joconde

> You'll probably leave your home at dark in the morning and will return again at dark.

That's what happened in my high school years in France, which still changes clocks twice a year. Wake up in complete night, take the bus and wait for classes to start under yellow lightbulbs, then go out in the sun for the first time in the day at noon.

I don't understand why people are afraid that this will bring what was already happening.

Note that this won't work with reasonably performant CNNs. Passing an image batch through a large-ish ResNet takes half a second on our GPUs, several minutes at full load on CPU. This makes training infeasible, and most models small enough to work on CPU are so far from state-of-the-art that you can't do any worthwhile computer vision research with them.

It's great, but how can one trust the unofficial clients? They aren't from a well-known developer, and AFAIK, you can't check that the build is from the same code as the GitHub repo.

How do we know that shorter sleep causes lower mortality, instead of, say, that better health or some genes cause both?

Even if we assume that correlation is causation, I haven’t seen much of that evidence.

That site is half hypotheses made up by the author, and half irrelevant things like "this study proves that you won't die sooner if you cut 2 hours of sleep". Nothing in there indicates that sleeping less won't lead to less physical ability.

I only skimmed for references after the comparison with junk food, hunger, and cavemen. It truly sounds like they are making this up as they go along.

> Porn is almost as unavoidable as ads

Where are these ads? I never see pornographic ads in my daily browsing.

> The dopamine response to seeing porn is similar to crack (4).

That doesn't prove anything about harmfulness. I think it was already obvious that humans are hardwired to be attracted to sex. Nothing in these links suggests that this response creates to an addiction similar to hard drugs.

> Pornography is categorically more dangerous to society than ads, tracking, and privacy invasions.

I don't accept that based on your sources.

> Kids are generally stupider than adults.

Nope, by any measure, smart kids are way smarter than most adults I encounter. People who throw basic logic out the window because they want to believe that something is a certain way for emotional reasons often behave worse than kids.

Not all kids of course, but I think I've known more reasonable kids than reasonable adults overall.

> Stupid people are happier then smart people.

I know people who are much smarter than me and seem genuinely happy all the time.

I think it's more about how strong one's social mesh is, how happy people in one's entourage are, and one's own approach to life. If you're very smart and surrounded by smart people who you also like, you're happy.

I think we should shut HN down now before someone actually gives ad companies new ideas.

I’m skeptical about that 5 degree bet. What’s your source?

One side clearly wanted WWII. Not sure about the first one.

Might be. Depends on your personality.

If I were behind schedule I would try to scrape StackOverflow so I don't get cut off from it.

Edit: maybe someone's scraper was too efficient.

On the other hand, if pre-iPhone Apple could invest into inventing the iPhone, I don't see why today's Apple could balk at a new effort of this kind, since today's Apple is vastly richer.

How much did the original iPhone and iPad cost to create? I imagine it would be an easy effort for 2022 Apple, and even a total failure would not dent their revenue by much. I can't imagine Cook being unable to do it.

They claim that "You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because [...]", so their definition implies that people's ability to switch from one to the other is limited. I don't think that's a reasonable thing to claim without evidence.

> You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because you have a time in your life where you prefer to be alone. Extroverts don't become introverts while grieving the death of a loved one.

These are hypotheses that I wouldn't rely on to give advice. It could discourage someone who is dissatisfied with themselves from trying to change. Who says it's impossible? Your personal experience, or observing people around you, or a study on 1000 people?