skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next internet scale worm will be a zero-day and cross between Chrome, Edge and Safari, perhaps involving WebRTC.
> Good UX coupled with great television has a way of encouraging bad viewing habits.

This reminds me of a project to make cigarette packaging less convenient in order to discourage smoking.

http://www.erikaskin.com/index.php?/projects/design-to-annoy...
> Part of the reason you go to school as a young person is that you do not have a family to feed or a house to pay off.

If you go to art school as a young person, you won't have the problem of paying off a house because you won't have a job that qualifies you for a mortgage.
For a user in EU it should be possible to work around such ban.

First make a GDPR request to have your data deleted.

After som grace period, register again. If they tell you that you are banned, they show that they have not deleted the data. File a complaint with data protection authorities and have them fined.

Of course the better answer is just not to do any business with shitty companies.
Love your enthusiasm my friend, however you would get more interest posting in a thread like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683552

or maybe responding to some of the open positions here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683554
If TFA contained a transcript it might have been worth an upvote...
"Culturally upper-class person with middle-bracket income treats college exactly the same way as everybody else in their income bracket, writes article about how different they are"
What does “not working hard” look like? It looks like Facebook, Reddit, news.yc, YouTube, online shopping, Candy Crush, chatting with co-workers, and dicking off in the break/game room.

“Working hard” looks a lot like “not not working hard”.
I wonder if the downvotes are by people who think this is an excuse for airbnb rather than pointing how little added value it actually provides and how easily replaceable it is
This is an interesting comparison, but I think it unfairly favours rockets because you seem to be calculating chance of fatality of each passenger/driver.

Typically astronauts will have less than 10 flights, whereas a driver could have 10,000 trips in a car.
I'm not an expert, and every kid is different, but when I talked with my oldest (now in her first year of college) these were the things that seemed to help her pick a direction in life:

1) The Ideal Job Venn Diagram by David Hamil (https://breakingnorms.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/ideal-job-...) It's a Venn diagram of "things you're good" at, "things you like doing", and "things that pay well". The main purpose of this is to kick off the question of whether your true passion should really be a hobby instead of a job. Also, if you don't have a "Dream Job" in mind, then start by eliminating jobs that you would hate or be terrible at. Sometimes it's just easier to pick a job that doesn't suck.

2) College is an investment in your future, so you need to understand the full costs (tuition and lost income), as well as the potential returns. What professions are you interested in and what are the average starting salaries for them? At that salary how long would it take to pay off the full cost of going to college?

Another key thing I learned is to start having the conversations well before they are stressed out about picking a college and possible career. At that point it's too emotionally charged to have a rational conversation.
A masters thesis is original research and a phd thesis is a significant contribution to the field.

Linux kernel is easily more than just a development project.
A shorted battery with enough energy to fly something is able to start a fire. If you don't believe me, just short the battery and see what happens.

BTW, about 25 years ago I used to manufacture motor controllers for model airplanes and drones. Back then I bought almost every available motor controller in the market for testing. The final test was to short the output of the motor controller (simulating a potential reality of a crash). Every single controller in the market at the time went up in flames.

In other words, in a crash there's some probability N of one of the M motor controllers on the drone shorting or the motor being prevented from spinning. Without safeguards (which is the case with most consumer products of this class and particularly true of cheap Chinese products) this means nearly 100% of the the energy in the battery will go towards heat generation, potentially culminating with ignition of anything from the battery to the motor and, eventually, any fuel in contact with the same.

BTW, back 25 years ago my motor controllers were differentiated by addressing a number of these safety features, including short circuit protection, stalled motor protection and more. Every single motor controller shipped went through automated testing that included short circuiting the output, stalling a motor and more.

Yes, LiPo's are nasty due to their chemistry, yet, at the end of the day, this is about converting the energy in a battery into heat, inside or outside the battery pack.
The tool can be a library that software made by other teams depends on (directly or indirectly).
I think some early mice had one button. Other early mice had two or three buttons (that would be chorded for different operations)
I think his point was more about focus. If you know what you’re doing, you can do it on any (reasonable) timeline you want.

Most entrepreneurs are just chasing money like a Leprechaun. Wherever it goes, you follow. Run, turn, grind, pivot.

Shopify has always been really focused. Moves slower than the competition in many ways. They’ve been at it for 15 years. Mostly behind the scenes, not the sexiest stuff.

When you have a simple business you don’t have to grind weekends to try and convince someone to give you more money. The business is self sustaining and profitable.
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I think he's assuming that people are going to spend some fraction of their time at work advancing their careers and maintaining their relationships with coworkers (and that he does not include that time as "creative work").
Well, in order to explain why you did a thing, you need to have some understanding of how the other party thinks in order to explain it in a way they will understand. And in order to explain it in that way, you would need to reflect upon the meaning of your own decisions in the context of how the other party models things.
What's unfortunate is that on the other side of the coin, "rockstar CEOs" like Elon Musk claim they sleep 4 hours a night and work 90 hour weeks. I think Musk does this mostly for publicity/image reasons and not that it's actually true, but you've got plenty of wantapreneurs parroting this (imo) unhealthy lifestyle.
Just install a real RSS reader. There are many for every platform.
"A bad plan is always preferable to no plan" - recently associated with Thiel but I believe it's an old military adage.

I think there is something metaphysical about it; the 'grey' is the ether and the black and white is the materiality that comes out of it literally from force of will.

You can only create something by making a choice, choosing a path, 'making the quantum observation' which dissolves the ambiguity.

Too often we think of the 'solutions' as a form of 'clarity' ... when reality, 'clarity' might be just the force
(or clarity) of vision more than anything.

Consider three rules of branding: consistency, authenticity, simplicity. The message resonates when it is consistently and repeatedly applied in a simple way, and there is some kind of 'truthiness' (i.e. authenticity) to it. Sometimes I think of a product roadmap, and all the crazy internal and external politics of it all, as a form of branding. It's a 'decision' (i.e. either black or white) reiterated among individuals such that they can resonate their various talents around it, pushing it into fruition.
No. He is not asking for 4 hours of work.
He is asking for laser-focused, 100% productive 4 hours work.
You can do additional work in the rest of the hours left that not necessarily is going to require that level of focus.
Big fan of newsboat. I still run freshrss on a pi just for use on mobile and starting certain article s.
There were less students at his time. If there was a way to plot "average added value" of a master's theses trough out the last century, I'd expect it to be non zero historically and then to exponentially converge to zero.
> There is already bloodshed, but right now it just happens to not be yours.

No, there isn't. At least not in the examples mentioned.

What you mention is one point of MLK's quote, but my point is different: not everyone who doesn't want to join the fight against status quo is such moderate without a personal stake in the outcome. Some are people who very much care, and have a stake, but decline involvement because they see the proposed means to involve too much collateral damage; the cure to be worse than the poison.
I'm working with a big corporate client right now and not only is their DevOps team just sysadmin, but build automation is also a separate team.

For my money, the crux of DevOps isn't specifically about who does what task with code, it's about vertical alignment. The notion that your build pipeline and infrastructure are as much a part of product development as the coding, design and everything else and everyone up and down the stack is aligned to the same goals.
Still too expensive for most people to buy or rent
That's true, but most sites don't support dark mode anyways, and it's still not clear that dark mode will be widely adopted web designers. In any case, you're right there would just be a second font file for dark mode, so at least a user wouldn't have to download both.

In any case, as of two months ago Chrome still explicitly has no plans to implement SVG in OpenType (despite support in every other major browser, and the request being 3 years old), so color icon fonts don't appear to be coming to the web as a whole anytime soon. :( [1]

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=306078
Hang on, capitalism is also a social system. It depends on social institutions like property rights, the rule of law, and under most reasonable assumptions, a state with a monopoly on violence. Socialism more generally considers other social constructs to even out extreme outcomes which might otherwise occur in a pure market.
I don't believe anyone really does 80 hours. I just don't think it is possible and I don't think you can call sitting at a desk doing nothing "work".

I've done 60 hours during intense periods just fine... but it was only effective because of the nature of the work I was doing at the time. And, I usually took a break down the road to compensate. In no way was it even 50% creative work.

4 to 6 creative hours seems right, but a lot of work isn't creative. There is also the bullshit work that still has to get done, ie, loading up contacts in a CRM, building and nurturing relationships, reviewing emails, checking links, etc etc etc..
I think some of it has to be taken as more of an adage than pragmatically. Firsly, the four hours may not be continuous so having random hours doesn't really work. Additionally, it's caveated with creative work, regardless of job title, a lot of work would involve non-creative aspects which need to be done.
Leave the Bay Area
I have no beef with your definitions, those are nice and consistent, but in practical terms I have trouble imagining anyone who, by your definition, wants more accountability. This seems to be asking for a harness and a whip.

On moving up the ladder while staying an individual contributor -- IME as one becomes the tech lead of larger and larger projects, the "tech" part shrinks and "lead" grows and the setup has a constant forcing function into a "manager in all but a name" setup. One might resist, but this is frequently a pretty hard push.
> While other parents cheerfully promise that “if you get in, we’ll figure out the money part,”

That is literally the worst mindset to go in to this about.

I profoundly want to see college be free for all, and debt zeroed out. Failing that rather utopian vision, the smart bet is to get a degree that you can pay off in under 10 years without a miracle.

I plan to save up enough to help my kid out, which might well involve "we'll send you internationally: those colleges are just as good, you'll get more independent, and you will be about debt free when you get out".
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny.

No - not so that chance shall decide the affair, while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

- Piet Hein
I get labeled as a paralyzed grey thinker type. In my twenties I did it all with the travel, party, foodie, career conference crap. In my thirties, I consciously worked on not giving a shit about every little option an possibility. Life need not be seen as a Burger King giving it to me my way.

Counting a spoiled American kid childhood, 30 years of being spoon fed options that marketing felt fit the curve best wore thin.

I’ve become incredibly DIY and avoid socializing because it’s more of the same. Making music at home, learning, creating. I make tons of choices in those contexts all the time, building a new emotional vibe each time.

Picking a sushi joint for the thousandth time is just mind numbingly banal in comparison. And so I seem to have become “indecisive” to others, when internally I just don’t give a shit to go out for sushi again.
I just use about:blank as the new tab page.
Thank you! A fellow programmer Jacob even printed that viz as a woven textile — floating point errors can be very pretty :) https://twitter.com/jashkenas/status/1191829600214507520
I'm 25 and from the UK, I'm incredibly optimistic about the future of our country.
Having listened to the doom-mongering from select circles for the last 9 years, I now find it to be quite amusing. Since 2010 and with 2016 thrown in there for good measure, it seems that said people are going through multiple stages of despair, as each stage passes, the claims become more and more absurd. I usually predict that people will grow out of it, but in your case, there isn't much time.
What we've done with our kids is tell them from an early age that we will help them with the first year of college and after that they are on their own. So far we have 2 in college and that has been how it worked out. They knew up front that we would not help them after the first year, and neither has come to us asking for help because we were upfront with them long before they started going to college. Bottom line, set expectations early.
I will add a little side data point to this. Season 4 of Morty showed up in a lot of locations except US, Canada, UK.

They are a public company now. I find it hard to believe they could not afford US licensing deal.

And since they actively enforce their geofencing, the shallow library argument becomes even more apparent.

I really dislike streaming wars. We are basically reinventing cable. Any moment I expect unskippable ads in the middle of the show for all paid plans and people defending them as.. it is only 30 seconds..
Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.
I know a lot of upper middle class people in the Bay Area as well who don't know how much stuff is supposed to cost and get ripped off all the time as well ;-).
Would AirBnB be a monopoly even at 40%? Maybe (likely?) in home or room share, but they are competing against hotels and probably wouldn't have a 40% stake of that market. Or maybe I am underestimating how big they have got?
No, because you can be DevOps without Sysadmin. Many DevOps come from Dev, and are avoiding most sysadmin via abstractions.
> with radical empiricism in a trial and error fashion which is against Scientific Method

There is a longer discussion of this issue, with references, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/#SciMet... It is especially worth reading if you believe that trial and error is against the scientific method.
Meloader: Linux i386 tool to load and execute Intel ME modules
Well, not holding position X merely because X is the [conservative | liberal | Democratic | Republican | left | right] position might be considered "moderate", in one sense of the word. Holding position X purely because tribe Y holds it makes you a committed (ie, not moderate) member of tribe Y.
With a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, that would make more sense.
> The nice thing about U2F is that many providers support having multiple U2F tokens. For example Google, Github, and Gitlab do. Though others do not, for example AWS (last time I checked).

Note that in the case of AWS it is not as bad as it seems, if you use your AWS account they way Amazon recommends. When you initially create your account, the credentials you make (email and password) have full privileges on the account. This is called the "root" user.

The root user can create other users on the account, and delegate to them most of the privileges of root (but not all). Amazon recommends that you make one or more admin user accounts to wield all the privileges that can be delegated, and then no longer use the root account except for those few tasks that can only be done with root.

Use the admin user(s) to create regular user accounts for everything else.

If you have N U2F tokens, make N admin users and associate each with a different token. Associate each regular user account with one of the tokens you carry on your key chain.

If you lose a token, use one of the remaining tokens with the admin account it is associated with to reset the accounts that were using the lost token and then associate them with one of the remaining tokens.

If you use U2F with the root account and lose its token you can do a reset of your 2FA setup via email and phone. You should only rarely need to use the root account, so its token should probably be one of the ones you keep in some safe spot like in your fireproof safe, not one you carry around on your key chain.
Maybe Shopify’s growth is actually due to their shorter hours. Study after study shows this to be true, but for some reason the Bay Area can’t wrap their minds around that fact. In all likelihood Bay Area companies would be more productive if they forced their employees to go home after 40 hours.
Eastern Oregon seems full of rednecks and racists. Completely different from Portland. I was driving through it this weekend on my way to Idaho.
This phenomenon definitely exists on competitors e.g. Prime. Lots of screen space wasted on PPV stuff...
I never expected to see any cops browsing HN, pretty cool!
Stop reposting this over and over.
> Moving forward, I question whether these types of suspensions should be allowed from the tech giants without any oversight or regulation.

There is an industry based on providing short term lodging for people that is subject to oversight and regulation. Businesses operating in this industry are usually called "hotels".
I'm only guessing, but my definition of working hard would be:

- Staying focused on the task and cut unnecessary distractions

- Make yourself accountable and deliver what you set out to deliver

- Hold yourself to the same standards as you expect everyone else

- Be true to yourself, your beliefs and always ensure that you lead in such a way that reflects and demonstrates those values to the rest of the company

- Be smart about time management, use "uncreative" hours to get other work done

- Don't indefinitely postpone less exciting work if it is important and make it a priority to get done

- Be on time, if you schedule meetings with other people don't let them wait and value their time as much as you value your own time

- Surround yourself with other smart people and keep an open mind to ideas which differ to your own

- Control your emotions and don't make wrong choices in the moment of heat, stress or fear

- etc.

It would be really easy (especially as a founder) to not do many of these things and it takes real dedication and effort to lead by good example. I'd call that hard work.
Since something like 75% of you won’t even open this link:

UPDATE: According to some traffic over on Twitter, it looks like this whole thing may be vaporware. A user has uncovered the bug in question in the article below and as it turns out, this bug has nothing to do with Safari or Chromium. It is still private and cannot be viewed by non-Google employees, but it appears that this bug is assigned to “Move sync tests to staging” from 2015. We’re sorry for the incorrect reporting and have left the original story below.
> This is likely due to Baumol's Cost Disease, since almost all higher skilled jobs in the US pay about twice OECD countries. So to drive our cost to OECD levels, you'd need to mandate locally low salaries for doctors and nurses, which would result in lower quality care.

The bureaucracy of billing in the US is something magical that somehow manages to be worse in outcome and number of people involved than French bureaucracy (and the bar is high in terms of badness)
I do, and don't really have a problem with weighing things; my point was simply that I feel like I can't experiment. But you're probably right about needing practice - I tend to feel like I've failed when it goes wrong, and don't try again for ages.

I'm British, so always use grams/millilitres when cooking - TBH, I wouldn't even know what "a cup of flour" was!
If it is ridiculous to compare drones to cars, it is also ridiculous to compare drones to kites. All three have different risk profiles. To have something that could weigh the same as a bowling ball fall on you is different than a kite on the end of a string. 55 pounds isn't tiny in this context.

That being said, cars are clearly the most dangerous of the three. But they are what we are most dependent on as well.
That's a lot of optimism from labeling a problem as known vs unknown. I'm hesitant thinking there is logic from assuming a problem known will be fixed. Also it's not too far fetched to think climate change can snowball while being irreversible.
The entire premise of this article appears to be based on the idea that peak viewing is from midnight to 2am.

That is most definitely incorrect.

Peak viewing, at least when I worked there, was during prime time in that time zone.

Except for kids shows. Peak viewing of kids shows was Saturday morning.
I like how 'catered eggs benny' is the dispute resolution go-to. The new millennium has really come of age

This will keep happening as long as there's no cheap 3rd-party dispute arbitration. E-commerce has gotten super cheap and transactional but arbitration needs to catch up
Dick off as in masturbation at work? Sorry, English is not my first nor second language.
Excuse my ignorance here, what period would this have been? Can you expand a little more on this?
Jobs that involve typing and computer use for extended periods of time will often lead to pain and health problems. It's not a quality unique to blue collar jobs.
For those who are not familiar, Ottawa is Canada's capital and its labour market is dominated by government jobs. It's a very 9 to 5 (actually, more like 9 to 4:30) culture and anything else would be a shock to the system for most people.
If Trader Joe's scattered their jams randomly throughout the store, we'd be upset too. Apricot jam in the "quirky and fun spreads" section along with hummus, grape next to peanut butter in "old time classics," strawberry in a section that isn't shown to you at all - you have to be told by a friend that it exists and ask a worker for it by name.

I've overextended the analogy.

The content available on Netflix is great, but the discoverability UX is atrocious.