skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another bullshit headline.

They correlated less screen time with less depression, they did not demonstrate that taking action to reduce screen time resulted in reduced depression, much less indicating it to be “critical”.
> creator doesn't want you to watch or listen to something, you shouldn't watch or listen to it

Their goal is to reduce infringement on their copyright. Rightsholders generally offer plenty of ways to watch or listen to the work in a non-infringing way.
What we really need is better protection for all 1099 workers.
Also from Peter, lest this become a predictable round of journalist bashing:

"Graeme is a very intelligent journalist and his explanations of cliodynamics and structural-demographic mechanisms that bring about state breakdown are quite good. The Atlantic went through a thorough fact-checking process (unusual in these times of online media with limited resources to check facts) and I have no argument with the factual foundations of the Graeme’s article."
His speeches always have had a ton of “I”s, it was always something that I noticed and was part of the reason his speeches were always so boring to me (except that one hilarious White House correspondence dinner which was probably written by a comedian). Even when he’s taking about something other than himself, there’s a lot of “I”.
you're commenting on a study with what sounds like an opinion that feels right to you. maybe it's not just about social media vs "positive" activities. some of it may be related to screen addiction and inability to focus due to externals stimuli. any unhealthy habit could have a configuration where its not as unhealthy to some people, but it doesn't mean the study is "confusing people"
There is a STRONG selection bias at play here.

Just to illustrate the point with fake numbers..

If 90% of drivers are doing the gig thing, maybe they’ll be driving Uber an hour a day on average. Then if 10% of drivers are doing 12 hours a day, most rides will be from the small minority of full time drivers.

It’s exactly the same as the experience most people have that flights tend to be overflowing with people, when the airlines claim many flights are totally empty.
I'm a maker of satchel.com. This is one of the core problems we aimed to tackle. In doing so, we've actually build out _exactly_ this.

There are still some crucial obstacles to ensure robustness, but I'd love to get your feedback nonetheless. Could I ask some questions over email? I can't find yours, but I'm at andrew@satchel.com
I'm talking about 10K+ global employee companies. No VP wants to listen to my problem licensing Jira. And prices changes like that happen on the scale of years.
This makes me very happy to have gone filled time Linux in the past year. I really want Linux to succeed on the desktop, and I think one very important step is to be able to get all the software (or clones) that people use running on Linux.

So far, LibreOffice covers the majority of cases for MS Office and the average person can get by. Firefox and Chrome are covered, video players are covered, and honestly, I don't know what the average non-technical user uses besides those. Getting Adobe products to really work well would also be a huge win.

I think the Linux desktop is mostly ready, there just needs to be a need for it at this point. Hopefully this is part of that need.
I do not regret my decision on Trump probably I would better judge it 10 years from now than currently. Probably I will regret just like I regretted my Obama support.

Please do not regurgitate MSNBC talking points like Bountygate, Suckergate.. I am aware of these and do not have trust in anonymous sources.
The fact that Congress provided some relief to self-employed people during a once in a century disaster is absolutely not a good reason to reclassify people as employees.

Businesses got billions in forgivable loans to simply not fire the people they'd hired, it seems reasonable that self-employed people get some help.
I intuitively agree that optimal sleep and exercise and diet and screen time probably make a difference to wellbeing, but am I alone in thinking that trying to determine a "link" between these things is lazy, easy, obvious and just wholly inadequate?

We want to know, definitively, what are causes and effects. I appreciate that's hard. But why waste so much time and money just trying to establish "links" which are fundamentally just correlations.

It's like admitting causation is hard, just aim instead for correlation - and call it quits after getting some headlines and maybe more funding...
This is a program that starts VMs on demand when you connect. I don't think that Tailscale can do that.
When I was in the US they did a full test on me as a matter of routine. Here in Sweden they stare at me like I'm crazy when I ask if I could maybe get something tested.
I think you're misrepresenting the past.

> It was also designed ultra-conservatively using mostly existing designs so there was no technical risk.

Politicians can't design a rocket and cannot get what is "ultra-conservative". Rockets are not Lego blocks that you can just mix and match. They're explicitly designed a certain way to support a certain load profile. Even if the parts of the SLS _look_ like they have low risk, they do not and that's why the vehicle has taken so long to develop.

One example, if the shuttle boosters were could actually have been used directly they wouldn't have needed to extend the number of segments from 4 to 5, redesign the liner between the segments, and completely redesign the nozzle. It's a new booster.

Second example, even though the shuttle external tank looks like it's being used, in previous iterations the shuttle external tank did not support any axial loads, it was simply held on to the bottom of the Orbiter. Now the external tank has to withstand the entire axial load of the rocket so it's basically redesigned from scratch.
> Apple's customers are the users.

As are a crack dealer's.
> Yet Dell and Lenovo offer computers with Linux pre-installed, but so many technical people ignore them because Apple is shiny and fast.

I got a Lenovo last year with Ubuntu preinstalled. It was he "blessed hardware". Wifi didn't work after wake / sleep and my connection via usb-c to my monitor was unusable. I switched back to a mac because I wanted to work, not fix my tools.

These aren't one off anecdotes, there are dozens of people in this thread with the same story slightly different. This isn't people going to Apple because it is shiny, it's going to Apple because managing hardware isn't their job.

Either verbally address that meaningfully or drop the condescending attitude.
With the swap Apple Silicon that should be an easy move into first as there are many wanting to make the jump.

However they did include tablets in that one chart
That's not what anyone is arguing for. The whole argument is that a company who treats people like employees (full control over interactions with and access to customers) should have to provide the benefits and pay the costs of an employer.
It's not entirely clear to me from reading the points in this article and skimming the paper that they are able to control the direction of causality for this. That is the question as to whether or not "healthy" activity prevents depression or if depression causes us to reduce our healthy activity (and increase our unhealthy ones).

The pandemic has been a great experiment in this and has me starting to think that many of these studies might have the causal arrow wrong. I absolutely spent less time on the screen, ran more often, drank much less and slept better immediately before the pandemic.

Running as an example became much harder to do emotionally after the a few months of the stress induced by the pandemic. The lack of other runners out there seemed to confirm that other people were also feeling this impact.

I spend more time glued to the screen "doom scrolling" and you can bet my drinking is up as well.

But it's certainly not like all of these behaviors happened and then stress set in (in this case I wouldn't say "depressed" as much as "stressed", ironically I'm probably the least depressed that I've been in years).

It seems to me much more likely that compulsive behaviors in general, and in this case especially the example of screen time are produced by the depression rather than it's causes.

Certainly there is the possibility of positive feed backs: depression causes excessive drinking which unchecked can clearly lead to more depression. Same goes for screen time, sleep etc.
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To your point, I believe this why is we need to be careful when describing things like many fields of social science as a “science”. It’s more “social educated guesses” than real science.

Social sciences demanding to be taken as concrete as rigid sciences is a problem today I think. We even see them dismissing actual science in some cases not through falsification but through using their own theory to “prove” certain science is “problematic” of heterodox therefore restricting knowledge.
I think it has less to do with any culture, and just how the pay structure works for all the different things you mentioned. USPS/UPS/Fedex/bus/metro/train drivers all make livable wages and have benefits.

I'm not defending the tipping pay structure, but it's certainly not some confusing mystery.
> Both profess love for America!

Both are humans, have 2 eyes and 2 legs, etc, too, but how does this help?

God damn, blaming Obama for Trump, how simplistic are your thoughts? Republicans said from day 1 of his presidency that their mission was to block him from succeeding (who gives a shit how much the country and the people suffered), because they probably knew he was very capable, and if he managed to fix/advance the country, the GOP knew their party was toast. I was going to write, "as well as their principles", but that sounds so honorable, their principles seem to be power at any cost and being spineless hypocrites, like the current GOP silence on Trump's baseless undermining of democracy.

Add to that, Fox News who was poisoning half the country...
>>> I'm doing much better now that I'm not exposed to strangers screaming about nonsense for a few hours each day.

When you put it that way... :)

I agree and I've mostly switched to a bedside Kindle after hours.
Auditors typically work with a firm to iron out any issues so as to avoid material statements. The fact DoorDash and the auditor weren't able to resolve this issue/these coming issues and resorting to writing it up definitely is a big deal. But business-wise, yea losses forever isn't what you want to see.
They were also threatened that Uber would shut down and California entirely if it failed.

If you had an upcoming vote on abolishing penal slavery, and prisoners were threatened with being gunned down if it passed, they might well oppose it.
Are you actually seriously of the belief that Linux ‘just works’ for most use cases or people, and there is a small minority for whom it doesn’t?
Saying a voting block was "tricked" or "bought" ignores millions of CA residents who read the law and formed their own conclusions.

There's a very progressive and pro-business case to be made for decoupling benefits from the employer-employee or contract-gig relationship and making those benefits universal instead.

Progressives get the social safety net they want and businesses gets the fewer regulations they want.
It's worth considering what we get out of "confronting" these nations.

Surely we should protect our interests, but are Ukraine or the South China Sea more vital to us than they are to Russia and China? What's actually in it for us besides hegemony for its own sake?

Maybe fixing up some of our glaring domestic problems would be more effective in the long run.
So ironic Saturn-V is drawn as carrying 140 tons, while Apollo CSM is 30 tons and Lunar Module is 15 tons, yet Space Shuttle is drawn carrying just 27 tons. Definitely a case of apples and oranges.
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Not really sure what youre trying to say here. Most adults i know have held one private sector job or another. The real question here is the externalities. If we didnt have "the private sector" giving us things like cheap paper towels and TVs, our lives would look different to be sure, but we also wouldnt have a lot of the consumptive industry thats driving climate change, etc. The warped perspective is that we need all of those things, and people becoming "radicalized" to them is the system shock of being exposed to the reality: because that reality is often not pretty.
It's also a fait accompli in education where Python reigns supreme as the primary teaching language.
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> he's always come across as well thought out and pragmatic

Some people hate him because he's thoughtful and pragmatic. They appeal to emotion or faith, not intellect. Their goal is cataclysm, not stability. It sounds crazy, it is crazy, but from boogaloo bros to evangelicals it's a lot of Trump's base. Oh, and he's black. That matters a lot to an overlapping segment of that base, outweighing literally any other personal qualities he might have.
20 minutes, -2 points. What's wrong with what I wrote? Or did I forget yet again that HN is probably full of "libertarians" and should I wonder why I even come back and try to contribute here...
Many of the projects that are on github were once on Google Code and migrated over issues.
> For example, HN users love the fact that it’s fast and responsive.

It can be that because it is downright ascetic.

It's easy to be fast and responsive and at the same time eschew all the fancy toolchainy stuff when you have very few features.
The difference in job security for a contractor vs a full time employee in the US isn’t meaningful unless the company is large enough to worry about wrongful termination lawsuits.

The distinction mostly revolves around taxation and internal budgeting, with a heavy amount of signaling towards the employee thrown in.
"families with children skew lower income"

Is this because lower income -> more kids, or is it binary, and lower income -> higher probability of has_kids=true?
Might just be me, but the Podcasts app was actually pretty slow for me on a 2015 MBP, even though the phone version always worked great. I ended up switching to Spotify for my podcasts. No other benefits to upgrading I can remember. It makes your security settings a pain to deal with for a while after you upgrade. I didn’t have any 32-bit apps I’m missing so I wasn’t affected by that. The one cool thing about it is Sidecar if you have an iPad and Apple Pencil to use as a drawing tablet, but I don’t.
I’m a salaried worker and I don’t want the Uber model to spread further. I like that I can’t be forced to work more than 8h a day, 40h a week. The gig economy sidesteps these laws in a way that could impact what I like in the future should my employer decide it’s fair and make business sense, and if enough people also decide that, they all lose collective bargaining power and instead of people they become resources.
I don't disagree, Windows especially has been getting a lot worse as it embraces modern development and the users-are-cattle mindset that comes with it.

My problem isn't so much that there are tradeoffs, or even that those tradeoffs are not ones I want to make, it's that there are people out there who seem to insist that Linux Desktop is the one and only proper choice and everyone who doesn't choose it is either stupid or misinformed. If Linux Desktop people were more willing to listen to why people don't use it and take criticism to heart instead of as some kind of personal attack, it might have evolved into something more people would actually want to use.
This sounds like the argument for "positive" discrimination, which I dislike (I don't see discrimination as a positive thing whatever way it swings).

It would be better to find ways of hiring without such biases being available. Like blind auditions for musicians. We should be aiming to hire the best person for the job, not trying to be aware of such biases and then trying to compensate the other way for such things.
OP meant to get the printer to print in black and white when there's no cyan/magenta/yellow ink. Many color inkjets have the bad habit of not allowing you to print anything if one of the cartrigdes is empty -- even if you don't need said cartridge.
The problem with low level programming is just the general trend of specialization.

The modern computer is the pinnacle of human civilization, a thing so complex that it requires thousands of people to fully understand how it works. Low level programming is just a small link in the chain of complexity. From mining the materials, to producing silicon of incredible purity, to designing circuits at quantum scale, to CPU design and finally the guy who places the frame that will display cat videos. So if you argue that no one knows how to program the bare metal (that is not that bare anymore), one can argue that the knowledge of how to make logic gates from transistors or the metallurgy of copper traces is getting lost.

Maybe less people will know how to program on the bare metal. But think about it, it has been thousands of years since most people are unable to hunt and gather. This is a great deal more worrisome than not knowing how to program computers, and yet, human civilization have been thriving.

The important thing is that it is still accessible, and it is.
> get the actual epub/mobi/etc files

Could this be DRM in disguise?
Here in Portugal the vast majority of the drivers seem to be doing it full time (having 3 phones at the same time to use several apps and all that). Many (most?) of them are Brasilian immigrants. Uber is dirt-cheap too here, and gas is expensive, so I don't understand how they even manage to turn a reasonable profit. Taxis are significantly more expensive (easily twice as much in my experience).

Every market is different though, I can definitely believe that the situation could be very different in California.
Even without at-will employment, employers have ways to put pressure on their employees. "Prioritizing" them in layoffs, withholding promotions and training, etc.
I've been suicidally depressed my whole life. I currently self medicate with reddit, youtube, etc. If I let my mind wander for just a minute the thoughts come flooding in.

I also find it very difficult to go to sleep because it involves turning off my distractions and being alone with my own mind. I think the title should be changed.

I felt this way long before tech entered my life; as a child I used books for this purpose.
Its cool if you mostly stick to tech topics tbh.
*PC and tablet maker. If you subtract the # of tablets, Apple is far behind Lenovo, HP and Co. Strange that they lump these two together.
It's the same distinction between part time and full time work, a lot of things kick in when you work more than 35-40 hours for a company. It's not about limiting people's time it's about making sure companies don't take advantage of people. You can make a similar argument about all labor regulations, eg why limit people to 40 hours if they're willing to work more for the same pay if their employer doesn't want to pay overtime?
Often when I would see this type of error it would be when something silently drops TCP packets (rather than sending a RST). This is one way to configure a firewall, and it's indistinguishable from high latency. Hence the difference in behavior. If the address was unroutable, or immediately closed the connection, it would fail quickly (and presumably for the OCSP check, it would be skipped immediately). But when packets are silently dropped, it's up to the client to decide how long to wait for an ACK, which might cause a hang.

I've seen an identical problem where Chrome would hang for minutes when loading sites, and it was because I was in a firewalled environment that was outright dropping packets to Chrome's OCSP server.
One of the most interesting aspects in Turchin's hypothesis is the notion of counter-elites: those who are groomed for power and then excluded from it, who wreak their vengeance by turning against the existing hierarchy. The Atlantic article cites Trump as one example, which is plausible.

The tech industry is a better example. Tech cultivates counter-elites who essentially reframe many of the structures of society. This goes back to a point made by Peter Thiel (classic counter elite Stanford-trained lawyer cum entrepreneur), who advocates abandoning the tournament in which there can be only one winner (traditional hierarchies), and embarking on greenfield projects. HN readers will be aware of Thiel's many other counter-elite activities, which range from taking down Gawker to challenging traditional academia to backing seasteading.

One might argue that tech absorbs the counter-elite in ways that are initially useful to the powers that be, but ultimately fatal to them. We started with the Internet, and ended with the destruction of traditional media. We started with "digital cash" and ended with the erosion of the Fed.

Another book that speaks to this is Martin Gurri's "The revolt of the public" (from Stripe Press!), which argues that gradual breakdown of liberal democracies, and other forms of revolt like the Arab Spring, result from a new "information sphere" created by social media and the Internet. The public is rejecting the control and authority of the existing elites, now that other narratives are available and can spread easily.

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millen...

Gurri does not cite Turchin, but he mentions similar historical trends, including the privileged children of the middle class confronted with high unemployment, who lead movements like Spain's indignados and Occupy Wall Street.

Many revolutions are revolutions of the upper-middle class disappointed with its own prospects. I would count the American and French revolutions among those.
A 10K employee company will use a finite number SaaS services, they should absolutely be well equipped for their financial staff to 'pay' for stuff, including software, using a variety of means, including credit cards, it's what they do all day, this is not a new concept and neither is the scale of it.

They buy toilet paper, cleaning fluids, pens, envelopes that way.

A team of '10' needs 10 licences, they have their rep. from the finance do that, if it's over $X amount it needs approvals etc. etc. it's not rocket science, just like the special chairs, the screen for the window, the special hard drive.
On the one hand yes you could take it for a short time, but on the other why take excessive doses at all and risk falling into a bad habit? When there are lower doses that are both effective and safe?
librsvg uses cairo under the hood to actually draw things, at least at the moment.
QA doesn't really help with online services having scaling issues
Well they have changed Git, but it has been in a mostly open and upstream way, though they have used their market dominance for force changes inside of the Git project

I haven't heard of this, got an example?
If a furniture company gives you a contract to build them some chairs, do they give you the contact info for each person who buys a chair from them? Why would that make the chair manufacturer an employee of the retailer?

Moreover, how is this not available to the driver? They're in the car with the passenger already. The driver and passenger could exchange contact info if they wanted to, how is Uber going to stop them? This doesn't happen not because Uber is preventing it but because the passenger is. The next time they need a ride they don't want to have to call five drivers to find one who is in the area and available, they want to open the app and have it find one for them.