skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bad, horrible, buzzfeed-y article.

you all remember the history, right? It's fabled. The idea that there is "internet addiction" comes from a literal joke. Cypherpunk pioneer Ivan Goldberg, 1994, posts a list of criteria for an addiction diagnosis to a messageboard as a joke. It was not meant to evoke addiction, but was already an ironic commentary on the looseness of addiction criteria, in order to laugh about how involvement and immersion in the messageboards that literally made the internet could fall under these criteria as well. Using these criteria ironically could show how almost any random behavior can be discredited as an addiction if people are passionate enough about it.

The wider sociological point is that these are metaphorical uses of the addiction-as-disease concept (there is, after all, nothing entering the body here) that are used, socially, to heap a bit more denigration on socially disfavored activities. You don't get people blabbing on about soccer practice addiction, reading addiction, or tea addiction (on my fourth cup this morning.) Those are not disfavored activities.

Also, there is a curiously obvious defense of normalized actions and preferences baked into addiction narratives. The old argument, "they do that rather than spend time with their family!" or "they do that rather than work!" never once questions that maybe that other thing they do.. is something they prefer over spending time with their family or (gasp!) working. It's just assumed that a "healthy" person would keep to social norm, be a good petit bourgie, and love to be productive for capitalism and really enjoys being locked into this model of the nuclear family.

For sociologists, "addiction" is unthinkable without a concomitant value judgment that is anything but objective; it reproduced social desirabilities.
Just call it parameterisation, it's less scary then. The unknown is always scary but having the ability to parameterise - including types - is well traveled ground.
> Is there anything that sets FaceTime apart from cheaper competitors like WhatsApp

Not signing up to anything Facebook is the first criteria in any service I want to use.
They can also be changed by a voter referendum approved by the legislature.
You argument is in bad faith: because something is effective but not perfect doesn’t mean we should get rid of it. If people are not wearing a mask properly, we should explain why it matters and how to do it — not throw out a good idea.

Same thing for lockdown: it works. It might not be enough, or there are too many edge cases in Australia, but dismissing distancing because the first attempt wasn’t enough, or perfect is the opposite of what Hacker News stands for.
Sick for a week despite being vaccinated?
Have you even thought about the kind of future you are promoting here? A society where people wear masks and continually force vaccinates their bodies?

This used to be dystopian science fiction just a few years ago. Now I see people like you acting like that's where we should be heading. So extreamly weird!

It's like you don't understand how unnatural it is for humans to wear masks and inject chemical substances into their blood streams. Do you think about what you are saying? What kind of world it creates for humanity?
But then he's wrong with linux, Linus build linux for his pc.

And thinks zfs is a 3rd party tool on solaris...lost for words..
> has always been the case

I don't know what your point is. Even if this is true, (which it definitely isn't), should they continue to hold unlimited powers? Blood has been shed over centuries to limit the powers of the government and to get the rights we have.

I am not sure where you get the idea that free speech means speech without consequences. If I have a million followers and a sell something dubious, people would sue me for befrauding them
I learned more from educational YouTube videos than I did during my (very expensive) lectures at university.

I expect with the quality of videos that are now being churned out, that the "education gain coefficient" between old style lectures and brilliantly produced video content would only have increased further. (Of course this only works in practice if you're engaged with the video, which is also true for lectures).
Yes it is neofeudal. There are broad swathes of the population (mainly in goverment & business) that are apparently immune to meaningful oversight and/or criminal prosecution.
Ask major forum of internet addicts if internet addiction is real...
Alcohol, tobacco and other narcotics can and often easily do create a certain level of physical dependence on their consistent use, even after what triggered starting with them in the first place has stopped being the case. This is not the same as escaping the need to think about personal difficulties in life by developing a habit of randomly browsing the internet. Some of the motivations behind the two sets of escapist activities are similar but the physiological aspects are very different.
> What if I have a problem with where I live being one of those places?
> Or another question in a similar vein, what if I don't have a problem wearing a mask but my neighbor does?

Smocking raised the same questions.
I don't think so.

These are just popular posts from "influencers"
Definitely also a good, but still very extreme option. This might actually be more secure, depending on the threats you have to take into account. It would be possible to retrieve the account after a (physical) hack.
> Why would anyone want to spend time trawling obscure library database systems only to find the library doesn't stock the right books or that someone has taken it on loan for an unknown period of time ?

You're setting up a bit of strawman, I don't see anyone arguing the internet is inferior to the library, but that library usage (for example) doesn't trigger the dopamine release cycle in the way refreshing a frequently changing webpage does.
There some very unrealistic claims about piezoelectric devices in this article:

> Optim Energy ran a successful pilot programme in Thoronka's local area, Kuntoluh. Using two devices, the start-up was able to provide power free-of-charge to 150 households, made up of 1,500 people, and 15 schools, with over 9,000 students. The community was incredibly receptive to Thoronka's solution and were happy to switch their dirty power supply for a cleaner, more efficient option.
Well thanks!
Afghans are forced to choose between staying safe and staying online
Would you prefer there be a more precise word to imply addiction that comes with physical withdrawal symptoms, a real risk of death, etc?
Dangerous comment on HN, ta lot of people here see him as tony stark in the flesh. They really do love their heroes and usually don't let reality get in their way of worship
On contrary, I am actually delighted to see the hands-on approach. Pure math is vulnerable to missed preconditions/unknown unknowns, with potentially catastrophic ramifications when it's carelessly applied to real building. You must know in advance what you're going to prove.
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Do you consciously want to stop talking with your friends but find you can't? If not, then you are not compelled.

Your argument is a strawman argument. Calling something addictive, does not equate to saying that if you stop doing it, you get hurt.
With this definition living /breathing/eating would be called addiction. That's not a very useful definition, and that's not the meaning of addiction.
Yes, the lack of a functional and sustained social circle, along with chronic suffering (not using the word 'depression' since I have not been officially diagnosed) has left me repeatedly checking reddit for that orange message button, and hackernews for a delta in karma or replies. This is a consequence of seeking novelty and new experiences, which is promoted by dopamine. I am well aware of it, I am conscious of it when it happens, and yet I feel that I have no control over my actions when I do that.

I frequently cold turkey it, or nuke my accounts in an attempt to stop this, but to no avail.

I have been addicted to other processes, I know that I can cut them by substituting with other, less unhealthy addictions, at the moment, I am trying to get myself addicted to math books. It seems to be working, I managed to get out of bed with ease.

I am currently working through MacDonald's "Linear and Geometric Algebra", and Pinter's "A book of Abstract Algebra". The next books will probably be Mendelson's "Introduction to Topology", and MacDonald's "Linear and Geometric Calculus".

By the time I wrote this reply, I have already glanced at my karma - on the upper right corner of my screen - four times, even though I am well aware that it is static and can not change until I reload the page.
Micro business and how one can start
I read somewhere that Go engineering team wanted go.org instead of golang.org but they couldn't get it as it was not for sale. [Can't find the source of this info though]

Also, the questions that contained `Golang` in the title and description @ Stackoverflow were edited to contain `Go` instead by the users with edit description being "Name of the language is Go and not Golang". That's when I thought why didn't they use go.co or go.com or any domain name having go instead of golang.

I'm not a very inspired Go user but have always loved their simplicity(the language) and carefulness(the way we moved to Go mod) and due to this I've always read their Release notes and blogs with the favorite one being Profiling Go Programs[1].

1. https://go.dev/blog/pprof
Linux System Programming Techniques
Personally, when it comes to technical topics, I have not ever found an extended analogy that made a subject less confusing. Analogies are fine as a quick way to introduce the flavor of a topic -- saying "Kafka is like a river..." at least gets me started on the right footing. But when they extend onwards and onwards, I always just end up feeling like the analogy-creator is sort of reveling in a semi-poetic alignment they have found. Such alignments can be very strongly linked in one's head to a topic, because that's how brains learn -- they learn by linking new things to already-known things. However, they can also be quite person-dependent, and rarely do they contain enough hard & fast detail to count as helpful in the context of a technical explanation.

Someone can write lots of paragraphs on this Kafka/river analogy (just one random example), but that doesn't impart in my head the same neuronal linkage that they have. Instead I am left, like the post author, trying to figure out how far the analogy extends, what the limits are (okay, so messages are like notes-in-bottles dropped in the river... but what are the fish? are there fish?), and so on. I would rather get clear, detailed explanation, and then think through the subject on my own time in a way that allows my brain to build its own relationships with the information. Maybe instead of rivers, my brain begins to understand Kafka as, I don't know, highways.
> It works more like a linked list.

After looking at it, it doesn't. The "linked list" bit is just that it uses closed addressing (separate chaining), but instead of having a linked list of buckets, all the buckets are part of the array and the links point back into the array.

Raymond Hettinger's naturally ordered hashmap uses a similar "trick" for an open addressed map: a sparse array of hashes, and a separate dense array of actual data.

In both cases, the ordering is preserved through a dense array and the sparse "hash map" indexes into that array, this is as opposed to the older method of ordering (e.g. LinkedHashMap or PHP's own implementation) where the map items would be augmented with a (usually doubly) linked list maintaining the ordering information.

Of note: this order version can still be useful if the ordering information can be manipulated, manipulating ordering in the dense-array version would be expensive and convoluted. That's why even though CPython switched to the "hettinger map" back in 3.6 the OrderedDict collection still uses a doubly linked list to maintain its ordering information.
My favorite is the quantum computing researcher Toby Cubitt.
3 dose, 66% efficient against symptomatic delta variant, injection free, can be kept at 25C for 3 months.Not bad!
haha that's awesome. i wish i could play this with my phones browser.
It's dead easy to get started. If you want to spend an hour playing with a "lisp" you're only a small download away. Clojure could learn a thing of two from this..

It's also not dogmatic. You can use mutable and immutable versions of the same data structure.

Docs are concise: https://janet-lang.org/docs/index.html

Full API is here: https://janet-lang.org/api/index.html

[edit] I fully agree that "getting started" on Clojure is easier than used to be. Anyway I still think there is room for improvement.
My favorite is coffeescript so difference is roughly about a lot.
The Origins of SARS Cov 2
I use eclipse. Never had problems with it. As for building, I figured out how to use maven to download dependencies to a separate folder and then I use eclipse features to add jars to the project. (Eclipse has maven plugin, but I couldn't get it to work. Something or else made trouble, so I gave up.) Quite pleasant setup.

> Realising that there's no standard equivalent of tasks and async

There is: Executor and CompletableFuture.
Wow. I hope you realize how ridiculous that statement is. In the real world, 99.99% at least survives covid. In Sweden 99.995%.
Are you gatekeeping? Really?

If you are dependent on something to a degree that it has an adverse effect on your life, it's an addiction. Full stop. The degree or the effects will differ, but it feels like you're dismissing the suffering of one group of people because another group of people has it so much worse. But if both groups of people are suffering, even severely (even if it's "just" Internet addiction), who the fuck are you to decide its not valid suffering or addiction?

This isn't a fucking competition. Both groups of people deserve to have their suffering recognized and both groups deserve to be helped in the ways that are necessary.

Your comment is despicable and inhumane.

Edit: In absolute clarity, obviously physical and psychological addictions are different. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But that doesn't mean psychological addiction isn't an addiction. It just means it has different effects and symptoms. It doesn't mean it isn't real or that the people suffering aren't actually suffering, even if it is suffering of a different kind.

So OPs comment is just needlessly critical of psychological addiction, to the point of implying it isn't "real" addiction like people hooked on cocaine.

Honestly, it's sickening that people here are so eager to invalidate the suffering of some in favor of others, but HN doesn't surprise me in its lack of empathy for other human beings.
Treatment or therapy for Sars has never been researched by big govt, nor recommended...the only illness in history...and when a treatment works, it's deemed illegal, amoral and unethical.
Australian police clash with lockdown protesters; hundreds arrested
Vaccine that's injection free?
Thank you! It's always distressing to me when folks set up real-world things based on the notion, "this will work provided people are self-interested rational actors with a grasp of the situation".

Sounds so simple, but what a demonstrably terrible axiom…
There’s no third party here. As far as I can tell Tesla designed the chips and wrote the software stack to work together. They don’t want to rely on third parties for their critical infrastructure and AI chip design is vital to their success. At least this is what I can grok as an outsider.
We've always called nicotine (cigarettes), coffeine and alcohol dependence an addiction as well, so I don't think they're really redefining the term.

Even adrenaline addiction has been named in medical context, and that's produced by our bodies - not ingested/injected.

There really should be a specific term for the physical dependence you're talking about which can end in serious medical issue if the person just quits cold turkey though. It would make sense to differentiate this hard dependence.
Would you agree that gambling addiction is real? I would argue that internet addiction is more like that. Posting one more time to chase social media likes seems to hack the brain's reward system in a similar way as putting one more coin in the slot machine to try to get a big payout.

I would argue that gambling addiction is not a simple "failure of self control" - the pathology is consistent enough that I believe that it's a special kind of stimulus, such that some people will not be able to resist it if they are predisposed to fall victim to it.

The same way a smoker will become agitated and distressed if they can't have their first cigarette in the morning, a gambling addict will feel the same if they can't log into their online poker site.

In other words, it's still a chemical addiction, it's just that the chemicals are endogenous, created by your brain as the result of a behavior rather than coming from something you put in your body.
Sounds exciting
In which country are children filling up ICUs?
Actual title should be: 'But this is different' - Crickets from China-condemning international media as Australian police brutalize hundreds at anti-government protests and get away with it. Nary a single righteous, fear-mongering editorial to chasten them: White Hypocrite Privilege.
What's often overlooked is just because you have a shit-ton of compute nodes doesn't mean you could make it to the TOP500. You might have the compute power, but the system most likely doesn't have the connectivity. E.g. on the first slide it says this is distributed over more than three locations, which essentially guarantees that the system doesn't have supercomputer-like connectivity as a whole. Worth pointing out that the networking in a supercomputer is a very significant chunk of cost and power.

And if it is tailored for AI, it might not even do 32-bit float, or only at a fraction of the "AI FLOPS".
I meant the 'year' had come and gone, 20 years ago.
Your mortgage.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...
Well, you have never been around some far progressed BPD. Some people need behaviour paterns as a release valve, otherwise there will be trembling, seizures... and risk of suicide.
Book review: Vaxxers. By two lead scientists who made the AstraZeneca vaccine
> I assume reflection will choose the one for the args you want to pass, or make you do that.

According to the spec:

> It's impossible for non-generic code to refer to generic code without instantiating it, so there is no reflection information for uninstantiated generic types or functions.

You won't be able to reflect a generic List or List[T] at all which… makes sense, I think? `reflect` works on values at runtime, so it necessarily works with instantiated types as you can't have a value of an un-instantiated (generic) type: what would you give to `reflect.TypeOf` which could return an uninstantiated generic type?
> Acceptance of masks as a regular part of clothing is just a matter of making it a cool thing to do.

I'm completely shocked to hear someone say this with a straight face. Humanity wearing masks over their face forever as if its a tattoo or a ring. And that's what you actually think is a good thing.

I can't express my complete disgust in that opinion.
I had a project I was working on that I wanted to generate downloadable videos from a canvas element. It all works in JavaScript - the problem is I can’t mix the final mp4 with audio in browser, was hoping this could solve it - but it doesn’t work on mobile so I’ll still have to use a server for that.
Rather than just comparing the amount of time people spend on activities, it's important to examine the intention.

"I only want to spend an hour browsing my phone but I end up spending 8"

Did people really interact with libraries the same way? In my experience the vast majority did not. But when it comes to phones, most people report that they use their phone more than they want to.
Not sure about that either.

e.g. housing: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...
I mostly code in TypeScript / Node / React.

My debugging tooling of choice is `console.log` when dealing with simple flows: Do an HTTP request and print the value of a variable

I find it lighter (and faster) than attaching a debugger and slowing everything to a halt.

For advanced asynchronous behavior I use Chrome Dev Tools + React Developer Tools + Redux DevTools with these I can inspect any value, profile, time-travel etc..

I'd say the ratio is 80% console.log / 20% dev-tools
One foreseeable use:

Sending astronauts to Mars surface and bringing them home is energetically horrific. It's not so much the getting to Mars orbit bit that's hard work (at least, from Earth orbit), as descending into a gravity well and then getting back out of it again.

But current Mars robots have a huge control lag due to speed of light delays (up to 30 minutes between Earth/Mars, depending on where both planets are). It'd be easier to explore the surface using robots if they were controlled by astronauts in orbit -- say, in a small space station dug into the surface of Phobos or Deimos for radiation shielding.

And the easiest robots for a human to control directly using a conceivable circa-2030s AR rig are either a car-like machine or a human-body-shaped machine.

You could trial such a device on the Moon (as part of the Starship HLS plans NASA is currently backing for the Artemis Program), as an adjunct to actual astronauts on EVA (which is always a risky task). And the software for a human-controlled humanoid robot would be vastly easier to develop than the sort of fully autonomous control system Boston Dynamics is aiming for, hence (I suspect) Musk's over-optimistic projection.

TLDR: I think Musk is trolling Boston Dynamics et al, and his real goal is something a lot more practical. (Either that or he's been hitting the magic mushrooms again.)
OP Here.

Wasn't really expecting this much discussion and attention for my article, but I am quite happy to see so much people having similar thoughts like I have, which I wrote in my article.

I wrote a follow up post to my blog to share some of my afterthoughts: https://miikavonbell.com/posts/front-page-hacker-news/
> Prop 22 was intended to be almost impossible to overturn, requiring a higher bar for amendment than even the state constitution.

No, the legislature can't amend the State Constitution or initiative statutes at all normally, only the voters can. Prop 22 offered a lower bar by allowing the legislature to amend it at all (but, per the decision, overreached when it tried to expansively define what constituted an amendment in the first place to include potential future laws which did not amend the proposition.)
Looks like a nice set of video clips but what I can't stand with documentaries like this one is the preface. That everything was great and wonderful then suddently there was thousands of talibans there making decisions.

I mean, the talibans are many because many of the population supports them. They win because as soon as western forces leaves no one opposes them because there are too many that are not willing to fight or simply want them to be in power.

This video seems like it is a bit of propaganda. Unfortunately many afghans supports the talibans and I think it would serve them better to acknowledge that fact instead of trying to wish it away. Islam is a crap religion and ideology, there is no nation with a majority of muslims that I would want to live in.

Until videos like this acknowledges that islam is the root cause to the shitty situation in the middle east, I won't listen.