skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. I recommend the Orson Welles film F is for Fake.
> No discussion as to any other effect of screen use.

That's not what the study is about. The study was about a particular effect, and they published their conclusions. The need for such a study can be debated but there is a difference between "common sense" and a proper peer-reviewed study. And to be published by what looks like a serious journal, I guess it wasn't so obvious to experts.

I am fed up with articles that proves a controversial point and then the reporter has to add a "but...". Maybe useful on prime time TV, so that people who are unfamiliar with scientific work don't get the wrong idea, but this is a university, and people reading this are supposed to be familiar with the scientific process.

Maybe some other group will later use the results of all these study and say something like "even though kids with more screen time are better at video games[citation], there is no significant improvement in related activities, we also noticed a decrease in...". But that's another study.
I go to a boxing class in the park. We meet 2x/week and train together. You can’t distance while boxing.

Here’s my threat model:

- we’re all young, healthy, and in good shape

- we all wear masks during normal life, some of us even while training

- we all social distance and follow the right protocols outside of boxing

- it’s always the same group of people

- 2x/week seems like low enough frequency that exposure won’t add up

- we stay home or even cancel class when someone feels off

- we’re outside so it’s nice and windy

- we keep distance when not punching each other and groups of 2 are kept far apart

So far so good. It feels like an acceptable level of risk to me.

Going to the farmer’s market (with masks) every week is probably way more risky than the boxing class.
The extractive rent-seeking (slavery being the most extractive economic and political institution possible) South was significantly lagging even before the rebellion, which was crushed by the United States whose other regions had more inclusive economic institutions.

In more recent times the authors compare two towns across the US-Mexico border: Nogales, AZ to to Nogales, Mexico. Even thought the language and ethnicity is mostly the same (95% Hispanic), with same climate and what not - Nogales in the United States has three times the GDP per capita of Nogales, Sonora. The difference is more inclusive economic and political institutions in the United States - while Mexico has suffered under one party rule for decades.
I definitely agree with the rings, but you don't buy many in a lifetime.

Less so with the cars, the vast majority of cars sold are with relatively thin margins.

And houses aren't sold by a single business, it's just the law of supply and demand.

I would add Nespresso as an example: They've definitely managed to mass-market a luxury good (outrageously expensive coffee pods)
Initiatives like this has always appeared to me as a cheap way for societies to improve the health of their population.

Perhaps better done in the form of a tax - in the sense that junk food causes an externality in the form of health problems, that does seem warranted. The underlying problem is that the incentives are not aligned.
When you have more experience, hopefully your view will change to reality.
IXL is infuriating. My first bookmarklets were written to convince my parents that the website was marking my answers incorrectly so I didn't have to use it any more.

(No comment on IXL's effectiveness; I have absolutely no idea whether it helped or hindered or what.)
>Are you saying that as long as the measures you listed are followed, any additional shutdowns required by the local/state government are unreasonable and are okay to ignore?

Yes. How does a government shutdown help me, if I'm already isolated?
> (a) Except as provided in Section 2194.1 , the affidavit of voter registration information identified in Section 6254.4 of the Government Code :

> (3) Shall be provided with respect to any voter, subject to the provisions of Sections 2166 , 2166.5 , 2166.7 , and 2188 , to any candidate for federal, state, or local office, to any committee for or against any initiative or referendum measure for which legal publication is made, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, or political purposes, or for governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State.
Most people don’t know how to monitor the local disease prevalence rate.
Predicting User Behavior with AI
Obesity is an external cost that just doesn't get accounted for in a free market. So far, regulation is a blunt tool, but still a lot more effective than other tools we have to deal with this.

For instance, in Indonesia, it's common for Big Tobacco to sell cheap cigarettes near schools [1]. This is insane, but from a purely free market perspective it makes perfect sense. Get your product in peoples hands as early as possible, and now you've got a customer for decades. All the social costs of higher rates of cancer etc will be borne by the taxpayer, so why should big tobacco care.

[1] http://www.tobaccoinduceddiseases.org/Density-of-cigarette-r...
I feel much safer now.
Is CEO pay a function of the number of employees?
Then a 25% cut would be justified.
I quit Facebook a few years ago and never looked back.

Before leaving Facebook, FOMO was a thing for me. But after I had left for a few month, I realized that life on Facebook had hardly anything to do with offline life.

The alternative for me is to ask people for their phone number, and keep contact via WhatsApp or Telegram with them, if I feel it was worth staying in touch. Definitely harder than just "be friends" on Facebook, but way more real.
I've got another one. Our smartphones now have sensor-cluster nodes; they used have singular cameras but now there are multiple sensors facing the same direction. Like some spaceship or drone out of sci-fi.
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I admit that the more I think about your arguments, the more I lean to be convinced. It makes sense.

However, I really hope they find what was the flaw(s) that led to the surprising result on the BBB of rodents.
The world has turned into a parody of itself.
If the vendor requires a license to let you run software on a powerful multi-media (sound, image, input, network) device they sold you, then I can tell you they put restrictions on what would otherwise be a general purpose computer. In my opinion, such crippling should be illegal.

For instance: the iPhone. It would definitely be general purpose if you didn't have to go through the App Store™.

Your microwave oven is different: minimum input, minimum display, one main purpose (heat food). Properly constructed ones can easily be bug-free on the first try, no need for patches. The firmware may even be fused into a strictly read-only chip. Clearly single purpose.

Personally, I'd tentatively set the limit at programmability: if there's any way to reprogram a machine, the user should be able to do it without authorization from the vendor. (We could make exceptions, for instance break control software in cars: such software should probably be tested to death and vetted by regulation. Preventing users from rolling their own may be justified to avoid untimely deaths on the road. Though "preventing" here could mean "legally disallow" rather than "use DRM". Not sure which is best.)
Nice I'm not the only one still using grease monkey :)
I've been really content with my BlackBerry KeyOne and now KeyTwo. I got really tired of trying to type on glass; physical keys just work. I can find them with my fingers instead of my eyes, so there's a lot less ongoing frustration. I will likely try this new BlackBerry whenever my KeyTwo wears out, because the real keyboard makes a big difference.
The concept itself. It is being sold without my express consent. I'm being given no share of the profit that someone else is making from my information.
And that's the point where you're supposed to tweak the route if you know better. I used maps to gauge traffic on my commute but there were times when I know they're wrong and haven't picked up on an accident yet.
You lost me at Kickstarter
This same argument can be made about any infectious disease season. The only difference is a matter of degree. This virus is probably ~5 times as bad as the flu so we should spend ~5 times as much to mitigate the externalities. Not ~500 times as much like we have.

I fear that after this every time there's a bad flu season we will see this same shit again because "think of the most vulnerable among us, you're literally killing them!!"
Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned or created?
It doesn't have to be one sentence but try to be concise. Something you'd end a code review comment with or mention to a Jr dev that's easy to remember.

Today I realized "there's a fine line between credit and blame" but that's a little too pessimistic to be real advice.
corps focus on keeping the status quo, little to gain from small gains, big penalty for any possible downside.
Also I think BO is doing things the hard way. SpaceX started with small expendable rockets carrying cargo. That kept the stakes reasonably low, and let them rapidly iterate and learn from experience. BO's first orbital rocket is supposed to be a heavy-lift reusable.
Thats lazy parenting IMO. My 2 yo son was not inteoduced to tablets or phones because there are so many more things they could do. He loves for example snap in puzzles where a lot of faculties develop but almost anything physical is beneficial at this age. There is time for computers and tablets later on, whats the rush?
I don't think any reasonable person thinks Luckey lied. They think he said something stupid, was called on it, and double-down.

Now that it has proven out as people expected, they're calling him out on it again. Perhaps other people will learn a lesson from it? I can hope.
You know what would really cause you to lose muscle? Getting a bad (or even mild) case of COVID.

I'm an athlete myself so I get it. Working out is important. But people are reporting that they are not back to 100% even _months_ after the primary symptoms of COVID are gone. And health professionals are saying that it's very possible to lose things like lung capacity PERMANENTLY. Honestly that scares me more than the idea of being badly sick for 1-2 months. I worked hard to make my lungs strong.

Also, of course, the whole concept of responsibility to our communities in a global pandemic is even more important, but an appeal to self-interest is there as well.
Thanks for the mention (browserless.io)! Really enjoying this site, let me know if you'd like a guest post and I'd happily add something. We've gathered a few weird tricks and tips as well. Definitely a lot that can be shared!
It was the most idiotic thing I've ever seen. What kind of marketing research told the Prod Mgrs that a 3D phone with 6 cameras with 3D moving like images help a mother with screaming toddlers order more diapers?

What would have made a better phone focusing in consumables by Amzn customers is a one handed phone with a builtin barcode reader (which is did have with a dedicated button) that will directly find/order the item. Making buying and ordering their priority function.

However, conjecturing, but I believe they may be working on another phone. Lower cost focusing on the more ludicative India market. Probably also coincides with them getting and probably launching soon their satellites for internet. And also trying to figure how not to be based on Android.
If you always use third-party clients or old.reddit.com you'll never even know that someone tried to contact you via chat, which makes it somewhat ineffective at getting people to stop using those.
They were quoting a gym-goer.
It's widely understood as immoral to invade someone's privacy and access their personal information without their consent.
It's pretty locked down. You have an app that unless it's says healthy you are not allowed into any public place.

I illustrated it as a place in which there is so much mass testing that the mortality figures are more fact than fiction.
Though prices were much less efficient then so this has much larger error bars. Plus our inflation estimates that far back are very rough.
People in e-commerce have a goldmine of behavioral data, but those in public health or government services, typically have awful data. So for this, no data, no model.
The US dollar is just a type of asset (i.e. of the cash asset class). I'm proposing that it's become less valuable compared to other types of assets such as specific stocks like Apple's, gold, etc. I believe this is due the effects of the Federal Reserve's actions of injecting more US dollars into the economy recently (aka money printing). As more US dollars are created from thin air, other asset classes naturally increase in value, or the US dollar decreases in value, whichever angle you want to look at it from. This is simply called inflation.

Often times the Consumer Price Index is referenced as the source of truth on inflation, especially when the Fed makes its decisions on adding/removing money into the economy[0]. But the CPI doesn't track every type of asset such as stocks or gold, since these aren't things the Fed is trying keep the US dollar stable with as part of its dual mandate[1].

Price fluctuations haven't happened evenly across asset classes just because of the way COVID-19 has had effects on various parts of the economy. Not all stocks have increased due to negative effects of COVID-19 on certain types of businesses, not all real estate has climbed due to people moving around during COVID-19, etc.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_inflation

1. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100715/break...
For many of us, working out is a core part of our identity. It's taken literal years to get to the levels we're at, and to see that progress roll backwards is debilitating, in a mental sense.

Since you don't work out, I assume you like food. Imagine if you had to spend months eating nothing but Soylent because of $reasons, then when you complain you get chirping like "I don't get it, it's the same nutritional value, you don't need any real food".
This is literally my job. Amazon calls it Dive Deep/Earn Trust. I get called in constantly to "Remove Blockers". Part of it is just understanding why the policy exists and then getting a policy modification. While it's definitely an art, it's not as hard as a lot of people think, but you can't be afraid to escalate.
more info on Chile, mentioned in article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/health/chile-soda-warning...

it's probably safe to say that this is a global public health imperative, given the suffering/costs/economic loss around the world that these beverages and food-like products cause. would also like to see some money from things like corn driven to healthy food subsidies e.g. spinach (or pick your favorite) to offset any increase in costs from taxation

also: bearish for coca-cola long term?
> Your "better" study is not an experiment and its conclusions are not supported by empirical evidence.

I think their method does count as a natural experiment and as such does have empirical evidence. From the article:

“Preschoolers from a 2010 study (612 children) were compared to preschoolers from a 2014 study (492 children) because of the digital explosion into everyday life that occurred between the two time periods. Television viewing patterns have remained similar over time, but technological device usage has increased.”

> If it were true that usage of touchscreens cause lower intelligence test scores, we would have seen this show up as a population-wide reduction in scores as touchscreens became widely available.

Exposure in formative years is vastly different than adult exposure. The affected cohort in the study is now only in middle school and population wide effects will have a lagged appearance.
This is me 100%. Especially with covid making big swaths of the economy (ie travel) unviable in the near to mid term. What does still make sense is tech, and drilling into that deeper, AAPL.
You can maintain a very healthy body using only body weight exercises, with practically no weights at all from the comfort of your home. With youtube and the like, you have access to near infinite workouts as well. Not having access to a gym is not a sufficient reason to be out of shape.
Right. It’s clearly hard to brass tacks a valuation of a 2T company, but one had better be forthcoming of even questionable quality. If no one else then Apple has a vested interest in knowing how close this valuation is to their internal knowledge. If they’re under then they could consider growing to the new valuation with opportunities otherwise unavailable outside this valuation. They could issue even more debt or offerings and go on a buying spree. Nvidia has a valuation of 300B (though probably also high relative to fundamentals). They could buy nvidia and own the future of the ML/AI market as well as the gaming market they’ve typically been shut out from competing. Toyota’s more like 190B. They could buy Toyota and immediately be one of the top auto manufacturers. They could probably do this an embarrassingly large number of times for many industries at this valuation.
Unsafe at Any Speed as an argument _against_ safety regulations? A creative approach, at least.
that's a neat idea. Let me try that.
If so then that is a bigger story, not less of one.
BTW, the other weird thing about this scenario is that if you look backwards along your trajectory, you will see a movie of your journey playing in reverse!

Also, in regard to your edit: this doesn’t really have anything to do with relativity. Newton would’ve come to the same conclusion.
The thing I am most astonished is that Wikipedia is even a thing that requires no login, no special app, no annoying popups (except the occasional jimmy wales donation banner). It’s open. It’s fast. It’s comprehensive. You can freely download a dump .

Reddit, quora, yelp, facebook on the other hand are Plagued with dark patterns that give a middle finger to the user.

It makes me wonder the kind of shit we build in the name of “user experience”. What is wrong with our industry?
What's the best external tv hardware box these days? It needs to be something easy enough for my non-technical family to use, that's also stable enough that I don't have to worry about upgrading or debugging it, and provides all of the popular providers controlled by a remote -- or is at least compatible with a universal remote.

Up until recently, my Roku ticked all of the boxes -- Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO Now/Go, Plex, CNN, Hulu, all controlled by a Logitech universal remote. But as of August 1st, HBO has pulled their apps from Roku.

Is one of these a better option?

- Android TV

- Amazon Fire

- Apple TV (without other iOS devices?)

- something else?
Pretty cool

(sorry)
totally agree. Stop living life because there's a chance of dying.
(Designer of the docs)

We also published as part of this release some documentation for the so-called “Docs engine” which powers these new docs, which may somewhat answer this question.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/docs-engine

(Note: They currently live within the Workers docs site for now but will get a proper home soon.)

With respect to the information architecture and content design, much of that is discussed in the Contributor’s Guide [1] and Docs-flavored Markdown [2] pages.

The very short version is that we borrowed many ideas from Divio’s documentation system [3], which recommend dividing your content into four distinct buckets: Tutorials, How-to Guides, Explanation, and Reference.

The layout and visual design were inspired by dozens of other docs sites we tested and studied, stealing the best ideas we could from everywhere we looked.

It’s also worth noting that the Cloudflare Workers docs have been open-sourced for over a year now [4], and these new docs (as well as the new engine which powers them) will continue to carry the same license. Contributions are welcome and we’re hopeful and excited to see further uses of the docs engine over time.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/docs-engine/contri...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/docs-engine/docs-f...

[3] https://documentation.divio.com/

[4] https://git.io/JJAWP

(edit: formatting)
This. Unfortunately, it seems hard to find dumb but quality TVs?!
We should definitely be kind, to as many groups of people as humanly possible. But erecting artificial categories merely because someone thinks it will make some other subset of individuals feel better (a) is patronising to those people, and (b) introduces confusion for everyone.
It makes me sad seeing a community I’d otherwise regard as intelligent being so profoundly ignorant.

But I also acknowledge this is a western culture issue more than one of intelligence alone.

Discouraging nonetheless. We’ve really messed up.
Google's releases are always so anticlimactic, since they are rolling out over a relatively long period of time.

It is, of course, the correct way of doing things, but readers will be disappointed when they try it themselves.

(I still have not gotten the noise-cancelling feature in Meet. Not sure what's up there)
Apple hasn’t announced anything like this. I’m pretty sure you’re confusing it with something else.
on HN it is common practice to downvote when you do not agree with someone, but don't have any new information to add that is worthy of a comment. So basically don't worry about votes. If you start getting flagged that is a different story.
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life."
P/E ratio of almost 40? Seems crazy to value the largest tech company in the world at a price where you wouldn't see your money back for 40 years. Do they really have enough room to grow to offset that? Seems unlikely to me, but then again you don't see me shorting it :)
Microsoft isn't too far behind. They were ahead of Apple last year.
I mean, we know how the dot com boom ended.

With the current state of the economy, I'm not expecting anything better after a bust.
The nature of the question strikes me as a bit odd. If you don't have any enthusiasm for music history, I don't see what's to be gained by forcing yourself to learn about it. If it's not for fun, other subjects would have a greater impact on your career.

At any rate, the easiest thing to do would be to dive into classical music, rather than popular music. In classical, there's only around a dozen composers with whom anyone expects you to be familiar.
The US is going to be something close to 1 death per 1k total population with the policies we have. It doesn't make logical sense to think the number could be orders of magnitudes lower in the US if we didn't close businesses.
My 9 year old and 3 year old LG smart TVs still work fine.

The only apps that don't work on the older TV are the Yahoo apps.
Are you only comparing death rates?

My coworker has been told he may never taste or smell again as he "recovers" from covid.

There's evidence that COVID survivors might have long term heart conditions https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

Think of the most vulnerable among us. You are killing them.
> You don't have to go if you don't want to...

Except that these people go there and then go home and spread it to their family and other friends. They go to grocery stores and other locations and touch things or cough/sneeze it in to the air. It's never about one person's individual choice.

> Surely your indignation would be better directed at employers, schools and others who are requiring in-person attendance.

Yes this deserves it as well but that does not negate the concerns
In general I would agree, but how does that apply to the to the scenario we are discussing which is the CA DMV under the DPPA?