skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 34 and I've been online as often as I've been allowed for 30 years. Hell, I used to load sites/discussions while I got ready for school, print them off and bring them to school and spend my time reading them.

I'm not sure internet use alone is concerning. It was a problem when I was a kid because it isolated me, but it's also hard to tell how the causality worked there because I was a weird-ass little kid.

I'd love to look at/might try to find later what the average amount of time a person spent writing letters or on the phone was - or TV or radio listening. From what I've seen, most people use the Internet like we used to use telephones (lots of young people whose primary contact with their friends is online and I can't see much of a difference between hanging out in Discord for hours and talking on the phone with your bff for hours) or television/radio (I remember all the back and forth about the boob tube and honestly the passive consumption is pretty similar).

It'll also be interesting to see if anybody starts to disengage. The Internet relies on constant novelty to keep people engaged since the body naturally starts regulating to things and once you've seen enough it stops hitting the way it used to.
Everyone just assumes, incorrectly, that their systems are clean and secure. It didn't seem to even occur to OP to seriously investigate his site for "malware or social engineering attacks".
Every kilogram of mass added to the return trip increases the required deceleration, fuel, etc. Not cheap. At some point you can't reach orbit with the required fuel to get everything back. The Falcon 9 boosters are nearly empty when they come back. As a matter of fact, at least one of their early landing failures was because they cut the fuel load too close and ran out of fuel just before reaching the ground. Minimizing weight on the return landing is critical.
I mean, why would a bank care about phone numbers outside of the country it serves? Do you expect a US bank to recognize the number systems of every single one of the 195 countries out there when 99.9% of their customers live in one? Do you expect a French one? An Ethiopian one? Banks are explicitly not global businesses, they are generally national at the largest. It's not like they lose a whole lot of business if they don't support it; it's an edge case at best.

And Google certainly knows you are currently in a new country, but you could be there temporarily visiting, on a temporary residence, or have moved. How would you expect Google to know that? You likely also have to accept new Terms based on the country you move to, and there are more than likely fraud policies in place specifically to prevent people abusing a system like that to get lower pricing. The required step is there as policy, not a technical necessity.
Thanks for the response!

So yea, you've caught me. I've been ruminating over an idea to make really short (1~2 mins) technical educational videos. They would explain technical concepts from my university courses that I found more challenging than they needed to be. So the majority audience would probably just be university students, but I imagine that the simpler/easier it is to understand, the more effective the material would be, especially since the videos would be so short.

> In your example, the burden of being a teenager in high school is far more cognitive overhead to the learner than if the educator is using singular or plural when describing a new concept.

I hadn't actually thought of this, but that makes a lot of sense to me. For a university student, the cognitive overhead might come predominantly from tight schedules, deadline stress, etc more than they do from any single set of subpar lectures slides.

That said, even if it's not that consequential, I'm still curious how much effect it has. I actually did end up asking ChatGPT for links to studies regarding this, and came back with 3 publications, but the titles and DOI links it provided didn't seem to match up. I couldn't find the first study by keyword either.

It gave me (DISCLAIMER: INACCURATE CITATIONS):

- Jackson, L. A., & Stanovich, K. E. (1986). Conceptual information processing and the use of singular and plural forms by children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 78(3), 205–213. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.78.3.205

- Coxhead, A. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterly, 34(2), 213–238. https://doi.org/10.2307/3587953

- Hayes, J. R. (1985). Three problems in teaching general skills. Educational Psychologist, 20(1), 43–54. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep2001_4
Exploring Git Blame with SQL
>> If you make it hard to be rich, the rich will just go somewhere else, not abide by your rules.

Yes and no. Rich people don't want to live in California simply because of their tax treatment. Rich people don't want to live in London because of the privileges given to bankers. People don't want to live in Vancouver simply because of the real estate market. Rich people want to live in these places because these places are great places in which to live. Weather, politics, safe streets, your wealthy kids not being kidnapped for ransom money, access to ambulance services, clear air/water, not having legions of poor people at your gate every morning, being able to go for a morning jog without bodyguards, not having to bribe the cops every other day ... Rich people care about things beyond lower taxes. Those things are basically the same as everyone else.

Rich people want their bank account to live in offshore tax havens. They don't want to raise children in such places. There is a reason why every Chinese billionaire has property in Vancouver, why every mega celebrity has an apartment in New York and a house in London.
I'm surprised that number is so low.
I haven't read the article yet, but I want to say that (so far) this is no actual proof that radioactive decay is random. There is evidence for it, and we assume it is, but it hasn't been proven.
Whether or not philanthropy (or any action) is genuinely a form of altruism is up for debate. Your own link points to many definitions and debates around the term.

In either case you can replace the word altruistic with ethical, moral etc in my original comment.
I don't know how anything I said was re-writing history. The fact was over half the reactors were down due to corrosion and need of maintenance, yes. There was indeed a push to get them back online. I am happy the nytimes and reuters gave you such an informed perspective. The fact is we needed the nuclear reactors back online or we wouldn't have had power in sub-freezing tempetatures. So, sure.. thank God for the renewables.
I wonder if GPT4 gets less effective at following directions if you give it too many instructions in a single prompt?

I know it doesn't have any fatigue for the next prompt though. So over time it is indefatigable.

I wonder what a deep integration of GPT-like technology with the cortex via BCI would look like and if that could reduce mental fatigue.

Sometimes I think the next metasystem transition is basically like The Borg except it's a bunch of Mini-Borgs. And at first people will be completely horrified but then overnight it will become normal for a large segment of the population to be attached to an Overmind. I think you would call that transhuman.

Pretty sure there would be serious conflict with the normal humans at that point.
If you are used to U.K. standards, living in Quitman GA might be a bit of a shock.

Why not take a vacation there? Looks like there's a regional airport in Thomasville only a 30-minute drive away, but it looks like it's too small to serve passenger planes. You might need to fly into Jacksonville FL, and drive ~2 hours from there.
Explain to me exactly how you imagine this going down. You've got, say, a billion dollars, not cash, and you've decided to flee from your tax obligations because you think it will be cheaper.
ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural (2022)
Given the popularity of things like SwiftUI and other declarative models it was way ahead of its time. What killed it wasn’t the technology per se, but rather all of the other things that you have to do to make a technology successful in the open-source community. I have an app that i am writing on SwiftUI. I hate it because it’s so good, and there’s no real way to make it cross platform. Taking a step back on any other technology. Feels like a horrific waste of my time. But not being able to target. Linux is a huge issue.
It's strange that I had to set up Caddy as a proxy just to connect to a nodejs http server, because setting up Caddy was so much easier than setting up https in nodejs.

But at least it just works for everything I have thrown to it.
rooftop solar has the advantage that it doesn't depend on installing new transmission lines to get a grid connection

this is especially important in backwards countries like the usa with their so-called license raj preventing modernization

since most household energy is used for low-grade heating and cooling (refrigerator, air conditioner, oven, clothes dryer) i think thermal energy storage is likely to be a crucial enabling factor; mit's solar house used phase-change materials, but i suspect thermochemical energy storage is a better option

(why thermal energy storage instead of batteries? in the limit it's about three orders of magnitude higher capacity for a given price)
Coffee and "energy drinks" like Red Bull does not give you energy. They borrow energy from you.

It is like overclocking your brain. Sometimes it is what you want, but it comes at a cost.
How you can grab a 0% tax rate
This is a good point. The worst thing is that the MK4 is stuck on the i3 design even though there are some nice improvements. It seems like i3 should go the way of the low cost but reliable printer. Not that the MK series should be ended, but it should really just be upgrades and price drops where possible.

There is still a space for a high performance prosumer coreXY printer like the Bambu or the Voron, but Prusa dropped the ball on this with the XL where they could have dominated. The Bambu is just a massive refinement of the FDM printer.

I predict the next big leaps in 3D printing will be:

- Tool changers like the Prusa XL. I would have bought a MK3 sized printer with 2-3 tool heads instantly. Prusa still has a shot here. Printing in multicolours is nice. But frankly I don't care about printing toys in multicolour. I'd rather be able to design in multi materials. Imagine being able to print in PLA, PETG, TPU simultaneously reliably.

- Infinite Z axis. I backed the Creality CR-30. Creality is a shit company and really dropped the ball on this. Eventually with community support and tinkering I got mine to work well. It's no where near the quality of my MK3s, but where appropriate, I can design things to work well on a conveyor belt and not bother with stopping to pull things off. Shove a box at the end, put it on the network and you have a truly automated manufacturing system. I can print 10 of something without pausing. And one failure won't effect the other 9.

- Pellets instead of fillament. Easier to handle, easier to refill and makes recycling filament easier.
> Well if the split is 50/50 there should be enough people for them.

IF

Not to mention not everyone wants to come in every day and then you might not meet the right people on the same day.
Except it obviously does, as demonstrated by many benchmarks on the web. HTTP/2 is faster than HTTP 1.1 for loading resources on a web page.

In real life, browsers open up to four to six HTTP 1.1 connections and maintain them for pipelining. You can increase that number to pretty much anything and enjoy a web full of "permission denied" pages, timeouts and IP bans. I did that for a while when I followed one of those "how to make Firefox faster" guides as a kid, cannot recommend.

That's also four to six three way handshakes, each taking several hundred milliseconds to complete with a risk of failure and retrying, most of which are pretty meaningless, with a hard limit on the amount of individual files one can request at the same time. You'll also have to deal with the traffic congestion engine kicking in multiple times when the WiFi connection degrades. There's also no real way to bypass the TCP slow start for every connection, so you'd better have an excellent connection available or you're artificially restricting your throughput when those streams suddenly start delivering data.

The inline mixing of HTTP/2 removes a whole bunch of restrictions. There are still a bunch of restrictions that only got fixed in HTTP/3 but there's no doubt that HTTP connections improved when HTTP/2 came about.
Thanks.

Meta: the title should be changed, in my opinion.
Germany was at the forefront of the European push for renewables, though. Sure, they never produced as much electricity from renewable sources as countries with really great hydroelectric resources, but those countries' experience isn't that relevant to everyone else since the countries which could do that generally already did so before renewable energy even became fashionable in the first place. In terms of wind and solar they were way out in front of everyone else (they apparently had the highest installed capacity of solar in the world for a while, and they still have the third-highest wind turbine capacity behind only the much larger USA and China).
The recent Last Week Tonight episode about USA welfare TANF funds covered how a lot of the money budgeted for poverty relief might not even be used for it.
> With XUL, something like width: 100px wouldn’t quite do what it says.

Same statement can be applied to display: flexbox. It also breaks CSS box model in that sense. For example flex properties with obvious names like flex-basis, align-items(!) can change box dimensions completely.
Egg man bad

(yes this is post irony)
Reserved vacation days are becoming a thing of the past with “Flex PTO” or whatever any individual company might be calling it these days.

And if people really don’t use that much time, then it’s a big win-win for companies, as there are huge financial advantages in “Flex PTO” for the company, which I’d guess is why many companies are transitioning towards it or have already implemented it.
homeless industrial complex
Speaking as someone who’s been trying to help someone stay alive for several years, there is massive inefficiency and bureaucracy standing in the way of people actually getting help, presumably because we’d rather see many people suffer than a few people cheat the system.
I have to wonder if being constantly online is what’s _causing_ our ADHD and lack of a social spark.
> taking care of one's parents was every adult's duty.

Taking care of 1/6 of one's parents (families had 5 kids or more, and sharing of responsibility. This also worked the other way around, parents subsidize their kids' houses and passed on inheritance early.

Our age is so much different. People living so much longer (and aging so much longer), fewer kids than parents, housing prices making it impossible for kids to host their parents etc etc.

Strong family ties are not always a good thing when societies don't adapt to their needs but fall for traditionalism. Southern europe is an example of traditional values, population collapse and an even increasing burden of aging that is weighing down on social and economic prospects
Relying on a non-friendly country for something so crucial as energy is generally not a great position to be in, particularly if that country has rival world power ambitions. Europe and Russia have provided a great recent example of why you don't want to be reliant on potential enemies for your energy needs, and while the situation between the US and China is not the same and solar is different than fossil fuels, it's still a factor worth thinking about. The US would be a lot more secure being able to rely on a domestic solar industry as solar becomes more and more important.
I'm going to play devils advocate

Can we stop screentime shaming people?

We have had an ongoing moral panic about screentime for about a decade. Screentime is so broad and vast it now covers anything from chatting with your grandma to get her spaghetti recipe to playing WoW nonstop in your underwear to learning how to code on Youtube to make yourself better and more productive to using a Peloton bike to workout.

The youngest generation has it the worst with helicopter parents sitting over their kids shoulders, filling their lives with activities to "keep them off screens". Yet the kids themselves never learn how to set their own limits or navigate free time. We fail to prepare for independence as actual adults, and just create a lot of anxiety and shame around screens themselves.
Long-term trends clearly demonstrate the energy grid’s transition to renewable energy sources.

However, renewables like solar and wind come with unique challenges due to their intermittent nature. They are more variable, harder to forecast, have location constraints, and can benefit from battery storage. These factors lead to a more dynamic grid than before.

For instance, several regions in the country provide five-minute updates on their energy generation mix, enabling near real-time observations of renewable energy effects throughout the day

For example, numerous regions across the country provide updates on their energy generation mix at five-minute intervals, allowing for close to real time observations of these effect of renewables throughout the day.

To help those involved in the energy transition, I created an open-source project called Grid Status (https://github.com/kmax12/gridstatus) that provides fuel mix, wholesale pricing, load, load forecasts, and more.

Additionally, I've developed real-time visualizations to make this data more accessible and easier to comprehend: https://www.gridstatus.io

I hope making this data more accessible and understandable will accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
Watching parents at the park is a little sad. Lots of three and four year olds with an adult who never looks away from their phone.
Well in this case more than one of the managers was not someone I reported to (only one was my boss) and a bunch of them were actively let go because of their awfulness. I don't actually care about the perception of my work. I care specifically about the startup community and am trying to get other people to not bring in middle managers from musk companies without carefully vetting them, because it will mean pain for their employees.
The Valley of genius
And then a team with the same mindset writes the software that runs on my desktop or phone or light bulb. From a certain point of view, that's even better, because someone else is stuck paying for the ‘next instance size’.
> 44% of 18- to 49-year-olds say they go online almost constantly

Depending on what people consider “going online,” this isn’t necessarily a problem.

Being glued to an endless feed of clickbait and advertisements is probably unhealthy.

Having a desktop running SETI in the background for the entire day probably isn’t.

I wonder what people mean when they say “going online.”
Wow, I took away completely different things from this article than you.
My political enemies are wrong, stupid, an evil.
Taken to the extreme - I used to multi-table online poker for a living. 5 hours pretty much turns your brain to mush. 8 hours straight is unthinkable.

Pretty much everyone experiences this, even 18-year-olds. The brain has its limits.
That premise seems unlikely based on two facts from the article:

1. “to require truck manufacturers to sell an increasing number of zero-emission trucks over the next couple of decades”

This is a multi-decade effort for manufacturers, not freight companies

2. “eight other states plan to adopt California’s truck standards”

It’s a catalyst for other states to adopt this same standard. California is using its market power to influence national emission standards.
It's 100% clickbait, as the second part of the article is available only to paid subscribers.
I can confirm this. In my case I have to exercise at least every 3rd day to maintain a high mental work capacity, and immediately feel the effect of not exercising on my brain fatigue.
> Other demographic groups that report almost always going online include college-educated adults, adults who live in higher-income households and urban residents.

In other words self-reporting as “being online constantly” (whatever that means… TikTok or day trading?) correlates with more education, income, and ability to pay a higher rent.
Thank you for this information.
FWIW: This does not seem to be an isolated opinion. I have read (vague) YouTube comments recently, that point in a similar direction.
I think a solar system that also gives you independence from the grid is much more expensive, the program that we are using to get some subsidies do not include this extra features , so if power is out even if we have solar we still be out of power. Maybe in 10 years or realistically more a more advanced system would be worth it for my situation.
Rise crystal spear
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35399551
Yeah. The phone control is good. The threat blocking is currently on / off for the whole network and the ad blocking is on/ off for a profile. Devices can be assigned to a profile.

I put in a feature request to make threat blocking work the same. But the nice thing is it’s on router level so it’s enabled without having to setup a device
Can't blame them. Physical life is so full of trivialities
There is a much more interesting article about the subject, "The metabolic face of migraine" [0].
Besides Glutamate levels, a TL;DR is that migraine is a mechanism to trigger a 'brain shutoff' when brain energy levels are critically low. This happens if you there is a deficit between what can be absorbed and what is consumed.
So if you can absorb the energy from sugar, sweets or energy drink do help, as the popular belief goes (caffeine also helps through different mechanisms, including blood flow changes, but can also cause a backlash).
If it's not the case it is suggested to go to a ketogenic diet, to provide an alternative brain energy source (knowing that the transition can be particularly hard as the brain needs to adjust, which is known as ketogenic flu).

TFA advances that glutamate is a byproduct of brain activity and thus its level correlates with brain fatigue.
The Economist article does not link to the original research article [1], and besides adding fluff to the highlights, it makes some outlandish conclusion ("no doubt some researchers will now be looking at potions that might hack the brain in a way to artificially speed up its recovery from fatigue") but it's not clear what comes from the research article. Or, more interestingly, how it is intended to fit in the big picture.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27076095

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(...
https://archive.ph/OCVpD
> That amounts to $20,610 for every poor person in America, or $61,830 per poor family of three.

You're indirectly assuming it all gets passed down. If I were to guess I'd say only 70% does.
Ah yes, the old cato institution nonsense that we spend too much on anti povery programs.

Reason being is because the rich siphon it all off for themselves.

See:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....

Note the CEO of Columbia/HCA who committed the largest medicare fraud in history is now US Senator Rick Scott of Florida who just so happened to have plead the fifth 75 times during his questioning.
What's here is mostly a rather positive retrospective. The critique of their strategy is subscriber-only content. But, yes, the headline is a tease for something that non-subscribers can't read.
OK. Are the numbers wrong?
Wolfram Alpha says the total fresh water on Earth would have a radius of 203 km. The Great Lakes alone would have a radius of 18 km.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+fresh+water+o...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+great+lakes
What happened to “they spend 4 hours online per day”? That always felt like a hugely underestimated figure