skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 2 and a half year old son now. My wife and I have found for us that the right answer is simply moderation, variety, and supervision.

1. We moderate how much time is spent on screens. Each day he probably spends a total of an hour or less in front of any screen (iPad/iPhone/Projector).

2. He does watch some (highly filtered) educational YouTube content, but we also make sure he's playing educational and interactive games, like building, drawing, and learning Chinese (we're a bilingual household). He also has lots of books and we read to him actively, he participates in sports, we take him outside to playgrounds and parks, do arts and crafts with him, and he helps us with chores around the house (in a fun way), etc.

3. When he is playing a game or watching a video, we're there participating. We're monitoring and filtering the content he's viewing, and we're actively adding to the educational experience by talking about the things he's seeing and doing with him.

Technology is a tool, and how it's used matters. Outright banning it means we're missing out on its potential benefits, and also we miss the opportunity to teach him from an early age how to use it properly. I fear a child who hasn't learned to cope with technology for 13 years and is then suddenly introduced to it will struggle far more.

It was a little bit of a struggle at first, but now when we tell him it's time to turn off the iPad, he usually will do it himself without fuss, and he increasingly will turn it off without even prompting and move on to another activity like reading or drawing.
> "What makes Fortnite and Youtube videos worse than Nerf guns and library books?"

Well for one, and this is a big one, many games implement specific features such as character progression, rewards and even loot boxes that are specifically made to keep you playing. They directly trigger dopamine reward centers in the brain and are very much tied to addiction. Loot boxes especially are literally just gambling.

Youtube kids is also all kinds of messed up. Videos created using algorithms specifically to draw the attention of kids and sometimes contain very disturbing images and themes.

This article is a good overview of how Youtube is not a good choice for kids: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/17/peppa-pig...

Here is a video on Jake Paul (and many big youtubers) and how he markets HARD to kids while also having videos containing very inappropriate material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywcY8TvES6c

On top of this, in terms of TV/Youtube vs books, there is a big difference in terms of it's effect on language, communication, and development. Also, TV/Youtube is a passive form of learning, reading books is active:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/books-vs-tv-how-they-stac_b_1...
I see two problems with how we view addiction:

- Everything has a potential of being addictive, but we focus so much on drugs since they have some especially addicting properties that aren't present in other habits.

- We're stuck with Enlightenment age thinking such as "tabula rasa" and we attribute too much human behavior to free will, an ill-defined term that nobody whom I ask can provide a comprehensive answer to.
i notice better retention when i add content to an Anki[0] deck as cloze type question and actually repeat the content a few times.

just writing it down was pretty much useless for me. but everyone has their own way of remembering, i'm sure just writing it down with a pen works for you.

[0] https://apps.ankiweb.net/index.html
Dude, playing Dark Souls requires more brain power than the vast majority of most peoples’ jobs.

If my kid was good at Dark Souls I’d be impressed. Hell, if I was good at Dark Souls I’d be impressed with myself.
It's not about an alternative -- heck, `apt install git` is the way everyone is already self-hosting git (you can push and pull from anything like Dropbox/Drive/OneDrive to an NFS mount). It's about the community that is GitHub.

Since the news broke I've been hosting a Gitea instance and while that works fine, I cannot go a day without using Github for things like pulling other people's code, creating issues, etc.
I see this playing out right now with Apple's phones, which get continuously bigger and shinier and brighter with every new generation.

Then they give us "Screen Time" and Tim Cook talks about giving people the tools to be aware of how much they're using their phones and to make their own decisions about it.

If drug companies said "We're discontinuing Advil for your headaches and replacing all painkillers with small dosage opiates, but we'll give you an app to count how much you're taking and you can make your own decisions" we'd immediately jump down their throats.

Apple discontinues the iPhone SE, standardizes on a comparatively gigantic 6.1 inch screen size for their mainstream phone model, and tells us "It's fine. We gave people a new app so they won't get addicted to their phones."

I don't think it's fine. Apple's just in denial about it because the design team likes big shiny things, premium phones print money, and users keep on buying them because we collectively don't have a grip on the downsides.

Just give me a damn phone that I can call a car or text friends on, I don't want to or need to spend hours consuming media on a giant shiny screen. But if I get a giant shiny screen foisted on me, I know it's going to happen.

But like you said, if someone's living on their phone too much, we treat it like their own moral failing. The manufacturers that made the phones this way and the software companies that deliberately A/B tested their engagement stats to death to rope you in as hard as possible and sell more ads? Nah, not their fault. It's these irresponsible phone users not owning up to their own faults.
"Generating the certs is a complicated hassle."

Not really... I will grant that the openssl commands are a bit non-obvious.

Step 1: Generate private key

openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp384r1 -out key.pem

Step 2: Create and sign cert

openssl req -x509 -sha512 -nodes -days 365 -key key.pem -subj "/CN=example.com" -reqexts SAN -extensions SAN -config <(cat /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf <(printf '[SAN]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:example.com,DNS:*.example.com')) -out cert.pem
I have a circa 2013 low end Xeon Dell tower server and the power usage is quite low. Certainly much less than 500w.

My entire tech power load, which includes my APC UPS, ubiquiti router and access point, 8 port gigabit switch, MoCA bridge, the above mentioned Dell server, and a Mac mini for remote Mac development, consumes about 100w at a steady state as measured at the outlet with a kill-a-watt meter.

At my current utility rates that comes out to be about $8.62 a month - not free but certainly imo a good investment to have local VPN, data storage, ESX and KVM virtual machine hosting.
> But law clerks? Junior staff? The people who are usually forced to do all the grunt work to allow the top lawyers to focus on their strengths?

The same thing happened in finance, first with Excel and then with quants. Junior staff responsibilities shift to more client-facing work while senior staff are newly enabled to break off and start small firms.
You can spot electric vehicles here as they have different license plate prefixes, so easy to get a view of what's electric without knowing the models.

That I can recognise I see a LOT of Nissan Leafs and good number of Hyundai Ioniq, Kia Soul, VW e-Golf, BMW i3 and for businesses the Nissan e-NV200 and Renault Kangoo vans. There are other models out there, Oslo being a good market for electrics.

It's common here for people who were early to order a popular electirc car (like the Ioniq or Opel Ampere) to be able to sell it as 'used' for more than you can buy one new from the dealership that you have to wait months for.
It is also the responsibility of developers to apply some ethical guidelines. As it stands, media and games are being designed with addictive rewards to hook in adults and children alike, in the name of monetization.
I’m curious how people invite other kids over for kid parties. That kid can’t drink soda, this one is forbidden screens, this one is no gluten, that one is no meat. When you have a baby, does the hospital give you a giant list of stuff you could forbid them to choose from?
Groceries! We don't have to go to the store anymore with Walmart + Kroger adding the ability to pick out your groceries online. You pay on the app, and an employee fetches the items, bags them, and has them ready for pick up at the time you specify.

It actually saves money because you're not buying things that you happen to see, and only getting what you need.
On a recent tour, Jack White was banning cell phones at the concert - you had to check them at the door. Everyone I know who went to that show raved about the experience, to not feel the need to check in, to not see phones lifted above the audience film things, to just focus on the music.
I wouldn't spend that kind of money unless I had fuck you money in the bank, knowing full well they depreciate half their value after the first year (although as an aside: I don't know if that's the case with Tesla cars, less moving complicated parts so less wear and tear. Apple computers and phones depreciate notably less quickly than their competitors, too).

However, I work for a company that offers a lease budget, meaning I am actually able to drive a $35K car at a small bump in taxes (that is, a percentage of the value of the car is added to my annual income and taxed as income tax accordingly. I get free fuel from work though otoh so it's a good deal).

Especially in Europe and / or my segment of work, lease cars are a huge market - tens of thousands of cars - and Tesla will make a HUGE impact on that once they become available over here. Europe and my country are much more suitable for electric cars too, in that distances are generally much lower.
I'm unsure it's a wise decision to send infants into null gravity for 3 months.
As someone who prefers cheap cars, one of the keys is basic maintenance know-how. Anyone can learn to do the basics (oil changes, air filter, spark plugs, brake pads, etc.) with a few hours of learning on YouTube.

I'd never waste my money on a new car. My current car is 10 years old and it feels so uncomfortable new. I felt like I was spoiling myself when I bought it.
HN, this was a fun weekend project that we built inspired by Stripe Home [0].

This is how this thing works:

1. Install the chrome extension on Chrome
2. Invite people on your time (only work emails are accepted)
3. Set up timezones and write goals/announcement

Those who will install the chrome extenion, will see what you write every time they open a new tab.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home
>> A used car from a fairly reputable source can be had...

EVERY used car was once a new car. How many times do you think a car gets sold? Perhaps 3 or 4 including the original new sale? If so then 25 percent of car sales are new car sales. Another thing to consider is the resale price of a car. With an old used car you may think you'll drive it until it's used up and junk it, while the previous owners kept it until it was "used up" in the sense that they sell it and get some money for it.

Sure new cars are generally over prices, but TCO is still an important consideration.
Just want to chime in to say Japanese curry is awesome! Nothing against Indian or Thai curry, I love those different varieties too.

But just that Japanese curry is its own thing, it is very different and you might like it even if you shy away from other kinds.

Anybody here a fan of Japanese curry?
Or, alternatively, they should make a group project to write an essay about the town of Scunthorpe, its railroad to Essex, and a local grower of shitake mushrooms; and make sure to diligently discuss its contents in email.
Take a look at minerals too. I have a tendency when stressed to drink a lot of caffeine during the day and then alcohol at night. Stress also drops my body temperature and I start to urinate a lot, up to the point that my urine is completely clear and I keep going. Those things drop my levels of magnesium. When my magnesium is low, I start to have jaw pain and eye tics. Those then trigger more stress.

It took me a lot of time to figure out this vicious circle. Your body might not work the same but I encourage you to look at the problem from every angle.
Source code: https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal/blob/master/exam...
1. Without wanting to offend I think it's quite funny that you think so, because before Prenzlauer Berg became what it is today it was one of the most prominent "art districts" in Berlin, and many artists had their workshops there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenzlauer_Berg). Now as you say it's mostly an area where hip and affluent families live in the many luxuriously renovated old buildings (Altbau). Seems gentrification has progressed so much that people don't even remember what the neighborhood used to be before. That said, the process wasn't triggered by large tech companies setting up shop there, more by the choices of affluent people moving to Berlin from other parts of Germany. Swabians are particularly hated for allegedly moving there in order to live in a big city but then slowly turning that city into the small Swabian town they moved away from in the first place (I don't think it's a very fair judgement though).

2. That's what I said, and I think it's sad that Google won't open the campus there, as I think the area and the city could profit from it.

Also, this is a personal opinion but I think Kreuzberg is far from being a "haven for artists or counterculture". Already now the district has some of the highest rents in Berlin and many flats are being rented out as AirBnBs (often by the same people that complain about companies gentrifying the area). Also, the counterculture that you're describing can be quite snobbish and exclusive as well, at least for people that don't conform to the Berlin "hipster" ideal. I think Berlin really needs more corporations and large enterprises that set up shop there and create jobs, as the startup ecosystem has so far failed to deliver much in terms of well-paying jobs (at least if you don't want to work for Zalando). Just my 2 cents.
I'm using it for a couple personal projects and am very happy with it so far, for what that's worth.
> * They're taking a risk with the interior of the car, with the lack of gauge cluster and spartan design. To me this looks like what happened when the software industry switched from "as many UI buttons and features as possible" in the '90s to the simplified, "overall user experience" focus we see in modern software. And I want to support that.

I guess this is fine if you live in California, but a car that I can't operate while wearing heavy mittens is literally unusable to me for nearly half the year.
> There's a joke going on that the Pirate Party is the IT department of the communist party.

Yes, because in Eastern Europe, if you're even slightly left, or don't agree with U.S. on everything, you must be a communist.

Apparently from one block to the other.

As someone from that part of the world, I generally find it annoying that people automatically assume left == communist because of the Soviet past. As a result, we mostly have only right-wing or neoliberal type parties in Eastern Europe, because if you propose any sort of social democracy, you'd end up being attached to communism.

I view it as very unfortunate and simplistic. As in, communism didn't work out, let's run waaay to the right. Oh, right is bad? Let's run even further to the right, that outta fix it!

(Failing to realize that what you really dislike is authoritarianism, which these all share.)

How about a social democracy? The Scandinavian model? Market economy with strong social programs.

So you could start a business without being absolutely mortified about what'd happen if it fails, for example? How else is the overall standard of living supposed to improve over there? Corporate tax cuts and trickle-down economics has been tried, it doesn't work.
Oh, neat, I will. Still, the main advantage of plan9's compiler is its simplicity.
Not even 30 years, more like 15.
Man Arrested for R-ping 100-Year-Old Grandmother
> Eastern Europe

Geographic variation in pricing not only fully explains the difference but actually leaves me mildly surprised that the difference is so small.
Sugary foods, opium, these things all cost money. Most things on the Internet are free. Think of the addictive things as “gravity wells”. Everyone explores until they find something that addicts them.

Many library cards for <18 year-olds didn’t allow certain adult books to be checked out. Books are mostly not algorithmically/peer generated. Even if you are addicted to some book series you will eventually finish it.

It would be nice if there was a content filter that parents could install that wasn’t curated based on someones opinion but worked more like Waze — routing you around places where everyone was stuck.
That's very true. One has to be weary of going too neo-Luddite, but at the same time, I don't think books and TV (on a mass scale anyway) caused kids to have less sex and skyrocket their depression and suicide rates.
> unlimited private repositories for individuals and organizations.

This was my draw to it as well.
if you do multiple things at once you divide your focus over these things, and thus retain less of each. seems reasonably logical??
Churn should be a strong indicator of managerial issues. But I think it’s not because of how much wealth companies and certain people amassed.
You're thinking about it on a too small scale, but there are many more factors - it's not just a single transaction! Consider what happens to stocks when a company does something unpopular.

I reiterate my recommendation of Ludwig von Mises. His books are really good and it's worth a read even if you completely disagree (just like I read Marx). He tried to answer every question you've written here and definitely more in detail and better than I ever could. There are even individual texts online (taken out of his books) where you can read about a single issue - the texts are not even that long, 20 minutes a piece.
The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’
Do people actually ever watch those videos though? People love to record events and then it collects dust afterwards.
On a related note, say I want to build my own commenting system (self hosted), any good papers / articles / discussion topics to share?

Topics from db structure to how to handle nesting(display wise), sorting (top / trending), etc. Some gotchas which we might miss.
Honestly, the only thing I'd ever seen addressing the protein in a manner tangential to Alz was the herpes entanglement research (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26836158).

Wikipedia might have good references as a starting point though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid_beta
> I don't know whether the AI will recognize it

This sounds like the easier work. Capture what you expect and flag every deviation for human review.
I think we're in agreement about everything including its malevolence. Destroying otherwise healthy companies does nothing beneficial for the country's competitiveness, so if it could be done carefully, I'd support laws reigning this behavior in.
The headline is chilling, but the actual content of the article boils down to "Many people in Silicon Valley feel that too much screen time is bad for kids".

That being said, I found this anecdote to be particularly... unsettling.

> “I try to tell him somebody wrote code to make you feel this way — I’m trying to help him understand how things are made, the values that are going into things and what people are doing to create that feeling,” Mr. Lilly said. “And he’s like, ‘I just want to spend my 20 bucks to get my Fortnite skins.’”

It's tough to explain away the emotional desire for something that was manufactured to be cool and addictive
I think i've multitasked my way out of having sufficient functional memory to remember multiple simultaneous tasks.
Could you share these sources please? Interested in seeing how newer models improve upon The Bates Method.
Ah, the good old fool's logic of trying to impress people you don't actually care about. How stupid this can be... Can you actually be impressed by somebody's car? I can't for more than 1-2 minutes even if we talk about porsche/ferrari. Lasting positive impression can't be bought, no matter how much cash you throw at it.

Reliability of an old car can be an issue, but if you find a good mechanic, he will go over junky car, fix and replace what is needed, and on top of 3-5k you spend maybe another 3-5k at most. Even better is to have an used car be shopped around up by such a mechanic, but that often requires a friendship on some level. Voila, reliable car for 6-10k, you just need to get a check once a year (shouldn't be costly if initial one was done properly).

I have 15-yer old BMW 3-series, amazing car. Won't change it till it dies/crashes/gets stolen. Fiancee bought before old Toyota Corrola combi for 5k - amazing workhorse. Driving experience is crap compared to BMW, but it just keeps working, consumes nothing (diesel 2l engine). New one costs easily 4x more, for very little added value.

Unless your pay directly depends on you being reliably on time someplace, or you commute over longer distances in some higher white collar job, this is enough.
I mean, CSS/HTML is technically a Turing complete language given enough caveats[0]. ;)

But I'm obviously just being a pedantic jerk when I say that. I get what you're getting at and you're not wrong. The real question to ask is, "is a programming language a good place to put a typesetter?"

Making things more powerful doesn't always make them better, if that extra power forces you to introduce extra complexity.

[0]: https://my-codeworks.com/blog/2015/css3-proven-to-be-turing-...
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The Humanification of Pet Food Is Nearly Complete
Wow... Out of curiosity, how did you find this?
Yep, and those people are dangerous idiots. Even with ABS it is improper to slam on your brakes on low-traction surfaces. The purpose of ABS is to prevent wheel locking under hard braking, but it is not intended to respond and recover from pure idiocy.

The correct way to apply the brakes is the same with or without ABS, you should always do it smoothly with increasing force as necessary. Doing this would allow ABS to function properly, and in the case of no-ABS, will allow you to feel and respond when locking may occur.

Even if your ABS were to fail, that does not absolve you of the responsibility of driving like a complete moron. It's an unfortunate reality that most of the people on the road in the US frankly should not be driving.
Hey at least now it's public and not hidden somewhere deep in Facebook's shadow profiles code.
They used to be that before they were sold as one-offs, too. Arcade machines demanding more quarters for extra lives is a meme I grew up with, and my childhood currency didn’t even have a coin called “a quarter”.
I had the same feeling. Could use an accountant chiming in here.

On the one hand the third quarter update clearly states 'Unaudited' above the statement of operations and balance sheet. On the other hand, they present GAAP-figures. As far as my practical knowledge of working with accountants go, they would frown quite heavily upon using 'new and improved' accounting methods for their Q3-update. Even for 'unaudited' GAAP-figures 'we' (investors) should be able to expect a continuous accounting practices from the firm. But it's good practice to read any statement of an accountant dilligently (ever read an ISAE-statement?) and read non-audited statement with even more caution.