skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, I can see how starting the graph in 2005 feels misleading. On the other, past high rates don’t necessarily invalidate theories about the current spike.

Another way to frame this is that whatever factors were leading to teen suicides in the early 90s improved.

The question now is: are the same factors in play? The fact that rates were higher is not by itself a good reason to conclude that Haidt’s theory is wrong. The world has changed drastically, and a new upward trend is still a problem even if it never reaches previous highs. At a minimum, it indicates that something is going in the wrong direction after apparently going in the right direction for awhile.

Could the current trend be caused by the same factors in 1990s? Possible, but it’s also possible that social media is the problem in the same way airplanes cause global pandemics.

Even if the reasons are the old ones, we have a new operating environment to contend with.
My workout buddy at the Y related the following story to me this morning:

Yesterday his 11-year-old daughter was without her phone because she was being punished for something or other. They did various activities throughout the day and my buddy noticed that his daughter was noticeably happier and more engaged than she usually was -- he mentioned looking at ferrets at the mall and playing a card game, etc.

He said that had she had her phone with her then there is no way she would have been as interested and engaged in the world as she was that day and that she would have been smiling and laughing less and just been generally less happy overall.

But, nevertheless, she continually begged for her phone back throughout the day.

He had noticed this pattern over time, my buddy said, and it was like you could just give her the phone and then watch her become withdrawn, sad, and angry, or you could take the phone away and watch her become smiling, happy, and engaged but then also beg to have her phone back so that she could be withdrawn, sad and angry.

Just for more context, she was adopted out of the foster care system about five years ago and she seems to need to create a lot of drama at school for some reason.
I have actually seen the protocol specs for both IPv4 and IPv6. IPv6 is simpler than IPv4 - but you probably never looked into how to do source address routing which you are required to support when you implement IPv4 even though nobody uses it (If you try I'm sure that the large backbone providers will block it)
I didn't get the chance to use NT 3/4 but maybe that's for another day!

I still remember the day my father installed Windows 3.1, pure magic. I have never used any GUI OS before that (that was DOS and then we went straight for Win 3.1).
In these cases no. It was stupidity of a different kind on my part, but never where I was in danger. For example I added a flexible ruler to one of my jigs without thinking about the fact that it was metal. The ruler (which I happened to be touching at the other end) touched the blade, so in essence the saw thought I was touching the blade.

Prior to owning the SawStop though I have had some close calls that would have been much less painful and dangerous had I been using a SawStop.
Probably that there's an underlying common cause that means the effect disappears when you analyze the data properly. For example, if screen time is caused by lack of parental presence and lack of parental presence is caused by poverty and poverty also causes depression, then a naive analysis would find a correlation but a proper analysis or meta-analysis would subtract out the common causes of poverty and parental absence and find no effect.
These type of comments almost always come from non-parents.

In a way, they are right. You can raise your kids without influence of social media but that is not easy or cheap. It would definitely require homeschooling. One of the parent will need to be stay at home parent. Probably need to avoid urban and suburban areas where kids can easily hangout with neighborhood kids. Avoid social gatherings where other kids will have access to social media. Basically, unrealistic for most of the people.

Or we as society can come together and regulate social media, just like how we do with alcohol, cigarettes, speed limits, etc. Yes, there is less freedom in this but living in societies always had some freedoms removed.
Yup. We worked on a shared SMB server that had nightly backups. If we borked something bad enough to need to pull one of the backups it was an ordeal that involved calling (on the telephone) and potentially waking our IT guy who lived in Juneau Alaska

Putting a site live just involved FTP-ing the files up to one our shared webservers.
Oh, we are using ad hominems now, great. My answer is 0 (zero).

Now the counter question - how much money did you personally contribute directly (taxes don't count) to any alternative to anything you were dissatisfied with? Name the issue and the amount. If you will not name at least one issue, I will consider that lie (deliberate or by omission).

And the second question to you - how the hell is YOUR question even relevant to the discussion of Google's browser monopoly?
This is from way before 2021, not sure where the submitter got that year from.
(FWIW, as a European…)

> 1. Remove state income tax outside of cities >100k people

> 3. Waive property taxes for farms & factories in towns <25k people

Given how the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" — along with all the other things people think of when they imagine Las Vegas — isn't in the city of Las Vegas but rather in the unincorporated town of Paradise, Nevada, I think this kind of thing will be immediately gamed.

> 2. Add high import tariffs on all goods

Autarchy is ever tempting, almost everyone who tries it regrets it.

> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years

Why would those help? Cities can also have factories, why would factory owners move back to rural places given the people already left, and until the factories move why would the people? Why do migrants matter at all for this?

> 4. Move federal spending from military to infrastructure such as rail, roads & internet.

I like rail and internet, and I (begrudgingly) get roads. I can even see the value of having the engineering corp doing some of their exercises in the form of making infrastructure for civilian use.

Don't get how this will help "rural" (which seems like the wrong term for 25/100k population settlements) America.
Shell seems great until your tens of lines in googling every other line of obscure error-prone syntax.
> This doesn't leave me confident of the security of any data in Microsoft's possession.

Why would you have ever had confidence in them? They have by far the worst cloud in terms of security, and it isn't even close.

A random selection of serious security incidents:

just from Wiz from the past 2-3 years, and of course they aren't the only ones:

https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-o...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v...

of course Microsoft AI researchers sucking at security: https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-acciden...

Nice overview from Corey Quinn that predates some of those but things were already horrifically bad: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures-terrible-security-...

Oh and there's also this, them selling your usage patterns to partners (hopefully they've stopped): https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1359769481539506180

Oh and another one where they bungled the response: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1536868170815795200

I find it impossible to believe that Azure as a whole organisation takes security seriously. There might be individuals that do, but definitely nobody with decision making power. Half of the above described exploits are trivial and should have never passed any sort of competent review process.
Martin Kleppmann (author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications) has a great article in the same vein: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...
Yellen Junks 200 Years of Economics to Block China Clean Tech
I think I'm missing something here. How does looking at transaction history as a directed graph help anything? Is it an improvement on the centuries-old "double-entry" practice?

It seems to barely work with the toy example of couple transactions - imagine what the graph would look like with dozens or hundreds of edges between pairs of nodes. What use would there be for the typical algorithms that work with graphs?

This feels a bit like using pliers as a hammer. Sure, you can, I guess -- but why?
That doesn't indicate that she was right just that the moral panic was effective.
Ah I wasn't gonna do computer vision.

It's just, if someone says "I use protection with strangers, I test twice a year, I'm on prep" then it only tells you that they were negative a couple months before their last negative test. What if they have unprotected sex with a steady partner, who has unprotected sex with a steady partner, who hasn't been tested since a one-night stand where they maybe forgot to follow procedures with a stranger?

If you can draw a circle around a group of people and say that none of them have sex outside the circle anymore, and they all tested negative a few months after their last encounter outside the circle, it should be fine. With monogamy that circle is two people. If you can't draw that circle, the math gets confusing quick. How many degrees between me and a bug chaser?

This has bothered me a lot lately.
https://archive.is/NEhqB
You can QLoRA decent models on 24GB VRAM. There’s also optimised kernels like Unsloth that are really VRAM efficient and good for hobbyists.
The interlocutor doesn't matter. You shouldn't trust anyone as a general rule and you don't need to trust Musk or Gleenwald as they are not the only ones talking about this.

> The subject is Musk.

You tried to make it so but the subject is authoritarianism in Brazil.
There's even the option of a battery powered receiver that you can then plug any wired headphones into, eg:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/AGPtek-Streambot-Mini-Bluetooth-W...
hey! deco.cx co-founder here :)
super glad that you liked it. Yes, we are planning a way to import content from WordPress and other CMS - probably later this year. Right now we are focused on improving the open-source dev experience, and launching deco hub, a better way for the community to build, install and share templates and apps :)
python is a particularly bad choice for things that are not supposed to break; the python maintainers have adopted a new policy of intentionally breaking new things every release. recent casualties include asyncore, distutils, and imp

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#removed

there are people who foolishly depend on python for things that need to work. i hope that at some point they band together behind a fork that doesn't pull this kind of nonsense, but for the time being, that hasn't happened. if you wrote stuff in python in 01995 or 02000 or 02005 it probably still worked in 02015, but today, basically no python from before 02015 works
As a parent of young children, I'm trying hard not to be the "but this time is different" guy, but it sure feels like this time is different. Just look around any "real world" setting and almost every single person is staring at their little dopamine-releasing devices.
Fewer "cum"s than I expected: https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6IiBjdW0gIiwiY29...

It's missing a couple of my favourites such as Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassingbourn_cum_Kneesworth) and Shingay cum Wendy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingay_cum_Wendy). Perhaps they are too small to count.

EDIT: Shingay and Wendy are listed as separate villages. Silly me!
It is, but when people bemoan lack of meaning/purpose they're just talking about feelings. It's a sensory thing, the rationalizations are just an attempt to explain and make sense of it.

We're bad at predicting what makes us happy and even worse at making sound judgements through negative emotions. Those in the middle of such an experience don't want to believe that their habits are exacerbating or responsible for their problems, because change is uncomfortable. They want to continue to feed addiction.
They do, but it doesn't work very well. For example, if I go into "find my device" it says my buds are at the gym. When I lost them a few months ago it said they were at the hospital, but I eventually found them at home.
Your goal using a social media platform is to get the most usefulness out of it in the least amount of time.

Their goal (with very large $$$ incentive) is that you spend the maximum amount of time on the platform (so that they can show you the maximum amount of ads)

Those 2 goals are at odds, in a relationship where the balance of power is very much in favour of the platforms, who deploy adversarial methods to maximise "engagement".

At some point, something has to give. Namely our collective mental health.
But spinning hard drive and SSDs are not working at the byte level, but at a power of two block. 512B to 4kiB usually.

You purchase a number of those blocks, and the total amount of byte is a power of two.

The filesystem then stores everything in it's own blocks, composed of one or more disk/SSD blocks.

Files on disk therefore consume a number of blocks, making their storage usage a power of two (the real size can by anything of course).

And you might as well align blocks to memory pages when buffering/reading/writing the filesystem. Since you must align memory access for performances with CPU cache, RAM is loaded/stored itself in blocks of 256 or 512 bits those days (yes reading one byte from RAM will rapatriate that much) etc.

That's a lot of power or two (you could argue power of 12 [4kiB]) designed everywhere.
The problem with this approach is that often for any sort of "Enterprise" deal the contract varies wildly, not just in agreed pricing terms but in length and terms and conditions. For example I've inked contracts where there were additional terms covering availability and refunds, severability, liability, and so on. This isn't unusual, but it usually does impact the price to some extent.

Additionally for large contracts there is often feature work or support in the form of bespoke software deliverables.

It's one thing if you, the SaaS, know what your price is, and everyone is more or less paying the same, in which case this tool works. But otherwise without all the additional contract nits it's not going to paint a clear picture.
Pretty cool, so that's what AI thinks of my resume
Looks like a good tool for dealing with ffmpeg's infamous variety of command line options. Just curious, how much are you contributing upstream?
> This argument that social media is destroying the youth is the same old tale as old as time. Everything has been destroying the youth and rotting their brains since before anyone on this page was born.

So therefore nothing will ever truly destroy our youth?

Obviously not literally, but I can see how social media can have a much more measured negative impact on youth vs. all the things above.

I don’t think any of the other things you mention have ever been blamed for also “destroying“ adults, but I’d argue there is evidence that social media is having a measured negative impact on all of society. But especially youth.
101st Airborne soldiers are first to receive new Next Gen Squad Weapon
> They’re fundamentally different types of things happening.

Long term capital gains and dividends are taxed at the same rate in the US. If a company doesn't currently pay dividends its stock price goes up because of a combination of:

a) inflation

b) the expectation of future dividends

c) stock buybacks (a dividend by another name)

So long term capital gains are mostly either dividends or the expectation of dividends.

> capital gains can only occur when you sell something you bought

The ultra-rich can borrow against appreciated assets and never sell. Their heirs inherit much of it tax free and with a stepped up cost basis.
If you live an hour from an emergency room, all kinds of urgent things will become more fatal statistically and lower life expectancy. Stroke, heart attack, trauma. EMS pays careful attention to the "golden hour" of receiving definitive care being a survival factor. If you have to wait longer for transport (because you're rural) and then wait longer to arrive at the ER, then your hour may be up before you're even seen.

One mitigating factor is rural EMS sometimes has more advanced care options (allowed by their medical director) than urban BLS because they know it's a long ride.
Exactly.

Coincidentally. just saw that google was releasing new tools to do this exact type of thing. simple video snippets for presentations.
for real. enterprising kids had access to porn in the 80s - via dad's stash. i was there.
there are many loosely typed languages that are used professional (in addition to PHP). dynamic typing it has its pros and cons but that doesn't stop it from being used professionally.
A Group of Artists Built an Apartment Inside a Mall, and No One Noticed
I'd like to see one room with art done by the staff, or their art mixed in with special labels on it.
4g is harder probably
It's one of those things you saturate your brain with for a few days, then put it down, and two weeks later in the shower you figure it out.
It seems only Americans are struggling with the guns issue, so your conclusion falls very flat
What do you find annoying about these people?
Everyone should do their own accounts. I've been doing it for over 12 years and I'm so glad I've kept up with it.

I don't bother keeping my ledger immutable, though. The point about immutability is that whatever happened is immutable (because it's in the past; it already happened!) and the ledger should just reflect that. So if I somehow made a mistake in my ledger I just correct it. I keep my ledger in git so that does record changes to the ledger itself, but I rarely, if ever, need to access these.
Though interestingly there is a "Portsmouth" in West Yorkshire which is neither a port, nor at the mouth of any river or estuary.
tempeh (also made of soy). rice and beans. chickpeas.
With the right blade, I would think that is possible. When a piece of wood kicks back and hits me it leaves a bruise through the clothing I wear. If a piece of aluminum kicks back and hits me, I imagine it would be nearly fatal.
There is a constellation of companies (living and dead) that have attempted to solved this problem in different ways because everyone thinks we're doing it wrong. The reality is every company has different needs. There isn't (will never be?) a one-size-fits-all approach to deployments because they're the fun intersection of people/process/technology.

The best deployment pipeline is the one that no one notices. Everything else is yak shaving/bike shedding.
The recent Twitter drama over a use of a word is all you need to see how bad things are. It takes nothing to get a mob of mentally ill people on your case which can have a psychological toll on anyone especially teenagers. And if you try to reason with such people you just get sent down a rabbit hole.

We need to have limits on what we allow our brain to process the same way we do for our body with ultra-processed foods by avoiding fast food restaurants as nothing is totally erased and everything nudges your mood and beliefs whether you feel it or don't.
Those dollars need to be both exchanged and intermingled with different dollars, and unlinked from the illicit source before depositing into the electronic financial system

I don’t think financial institutions care as much as you’re assuming, and there are alot of types of organizations that count as institutions - where the whole anti money laundering regime relies on trusting that the other institution vetted the money - but assuming they do care, it means avoiding them in alot of ways

I still think reintegration can be done with just cash payment, and cash investment into a revenue producing business. But what you’re saying does rely on the recipient also not depositing into a bank for some time until there are enough other dollars intermingled too. What’s “enough”?
If TV turned everything into entertainment, including discourse, then social media has turned every discourse into being an influencer. I frequently see people at a coffeeshop set up cameras like they are filming a TV show to talk about their latte or muffin for Instagram. This happens everywhere in all walks of life. Any hobby, no matter how esoteric, will be molded into the shape of good for instagram.
I want to be excited about it, but we'll really need more details apart from Qualcomm allowing it to exist (they're... problematic with long-term support https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits... ) and performance being "great, just look at this object detection". They had the opportunities to drop a number from any benchmark they want... and they didn't. That's worrying.
They are not that centralized, I think there are parts like hatching the chickens, but for example Finland with population of 5,5 million has 230 farms producing eggs. Which I think is plenty of producers.
>"give me a test harness for user profiles" "give me a secure login process" "give me a SSO service"

> Internal support portals for enterprise passwords? Dumb password rotation rules, 6-8 character limits, and chrome complaining about obsolete ssl suite usages.

I'm curious as to why these would require some outside security group to deal with? These all seem like issues that should be solved either by someone in the devops category.

Update your dependencies, disable unused protocols, have a QA guy find your improper memory glitches, and now 99% of the security establishment is irrelevant to you. These are operational issues. Most security issues are just operational issues.
It’s trivial to build your own with some basic soldering skills. I’m curious to see how this shakes down over the coming decades.

I built some non-compliant (also non-autonomous) 450g drones before the 250g weight limit. They’re only for acrobatics at treetop level or below. It’s kind of silly IMO that this style is required to have a transponder now. This is speaking as someone who flies planes.

For the store bought ones that require no forethought - I am glad those are regulated.
Very well written

> No services for government, schools, health available only on proprietary and "smart" platforms

I wish this were a movement, I feel very strongly about this.
Ever heard of Checkpoint technologies? They sell commercial infra-red in-situ inspection systems that seem superficially similar to what you're developing.

https://checkpointtechnologies.com/
That just sounds like SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), but nobody dares to utter that word because it makes them seem old.
Confession: I hate that. Hate it. It does fiddly magic at package installation time and then there’s zero indication that anything’s happened. It’s magic. When I’m looking at the end result, there’s no hint whatsoever at how those new URLs are being handled. Did Python somehow learn csvbase://? Pandas? Where’s that coming from? How do I fix it if it breaks?

Please don’t do that.

Edit: Explicit patching would be just fine, like:

from my_project import csvbase_patch
csvbase_patch()

p = pandas.pd(“csvbase://…”)

Then there’s a giant indicator inside the same module that there’s magic happening. If I cmd-f “csvbase”, the magic string in the URL, I’ll stumble across that patch function. Then I can jump to its definition to see what’s happening.

This is Python. Hidden monkeypatching isn’t how we do things.
I'm not sure that visualizing bookkeeping as a graph is helpful, it makes it really hard to tell what's going on and you lose the time dimension. What if you instead used a table to show movement of funds by transaction, and only used a graph to model the "aggregate result" of a set of transactions?