skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? The article is about how social media impacts the mental health of girls. They didn't study boys, why would we talk about boys without any data on them in the source?

It's overly inclusive to insist on talking about everything all the time, lest we leave someone out... We'll talk about the men, lots of people are talking about the men, but let's take a second to talk about how women are feeling, okay?
> Those who took a closer look, however, realized that Hotta was suggesting a subtly different quantum stunt. The energy wasn’t free; it had to be unlocked using knowledge purchased with energy in a far-off location. From this perspective, Hotta’s procedure looked less like creation and more like teleportation of energy from one place to another — a strange but less offensive idea.

6 sentences into the article.
There's Only So Far You Can Get Off Track in a Week
It's interesting, that's what happened in Portland, right?

It is really curious to think about the cartels as large startups. If you take that leap, it would be logical that they would be violently opposed to decriminalization. Like competing gangs would be killing people, and the cartels would be doing anything they can to convince the local government to redact that decision.

I'm not saying I've got any evidence that cartels are committing crimes in places where drugs are legalized to change laws, but it is interesting that Portland crime has increased a lot. Many people will say that's because of liberal politicians. But there is other information that says that more policing almost never reduces crime directly. And the corollary is that reducing police, either by defunding or attrition, wouldn't cause increases in crime, right?

If anyone has perspectives on what Portland did wrong, I'm interested in hearing it. It is really bizarre to me as a native Portlander that crime seems so excessive. I never felt unsafe in the prior forty years and things seem very different now. The only two big differences were the endless protests against police brutality and the legalization of drugs. Why did this crime surge increase so much in Portland?
In terms of recent releases, Banshees of Inisherin was the first thing that sprung to mind.
I've noticed some sites start with a clickbait headline and then change it after a few hours to something less sensational. I originally thought that they were responding to criticism, but I've seen it enough now that it seems to be a pre-planned way to game SEO/Socials. You can use the wayback machine to check, and I've seen some big headlines get revised down 4+ times.
No method of birth control is 100% effective, so the two events cannot be fully separated.
I think part of it is that for every teenage girl spending 5 hours a day on social media, there's a teenage boy spending 5 hours a day playing video games, often with other teenage boys. I'd guess that video games are a more positive way to socialize, because teenagers are cooperating and competing rather than comparing themselves to others on social media.
Is it related to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua ? Or just the banana shape?
Yes, it literally is.

Aside from my partners' AirPods which are bugged up (unique to them specifically, not sure...) I've ignored alerts on all her other tags.

When you receive the tracking alert, tap it and you will have a few options. One of those options is to ignore alerts. When you tap it, it will ask you whether you want to Pause Tracking Alerts for the day or indefinitely. If you tap indefinitely, you'll stop getting alerts for that item.

You can see this referenced on Apple Support [1], but I've done this personally with success. The only devices it doesn't work on are AirPods but it works on my Chipolo wallet card and all my/their AirTags.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227
I think employees generally want to get good performance reviews, which comes from demonstrating impact and good numbers on charts. Satisfying users doesn't do that because it doesn't scale.
Yeah New Zealand has the same distinction between cage free and free range eggs. The conditions for the "cage-free" ones are not much better than the caged ones - they just tweak the suffering to tick a box, I only buy free range.

Of course free range eggs aren't totally safe either, there's been a few scandals where a company has just lied about the conditions of the chickens entirely and gotten away with it for a worrying amount of time.
Unless you are trying to prove the existence of a subatomic particle, I am not sure what business decisions have anything close to that level of certainty.
Check lineageos devices list for compatibility, it's an alternative ROM that intentionally comes without bloatware.

If you want to tinker or do some DIY linux projects with it, check out postmarketOS wiki.

If you want to consider doing a little software tinkering as well, then I'd recommend going for the Pinephone because it runs with all kinds of Linux distros out of the box. It's not a production use phone though, and more of a tinker device.

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ (lineageos 19.1 == AOSP 12)

[2] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Edit: there's an alternative android "store" called f-droid.org, which ships open source app builds. You might wanna browse a little there for inspirations of what you can do with it.
Do microneedles count as a prick? I know it sounds like it should but I honestly don't know if the current competition considers themselves to be a prick.
How is this poisoning us? What health affects are associated with not seeing the stars?
Does not run on anything other than x64. Otherwise it's perfect.
Nothing is necessary of course, it’s just to counterbalance the ‘hurr durr Apple bad’ crowd which seamlessly gaslights between ‘AirTags are terrible stalking devices and Apple is responsible for all stalkers and stalking wouldn’t be possible were it not for the terror of the AirTag’ and ‘I don’t care about privacy and why is Apple giving these stupid notifications to counter stalker use of AirTags.’

There’s tons of tracking devices on the market and Apple made choices to make the use of AirTags private and with a certain level of protection against stalker use. It’s known before you purchase them, if you don’t like it, don’t purchase them.
>Probably people want it to fail or don't want to believe how transformative it is.

Ego defense is a very real, and very powerful driving force in human behavior and it is coming out in full force.
1st grader (future class clown): it's a POOP
amazingly, your comment will eventually be added to the CHatGPT corpus and at some point down the line may be used to add the nuance that's currently lacking :)
No patient info is sent. In my colleague's example, you can try out a similar query, "Write an appeal letter to a medical insurance company for a patient who needs a biopsy for a bone lesion given prior unclear diagnosis."
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> A site that optimizes for content that people heavily interact with (engagement) is different than a site that prioritizes the relationship type between users

I think that's hit the nail on the head.
In a neutral environment, a user would be shown a feed of friends posts with ads mixed in for their demographic.

In an optimised for engagement environment, a user is shown posts that are known to increase engagement and quite often those posts are inflammatory.

This engagement environment is much more likely to expose people to extreme views
Thanks for making this. I saw it back then and thought it hit the nail on the head. It still does -- if you hadn't put (2012) readers would think it was made today.
The market isn't biased. That's a category error. Individuals might be biased. Individuals en masse might even be biased. But the market in general is not the thing that is biased.

You might say that it amounts to the same thing, but attributing the problem to the correct cause is important.

It's important because it means that if the correct cause is bias, it's actually bias in every potential employer somehow, but how do you know? How do you know it's not something with the applicant or the application?

Saying it's just a biased market means you don't even think of other things it could be, such as a badly presented CV or a missing key skill, or a difficult interviewing manner. Those are more likely to have every future employer reject you than something insidious. It's unlikely that every potential employer has such a large pool of candidates that bias is the thing that means you don't get a decent enough offer to even beat your current salary.

But if it is a cabal of horrible biased people, then that's illegal and should be challenged as such. It's horribly unfair, but that's probably the best course.
It's ability to do things and have an impact on the world. You can afford to try out crazy projects that require enormous amounts of capital. Obviously no one needs this, but there are plenty of things to spend your money on that isn't buying 30 of the same thing.
I just went to my cloud provider of my choosing and started to add floating IPs. After a few tries I got a good one. I went through the unblocking process once, and I decided not to do it again. Especially Microsoft gave me a hard time, they started to request documents and then let me wait a few weeks until they replied: we don’t unblock, and we don’t tell you why.
Awesome. How does this work in a distributed sense? For example, for multiple parallel builds where each build is building a different git sha?
> I now no longer believe the human brain is capable of withstanding its effects.

100% agree. I don’t think any brain born after the social media age can resist getting hooked on it. For those of us born before the dawn of the internet maybe some of us don’t get the appeal.
35% of the wealthiest people in the US attended one of just 8 elite universities
Probably for the same reason that practically every other team that builds distributed systems engages Kyle. But I can't speak for them, I guess.

Later

(This comment was rewritten after I replied to it; it previously expressed contempt for the idea that a company that supposedly works on distributed systems would retain any of the services of Kyle Kingsbury.)
Online video editor: Why I switched from FFmpeg WASM to a server-side solution
Hi Hackernews!
I made a free online video editor that uses FFmpeg for processing. When I started this project I used FFmpeg WASM so the whole processing could be done in the browser. This has two big advantages.
-Privacy: The videos wouldn't have to leave the users computer.

-Reliability: No server to crash, no network connectivity errors to happen and so on.

Unfortunately FFmpeg WASM is not as Production ready as I hoped it was. The processing is slow. Like really slow. On the same machine FFmpeg WASM takes 10-20 times as long as it takes when running FFmpeg natively. Another reason I switched to a server-side processing solution is that FFmpeg WASM doesn't work great on all browsers. On mobile browsers it was almost impossible to get working, on Chrome it crashed all the time caused by memory issues.

I really liked the Idea of FFmpeg WASM but the state it is at right now have forced me to switch to a server-side processing solution.
It's not out for me yet. I wish Spotify let me sign up for a beta program like other platforms do; I really enjoy trying out new features.

This seems neet, I think it would be cool if you could let people "sign up" with their Spotify account to a collective DJ. It would be terrific for house parties. And in terms of the program itself, it wouldn't really be a huge difference.

I think spotify is really lacking in sharing features. They used to have the family mix which was an amazing feature but replaced it with a really poor "you + me" playlist that just spits back whatever you've been listening to the most. Eh. Anyway, DJ is cool.
He didn't have power over the Fed, but he did nominate a wise man to lead it. He would've come out looking tarnished under any circumstance, regardless of what the Fed did. Either inflation or high interest rates eventually result in bad times, because that is the nature of the business cycle.
That’s just your opinion.
Calculation is not dead! Finding more efficient ways to do calculations was and still is an active branch of mathematics and computer science. It’s just called algorithms now.

PageRank was essentially an efficient way to compute / approximate the leading eigenvector of a very large matrix.
Any advice for parents of a kid going through a similar period?
There were. Lots of them.

So much so that both Herbalife and Amway have been under numerous consent decrees with the US government for decades [1][2].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2016/07/...

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1994-03-23/html/94-67...
I'm very surprised to hear this:

- in my city, One Medical offices are in several neighborhoods and are very far from obscure

- I generally can't get an appointment with my GP without scheduling a month ahead. For anything short term, I end up having to use whatever PA or NP is free. Labs onsite are not done by appointment, and depending on the line I can wait up to an hour to get a quick blood draw.
When is this needed? A one line regex can't get you far enough here?
Girls can play video games too :)
Published 2023-03-18. Futuristic :-)
> but at least some of the toxicologists I spoke with were concerned that, at sufficient quantities, affected individuals could experience adverse health events based on consumption of the contaminated poppy seeds.

Did they give you hard numbers? Is that 1 poppy seed? 1 teaspoon of poppy seed? 1 pound of poppy seed?

The dose makes the poison. The problem is that the tests are oversensitive. It's like failing a drug test due to a coffee in the morning because it may be an excuse to be taking pure caffeine pills.
Monitoring my weather at home
In the US "pasture raised" is the key phrase to look for. That means what most people think when they read "free range". Neither "cage free" nor "free range" means much in the US.
I'd argue it's hard to learn about another country without personally visiting it. To wit, I've made it a point to take my family to other countries, for us to learn other languages, and to get to experience different lifestyles around the world. There are a lot of things that my wife and I do to try to help my stepdaughter interact with information in healthy ways, but that's also easier said than done. To a large degree, the issues with social media have to do with the facade people put up and the underlying social interactions with her peer group, which are hard things to help a teenager address because parents are not directly involved in her peer group. You can only do so much, and at some point as a teenager, your child needs to find their own way. Putting up guard rails ("restricting information") is one way to help them navigate these nuances of life.
I have been hired essentially on the strength of a covering letter... weirdly, I was later cc'ed on a whole email chain going back to my application, and saw the impact of certain things I had mentioned.

It was basically explaining my passion for a cross-industry move. But for most people for most jobs, most of the time, a job is just a somewhat match for their skillset and there isn't much else to say. Now I'm hiring I don't pay much credence to cover letters or objective statements, but they can still be meaningful for certain people's circumstances. I think cover letters have a bad rep because a generic one is meaningless.
The Volcker shock was in 1981-1983, Reagan was incredibly unpopular before the summer of 84 because of the severe recession it caused.
What I've been reading Jan 2023
I would like to share some common links, as for a while I've been reading rather than writing. Hopefully there's something interesting in here for peeps to look at! :)
I'm one that believes that without a common point of unity groups can not prosper. It's easier to break apart than to stay together. Large established countries have a long enough background that they can count on national patriotism or a Royal or something similar to unite on. Unfortunately, all(i think) black majority countries have been created from areas that were formerly part of another state that dominated it and the last thing they want to do is follow the practices of the domineering state. Yet, they don't have the history and myths that can bring them together as one group to succeed as a nation. They don't even have the family history to count on since whole cultures have been destroyed and they can't count on their culture to unite on.

In time, these nations will find a single point of unity but it will take generations and strong leaders.
Who is running a mail server on their phone?
Take a look at the white-majority countries that are in a similar boat. You're different from Russia only in that one global power didn't seize control of your continent a few centuries ago.

From my perspective it looks like you're speed-running a continental democracy.
Perhaps it would be appropriate to stop the hug of death on the whole country, and instead link to a working source with complete information.
Agreed on all points. Once I hit the real world (working for a large soulless enterprise like a lot of people end up in), and trying to deal with Google for G-suite was a terrible experience. So IMO, they’re not great at either thing anymore.
Icecream Gender
*fewer words, mr. professional writer

jk ... but only sort of
I live in Romania, I spend about that much on food since prices have gone up and I eat probably less than 2500 avg. I might buy more expensive ingredients though and if I bought shittier food I might go to around 200 euros but that's a stretch given how much inflation has risen produce prices.

The point isn't that you should replace all food with meal replacement shakes. You could use them while traveling to not eat out as much. You could use some for emergencies when you didn't have time to cook or ran out of groceries. You could use it at work if you have a hellish work env and an abusive boss that doesn't even grant you 30 minutes for a lunch break. Last one is a true story a bank teller told me. Granted you should quit a job like that but if for whatever reason you need to stay a while longer it's better to have a shake ready than not eat at all.
It never is, last time a lot of the housing supply ended up concentrated in Blackrock-esque kinds of companies, I don't expect anything different from a next crash.
To put this in context, the $2.3T drop is for the prior six months. In the prior 36 months (including the six months with this drop), the housing market posted a gain of $13T, a gain of approximately 40% (based on the peak valuation of $47.7T from the article).

While it may signal some cooling, housing is still substantially less affordable than it was pre-pandemic.

* edited to correct the time frame, 36 months not 24 months.
Steel, rubber, and glass? Doesn't seem so bad.
They are talking about the L/DNR, which did in fact draft the majority of their male population. They were literally sweeping the streets any adult men they could find.
Consistent caching with PostgreSQL logical replication and a Redis API
I would advise against doing anything more than checking for an @... and, I guess, at least one character on either side of that. Just send a verification link in an email instead.

(The fact that an email address is syntactically valid is a matter for SMTP/MTA implementers and syntactic validity doesn't mean that an email address actually receives mail.)
Yeah, pretty big - en.wikipedia says maybe 100 MT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/(367789)_2011_AG5
terrible documentation. the only real way to check an email address ia to send a mail to that address and get a response back. maybe this does that, but the documentation does not say so.
Realized I didn't understand what Nitter was over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34900803

It is strange that what is effectively just a secondary website that just uses Twitter's APIs to display content would be targeted, but I completely understand this guy saying this is not worth the time or headache, but it is surprising that Twitter isn't also a party in any complaints. Maybe not completely surprising that the various administrators at these sites wouldn't really look further than whatever appeared directly in their crosshairs though...
Everyday working folks don't trust science, because, science as it is today is just an appeal to authority.
I've been really happy at Zipline. My salary is comparable to when I was at Google, and my equity has way more potential. As far as stability goes, I can't imagine a company being more supportive of its employees.
The difference is, with the risk free rate so high, investors buying up housing might not be as attractive as when rates are 0.

We’ll need to check back in after the next three hikes and Powell applies max pain by holding the rate up as long as possible (driving down asset prices).
Unless you are providing a user with an email account and need to ensure it's 100% valid, it's not worth doing anything but the most trivial validation. It's far better to allow an invalid email to be entered than disallow a valid one. The real validation is sending an email to it and the user opening that link. If they managed that, then it's a valid email.
Youre doing revisionist history. Orwell was a socialist. He hated fascism but he hated capitalism too. He was a far left person. A flawed person but nonetheless his POV was that. That includes conservatism in a huge way. Conservatives are the antithesis to the left.

> So I don't think it's really helpful to get caught up in the political alignment, it's more about where the power is.

This is what many people on the right say to obfuscate from being something huge figures in history were vehemently against. No, not just power.
I used to live in Vietnam circa 2016, and the joke every other month when the internet went out was that some sharks ate the cable again. Seems those sharks are still eating good!
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