skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning

There was also rule about it being long-term.

So, are you about to loose job because of that chess? Are you failing the school despite being previously good student because of that chess? Are you increasingly isolated from everyone, increasingly angry and frustrated and yelling on people that you could communicate just fine before playing that much (e.g. if you hated each other before that too, then it does not count)? Are you increasingly fearful of social contact and increasingly clueless in conversation? Or rather does it stays the same?

Did you ceased to care about yourself due showering taking too much time off chess in your point of view? It is less about absolute time spent with activity and more about impact on you or your direct environment.
I don't get it. Why did you just stand still while this was happening? This never happened to me because every time someone started to do things without consensus I forced an agreement. You can only blame yourself if you just let these things happen. Writing software doesn't happen in a blink of an eye you know.
Afaik Sweden is pretty transparent in that regard and it's completely normal to be able to check the employment status and income of other swedish citizens.
In general these treaties protect foreign nationals living in the US from double taxation much more than US citizens living abroad. Also, I hope you're in one of the 70ish countries that has treaties! Because if not you could be looking at a 65-90% tax rate on any income over roughly 100k depending on the place.

Also, even in countries with a treaty, it doesn't always prevent double taxation of both income and capital gains.

For example, the Obamacare surcharge on investment income of 3.8% isn't eligible for any foreign tax credits...and it's not like any expat could even take advantage of Obamacare if they wanted to. Hell, I had trouble trying to take advantage of an Obamacare plan when I just moved to a different state.

This also doesn't include the added cost of the accountant needed to prepare expat taxes, which can easily run $4k-8k for foreign accountants who know the US system and understand the specific rules of their treaty.
I thought the four most expensive words in the English language were "will you marry me".
Many definitions I've seen for gaming disorders set a threshold of 20 hours a week or 2 hours a day to define gaming disorder.

Nowadays with e-sports and Twitch streaming it is possible to be a professional video game player. Are they all by definition suffering from "gaming disorder"?
> It just seems to be one of those areas that's impenetrable to laymen.

Bull-hooey.

If you're genuinely interested you only have to understand the difference between climate and weather, the time scales involved (decades, not years), the limitations of models vis-a-vis spot-predictions, and wrap your head around the nuance between "change" and "rate of change" (ie speed vs acceleration).

That is not hard, but 99% of "skeptics" can't be bothered...

If you're mentally flexible enough to get that the problem isn't that pendulums swing, but that a fast swinging pendulum could be Very Bad for our civilization, climate change rests on three straightforward principles and observations:

1) The absorption spectrum of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses: test-able with an aquarium and a UV light

2) That aggregate 24/7 human industrial activity (ie all: cars, boats, planes, construction, smelting, BTC mining, etc), is somehow increasing greenhouse gasses: this is tested by checking the air, if seeing smog clouds or logic isn't proof enough

3) That Venus exists, our telescopes are not lying, and we don't want to take vacations there

Of the 8 planets in this solar system, 1 of them has had its climate go into overdrive and now resembles biblical Hell. Human activity will never push things that far, but we'd talking about the end of mankind well before that point...

Climate change is not impenetrable to laymen. Climate change has been on the end of a 50 year FUD campaign meant to confuse the issue so that laymen only hear the arguing. Totally coincidental: oil company marketing triangulation has pointed out for years that they don't have to convince anyone on climate change, they just have to extend the debate past the point of action. It worked.
It's surprising because China has a billion people and a bunch of competing regional interests. Since WWII, the PRC has been at war or had armed conflict with India, Vietnam, the ROC, the UN (Korean war) and the USSR. There are also the ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea and continued border unrest on the Indian border.

France doesn't have any significant regional disputes around territory and hasn't been to war with its neighbours in about 75 years.

Yet France still has more nuclear warheads than China (officially, at least).
>>He wasn't even there a year.

How do you expect to join a company and get promoted within an year?

This feels like an unfair expectation to even begin with.
That would not sit well with me and would feel like an invasion of privacy.

But if I have an account with an airline and purchase a ticket, I'd feel pleased if they tried to make a connection in an authentic and kind way by relating to me with my name or with my beverage history. Probably not my past flight history though.
One is overrun with mannerless 18-25 year olds, so much so that they replaced the chairs with uncomfortable ones in an apperant attempt to limit them hanging out all day.

The founder of the other was just put away for child sex crimes. True story.

I've encountered two Starbucks stores that I consider exemplarily managed. I go there mostly.
A "normal" user who has a child who has received a "pirated game" as a gift at school?
That's more about CYA. The pharmacist would risk a lot by giving out the medicine without proper prescription. They may know it's OK, but they won't risk an overzealous prosecution, for example.
Any idea where the face image data came from?
Contrary to the premise of the source subtitle, the WHO isn't moving to uniquely pathologize gaming (it is not the only non-substance-use addiction-style disorder that the ICD would recognize).

Further, the authors argument that the behavior pattern is not gaming disorder is based entirely on a description of the perceived source of the problem which does not conflict with anything that is defined for gaming disorder, merely with an implication that the author reads into the act of making the definition.

The attempt to use the narrative to attack the fact that the disorder is being identified is ludicrous, most generously it would support raising the idea that the proposed definition should recognize a distinction between any standalone problem with gaming and gaming as a peripheral manifestation of other problems by including, in the diagnostic criteria, a criteria specifying the absence of certain other simultaneous diagnoses (a not-uncommon feature of DSM/ICD psychiatric diagnostic criteria.)
Actually it is even a superset of XML, from the docs...

SDL documents are made up of Tags. A Tag contains

* a name (if not present, the name "content" is used)
* a namespace (optional)
* 0 or more values (optional)
* 0 or more attributes (optional)
* 0 or more children (optional)

So it's like an XML node, but the `0 or more values` means it has a list/array for a "body".
Maybe in general but Wikipedia and kiva exist
Microsoft announces two new datacentre regions in Norway
When comparing self-destructive coping mechanisms, gaming isn't that bad relative to some of the alternatives.

Speaking from personal experience, it's vastly cheaper and moderately healthier than drowning your sorrows out with booze or drugs. Depending on the game and the skill involved, it may leave you mentally sharper than you'd otherwise be. You might even make some friends along the way.

Of course, it can still spiral out of control and ruin your life just the same.
This is the lesson I've learned in Clojure. We have varying levels of data shape specification, contracts, and static type checking available a-la-carte when you want it but not getting in your way when you don't.
> conforming implementations cannot transform code on the basis that some behavior left undefined by the standard is impossible

You may have misunderstood how rogue optimizers obtain their license to miscompile.

It is not by assuming that the "behavior left undefined is impossible".

As boring and tautological as it sounds, it is by assuming that the operation with "behavior left undefined", when it actually happens, has undefined (and therefore arbitrary) behavior.
I think even those desperate for connection or attention might not even enjoy it.

But from the seller's perspective it's a conversation starter and gets your attention. Sales at kiosks are a numbers game and the more people you talk to the more sales you'll make.
Any Turing machine can be described in any other?
Why the Pension Crisis Matters
This made my day, thank you!
There are brave cod, and there are old cod, but there are no brave, old, cod...
Up here in Portland they only give us a tiny trash can and a full size recycle so we kinda don't have a choice BUT to recycle everything. When I lived downtown they only picked up trash every other week. They've recently introduced a 2 dollar/month "recycling surcharge" because they're effectively just trashing all recycling.
" Auto sharding in 11 will be awesome." This with some form of multi-master without a single cordinator or something similar would be amazing. Too much to ask though
I have always used Firefox, ever since they implemented tabbed browsing (an incredible improvement, for those who don't remember the time before that).

However, in recent times I have had to switch more and more apps to Chrome because the UI breaks in Firefox: intercom.io, trello.com, notion.so.

Probably no fault of Firefox, but if a UI is broken there is no choice but to migrate.
Lack of low-carb, high-protein meal options

The sous-vide egg bites are the perfect keto snack. The steak and egg tomatillo works, too.
They should try testing NASA employees. NASA loves titanium dioxide white paint.
If they stopped taking the Google money it would be much harder to pay developers. I think this would be worse overall for the users, and I bet Mozilla thinks the same.
It's not either or. Both are disorders.
According to that letter[1][2] opposing Article 13,

"In particular, far from only affecting large American Internet platforms (who can well afford the costs of
compliance), the burden of Article 13 will fall most heavily on their competitors, including European
startups and SMEs",

so I guess something will happen.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ri...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/12/article13letter.pdf
Was it added recently?
As he quotes, this is how gaming disorder defined:

>For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months.

The important parts are significant impairment, and continuing even though you know it's doing harm.

But this is how he describes his life at the time:

> I spent hours nearly every single afternoon hovering around the game machines at a local strip mall arcade within walking distance of my home down in Sanford, Florida. If I had nothing else to do, that's where I spent my time. If I had things to do, well, sometimes I played video games instead of doing those things. Virtually all my free time was absorbed in video games (oh, and Dungeons & Dragons as well).

> I was also a deeply depressed, closeted gay teen at the darkest, cruelest point of the AIDS crisis, terrified that if anybody found out I'd get the crap beaten out of me, and if I ever acted on my urges I'd get sick and die.

This isn't gaming disorder. This is the equivalent of someone reading a medical dictionary and thinking they have Dengue Fever (even though they've had no contact with mosquitos).

Psychologists wouldn't diagnose gaming disorder. They'd create a formulation that includes all the other things that the author thinks are important.
Because that forces the end user, who might not know anything about the programming language one’s application is written in to wrestle with the low level implementation details. In the words of Keith Wesolowski, the programmer assumes that the end user is a “Linux superengineer”, which is almost always a wrong assumption to make.
My old town toyed around with this. No idea if they're still doing it but the idea was everything coming in would at least get a rough sorting. Seems like a MUUUUUCH better solution, even if it costs more.

https://foresternetwork.com/daily/waste/far-from-typical/
Interesting context on the law firm: looks like one of the partners is a former head of the FBI under Bill Clinton. Another partner is a former head of the SEC enforcement division.
Going to affect the LibreOffice guys also.
I think they do have information campaigns, but it's hard to tell the information from the disinformation these days.
You have to dig deeper and ask what makes asking for permission difficult.

In an institutional context when we ask for permission from higher ups, especially publicly, we put them on the spot to clarify some rule or make a pronouncement which rules will be enforced and which won't. Sometimes you have to break rules, or perversely are even expected to, just to get things done. Asking permission means the boss has to tell you that you cannot break the rule officially, even though they know the rule has to be broken for the task to be accomplished. So not only do they deny the permission, they also resent you for forcing them to make the pronouncement and preventing anyone in the near future from accomplishing the task at hand efficiently. In other words even as they respond with "No, Peter, you cannot bypass filling out 10 TPS reports just to fix this bug" in their head they are thinking "Why the fuck didn't you just do it. Why did you have to ask me about it in front of everyone..."

Large power structures usually have rules you cannot break, you can break if you want to, and perversely enough, you should or are expected to break. Winning or losing the politics game often comes down to simply understanding which rules belong to each set.
Either those, or "Let's have a baby."
> There's no language that I'm aware of that can natively generate PHP syntax.

Actually, I've had to use PHP to output a PHP configuration array for a project that required config in PHP.

`var_export($foo)` will output valid PHP code for creating the array $foo. In my case I was doing horrible things to create the array in my pseudo-makefile, then using `var_export()` to output the result. Note that you can run php from the Bash CLI with the `-r` flag, which helps.
Murakami books are rather weird; when I first read Kafka on the Shore (my first Murakami book), there didn't seem to be anything happening in story; yet, I couldn't put it down and was up the whole night finishing it.

I think his appeal is his ability to describe surreal events and commonplace events in the same sentence without a hiccup; it feels very natural.
> if a UI is broken there is no choice but to migrate.

you also have the choice of not using the broken website
It's okay if they call me Mr [Surname] but not if they use my first name. Probably some weird respect/familiarity thing.
I just setup multiple profiles in chrome which is one thing it seems to do better than FF imo. You can select a profile in the top right corner. Everything about them is separate. cookies, history, extensions , theme so I give each one a different theme make it clear what profile I'm using.

in FF afaict you can only use one at a time and you have to choose at launch
Problem with that is that there is no real-time inventory checking from mobile app orders against What that particular store actually has in stock at that time. I see several cases a day where people have ordered an item off the app that this particular store doesn't actually have. Not all stores have the full menu. The app doesn't account for that.

I only ordered from the app when Starbucks is running a promo for discounts or bonus stars for items purchased through the app. And I only have the app on an alternate device that has no other data.
It would be handy if people could work from wherever they liked.

Maybe we could build a large system that allowed rapid communication. We could include a software layer, so that not just verbal communication could happen, but even information in all sorts of other formats.

We could call it the GlobalSys. Then commutes would stop being a problem.

/s

I've been working from home, wherever I wanted that to be, since 2011. All of this nonsense could be avoided by simply optimizing for asynchronous cooperation via the internet.

We could also avoid some of the approximately 12% of total energy usage devoted to maintaining office space, and some of the 10%+ of urban land usage taken up by offices and parking. That's all leaving aside the approximately 50%+ of all driving miles done for commuting purposes, the maintenance and manufacturing of automobiles for commuting, etc.
if there are smokers, join their breaks. it's a good way to learn about culture, history and customs of a team.
What do you mean by "get married without asking" - without asking your spouse? How is it possible?
People will get used to it. There was a time when American Express phone agents knew what customer was calling, but wouldn't mention their name until the customer did. The agent calling the customer by name was considered creepy. Now it's normal.
The definition of censorship only applies to government decisions.

A non-governmental entity can only, by definition, censor something if mandated by the government.
And to be fair to HE, I've been coloing with them for years now (in FMT2) and I'm yet to have any problems.
Many places tell people to ignore the numbers.

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/sustainabilityatwork/article/...
Marketing ‘spyware’ caught in PC games but makers reject that label
Though it looks like unmaintained, I use watchdog[1] for automatically running build and test commands on file change.

[1] https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog
> Whereas many definitions I've seen for gaming disorders set a threshold of 20 hours a week or 2 hours a day to define gaming disorder.

Neither the new ICD-11 “gaming disorder” nor the DSM-5 “internet gaming disorder” (the latter identified as a condition for further study, not an official diagnosis, but with diagnostics criteria) have any number of hours criteria.

> Seems pretty likely that the concern over gaming is primarily due to it being a new medium.

Gambling isn't a new medium, but both DSM and ICD recognize problem gambling (“gambling disorder” and “pathological gambling”, respectively.)

> I fail to see how staring at a screen passively for 4-5 hours can be considered normal, while staring at a screen while actively facing challenges and solving problems for half that time is a disorder.

The latter wouldn't, in and of itself, be a disorder under either the DSM or ICD criteria related to internet gaming disorder (DSM) or gaming disorder (ICD). So, sure, you're right, but only because the hypothetical you pose is completely irrelevant.
>Regulating length of ads is silly too.

It's not really. The limited amount of adspace, about 10 minutes full screen and 4 or 5 minutes side, some banners, have greatly increased the value of ads on TV.

More expensive ads also means the ads are of much higher quality and less annoying than the US ads.

Buying the content is of course always an option but this is largely form an era before buying content was even an option or required extremely expensive VHS players.
I deliberately didn't sign up for my workplace birthday planning calendar. I chipped in for others birthdays but didn't feel any need to get my turn. So they made mine April 1st.

Touché.
"Also, I hope you're in one of the 70ish countries that has treaties! Because if not you could be looking at a 65-90% tax rate on any income over roughly 100k depending on the place."

My understanding is that US Citizens living outside the US can claim the Foreign Tax Credit, and that this doesn't require a tax treaty between the US and the country of residence.

The IRS guidance on the subject doesn't (as far as I have read) specify that a tax treaty must exist, for the FTC to apply.

Any pointers to more info?

(Regarding your last issue about the need for an accountant, due to the complexity of the US tax system: that's a good point but orthogonal to the worldwide tax and double taxation issues.)
There is no extra charge for a pour-over (e.g. for decaf or dark roast).

If they try to upsell you to a Clover specialty variety for more money, don't pay any upcharge.
> For [...] disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning

> and continuation or escalation of [...] despite the occurrence of negative consequences.

These seem fairly clear to me.
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New SamSam Variant Requires Special Password Before Infection
Also my yubikey doesn't work with Firefox i.e. to use yubikey as 2nd factor during gmail login
In my experience they stay very competitive on CPU and memory and decently competitive on disk. At my scale and needs I don't know of a better vendor for the dollar.

I noticed that there were over 1k support tickets created during the Fremont outage (based on the unique ID). This is a pretty sizable customer base and must be terribly impacting to have such a prolonged outage.

Did think it was pretty funny my host had to contact their host to figure out what happened.

> Our team is still in communications with our upstream provider to determine the cause of this outage.
From the article:

Once married, it would be infinitely easier to ask her father’s forgiveness, than to beg his permission beforehand.

It was tradition at one time to ask the permission of the woman's father.
The large "American" platforms all are operating businesses in the EU, and are showing snippets.
Sometimes you don't have the luxury of waiting until there's a consensus. In some teams there may never be a consensus and the whole "but if we had one it would be far better!" is a myth.

That's not an excuse to just go ahead from the start and say "eh, finding a consensus is too hard, I will just do it", but it is a reason to accept that at some point everything has been said, just not by everyone. And then a decision has to be made or you will talk forever.

> It is still possible to go for it. But you need to be accountable for the consequences.

This works in both directions: Are they also accountable for the success or is it a team success then? I see this pattern of not being able to get any decisions made, then hope that someone makes a decision and when it pans out "aren't we a great team? yes, yes, we are" and if not "They decided to just do it, it's their fault" and so on - you either share the wins and losses or you share neither.
From the WHO press release:

> Studies suggest that gaming disorder affects only a small proportion of people who engage in digital- or video-gaming activities.

That's not a moral panic. That's saying that a small number of people have a problem, and if they're having a problem they deserve help for it.
They should place a layer of grease-proof paper between the pizza and the box. In fact I could swear some pizza places used to do this, many years ago?

But at least Pizza boxes are biodegradable. Unlike plastic waste, they don't end up dispersed in our environment and washing up on beaches years later.
https://zedshaw.com/archive/stackish-an-xml-alternative/