skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"screen time" is so general though. What were they doing on the screens?

Sure, I know plenty of parents who stick their kids on YouTube with no monitoring, who end up watching Jake Paul for hours.

But I also know plenty of parents whose kids spend their screen time drawing in paint apps, playing with redstone creations in Minecraft, and generally doing stuff that I (as a parent of 2 who aren't quite that age yet) would LOVE my kids to be doing.

I'm sure the former is more common than the latter, but I wish articles like this weren't so "screen time is BAD" and would differentiate and encourage parents to instead push their kids towards educational-but-entertaining screentime.

If I hadn't spent my entire childhood on screens learning to code in BASIC and playing in Paint, I wouldn't have had my career, which has now let me support my family and give them a comfortable life (whereas I grew up in poverty).
Yep, they have it covered already.

I lived in Northern Virginia for 8 years.

It's got a mediocre quality of life compared to other tech centers, extremely high cost of living, horrific traffic, and has a talent pool that is inflated on paper due to the misaligned incentives of the Federal government workforce (Federal government workers are promoted and hired based on arbitrary checkmarks like Masters degree: yes/no, etc) which cause people to pursue worthless graduate degrees for pay bumps. This is why there are so many diploma mill type schools with campuses there. Add in the incredible over-staffing of Federal projects (both gov't and contractor) and you get incredibly mediocre talent where a "full stack web developer" produces very little over 3 years and has an atrophied skill set. Forced me to hire based on side projects and active Github projects to weed out the huge amount of mediocrity.

Bezos has political aspirations, and honestly, this makes sense from the perspective of already having massive data center presence there. He will now have large numbers of employees added to both Maryland and Virginia, giving him much more influence with Congress since congressman in general kiss the ass of large employers in their districts.

Hopefully, he could have some positive influences on the Federal gov't, by having a contracting wing from Amazon that would help fix the awful, bloated, IBM-like state of the Federal agencies. They used to do great things, but like IBM, they have calcified into jobs programs with dead-sea effect staffing.
Firefox OS is open source. KaiOS is closed source.

KaiOS may be a continuation of the same product, but it's not a continuation of the same project.
Year of the Moon Rabbit - bit like our April Fool's Day, to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Why Epik welcomed Gab.com
Trade wars bringing updated versions of Yellow Peril narratives into the 21st century.
If it is a valuable piece, I don't see how a hole in the back is going to hurt its value as long as it's done well (symmetrical placement, sanded and finished, etc).
I agree with most of what you said, but we might be looking at it from different angles.

Especially want to zero in on this:

>I'd personally rather the people who are hostile to new ideas or critical thinking have their own communities

A fact that you don't seem to have in your mind here is that often those people are the majority.

So you'll have majorities voting in mods who are hostile to new ideas and critical thinking.

With this platform we still get lock-in of polarized thinking and echo chambers.
The major end-of-life event for smaller gas stations near me is the underground tanks becoming uncertifiable.

You may have found that the existing infrastructure was a liability, not an asset.
Look up “Deep Frying” - this is totally a thing in Western net culture, too.
I suppose what I'm really trying to get at is that these terms are simplified and only seem to mean anything in the context of someone who does some variant of a full-time job or series of full-time contracts for decades.

It assumes the front-loading of work punctuated with either long periods, or a complete (final) period, of mostly nothing.

Imagine a theoretical person that inherits 10 million dollars. If they never take a full-time job and instead just do the odd thing here and there, paid, unpaid, doesn't really matter, are they retired?

If you're a contractor and sometimes work and sometimes don't, are you continually coming into and going out of retirement?
Alexa, surveil the American public.
A book that I have read and has changed my life is: "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast" by Laura Vanderkam. This book changed my "overtime work" from being a night-owl, fighting for efficiency, to early bird (catching the worm) in just a few days.

The aforementioned book in combination with "The art of not giving a f..." by Mark Mason, and the "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferris made me change my working habits to the better/more productive.

I now spend more time on journaling on my ideas/results, and find myself being more focused. I guess that journaling is "some kind of writing" (I am not a writer), but it helps that when I write and immediately read something (a paragraph, numbers, rough pen-and-paper diagrams,bell-shaped-curves/sweet spots).

I suggested the "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast" book to (former) fellow night-owls to switch their 10pm-2am routine to a 6am-10am. Most who actually tried it are enjoying the benefits. I do understand that this depends also on other factors (health, workouts, driving kids to school, daily commute, walking the dog, morning workouts) but a balance can be achieved so that one can fit a 3-hour-work without impacting other functions.
From what i recall of the thread, (1) there was one thing in the String API that looked like it wouldn't play well with SSO, and (2) nobody provided really solid data showing that SSO was a consistent win.

The discussion seemed to me to support the conclusion that Rust will not introduce SSO right now, but the conclusion the maintainers actually drew was that Rust will not introduce SSO ever. Of course, that could always be revisited!
I've visited dozens of farms and factories, and they without-a-doubt inspired me to become a geek in the first place. I absolutely loved seeing how things worked as a kid, pulling things apart, and growing up with a technical dad who took us to farms and factory tours and stuff.

Seeing automation at factories is what got me into robotics and science fiction. Seeing the awesome machines at farms (massive tractors, trashers, large scale crop watering, etc) blew my mind, and got me into mechanics and vehicle tech. I now hack on cars as my primary hobby (both mechanically, and electronically).
The living room is reflects how you want guests to think you live. The family room reflects how you really live.
Appearing in an XKCD comic: Achievement unlocked. :-)
There's been a few stories & comments about the Qi Fast charging not working except on approved chargers - defaulting to 5W rather than 10W.

I've looked for (but can not find) some graphs showing what a 5W vs 10W wireless charge over time actually looks like. I assume it's non-linear, and it's not a 2x factor at any battery %. For all the talk it's odd there's no good actual numbers though.
The World According to Stanisław Lem (2016)
While it's true that the barriers to entry are quite similar in both (Eth 2.0 PoS depost is approx the same as 1 good bitcoin ASIC).

However, the dynamics wrt capital are different in PoW, and it's probably more accurate to say that it represents proof of captial _burned_ (miner depreciation & electricity costs).
an interesting dynamic is that advanced parental controls came with newer versions only, with no backport.

Kids tend to get handed down devices, so for some families there will be a significant lag between the availability of the fine grain controls and the day their kids will be subjected to it.

Apple is generaly good with retro-compatibility so less a complaint than just an observation.
Hmm, interesting, Moto Camera automatically detects and provides the QR code text/info. I guess I took it for granted and thought it was stock Google photo app.
Just as with any medium, regardless of the life expectancy of the data storage - you'll still need a method to read it out.

Assuming you can store data in this for >1,000 years - and it is found, how can it be read?

Also, can you take this encoding method and get it spliced into say, the DNA of algea which will reproduce it?

Or maybe into yeast?
Grew up on the old continent. Except for the family room/front porch, this is almost the exact layout of my parents' house. Any they built it in the 80s. Even if I would build my own today... piano room would be there. Maybe mixing it Piano/Library.
Depending on the mental state of the kid, “doing something” might not be better in every case.
It does, I don't know how easy they are to set up. When an iPad is shared with kids and grown-ups, the grown-ups aren't going to want it to be locked down. It also won't solve the problem of inappropriate content within an app like YouTube. You've probably seen the stories about the creepy stuff that could be found even within YouTube Kids.
Same here. At first I thought it was the hug of death, but I feel like with p2p it should only get faster as more people join?

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Actually a good point. If I had the money I would buy up antiques as long as they are compatible with modern lifestyle/living space dimensions.
There is no mining of cryptocurrencies. You are spending CPU cycles to compute a proof so spamming the network with user actions is non-zero cost.
mining activity follows the price.
What do you want the money for?
I "like the money" - but can break it down into a load of "reasons"
1) I'd like to retire and enjoy life. I'll happily obsess over pension pot sizes, incomes, retirement dates and all the rest.
2) Paying off the mortgage. If I stop earning, I'll be homeless. Once I've paid that f'er off, I can choose to do things I want to do, rather than have to.
3) "Cock-waving" - If I earn more than somebody, I'm "better" than them. Or conversely, if I feel I'm better but earn less - rage.

What makes me feel better is actually thinking about my goal.
Day to day I'll get obsessed with the minutiae, but stepping back I realize I'm pretty easy going.
I want to pay off my existing house, have the ability to cover by relatively simple costs until I pop my clogs, and have freedom.

You mention "your goal" - what is it, and why have you chosen it?
I think, it will be put in it own category, when it properties will be discovered, but it still will be on material side, not a pure energy.

Everything is fiction at hypotheses generation phase. It will be science only when it will be confirmed by an experiment and reproduced by some one else and withstand critics. String theory requires extra-dimensions, which are never seen, while my theories are doesn't, so they are less fictional.
I have to agree on you regarding OS threads, although there are places, but they're processes.
For long names, most names have an abbreviation like call-with-current-continuation has call/cc, and in any case, you can make your own abbreviation using make-rename-transformer so this shouldn't be an issue
Your statement is incredibly naive and ignorant.

The Federal government pays incredibly well, but has few technology workers. They instead primarily act as managers for embedded contractors, who themselves are paid far above average for a given role.

Additionally, AWS already has a DoD presence.

Source: Lived in DC area for 8 years, worked on numerous federal contracts, witnessed highly overpaid, lazy shitbags who were so incompetent that government shutdowns forcing them to stay home sped up work on contracts.

Amazes me how the "government workers are underpaid" meme is so strong in people who haven't spent time in DC area.

I grew up in an impoverished rural part of Virginia 6 hours from DC. Going home and seeing my hard working relatives scrape by and do without after paying taxes, then going back to DC and seeing people who arrived at work at 9, left at 3:30, and yapped half the day made me transform from Leslie Knope to Ron Swanson.

I always tell people this:

The US political parties have it wrong. One thinks gov't is always bad and shouldn't exist. The other thinks it is fine, but just needs more money.

The reality is that it is a broken organization that used to be amazing, but has rotted, and the last thing it needs is more money. It needs to be radically reformed and reinvented. End rant.
Did you write this?

I want to use arrows instead of ASDW.

Put a link to the online version in the readme.

Add a random match option, so you get paired with an stranger if you can't find a friend now. (and perhaps a bot)

It would be nice to see the race after it has been finished, to see both players moving.

Looking at the maze generation gives some cues about how to solve the maze.

You have a typo in https://github.com/HenryDavidZhu/MazeBattles.com/blob/11dd8e...
100%. My move from SF to DC was mind-blowing in the general expectations set on developers. Without hyperbole, a year of output at most gov't contracts is a couple weeks worth of work at a typical startup.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525927
Books Used in Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT MBA?
Which books are used in the top MBA Programs? I want to learn it by myself. Thanks very much!
>Also, some nyt writer that’d never been there called it the Brooklyn of DC which was hilarious.

Meanwhile, Columbia Heights and Eastern Market will probably see their gentrification rapidly accelerate since they're a short Blue or Yellow line ride away on WMATA. H street will probably be safe since Washingtonians seems to have a pathological fear or switching lines during their commute and it's closest to a Red line station (Union Station).
> (And now I also wonder if any compilers and VMs precompute hashes for map and object keys.)

I don't think i've ever come across one that does. But then, in most situations where they could, they can do something even more efficient anyway. Fast JS compilers replace an object's hashtable with a dense array of fields, accessed by index. Lots of language implementations do method lookup in a vtable, rather than a dictionary.
Umm. Yes. Most normal people have no idea Google isn’t the internet, I’m guessing.
Most of the people with clearances are already working at major consulting firms in the area.
But how many IAD -> SEA flights are there?

It's always been the case that DCA has a limited number of long haul flights.

It's nice to be able to WMATA to the airport but IAD is a short Uber away from Crystal City.
Choose C over C++ for Writing Simple Libraries
Hahaha! Way to bring some levity to an otherwise humdrum stream of comments.
I lived in Crystal City for a few years. Perfect place for it.
The article does mention short string optimization: “One clever optimization is to store small strings directly instead of allocating and referencing a chunk.“

In fact it links to the same post, so perhaps it was added in response to your comment?
I hate these BOGO offers. I was so close to buying it but saw the offer. So I stopped, called up bunch of friends, one was looking to buy Pixel 3 but already had Project Fi.

We did more research and it looked like we could still get this offer as long as we get a new line for 30 days. Seemed a bit crazy but there were people on Reddit who had confirmed this with customer service.

So again ready to place order and there is new post on Reddit where it claimed that customer service is now saying you cannot deactivate the 3rd line. Time to do more research.

Friend backed out. I am waiting for people who bought extra phone for the deal to start selling their phones. Or maybe I will wait for Black Friday deals or get LG G7 ($400 after $150 service credit).

I wish Google had released it for just $400 without BOGO deal. This whole thing was such a waste of time.
This is true of pretty much every author.
One of the reasons that the percentage of users who have JS enabled continually goes up is because web developers make their sites non-functional when JS is disabled.
Actually it will be blocked because most people don’t want a “car free future” in the first place, they want cars. It’s sort of like people who talk about a meatless future, who forget that not everyone shares their desires. It’s also worth pointing out that while cars certainly contribute to turning Earth into a “hellbiscuit” as you say, they’re not the major driving force. The energy sector, industrial activity, forestry and agriculture, account for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation from trains to ships, plains, trucks and commuter cars is 14%. Now the numbers do change depending on source, and in some cases transportation can be as high as 20%, ~60% of which is from cars.

If everyone on Earth gave up their cars, we’d still be heading facefirst into the proverbial wall where climate change is concerned. It would certainly help if we could switch a lot of fossil fuel burning to clean sources of energy, and switch to EV’s powered by that clean energy. That’s going to take a lot of work, but it’s probably doable. Just telling people they’re evil for wanting a car isn’t. Most of all though, don’t fool yourself into thinking that we have the time to wait for a “car free future” or that it’s the most obvious and powerful inflection point to alter the course of global emissions. Switching from mining and burning coal, oil, and gas is, and that will almost certainly require a combination of renewables and nuclear. Short of that, we’re fucked.
Please do not recommend squirrelmail. It is not really being maintained.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/2

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/17/2

https://squirrelmail.org/index.php

https://blog.cpanel.com/the-death-of-squirrelmail/
I disagree - sortof.
"money-hoarding" is very useful - money lets you do all manner of fun things.
If you're not sure what you want - hoarding money is a pretty good thing to do in the meantime. If nothing else you'll be able to spend it on therapy :)
But, should ultimately be a means to an end.
You are going to die, you can't take it with you - decide what you want from your finite life, and tie the money to what you can do with it.
> it would be great to have a standalone recipe / how to for setting that up.

You could probably distill that from their scripts. Be the change you want to see in the world!
It’s easier to poach consultants and others with security clearances in DC than in Kalamazoo.
The inheritance stories are bogus, sure, but aside from those, I think part of the issue is that there's a sort of selection bias in FI individuals that makes it difficult to just stay on the margin.

A self made financially independent individual is someone who went against general trends in society for a decent length of time, who now suddenly has essentially infinite free time (e.g. probably 10 times the amount of a salaried worker or more, normalizing for energy levels).

It would be odd for them to _not_ develop these side streams of income unless they just sat on the beach all day.

Making money really isn't that difficult. The difficult bit for most is satisfying basic needs so that they're in a place where they can actually _think_ and act upon those thoughts.
A million upvotes. $50/year for FastMail to host my email is worth more to me than spending even one hour a year debugging mail server issues on my own hosted instance. Not even once!
I'm a night owl so I tend to get more things done at night. However, when I wake up in morning, I can actually physically feel my brain focused and clear.

Unfortunately once I get to work, that feeling is all gone as the brain tries to adjust to world of constant context switching between meetings, projects, and people.
Copyright stuff is just not comparable to death camps, so extreme forms of protest are not justified.
The mortgage numbers on that page are way too small. They must not be including the GSEs.
15 days per year, and that's quite lot compared to most previous jobs I've had.
AFAIK the states that use vote-by-mail also have plenty of drop-boxes if you don't want to trust the USPS.
Can confirm at least in the state of WA. There are some beautifully located former gas stations centered insome very expensive real estate for that reason.
The best place is French Brocantes, you have to arrive at 6 AM to get the good stuff.
The article asks why other cities can't have bike bridges.

My point is that if people can't imagine getting out of their tin box and onto a bike then they are not going to imagine having amazing bike highways as per the article.

In London a few years ago a footbridge across the Thames opened that had resonance problems that made it unsuitable for the task intended. The simple solution would have been to make it bicycles only and spend money on a new footbridge. Instead they spent a fortune upgrading a perfectly good bridge (for bikes) to make it a pedestrian bridge. The imagination was not there to just give it over to the cyclists and make it part of the cycle highway network that Ken Livingstone started (for Boris Johnston to take credit for).

In Copenhagen they do have the critical mass of cyclists for imaginative cycle highways to happen, other cities where people are stuck in tin boxes lack that because people can't even imagine cycling.
I have literally never lived in a house big enough for that distinction to be possible.
I think the idea is that a course using Racket or one of its teaching language has to teach that style of thinking, and any course that doesn't teach it will be doomed to fail. HtDP is a great example of how to do it right, which puts the design process in steps rather than the programming steps. I suspect the parent comment failed in this aspect of the course.
Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science (1994)
Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
I'm sympathetic towards the ISP and the readers of academic journals.

However, this is also a gross violation of net neutrality. The ISP's power over a website is evident from their ability to block a website they have differences with. This is both encouraging (that the ISP cares) & frightening (that the ISP has total control)
“Designed for Females ”Audio Interface Called Mirror
Japan is bigger than Tokyo!
Anywhere outside of Tokyo, even in beautiful livable world-class cities, the prices for Japanese homes are quite reasonable.

For example, this is in a very central and convenient part of Kyoto:
https://www.realestate.co.jp/forsale/view/538465

Or this one, for half the price:
https://www.realestate.co.jp/forsale/view/438354

Other cities outside of Kyoto are even less expensive.
1 ans 2: I like IPFS for this, check it out

3: analysis that uses propriatory is marked appropriately as second class

> computational literacy of scientists

Welp...
That's an incredibly eloquent way to put it. Even though it's how I live most of my life I was never smart enough to express it like you did. Thank you.
> My hope, for all of our sakes, is that Gab.com treads wisely, using its liberty for the betterment of most, and the enlightenment of all.

Anyone who looks at the behavior of Gab.com and believes that their mission has anything to do with betterment or enlightenment is not somebody I'd like to associate with.