skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thread and article isn't about smartphones being harmful, it's about a very small study showing slight correlation between MHQ(something that approximately 2 people itt could define) (and a few categories that "don't align with DSM-5") and the age at which 18-24 year-old females got their first "smartphone or tablet" and even less correlation among 18-24 year-old males.

It can't be the million other things wrong with society it has to be the new thing, let's all extrapolate wildly from a random study and get hyped up on fear of the new thing so we can keep ignoring real problems. Through in some random easily debunked claims about every (literally every) child.

You make no sense.
Yeah me too, waiting patiently as context windows are our biggest blocker on more complex chemistry simulations
I think recommendations like this fail to recognize “what’s the alternative?” For many, artificial sweeteners make it possible to lose weight, something notoriously difficult. Without them, the alternative is to just maintain an unhealthy weight or even gain. So the WHO really should be asking itself “do we recommend against artificial sweeteners, even though it could increase obesity?”
Is there something like this for North America? That would be even more fun!
And then comparing the relationships between them...
I would hope that managers at most places use their brain. A failed startup shouldn't be a read flag. They should ask you about your experience with it. In all likelihood, if you didn't make multiple stupid mistakes you would be a string candidate for most jobs because you have experience running a business. At least that's what I would think.
Oh, boys can absolutely have image problems for looking at instagram models. In general, comparing oneself to the photoshopped version of people that are already in the top percentage in the good looks lottery is bad, regardless of gender.

However, statistically speaking, boys just don't follow male instagram models in the first place. Far fewer install instagram in the first place, and if they do, it's not to get fashion tips and lifestyle advice models. Those that do are probably going to end up very insecure too. But in practice, boys don't do that, and therefore the practical levels of harm are lower. It's just like how teenagers that have friends that binge drink end up having more alcohol related problems. It's not that the alcohol itself is more dangerous, physically speaking, the more friends that drink the teenager has. It's that if their friends are binge drinkers, chances are higher that they themselves will binge drink too.
I look at FCF. Amazon -11B last year vs Apple +111B. Gives you an approximate run rate for their cash on hand
It takes a bit of work, but it is possible to start by removing things with sweetener (for example, it is possible to find ketchup that has no added sugar but they often have some other sweetener, you want stuff that is very simple).

Example ketchup: Organic Tomato Concentrate, Organic Balsamic Vinegar (Organic White Wine Vinegar, Organic Grape Must), Organic Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Less Than 2% Of: Organic Onion Powder, Organic Garlic Powder, Organic Spices

Normal ketchup: Tomato Concentrate From Red Ripe Tomatoes, Distilled Vinegar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Salt, Spice, Onion Powder, Natural Flavoring.

Other things like unsweetened ice tea, etc, can help, too.
I’ve stopped eating sugar, and several weeks later, had an IPA. it tasted sweet, which confused me because those always tasted very bitter to me.
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Here are some other examples I can think of:

1. Architecture. I could easily see architecture-specific AI tools being incorporated into design apps.

2. Similarly, interior design tools.

3. AI tools for construction.

4. Anything in healthcare. Healthcare is so regulated and privacy is obviously paramount thus I'm sure there will be companies that spend a ton of time/money providing "HIPAA-compliant" diagnostic support tools.
Doctors avoid the "I can't concentrate" metric these days and care far more about your upbringing and the effects in your daily life beyond study/work.

I also believe that those that abused drugs to advance in their careers need help as well, just not ADHD meds, and so the stigma can be reduced both ways.
The pills are bad, all of them. They will either manor you angry, sad, less creative, less funny, no appetite, no sleep.

The diagnosing is hogwash. There isn’t a scientific test. All ‘psychiatrists’ do is take you in for a visit or two, listen to your story, and write you the prescription.

I used to be ‘unable to focus’, and took pills for it. I even see people addicted to them to the point they take sleeping medication and other pills to make up for those side effects. No thanks!

These are intense drugs, and not the good kind like DMT, LSD, or Marijuana. Which those, actually had a profound effect on me and my way of thinking. For example, weed makes me productive - and makes otherwise shit work - amazing.

Another thing is eating healthy, organic foods, vegetables, and pasture raised meats, along with exercise. These do wonders for your state of mind. Organic foods (and pasture raised meats, eggs, dairy) have up to 200x the nutrient levels compared to non-organic.
Lastly, self discipline. I had to learn to master my mind and truly discipline myself for my actions. And to make the effort to constantly ‘make it happen’, no matter what. It’s a set of values instilled and the courage to back up your own values when no one else is to judge you but your own mind. Don’t let you mind off the hook for so many things - “oh I didn’t make the bed…it’s fine” no, it’s not fine.
Some state (generally, the stuff you would want to persist) should be global.
Some state (e.g. widget animation or your select-box example) should be local.

I agree that this project misses the mark.
There's a whole level of users that do not qualify as being addicts
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The C2 wiki was re-written and re-implemented as single page app, currently at http://fed.wiki.org/

It is an interesting change, to a more federated style.

I ended up doing a small project inspired by this change, at https://github.com/dexen/tlb
To be entirely fair

> Scientist uses himself or herself as test subject.

This is very real plot that even got some people Nobel prize

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/press-releas...

Interview with some details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLA69a5OOU
This is pure misinformation, and it would be great if you'd stop spreading it.

ADHD is real. It's helped with meds. Denying its existence because of your own bad experience is going to hurt others.

Listen to professionals' advice, not self-help advice.
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Same here. Been waiting for a couple of months now.
You do realize that using VPN makes the company you're paying for that VPN gather way more of your internet browsing history than the UK's surveillance program?
The entitlement is bizrre. Sorry but you need to go to office and collaborate with your team members and be part of the office culture. Not sure how working in your pajamas is good for anyone. Obviously there are edge cases but the babying is out of control. Get up and go to work. The entire country runs people working important jobs in medicine, utilities, plumbing, etc who don't get to write code in their pajamas. We need to do a salary swap with actual essential workers..people have lost the sauce.
> your sense of sweetness adjusts to it

Speaking of this, what has always been puzzling to me is that the US bakery has so much sugar in it, to the point that even the smell of the bakery screams too much sweetness. In contrast, European and Hong Kong/Taiwan bakeries use much less sugar, or at least their cakes taste so.
these IA behaviors are crazy. I typed your prompt word for word and it failed. I rerun it for fun and it worked :o
I tried a few runs and it's 50% success.
The vast majority of AI tools are vaporware mock-ups …

Adobe Firefly is best example of “just ship a mock-up of the feature” Ai marketing
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Your contributions to this discussion have been very thoughtful and quite interesting to read. Upvotes stopped sufficing. Thanks for adding so much!
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The fact that we live in a world where lunatics can make this much noise is astounding.

edit: referring to the complainant in the thread linked above.
Why can't ASML scale? They are siting on $20B of orders. That is insane. What is ASML's delivery throughput of these machines?
I've been doing this for about a year now, and haven't run into any issues with any of the various tools I need to authenticate with. It's a great solution so far, and this one feature makes the entire subscription pay for itself, imho.
> advocate that it be illegal, with accountability

I am interested in how that would work on an individual basis, as feds have to agree to be sued and lawsuits typically need to show specific harm. USSC doctrine of qualified immunity knee-caps accountability.
Oh, defending the pronounciation is easy, because the problem is not with the pronounciation at all -- it's all about English language spelling not keeping pace with the changes with the pronounciation.
Not necessarily OpenAI GPT powered, but local LLMs have gotten pretty good over the past few weeks. I am most interested in using an LLM for automation with tools like AutoGPT and Godmode.space.

I prefer using an LLM locally if possible since it gives me more control and I don't have to worry about the additional cost or OpenAIs infrastructure being under load.
You can buy monk fruit sugar without erythritol. The addition is to make it seem more like sugar from a touch standpoint.
Modern doctors stick to an affirmation-only model in profitable situations where the symptoms could be psychosomatic, malingering, and/or hysterical. Saying someone doesn't have ADHD is a violation of their civil rights and basically genocide. You're denying their existence. The only justifiable grounds for denying someone ADHD medication is that they can't pay for it.
I really appreciate your comment and it brought up a bunch of emotions about my ADHD that I hadn’t thought of in a long time.

I don’t know if this impacted you in childhood the same way it impacted me, but to pretty much every one of my teachers I was the “smartest kid in the room” who “just didn’t try” and I would “do amazing things if I just applied myself” - and now as an adult I know that’s just my ADHD, it’s a super power and a curse all wrapped up into one. I wouldn’t be “the smartest kid in the room” without it, but I’d also be able to keep a calendar.

The buffer day is a fantastic idea. I’m considering getting back on the my medication again. If I do, I’ll give this a try.
This kind of reminds me of the old web IM interface Meebo, but instead of having your chats with humans, you have AI bot chats.

One stylistic thing that I like about ChatGPT vs Bard's web interface for code is that way it progressively types compared to the instant display. I find that I am able to read the code and get some learning of what it is doing as it is typing compared to reading a big block after the fact.
"Obviously if someone just eats more to compensate there's no net gain"

Words like "obviously" and "just" are papering over a complicated system called metabolism. Nothing is really "just obvious" in human body, which is a result of a billion years of chaotic evolution.

If artificial sugars mess with an average person's feelings of satiety or kill useful gut microbiome, you can't expect them to help an average person to lose weight.

Things like hunger cravings matter for most people when it comes to weight regulation. You might be one of the few exceptions.
Except drugs aren't the main means of socialization among today's children.

You can stay off the grid, and deny your kids access to it, but you can't stop the advance of technology itself. Eventually your children will be left behind, ostracized by their peers for being weird/lame. Maybe even paranoid for life as a result of your helicopter parenting. And of course, when they finally get a smartphone, they will have zero experience in managing its "addictive" capabilities, which probably won't help their adult lives either.

Source: anecdotal evidence of a friend who lives with depression and severe social anxiety as a result of similar experiences. Of course, there were other deciding factors that turned said person into what they are today. Make of this what you will.
> Obviously if someone just eats more to compensate there's no net gain

I remember a study that showed people who consumed NSS would end-up on their own accord, eating additionally the same amount of calories as they were "avoiding" in their beverages. Ie. 2 cans of soda roughly 350cal, 2 cans diet soda -> eat another 350cal that day without actually planning on it. I think the hypothesized reason is that many of these 0-cal sweeteners still cause a release of insulin which then drops your blood sugar, which then makes you crave carbs more. I personally try to consume sweetners with no insulin effect for this reason (eg. Stevia) whenever I do use one.

FWIW I have a similar gut reaction to this headline. How can there be completely no benefit to not adding 30-60g of sugar to my bloodstream every day? If the sweetners are combined with a controlled diet, I would still think they have benefits. I don't feel my blood pressure rise or my mood shift when I have a little NSS, which is the opposite of consuming straight sugar for me, I can feel it.
This is in US that I was relating
God that video is impossible to watch. He acts like he's trying to channel mitchell and webb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAioN2mtsA
The best way to avoid eating ketchup with added sugar is to replace all usages of ketchup with mayonnaise.
Schools don’t run the entire workday nor the entire work year. Especially if you work at one of those employers that likes their employees to work long hours, with “unlimited” (i.e. zero) vacation days. But that’s a somewhat different social malady.
what do you mean sufficient? I think the premise is that all these people can get the job done, but some of them can do it better and faster. In the big tech scene its not about being sufficient, its about being the fastest (faster than the competitor)
Having a teenager, I've seen the bullying and caustic behavior without social media. One classic example is for a group of friends to be on a iMessage thread together, and suddenly nobody posts to it anymore because they've created another thread and left you off.
"currently called "news"" I don't think humans have ever had a source of news free from agendas. At least now you can pick the agendas you want.
You can't ignore API reasons though.

Before Metal, macOS used to ship with old OpenGL versions. I remember around the Tiger days (10.4) OpenGL was 4-5 years old compared to the version shipped in Windows. And with DirectX, Windows had a better API about two decades before Metal for macOS was released.

I do agree with your other points. Macs are expensive so they are always going to be a niche market. And in most countries, Apple products are luxury products.

Another point is really that Windows GPUs have always been more powerful. If you wanted to play the latest AAA games at good quality and fps you had to be on Windows.

And there's also an ouroboros vicious circle. Devs don't put effort into the Mac because there aren't many gamers on it, and there aren't many gamers on it because dev don't put too much effort. And it doesn't help the decisions that Apple has taken to further ostracize themselves form the desktop gaming market.

> iOS is THE dominant gaming platform

In the US. Worldwide iOS has like 28% market share I believe.

Nevertheless, Apple could really become a gaming powerhouse outside of mobile. If they released an AppleTV with a gamepad and an M3 chip, they bought or partnered with a couple of good console/desktop game studios (not mobile game studios).

The AppleTV already has games but there's not a lot of good content and Apple doesn't even provide an official gamepad. It's clear Apple doesn't care much about gaming outside of iOS.
You're gonna be waiting for a while my mdr zx770 is still functioning perfectly
> I mean, he says "I can forget things, I fidget, I will on occasion zone out of long meetings" but that's true of every human being to some extent.

I feel like the difference is whether you can decide "I need to pay attention to this meeting even though it's boring" and then are able to actually do it.

With ADHD it's more like "oh crap! oh crap! I did it again.. I'm not paying attention to this meeting. I'm going to do it now. But man I suck for falling into not paying attention again. How could I prevent this in the future? Oh I can improve sleep by getting a sleep mask. grabs phone to order sleep mask on amazon"

Meanwhile the meeting has ended and your co-worker you eat lunch with asks "are you coming?" and you lookup to say "huh" with a dazed look.
I'm guessing the original commenter was confused between heating with gas and cooking.

Using electricity for cooking is much more efficient when using induction heating (which is the only kind of electric cooking anyone should use). Cooking with gas might be very efficient in converting gas to heat, but more than half of the heat gets lost without heating the pot/food and escapes by the side (approx. 40%), so using induction is about twice as efficient as using a gas stove (and conventional electric stoves aren't much worse). With the typical efficiency of a combined cycle gas plant, this cancels out to be approx. the same but gets better when more renewables are used (and, of course, worse with coal).

Gas stoves still do have a lot of other valid issues and I am kind of amazed a culture war broke out over it (when e.g. in germany less than 10% of households use gas stoves without a massive demand for new gas stoves).

> and allowed for propane tanks at new single family homes that really want a gas stove

As far as I can tell from the reporting [1] this is stopping new gas hookups (maybe including the equipment at the time of construction?) but there seems to be at least nothing stopping you from adding a gas stove and powering it from propane. I was unfortunately unable to find the text in the bill (or the exact bill), but as far as I can tell nothing suggests otherwise and if that is the case:

> That would have preempted 90% of the valid criticism.

That doesn't seem to have happened

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-state-bans-natural...
Stevia is not full of erythritol. They are two distinct chemicals. The stevia packets you might put into your coffee, different story. You can read the ingredient label to understand more
Clearly the answer is a personal Predator drone fleet carrying hellfire missiles. As is my God-given right to own and use as a red-blooded American.
Vice News Tonight, when it was on HBO, was fantastic. 30-minutes of global headlines moving very quickly. I would have paid $15/month for this show alone.
No one said it was just the Germans. But it is well-documented that the Germans distributed amphetamines on a mass scale which had harmful effects. The US did not distribute on a mass scale.
The report mentions one of the effects of NSS is lower caloric intake.

What people may not realize is your body is quite "efficient" at running at various caloric amounts, and ±569 kJ/day (135 calories) may not do much.

Especially if there are other side effects of consuming "sweetener" like wanting to eat a tiny bit more (the opposite of using mouthwash, for example, which makes you want to eat nothing more).
Then where is the harm and why is it an issue? That's such a small minority comparing that to the actual people trying to seek answers and help. It is impossible to catch every single person acting in bad faith. You cannot make laws like that, it over litigates and prevents the people that need help from getting it. Those people are going to exist no matter what you do.
You never know if people are going to love your pet project as much as you do. We had a hunch the community would appreciate Willow but like I said, you just never know.

My suspicion is Espressif (until now, hah) hasn't sold a lot of ESP Boxes. We were concerned that if Willow takes off they will sell out. That already appears to be happening.

Espressif has tremendous manufacturing capacity and we hope they will scale up ESP BOX production to meet demand now that (with Willow) it exists. The only gaiting item for them is probably the plastic enclosure and they should be able to figure out how to produce that en masse :).
I've noticed the fast food places around me are back to hiring teenagers. It has been mostly people from South America in the past decade or so.
Amazon lied about partnering with Elastic, stole Elastic's closed source extensions by proxy, and used Elasticsearch's trademarked name without permission

FOSS doesn't mean you can steal their name, even in the purest forms of open source.

And the irony is AWS has mountains of closed source components that would benefit others to actually productize "OpenSearch". Under SSPL Amazon would be able to serve Elasticsearch... if they were willing to walk the walk and open source the stuff that enables their orchestration.
I've read some of CS Lewis' writings on religion. I'm an atheist married to a person of faith, so I'm interested in what the people I love find so compelling about their faith.

He's a very charismatic writer, but sneaky in his arguments. For example, my rebuttal to the above would be: "Humans are evolved from apes who are social animals. No matter what we achieve materially, we will always crave social recognition, status, and love from other humans. And because other humans are imperfect, we can never get to a state where we are perfectly loved, content, and free from the fear that these things will be taken away."

He has a similar argument in "Mere Christianity", where (I paraphrase and over-simplify) he says that whatever goodness there is in humans proves there must be a God, because otherwise why would people ever want to do anything "good" rather than just what immediately benefits them? But I feel like that has a similar response to the above - we know that evolution exists, we know we evolved from apes, and we've watched apes exhibit the same social behaviors that we do. There are many times when it makes sense to act pro-socially (to do "good" things as CS Lewis would describe them) in order to get a greater benefit (from your community) than you would by acting purely selfishly.

This doesn't make humans bad, or make it any less "good" to do good things! I don't understand the idea that these behaviors are any less good or meaningful because we do them for natural reasons rather than supernatural ones.
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I thought so too, but it makes more sense to me that "stop desiring things" is a koan, and not a literal instruction.
A koan is like a little paradox, a word problem that a student needs to solve before being allowed to the next "level". The solution is that you cannot stop desiring. Even if you try very hard, you will still have, at the very least, the desire to stop desiring. Source: I've been listening to Alan Watts
It is very difficult. I have to imagine that the 2024 US elections are going to resurrect discussions of taxpayer-funded universal childcare.
Nobody wants to be a lemming heading for the cliff. Nobody wants to be a stoneage troglodyte drinking from a lead cup.

So I have this semiconscious reaction. The logical refutations appear in dozens, without even having to think about it. Automatic reality editing.
A 36 hour outage is “amazingly short”?
I did the step down approach. Reducing my sugar by an unnoticeable amount each day, until I was down to nothing.

I did the same with foods containing sweeteners. Now, I find the taste of any sweeteners absolutely revolting, nasty chemical flavour. Hard to understand how I ever liked them.