skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mix I'd say but technology certainly plays its part.

I used to think that I'm the problem but it has been brought up in online studies and people I know more and more.

Social networks make me miserable. I didn't have Facebook or Instagram for almost 8 years and I started using Instagram recently. It's a strange mix of feelings but I loathe and look forward to opening the app every time.

Most people seem to experience something similar, no matter how hard they try they can't stop comparing themselves to others, hunting likes and other fake internet points.
Couldn’t it depend on the ’startup’ situation?
>If you want to claim it's patently absurd, you're going to have to make a case for it.

Make the case that hip-hop is more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee? Exactly how would anyone make such a case?

The answer is that no one can prove it one way or the other. That and the fact that the statement even suggests that's a debate we ought to be having is exactly what makes it absurd.

Both can be problems. How does an intractable debate about which is worse help anyone?
That's true, but one interesting takeaway from this article I noticed is that it's the younger generation criticizing the older one - usually it's the other way around.
We may later view the short period in which A/V recordings as authoritative over first-hand accounts was a brief "glitch" in the history of the world.

The ability to fake such things means that we have to return to trusting our fellow human and making wise choices about who can be trusted.

Fingerprints, DNA samples will remain of varying degrees more difficult to fake, but one must assume that those too will fall as paragons of unassailable guilt (or innocence, but usually guilt).
I'm not following what the JQuery part is of all this? It seems like a tool to allow lawyers to assemble contracts in some sort of templating like manner?
are the search results good? i feel like you can get the same results as google without the privacy violation by using a VPN or a search engine proxy like searx.
While they are considered to be part of the same 'generation' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console#Fourth_gene... ) the Genesis was released two years before the NES, which at that time was around 1/3rd to 1/2 of a console generation.

IMO, where Sega really failed was all of the failed addons. They didn't really have a 'good' console until the Dreamcast, it had many features that were too far ahead of their time, while being crippled by others which were detrimental. Largely using an outdated 'mega CD' like format and lacking support for DVD playback, which the competitor (PS2) ended up having as a major selling point. In some parallel universe where the Dreamcast happened to have DVD playback (as well as games on either CD or DVD depending) and the option of an ethernet or modem addin Sega might still be making consoles.
They are specifically worried about attacks on politicians in the form of fake videos that look like those politicians saying incriminating things. In that case, it matters a great deal whether the person said those things or not.
The end of autonomous cars as we know it
> That seems like it's in the "suicide pact" column of rights defense

Not if you consider the nature of a public official. It's not that Trump is The President, he's A President - one of many in a line stretching back to George Washington and hopefully, stretching forward for millennia to come. There's nothing singular or unique about his occupation of that office (well, hopefully you get my meaning there).

As such, he should be expected to behave by the laws governing the office, not the laws governing the individual in the office.

It would be different if he were a king, whose rights and powers supposedly descend from God (at least in European tradition). First, he would be making the laws up, possibly from the whole cloth, and second, a king, by divine right, is answerable to none but himself and God.
'The Expanse' Revived for Season 4 at Amazon
Aren't duplicate keys in json invalid anyways?
How are you forced into a conversation with a group of people you chose to go somewhere with? If you didn't want to talk with them, don't accept their invitation to get coffee
People are addicted to their phones. It's a fact.

Many apps are designed to be addictive, which doesn't help.
"didn't bother" "bitching" "no clue" "another gem" "hateful"

There's really nothing in the article that warrants any of this.
More than one person has mentioned how a track is almost just like something else. This is a little concerning. I would like to know if they just bought a license for the originals that allows them to create additive tracks or if they're ripping off shit and think they can get away with it.
> PutinOS

It's like Red Star OS, except it uses you!
You can also disable the notifications.
Stealing someone's wealth away from their children just because they happen to die is one of the most repugnant things I can think of.
Sleeping in on the weekend can also be a symptom of being rich, which might also prevent early death.
Good point. If critical tweets kept him from giving his message then I expect the judge would have ruled differently.
Slightly off-topic, but you might want to avoid using "[X]" as a general placeholder - I was momentarily thrown off, as I expected each instance of X to be the same.
I think Maker Studios was somewhat along this line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Digital_Network#As_Make..., but I'm sure there are plenty of more clear examples around.
I agree about the shadowing. I find in some cases I need to refine a value to a more correct/cleaned/canonical form, but a separate method to establish an all-new scope is too much and would impact clarity. In those cases it's an insidious bug to accidentally be using an old/non-canonical form of something in the following code somewhere, mixed in with the uses of the refined form, just because the name can't be shadowed. It's very hard to spot because both forms seem to "read" correctly in isolation.
I called my Dad email dad (back when we had dialup) and then blackberry dad and now he is Facebook/WhatsApp/iphone dad. .. still love him though :)
Yes, they were admirably quick in turning that around.
So is he saying that all of rap/hip-hop is more damaging than a single statue of Robert E. Lee? If he is, then... well, okay, but that's not much of a statement. One statue, or one confederate flag, has only a limited ability to cause harm, versus taking all of the negatives from an entire, large, body of music.

On the other hand, it's also a useless comparison. Because there isn't just one statue of Lee. Comparing the damage from all of the confederate memorials, and confederate flags, and confederate holidays, and everything named after slave owners... well, suddenly that's not quite so clear a comparison. But a whole lot more relevant.

And then when you look at the opposites—what's the sum benefit from rap/hip-hop? And then compare that to the sum benefit of everything in this country that praises slave-owners—or those that killed Americans in defense of slave-owning—that's not even close anymore.
Public officials who have accounts considered “public forums” which are open to strongest first amendment protections.
> Blocked users can log out and read to their hearts' content.

So private citizens now have to work around a block from President of the United States in order to read official communication? Is that the kind of country you want to live in?

You know for sure as shit that homeboy was blocking more then Rolex watch spammers and markov chain bots. He was blocking the accounts of journalists, dissenters, and other private citizens. That is a fucked up thing for somebody who is a public official. What kind of dangerous precedent does allowing that kind of behavior set?
The measured thrust was evidently interactions of electrical cabling with the Earth's magnetic field as per the new study.
I will never miss the opportunity to recommend "Game Over" book here, as I did many times so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over_(book) It reads like a thriller and is a great read for everyone - especially entrepreneurs.
Canadians and Americans do share a lot of equipment, due to a common supply market. That is not the only reason.
Fentanyl is a huge problem in Vancouver, where we are usually ground zero for all new opiate trends. Besides killing over 1100 people a year in BC, the money also seeps back into our overheated real-estate market through casino money laundering. It is a crazy cycle. I have no idea why world governments and our own don't say and do more against China. Spineless.
For the vast majority of COTS software the US Government uses the same software versions as everyone else. This holds true for anti-virus software.
If Facebook can't legally do it, China has a competitive advantage, and US firms will start buying up that data for even less cost
Again, if they lie to you, you’re covered. It’s about your intent. Do you intend to offer goods and services in GDPR-affected countries? If you have a checkbox like this, then you clearly don’t, and GDPR does not apply to you.
Re: your 2nd point about other people with twitter profiles that say "works @company". They often have disclaimer that simply says "Thoughts are my own". The president does not.

Additionally, the Presidential Records Act seems to cover non-official electronic communication and states that all communication through non-official channels still need to be recorded.

https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.htm...
Background on the two. Alipay started similar to eBay, serving e-commerce, and WeChat payments captured the P2P market. Both have expanded to physical retail.
Popular Youtube vlogger Casey Neistat recently started 368. And he's teaming up with Patreon's CEO, Jack Conte.

> Conte detailed his idea in a video he uploaded to YouTube on April 20. “Imagine if 368 had some sort of program where you could essentially be sponsored as a creator,” he said. “Say you get three or four thousand bucks a month for some period of months to essentially quit your day job and just be a full time creator.”

> Sponsored creators would be able to take advantage of 368’s facilities, which could include podcast studios, video game streaming stations, and screening rooms, according to Neistat. Meanwhile, the funding for those sponsorships would come from Patreon, where Conte believes Neistat could raise significant resources. “I think the community would be super excited about participating in a program like that,” he said, “that helps people pursue their dreams.”

https://www.tubefilter.com/2018/04/24/patreon-jack-conte-cas...
it's the former, you can also 'mute' someone which is the latter
You could always ban the chemical scaffold.
What Sean Parker says about the whole thing:

He explained that when Facebook was being developed the objective was: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” It was this mindset that led to the creation of features such as the “like” button that would give users “a little dopamine hit” to encourage them to upload more content.

“It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”
Yes, the laws of physics are rarely to be messed with. Doesn't mean we should stop trying, as long as we stay grounded.
That Sears story was fascinating, thanks for sharing it.
Here: The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/2/contents/enacted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_Substances_Act_20...

But also the UK has rapid powers to add a substance to the schedule in the Misuse of Drugs Act. Here's a recent list: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlled-drugs-...

Here's schedule 2. I don't know how often this gets updated: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/38/schedule/2

> You can't legislate a state of mind,

You can legislate "intoxication", although the methods for doing so are pretty crude at the moment.
I think term limits are the answer here. Twelve years is plenty for a congressman or senator.
val list = listOf("Saab", "Volvo")

val map = mapOf("firstName" to "John", "lastName" to "Doe")

The above seems a really strange decision for a "new" language - why would you not just use the most common structure, being JSON?
What a crock. This would be like me discounting my grandfather's experience in 1980. My grandfather started flying biplanes, then moved on to Pan Am Clippers, finally retiring after flying the 707. The idea that his experience would be a liability is nonsense on stilts.
In a sense, the introduction of the CD-ROM was the ultimate example of an industry going gaga over some new tech.

Not only did we have the likes of the CD-I, we also had games that tried to make use of full motion video to either replace or supplement computer graphics. The results were more often than not poor.
Technically yes.

In production no.
Huge Russia-Linked #botnet VPNFilter ready to launch a massive attack on Ukraine
We Are All Apes Behaving Like Ants
As a freelancer with clients, are you generally on deadlines? Or is it work when you want? Essentially I would like to work somewhere around 3 days a week but I am not sure that projects would be able to meet deadlines that clients want. In digital agencies I have worked for, I have had to shown work done every week. And the amount of work given to me was such that I had to work the full week. If I were to do that freelancing I would certainly make more money, but I am hoping that there are jobs where deadlines are based on average around 3 days work...
Considering they've already been known to pressure web services to remove anti-China sentiments, this is scarily possible.
So, playing devil's advocate, why then is it so outrageous to prevent people from flying or staying in five star hotels in order to put pressure on them to make them pay? Wouldn't you prefer being free and not being able to fly over being in prison? Similarly we also have credit rating agencies collecting information on your financial status and they may as well deny you access to certain services based on that information. And yet another interesting field is people being ignorant or simply assholes, throwing your trash on the ground, being really loud at night, all the annoying small things making the world a worse place while not really being bad enough to justify using the usual big judicial system hammer all the time. Doesn't sound that unreasonable that retaliating with a couple of small stings to your freedom could make you reconsider your behavior.
Twitter is not the only means of response.

And the ruling only applies to the President's (currently Trump) use of Twitter and says nothing about your interaction with that service.

As a private entity, they're free to make a ToS and you're free to agree or reject it, which governs your usage.
We have a very broad "right to petition" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition) our representatives and executives. Yes, the school board must listen to your crazy rants, because it's literally their job to represent you, or at least to be aware that your views exist.
I thought it was because when Japanese companies go for financing the bank insists that they take their name. So you have tons of basically unrelated companies with the same name.
$40/month? That's more than I pay for all my other services combined! That's Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu.

No, thanks!
"We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet." - Justin Timberlake
I have the impression that you could contribute to this conversation if you would engage with it, but you seem to be interested only in taking pot shots at the rest of us. Do you want to make yourself understood, or do you just want to scare us off?
If I do one thing this year, I need to learn more about these tried and tested command-line unix shell utilities. It's becoming increasingly obvious that so many complicated and overwrought things are being unleashed on the world because (statistically) nobody knows this stuff anymore.
Oops, thanks, guess I have mental autocorrect turned on
Involved in 3 court cases, 1 for not vacating parents house, 1 for custody battle with no means to support the child and 1 with Bestbuy for refusing to work on Saturdays. This guy is a grade A scumbag.
I wanted to believe it could be true, but that's the beauty of science.

Test. Test and re-test. If the conclusion isn't want you want it to be, refine the accuracy of your test and increase sample size. If you test is already at maximum resolution, then tough tacos buddy.
I don’t think it should matter, legally, that Twitter ties the two into the same function. You can’t break the law just because some third party requires you to do it as part of something else that you want. If the law means that Twitter’s stupid design makes you unable to block harassment, then you should convince Twitter to change it, put up with it, or stop using Twitter.
Shouldn't this be marked 2014? The articles date is January 18, 2014.
Elon Musk has a very bad idea for a website rating journalists
You'd be surprised. While the code base has expanded on a geometric scale since 1.0 (we're now clocking in around 4-5M LOC), there are still routines that have survived all these years. While the implementation details have changed radically, a lot of the old architectural vestiges are going strong.

The more things have changed, the more they've stayed the same.
Venmo takes a loss just to get people into the PayPal ecosystem. The other P2P options are just there in hopes they take off. My understanding of Apple pay was that it's just a pass through for credit card transactions.

Those P2P apps need to branch into physical retail.
Lots of companies, in states that allow it, will make a hiring decision contingent on passing a credit check
Netflix faces conservative backlash over Barack and Michelle Obama deal
Floating point attitudes: blissful ignorance and fear
Sorry, but it's definitely not fibre. I know they told you it is, but it isn't. They're using the old cable TV network. It's a coaxial protocol called DOCSIS.

Like BT, Virgin Media is fibre to the cabinet and then copper for the last mile. It's just that the coaxial copper and the DOCSIS protocol used by Virgin do a better job at speed than the twisted pair copper and the VDSL protocol used by BT.

It's going to be very interesting to see how they advertise real fibre to the public when it arrives, if even on Hacker News there's confusion about it.
Doesn't that make it basically impossible for Apple, Microsoft, or Google to make a "platform", because what platform is going to exceed a trillion dollars or whatever they are worth this week?
I think you're missing the point here.

There are many times when a parent should be giving their attention to their child, but they aren't because their attention is on their phone. The specific activity they're doing on their phone doesn't matter.

Before, you could still do these activities instead of focusing on your child, but the way that manifested itself was completely different.

A parent going to the bar after work is different than a parent being at home but ignoring their child because they would rather look at their phone. In the first case, there is a clear line between when the parent is at home and when the parent is at the bar. And, it is fairly obvious if the parent is spending too much time at the bar and not enough time at home.

In the smartphone situation, the parent can now be on their phone literally 100% of the time they're at home. The child has no idea if their parent is ready to focus on them, or is going to be distracted by the phone. And, it's not obvious at all if the parent is spending too much time on the phone.

Therefore, from the perspective of the child, replacing the old activities with a smartphone activity is much much worse.
That's a very good way of putting it. It makes going to one of these places instantly possible. Or, if you like, escaping to one of these places.
> I think we'll end up in a world where the only way to prove what the past really is if we hash and stuck on a blockchain somewhere

LOL. Blockchain to the rescue! Except. Which fork is the right one? The one with the most hash power? How can you be sure that one is right? Which ethereum fork is the "correct" fork? Which bitcoin fork is the "correct" fork?

Blockchains don't help for shit with proving something existed. The are fully mutable data structures--it just requires more effort than a simple UPDATE statement.
That would be totally fine for 99% of my purchases.
<throws wrench> ... why does X need role model X? Can't an X have role model Y? Why wait for there to be role model anything. Those who want to come in, come in!
Just ban chemicals that interact with certain receptors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_receptor_agonist#5-H...
World at Work: Return of the Artisans
> If I was a government official and decided to host a public event at a private property which I paid for, where the private property said no women allowed (say it was a private club which allowed to do such), could I use that rules to prevent women from attending the event?

Even if it were a public forum (which not all public events involving a government official are), I'm not sure that public forum law prohibits sex discrimination as well as viewpoint censorship. I can see an argument that it should (and that it shouldn't), but I don't recall. seeing any case law either way.
That's false. You can still post whatever you want about Trump on twitter. You just cant post it as a reply to his tweets.
“You’ve Got Mail” for the 19th Century
>You'd buy tabloids for the celebrity news; you'd watch the nightly news on cable; you'd flirt in bars; you'd travel to visit friends, or have long, nightly telephone calls with them; and you'd keep up with the real Joneses next-door instead of keeping up with the virtual Joneses on Facebook. And you'd be a workaholic by always being at the office, rather than by being home but inattentive.

all those have significant higher friction and time/effort required than smartphone based equivalent. Instant gratification is extremely important factor in the enforcement of addiction. It is like gambling addiction by playing weekly state lottery vs. playing slot machine or roulette in casino.
I think the term "blockchain" implies more than just a merkle-tree but some level of distributed concensus.

A plain merkle-tree or merkle-list. Such technology has been around for a while before "blockchain" was such a hyped technology.
> It's a fact.

You can do a study that proves that someone is "addicted to their phone" just like you can do a study that proves that someone is "addicted to using their car." That doesn't say much about why, so it's kind of a useless "fact."

Theoretically, you can be addicted to the process of using your phone, just like you can be addicted to driving, but I kind of doubt that that's what's driving the majority of what people refer to as "smartphone addiction."

More likely, they're addicted to specific activities that happen to exist on phones. Remove the phone, and they'd still be addicted to those activities; they'd just be doing them somehow else. Escapists gonna escape; socializers gonna socialize; etc.

Facebook or Instagram might be a superstimulus for pulling in a particular kind of competitive narcissists, but I have no doubt that such people would still be trying to show off how great their lives whether the apps were there or not. They just might not feel as much of a reward for doing so—because fewer people would be paying attention—so they might feel a sense of ennui (from this drive of theirs going unfulfilled), rather than a sense of dependence (from it going intermittently fulfilled.)