skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's normal for almost any kid and not specific to gaming at all, they do with everything they see, mimicking is a form of learning.

I don't agree though with the part that the game is not bad.. fornite was no accident at all anyone who thinks that may not understand the cost of developing a products like that. they are deliveridly targeting people that easyly get addicted.

this is the same argument made with lootboxes.

note saying the game is not to be blame, is not an excuse to bad parenting, is just that the makers also have a bit of responsibility when they exploiting a known social behavior for cash.
You may not have been suggesting otherwise, but in case you're not aware, Firefox also has user profiles and can have multiple open at once.
Or the pace amd style of the game encourages annoying traits, or at least makes them seem more normal.
Actually, a cosmological constant is derivable from the Standard Model. But it's off by a very remarkable amount. Dark energy is the observation that that the Standard Model mispredicts the cosmological constant, so there must be something wrong with it.
> [I]n 200 (when I started my 9 year stint), optimism about China was much greater than the way it eventually turned out.

It's because back then Han dynasty was just getting started after the fall of Qin dynasty. You gotta give them some time.
Is that an honest time comparison? It looks like Wasmjit implemented a parser and jit compiler from scratch. Also, their emscripten implementation is much more fleshed out and it works in kernel space. Wasmer doesn't handle signals or multiple processes in Nginx, while Wasmjit does.
Hum, how can you do development work with HomeBrew? You install packages one-by-one?
At least of the last time I looked around (within the past year), it's the only major cloud-based option that isn't ad-supported, but does offer all the extra goodies like calendars.
A few months ago it was speculated that if Earth had seen industrial civilizations before, we would be none the wiser. While this isn't saying that would be the cause, it does give one pause.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...
> For parents sick of hearing “Almost done. One last game”: What’s worked for us: (1) Don’t freak, they’re not addicted (the pathologizing of gaming may do more harm than the games themselves) (2) set a timer & provide consistent consequences (without anger) when they go over..13/N

On a semi-related note. When I was a kid my parents used to make us quit our gaming session with little to no warning. This wasn't a big issue with single player games because they can be saved/paused, but that's obviously not possible with online multiplayer games. Unfortunately, that didn't matter to them, and it resulted in many interrupted gaming sessions and unnecessary consequences and behavioral issues from me and my siblings.

Now that I'm a parent, I've made a promise to my kids that I will always let them finish their current game before kicking them off. If they start a new game after they've been given the last game warning, then there's consequences. They know this, and we rarely have any issues related to behavior and gaming.
I realized when I reached the bottom of the post. It is odd to me to see her saying that the new theory is disqualified for not being as simple as alternatives after reading her book.
>“We could imagine a significant shift from beef to chicken, and that by itself goes a long way.” (Poultry production has about one-eighth the climate impact of beef production.)

I think the possible benefits of this approach might be exaggerated. The uniquely "large" environmental impact of beef cattle results from methane emissions, but methane is not the big challenge; land use is. While methane is a potent greenhouse gas, it also has a shorter atmospheric lifetime than CO2/N2O, which, to me, suggests that it should be addressed after the other gases; the impact of a reduction in methane emissions will be felt quickly, and the risk of methane accumulation is lower.

Land use -- with 40% of the world's land devoted to agriculture -- is much more of a problem and I see less indication that it will be addressed by changing the relevant animal. A little, sure, but a lot of the land currently used for pasturing cattle isn't appropriate for chickens anyway, and I'm not convinced that it takes 8x as much land to raise a pound of beef vs. chicken.

Lab-grown meat is/will be a huge net win for the environment and hopefully our wallets, and I think it will be the final compromise on this front, at least for the next few hundred years. A few decades of lead time doesn't bother me for reasons discussed above.

On another front, the densest sources of plant protein after soy are hempseed, lentils and pumpkin seeds. These rarely make it into our diets, though. You need more than mere tax incentives -- the strong flavors of those seeds need to be managed somehow. I made a "curry" with a hemp-milk base once. The only thing that corrected the smell was a lot of Worcestershire sauce. Ironically, it's vegetarians who won't eat fermented anchovies.
That is true, however one argument that can be made is that most of life on earth was nowhere near as smart as humans are and didn't have, for example HVAC. You could make the argument that humans' intelligence will outweigh nature's attempts to wipe us out.

Of course, that doesn't mean that global warming isn't a massive problem, and HVAC won't save us. It's just important to consider all sides of an argument.

Edit: To be clear I disagree with this argument, it's just the most common one I've heard.
Well ... doing a little mental statistics it looks to me like you should just apply to Twitter in the first place if you never want to get rejected during your job search.
It's not terribly clear to what the person is responding. What set this off?

> (2) set a timer & provide consistent consequences (without anger) when they go over..13/N

I think this has been effective, w/my kids at least.
Wow, thanks for that word :o
Thanks for doing this Peter! Really appreciate you spending time like this.

I'm an Indian running a company of my own in India. I used to work in the US for Microsoft & Amazon on an H-1B visa though this was 4 years back. I'm looking to move back to the US. What options do I have? Is it possible to set up a company in the US and come over on an L1 visa even as CEO of the company? I doubt O-1 would work for me and an EB-5 seems too steep.
Why do you need a consciousness detector/test at all to study the nature of consciousness and develop a falsifiable theory that explains its origins, properties, and the conditions under which it can exist?
There is no contact info on your profile, can you please send me an email, info on profile.
There's been quite a few of these systems over time. Especially sold commercially.

IBM System/38, evolved into AS/400 and IBM i, is one of architectures described in this book:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

Far as language-based security, the first mainframe for businesses used a high-level language combined with a CPU that dynamically checked the programs. Still sold by Unisys but I doubt hardware checks still exist.

http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr...

The Flex Machine implemented capabilities and trusted procedures in the microcode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_machine

ASOS supported a mix of methods where each app was Ada for its safety features but a MLS kernel modeled in Gypsy separated various security levels:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/42a4/e6f812538c18461277c58a...

SAFE explored tagging at CPU level which got commercialized as CoreGuard or Inherently Secure Processor:

http://www.crash-safe.org/papers.html

https://www.draper.com/explore-solutions/inherently-secure-p...

In embedded, there's Java processors that run bytecode natively with some support for separation. They blur the line between VM's and native apps:

http://ajile.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i...
You're right

https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-healt...
They would have to use a camera, which you would have to allow.
You really think adding in a few hundred million years of extra data about the Precambrian period (assuming we have any) is going to add value to his chart or this conversation?

No humans were even alive during this period. We don't know if human life or modern civilization is compatible with this very different environment.

Pointing out that the earth used to be warmer (which we know it has been before in the very distant past) may make people feel better about global warming, but that's the only benefit I can think of. The downside is that it makes it easier for people to postpone the needed action to fix the climate and fails to address the anticipated economic and human lethal consequences of climate change.
Hep A is a waterborne disease. If you live somewhere with proper sanitation and don't have contact with sewage you are at low risk and the funds for the vaccine are better directed elsewhere.
You're absolutely right. the best metric is to see how quickly he can reverse a binary tree.
now that is grounds for instant dismissal !
Not in this case. China, Japan, Thailand - all countries where no matter how well you speak the language, know the culture or how much you spend creating companies that employ locals, you will always be a foreigner and 'less than' someone born in those countries. On looks alone, you will never truly fit in. Compare and contrast to the USA, Australia etc, where no-one can tell you are not a citizen by simply looking at you.
Apparently, cows eat clothes. I personally haven't seen it. My mother tells the story of how her sister's Sunday best clothes were gobbled up by cows. They had done their washing and were playing a game or something. The rule was someone would watch the clothes whilst the others played. On that day whatever game they were playing was too absorbing. Her sister, my aunt had to make do with odds and ends from other relatives until the next Christmas. We only got new clothes at Christmas back in the day.
Plenty has been written on "the population question". Your intuitions don't agree with my understanding of the state of the art.

Many environmentalists say that even the current world population can't afford Western middle-class quality of life.

Efforts to limit population growth are already in place but it's mostly occurring in parts of the world too poor to do anything about it. We don't "want" higher population but short of some kind of massive neo-colonial invasion there's no way to stop it.
If you have ever used Medium.com or the inspired niche of editors that followed, you will love Gutenberg.

It's in this niche of editors where other names would be Dropbox Paper, and obviously the best in niche Notion.so - but Gutenberg is quite decent so far.
Agri360 – Credit risk score for smallholder farmers
> All languages are typed, either with rich types, or they are unityped

Almost all languages. There is one language that can be typed without a type, the empty language.

Since the empty language contains no programs, it follows that "Untyped Programs Don't Exist".
its very effective an it teach a bit of responsability, my kids are still very young and only have access to a switch and each have a 30 min timer (can be set on the switch parental control app) that just rings to let them know, but as they have to share and want to play uninterrupted they plan their day for that meaning when they grab the switch now days they make sure im not going to ask for anything becouse all thir daily routines are done.
Have you had success with 2 time zones for the same event? I know there's a setting to enable it, but I haven't had success.
To be clear, the author IS proposing that there MAY be negative mass particles, not that this is all mathematical. That statement was simply a tip of the hat to the fact that none have yet been detected and its possible his theory is just a "accurate way to model" dark matter/+dark energy. It's just a nice way saying "My thoery might be the Newtonian Mechanics of Dark Matter/Energy, close but possibly wrong."

Why crap on the fact that this may lead to a warp drive.
Surely that would be easily filtered out via ML?
There are still some loopholes which one can use in order to escape this, but they’re getting fewer and fewer. For example here in Romania they don’t ask you for your biometric data if you apply for a short-term one-year passport, but the issue is that over time going that way is more expensive than directly applying for a 5-year or 10-year passport (which do ask for your biometric data). And loopholes like this one will close pretty soon, I fear.
Do you owe local income tax just for being some place when stock you own pays a dividend? I'm not a billionaire, and neither have I ever paid income taxes while traveling for various accruals.
My datacenter uses biometrics too.
Do you remember the title or the author?

I usually try to read anything like this that's referenced.
> What's wrong with this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c8

Like the comment says: it makes things better with some themes but worse with others. Incidentally, the author of that patch is a senior engineer at Mozilla now; if he actually thought this patch made things better, it would be in the tree.

Note, by the way, that this bug report is about the Firefox UI itself, not about web pages.

> Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c12

That comment comes down to "stop doing native theming", no?

> Or this one? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/22026...

That's the same as your first link.

> Or this one? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/22026...

Amusingly enough, that comment was written by me. There's nothing wrong with it. It's from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437366 which was a superficially similar, but not at all the same issue, and which I fixed back in 2009. (And yes, I have thought about this problem space quite a bit in the past, though not necessarily the Linux-specific bits.)

> Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c36

That says "stop doing native theming".

> Or this one? https://github.com/lightradius/firefox-dark-theme-fix

That's a set of CSS rules that disables native theming.

> Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c45

This comment is about the Firefox UI, not web pages.

> Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c46

This one is actually useful, thank you. Following the links from there lands me at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283086#c13 from one of the RedHat folks who have been active in this stuff. Note that this comment says that Firefox tries to avoid using dark themes for form controls, but some dark themes fail to properly flag themselves as dark themes. Which makes it hard to avoid them.

Also, can you stop pretending like no one has worked on this? Given https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353147 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158076 it sure looks like people have been active here.

> Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461538#c9

Karl is an engineer on Firefox, working on GTK integration. If he felt that his comment were the right fix, it would be in the tree.

> In what crazy world is it considered good design practice to force thousands of your users to install 3rd party extensions to be able to read text on the internet?

In a world where all the proposals for fixing that so far make millions of users unhappy?
That's a problem with "Fake it till you make it" strategies. Some get stuck at the "faking" stage.
They are extremely professional and their technical content is excellent.

I suspect that those stuck in the IT trenches want some light-hearted relief?

It is peculiarly British (albeit with an office in Australia too), which doesn't suit everyone - you may get ribbed if you post a comment that is US centric.

The writing style and the headlines often comes across as childish, but some of the seemingly childish stuff is associated with gags that have been running for years, or reflecting current events in the UK, or just good old British humour!

I am a colonial - so my opinions matter didly squat.
Google has costly yellow ad blunder
I thought there was a comet that hit the earth causing catastrophic climate change within days or weeks, and wiped out all the dinosaurs.
That's great that you're sending him to a bilingual school! I wish I had the opportunity when I was a child.
I'm surprised nobody's goat has eaten their 10mm socket.

Also, I wonder how many of these wires and plastic products the goats are eating are made in part using soy.
A large market share in the aerospace doesn’t translate into a large market share.

I think most people know that there are more than 2 FPGA suppliers, but all the other ones are essentially niche or low-end market players.

The moment you’re looking at FPGAs with a serious amount of logic, you’re restricted to Intel and Xilinx.
I've read a dozen or so articles on this (It's been a somewhat popular discussion on several homebrewing communities focused on using interesting/rare/"alternative" yeasts), and the beer that's been brewed so far has only used a subset of the yeast cultured from the bottles.

If they were trying to more faithfully reproduce the beer they found, they'd need to use all of the yeast cultures they recovered. (They commercial beer listed here was not actually attempting to reproduce the beer - just use the yeast)

There's some debate as to whether or not the yeast they're using is a contaminate, as well. Sacch strains do not seem to live long enough in fermented beer to make it 200+ years (though there's evidence that Brett strains will do just fine), and the samples were taken from bottles that had been decanted 20 years prior. The characteristics reported of the yeast are also similar to what many people find when using wild yeast. That might be due to them being wild yeast contaminates, or due to the selective "breeding" pressure of commercial yeasts having not yet eliminated these traits.

I wish they would sequence the yeast and release the results.
When the next best thing IS ACTUALLY the best thing
He is also implying that it spontaneously emerges from space on a continuous basis. If that's the case then it may be possible to setup a harvester of negative mass. The question is how much of it emerges in so many square km of empty space. It could be 1 particle per light year.
This is how I use Python. I'm not very proficient in Python, but it's amazing how quickly I can build simple services with it, despite it being a language I only use occasionally.

There's so much stuff included in the basic installation from python.org. And it all just works.

The only thing missing from the basic installation is psycopg2 for talking with PostgreSQL.
>This wasn't a big issue with single player games because they can be saved/paused

"I need to get to a save room!"

"You can pause it."

5 minutes later

"I unplugged the gamecube because you weren't playing anymore."

...
>They get to be kids - lots of activity outside the house and lots of creativity inside, music, acting, painting. It's hard though as most of their classmates are screen zombies.

Why do you consider things like painting, acting, and music "creative" things, but not gaming?

When I was around 10 years old I was playing Command and Conquer pretty much every moment I could get. I was creating worlds, coming up with my own "metagames", abusing the minimap to draw things in the game. Hell I'm pretty sure I even made up my own story line because I either didn't care about or didn't understand the real one. Even when I was older playing World of Warcraft or any other number of games, it was an experience exploring worlds, creating things, and socializing with friends.

When I've seen younger family members playing Minecraft, or Halo, and even Fortnite, I'd argue that it's an extremely creative activity, especially when they are playing with friends online in it.

I'm not going to say that constant screens are a good thing, but in moderation (like just about everything), I think they can be a fantastic outlet and an awesome canvas for kids to grow up with.
> If you truly preferred Violet’s résumé to Trixie’s, you didn’t fail some typographic litmus test. The point is the same—whatever preference you had, it was based on typography, not substance. (Though after you read more of this book, come back and see if you still prefer Violet’s résumé.)
Why. If revocation already works why bother with expiration?
Show HN: Gitruler, create exercises to teach Git (created for an uni CS course)
Any recommendation on an iOS mail app. I use the Apple one, which is fine if uninteresting. The Fastmail app is not very modern looking which I superficially care about. Any reasonable looking non-Apple mail app reads my email or collects my data.
I have a Chevy Bolt, and the 'brake more' paddle shifter is by far most used non-steering or acceleration control. Sometimes, I don't even need to use the foot brake at all. It reminds me of downshifting in my old Miata, without all the fun of the clutch.
Yes, calling Lotus Notes mediocre is a compliment of the highest order.
Hi Everyone! This is Jie, the author of the original post on patentpandas.org. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences on this thread! I thought it might be helpful for you all to know the full story and give some more context:

The original post is actually one of TWO patent-related issues that simultaneously happened to me.

The first one was when my crowdfunding campaign backer successfully patented our LED stickers product (https://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patente...) despite us having a successful crowdfund, lots of press, research papers dating back to 2011 and an entire business by then.

And then it was about a month after I found out about the LED stickers patent, I found out that Google ATAP was trying to patent work that I had shared during the job interview (https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea).

While I can understand why the google story is getting more attention, in many ways it’s actually the other story that’s more problematic, because in that case, the faulty patent application actually passed muster at the USPTO and issued as a patent.

This all happened during my last year of grad school at MIT, in the months before I defended my thesis and graduated. And it absolutely sucked!

But in the end, I was pretty lucky that both situations turned out okay(ish). The most important bit was that I had support from all these law clinics, and my own giant institution (MIT), to help me navigate. But I can already see from this thread that many others out there aren’t so lucky.

The absurdity of these situations, and that they were happening to me at the same time, got me to spend the next couple years learning about patent law at the Berkman Klein Center (https://cyber.harvard.edu). My hope was that I could better understand how the heck all this happened, and to see if I could do something to help other creators out.

That’s why I started Patentpandas.org - to have a place to share these patent stories, to help by showing how others navigated their patent problems, and (for folks like my former self) to show that it’s not so scary to work with lawyers and wade into patent law! That’s also why we’re using panda comics to illustrate patent law concepts. Pandas: definitely not scary :)

My hope is that if more creators out there better understand patent law and are connected with pro bono lawyers when they need help, then patent trolls and others who have more legal resources at their disposal won’t be able to get away with things like this so easily.

BTW, I shared all this during my talk for the Patent Pandas launch last week. In case you’re curious to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfCYOWVQehA

Thanks,
Jie
Are we doing more than a massive comet hitting the earth?
Is there a standard/preferred piece of software for doing mindmaps?