skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That could (hopefully) be part of the plan. Other multi-value properties like border and padding can be specified (or overridden) as a series of more granular properties that target their different values individually.
This is effectively what we should be doing: Either accept what the site is offering (content monetized by ads and data collection) or don't. But what happened instead is entitlement: People decided they had the right to view that content without paying it's cost, and went for ad blockers instead.

As much as I loathe ads, I am still surprised ad blockers work: That vastly more websites haven't simply made it impossible to view them without either seeing the ads or paying money/subscribing.
> Those figures don’t even factor in the time kids are using screens for school or homework, where smartboards and school computers are likely a part of many classroom settings.
That’s if you just ignore licensing requirements for these very crowded frequencies.
C is an amazing language, and I’m glad that I spent the first five years of my career writing it pretty much every day. (Some days I was writing FORTRAN, of an era when it actually was capitalized, or working on some very bad late 90s C++. But most days, C.) The fact that it was a phenomenally well-designed language doesn’t mean we can’t try to improve upon it. My love for it doesn’t mean I don’t want to improve on it! Quite the opposite in fact.
Screen Time on macOS is very broken, FWIW. It thinks I used the App Store for four hours yesterday because I had left it open in the background during a build.
An article that supports this:

https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hittin...

> Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

> To cope, restaurateurs like the Milners are moving from large-scale restaurants to small spaces. The Milners have Gabriela’s Taqueria at West 44th Street and Eighth Avenue.

It seems unlikely the original article is telling the full story.
> Somehow Europe manages to have viable restaurants despite decent minimum wage and not tips-oriented compensation...

They have a social safety net for all the people who aren't employable at that high wage. That's the difference. You can't massively increase minimum wage without a social safety net to go with it. And if your goal is both you need to start with the safety net, not the minimum wage increase.
A CPU executing arbitrary code that you didn't load is much, much easier to detect, than an RNG that looks random, but isn't.

We already know that parties like the NSA have intentionally backdoored RNGs that made it into production use.
The screenshot in the article include:

sudo hexdump -C -n 64 /dev/urandom

sudo won't be required to read from /dev/urandom, although it probably is for /dev/hwrng.
Tobacco is an even better example, in that even when used in the "recommended" way it's often fatal.
Ask HN: What is the fastest open source single-node SQL database?
Despite various searches, I haven't been able to find an adequate answer to the question in the title. I know that there are various database technologies out there apart from PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB, but I haven't found any performance benchmark on a single-node across various options. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Interesting. I’ve found myself using the new iOS 13 task app in a similar format to how Nareen uses Asana. Going kanban is a good idea. Though admittedly I run out of tasks fairly often and it not easy coming up with new stuff always.

Anyone ever seen a repository of tasks? I’m imagining finding something I’m interested in and subscribing to the daily tasks for that topic?
Get a small business loan from your parents?

Loads of kids do that for things like a lemonade stand or a lawn mowing business during the summer.
> We don’t allow for slums like what you see in Brazil or India

Many on the left are supporting open borders. Which is guaranteed to attract a huge amount of low skilled labor. Which guarantees low wages (simple supply-demand). And if you artificially control wages, it will result in unemployment of the unskilled. Why do you think we have tent towns all over California?
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Do small businesses like mom and pop shops pay minimum wage? Just curious who the policy actually impacts.
I'm assuming an 11 year old trading stocks has parents that have money to burn and receives it from them, so this wouldn't apply to typical 11 year olds.
The article mentions that the 7.5 hours a day specifically excludes time spent at school or doing homework.

So, you're absolutely correct that the figure is much higher, and the rest of the article shares potential health and social risks that children (instead of adults) have when they are so plugged in, "modern life" aside. I believe, however, that children are more vulnerable to these risks than us who work in tech all day.
What makes the US unique that it needs to forego minimum wage? Unemployment isn't much different from most countries in Europe or other comparable economies.
> I don't think C's memory management is bad. It's not right for heaps of problems

Pun intended?
Lighting.

https://www.statista.com/chart/10567/the-cost-of-light-throu...
offtopic-ish but maybe somebody sees it: can anyone recommend places around the web to look for open source projects where I can help out as a writer? I write and edit professionally but am bad at code beyond some 101-level Java, and beyond that the usual html/css. I've always appreciated well-written help docs, manuals, FAQs, etc of any kind and would like to help out if I can and hopefully learn some things while doing so, even if it's just low-level stuff like proofreading. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> -hosting (became free in last couple of years thanks to Netlify, GH pages etc.)

Uh, GitHub really wasn't the first to offer free hosting, and it's definitely not something of the "last couple of years". Geocities has been doing that since 1995 and I don't know if they were the first. Moreover, GH Pages is super limited, others allow you to run dynamic scripts (PHP being the most popular). I never heard of Netlify but Wikipedia tells me it's standard shared hosting for static content.

As for "cloud" storage, that's getting cheaper in the sense that they are reducing profit margins (getting closer to charging the actual cost price), but if you roll your own, you can still do it for less than what the cheapest third party charges. And those costs are also dropping year over year. With both effects combined, I guess it's dropping quite rapidly, but for two separate reasons and not because of advances in hard drive tech.
> Taxis are expensive because they require a human to drive them. Hence the reason the SDC could change that dynamic. A shared car that does not require an expensive human to drive it.

Human driver's only account for 50% - 55% of a cab's cost.

https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-taxis-can-tell...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-breakdown-of-where-taxi-fa...
It should be noted that because of market adoption, an ecosystem can grow to have more value for the end user than a more complete but new competitor.
The machines used to measure emissions don't have the capacity to identify particles that were supposed to be filtered by the particle filter.
Is it just me or is teaching Python way more popular than it should be? Just because a lot of us learned on BASIC dialect, doesn't mean imperative programming 'makes sense' for teaching. Related to the article, Elm seems a fit language for on-boarding new programmers given it's training-wheels type system, friendly error messages, and it's target is visual where newcomers can see the output of what their building. If not, the LISP family has pretty good story here too for simplicity; it's no wonder Scheme & Racket are also popular languages to begin with.
For those interested in the origins of RDRAND, here is some background Intel stuff about it.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-n...

https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc23...

NB: RDSEED was added at a later date, some people didn't like that Intel used AES for conditioning, they wanted the raw bits.
Yeah, the app level statistics are wrong. For the total screentime, it looks about right to me. 8 hours at work, a couple hours of email on either end, entertainment for an hour, then reading on a screen in bed.
> The new api has no access to consumer (non-Business or non-Creator) instagram accounts.

Good.
I'd rather work for my own business at $10 an hour than for a franchise or corporate chain at $20 an hour.
Screen time really needs to be sorted into meaningful, productive usage, and recreation and procrastination.
He could boot. His problem was lockups after boot with wireguard directly calling RDRND & looping on non-random random numbers rather than using an API to get random numbers.
From cursory look at the code wireguard relies on Linux's get_random_whatever() internal APIs, which are kernel-space interface to same PRNG as userspace (u)random/get_random()/get_entropy(). It even seems that there is not a single line of x86_64 assembly in the whole WireGuard.

On the other hand it is somewhat worrisome that brokenness of RDRAND can affect output of Linux's RNG that much.
We already have a planned economy. It’s finance economics being carefully babysat by highly paid economists telling us this much inflation is just right, injecting this much liquidity is just right, etc.

Establishing the dollar as the default global currency? The discourse around financial value of firms each quarter? The revenue generating capacity? All part of every plan of building a business.

Look at how the laws (social plans violation of which involves threat of force) control our flow of money, and our frequency discussing these things as they’re told to us reinforces the belief in its correctness.

Really what’s holding back socialism is emotional acceptance we’re already living in a heavily planned socialist society that’s been corrupted to financially benefit special interests out of deference to old ideology.
Is it feasible to scrape the website?
> Ideally, the system would pay the workers the marginal value of their input for the work done,

I strongly agree with this, but this requires altruistic employers, or unions to accomplish. And this results in jealousy and hostility towards workers in high-margin industries. Workers in general have no idea what their value-add to the company really is.
Interesting fact: the price of a bushel basket of wheat has been approximately equal to a single British Pound Sterling since the 1300s. At that time the pound was only slightly denatured, it was worth only slightly less than a pound of silver.
Could the Bazel folks better define the composition of their blob? That way they can distribute their blob, but someone could substitute for another instance of the JVM. I'm assuming ownership of this lies with Bazel and this is more of a political/motivation problem than a technical one. Or, is that incorrect?
So if I get a $1000 tip five minutes into the shift it applies for the next two weeks?
The big reason is money. We now have large multinational corporations that service the entire world but have headquarters in one or two cities. So all the high paying jobs end up in a handful of cities.

I live in an completely unremarkably small city except for the fact that there is one big employer with a lot of money. The rents and house prices are only going up.
Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency – Martin Kleppmann
Yes, exactly. And! It exists in garbage collectors, too.
I still do a ton of stuff in the terminal. More advanced git clients are something I've seen
It's not just SV. Power dynamics within orgs have changed and are changing.

Traditional Hierarchies are struggling because hyper-connecitivity within the org and to the outside world have increased exponentially. This diffuses power at every level within a hierarchy. You can't have power over someone 2 levels down if their network is as influential as your own.
> we don't even link to other websites anymore.

Meaning, there is no WWW anymore. (Just a bunch of isolated load-on-demand apps distributed by a network.)

Edit: Is this why Google Chrome is hiding the "www." sub-domain prefix, because it doesn't apply anymore? ;-)
>Lidar has no problem with snow, only when its _snowing_. However, if visibility is reduced, a pure visual approach is going to be even worse.

Good thing Teslas have radar...which penetrates falling snow.

>Musk made a mistake, and he's spending billions to prove that he never made it.

People drive fairly well with only visual sensors (eyes). That is proof of concept. Lidar seems like overkill.
Microsoft: Hackers are targeting sporting organizations ahead of Tokyo Olympics
Is it just me or does this page not scroll in Firefox?
> "Citizen-users need to hold websites more accountable. When was the last time a website asked what privacy policy you would like applied to you? My guess is never."

Wrong guess. This happens multiple times per day, thanks to the GDPR legislation in the EU. Annoying, but also correct. I take great effort to disable everything I don't like (ad tracking in particular), and like the article says I should:

> "You should be able to clearly articulate your preferred privacy policy and reject websites that don’t meet your standards."

There are increasingly websites I refuse to use because they don't work in a way I consider acceptable.

Some major websites are surprisingly broken. Twitter on Firefox on Android, for example, is notoriously bad.
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I did quite a lot of hacking around the text selection when extending CKEditor for XML editing.

In my opinion there are several reasons why text input and selection are so difficult:

1. The behavior is complex.

2. The behavior resists being formally defined. It differs across the user interfaces, such as URL bar, rich text editor, terminal, etc.

3. The requirements are evolving. The recent big change - the emojis - is still not universally supported.

4. The reasons above tend to add accidental complexity to the API that will only grow over time.

I feel like the best approach would be to create a mathematical theory describing the text input semantics. This approach worked quite well for other complicated areas in CS, such as concurrency or memory management.
I still remember the moment I hit the Yahoo! home page and saw a banner ad for the first time, and said to myself, "here they come." I didn't project out to surveillance capitalism though, was still a bit too young for such thoughts.
To be fair, that looks like a mirror that’s been separated from its “intended” location (where there might be a link to these instructions) plus it’s a traditional “./configure && make && make install” type project anyways
Yes, this is a common topic between my girlfriend and me. Internet as we know it (we grew up in the 2000s with MSN, forums, etc) doesnt exist anymore.

First (at least for us, for other people there would be another "first") were the basic webpages done in Frontpage or Dreamweaver (if you had enough RAM), uploaded to free webservers like Tripod, Lycos, Geocities, copying and pasting scripts found out there to remove popups and iframes, reading Photoshop tutorials to do some effects or gifs animations. Everything were more crafted, it took more time to do these kind of things (now everything is an app or a drag and drop).

Then came the second version of the internet. Everything was a bit "more pro" - even amateur fansites payed for their hosting, they had forums, online chats, etc. The open source community allowed this. From Wordpress with its themes to phpBB2 forums, vBulletin, etc. Oh, I miss those days.

Then slowly all of that was lost. Nowadays we only have social accounts for things. Fansites? Only accounts on Twitter, INstagram, YouTuber. Ask an INfluencer if they have their own website. What for? Everything is centralized.

My dad, who started using a smartphone just 2 or 3 years ago, doesn't fully understand what the internet is. For him, it's just a set of apps (Whatsapp, Facebook, and the website of his fav newspaper). Outside that he doesn't understand there is (or there was) a full world of websites with a lot of contents.

It makes me sad because "the original internet" will be never be like what we experienced. I don't know who to blame for, tho. If I were in the shoes of Facebook or Twitter's founders I would have done the same. But they definitely have eaten all the webpages around them.
Really? Really? Take a look at the unemployment in Spain or France and get back to me.

Also, not all countries in Europe have a minimum wage - there's no official minimum wage in Norway (although the de facto minimum wage is a lot higher than in the US).
It is still considered incorrect by many. Some but not all dictionaries and style guides have adopted “they” and “them” as singular gender-ambiguous pronouns.
The code for a Catalan activist app (Tsunami Democràtic) is not accessible from Spain since this morning.
Florida Built a Wild West for Driverless Cars
"Hey, a long time ago, when the only people that used it were just like me, things were really pleasant."

There is a lot of conflict in the world. As the pool of people on the network grows and changes they will bring conflict with them into this arena. It's a kind of naivete that sees the homogenous origin of the network as a better time.
Well, then you don't have a society and economy that can support both employment and decent wages.

In which case you should take a long hard look at what's wrong with it instead of using semi-employment under horrible wages as a band aid...
There are several brokerages that will let you buy fractional shares.
Because lidar allows faster travel in the modes where it works. When there is heavy rain/snow the only safe speed is very slow anyway. When roads are clear and dry I really want my car to go faster than the elderly walk (I walk faster than that normally), and lidar may be required for that mode.
Crystal Starr's UK Press Tour
This is a really cool place to visit if you're ever passing by. We went about 1.5 hours out of our way to check it out one time and it did not disappoint.
How is it different than depending on e.g. Python?
Interesting. I have wondered how IG and Pinterest get away with hosting so many photos that weren't uploaded by the copyright holder. Was that the solution? Upload the pics at a degraded resolution and claim that it's not infringement?
Trust, but verify.

The problem is that there is not much verification going on.
When to Switch to Python 3.8
This ignores the massive value SDC's can provide to the blind, disabled, elderly, and children, all of whom may not be able to hop on a bike or scooter.
Your posting this on a website that is pretty much exclusively links to other websites, "hey I made this" stuff, and people talking about their hobbies.

I think it went /okay/.
Heat can still leave parts in space by radiating the heat away. We don't usually think about it because it's generally much slower than convective cooling here on Earth but it does happen and doesn't require a medium to cool. It's the method the ISS uses to cool its interior for example. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/a...
>Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point.

I don't think they care if it's "fake". They will still be able to uniquely identify you and correlate your activity against a number of other sources to build a more complete profile on you, including what you do on Facebook.
Even on very high end machines, even when I'm running other GUIs, I still do a lot of stuff in the shell especially with regards to working on ssh'd machines.

It's really useful to have things work in the shell directly.
You Want Tor Browser Not a VPN
The fact that FB and Google workers make these demands is a indicator of how easy it is to replace them.

Money = power. If FB workers are valuable, they have political power they can use. There are many employees who are close to "Fuck you" money and many more who can just walk out and get similar job almost instantly.
I also tend to be skeptical that ANNs are very useful as a model for brain function. In vivo neural networks are so complex and so dynamic when compared ANNs.

In my opinion, the fact that even such a massively simplified model of one specific subtype neural processing has been able to give as powerful results as we have seen from Deep Learning should give us an appreciation for how much there still is for us to learn about this staggeringly complex system.

I would guess that the next great advancements will come from using better understandings of the brain to build better ANNs, not the other way around.
far older that Windows or Mac (even the old Mac)

They are all very nearly the same age.
Computer Storage costs
Much of the “significant external funding” is coming from govt funded defense contractors - nothing better then selling star wars military dreams to politicians spending taxpayer money.

I’m glad research is happening - agreed on Sabre vs Skylon too. could do with a touch less hype.
>once they gain the ability to will control their internet very tightly //

Did you have some particular ability in mind here that countries don't already have? Countries sensor the web, turn off access to services (social media), and such, already.

I can imagine on-the-fly editing might help countries, but can't really see what else you might have in mind?
I don't know that driving brings out terribly different behavior on that front, it's more that cars are so big that they act as this inconvenience multiplier that allows one person to easily create a much bigger hassle or hazard for others than they could with their bare hands.

For example, I have plenty of run-ins with stepping out of a storefront and nearly getting creamed by a cyclist who's zooming down the sidewalk at 10mph, too. And it's frequently the cyclist who yells at me for failing to anticipate them barreling down the sidewalk illegally.
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China has proved that (i) it has access to vast rich western consumer markets, and (ii) that a dirty dubious economy with no transparency produces cheaper goods than a well-regulated one.
Personally, I think the internet has changed millions if not billions of lives for the better. Yes, it has introduced quite a few bad things like spam, malware, surveillance etc. but with most good things, comes a few bad things. Overall though, Internet has been tremendous in lifting so many people out of poverty AND creating jobs that otherwise people could not dream of before the internet. I can work for anyone over the internet and make money for myself and my family. I can communicate with family members and friends across continents. With all the hate social media gets for example, imagine a life without them again. I say this as someone who hardly uses it but knows that it is there if I want to communicate with someone I care about. Do you really want to send physical letters again ? Yes they have their charm and nostalgia but I am not willing to trade the convenience of internet for something worse or outdated.

So Thank you for creating the internet all you tremendous people. I personally wouldn't trade it. Can we fix a few things ? Sure we can. But it has not gone wrong. It has changed lives, mine included for the better.