skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single time Haidt posts something someone surely screams here: "But people said the same thing about books too!". Since I couldn't find the comments from the past thread, let me scream the usual reply: And they were right. Books, newspapers, radio, television, smartphones. All of them weakened the social bonds between people, gradually moving us away from the way of living which we were biologically designed for. The social bonds are instead got replaced by bonds with institutions and technological gadgets. But they are exactly like junk food: They appear to satisfy the desire, but are never a substitute, and always lack the critical nutrients we need.

For replies going to accuse me of intellectual hypocrisy: I do believe all technology is evil. You can accuse me of practical hypocrisy instead, since I'm a software dev.
No, but I imagine they could include some other solid mass that has a counter effect.
Bitcoin miners at Trump's event say he thinks Bitcoin can help win AI arms race
My point is that if oil extraction, refining, burning etc is taxed then no-one has to worry about any of this.

That worrying about whether doing bog standard everyday activities like turning on a computer and running a program is "bad" is just silly and even if it did work would cause mass anxiety.

It's not a sin tax, it's a tax on causing externalities. There is no need for an AI tax because AI is not in and of itself a thing which causes environmental damage.

Well, unless it goes Skynet, but I'm considering that out of scope.
I used irssi for many years before switching to weechat, which was a much more pleasant experience
I don’t know that it’s that it makes marketing easier because the clips/etc already exist. I suspect they often just don’t know how to market it without shiny screenshots.

Indies don’t have this problem. But no big companies seem to be able to not spend a ton on graphics.
To be clear: I was agreeing with and amplifying the parent comment, not disagreeing with or correcting it.
For sure.
The real world of devices is messy.

Avoiding that mess for some notion of beauty or purity only gets you so far.
Why do you find it troubling? The article doesn't claim that poor parenting and divorce doesn't have negative effects on a child. It claims that social media, amplified by technology, has had negative effects on his/her child. Technology is a double edged sword and good parenting is supposed to shield predatory action by social media companies.

I think this quotation captures the sentiment the best:
"She assessed her worth within a system where she was simultaneously attention-addicted and attention-starved. She’d internalized an algorithm where provocative content wins"
I'm usually faster at retyping a word that has a typo, than moving to the exact locations that need edits within a word. So the c-varianta are better for me.
> Saudi Arabia and China significantly reduced their investment in US bonds lately

They’re both massively deficit spending.
RE title: and somebody also said -- "The sun is still rising from the east". And after pulling their white beard, said wisely: "And water is still wet".
I like your train of thoughts.
> Because it's pretty trivial for anyone to get a 3d scan of your face without you realizing it.

Maybe we should do something about this rather than being defeatist and giving up on privacy.
Automobiles are a quarter of U.S. petroleum consumption.

And the average age of U.S. automobiles is 13 years.

EV/hybrid's effect on current oil consumption is 2% at the very, very most.
I mean, I see the crappy level of security across the whole industry. And I am working at the bank.

I am not sure what exactly the reason - even if the profit aside - but I suspect that there are not many people who are actually competent developer and security engineers.
https://archive.ph/2024.06.13-101348/https://www.newyorker.c...
Reading (getting ready to start beta reading a short story collection), writing (getting close to looking for my own beta readers), watching movies or streaming series, laundry, grocery shopping.
Well the virtual pet story had two problems! The first is that it seemed to go on forever, and the second was that it ended before the story was complete.
My teens often tell me about how teachers (really just one teacher) in their school decry the usage of smartphones. I've told them repeatedly that the next time a teacher rants about "screen time" ask to see their iOS screen time numbers. Unfortunately (and smartly) they aren't interested in poking their teacher in the eye.
Indeed, I think the country will mess with itself. America is not a cozy, isolated community that lives a happy and simple life with mostly internal trading.

America lives of a constant influx of the best global talent and a global market for its products.

I would bet my money that American democracy would not survive when that ecosystem collapses, especially not as the American system has already transitioned into an anocracy according to some. Collapse in itself would create opportunities, but not for a simple programmer as you refer to yourself.
How does Golang know time.Now?
Ofc. More weapons for Ukraine will stop the war and provide Ukraine with a better peace position.

You don't stop a bully by saying "please". They'll take your money and come back for more after.

In this case, Russians are taking your land, men, woman, children, culture and washing machines + the gas found in 2013 nearby crimea and the minerals in the most resource dense land of Ukraine ( lithium, ... ).

Here you go:

https://www.renewablematter.eu/en/ukraine-all-lithium-reserv...

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE90N11X/

If only in 2014 the international response would have been harder ( => provide weapons), Putin wouldn't have escalated 8 years later.

Providing more to Ukraine is long overdue.

> the west only cares about this to weaken russia. Weapons will only cost more lives.

Speak for yourselve. Some of my dearest friends these days are from Ukraine. ( Belgium)

While Europe is providing shelter and a life for 6 million refugees.
It's not social suicide for a kid or teen not to have a smartphone (or to limit usage), so it's solvable individually.
Nope, it is unknowable because ginko doesnt know /s
Have a look at how heat pumps work. The difference between cooling and heating is just which end you point inside or outside.

For efficiency it only matter what the delta-T with the outside environment is. Since that is typically lower when cooling than when heating, it is therefore cheaper. Just look at your power bill.
> That 200B USD is responsible for major part of the 100T USD

We are the world’s largest oil producer [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_pro...
Dear Chat-GPT, please write an article in the style of an abusive narcissistic parent with no writing skills.

Make sure she lets shine through that her child distrusts her so much that she lies and keeps secrets. The relationship between parent and child has broken down, and the child is not to blame.

Let the reader realize in not so subtle ways that the phone isn’t the actual issue, and let them realize the author is an unreliable narrator.
> my daughter is among the first generation of 10-to-14-year-olds active on social media

This makes sense if her daughter is presently 25 years old
Funny the last 3 are also among my highlights, but I would venture that they’re specifically good examples of Chiang’s ability to do character work. In various ways, they give a marvelously detailed and lyrical picture of people evolving over time, dealing with and coming to peace with circumstances and adversity.
I hope that by the time my 2 year old is in middle school, it’s fairly normal for parents to keep their kids off of social media and smart phones.
The US refines 20% of global oil. This is the most of any nation. We buy cheap crude and sell the higher quality stuff because that makes us more money. My understanding is that we could switch to refining light sweet if we ever needed to, and this would be easier than other nations doing the opposite (refining heavy sour).

The US is clearly the heavyweight globally in terms of both oil production and refining.
Sorry, I can't. My employer doesn't publish this kind of metrics, either. What I posted was definitely just some very rough number off my brain.
That was exactly my impression
Nope. You'd just want enough insulation that it didn't make a difference.
Well, I didn't read the whole article, but I can confirm that I like my daughter (14) better once her allocated phone time is up each day. She only just got the phone 6 months ago, and we limit screen time pretty severely with Google Family Link, so we think we're doing ok. We have discussed trimming the screen time down even more, since school finished up. Also, she's not doing any social media at all. Still, kids are more fun when they aren't staring at a screen (in my opinion and possibly contrary to what many believe).

I think this is obvious to any parent, right? Too much screen time bad. I know it's bad for me as well, though my current bias is heavily against technology in general - I will admit that.
Not all negative behavior is illegal...
My kids are better for their iPhones. They have no access to social media and policies in place to make sure they are tools and not sources of entertainment and addiction.

Absolutes on either end of the spectrum just lead to extremism which helps no one. This headline (the article one and the HN summary) are just extremism via reductionism. You can reduce this entire thing to a point but it deprives them of their instinctive tool using and building mentality.
There's certain things that the iPad can do relatively cheaply, but they're not things anybody in our family would use all the time, but as a quick "oh, can I just borrow the iPad to xyz?", that would be fine. Wouldn't be a daily-driver (we're NixOS nerds in this house), but I imagine a lot of households would buy one whereas they otherwise probably wouldn't. We've had Surface Pros before, but the integration of pen/pencil and software availability left a lot to be desired if you wanted a dedicated tablet rather than a 2-in-1 experience. Never bought any further Surface Pros.
It's both, although an extremely low percentage of people, IIRC, actually "cash out", most just roll the funds into a new bond once the previous one matures.
Obviously the studies doesn't define religion as mental illness. You might want to spread your hate elsewhere, as per the site guidelines[1].

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was the SolarWinds hack that gave internal access and potential admin rights. It's no different than if a domain controller gets compromised. The attacker has gained control of the keys to kingdom; it's an inherent risk to SSO.
But that was the 2-window GEM desktop, right?
Even if the US lacked refinement capacity (which is obviously not true), significant capital investment as implied by the OP is not something the U.S. lacks.
Woah! You were texting whilst driving?!
Now you can buy esim cards.
Thanks, I will look into the github repo. Although I think it's a bit confusing, since the steps you describe above lead to a requirement for the .net 8 runtime which leads to the following licensing information. It's not clear how to proceed with C# development as an open source language. I thought maybe it could be done by cloning Roslyn (MIT license) from github.

Do I need to accept the below licenses to develop a C# app? I'm not asking you specifically, just that I don't care to try and understand if I can even use the language without accepting any of the below, (anything not MIT or Apache)

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The following binaries are licensed with the Windows SDK License:

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The following binaries are licensed with the .NET Library License

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> US is now the world's largest energy producer, oil and natural gas

And Iran finds itself emboldened by renewed ties to Russia.
It's a veritable vortex of bullsh*t
Without technological refinement, solar wind battery will probably drop 1/3 on economies of scale.

Solar still has perovskites, batteries have solid state and sulfur techs still to go

I think in ten years all three of those are at least 50% cheaper adjusted for inflation

You are right, nothing else is competitive. The other forms are just inertia and niche.

I do think nuclear cannbe competitive in the right circumstances, but it won't be solid fuel rod and huge concrete dome. It'll be a ground up design with stabilized solar wind prices as a reference.

I base that only on the huge number of zeros in energy density
From the perspective of Central Europe, yielding to the decrepit Eastern empire and allowing it to conquer more territory by violence is a good way to invite more wars of conquest in the near to middle future. Moldova, the Baltics, Poland etc.

If Russia takes Ukraine, Ukrainian industrial base will be used to expand Russian military might and facilitate further wars of aggression and killing of more people.

It is not that different scenario from the one that happened in 1938-9 with Hitler and rump Czechoslovakia. Czech armament industry and Czech weapons were a welcome boost to the capabilities of Nazi Germany.

That's what you get for appeasement. A stronger and bolder enemy.
At lot of early games were something like that. They’d mostly ignore it or maybe use one SPU or shove tasks on them that really didn’t take advantage of their power at all. Just leaving a lot of performance untouched.
> the fossil fuel establishment, one of the strongest forces on the planet, would always prefer a GOP candidate over a Dem

Then Riyadh would prefer Biden. American fossil fuel producers are their competition.

(Not claiming knowledge about MBS’s preferences. Just underlining this isn’t as simple as implied.)
> one you're not insured for

Car insurance usually handles borrowing just fine.
But you also lose less velocity with the same drag.
Same Microsoft got their master authentication secret stolen and they still don't know how that happened.

It's also turned out that it's impossible to revoke or cycle that secret. The whole issue is so hushed now, I don't know what happened at the end.

Same Microsoft one of their license golden keys on some installation media, too.

Even if they're serious about security, these events don't look good.
the effect of hyperconnection is especially bad for girls. they can keep leaning into it until they fall flat on their faces. boys will tend to not engage with it to that extent even if available. its interesting that human society has been a wild and ill-advised experiment every since the introduction of agriculture. we are all going to eat nothing but carbohydrates and sit around all day, whereas yesterday we ate mostly animals and spent all of our time running around from place to place. since the start, insane and dangerous experiments have been the norm. if we choose to reject the madness, reject AI namely, it will be the first time in history. an experiment in and of itself.
You do realise my comment was a joke right? In fact, I believe HN karma exists for the sole purpose of burning it on jokes.

I mean obviously they were being downvoted because it’s nothing to do with the Dutch, it’s just a fart fort.
Yeah, not really. Both US and global oil consumption is at record highs:

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/oil-cons...

and expected to get higher:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/271823/global-crude-oil-...

(the dip is Covid)

Meanwhile:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/11/...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/a-once-unthinkable-q...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/02/business/tesla-sales/inde...

https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/ev-sales-decl...
I think the author is talking about scale. There were definitely kids with social medial accounts 15 years ago. But very few of them had personal smart phones that they could use in bed at 3am.
You guys do realize cartels are selling avocados, growing them in protected forrest, killing grounds keepers, all the while murdering majors, governors, judges, police, basically terrorizing the nation and we're worried about 99 cent for a bunch of bananas while avocados are running up to 3 dollars each?
So you mean 800B includes the principal repayment?
I'm 30 and I was on social media, just with school internet and not a smartphone.
The conferences always included representatives from other large, public companies in the same or similar industries, e.g., Apple or Amazon, as well as other, different industries. But there was always something cult-like about the folks from Microsoft, their level of BS and (deliberate?) ignorance, that I never experienced with the others.

To be clear, I could not make the same comment about Apple or Amazon businesspeople. While they may exhibit their own stigmatic qualities, they are, IME, different. Nothing like Microsoft.

Microsoft does not suffer from "delusions of grandeur". It achieved grandeur a long time ago, and then became delusional. Currently, it is either #1 or #2 on the list of the world's wealthiest companies. Comments suggesting that the company has "changed", and such comments have been popular on HN in recent years, are quite amusing.
Curious, do you have teens? Most people saying things like this don't, but if you do, curious if you've tried this and it works/ed out for you?
Less than 15% of oil is used for personal cars. The OPEC is fine.
Thanks :) Apple does many things but they don't seem to keep bees.
Will Twitter be able to recover?
Says the hot gril...

...Seriously I have a hard time seeing it your way. Can you elaborate on your rational? Change my mind?
Again, spending a lot is not the same as having large number of machinery produced. Dollar bills don't blow up BTRs, cheap energy is cool but Russia too has cheap energy. They also have cheap people who can use that cheap energy to build huge numbers of cheap stuff that blow up expensive things.

It's like India going to the moon at cost that would be considered pocket change in the USA.

Ping me when Ukrainian drones are made by US/European parts and not Chinese.
So what? Everyone who posts this xkcd meme is just vouching for the belief that torture works, when available evidence says otherwise; it's not effective on seriously committed people.

https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/why-torture-doesnt-work-...
this is crazy. so many screws are loose in boeing
Maybe I wasn't clear. I was talking about the preview panel. Sometimes I copy content of a source code (*.cpp) file, and I need to quickly look at what I have copied in the preview panel. I have to scroll a lot to look at the source code. In ClipBook I just resize the clipboard history window to see more in the preview panel without scrolling.
Up until the early 00's specially designed components could get more performance/$.

Now it's impossible to beat commodity SoCs on that front.
Neither is HN, should I stop using it too?

Btw, Telegram is E2E encrypted opt-in
If the fair distribution is that we have 150 people per square km i.e. approx 6500sqm or 1.5 acres per person, then realistically the answer has to be that some people have a lot more than that and some people have a lot less, because 1.5 acres isn't a large amount of land at all once you get outside of the city.
I think the story behind this page is interesting.
The bittersweet story of how we stopped acid rain (2019)
Always bet on Javascript and the dollar.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/06/dollar-doomsters-hav...
It worked when I was a teen (not very long ago) and nearly everyone else had smartphones. I think the people who consider it social suicide are unconvinced that smartphones are a problem to begin with, which like I said is fine if they want that.
Not being on Social Media at < 14 is extremism? The same verb used to describe terrorists?
>but now that it is happened ... looks like nothing changed? Oil prices, the US dollar and the markets seem stable?

It's not a falling meteor, it's an trade/agreement/commercial change.

The impact of this takes months or even years to fully develop, and cascades with other factors.
Nature is the heritable part nurture is the "seems easiest to change" part.

Of course turns out that gene-environment interactions are common and complicated, so most of the things are mixed.

Brain development takes about 20 years, driven by genes, but the environment is extremely important to help people to learn how to get most out of that setup they got.

This is most evident in learning disabilities, for example stimulants are regularly described as life-changing by ADHD folks.
If all the kids in the peer group have no cell phones, solving the mental health crisis would be easy. As long as some kids have access, the others will feel like they are being deprived of something fundamental, will resent their parents and will look for any opportunity to get on social media.

A technological solution is to have complete control over the computing devices we "own". But that goes against the interests of trillion dollar corporations and so we can't have that.

Like I was figuring out if there is a way to let my kid use Youtube with a select set of channels, but no. Youtube needs to keep showing suggestions on what to watch next. I would gladly pay for the ability to control what content my kid sees, but Youtube stands to make more profit by getting the kid addicted to their app.
social media ban for kids goes into effect in Florida in 2025.

I already forbid my kids from using any social network.

They can use youtube with supervision.

Social media is poison for young minds. Older minds too but thats another issue.
> There’s a meme going around certain circles that the USD is doomed and everyone is going to use….Yuan, Rubles? The Euro? Yen?

Many people (usually envious ones) want the USD dominance to go and repeat the meme/lie to the point of believing it themselves.

It’s just a new way of ranting, and this topic is very common with conspiracy theorists.
I'd rather have ads than pay. Better get money from some inept company marketing budget than from my own pocket.

To each their own - except thanks to the EU we're all forced to choose cookie banner popups and get less ads revenue -> pushing more paid products.
To the OP's point, without some collective support, I don't anticipate this happening.

In fact, you'll likely have to deal with this as early as elementary school.
It's practically considered child abuse these days to not give them a smartphone. I'm only slightly exaggerating. I think kids would be better off without them altogether.
This is a vestige of the 1970s, it isn't particularly relevant in a world where the US is an oil and gas producing juggernaut. The geopolitics of oil are very different than they once were. The conspiracy theories around the petrodollar have always been a bit overwrought.

It is no different than China divesting US treasuries. There were people that asserted this would be apocalyptic but there was nothing substantive behind those fears. And then it actually happened and no one noticed.