skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always agreed that "addiction" was the wrong word for most/all things that were not chemical substances.

But then i quit smoking cigarettes, which was very challenging, and involved really paying attention to my relationship with smoking and how it made me feel and why I did it. Through that process, I started to see a lot of similarities between my use of social media and my use of cigarettes.

The way I used them both as a procrastination, or distraction, device, or to avoid being alone with myself. The fear of what I'd find do if I weren't doing them, how I'd have to find something. The way I reached for both to calm me down, even though they didn't necessarily have that long-term effect. The generally compulsive feeling of them both, difficulty just "deciding" not to do them or even to take a break, and then following through.

> For a lot of people, you can realize that the gaming is actually a coping that is displayed to face with social anxiety or trauma or depression.

Oh yeah, and that so much described my smoking too! (Not an ultimately long-term successful coping mechanism, but an attempt). And definitely a part of addictive relationship with say alcohol for other people I know. I think that is actually common to (substance) addiction for many people, that it's in part related to coping with anxiety or trauma or depression -- rather than this being a distinction from addiction? I mean, surely this is born out by research, it seems such a commonplace of recovery narratives, right? His protestations of the ways technology use is different from addiction just make me think "gee, that sounds a lot like my experience and what I've heard of others experiences of (substance) addiction!" This is in fact the real center of what made me realize social media use did feel like an addiction, that both it and smoking were related to coping with things like this for me.

I am sure there are many ways they are different as well as similar, but I definitely now (and didn't use to) see why people reach for that term to describe "technology" and other non-substance "addictions".

I still haven't managed to quit social media...
Say you get rid of "independence of irrelevant alternatives", then I may influence the result by tactically ordering my candidates.
CFPs are open if you want to talk about this too, solid topic
agreed that the social media addiction studies are trash, but this is representative of how flawed the understanding of addiction in this discussion is:

Joel Billieux: For a lot of people, you can realize that the gaming is actually a coping that is displayed to face with social anxiety or trauma or depression.

Jason Feifer: Let's say someone comes into a clinic, their gaming usage meets a certain definition of addiction, it is having a negative consequence on their social, family, or occupational life. But a trained clinician like Joel, must be able to look underneath those symptoms and find potential other issues.

that doesn't mean something's not an addiction! substance misuse is almost always a coping method, and one that's masking other issues. I don't believe "gaming addiction" is a big problem or even necessarily real, but it's a little annoying to see these guys critiquing the scientific failures of a particular discourse then demonstrate how flawed their own understanding of addiction is
The earlier Google Pixel phones included free unlimited original quality backup of photos/videos, but in recent phone generations they dropped that, and they also confirmed future Pixel phones won't even get free unlimited compressed backups.
Open-source soft-core RISC-V SoC with gdb support
Full-scale RISC-V soft-core microcontroller SoC with on-chip debugger compatible to openocd and GNU gdb
As someone who has been through school I would like to dispute the average teacher having any "societal contribution".
My guess is fab = fan? (n and b keys next to each other on the keyboard, and our bathroom fan is also loud).

M1 = apple’s new m1 microchip that is the brains of their new machines. It never gets hot since it was designed for phones, so it doesn’t need a fan to cool it like Intel chips.
I can't downvote direct replies, it's not a feature that is available on this site, you'll notice the downvote button is missing for you on this comment of mine. That must be someone(s) else downvote.

You can see it for me here: https://i.imgur.com/yOYpyEH.png

I believe you were downvoted because I cited a prominent anti-EU party that is gaining popularity and you decided to just dismiss it, which is intellectually dishonest.

If there was no other argument, this would be enough to claim "anti-EU sentiment is on the rise" as it is a _core_ policy of their party and featured prominently on their website; in fact it's the only policy that has it's own link in the top banner, a vote for SD is a vote against the EU. Unequivocally.

Of course my experiences with people from the Skane region are anecdotes, and you could have argued that point, but you didn't.

You instead chose to point out that the article I selected was an opinion piece, and claimed your own anecdote that you had never heard of "SWEXIT".

If you would prefer I can walk the streets of Malmo and look for anti-EU stickers, there are many. But I can't convince you of this I don't think.

We don't poll people on EU sentiment, in fact the last vote that Sweden had on it was 27 years ago and "become an EU member" won at only 52% of the vote or something.

The 2003 referendum on joining the euro resulted in the murder of a politician, though I'm not entirely sure that's related to the referendum, only that it affected the referenum.

It's absolutely fair to say the Swedish people are not entirely unified on their vision of the EU.
1) I trust them when they say they don't sell it, technically.

However they probably do sell information/meta data they themselves have mined from my data, which they probably claim is harmless and de-personalized.
Hm, in my observations and reflections, most addictions are in part coping mechanisms for something else.

So I think what he's saying about treating the gaming "addiction" without attention to the underlying trauma being coped with -- probably applies to actual/other addiction too, rather than being a distinction?
I really wonder what kind of hospital treatment is given to people who suffer from gambling with cryptocurrencies specifically (as opposed to casino gamblers).
DeZog: The Z80 Debugger
Smart note-taking for research paper writing
This is really cool and unique. I poked around a bit, and the kernel is vaguely POSIX like, but written in a homegrown language with a compiler written in Perl[1].

[1] https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/blob/f260f52d950be90c2279f5...
Using uid 0 in containers is asking for trouble. Any privileged resources (such as low ports) can be mapped in without messing with capabilities so there should be no need for it.
Show HN: Trivia and Icebreaker Games for Slack
"which is to allow participating entities to drain ridiculous amounts of money from the next location"

Almost - it's the local government stealing money from tax base of local citizens though. The IOC and Olympics itself is not getting rich, other than as individuals via bribery but that is small change compared to the local graft.
There was plenty of mental illness in the past, it was just often swept under the rug, or when it was acknowledged it was termed a "nervous breakdown" (or "demon possession"), etc.

Now a lot more people are coming forward and talking about it, whereas before people would just pretend they were ok, as much as they could. That pretense still happens even now, as there's still a stigma about it, but more and more people are starting to feel safe to come out of the closet.

It doesn't help anyone to tell us them (us) that they just have "extra time and mental capacity on their hands to try to dig up issues where there aren't any".

Not to speak for anyone else, but I've been crazy busy before (and every shade of busy in between) and still been very depressed and had severe trouble coping. Keeping busy might help with mild depression but it rarely works for moderate to severe depression.

Depression is complex and has many different causes that vary from person to person, but if part of the reason for you is that you find life meaningless or find what you do meaningless, then staying busy isn't going to help you. Same if you hate yourself, or if your depression is related to trauma you've suffered, etc.

That doesn't even get in to the "chemical imbalance" theories of depression, which I'm not a big fan of myself so I won't go in to them except to say that just keeping busy might not have enough effect on that either.
Mean and average are the same thing. You might be referring to the median instead.
Be Generous With Your Interfaces
A lot of these can be addressed using a combination of Apollo GraphQL and dataloaders. This is especially true if you move most of the hard work to the backend and use optimistic updating on the front-end to improve the user experience.
Performance benchmark: Ranges VS STL algorithms VS Smart output iterators
Sortof. However, if you have a local file which hasn't been committed to VC, then you'll only notice this when you push to CI.

This is probably the biggest benefit for me, it means that the build/testing/infra is reproducible on at least one other machine.
I am thinking this strategy. If anyone thinks, this is horrible please let me know.

1) I will create my bare minimum number below which I will not accept for X company.

2) I will ask company after successful interview :
"What is the maximum you can give - final number?"

3) If that is number is less than 1) , end of discussion. I find another job. Not wasting any time

4) If 2 is slightly greater than 1, I will try to get better number by medium negotiation

5) If 2 is way greater than 1, I accept offer. Done

Did I miss something?
Yes. In theory you can have 10 people live in one bedroom, and living room isn't even necessary. You can even share bathroom and kitchen in the apartment building. Sorry, I am too spoiled.
China also isn’t the first country to screw themselves with misguided family planning policies. Singapore and South Korea have gone through the same thing also.
Yes, latency is huge. Modern digital audio stacks in consumer OSes are still completely terrible at this. Not that it's an easy problem to solve.

But it's pretty hard to beat elections flowing through an analog circuit, when in the digital side you have to: convert analog to digital, run through the kernel to get to user space, run the bits through the RNN, send back to kernel space, convert to analog and finally send to an output.

In order to be competitive with a 1980s guitar pedal, you have to do all of that in under ~10ms latency, and that's just really hard still.

Even though we carry around these super computers in our pockets these days, there are still some things left where analog still beats the pants.
Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts
MySQL Explain
Social security benefits are contingent on you having a residence in the Netherlands, but your residence permit may be contingent on not claiming these benefits.

https://www.expatica.com/nl/living/gov-law-admin/social-secu...

Therefore, while you may technically be entitled to the same things as a citizen (or long-term resident), you practically are not. It works similarly in many European countries.
Ethiopia’s blockchain deal is a watershed moment
The UFO Sightings Don't Impress This Physicist
Iraq is taking tourists for cash cow. 0.01€ for the shared mini-bus, then what we've got to hire a driver for $100 / day and sleeps in a $200 hotel!?
Sure, but how good will it sound? High quality AD/DA converters alone will cost.
That's interesting, thanks! My shell sets the USER variable (but no USERID or GROUPID), which might be good enough for all our developers, but probably not reliable enough for a general audience.
A race to the bottom is the natural order of things in a market economy. Society at large benefits from it because the prices of goods and services go down, and less of your money goes towards subsidizing somebody's inflated lifestyle.
You can pay 100kEUR to a European and get a top 10% developer, or you can pay 100kEUR in the US and get a mediocre one.
Product looks simple and promising as a good alternative to google photos.

Feedback: You can improve your website looks.

Goodluck
I think you're being a bit obtuse about a perfectly reasonable point that yes, someday the war is over and the other side becomes entirely normal. It happened relatively quickly with Germany, in fact maybe quicker than the rehabilitation of Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_city

(well, West Germany anyway!)

On the other hand, the war has to end first. Some simply haven't. Europe's oldest frozen warzone is still there, the Green Line across Cyprus. The tourist resort of Nicosia is still a no man's land. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-green-line-nicos...
Battle Brews over Banning Natural Gas to Homes
I'd expect them to do their jobs and remain professional, and if they feel that they can no longer do that, then they should quit vs. petulantly refusing to do their jobs.

Public sentiment is the way it is because of rampant documented abuses of power, authority, and regression to childish, over simplistic views of their positions and responsibilities.
Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments
"Nir Eyal: The vast majority of people stop playing these video games. Do you think people are still going to be playing Fortnite and Candy Crush in 10 years or so? Of course not, they'll be doing something else once they get interested in other things that they decide to pursue. So, if it's really the behavior this technology is doing to us, that shouldn't make sense. They should be addicts for life, but that's clearly not what happens."

pretty vapid. someone could have an unhealthy unrelationship w/ games w/o literally playing the same game for a decade lol. and in any case, saying "they shoudl be addicts for life" shows this guy isn't at all up to date on addiction science. most addictions resolve themselves after a period of time
> Just get another passport.

That unfortunately is a very dangerous and very bad advice in this case. The ESTA doesn't just check your passport for evidence of you being traveled to these countries. They ask you if you did. If you tell the truth, you don't get a visa waiver. If you lie and they learn about it from some source you can be in a heap of trouble. This trouble can include deportation, inability to ever again enter the USA, complications with entering many other western nations, etc.

I don't know about the probabilities of them figuring out the lie. It can be anywhere between "being hit by lightning" and "almost certainty". The potential consequences on the other hand are known and quite dire.
I'm really enjoying this read. Thanks to the OP for submission.
It looks like in China it's even a law[1] that old people use to take advantage of their children.

Just because it's a "tradition" doesn't make it good. It's been a "tradition" to beat your wife and children as well in many parts of the world or even worse.

If you are miserable why would you like to make your children's life miserable as well?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7422934/
My buddy opted for an electric scooter. He rides 3 miles in and 3 miles back. It's actually quite pleasant i have come to learn after borrowing it. But it was disappointing to note that while our modest Idaho town had an EV installation, he was still forced to rely on plug-ins at a coffee shop if he forgot to charge, or if he decided to make a day of it. Think it has a 24 mile range for what it's worth.

I do see more and more gasoline and electric bikes these days, far far more electric but some pretty slick and quiet gas units.

Very cool to see.
Every time I see the Wikipedia/WMF donation banner again, I donate to the Internet Archive. Maybe I should give the WMF some change because they remind me to do that periodically.
Googling "Unicode spaces" shows several invisible/space-like characters which maybe would work in combination with ordinary spaces if you're so inclined. I've seen people do lots of wacky unicode characters on here from time to time, so they might work.
Especially with a stateless service like a photo hosting service, this is very true.

Wish you all the best!
That's the business model of Kemper (https://www.kemper-amps.com/)
Thanks for pointing out that both games are from the same company. "Game Dev Story" is highly addictive and I also had to uninstall it some years ago because of this...
That's a good, simpler way of putting it: summing over all harms, including future ones.

For single act harms, future terms don't exist.

And for recursive, add in a probability weighting, if one wants to be pedantic about modeling.
People who develop hardware and software made it possible.
I feel like someone somewhere should be wearing a black armband. Goodbye, giant paddlefish.
The title makes it sound like it's the top 40 best cities but it looks to actually just be 40 big cities ranked in order.
This article is not written for international audiences.
- GraphQL leads to a vendor lock commitment ... which is great if you can sell it to your clients and dominate with your expertise

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/data/data-s...
One Hack to Fool Them All [audio]
It turns out that as countries develop their birth rates naturally decline and eventually turn negative without requiring the government to set the number of children you can have. Indeed Japan and others are doing almost everything possible to encourage people to have more children and cannot get their populations to return to growth.
This is about the solarwinds attack.
Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept
Basically half of the Wikimedia Foundations expenses ($55M out of $110M) are spent on staff salaries and wages.

I was surprised to discover the staff is over 350 people, including over 250 employees (the rest are contractors).

You can get some idea of the scope looking at this:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_staff_a...
Why can't there just be an option to subscribe for one year and it cancels? No auto-renewals, just a polite reminder it's about to expire. The world is filled with roach-motel dark patterns everywhere that I never subscribe to anything, and they're losing out on people like me.
MAOIs when all else fails.
Curl Localhost as a Local Host
Things to avoid in Docker containers (2016)
You are probably more easily taught how to write good programs because

a) your understanding of the basics is solid;

b) let's face it, these brain teasers are often proxies for intelligence testing.

If they have a glut of candidates for every position, whiteboarding data structures and algorithms makes for a decent filter.
That has caused many problems in reality. I feel more confident with Kraken having the keys than me personally.
I'm shocked to see Toronto high because it's gotten completely and utterly unaffordable.

Ottawa? I'm not surprised. I've lived in both places and my take on Ottawa is that it's affordable (though Canadian skyrocketing real estate market is rapidly becoming an issue here too), tons of outdoor activities, city is fairly alive but not crazy busy that it's ever overwhelming.

Work balance even outside of government is very favorable.

It's cold but people embrace winter and generally try to dress around it, very different from Toronto.
Indeed, not a great advertisement for the organizing companies. If you're selling a CMS (yes, even if headless), a fast site should be bread and butter...
Nope, most schools are not open year round. That's why child care is such a booming and lucrative industry. Many rely on other family members (especially retired) to look after kids, sometimes friends but usually family. Religious communities also setup ad hoc day care systems to my knowledge. If you don't find free or cheap care you pay the piper.
The problem with the U.S. and Iran is between the governments and small sections of the population, not the general population. Of course you met friendly and amazing people!

Iran is on my list of places I'd love to go though. I can't imagine how awesome it is. There are so many sites I'd love to visit but I know as an American it's not a good idea to go right now, unfortunately.

> the whole US approach to Iran is plain stupid and amoral so I didn't mind it

What about the Iranian approach to the U.S.? What if Iran stopped development of nuclear weapons and attacking U.S. forces in Iraq and elsewhere, or sponsoring organizations that are destabilizing the Middle East? It's not like they're not also agitating the situation. It's in their best interest because that way they can maintain power.

I'm more and more becoming of the opinion we need to take away all the toys of these governments (U.S., Iran, and others).
IIRC ESTA only asks for 5 years of travel history so maybe it wouldn't affect people who don't plan to visit the US in the next 5 years...
I disagree, they have been lagging on webcomponents supported both by FF and Chrome for years
> if I browse using the PhotoStructure app it will guide the dupes

Yes: out of an abundance of caution, the unique (by SHA) variations of each asset are copied into your library. There are heuristics that pick which is the "best," and although those heuristics seem to be robust for most beta users, I didn't want to be the source of want data loss.

> datestamp info in the filename?

The metadata in the file is trusted more than any date extracted either from the filename or the directory hierarchy. Details are here: https://photostructure.com/faq/captured-at/

If you use the info tool, it'll tell you how it's extracting the date from any given file: https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#file-information

> slow to sync

PhotoStructure scales imports to accommodate current hardware, in Ann effort to keep the system responsive. Parallelism is limited by available RAM and CPU count. If you think it was being too conservative, please send me a screen shot of your about page (it includes both system metrics and what is thinking for scheduling limits), and if you want, debug logs, and we can look into what's going on. https://photostructure.com/faq/error-reports/#how-to-manuall...

> no map view

This is a popular feature request that I'm looking forward to building: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/support-reverse-geocoding...
According to that argument, the capitol riot was justified.
True--still, with many things (I'd say anything besides actual hard drugs) it's easy to confuse casual use with addiction. "Spending a lot of time" playing a video game is NOT the same as skipping meals, lying, self-isolating and losing sleep to keep playing.
I have seen this before. Somewhere...
The government decides how many children you can have?
Murders or "abortions" in final stages of pregnancy were commonly used in China to enforce this policy. See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8923482/
The Video Toaster “Revolution” video demo’ing the Toaster’s features is beautiful, inspiring (consider the year / tech leap) and is full of gentle self deprecation. The voice over is by Ken Nordine, famed vocal jazz musician.

Recommended, even for the first few minutes!

https://youtu.be/OtYLx6z2eeg
I basically disagree with all of these.

Graphql isn't that complex, not more complex than the widely accepted SQL schema + query.

Tooling is top-notch (Graphql-codegen, Apollo, Postman, Graphql playground), and is quite easy to use. Junior devs become up-to-speed with GraphQL a lot faster in my experience, because there is a lot more homogeneity in GraphQL while everyone implements their own flavor of REST
George Karypis: Making learning from data embedded in graphs easy and scalable