skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, I have a few. The case for correlation is clear, and numerous studies of varying statistical power have proved it. The question is causation. So if social media usage isn't causal, then what is?

I think most people who are skeptical of causation would point to a hidden latent variable that is actually causal. One way this could take place is some feature, say "susceptibility to fomo", that's actually causal. Folks who have a higher susceptibility might see frequent, sharp decreases in mental health outcomes from social media usage. Folks with low susceptibility might be relatively unaffected from social media usage. It could be interesting to see what the prevalence of this susceptibility is in the general population, whether there are certain cohorts that have high prevalence, and whether there are interventions that can be performed to decrease this prevalence.

A similar analogous cause is the presence of schizophrenia in an analysis of psychedelic use. Most folks are fine using psychedelics infrequently. However, folks with a predilection for schizophrenia frequently have bad outcomes from psychedelic use and may even accelerate the onset of latent schizophrenia.

The above "fomo susceptibility" might even be too simplistic a model. There might be a cluster of features, combinations of past experiences and perhaps biological traits, that actually act as "fomo susceptibility." I loosely think the real model works something like this. Age may be a controlling factor as well. Regardless, I'm not convinced there's causation here. Social media usage research is like a lot of other poorly understood psychological and mental health phenomenon where studies are underpowered, causality is hard to establish, and effect sizes are small which all lead to conflicting conclusions.
> We found that we had hundreds of thousands of free users and not enough paid users.

Have you tried advertising? :)
What separates the two cases for you? Does it come down to there being more gaming companies compared to Microsoft than there are application-design companies compared to Adobe?
The apex predator.
It does not add pimples and gangliness though
Yep, that's a freshness test. It does not, as far as I know, indicate anything about salmonella.
What is the dividing line between user applications and system applications? Is bash a system application? OpenSSL? FUSE?
> but ad-blockers are also basically adware that scans through the entirety of all websites you visit. Very similar snooping to custom keyboards etc...

Er, not as a group they aren't. Like, I'm sure there are bad adblockers, but if you stick with uBlock Origin you'll be fine.
I'm going to correct myself and go with narcissism as the reason for your comments, which, again ironically, gives them some value.
Ubuntu

But'll be moving to Opensuse soon
There's not much the law needs to do. People just need to learn that when they open up apps like that they're going into a world full of fake shit. Nothing is real.
I'm seeing it too.

Or at least I was. I just reopened my HN profile page to look at it again and it's not there.
I'm confused why you're ignoring the whole "supply" part of supply and demand. If companies can't afford to ship as much product, what happens to the supply? If businesses go bankrupt and disappear, what happens to the supply?

I think there's a lot of caveats to the money supply argument, but even just from a pure supply/demand application you can have inflation if there's less goods to go around, without any change in money supply. That's also exactly what happens when you have situations such as increases in shipping costs and it becomes more expensive for businesses to operate.

Again, did we inflation last year despite the money supply decreasing?
> Seems like you somehow feel entitled to winning.

Well, yes. If you spend hours and hours playing the game, I can imagine that at some point you feel like you should be getting better than most people.

This was definitely true for dedicated servers anyway.
FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms
Hey try having your hair dresser tell you at EIGHTEEN you're going bald :)
I was considering inside SF. In the past, I spent time in Soma and Haight :)

Maybe a car for a day or two to go around, either driver to Carmel and spend the night there or Monterey—or go watch the Bay Area at night from a bridge?
> The article does the setup but fails to deliver.

Hard agree. So much so that throughout the setup I was feeling eager to share this with my own team, and by the end I couldn’t think of any reason why I’d want to do that without writing my own follow up article.

And—probably because I’m mired in the “hygiene or fitness” forms of inherited technical debt, and many of the problems of knowledge loss that entails—I’m especially disappointed that most of the focus is on how to manage and make decisions around adding technical debt. It’s framed like extant technical debt is just a foregone, effectively permanent, conclusion. All of the same classification applies even if the debt (whichever metaphor applies) is already accrued and the consequences are already in full force.

Again probably because I’m mired in inherited tech debt, I don’t see any point in sharing this with my team because we already have a pretty good process for evaluating the risks and benefits of adding debt. But we (like most orgs IME) already have trouble responding to historical facts which present the same challenges as proposed future facts. I want this article to be addressed to “so you’re trying to manage tech debt you didn’t ask for.” And maybe I should just try to write that article, but I only have a glimpse of the conclusion myself and I’m loathe to add more setup without delivery to that particular aspect of the conversation.
Yet oddly, when I was a kid, and the crime rate was roughly double what it is now, we didn't have this problem.

There were drugs, oh you betchya, cocaine and crack and all these other cool things the D.A.R.E. officers were telling us about. There was crime, about twice as much of it as today. But us kids were out there riding our bikes around and playing till the streetlights came on.

This is something different entirely.
Grad school was the first time I had to get under the hood with numeric simulation code.

Experience: It was a bit of a learning curve, but a manageable one. I think maybe 80% of my energy went into improving my domain expertise (physical chemistry) and 20% went into learning enough coding & scripting to execute the research.

How / Courses: Never took any coding classes myself, but in retrospect I think it would have helped me move quicker if I'd at least taken an online course to brush up on the basics. I'd try to solve problems on my own for an hour or two, and ask somebody if I got stuck for too long. I think the main drawback here is that I was able to break through any given concrete problem (why is this code throwing an exception? why is this array all NaNs? why is time negative?) but never learned big picture patterns for writing reliable, extensible, and reusable codebases. I probably could have moved quicker if I'd started learning & thinking about that sooner.

Languages: If you can, use open source languages (e.g. python) where possible. One of my biggest regrets is that I did 100% my thesis work in MATLAB, which requires an annual software license that was paid for by my university. Now that I've graduated, I can't run or work on my own research, even though my code is not proprietary. (You may not have a choice in some cases, e.g. one of the key models in my field was implemented it MATLAB, but I could have done some of the other work in python).

Later digging: I've picked up more software engineering and computer science skills since grad school, but that's because there is more emphasis on performance and code hygiene in industry. For my grad school research, it was VERY important that the code produced the right numeric results, but nobody cared if it was fast or pretty.

Things it would have been helpful to learn earlier: version control (how to use GitHub and atomic commits to never lose work), writing tests for core functions that might fail in non-obvious ways, clean handling of parameter & configurations, etc. Oh, and comments! During an REU I spent an entire summer writing spaghetti Perl code with no notes; a year later the professor asked me to re-run something, and I had to spend a week reverse engineering my own work.
When a founder says "You might be surprised to learn there’s no Faiss inside Pinecone" I'm inclined to believe them. They seem like a good team. I don't think they would lie about this.

I also just had a browse through some of the employee profiles on LinkedIn and their team absolutely seems to have the background you would need to build something like this from scratch. https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinecone-io/people/
“Still”

I’m sure this’ll be unbiased journalism!
It is indeed fortunate that certain groups of people have not been successful in equating spanking with abuse, from a legal standpoint.

Reasonable and clearly defined punishments that include spanking as the "nuclear option"
are part of a parent's toolkit.

Child rearing is hard. I've been doing it for 24 years straight now with four kids.

Kids are different and don't respond the same to punishments. What works for one may not work for another.

Barring cases of abuse, I believe it's wrong to armchair quarterback parents raising their kids in the best way they know how.
>What’s more terrifying is what happens to explicit material where consenting adults use filters like this? Is the law keeping up with tech like this?

I hope not. I'm sick and tired of everything being illegal because someone finds it yucky.
Isn't coding just ifs and for loops?
It's even in the YouTube algorithm. I've had a couple of videos taken down due to "potential child endangerment". They were videos of me and my kid doing things that are, realistically, safer than riding a bicycle. It's pathetic how fragile kids are being made these days.
"now people have to contend with fake things existing"

maybe its time people get a grip and realize photoshopped stuff is not real, movies are not real, cartoons are not real. Get a grip and do not attempt to run into the huge boulder just because a cartoon showed the roadrunner being able to.
Paywalled, but based on the title. Crypto isn't going anywhere, love it or hate it.

Edit: read it. Says will mostly only buy and hold bitcoin specifically.
Yup. I have many things to complain about Apple but I love how they underpromise and things just work usually better than promised.
From the practical consumer standpoint, it is essentially true. Getting an egg with salmonella in it is like winning the lottery. But good information either way since some people do get their eggs from small farms which are exempt from testing.
Not my area, so I may have some wrong details...

The energy of a normal electron in vacuum is E = 1/2 m v^2 that is a nice curved parable.

Inside a crystal, thing are more weird. There is a maximum speed, or to be more precise, the repetition of the atoms make the speed v and the speed v+2K equivalent, where K is a number that you can calculate using the distance between the atoms. So instead of speeds from -infinity to +infinity, you only have to consider speeds from -K to K.

The energy is something like -cos(pi*v/K) that is again a nice curve. It's actually more complicated, so the shape is not exactly cos, but most of the times something similar enough. It's much more complicated, some have peaks in some points, some have the oposite sign with the maximum at 0 instead of K, ... but I don't want to go down that rabbit hole. Anyway, they are curved functions. These are called "bands".

The first interesting part is that in some materials like two sheets of graphene when you get an horizontal line instead of a curved line. It's weird because it means that the energy of a moving electron inside this crystal is equal t the energy of an electron that is not moving inside this crystal!! That is a "flat band". [Sorry, no idea why it happens.]

Dirac probably predicted them, or it was later misaligned to him, so they are "Dirac flat bands". [Dirac has a few extremely important/interesting results, I'm just not sure about this one.]

For some reason this sheets of graphene are superconductive, probably when they are very cold, but I'm guessing.

I have absolutely no idea what "quantum geometry" means here.

TL;DR: After reading the abstract, it looks safe to ignore unless you work in superconductivity, or graphene, or other similar stuff. Some results are interesting for a small group of cutting edge researches, and they may have applications in the future, but for a layman my recommendation is just to ignore it.
In the case of not coming in it’s kind of a gray area right now. Some stipulate failing to come to the office would be a failure to perform and so the employee would be fired without severance but still be able to collect unemployment.

People who resign would be quitting on their own accord and would not be able to receive neither a severance nor unemployment. That’s why resignations are probably Google’s ultimate goal.
> Adults pretending to be teens

Creepy guys have been pretending to be young for internet aeons by simply reposting other young people's content.

> what happens to explicit material where consenting adults use filters like this

Artwork of CP is still CP in the US, per 18 U.S.C. § 1466A. Whether a face-swapping application constitutes that...?
I have a coworker who is 26. If anyone at all brings up being older (and most are), she bursts into tears about her "lost" years. She is a TikTok addict. This will not go well.
Not a finance guy, but from what I read and listened to, yes: "The fund combined multiple uncorrelated return strategies that are leveraged appropriately to maximize returns, while lowering risk." (from CNBC). I think this was a novel approach at the time, finetuning those gains specifically due to lack of correlation, further to specific assets within each class. Side-note, cool asset coorelation (or lack thereof) map: https://www.guggenheiminvestments.com/mutual-funds/resources...
> Adults pretending to be teens is going to open up a whole new can of worms the implications are crazy

Chat rooms were inveted shortly after the invention of the internet. People lying about their age on the internet isn't something fundamentally new.
The number of times I had to yell at family members to NOT CLICK THAT ITS AN AD is maddening. It required getting a pretty nasty virus and a complete wipe to actually convince my dad to install adblock.
Imo there's two factors at play only one of which seems to get much attention. There's the legality (and burden of compliance even when abiding the law) of leaving your children unsupervised but there's also the complete lack of penalty for being wrong. A person reporting abuse incorrectly is for all intents and purposes, an attacker. Why is attacking someone else with only a brief observation of the situation cost free? Sure there's a balance to be maintained so that people still report actual abuse but why is there no burden upon the attacker to be correct or defensibly confused when the stakes are so high for the defender? If this was a game the imbalance would be an obvious point of dialogue.
You don't have any old photos of yourself from when you were younger?
There's nothing in the article that suggests that Wi-Fi is being used on the elevator. In fact I'd say most likely the elevator is using a wired Ethernet connection. It's just that the broadcast domain for the L2 network includes both the wired elevators and guest Wi-Fi.
Please don’t be h2h…
I recommend using an ad-blocker while visiting that site :-/

Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the "modern web" tolerable. To list a few:

Channel Blocker (lets me block channels from search results on Youtube);
uBlock Origin;
Disconnect;
F.B Purity;
Consent-O-Matic (auto fill cookie consent forms);
Kagi Search;
PopUpOFF;
Facebook Container;
Privacy Badger;
ClearURLs;
Return YouTube Dislike

Basically, if I visit a website and don't like the experience, I either never go back (Kagi lets me exclude it from search results) or find a plugin to make it tolerable.

What I really want now is the ability to exclude entire websites from any permissions I grant to plugins. I feel like in the last year, I've read a couple stories about companies buying successful plugins and then using them to track you or show ads or whatever. I'm worried this will be the next stage in the battle for our attention -- best case: companies will buy popular plugins to track us and show us intrusive ads; worst case: nefarious actors will buy them to scrape information we think is private and collect it.

IE: I just want to be able to say "Hey, Firefox... those permissions that I granted to plugins x, y, and z? They don't apply to www.myfavoritebank.example.com"

Is there a browser that has that feature yet? I spent a few hours trying to figure out if Firefox did. It did not appear to.

edit: Added semicolons to separate plugins in list b/c HN stripped the newlines from my comment.
US is in immense mental illness epidemic crisis. That's it. Everything else is a side effect stemming from this.
Lessons from Building for Voice Control on iOS
Supposedly that effect continues, the first third of life feels longer than the last two subjectively (at least I've heard that claimed). Wouldn't surprise me if it's a mixture of processing speed slowing down making things feel like they're moving faster and just the fact that each year is a small percentage of your life. Maybe also less variety day to day as an adult, fewer big changes.

You can test the clock speed thing and there's some evidence for it (ask different aged people to estimate when a minute has passed, stuff like that).
There is a great way for efficient desk usage, is called the remote work + sell the building. That leads to 100% utilization of the 0 desks available, at all time.

Grumpy for the whole "remote work is bad" thing
I can back that claim. Unfortunately, it's no longer the case - not exclusively for the low trust reason, though - but that kids of school age, in my experience, now largely rush home after school to text to their same group of friends they just physically separated from, and play games.

I believe the altered persona they can assume when texting, and freedom of expression they can have using that medium, over doing it in person, is of very high appeal, and something I find concerning for the future of society...
> the people who want to tow horse floats across the country at 70mph, for instance, or for lightweight electric sports cars

Casually dismissing people who are likely using the road for commerce is not a great take. In particular, if you ever hope to legitimately electrify anything larger, you should probably consider this serving this segment as a useful precursor to more work.

It seems to be a consistent knee jerk reaction to the idea that the current generation of electric automobiles just aren't a good "drop-in" replacement for the current fleet. We should solve that problem, not demean people who experience it.
> if I have a good match where I did better than expected, the system responds to that by putting me in a much harder game, where I'm expected to lose

No, the system puts you in an easier/harder game, where you're expected to play _with and against_ people of your skill level (including if you want to play strictly meta or if you want to play with only one hand or whatever).

I've been playing one of the most popular (for PC anyway) online game for 10+ years now and it only has skill-based matchmaking, in both ranked and casual mode. While plenty of people rail against the fairness of its matchmaking, I've rarely heard anything against the concept of skill-based matchmaking. It's the only kind of matchmaking that makes any sense to me. Why would I want to play against people that are way better/worse than me where I have no chance to have a good game either way?

While my friends no longer play it regularly, when they used to play we'd just... play however we wanted in casual mode. Why does it matter if some people are better/worse or meta/casual? You can play the most random stuff you want and you eventually get matched against people of your skill level. Or if you don't enjoy the current match for whatever reason (winning/losing too much, or trying too much/little), just go next and let matchmaking do its thing until you get games at your level, wherever that level happens to be.

If anything, your complaints sound to me like the developers care too little (rather than too much) about competitive balance/integrity across the entire playerbase.
The very first sentence adequately substantiates “still”: the segment shed a trillion dollars in stated value last year.
There is https://play-cs.com now
TikTok Parent Launches Xiaohongshu Competitor Lemon8 in US
> I fully wish that Intel would have gone with the "opt in" approach.

Even a sensible opt-out approach would be better than what we have today, we're simply stuck with it whether we like it or now.

I think that's what makes most people disregard the fleet management aspect and leap towards the conspiracy angle.
How exactly does systemd turn Linux into Windows? Does it...

Prevent dynamic linking?

Offer strong backwards compatibility?

Add support for a very wide range of hardware?

Put advertisements in the start menu?

Cause unexpected reboots for updates?

Send telemetry to the OS manufacturer?

Force users to get an online account unless they know the secret way to bypass the prompt?

Or is there a differentiator between Windows and Linux I am overlooking?
Wow congrats that is great!
The last month in crypto has been pretty wild.

- Checks VV? Mooned.

- Blur airdrop? Lots of people farmed that pretty late and still cashing in.

- New issuances still doing good, oversubscribed.

- Non-token based products making good revenue.

I dabble in many markets around the world, alongside various parts of crypto.

One thing I find interesting about crypto is that you can make these whole revenue generating businesses without incorporating anything, and not incur personal liability. There's insatiable demand from people used to spending to access random projects. That's usually the hardest part of any business model.
the highest murder rate in US is 15.8 Louisiana while the highest in India is 6.5 (Patna). Most places in India have half or lesser murder rates compared to the average in US. India in general is just a much safer country, not in the same league as China, Japan but far safer than US. Growing up in Bangalore, I walked the streets regularly at 2AM when I was a teen, something that I’m scared to do as a full grown adult in SF
Just to echo others, this is absolute nonsense.

I've played many competitive games over the years, many to a decent level in the top 5-10%. Thousands of hours of play.

Cheating is almost non-existent.

I've been accused of cheating though, especially in CS:Go + Overwatch, when I wasn't even that good. I couldn't hold a torch to professional players.

I've seen orders of magnitude a more complaints about cheaters in chat, than I've ever seen actual dodgy behaviour.

Sometimes you're just on a streak, or lucky.

You're just bad at losing.
Brave does this, to some degree, but then you have to endorse crypto as the means of solving the monetization problem.
No one mention Netscape history here?