skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely sympathize with what you're saying, but 4.5 hrs (on avg!) still seems like a lot. But there are alternatives.

That said, I see working involved parents that hand their kids an iPad the minute they get home from daycare so I suppose it isn't out of the realm of possibility.

I'm still a bit shocked that the distribution would result in 4.5 hrs on average. The bullet points from the referred page were actually more interesting:

"TV viewing among kids is at an eight-year high. On average, children ages 2-5 spend 32 hours a week in front of a TV—watching television, DVDs, DVR and videos, and using a game console."
[http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv]

I think this implies that kids playing video games (which at that age is mostly shape matching, colors, words, vocabulary) is included in television.
The argument against ORMs aren't that they are a leaky abstraction

From what you say, they are indeed a leaky abstraction. It's just that the conditions in which they leak are not easily accessible from the "Hello World" level demo. This is why the leaky analogy is good. It's not hard to make a boat that floats, period. It's hard to make a boat that will remain reliably watertight on the open ocean on rough seas.

yes all abstractions are at least somewhat leaky, so you are better to use simpler ones than complex ones

This is like the Russian philosophy towards military equipment. It's better that it's simple, robust, and can take a lot of dirt and abuse, because this will better in actual combat (or "production") conditions.
Yes! This all day long. I want either a whitelist or blacklist for shows on netflix children accounts. Amazon prime kidtime lets you do this for their tablets (even though the feature is very hidden), and its awesome.
This is the overview page. It comes alongside:

* https://zombieloadattack.com/ , on Hacker News as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911341 (The technical paper is hidden inside a collapsed part of the page and is at https://www.cyberus-technology.de/posts/2019-05-14-zombieloa... .)

* https://mdsattacks.com/ , on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911277

* Google's announcement about ChromeOS at https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/mds-... , on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911406

( Several Hacker News discussions have since been merged here. And were then re-split. )
> Amazon Fresh used to be quite popular in Seattle a half decade ago, but I barely see their empty containers anymore.

Amazon has been cannibalizing Fresh by including (a smaller selection of) grocery items in Prime Now, which (unlike Fresh, which is a premium upgrade) is included in the base cost of Prime.
It certainly doesn't feel good. But if the home market remained unpatched with a public POC, they would be attacked. The most likely avenue is by writing malicious web pages to steal bitcoin wallets, etc.
Sounds like a fantastic businessman. My CEO is always talking about how to corner the market and (without disclosing what we do) make it so some industries have to use our product if they want regulatory approval.

Think like your masters.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/worker-wage-gains-are-keepin...

> Worker paychecks are showing their biggest gains since the recovery began a decade ago, and are more than keeping up with inflation.

Not sure why tech wages are excluded from your comment. Tech jobs are jobs too...
> My kids have literally zero disposable income.

They can ask to use yours, though, which is what most kid-targeted advertising looks to cause.
Am I reading correctly that this has been under embargo for over a year?
My comment was not flippant at all, and it appeared it was very helpful, because it caused you to actually dig in to why you might be surprised that Kavanaugh sided the way he did, and you are the first (and only) person in the thread to do so.
When you burn fossil fuels that’s literally someone else’s air they need to survive (pollution from the burning of fossil fuels has a quantifiable impact on the health and mortality of humans). It’s not hard to see why we prioritize that over other people’s money and a more Libertarian outlook (“let the market work itself out”) when that has so clearly failed in an epic fashion.
I wanna know what 2 year old can stare at a screen for 4.5 hours. All the 2's we've had have been all over the place and won't sit in front of a tv.

Not that I'm complaining... Honest, I'm not.

> Who are these parents...

Remember "It takes a village"? Well, in all honesty, it does. And if you don't have a support system in place, you'll have a hard go of it.
Deregulation itself wasn't successful. Rather it was only the first step of forced unbundling that spurred investment.

The second step was then removing the restrictions on the public networks after they'd been privatized - national telcom policy being redeclared such that "competition" between incumbent phone and incumbent cable was good enough. The CLECs all but disappeared.

Twenty years ago, basic phone service from Verizon was $15/mo. Now it's $75. The only success is for the investors that successfully looted the public networks.

Competition with Comcast only came to town when the municipal electric company decided to build out fiber. When the only source of competition is the local de jure government, one is hard pressed to claim that is a functional market.
We have immunization requirements for foreign countries.

I'd be more worried about states like Missouri and Indiana with nearly a sixth of the population who are not vaccinated against measles.
Mexico, as a counter example, has a nearly 99% vaccination rate for measles.

So please stop with this nationalistic nonsense.
It can't be cracked economically?

I'm asking because I only have a passing familiarity with how oil production works.
Science is the search for truth, not the truth. At one time 'science' was justifying eugenics, slavery, apartheid, racism and entire policies were rolled out on the basis of discredited pseudo science of brain size.

You can imagine racists and sexists at that time appealing to 'science' to maintain their privilege and worldview. You can see this now too, evidence free sweeping assertions based on some scientific study but not supported by that study and thus science, but presented as 'science'.

Large segments of the population have suffered grievously based on this kind of 'science'. Hitler used eugenics and science. Science is not some absolute truth, its a long drawn process to collect evidence, test assertions and arrive at some truth, and its always been used and co-opted by those in power to advance their objectives.
Forgive me for my ignorance- I was under the impression that scientific inquiry has always been strongly affected by politics. See: The argument on whether or not evolution is real. The discovery that the sun does not revolve around the earth. The entire controversy behind the discovery of and research into AIDS.

Is there something new I'm not understanding?
I have never been paid by the hour. I get paid for producing acceptable code by the deadline.
Sub-headline: Kids waste those 400 hours playing Fortnite.
Sputnik

My mentor's theory is that the assault on reason, America's proud tradition of anti-intellectualism, took a brief hiatus after WWII because the Cold War and the space race required rocket scientists and engineers. So a brief truce of sorts was maintained between the humanists and the know-nothings.

Sad to think we'll need an external existential threat like an alien invasion or imminent asteroid strike to pause the food fight.
Global warming affects everyone regardless of where we live. That's a much bigger existential threat than nuclear accidents. More environmentalists are starting to understand this.

Lots of nukes getting built outside the USA. In USA economics of cheap natural gas are causing closures. This is stupid and should be adjusted by counting carbon as an externality in the market.
Some abstractions don't seem to give anything useful at all other than homogeneity across code bases and slightly nicer looking (but not simpler) code

This is of tremendous value to big companies. This lets them move to newer languages and platforms more easily when the time comes.
I suspect that Dave doesn't actually exist.

Stories this well-calibrated to make a specific point I think are generally fabricated from whole cloth.
I see what you mean, and I'd suggest looking for a halfway between the extremes...

I look for collegial peer interactions, in which we have a mutual interest in finding the right mutual match for everyone.

And I think demonstrating that from the start, during interviewing, bodes well for a good working environment/relationship in practice. (An employer not demonstrating this from the start constitutes a failure of a behavioral test for the employer, if we're talking about "tests".)
Pay good money. Moreover, provide meaningful raises as experience and expertise increases, and in line with the external job market. Don't hire in new hires above the salaries of your experienced employees that have to then train and babysit the new folks for six months to a year and clean up their messes.

Provide a private workspace (ideally private offices) where your knowledge workers can do their job without distraction. Don't cheap out on equipment and tooling and learning materials - it's moronic to quibble about buying an SSD or a monitor or a piece of software or a book that costs a couple of hours of your employee's hourly rate.

Provide clear direction, without micromanagement or silly infantile circle-time processes. Don't engage in ad-hoc walking-around status checks, don't demand immediate responses to asynchronous communications. Don't waste time in superfluous meetings.

Don't vacillate or chase after every customer request. When one of your employees says that something is unwise, and provides solid reasons, listen, and don't go around them to find a stooge who will obey your whims and slag in a big pile of technical debt.

Don't try to push any culty workplace culture stuff. Treat your employees like the highly paid professionals they are. Respect their time and other obligations.
Yeah, the Energiewende is an absolute farce. The government exited nuclear while utterly gutting the German PV industry. It's mind-boggling.
No. The security concern is attackers reading data they shouldn’t. The article explains how.

“Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a group of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to potentially read sensitive data.”

That is way more serious than stealing cycles.
That's fine, as long as scientists are fully conscious of the cognitive biases induced by their politics. There is definitely a phenomenon of academia trying to pass off political conviction as empirical fact.

Given that the universe was not made for the enjoyment of humans, everyone needs to be prepared to accept their preferred policies may have no empirical backing.
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I think the parent comment was referring to "political" specifically in the sense of "dealing with the government", not the general (e.g. "office politics") sense.
This one is really awesome....
https://coincircle.com/l/0w737YEhqa
Then they should quit. Stand up for what's right.

If the engineers quit, the company can't do it anymore.

They are all accomplices. For whatever reason they don't stop and thus their ethics are compromised.
That's interesting. I can empathize with most of what you said. How do you see self-reflection fitting into this? I spend way too much time self-reflecting on all the stuff I said and did throughout the day or the week. I try to think about how another person interpreted my actions, based on their level of familiarity with me. I have to force myself to just "go and do stuff" without constantly slipping into that.
This is awesome!!
https://coincircle.com/l/0w737YEhqa
The money isn't in the website, it's in the related services.

If you're targeting SMBs, you can almost treat the actual site design/dev as a loss leader.

Offer comprehensive packages that guarantee you long-term recurring monthly revenue, rather than a just a one-off "website development" service.

For an example, a "premium" hosting/management service is an easy sell.

* "Your own virtual private server with dedicated IP address and hardware resources"

* "Uptime monitoring" (automated/free)

* "Site & Server Security" (one-time hardening of your CMS and/or any other attack vectors + apt update / apt upgrade every couple weeks)

* "DNS Management" (create or change some DNS record every few months, if ever)

* "Site backup and restoration" (one click on Digital Ocean and many other providers), etc.

* "x free hours per month of updates, no rollover" (will often go unused)

My agency has SMB clients paying up to $250/mo for hosting/management alone (actual cost: $10-15 per client).

Easy money.

Next, we have SEM and local SEO (citation building/management and reputation monitoring).

The beauty of these services is that they're relatively easy to scale and/or outsource to some white label provider. In the case of local SEO, tools like BrightLocal basically do all the work.

Even if you don't want to take this route, you can still differentiate with strong backend development skills.

For example, we secured one contract because we offered a creative solution to integrate the website with the client's legacy on-premise CRM (which has no API), which no one else had the first clue how to do because there isn't a WordPress plugin for that (slight sarcasm).
Git is nice tool, very versatile in able hands. Thanks to its promotion (plugins and github included), the pragmatic practice of source versioning gained wider adoption and lost that beg-your-IT-dept-to-set-it-up flair.

In the mean time, 'thanks' to Git, the source change history became a maintenance line-item. The expectations of a clean history were raised almost to the level of expectations for bug-free code.

I can see a utility of clean feature history, but asking developers to craft the history is shifting their focus away from the actual code. As long as the source state has been saved, the source control has done its main job.

So for the most of the listed 'shits', the developer should just be able to revert, cherry-pick, and re-commit, and keep going. Nothing esoteric and hard to remember, also fairly common commands across different VCS tools. Shit happens and will happen again, no biggie, no need to blame and shame, source annotation will show the right change/comment anyway.
What you're describing is authoritarian, not totalitarian. A totalitarian state has only one political party with all others being banned.
Facebook, MIT and UW Introduce DeepSDF AI for 3D Shape Representation
Now that I think about it, probably the new Raspberry Pi would do a phenomenal job.
I'd guess most people here agree with your underlying view, but please don't post in this flamewar/ranty style to HN. It lowers signal/noise and encourages worse from others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This reminded me of Elysium: but instead of the rich being the only ones able to receive quality health care, here they are the only ones able to afford a reprieve from these mind numbing ads.

I would love to be able to eliminate all ads in my life. At the same time, doesn't this feel a little like the advertisers are extorting us for some $$? Lest they jam more ads down your throat.
My understanding is that, at least in the UK, advertising on television is way way way better, as in, a few minutes an hour of much more gentle advertisements.
Tax for making up not getting ads pushed down our throats? That is silly :) I shall not feel any sort of pity towards the companies whose ads I refuse to consume on a constant basis. If they go bankrupt because I have uBlock of something similar set up (if such thing was possible), then good riddance.
In Québec, the Consumer Protection Act prohibits commercial advertising directed at children under 13 years of age. One negative effect is that this has made it very hard for genuine educational companies to grow. It is hard to market a product that teach kids to code if you cannot show the product to kids.
Most freelance developers would do well to simply rethink how they describe themselves, focusing on specific business needs.

A couple of lame examples:

Instead of "I'm a React Developer", think "I build web-based software for the mining industry".

Instead of just "I build websites", think "I help nursing homes build websites that bring in new clients"

Though nothing has changed with the freelancer themselves, this has many benefits including:

* Helping the freelancer to realize who their ideal client is.

* Allows said clients to self-select into the freelancer's services - clients don't know they need a Shopify developer, but they sure know they need a website that can take customer orders and do fulfillment.
> Basically, don't hate the players, hate the game.

What's wrong with hating both?
Before Spectre and Meltdown were disclosed publicly, very very few security researchers were looking at the CPU level, beyond things like attacks against hardware virtualization functionality, TrustZone and friends, ME, etc. Those bugs had existed for ages and could've been found through thorough examination of the processor manuals, but nobody had really looked too hard there. These new bugs were found independently by many different researchers/groups, simply because their attention was drawn to looking at this stuff for the first time.
How much more proof do we need a sociality that tax breaks to create "jobs" is just a scam?
You are not contradicting what I said. Consumers pay a lot (and always have). I said that energy hungry enterprises are exempt from it.
I'm really hoping that the choice of name here is meant as commentary on the trend of coming up with cute names for vulnerabilities. Using emoji combinations for vulnerability names does seem like the next logical step, even though it's also absurd.
Real ID is separate and has been in the works for 15 years. Nothing in that press release says that facial recognition is going to be used for domestic air travel.
I had a similar situation and also felt like I was getting the short end of the stick sometimes; I was working harder during those 4 days than I was when I was working 5 days. But 3-day weekends every week are so amazing. It's like taking a 20% paycut to change an hour-long commute into a 10-minute commute (which, 2x/day and 5x/week, would be the equivalent time advantage). which is also definitely worth it.
I was going to say something similar. I actually think YouTube (as a hosting/sharing platform) is a net-negative for the internet because there are already millions of videos that were embedded in pages that are no longer working because YouTube removed them, the account was deleted, or any number of things. If the internet worked the way it was intended, these videos would have been hosted on the site rather than embedded and would be still working. If the video wasn't there anymore, that usually means the content isn't there anymore. It's almost worse than dead hyperlinks because it's almost always supplemental content that references a video that can't be accessed anymore. :(

That being said, it's a net-positive when it comes to content created. The internet wouldn't be as crazy without YouTube, so thanks for that.
How are those ads worse? This feels completely arbitrary.
I think it is definitely worth introspecting about the history. It has been known for over 20 years that sharing pretty much anything creates side channels but nobody knew how to reliably exploit them and it was assumed that side channels might never be exploitable. In recent years there has been massive progress in practical data extraction using side channels.
In actual film theaters (not VOD) they're forcing theaters to give up a larger % of the ticket revenue, requiring that films be shown in the larger auditoriums and enforcing multi-week showtimes.

This article describes the requirements for The Last Jedi, but my understanding is that this is pretty close to the requirements for any Marvel/StarWars/Disney film at this point.

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-requirements-to-show-...
Great root cause analysis. Wish more people would think like this.
Ah, that makes sense in a long term play.

Do we know if Disney has it's own rights for distribution? It must.
It was a bad analogy. If a kid down the street died while drunk driving, you'd definitely tell your kid about it and teach them safe drinking habits.

If a kid in your neighborhood died from playing with a gun, you'd definitely tell your child about it and teach them about handling firearms.

(Assuming they are mature enough to process that information.)

You're right though that using old models of reactors doesn't contribute much signal to the discussion of safe, modern reactors, but it does provide a sense of scale to what happens when humans cut corners to save costs.
Ethical behavior is immune to "more compensation than they've ever had before."

that's the point. If they are continuing in any way to benefit the operation of a business that does those things then they are morally corrupt.
I don’t see what those two statistics have to do with whether the economy is booming.

Would you argue the economy has never boomed before? 1 in 8 Americans below the federal poverty line seems to be pretty decent when seen historically according to https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Number_in_Poverty_...

Numbers for 2018 don’t seem to be available yet but I’d assume they continue to trend down.
And TaskRabbit for the circumcision! You got it!

but yes, point taken :)
> what avenues would advertisers have left to sell products to us?

My serious guess would be even more paid shills. It's amazing how much more weight a message can have when it comes from someone that's not obviously tied to the company.
So what is your approach in starting this project, how did you begin? What are high-level building blocks to building a project such as this?
I cancelled my Google Play Music family subscription (of which I was the only user at that point) and then signed up for a normal subscription. Didn't realize doing so lost my bundled Youtube Red subscription in the process. Started getting midroll ads on YouTube on my phone and couldn't figure out why...
> Same thing happens to me with TV news. I used to watch them, but now, everytime someone else is watching, I can't help but see how much they manipulate the content to their convenience, and how much they blatantly lie.

This, one billion times. I don't care which network or show you watch, or which newspaper you read, they are all lying. They are all pushing an agenda very clearly.

I mostly make do with Bloomberg, WSJ and NPR. I can't even read the NY Times these days.
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Well, there actually is some unreasonable view on nuclear. Especially in Germany. Doesn't change the fact that long term we should get rid of it. The storage of the waste is just to tricky and when not if something goes wrong we talk about serious damage.

That we should IMHO get rid of coal earlier isn't exclusive, so.