skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an addendum, the author, Peter Brannen, published another article with The Atlantic titled "What Made Me Reconsider the Anthropocene" four days ago.

In it, he responds to criticism and ultimately comes to the conclusion that - even if no trace of humanity is left (no civilization, tools, etc) in "deep time" - the biosphere itself has been changed by humanity, and that gives the concept of the Anthroprocene validity.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/anthropo...
Btrfs is still very slow compared to all other file major systems.
Yes, but that wouldn't be a 'technical' reason, would it?
Because nations and their leaders are different to people.

When Britain declared war on Germany in WW2 were they ‘threatening violence’ and would that get them banned from Twitter?
> Constantly worrying about things like these probably takes more years off your life than the difference between normal and diet soda.

I'd love to read this study.
Do you not use an adblocker?
All I get are car repair videos and lawyers.
Everything.

Joke aside, I have no idea how VMS will be run on non hard-realtime hardware.
Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions
The tension is that although it is indeed their platform, the function it plays in society is similar to a public broadcast channel. IMO, a good analogy is the broadcast radio spectrum. Imagine if one or two companies had sole ownership over all of the broadcast radio spectrum, and could decide at their sole discretion who gets to publish. It would be insane, yet with Twitter and Facebook, this is the situation we're in.

IMO this tension is fundamentally what drives so much of the controversy around social media.
Adding these lines to uBlock Origin filters helps me waste less time on youtube:

www.youtube.com##.html5-endscreen
##.ytp-pause-overlay
www.youtube.com###secondary
Looks like you're very engaged! Here's some more soyberpunk-wannabe thought-police screeds we recommend for you!
As majority owners, we certainly could have continued to run the company indefinitely as a "lifestyle business" (and there's not much anyone could have done about it). But my belief is that if you take investment you have a responsibility to those investors to return their capital come hell or high water.

At the time, we didn't entirely know whether there were still growth opportunities or what else we could try if we kept going. But we knew we wanted to keep trying. Some of our investors wanted out, and we gave them (and all the other investors) the opportunity to sell their shares back to us. It means everyone who wanted it got their money back (which for an investor is not actually a very good outcome, but better than $0), and we got to keep the company. I'm appreciative of them allowing us to do it.
I was in Shanghai Pudong airport waiting in line to check in. There was a small suitcase sitting there unattended for quite a while. What was funny is that all of us in lined seemed to be very studiously ignoring it, looking away. I think we all knew that if anybody said anything, the security theater would start and we'd never get on our flights.
By some back of the napkin calculations I did once, I found that a couple billion years is enough for the tectonic plates to have completely recycled themselves into the mantle, erasing any structures built on them.
You're saying this, but you have no actual evidence about why Apple implemented this feature and also zero insight into what incentivizes Apple.
I believe your comment is fairly representative of mainstream political ignorance so I appreciate your writing it out.
It's easier and more productive than Rust and has generics, templates, better C interop than Go. Also the GC can be disabled or worked around.
Can you elaborate? I'm kicking tires at the moment.
Being deliberately cynical: Employers need to make some kind of concessions to attract workers, they'd rather die than offer something like a four day week whereas remote work both retains the same general expectations in terms of what's produced (perhaps a bit more if your employees have been treating the commute as part of the work day, as they should imo) and they're probably able to sell themselves on some dream future where they can hire developers even further away for much less and swap any one out with another whenever they want.

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Fully remote work surely only works in companies who hire no junior devs? Where are they supposed to build up their skillset if they haven't already got a network of developer friends? This seems like the biggest weakness of remote work at the moment from a company perspective.

From a personal perspective I do have questions about what happens a society where huge swathes of people will be able to almost totally evade social interactions and interpersonal relationships from day to day. I definitely would be best with a mix of remote and on-site if only to stop myself from going a bit weird.
I'm not sure what Mozilla Foundation is trying to accomplish with this page. Maybe make people more conscious about Internet content consumption habits. Maybe sparking discussions like this in online forums and other media. It's a little bit odd that they choose YouTube ignoring other social networks with the same addictive effect (it's ironic to have Twitter and Facebook share buttons at the side).

On the YouTube topic. As a product designer, I think that YouTube product managers and designers have a lot of responsibility.
Video recommendations are designed to be addictive. They don't stop, and while there are options to turn auto-play off they are not the default. It's not a problem of the "uninformed user". It's by design.
People in the comments mention creating playlists and curating content. But there are many design gaps there too. For example, YT Kids has some time controls, but the content curation options are minimal.

“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral” - Melvin Kranzberg
> The power tools and lawn equipment were never really any good.

Not never, they used to be awesomely utilitarian and rugged, but that's back in 60s-70s.

My dad still uses his all-steel construction Sears snowblower and had a Sears cast aluminum-housed 2-stroke chainsaw until seizing the motor with a bad mix of gas ~7 years ago :(. These were both from the 70s, fabulous tools, built to last.

> Craftsman hand tools were decent until the mid-2000's when they started changing warranty policies.

Yes, in my opinion when I started getting new Craftsman ratchets from Sears which appeared to be both refurbished and needed replacing just weeks after purchase, it was the beginning of the end. Prior to that, the writing was already on the wall when we couldn't easily get parts for the aforementioned snowblower and chainsaw from the service/parts department. It used to be a sure thing even in the 90s, 20 years after purchase!
Because there's a public interest in hearing what (say) POTUS has to say.
It seems to me this person is missing the point. When people talk about Anthropocene, they're not talking about geological or fossil evidence left behind by humans in million of years. Anthropocene refers to the Holocene or the sixth mass extinction on the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
I've come across a type of scam where someone on a dating app like tinder will pose as an attractive person with the intention of trying to convince the victim to engage in sexually explicit texts or snapchats. Once they do, the scammer then looks up the friends of friends of the facebook profile associated with the number and then tries to blackmail the victim with threats of sending embarrassing texts to their closest friends. There are now TV commercials warning about it too. The best thing you can do is beg the scammer to post the texts, it really confuses the hell out of them and thanks to this facebook feature, the threat is greatly minimized.
IQ is bullshit

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
I don’t think most people would view the companies that way. Amazon is taking on mom & pops, warehouse employees, etc. Oracle might be super aggressive, but their targets are generally larger businesses and often huge corporations that are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.
The ones that you use Twitter's own site and/or gimped APIs?
> Plenty of people may not have the same impulse control you have, and it's not their fault.

Um, sorry, what?

If you choose to do a thing, whatever it is, that thing very much is your responsibility, and (if it ends badly) your fault[1].

I've done some bloody stupid things over the years that haven't ended well and, guess what? That's all my fault.

Taking things from the prosaic to the hyperbolic, here are some notable examples of the kinds of people who typically have poor impulse control but who very definitely should be held to account for their actions:

- Paedophiles

- Rapists

- Shoplifters

- Serial murderers

[1] I will grant you this doesn't apply to children, which is why we have concepts such as the age of legal majority, but it certainly applies to adults of sound mind (i.e., the overwhelming majority of adults).
I addressed the school part and it sounds like she has access to a computer without supervision at home
Why should the OPD bother chasing down purse thieves? How are they going to make money for the city by doing that, when they can go after people for speeding and parking violations instead and make lots of money?
What about if dinosaurs got to the point of early hunter-gatherers - establishing communities, language, basic tools - but were then wiped out?

It's different from the case he cites, but tracks the general point that there are limits to what we can learn about prehistory / "deep time"
This comment makes me feel old.
I think you're right, and your experiences of corporate vs academic research quality matches my own, more or less (in different fields).

But this does lead to the question of - why not just reduce academic funding, matched by corresponding cuts in corporation taxes? That would obviously not lead to a 1:1 transfer of research funding or anything even close to it, but if the replication crisis seems to suggest anything at all it's that there's too many scientists chasing too little real knowledge, with too few reality checks of the sort industrial labs require. If more funding was from industry, the quality of science might be higher.
Are you in favor of denying such people the right to vote? Why or why not? If they're too stupid to think for themselves, should they still be able to vote?
I see. I can get some of those too.

Thought you meant the "Showing results for xxx / Search instead for yyy" correction, which switches your (unpopular) yyy query under you.

The suggestions are annoying, but can easily ignore and insist on my search term.
This is very nice use of the (now) mandatory message space for SEPA transfers!

Ah, this reminds me from the days when Dutch postbank transfers were instantaneous if not send to another bank. A friend and I did a chat with the short messages you could send. We even got a printout of all the 1 ct messages as that was still a thing back then.
I fundamentally do not understand people who watch recommended videos. They are almost never relevant to me.

I watch videos on youtube either if they come from channels I have chosen to subscribe to, or specific videos I have been linked to from outside (friends, reddit, hn, etc). The idea that I would watch, say, anti-LGBT videos that were auto-recommended after watching a drag queen's channel just seems silly. Why would I just click into those hateful videos? I didn't want them! So I don't watch them!

I'm sympathetic to the idea that borked recommendations algorithms can be frustrating and obnoxious but at the end of the day, every video I watch is a video I _chose_ to watch, and I just choose not to watch garbage. I don't understand why other people seem to find making this choice to be so difficult
Germany says it won’t ban Huawei or any 5G supplier up front
That's true you can give out different account numbers. You can't change that once you give it out though a cheque allows you to decide at the very last moment.
You mean "American police". Don't lump all police worldwide in with them.
I'd also point out I've never lived in a school district that started elementary school before 8a, so these parents must have had solutions for those years. The real problem is going to be if elementary schools get pushed forward to start at 7a and release at 1p or something crazy like that, but I know most districts don't want the liability of 8 year olds waiting for the bus in the dark along side a major road.
Foreign language drill classes at 7 AM was quite possibly the worst thing I dealt with during college. Rapid-fire German when it is dark and frozen and you are hung over is very rough.
so if you're dull and lazy, but have unearned wealth, you should never fail? why do you want to believe so hard that wealthy people should never lose their wealth in any circumstance?

it's a classic misallocation of resources, and how monarchies have time and again fallen into despotism, decay, and eventually overthrow. it's why democracy and capitalism came into being in the first place.
As a single with no dependants I've purchased a home at $360k and with a student loan.

It's only possible having boarders that pay rent and help with the bills.

The value has increased so much that I don't think it would be possible to own a home in my area on my salary any more.

Now I'm looking at getting married and the cost of living is going to be okay as long as we don't have kids soon. But I'm getting older and can't put that off too long.

I don't understand the housing market to know why it's like this but I'm not sure it's sustainable. People aren't going to be able to afford to have families at this rate. Also, If interest rates ever go back up I'm done.
This bait and switch infuriates me.
Great links, thanks very much for bringing me up to speed on this domain. The Chess Terminator is the sort of thing I'm talking about.

> Manipulating chess pieces is trivial for e.g. a pick and place robot,

Perhaps in a sterile, well-known, controlled environment; but not in a real world, novel, potentially adversarial environment.

I guess my point is about AGI is that I would bet a 7-year old could currently beat the best AI in the world at real, physical chess, played in a randomly chosen park. Kids can quickly figure out strategies in the real world with its more degrees of freedom than you have in the digital world of computer chess. In other words, perhaps a kid may figure out that if they place a piece in a certain position, the computer is unable to "see" or "execute" the desired move, perhaps because the angle of the sun or some line of sight obstruction. While an adult might be generous and offer help, a lot of children will take advantage of the robot's weaknesses.
If you're in software development, especially on a development team, these ideas about nonviolent communication (NVC) may be able to help you and your team.

The approach is: observe facts -> note feelings -> uncover desires -> make requests.

For software development, I recommend a NVC approach called "Crucial Conversations". I summarize it on my repo.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/crucial_conversations
Way too much. I keep meaning to cancel FT, which is about to renew for $249.95/yr. I subscribed to Bloomberg intending to cancel FT. The regular FT subscription doesn't provide access to the premium content, and the lineup of non-premium commentators and journalists doesn't have anything substantive or informative to say. I've subscribed to the FT, with a brief interruption circa 2015, for well over 10 years. Lately Bloomberg just seems to have more talent (their cybersecurity reporting notwithstanding).

Earlier this year I accepted the $0.99/week deal for The NY Times. I'll reconsider when it renews at the regular price next year.

AFAIK, my Bloomberg and Atlantic subscriptions are at the regular listed price.
Show HN: A CSS parser written in JavaScript that builds HTML from CSS selectors
I was always on the fence about meetup but now they made my mind up for me.
“Downtime” comes close. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982:

”Think of this as a nap for your screen time. When you schedule downtime in Settings, only phone calls and apps that you choose to allow are available. Downtime applies to all of your Screen Time-enabled devices, and you get a reminder five minutes before it starts.”

I don’t think you can restrict what numbers can be called.
It's not noteworthy all of itself, things get unproportional amounts of attention all the time on the internet, but I find it interesting that this story then ended up on the very top of HN
Yes, I'd be interested.
Thats great - do you know if they do it for shirts?
1- the civil aspect handles part of this. It only requires equitable enforcement.

2- the act of traveling on the road was intentional, even if they were lost. What you are arguing would be more applicable if they were in a wreck, and pushed across the border. But even that is a stretch.

They may have been advised of this, hence playing up the "swerved to not hit an animal" part of their story.
I did with a copy of the message.
> A platform that provides a direct way for them to speak shouldn't be interfering with that.

The majority of Donald Trump's power is derived from his ability to say anything he wants (and have his crazy base eat it up). If we took that away from him he would be terribly crippled in what he could do. It seems to me we're really just giving them a platform to abuse.
The problem is that YouTube tries to have that and fails.

For once kids I had been spoken with (~12y) where aware that there are thinks they don't want to see.

But then we have that problem that it's no longer obvious what is "bad" and what isn't. For once youtube removes/age locks videos which are obvious not teen safe (gore, porn).
But this mainly gives a illusion of safety.

The problems are normally not the obvious "bad" videos but such which seem to be fine. Except that they aren't because they either change their stile/content midway or are bad in a more subtile way.

EDIT: Just to be clear old TV also had manipulative content, but this was normally only about advertisements and politics due to curation. YT has manipulative content of cults of all kind, often with noticeable risks to mental and/or physical health. And the politically motivated manipulative content seems to have become much more wild/dangerous as it's practically way less restricted.
Twice in Germany and once in Dubai?
I have a Craftsman mower that won't die after 10+ years. Many Craftsman labeled products retained decent quality. The trick was to find those that were from high quality OEMs.
Ah! Didn’t see that (was viewing in a phone and requesting desktop site made no difference). Maybe the link was there and I missed it. In any case, thanks!
I've been using the old Google Wifi system for several years now and its been decent.. with two big caveats

1) I hate the mobile only interface. It's nice to have one, but no desktop interface (unless I run an emulator) is really annoying when trying to manage and monitor the network.

2) You need to have a s-H-s type topology where each satellite connects directly to the main unit. Thankfully most areas of my house are hardwired so I can plug them in, but there are some areas that don't have good coverage that I'd love to chain another satellite to, but its too far for it to reach the hub over wifi (no cable is run), and it doesn't support branching off of another satellite.

For the new system it looks like their solution to #1 is to put the controls into an even worse app...

For item #2, anyone know if it will support s-s-s-s-H chaining?

On a related note.. I actually got into a support chat with them once asking about that and their support rep said it didn't work because my cable modem had nat enabled and if I turned that off it'd work great facepalm. After a lengthy discussion he thanked me for teaching him about networking.
It's the same way with my company. In the rare situation I see my employer mentioned on HN, I can't even bother reading the comment. It's all so overwhelmingly negative. Not just on the management, but on the employees as well. HN's perception of the company who signs my paychecks is so wildly different from my own perspective as an employee there that I have a hard time believing anyone on HN who talks about a negative work experience at Company X or Company Y.

If the consensus for my company is so wrong, the consensus on every company is highly suspect.
That entire section was lifted wholesale (32 bits and all) from NIST 800-63b 5.1.1.2 and as a result is specific to contexts where these requirements provide added security guarantees when processing constraints are expected (re: 32 bit salt minimums as well as secret salts / "pepper" in discrete HSMs). This probably isn't right for a number of organizations, but the standards are researched with rehabilitating the most security-impaired organizations/agencies in mind — using prescriptions derived from data. While the ASVS targets a slightly different audience, it's striving to prescribe easily accessible instructions rather than the state of the art (though the two make a pretty tight Venn diagram).

I understand and largely agree with your technical gripes though I regret to say I'm not really convinced by your position. That said, I agree with an unstated corollary to your point: 2.4.5's listing as a L2 control is not appropriate (L3 would be better where this requirement even makes sense), and this specific recommendation should be traded for an alternate prescription in favor of credential-specific hard-i.e.-long salts, because most environments outside the ones NIST cares about actually have the capability to follow the state of the art rather than hack together a solution to fit processing constraints.

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To your point about mature security programs: you're entirely right. Without those resource constraints, I'd build a program modeled off of real world threats and attack surface as well as actual usage and abuse. No need for a general prescription when I can diagnose my specific shortcomings. You and I are in agreement there. (Talks like "using vulnerability trend analysis to guide holistic security uplift" by salesforce come to mind)

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Responding from mobile. Please pardon any typing defects. And if you're at Security@ today, I'm up to chat more over foods.
Exactly - there are plenty of things I will happily eat 500 grams of, and there are a great many things in this world I should never eat even a single milligram of.

This comparison is not even close to a given.
That would be insanely easy for the US government to set up.
The thing with evenly distributed sunlight is that, if you work in an office, you're not going to have a lot of free time to be outside and not commuting while the sun is out during the week.

With a big skew between winter and summer hours, it's dark in the winter but you don't actually lose that much in-the-sun free time while you gain a huge amount of light during the long summer evenings.
Would you mail weed to someone in the post? C'mon..