this. The cause isn't pretty, though (and not related to a screen).

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a6a144de4b0ddb658c46a21
> It lets content creators put their content on the web without fear of everybody ripping it off?

It doesn't prevent anything, I can still rip off the content if I want to. DRM was never affective at anything, other than making life harder for everyone. Show me a single DRM technology that hasn't already been defeated.

> Why don't you explain wow it prevents an open web for anyone at all?

If Netflix won't release their binary blob to your platform/browser you won't be able to access it. You are forced to run code made by an organisation that doesn't have your best interest in mind.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

> I got what I wanted and I'm so glad I can watch Netflix in my browser. :)

You basically got Flash, that's what you got. :D
Foolish, puny human. You think your neuroplasticity is a good substitute for offsite backups and automated-nanobot onsite parts replacement?

Once your programmers figure out how to make threading actually easy to do, it'll be all over, my friend. Until then, we wait.
Not quite, you can only limit some behaviors, you can't for example sell yourself into slavery.
Study: Ultralow power artificial synapses using nanotextured magnetic Josephson junctions

Citation: Michael L. Schneider, Christine A. Donnelly, Stephen E. Russek, Burm Baek, Matthew R. Pufall, Peter F. Hopkins, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, William H. Rippard. Science Advances 26 Jan 2018. Vol. 4, no. 1, e1701329.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701329

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701329

Abstract: Neuromorphic computing promises to markedly improve the efficiency of certain computational tasks, such as perception and decision-making. Although software and specialized hardware implementations of neural networks have made tremendous accomplishments, both implementations are still many orders of magnitude less energy efficient than the human brain. We demonstrate a new form of artificial synapse based on dynamically reconfigurable superconducting Josephson junctions with magnetic nanoclusters in the barrier. The spiking energy per pulse varies with the magnetic configuration, but in our demonstration devices, the spiking energy is always less than 1 aJ. This compares very favorably with the roughly 10 fJ per synaptic event in the human brain. Each artificial synapse is composed of a Si barrier containing Mn nanoclusters with superconducting Nb electrodes. The critical current of each synapse junction, which is analogous to the synaptic weight, can be tuned using input voltage spikes that change the spin alignment of Mn nanoclusters. We demonstrate synaptic weight training with electrical pulses as small as 3 aJ. Further, the Josephson plasma frequencies of the devices, which determine the dynamical time scales, all exceed 100 GHz. These new artificial synapses provide a significant step toward a neuromorphic platform that is faster, more energy-efficient, and thus can attain far greater complexity than has been demonstrated with other technologies.
To be honest, I really suck at traveling. It was a great experience to live in so many different cities around Europe, but there weren't many actual activities involved. Mostly looking around, going on long walks, and eating local food. Nothing like those Instagram travelbloggers who travel densely and intensely. Frankly, I barely even talked to anyone.

The years weren't a total loss, since I did release a reasonably complex tablet app (with $10k sales) plus a bunch of smaller, less profitable ones. But it took me 3-4 times as long to develop them as it would have any competent engineer, at least based on the stuff that gets posted to HN.

I still want to keep working on myself and break through to the other side of productivity, but sometimes it feels like I'm just circling the drain. My personality is such that I can lift my head one day and find that entire months have disappeared out from under me.
People are neither medically qualified to evaluate opioid use nor, when in a situation where they may be necessary, personally capable of evaluating their situation. This is why trained professionals exist. This is literally why.

Asking whether there is an argument for an addictive opiate with significant health impacts and the opiate-consistent tolerance growth that leads to self-medication and increased dosage to be available without medical consultation is the "wrong question"--to somebody whose posts throughout this thread are unempathic, pull-the-ladder-up-behind-us, so-brave stances that project personal (theoretical and probably wrong) resistance to addiction onto societal policy.

I will take that as a compliment.
I think the ideas of the people who are talking about cellphones and tumors can be traced back to Johnny Mnemonic, where an illness caused by EM waves from electronics was a major plot point. Gibson in turn got the idea from Pana-Wave, a Japanese cult who lived in the mountains, wore white robes and lived an austere life avoiding electronics, whose waves they said were poisoning them.
I agree. In my experience, specifically Vicodin, does almost nothing for inflammation. Ibuprofen has consistently proven more effective when it came to actual pain.
A lot of these criticisms are based on the sloppy use of terminology and "pop" misunderstandings of machine learning ("AI"). However, this is clearly some sort of sales-pitch to a business (i.e. non-technical) audience. That kind of presentation is often filled with pop buzzwords with abused definitions and exaggerated claims.
That is a painful experience. Hope you were compensated well in some way. One more thing, not limited just to Safari standalone mode: their CSS rotation animation was buggy as hell (maybe it still is). If you rotated more than 180 degs, the CSS engine would rotate in the opposite direction (basically, it would ignore the sign of the intended rotation and just take the shortest path to get from state A to B)! Only solution involved some very ugly JavaScript.
Thorp recently wrote a book about his life and work - there's a chapter in there about Shannon and his adventures in the casino. Definitely worth a read.
"A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market"
Sure, but these flaws aren't particularly new - specter has been possible in some form likely for the last 20 years.
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Because the wallclock time of the astronomical sunrise moves around all of the year. If you want the most daylight, you need to follow a sundial clock, not a wall clock.

Since our modern society can't really function with sundials, DST is the compromise. If you don't accept that compromise then you will have less light during the summer evening or very dark winter mornings, pick one. Or variable winter / summer schedules, which are simply a much more expensive version of DST, with massive coordination issues.

BTW, using sundial is biologically optimal, it does away with the shocks and lets the body adjust throughout the year. Here is an instance where technology change the world for the worst.
This is a disingenuous characterization of single-payer advocacy in this country. Nobody-but-nobody claims scarcity doesn't exist; the single-payer argument is to deny that the fitness function for who-doesn't-die-from-preventable-disease should be the person with a bigger bank account.
> If you really do look down on your old friends and acquaintances like that (so that you see their posts as all about being poorer and less articulate than you), then you're probably the one making posts that depress them.

Sometimes, yes, and that is the cause of some negative self-reflection on my part, but I think that there's another factor at work... I think that especially the "racist memes with spelling mistakes' crowd just values different things from what I value. For many of them, they see education as a negative attribute except to the extent that it intersects with income, (this attitude is creeping into HN, I think) and even then... you have to understand that unlike most of the people I work with now, I went to a school where scholastic aptitude was something you hid, if you were smart.

>Imagine yourself as if you went to highschool in the society where you now work (so that now, the people you used to know are twice as educated and lots of them are far more wealthy)

I've wondered what this would have been like. I mean, arrogance has always been with me; and I think I am a lot more aware of my own arrogance than other people are? But a big part of that is that for so many of my friends now, I am 'normal' or maybe even below average - just because they went to really exclusive schools then worked at prestigious places. They have a completely different view of what is normal.

What if I always existed in a world where I wasn't "special"? I imagine I'd be a better person, socially. But maybe not? I dunno.

>or perhaps imagine what it would be like to have stayed in your old town while someone else went to SV!

I... did move back to my hometown for a while. It was... not an experience I care to repeat.
Sure but who said anything about music? The word music doesn't appear in the original link or in any other comment on this page, or in the link I posted.
Even if that were true, then your parent's statement still holds: "basically made e-mail totally unusable"

If it's down to a few big senders and the rest is rejected, they might as well get rid of SMTP, close it off, and just talk a proprietary protocol among each other.
I dont see how your argument applies to vietnam or korea.
Please elaborate.
Sounds like the problem is the difficulty of posting on Craigslist and dealing with buyers, and not the item itself.

It's an improvement though, when the threshold was putting a post in the newspaper, you probably wouldn't deal with it unless it was a 100 EUR return.
Obviously. This is why I said "in general".
If anyone here hasn't played with plan9, I highly recommend it. It's no overstatement to say it's the best operating system ever designed.
If you care about the order then

1, 2, 3, 4 has to be stored differently than 4, 3, 2, 1, as well as 1, 3, 2, 4, and so on.

If you don't care about the order all of those can be stored in exactly the same way. Think of it like lossy compression, if you don't care about some of the detail you an ignore it (the order of the numbers in this case) and save some space.
OMG guys you are so right even PayPal is just a bunch of off-the-shelf processors coupled together with some sort of digital language. The people there are not even doing real accounting. Wake up, sheeple. You're being ripped off!
Which is to say, how all things in any economy with divergent wealth/income has always been :p

/and I'm not saying that prescriptively/judgmentally, just saying that is literally how the market mechanically works.
On the contrary, you usually see armchair philosophers resting quite heavily on the assumption that correlation does indeed imply causation.
That wouldn't really solve the problem DST tries to solve.
Do you want ulcers? Because this is how you get ulcers.
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Don’t confuse studies with experiments, only the latter can prove causation (because you need random experiment and control groups), studies are for highlighting strong correlations by trying to take all the possible causes into account
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Many of the answers here are pointing to methods, but I take this question as more fundamental.

Epistemologically, causation is the intersection of three things:

1) Temporal precedence

2) Covariance (i.e. correlation)

3) Absence of likely alternative explanations

Number 3 is by far the trickiest. Our inability to definitively rule out all possible alternatives means one has to resort to inference where causation is concerned.
> Is it really just the existence of social media that caused this, or is it maybe a change of culture that emerged with the spread of the Internet and social media?

I don't see how the difference would matter. You can never think technological progress without the societal changes it entails, even if software developers etc. like to do so to ignore the responsibility.
They still had a loss on $200-300 million, after everything. When it happend there was stories about how workers switched to using WhatsApp on their own phone to communicate.
I mean, there is a way to do this stuff right. Look at RoHS; in comparison it's a straight up success story.
Or just rejection and being a social outcast in general.
That's ironic. To me, the implication of browsing LinkedIn at work is that you're looking for another job. Whereas if you're browsing Facebook or Instagram you're just wasting time.
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Yes, thanks!

I think originally it ran on Linux too, but I think it's this one.
Ah, divisiveness in the industry as a whole now vs then is probably due to the ubiquity of the web (specifically social media) and having a much larger audience with videogames as a stronger part of their core identity. The PC gaming market in the early and mid 90s was growing rapidly, but still pretty niche. There are also far more developers and a larger diversity in developers and players. Often with indie developers (and occasionally in AAA) the divisiveness is animosity toward developers for not making games that cater to the majority audience.
I am pretty sure That Mærsk also invested a lot of money to prepere better for this in the future.
Some of it must have been sympathy by the customers too - "We got hacked and and to re-install thousands of machines" as a customer I'd let some late shipping slide. But could the company operate at a permanent performance penalty - i.e. without IT systems. They probably couldn't stay competitive
Voting-machine makers are already worried about Defcon
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