skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair point. Not a perfect study and they do not claim a causal relationship. However, also from the results:

Researchers found by age 5, children who spent two hours or more per day, looking at screens, were 7.7 times more likely to meet criteria for a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, than children who watched screens for 30 minutes or less each day.

It's a substantial result. They talk about practical and ethical reasons they can't establish the causal relationship, too.

I'm guilty of being a little tongue in cheek, but I'd try to limit a kid's exposure to early screen time and ease them into things like TikTok.
I agree with that difference but I'm not sure it's fundamental.

To me more fundamental is access to information that anybody has above certain age. Yes you still need to know how to interpret it, that's one of the most valuable skills nowadays, but in the past you had just no way of fact checking and doing more research on what has been given to you apart from spending hours in library which would not be very productive unless you were interested in some relatively popular chunk of history.

You get served stuff targeted at you but it's just information, and you have a way to put it in a bigger context. It was not possible before. The fact that you learn about unknown unknowns through a magic giving content box is also amazing. It is not perfect and have its issues, and I would love for everybody to just garden their homepages which I could visit like it's .. oh shit well 30 years ago, but I'm not sure I want to spend time on gardening mine when I can learn so much instead.
Pwn nubs - avoid bubble gum
All staff members preparing to depart to the station had to undergo a PCR test in Belgium two hours before leaving for South Africa, take a PCR test five days after their arrival in Cape Town, where they also had to quarantine for ten days. Another test was required when leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and another PCR test had to be undergone five days after arrival.

To me, that sounds like lots of testing, not strict health measures. There is a difference.
Feel free to name the country that isn't experiencing the exact same issues regarding COVID hotspots and understaffed facilities, "socialized medicine" or not.
I'm on mental illness TikTok and I've watched this trend develop. Happy to answer any questions as someone that spends hours a day scrolling.

My main takeaways are this:

* People with mental illness are finding each other, sharing their experiences, and it's enormously validating for them. The algorithm is bringing them together and it creates a lot of engagement because there's a highly charged emotional human connection thing happening.

* The short form recording/publishing experience on a phone is so accessible to people that we're getting totally new viewpoints. I follow a schizophrenic that draws the faces he sees. It's fascinating. I'm sure this content will be researched for years. It's a self-reporting gold mine.

* People are struggling, finding community, then seeking the help of mental health professionals. That's a good news story.

* There's a lot of actual mental health professionals on TikTok spreading good information. It's fairly obvious who's legitimate.
>Every year there are doctors who graduate from medical school but are never allowed to practice medicine because they can't get matched to a residency program.

Aren't 99% of unmatched, graduates of sketchy overseas medical schools?
FBI vs. Un-Defuseable Bomb – Tales from the Bottle
Louis Theroux has a documentary on it - Edge of Life I believe it is called (although Google says that’s about cedars Sinai so possibly not, but there is an episode he does that predominantly features room after room of ventilated patients)
My personal opinion is that we need to supply ourselves domestically (dog food it) and adjust prices to reflect the true cost.

As for American Indians, as far as I know, they practically can’t do anything productive on their lands without an Act of Congress, it’s a crime.

Small- and medium-time loggers are hardly paying rent though. I don’t know where the money is going. I’ve worked in supply and demand. It’s all crooked. Millers are thieves, as are others, etc.
yes let's spend our 20s and 30s hoarding money and never doing anything fun, then when we're older and tied down with spouses and kids and aging parents we have a gigantic pile of money we can use to go on slightly "better" vacations one week a year

I don't think there's a single dying person on the planet that wishes they experienced life less in favour of making stacks.
every post here in this post is triggering an existential crisis for me. oh what to do...
I love how much English writing has changed since then. You'd never say "in such a way that" or "so fitted" or "every seventh conductor being connected". The entire prose style can change but the joke can still be perfectly on point
Congratulations, hope you have a great time! I took an adult gap year, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Life in an American suburb is a series of goalposts. Every few years, a new school. Then you go to college, find yourself, and discover that a career is more of the same: every few years, a new promotion/job/grant.

When I realized that, I figured that my joints and back would be at least as ageist as my future employers, and quit. Having watched a lot of Top Gear in school, I bought a dirt bike, modified an old pickup into a mini-RV, and went on a tour of the US' forests and national parks.

It was incredible. Exploring such an enormous and diverse area presents you with a lot of new perspectives. Of course, it was a terrible financial decision which I couldn't really afford, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

As I enter my 30s and start to see my peers get seriously hurt by activities like skiing and climbing, I find myself scaling back my "see the whole world" ambitions. Maybe I played things too safe, but I'm definitely glad that I didn't stay in my rut.

Anyways, it's nice to have a chance to contemplate your place in life and society while you're still spry enough to shurg off a few falls. Even my grandmother took an ill-advised teens-20s road trip across the iron curtain. A good walkabout should be a basic human right.
Tend to your personal relationships like a garden, especially when you're younger since it becomes much more difficult to establish meaningful relationships the older you get. It's only my experience, but that is my greatest regret. I think the less important things like career are more easily tackled with a solid foundation of personal relationships.

Also, I've found striving for perfection is fool's gold. Yeah, you may be "that person" that friends/family/colleagues will love name-dropping you every chance they get. The others will probably care little that you're an expert and may even resent you for it.
> if there's a war against China, "You’d need to walk around naked because you have no shirt, pants, socks, or underwear".

I agree that this is hyperbole and a bad example.

I'm not sure how long the author thinks such a war would last, or the aggregate US stockpile of textiles, or the source of cotton inputs into Chinese textile manufacturing, and so on...

Both I'm going to go out on a massive limb here and assume that even a decade-long cold war with China wouldn't result in a single American walking around naked who would have otherwise been clothed.

There are geopolitically significant manufacturing sectors where the west has ceded important ground in the last couple decades. Daily-use textiles isn't one of them.
I bought a cheap lenovo “workstation” ~400 usd mostly to run haiku. Laptops tend to be a little more difficult as they tend towards more “exotic” hardware.
Thank you for what you do and have done
What you describe frankly sounds a lot like you have something like ADHD. Its not something you should let somebody diagnose you with over the internet, but its really worth looking into with a professional if you have similar suspicions. Here's why:

1. Its one of the more addressable maladies. With good CBT, medication, and habit formation, most people seem to receive dramatic improvements in their quality of life.

2. Understanding your brain and its tendencies can be extremely liberating. Instead of feeling guilt and shame about your choices and work habits, you can look at them objectively and mitigate as you see fit.

It took me until I was a decade out of college while seeking help for depression that a psych picked up on some cues from me and gave me an assessment and diagnosis. I wish that would have happened earlier. If that isn't what's going on, it would be a great thing to cross off as well.
This is an issue, but I'm curious, would it be possible to do a sort of 'denial of service' attack on the AI by overloading the internet with deepfakes? What if there are 50 deepfaked 'similars' to me out there?
Apple Music does a fine job even if you don’t subscribe

I'd dispute this a bit. Apple Music has become horrible at doing the job of organizing Music. Even with the rules you can set in smart playlists, it has become harder and harder to organize music. It just doesn't seem to be Apple's priority. I actually miss earlier versions of iTunes which says quite a lot about the current offering.
And MRI machines… and a whole bunch of other tunings big conglomerates like GE were involved in.
yeah i feel this way already, at 31, starting to really feel options closing, and realizing how insignificant a lot of decisions were in the end I wish I did more with my 20s some how (not like i had a lot of money to do much with anyway)
Stoicism, I thought we were past all that.

Isn't the modern thinking we should help young men express, not repress, their emotions?
snakes and ladders seems a candidate, if it dates back that far.

“The game was popular in ancient India by the name Moksha Patam. It was also associated with traditional Hindu philosophy contrasting karma and kama, or destiny and desire. It emphasized destiny, as opposed to games such as pachisi, which focused on life as a mixture of skill (free will) and luck.” … “ The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil one will be reborn as lower forms of life. The number of ladders was less than the number of snakes as a reminder that a path of good is much more difficult to tread than a path of sins. Presumably, reaching the last square (number 100) represented the attainment of Moksha (spiritual liberation).”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders
It would be to anyone thinking about this logically, but belief in the measures seems to have become like a religion to some. The craziest discussion I had about this was with a friend who insisted the number of administered tests for a given location hadn't risen in 2021. I showed them the official government stats but they still claimed there hadn't been a rise. When I sent them a graph they said they'd looked at it and it confirms there was no rise. The graph showed a clear rise, like line going straight up!

How do you even deal with this? I can have more rational discussions with fundamental Christians.
Mental health, thanks to The Blindboy Podcast, books on cognitive behavior therapy & transactional analysis, and a counselor who I pay their attention, consideration, and advice on other books to read (I find information from Blindboy and books the most actionable, and a counselor is a helpful reality-check so I don’t get lost in the weeds of exploration at the cost of iterating out of challenges I have some agency about).

Also learning about complexity science, ecology, and human culture over millennia.
Quote dunks replaced response posts and we're all worse off for it.
There is some truth to what you say, but memories of my aimless twenties literally sustain me now.
Is there an XBMC for MP3s?
The latter two yes, but "in such a way that" is not uncommon.
It's pretty annoying, but now I've got the dock every problem I've had has melted away. Woohoo!
Well stated, Ryan! Contrarian but sane and very good advice.

The propensity to deal with bullshit, crap that doesn't matter including other people's mission (e.g. startup founders), the internalization of the limited time we have makes the early professional/working years so much more valuable and hence something to maximize.

It's a different path but that pays off handsomely if things work out half as well.
Rails 7 & Hotwire at this moment. I’m excited to be back in Rails after spending five years in JS ecosystem. It feels pretty f* good.
I took a ten year break from reading books. Instead I programmed, read blog posts, followed the news, and had a few good talks with friends here and there.

When I started reading again my world caught on fire. A good book is vastly, unimaginably better than doom scrolling, and the wealth of ideas and history and inspiration that starts to accumulate as you read more is life changing. For example, I learned how to properly build habits, how my childhood in a cult came about and what other people who left have done to come to terms with it, and endless interesting facts about lifelong hobbies and interests. Reading is great.
Please don't use "MP3s" to refer to any audio file. It's not correct when old people do it, and it's not correct here either.
Whole article about Y Combinator and not a peep about us. I think the first two rules of YC are "you do not talk about HN."
Thanks! Forgive me but I gotta ask- how would you describe the socioeconomic class of the folks the park served? Can they afford to sue over small, non life-threatening accidents caused by minor safety breaches? Was the park ever sued, and how did it go? (My line of inquiry is coming from having seen abhorrent safety standards upheld at a major mainstream park, that was the poor people park in the region - the same company had another nearby park for the suburbanites, that was much nicer)
The real hard part is when the hobby starts becoming successful, then you have a hard choice to make.
The whole concept of “These people could get hurt (let’s put them out of work).” Is always a bit creepy.
what does being straight have to do with being trans? do you think tiktok is convincing people they are gay?
Yes. The irony of the temptation to buy the pills illegally to avoid that stigma is not lost on me.
The internet, the electric grid and satellite communications are all great examples for state sponsored endeavors…
I'm confused at the response to this tweet. I hate "crypto" as much as the next guy, but this is really not a huge deal, nor a reason to dump Firefox.

Edit: this is clearly just adding another way of donating. I don't see a problem with it. In fact, I'd rather give companies Monero than have to go through a payment processor like PayPal.
> So Clearview has a database of billions of faces scraped from the internet, and sells subscriptions to match photos on that data.

I fully expect a class action lawsuit for Illinois residents soon. They need explicit opt in for biometric collection, regardless of how they obtained their photos.
Likely because heroism and masculinity are important themes in Heart of Darkness.
IIRC, this is a well known rhetoric technique: flood the opponent with irrelevant facts, so he doesnt have time to refute them all. But that's for in person debates, with finite time to respond.
That includes things like graphs and charts, which seem pretty reasonable to have in a spreadsheet.
That is correct but the fear (and conceit) is still that Chine would not be able to compete with the West in the high tech sector.

In the classic example for Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage, England is better at producing wool and Portugal is better at producing Wine, therefore each should focus on what it does best and gain efficiencies through trade.

But then the industrial revolution happened and England had a far easier time automating weaving than Portugal could grow grape vines. Path dependence is important for technological innovation and this can not be protected with IP law alone.
Gee, maybe because you can't stop such a virus? I legitimately am curious about any decent intelligence test being done among the people who truly believe in measures like masks, restrictions, and even vaccines.Though i know that ironically the first or second biggest group to not get vaccinated are people with 1 or more PhDs, but people who think these are long-term solutions, or any solutions at all are pretty delusional.And this has been partially proven: Sweden is doing fine, Florida is doing fine, any region that hasn't been building up hotbeds of infectious sedentary people is doing kind of fine, at least compared to the "predictions of specialists".Now this is not a cut&dry issue, partially the biggest factor for this is because the more urban lifestyle you have, the bigger the health problems, but that's precisely why the lockdowns will never work.

Stay safe & HN(Y) everyone.I don't think it will soon be over, because this "pandemic"[it's actually more like an endemic disease but whatever] has stopped being about health since half into 2020, and politicians & people in any power don't have any incentives and reasons to let the power go.Especially not until the 1984 measures are all put in place.
When you’re young, you have time and energy, but you have no money.

Then, you have money and energy, but no time to enjoy these.

Finally, you retire, and have money and time, but the energy is gone.

Such is life.
Lasers are assigned a classification and regulated. You can't just get a lower classification just because. You can severely damage your eye (and more) with a laser, which may not even be visible. If corners and forks were invisible, traveled at the speed of light, propagated over large distances, were regulated, and could affect aircraft, then maybe your analogies would work.
Ages ago when I had to put actual paper statements together for a loan they wanted several statements.

I assume because someone could just get friends to loan them money, show one statement, and pay their buddies back.

The statements didn’t even seem that important to the bank anyway.
Why should those of us who live elsewhere (Australian citizen here with zero connection to China ) prioritise the welfare of US American corporations ?

The US is around 4% of the world's population.

If I had to choose, I would prioritise the welfare of Chinese people, who are 18% of the world or the welfare of Africans, who are 17% of the world or the welfare of Indians, who are 20% of the world.

Our loyalty should be to humans, not to the delusional political configuration of the moment.

Otherwise we might as well go back to loyalty to traditional ancient Greek city-states.
Yes, dissociative identity disorder. I only used it because it was referenced in the article. My apologies.
Can You Identify the Language?
I’m generally “no” here but for accessibility all this tech is helpful. I currently have all my senses, and can imagine (from reading and discussions and observing) what it’ll be like to be less functional. That aid ideally won’t come with a privacy and/or security cost.
Pretty sure there was some sort of "hot-or-not" in there as well near the start.
In principle I was advising to at least observe a religion in a general sense. Once that’s established, only if there is an inexcusable reason and absolute understanding would I recommend to change one’s religion away from that of one’s parents. It’s not that you can’t, but there should be a strong deliberate motive.

Most will read it with an individualistic, reductionist, tabula rasa understanding of Man, in which one can think of religion as a set of rules and beliefs that can be analyzed and chosen like one chooses a career. Under that understanding, the religion of your parents is arbitrary. However, I consider that religion is integral to life and inextricable from oneself, and that we are in fact eternally related to our ancestors.

Edit: This coming from a mechanical engineer with a PhD in finance.
> The underlying assumption made by this policy is that if straight white men (the only group not mentioned in the allowable group) are allowed to apply, it will unfairly hurt the chances of those mentioned because they cannot compete.

Why is the assumption being considered incorrect? Go to your local toys store and tell consider what the effect of the STEM focused toys being next to the toy soldiers, and not next to the barbies and kens, is going to have on future students

And consider the effect on STEM toys usually being priced higher (for valid reasons) than other toys is going to have on children from demographics that generally lack financial freedom?

Not understanding a core concept of systematic whatever-u-wanna-call-it, before writing this article, makes it very unconvincing
> The opposite; case insensitivity is what human brains do, we read word WORD Word and woRD as the same thing, it's computer case-sensitive matching which is "brainless".

Only if different case-variants do not have meaning. When two words that differ only in case have different meaning, we distinguish them (e.g. "moon" and "Moon").
Why we should feel sorry for High Achievers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmcM6InBjM4

The people who are "crushing it", constantly in the news and making lots of money, may very well be less happy than you.
Adding to this a secondary public service announcement:

I recently learned of Opus (audio codec) and it's amazing. If you've been using mp3, ogg, speex, aac, or any other lossy format: time to upgrade. Opus is freely licensed and I'm blown away by the quality per bitrate. Released in 2012 and I don't see anyone using it yet! Device support is good nowadays and you can either have smaller files or better quality in the same amount of space.

Last night I re-encoded a lot of my audio books (they were mainly mono mp3 64kbps with a few exceptions) and it takes like half the space. One of the larger books went from 1.5GB to 350MB and I can't tell the difference in quality at all.

What I used is apt install opus-tools && opusenc --bitrate x --framesize 60 in.flac out.opus; or choose the Opus export format in Audacity if you're more GUI-inclined.
Yes shedding like a dogs coat, but bits of virus. This is the main pathway of transmission. The pieces that are being shed are active and infectious.
I think of it as a fire drill, a preparation for a real fire. Just trying to find some rationale in this madness.
Sorry only just saw this. We do not know 100% for sure but the historical consensus is the Gita is several hundred years younger than the latest stratum of Vedic texts, well within the era of classical Sanskrit. And the Vedic language (which technically is not Sanskrit as properly that refers to the language codified by Panini, Katyayana and Patanjali.) is somewhat different but not that different. I learned the parts of the Veda that I know the traditional way just memorizing the recitation without the meaning but based on my knowledge of grammar and vocabulary I can understand about 75% and a commentary takes care of the rest.