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I can think of all sorts of interesting cases here. As art, it's perfectly acceptable to remix clips from different children's shows together to make the characters swear or put them in otherwise inappropriate situations.

If I made something like this, I would mark it as targeted at adults. Because it is targeted at adults, it's not meant for children. But if bright colors and recognizable characters in the automatically generated thumbnail attracted a child audience, would I be on the hook with the FTC?

The bad actors here are doing something similar, but they're deliberately trying to attract children to their videos. It's understandable to hope they get nailed by the FTC for this, but it seems (to me) to require discerning intent, which is always hard.
> It's hard but we get to choose ...

This is the crux of a state mandated shorter work week.

In Australia, the default is between 35 and 40 hours, 5 days a week.

Some people work more hours, some fewer. A proposal to change the standard wouldn't affect that arrangement.

People who enjoy working longer hours, say for a pursuit they enjoy or endorse, or like you to build up their own wealth at a much faster rate, likely wouldn't be affected by such a policy change.

I do hope you're not suggesting that your personal preferences should inform proposed policy changes like this?
's what I get for being a recluse. I really have to get out more often.
The sum of everyone's yard is still insignificant to the issue. Bugs in yards aren't the bugs that might theoretically matter. You might note the perfect symmetry between the claims "you need a robust population of random bugs in front of your house" and "you need a robust population of random bugs inside of your house". Nobody needs either of those things.

Most of the world is in neither one of those places.
My uneducated guess might have been the easy implementation of disallowing both children's and non children's content in a public playlist.
I've been a laborer too so I'm not arguing against laborers' rights. Labor and capital are symbiotic; one without the other would not function as efficiently as they do now.

We're doing okay with what we have is all I'm saying. Perpetually being in a state of revolution doesn't help anyone especially when things are going great. 40 hours seems fair to me; 24 hours doesn't.

I'm hard pressed to believe work would get completed in such a short time. We'd all be poorer for it.
> These companies are losing customers.

Are they? John Deere has increased its revenue from $28B to $39B in the last 4 years....
Yes and laws are social constructs too, and we’ve all agreed that disagreements get settled in a court of law (like this issue), not with sharp instruments.
The coal industry globally, yes. The coal industry locally, not so much. I interpreted the way you said it to not be pointing at the fires, otherwise you might have said it straight up when, it's the elephant in the room. The other reason I interpreted it that way, is when you single out the Australian government as continuing to support it when other countries are losing their appetite.

The more direct impacts come in polluted waterways, coal mining operations and any other deforestation that resulted from our local coal industry.
I've been waiting for something that looks like a firm step forward in the domain of games programming and has ideals which align with the domain. I'm extremely excited for zig and have been messing around with getting a smallish simulation running with SDL on Windows.

At work in C++ I've switched from working on fairly isolated types, where my changes had fast recompile times to lower level changes which cause a good chunk of the engine to recompile. 10 minute compile times, with a lot of tech trying to get that time down as much as possible, are a huge killer to productivity and I can feel myself getting much less done than I was before.

Zig tossed away a lot of the constructs that make C++ slower to compile. I haven't had a chance to see its timings on large projects, but stuff like Jai compiling 90k LoC full commercial game project live on a laptop in 1.4 seconds (which caused Jonathan Blow to say "what? That's weirdly slower than it should be...") gives me hope that Zig is similar.
I work in healthcare in Italy, where we live more than anyone else in the World, on average, except for the Japanese.

You are overestimating the causality between consumption and actual damages.

Consumption is ok, abuse is not.

Even too many showers can kill your skin

Of course if you have a condition even a simple contact can be deadly (think about favism)

And of course people are free to not drink, there's no shame in that, but don't think that it will give you more chances to have a long life than someone who drinks moderately

It's like smoking, it is bad, you shouldn't do it, but truth is that smoking a couple cigarettes a day is like not smoking at all

Paracelso said, many centuries ago, that it's t he dose that makes the poison and it's still true.
Unintended purchases are a real issue. I've witnessed first hand how young kids tend to press anything on the screen without any thought. I saw them press and nearly purchase youtube's "Super Chat, a tool that lets you pay to pin comments on live streams" without knowing what it was.
With laptops, OEM deals matter a lot more than with desktop CPU's. Here's to hoping that OEMs don't gimp their Ryzen models with worse screens, smaller batteries and slower, single-channel Ram as they are wont to do.

I'm excite for my next laptop to have a Ryzen, depending on benchmarks of course.
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It's also interesting to look at the series from 1950 and see that regardless of "corrections" that there is a gradual upward trend, so even if a high value is predictive of a bubble we don't necessarily know what the threshold is.
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A six hour day is plenty if you actually work and if you have a bit of discipline. Most people don't. They spend much of their day just goofing off - wasting their own time and often the time of their coworkers.

I bet most of you reading this do not spend 8-10-12 or whatever number of hours you claim to be at work actually working productively. You goof off often as much as half the time. Possibly more if you work for someone else.

_Work_ when you are at work.

If you are not actually working or if you are tired and unfocused: go home. If you are disciplined about this you will outperform those who spend more hours at work _easily_.
Farming is heavily subsidised throughout the industrialised world.
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Accurate enough that they sell it to advertisers who want children to see their ads.

If their demographic detection was bad, they would have no revenue and no customers since that's the flagship product that they are selling.
Until the richest YouTuber isn’t an adolescent set up to prey on his peers with unboxing videos, these measures are all half-hearted attempts at keeping the cash flowing. More regulation is probably needed.
I have some tangential experience here in analytics and advertising, including non-ad social campaigns, and from what I've seen the reporting in the press is likely just the tip of the iceberg. Additionally, much of the focus on the advertising element has distracted from broader and more powerful influence campaigns that operated outside of ads.

From an advertising performance standpoint yes, lookalikes and segmented email lists might perform best on the basis of maximizing engagement, shares, etc. that traditional reporting would suggest. But for a political campaign, enhancing the precision of issue-based messaging to target specific groups should theoretically have yielded gains beyond what the FB algorithm would optimize for – which would likely be more generalized based on in-platform behavior, and muddied by swaths of broadly viral content. While the desired signals might lie somewhere within Facebook's black box, I doubt that the algorithm is generally optimized for this type of political work, when FB's real money comes from driving product sales, signups, etc. In the cases of these political campaigns a lot of this content extended beyond spin to blatantly false information (i.e. made up / completely fake news, inflammatory memes, etc.) – therefore the variance in messaging could be unfathomably massive, limited only by the ability to generate huge amounts of content, which is where content / troll farms came into play.

And advertising aside, the Senate intelligence reports from a couple months ago suggested that the most powerful and far-reaching operations run by CA and similar parties were not based on advertising, and moreso around Facebook groups, Twitter bot / follower networks, and Instagram influencer spheres – recruiting real people into them, then propagating information within (e.g., a 2nd amendment group, run by false avatar accounts aligned with this voter profile, recruiting similar actual users in, and then propagating the desired information within). I've personally seen prior examples from 2014 of these types of mass influence campaigns, namely in the 2014 Senate race in North Carolina, where the seat was flipped to Tillis (R) from the incumbent Hagan (D).

If they had account information / emails, psychographic data, voter rolls, and were operating across platforms – the richness of the data would dictate how far you could go with it. According to the Senate report many of the hired trolls maintained multiple accounts across multiple platforms, were given marching orders each day for messaging, and quotas for performance. Match that with sheer manpower to create content to feed across these platforms, and enough horsepower on the analytics side to optimize based on performance, and you're staring into a frightening abyss.

We'll likely never know how far this went, but based on the data points I've seen from my own work and various reports on the CA / Russia campaigns, I see no reason why something this powerful couldn't exist with enough data, and enough money to put it to work.

The senate intelligence report is essential reading on the topic: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
Either they have a children's account (https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103338?hl=en)

Or

Google figures it out the same way they infer any number of things about you and use it to resell advertising. If they can figure out someone is a woman between 19 and 25, I'm pretty sure they can figure out with a good degree of accuracy that a user is under 15.
I guess Youtube is covering itself from someone alleging custom playlists is a form of tracking.
And Intel's 10000 series are really 6000.
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You require releases to be signed by maintainers (again, something maven central enforces and other repositories ought to), and then you have a notion of maintainer identity and can decide which you trust (again something that plugins let you do). If there are still too many maintainers then you can use the GPG web of trust approach, as e.g. Debian does, and see which maintainers are part of trusted organisations.
Which part did you read as claiming "business is harder"?
> If these are both overturned it will be a huge blow to "scientists" credibility

This is nonsense. Scientists have been wrong in several occasions, it is just part of the profession. For example, in the years leading to the discovery of relativity, many physicists believed there was something called "ether" that worked to fix the speed of light that they had evidence to be the same in all directions.
If you are a programmer and your boss demands hours from you rather than results, your boss has no idea what she/he is doing.
I'll take being able to feed the entire world's population more affordably than ever over the jobs of a small group of people in a rich country. This isn't to say the government should play no role in cushioning those affected by progress, but the progress has been undeniably good.
The Google blog doesn't go into it, but there are potentially significant fines attached.

...if you're in a jurisdiction that the FTC can reach. And even then, as we've seen many times in the past, "up to" means "strongly worded letter."
2 problems that can cause that, the first of which is by far more common:

1. You haven't developed the skillset to both track and evangelize your impact.

2. The company's review process doesn't properly value out-of-band contributions

I find that when I really look into it, #2 is actually rarely a problem if you are good at #1. As I've worked on getting better at #1 I've found I'm far more comfortable at work, it helps my career, and I still get to just do what my instincts tell me and what is best rather than shift that to what will look best.
I've seen all sorts get laid off during downsizing. Doesn't matter about age, tenure, usefulness, etc. Full departments just get cut.

Thing that helped me most is diversification and conservatism.

Diversification: 1) wife has job in different industry, 2) my skills are applicable to different industries and especially different locations, 3) side projects make some money.

Conservatism: I only splurge on my main hobby and go cheap on everything else. I can cut my expenses down fast (house -> apartment; apartment -> live with family; car -> public transit).
Apple has a Home Hub device as well.

Also, as a new owner of an Apple Watch (had to back out of Fitbit now that Google bought them, sigh, and this was the most interesting option), the Siri integration with the Watch is fascinatingly better than I'd expect and made me much more interested in using Siri more than I had before. The Dick Tracy-ness of talking to an assistant on your wrist is amusing/fun in general, of course, but so far I've been impressed with the range of both the microphone and speaker for a wrist-worn device, and you don't have to do the Dick Tracy style arm raise (though of course, that doesn't necessarily stop you from wanting to; the amusing long tail impact of old pop culture).

(I'm a pragmatist and don't hold closed ecosystems against them. I am on the side that Apple seems more clear about seeing me as a customer than a product or a black box source of data, and that's more than enough reason for me to switch to them over Google [though in my case I was switching from Windows Phone, RIP].)
Its better to filter out content that is targeting kids.
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Well, the devil doesn't exist, but I think I get your allusion.

If you go back a century, people in Britain, Europe, USA, Australia etc were probably working 70 hours a week.

If you asked a random selection of people in those countries now if they think we should all move back to that figure as a standard work week -- you know, to save society from itself -- I'm guessing you wouldn't get a lot of support.
So does anyone that lives in a city with sidewalks. They are called easements, and if you don't maintain them, you are liable.
So did I. I designed the DSP hardware/firmware to support voice, fax and modem features.
I agree, although replace isn't quite the right word (assuming by replace you mean traditional console gaming goes away in favor of VR). I think it will establish itself as a console sized gaming market (10-20 million active HMDs) in the next 5 years. A 2x sized market is an absolute given, that would put VR at more than 10 million 6DOF HMDs total. I think 10x is likely (50 million HMDs), which also put VR. This will be number for the entire VR gaming market, not a single device. Valve will own PC VR, probably with a wireless future Index. Sony will own console VR, and Oculus\Facebook will own mobile\standalone with Quest like devices. This market is the size of a single mid-level success game console (Xbox One and Switch are ~40 million), but big hit consoles like PS4, Wii and PS2 are closer to ~100 million units for a single console, and I don't think VR will be there for a long time. Still this is a big enough market to support a couple of AAA VR games a year, including a few big games as service\free to play multiplayer\MMO games and a relatively "healthy" indie game market (regular hits, but most developers still complaining about discoverability and lack of funding).

For enterprise use cases I think VR will continue to grow in training, but teleconferencing and remote work (true killer business apps) won't land for a while. Whoever wins this market (my guess is either Facebook or Microsoft) will make a ton of money though. By land I mean, there are and will continue to be many applications that attempt to support remote work, but there won't be a useful one that gains enterprise adoption and is better than traditional video conferencing for a while.
As far as the individual goes, I think the locally optimal decision differs if you care about the difference in quality of taste from the non Walmart milk, or in the quality of life in the cattle that produced it.
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How are they going to track him if none of their requests are ever loaded on his end?

Presumably we have different definitions of opting out. I was thinking more of the DIY type. It's certainly more reliable than to trust the people you don't trust not to track you because you tell them not to.
As a frequent listener of cosmologists I'd say they regularly frame answers as dark energy were true.
I made my kids stop watching YouTube. Problems solved. This is what happens when the content on your platform is almost entirely crap. YouTube is like the sewer and I don't let my kids play in the sewer either.
The 737 MAX was right out of the McDonald Douglas playbook from crudely using the stabilizer to tame poor handling (like the MD-11) to undocumented features causing crashes (like the MD-80).

MCD's on the other hand, rises

That was never in the cards. Pretty much everything past the DC-9 was done on a shoestring budget and it showed. The military side of MD was doing OK but the commercial side was as good as dead by the time MD and Boeing merged.

Boeng's MCD buyout doesn't happen, industry keeps going where it was going, Boeing adapts, tightens margins, still builds MAX8

Without MD management the 737 MAX never would've happened as there would be no 737 NG to base it on.
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Sure, they still should have called it the Ryzen 3000.

The mistake was made during the Ryzen 1000. they called the APUs (CPU with graphics) Ryzen but the CPU cores were not even Zen.

I know that it takes more then putting another name on to create these CPUs. But since they have the same Architecture they should be in the same generation.

Intel's 10th Gen naming annoys me as well. 10nm and 14nm CPUs all under the same naming scheme. The only reason to do this is to confuse uninformed customers.
They could do that, but not without just compensation for the easement.

And for that I’m thankful. The last thing you want is the govt to be able to take property by declaration.
Which reminds me, perhaps the most effective way to affect climate change would be to stop exports of coal and shut down mining entirely.

Assuming that browner coal from other locations isn't too cheap, for overseas power plants.
Link to HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659876
Australia exports more like 7% of total fossil fuels by CO2, according to this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-19/australia-co2...
Why not leave people work as much as they want if they agree with their employees?
You could mark it as NSFW content, specifically to prevent kids from watching it. A bit of a blunt solution, but then no one sane would argue that you're "targeting" kids!
It's obviously impossible to know his mind but it is worth pointing out that beachfront property with, effectively, a private beach is probably worth a lot more money that beachfront property on a public beach. Ignoring for a moment any ethical or PR concerns, that's a pretty big incentive for him to continue his fight.
> Harvey Weinstein isn't a single-digit millionaire

Note that Hulk Hogan isn't (and wasn't) a single-digit millionaire either.
There are a few games that rely on one specific false read:

> They rely on the dummy read for the sta $4000,X instruction to acknowledge pending APU IRQs.

https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Tricky-to-emulate_games

MMC1 ignores consecutive writes, and one games relies on the initially written false value:

> Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure resets the MMC1 by doing INC on a ROM location containing $FF; the MMC1 sees the $FF written back and ignores the $00 written on the next cycle.

https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/MMC1
This question is complicated by the presence of other ongoing pressures, such as climate change. Realistically, nature won't just "bounce back" to the way it used to be because of these ongoing changes.
This content has been on https://media.ccc.de/ for weeks, so there is no need to watch on the Roku store.
Not in this case. The land came from a Mexican land grant and pre-dates the State of California.

As a part of the settlement of the Mexican-American war, the US has to respect existing land ownership in perpetuity.
Do you manage people?
I think this is the Fed trying for a long time to keep interest rates down, because they are worried about it crashing the economy.

Everyone, ie the government and corporations, have gone into record debt, so they are much more dependent on low interest rates then before.

The recent daily pump of billions into the repo market is the latest play to do this.

This as well as the deficit, is adding a lot of money that has to be placed somewhere. That's why the stocks, gold and bonds have all become more bought at the same time.

Some of this money gets into the hands of banks, who use it as collateral, for lending out even more money.

The banks are the ones, becoming overleveraged, who will be the first to fall.

This is also what my guess is that this escalation in Iran is about. This could also have been why 9/11 occurred. The government wants something to blame for the coming crash. They don't want people to suddenly see the economy crash for no reason and then blame the government, so they start a war to distract and give them something else to blame instead.
"Since the people who would spend the money (i.e., the less wealthy) don't have it, making returns becomes more difficult."

The claim is that there's less spending and this means returns, i.e. business profits are harder to get.
When I was a nerdy teenager I imagined that by a date like 2020 humankind would have cured cancer, built a base on the Moon or Mars, eradicated infectious diseases and taken control over climate and weather. It turns out that in the real world progress is a lot slower than in the imagination of a sci-fi-imbued teenager. It turns out that solving problems takes work. A lot of it.

If people work less, especially if engineers, scientists, doctors etc work less, then technological progress will be taking place slower than it is currently. The disappointment of my teenage self with 2030 will then be even greater than that with 2020.

I'm genuinely puzzled by the general anti-work sentiment I perceive on HN (maybe my perception is simply incorrect). I'd expect that most folks here work as engineers or in a similar field that rewards with interesting and meaningful problems and that a substantial fraction had once been sci-fi-imbued teenagers like myself and possibly feel the same disappointment with the pace of technological progress.

I'm very worried that the anti-work movement is (inadvertently?) pushing on the breaks of technological progress :-(
Yes, it can matter, though you can get far without it. NESticle was plenty popular back in the day without anything resembling proper cycle accuracy.

Note that my NES emulator doesn't even get the total number of cycles right, and as a result Super Mario Bros. 3 crashes. (It really isn't a good emulator!)
The existence of a cosmological constant is different from it's ever increasing value.

The evidences for the later are non-existent.