skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant paper on a Tourettes-like sociogenic illness: https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/b...

And, for what it's worth, a personal anecdote:

A friend of mine recently had her teenage daughter "come out" as autistic. Her daughter is... SO NOT autistic. She's a social butterfly who's extraordinarily empathetic, never struggled for a moment to make friends, never struggled with focusing, coordination, language comprehension, eye contact, reading facial expressions, or any of the myriad symptoms of autism.

But her daughter is quirky and artistic and sometimes gets a little anxious in large social gatherings. Due to TikTok, she became CONVINCED this means she is autistic. She was also furious at her mother for refusing to accept this diagnosis.

At first her mom kind of shrugged off the self-diagnosis as a goofy teenage episode. ...But then her daughter's school psychologist started recommending occupational therapy and medication for her "autism."

My friend demanded to know what symptoms the psychologist was seeing, and was met with the following: "She doesn't have any obvious autism symptoms, but girls can be very, very good at masking their autism. And she's saying she thinks anxiety medication and autism therapy sessions would be helpful, and people don't ask for those sorts of things if they don't need it."

Friend immediately took her daughter to see another psychologist (this one who specializes in autism.) This specialist said she didn't see even a hint of autism, and felt the anxiety was mild, normal for a teenager, and would be harmful to medicate.

Now here's the weirdest part: according to this specialist, she keeps seeing this exact same scenario play out. Mildly awkward teenager gets addicted to TikTok, becomes convinced they're autistic, and gets furious at their parents for "denying them treatment." Baffled parents ends up taking them to this specialist, who confirms their gut instinct that their kid is 100% neurotypical.

The scariest part of this, according to the specialist, isn't teens going down stupid rabbit holes on social media. It's the new generation of psychologists (like the young school psychologist) that emphasize "positive reinforcement" of identity. Teen says they're autistic? Then they're autistic! Simple as that. Now hand them some drugs, because they "wouldn't be asking for it if they didn't need it."

The good news: my friend's daughter saw a therapist for a few months, talked through her anxiety, is doing way better, and now admits she doesn't think she has autism after all.

The bad news: It's the job of mental health professionals to provide proper guidance when it comes to diagnosis, medication, and therapy. And at the moment, many of our practitioners seem to be failing at this, choosing instead to reinforce teenage fantasies.
Why? The ecosystem is already rather diverse, if you have software and systems and communities that you like now, there's no reason to believe that they'll go away just because there are new people and systems being built
What could make the docs better? What solved your problem?
"email privacy"

lol
In Illinois, one has to opt in for biometric collection, not opt out. If they have anything on me, they're already breaking the law.
Very interesting to see Chess in this list. Neither is it pointless nor is it harmful, in my opinion. I fail to see why a game refining the logical thinking should be kept away. I mean the best chess players in the world currently are some of the most disciplined, soft-spoken people.
Steppenwolf expressed this much better

Care to name the song?
Twitter bans account highlighting Nancy Pelosi stock trades
That poem reeks of selfish pride. To never cry aloud is not a virtue one should seek to attain.
Ebenezer Scrooge strikes on Christmas. This is unfortunate I have had something similar happen where I thought the funds were there and spent more money then I had. What happened was Microsoft lost the payment info or something on a laptop I purchased and did not take it from my account for 3 months. I did so much Christmas shopping at the time I honestly didn't realize they had not taken it out so I made another big purchase and then all of a sudden they took out $1500 catching me by surprise. Had I realized they did not take it right away I would have not continued to spend as I did. I know I am responsible for keeping track but the way it showed up and disappeared on my banking app honestly confused me initially. I feel sorry for these people who may have thought they had a bit more so made an extra purchase or two and now have this money taken back and stuck with their purchases.
Author is willing to use Windows, but no mention of macOS. This article reads like someone trying to convince you that vegan chicken tenders taste like regular chicken tenders.
> focus more of my young years in new experiences and fun

i think there's a happy balance to be had, and that balance is determined by the amount of money you're making _right now_ (rather than future money).

If you're rich already, then you can push for more consumption over investment/work. It's true that you cannot buy youth.

The problem is when people want to live the life they cannot afford (meaning, they're eating into future retirement funds to live the dream life now), and then expect that the state to secure their retirement years.
> They come up with names like 'shade' and 'lucius' for their supposed 'alters' all of which have assigned functions like 'the gatekeeper' and 'the emotional supporter' and can of course be activated on demand in front of a camera.

If people really did have multiple personalities,
it would be more surprising
if they didn't come up with terms to describe them.
I also don't see why it should be impossible for them to switch intentionally
at least some of the time.

Perhaps a lot of these people are pretending,
essentially acting the parts of imaginary friends.
I honestly don't see a problem with that.
A lot of people seem to benefit from talking to God,
who I also suspect is imaginary,
and that's fine so long as they don't harm others as a result.
If someone feels better being "Alice" at one time and "Bob" at another,
then I'm happy to accept them as such.
And on the off chance that their mind really is split into multiple consciousnesses,
then it would be really shitty to mock or marginalize them for it.
It’s much better if you build it yourself. Raspberry Pi, Arduino, etc. That way you are the one who understands the system best, and you know exactly how many risks are being taken and where.
Ah but how do you know if a book is good until you’ve read it? I’m an avid reader and I’ve yet to run out of new books to read, going on 25 years of reading novels at this point.
There's also GD but it's so trendy that you're ostracized for even daring to say it's a mental illness now. Crazy world, but as others have said designer illnesses are hardly a new thing.
Joke's on you. I don't have any good days. :^)
The "cited by" list includes Google Inc.
Why not the same idea with lasers, if you have an array of low power lasers but they all focus on one 3D location, if you are not at the focus location you will not be exposed to a dangerous laser power. An array of hundred to a thousand low end laser diodes using a an array of mems mirrors to aim the beams will ensure the focus point will fry the bug.
Well - firstly consider the linux desktop has been touted as a "not yet ready" for 10? maybe 15 years.

While it was obscure, it wasn't targeted as often by viruses, malware, and the worst thing of all - commercialization.

Same idea as when anything obscure gets too popular. The original occupants (whether they're right or wrong) aren't too keen on seeing the crowds rush in.
Figured I had it for 20 years.
Finally tried. First time in my life I could stay on task. Was amazing.

Then the burning pain started. So no more for me.
I at least know what it’s like to stay on task. Helps some. Still a major struggle.
Curious how you proved it/found out about the other job.
You have a tiktok view of history.

The Democrat south tried to block the civil rights act.

How about we vax by age groups not race.
> GetRichClick.com, a traffic distribution site transforming traffic into targeted, unduplicated visitors to sponsoring sites

"Getrichclick" is not the sort of resume I want to see from someone offering advice.
I think part of it is building understanding of aspects of art/science/history/literature that you find interesting. If you have, say, a deep understanding of the events and context of WWII (a very ambitious goal), it might not have a big outward effect on your life, but it’s very satisfying and opens the door to more fulfilling ways to engage with the subject —- in this case, say, building a collection, or going to a war museum, or meeting other people who are into this.

I’m not saying that existentially it counts for anything but there are usually rewards to learning deeply about any worthwhile subject.
Making physical things really helped me. I started building speaker cabinets. It’s been an incredible source of joy. Making something in the physical world really is a great way to feel good, especially when most of your work is making things appear on a screen.

Physical activity is also a must. exercise is essential, it really is. Walks, running, the gym, a sport. Whatever. It really really helps.

Taking a a step back and comparing yourself to other people can also really help to put your situation in a better perspective. The average person is doing physical labor to put food on the table. If you can make money siting down indoors and doing something a tiny bit interesting you are very well off. Be grateful.
Already discussed here..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29750285
> rather than yield them to the capitalist capturing the surplus value of your labor.

why would someone give you recreational leisure if you don't have the equivalent money to pay? Who will grow the food you eat, produce the electricity and water you consume etc?
I really love this quote - thanks for sharing.
Can we say that modern AAA graphics is way more complex than a single human can handle unless perhaps he started graphics programming many years ago?
> XBMC is a popular open-source multimedia center

Is that what you mean? Does this software not play MP3 files? I'm confused.
What makes you think that "old people" are more prone to this?
It's too soon to start eating people. I'm just not that hungry yet.
Exercise regularly. Stay away from sugar. Talk to people and hear what they have to say. Learn how to recognize and acknowledge your fears, but don't let them rule you. Foster a belief in something greater than yourself. If you drink or smoke or do drugs, do they make you weaker or stronger? Be honest with yourself. Life is short; eat desert first.
This is all personal, but I think there’s a balance between the two things that you said that is optimal. There are times that it’s okay not to express everything as long as you are able to process it.
You choose a fair and fine balance.

You work for money, you live for yourself and you don't let some wannabe manager push you/guilt you into wasting your life at work.

Work, invest, take risks but simultaneously do other things. Work is pretty low in the totem pole of priorities.
Will be noisy. You can pull the board and put it in a desktop case with desktop fans, but unmodified even in a garage the strongly forced airflow in a 1u compute server sounds like an aircraft taking off.
Winnie the Pooh to Enter the Public Domain in 2022
I've been a little surprised at the adoption of "Machine-to-machine authorization" and JWTs in sever-to-server APIs. I can understand that it is more secure since the the authorization token has a limited lifespan. And that JWTs could increase throughput by skipping the lookup. But seems unnecessary.

Is the "Bearer " authorization prefix going to stick?
That's been something of a recurring theme for me in reading Smith.

He's prolux and the language is somewhat alien to a modern reader. He does make errors and has some of his facts wrong; see his advice to the American colonies, and his origin story of money, especially. But he is a keen observer with a shrewd mind, and recognises that fundamentally the purpose of an economic system is the support of the people (and specifically the poorest) and the state itself, and that wealth confers power which itself is distortionary. These messages are suppressed, whilst others given incidentally are ascribed undue significance.

Read Smith. Really.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4cyroa/adam_sm...
The hype about Peleton was always overblown. It will never be more than a niche business. But it can be a sustainable, profitable niche business as long as they maintain focus on their core offering and don't make too many stupid mistakes. Several of my friends use it every week and consider it a good value.
This is funny. Yes, some engineers (and I’m an engineer, so it’s fair game) seem only comfortable talking about engineering. You can try to go outside the zone but things only pick up when you get back to DevOps. My best friend is a studio artist (but his parents were engineers).
Life is long for most, but statistically there's about a 5% chance you'll die before 50, it's better to hedge your bets imo. Also, wind surfing in Ibiza doesn't sound that fun at 60.

I worked as a software dev for a large company for 3 years and it was a complete waste in retrospect. I now make much more money and curse every second I spent in that cubicle. The corporate ladder is a low-risk low-reward path that's generally unfulfilling. For a young person it's much better strategy to explore rather than exploit early on.

I've seen more than one person die with an unspent fortune, having worked at a menial job their entire life. Don't let it happen to you.
This goodwill?: https://www.goodwill.org/
To your first point: the sheer pleasure of knowing seems to be the benefit. I feel that it would be difficult to find an answer that suffices more than that does.

To the point about there always being a counterpoint to anything—I’ve come to use that as a justification for how nothing we do, believe, or want is objectively necessary, and what truly matters more is whether we can all get each other to agree on a certain goal to then objectively judge our actions against. It seems to me that that agreement on goal or purpose for our actions is at the core of why people disagree on pretty much any issue.
Why would they have mentioned macOS?
Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?
It isn't obvious, but it seems like you can!

The link to do so is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
Ask HN: Programming Jobs in High School
Hi HN,
I'm a high school senior looking for part time work since I've finished college applications. I thought that getting a service job wouldn't be the best use of my time since I already know how to code. Is it very unlikely that someone will even give me the opportunity to demonstrate by programming abilities because I'm still in high school and don't have any professional work experience? I'm confident in my skills, but I highly doubt that I'll even get to show a potential employer them. I don't really have any connections either, so I'm kind of out of options.
Here’s an interesting thought experiment for you - if you could trade 20 years of your life for 10 billion dollars, would you? Just step in a room and walk out a billionaire.

I have yet to meet someone that would accept the offer. So if you do the math, they value their time at a shockingly high rate. I’d argue, trading the best years of your life for an early retirement is the same proposal.

Steve Jobs would have given his fortune many times over to have a couple extra years. Why trade the best years of your life for an uncertain future?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Go nuts
I think, when purchasing and listening to purchased music[0], there is an action involved that prepares you for the (passive or active) act of listening. For some people, that action is moving to a library of media, selecting the disc (or tape), and starting it playing. For others, that action is starting an audio program, selecting the album[1], and starting it playing. I think both groups of people are doing the same thing: They are putting them into their proper mental state to experience the music. But, like many things, the way in which they go about that preparation will differ from person to person.

[0]: Note that I am referring both to people who purchase music in a physical form (such as CDs) and those who purchase music in DRM-free digital form (for example, from Bandcamp or the iTunes Store). I do not include listens from streaming services (for example, Apple Music and YouTube).

[1]: I'm specially limiting this to albums so as to make a more direct comparison with people listening to purchased music that comes in a physical form. Of course there are playlists on the digital side, and mixtapes (& equivalent CDs) on the physical side. It would be interesting to explore if this—selecting and playing a playlist/mixtape—gives the same feeling as selecting and playing a specific disc/album.
Record number of unicorns and IPOs: Indian startups raised $39B in 2021
One thing I found out a few days ago was that I was extremely easy to be distracted when learning from computer resources (pdf, online videos).

I wish I could revert to my university learning style (late 1990s~early 2000s) which has zero internet and we had to figure out things from books even for experimental classes (e.g. back then no one had the luxury to have one's own electronics lab for introductory electronics classes, so we had to cherish the time in lan sections and read books for questions we couldn't solve in lab). It was a bit like learning programming in 60/70s -- you submit a program to mainframe and get the result next morning.
Actually, it's not a superresolution situation. Normally, the resolution of the sensor is higher than that of the screen.

The algorithm used when zooming in a video on any platform I know about is no different as far as distorting as enlarging optics. They are moreso interpolation algorithms than superresolution algorithms.
Year of the SteamOS desktop maybe?
How so? A contract requires a "meeting of the minds". If one of the minds doesn't agree to (or even see) the contract, then how could it be enforceable?
CentOS 8 is already end of life
Using race as a factor requires strict scrutiny, which would mean race would have to be the best factor in determining treatment. But it's not. There are more specific factors like vaccination status and age.

This is in violation of the NY state constitution and the federal one.
If you're interested in starting a productized service / agency I run a small community of entrepreneurs called Productize.Community :-)
Maybe they meant the novel rather than the band? (I haven't read it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(novel)

P.S. it seems there are multiple bands inspired by Hesse, not just Steppenwolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyone%27s_Daughter
You'll shoot your eye out!

That being accomplished, yea, this and self-driving / self-flying flying cars would be cool.
Where did you get your idea of how a normal adult lives their life, if not from society?
First four years tourist visa with extensions. Then a KITAS (limited stay permit).

You can setup a company here which entitles you to a KITAS.

It's not as hard as it sounds, and much easier than a foreigner staying in the USA, however it will vary a little depending on your country of citizenship.
Actually, they are. The original 12 signatories of the Antarctic Treaty are the 7 countries that have claimed Antarctic territory, the US and the USSR (who both expressly reserved the right to claim Antarctic territory), and Belgium, Japan, and South Africa.

Which is to say, most of the people who cared enough to sign the treaty already had existing claims they didn't want repudiated by the treaty (which is why Article IV, in its entirety, also says basically "this doesn't affect any existing claims").
Torque is bolt stretch!

In some real deal applications like connecting rods on engines you can stick your head into. Techs will measure when a bolt has reached a correct torque spec when the bolt has stretched to certain dimension measured with a micrometer.

Torque is also very misleading depending on material. Steel bolts stretch in what feels very linear. Stainless steel bolts, when those are tightened up it's like hitting a wall going from loose to tight.

Click sticks (torque wrenches) also have something to say. Where you hold your hand on the wrench will affect the torque value. Usually there is a line on the handle showing you exactly where your hand should be placed and pulling from.
Can everybody earn a year off after working hard?

No, because this is privilege. To be born in a rich country. To have family structure to study and go to college, to have a stable job and a successful career after graduation. To be lucky enough to choose a career that is in demand. Or to open a business that is successful.

People underestimate A LOT how much of a role luck plays in successful careers. Sure hard work is necessary, but you can very well burn out and still be unsuccessful.

If you can't see this, maybe this is your privilege that is blinding you from what most people go through in life.
> My point is that ideally we build a society where as many people as possible get to choose what they find fulfilling, and pursue it as much as they wish.

But then what of the work that nobody wishes to pursue, but is required? Like farming for food, generating electricity and water, and many of the modern comforts?

I'm sure everybody wishes to pursue their own passion, regardless of the value of that passion to _someone else_. But this is why it cannot be done today, because there isn't enough wealth and energy and resources to allow for this. The star trek style replicators don't yet exist.
Is it really unimaginable to you that someone may not want to pay a premium for Apple products, or wants to avoid Apple ecosystem lock in, or has ethical problems with Apple? Or they already own all the hardware they need and won't bother with an OS that actively fights against running on said hardware? This article has absolutely nothing to do with Apple computers, there's no reason they should have been mentioned.
You shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.
— Ace Levy
No better illustration is ever needed.
Much like any other field, it is wide and takes a lot of learning and study. But it is not unobtainable. I started in 2017 I'd say and I feel like I have a good enough grasp of the field of graphics, enough to read and implement papers, and watch modern SIGGRAPH talks.
> Maybe what we understand as middle class is actually just a well-fed pleb.

I think that has always been the case - the middle class is what civilization rests on for productivity and creation of goods and services. They are the most exploited bunch, but some smart ones have managed to save and invest enough to escape that middle class, and into the financially independent class (which may be previously called the landed gentry).
I believe my beliefs and choices are morally superior to yours, so that completely invalidates your merit! /s
It’s also helpful that everyone wishes that they were more focused in their life. To paraphrase Dostoyevsky in The Idiot: “after his mock execution did he spend his days as if every day was his last? ‘No, quite the opposite, he was still a dour man who procrastinated and wasted much time’”
Same way that you won’t know whether drugs are really that bad unless you’ve personally tried them, which doesn’t mean you must try them. You build a taste for books, skim through it, read reviews from people you trust... I suppose everyone has their own way of measuring a book before diving into it, and one can of course quit in the middle of it should one make the wrong decision.
Maybe a lack of sense of meaning/purpose? If you care for some cause you may join as a volunteer (part-time) a reputable pertinent non-profit.