skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm basing that off a book I read which described how the original liberators of South America (who were mainly locals, not from the Spanish or Portuguese elite who ruled) were heavily influenced by these (mainly French and English) liberal European thinkers - which is why they wanted a revolution in the first placed. It didn't come from local culture.

The Spanish did not create liberal "western" democracies when they ruled. They were replacing a monarchical, heavily centralized system and the liberators had a choice in how they modelled their country. They certainly considered many different options including heavily centralized systems but the influences of European thinkers as mentioned above played a big role in their decision to build republics and federalized states.

My point is that many cultures (including Japan and South Korea) came from a legacy of centralized control and were still capable of being inspired by foreign thinkers and adopting liberal systems.

This idea that China is unique because they didn't have their own bastion of local liberal thinkers is heavily flawed because that pattern exists elsewhere with different outcomes. Especially considering how close Chiang-kai Shek was to moving China towards a more western economic system. It wasn't the 'Chinese way' that won out, it was a series of politically fortunate events in Mao's favour.

The Chinese culture is a product of a self-protecting centralized system, not (merely) a product of the historical culture.
> 'blocking foreign companies' simply let's local companies dominate.

Yes - in particular, consider that China has more people than North America and Europe together, so a Chinese "domestic" firm has quite a market.
She looks and sounds impressive; however, another part of me wonders if she is just getting this press because she's a woman.
The Matrix misses the point in a very important way.

In The Matrix the characters could easily tell apart the real world from the simulation, but the point of Simulacra is that you can't tell it apart from reality, not because there is a conspiracy that conceals it from the masses, but because simulacra replaces reality, conceals that there wasn't really anything "beneath" the simulation in the first place.
Those were in St. Louis, MO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe
It used to be an Americanism, but French documentaries showed the disappointments of many factory jobs; and lots of politicians there too say that the economic wonder is only so because they allowed for very harsh but unmeasured life condition.
Note how small the ratio of robots to workers still is. 2 robots per thousand workers in the US, 8 per thousand in Germany. Those are still below 1% yet having an effect on wages. What happens at 10%? 20%? 50%?

Few people thought in 1980 that there would be more computers than people in their lifetime.
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It's this kind of research into extremes that drives technology forward. Let's explore Venus!
>I've never liked case-sensitivity in file-systems, personally. I've always found it to be annoying with no utility that I could discern.

The utility is that the filenames are digitally unambiguous buckets of bytes and we avoid 1000000 ways things can go wrong with case-insensitivity, plus the huge performance penalties.

Sometimes catering to how the machine works makes things better than going through hoops for marginal returns and complicating every part of the stack with that technical debt.

>If main.h and Main.h are truly different, I find it more useful to make the file name more descriptive than just changing letters.

Well, main.h and Main.h are visually different, aren't they?
Econometrics actually leaves you better prepared for a number of problem domains than the modal data scientician. There's too many people in that space offering structural insight on human behavior that have no specific training on structural behavioral modeling. This is why the Silly Valley giants now all have chief economists.
Sorry. I'm really not sold that this is suitable for applications to use.

The core problem to secrets management is service identity. Managing encrypted data is not hard, it's actually really easy. It's the identity that is hard.

You're just trading out all of my secrets for a new secret. This works for password managers because I remember one password, but doesn't work for applications because you still end up with this env key baked in to source code...
Great post: I especially like the description he gave: "find customers who have their hair on fire".

If anyone wants to solve the Satiety problem, I'd be willing to bet there's millions if not billions of people with their hair on fire with that problem!
What's this "my SOL"?
Ah, of course that cameras always have time set wrong!

Personally I use cloud services like iCloud only for my iPhone pictures. For my "real" photography I just keep files on a NFS server (and Lightroom is a pain with NFS...), I don't import then in cloud services.
Pas a Pas: Using animation to teach abstract concepts to children
I seriously think it's great idea, but I am not seriously pursuing it at the moment.
Believe it or not, it really is. I was given this example by an attorney who specialized in HIPAA law: Say a chain store has a breach and the only thing that was stolen was a customer's name and their flu shot records - that wouldn't be that big of a deal, right? Well, say one of those customers was a fitness guru who built an empire on natural and holistic remedies. This changes the entire context of the breach.

The same thing would work for age. Look at that ridiculous California law they proposed to get IMDb to stop showing actors' and actresses' birthdays. There can always be a claim of age discrimination - especially in finance.
Shapiro seems pretty extreme, just more mainstream conservatism.

Peterson just has a head the size of ontario at this point.
The entire $15 tier is worth it, except for maybe the IDA Pro book if you have no interest in either reversing or using IDA Pro. It's mostly a software reference.

Book of PF & Absolute OpenBSD are somewhat essential if you have interest in OpenBSD, but the latter is skippable if you're a seasoned neckbeard/sysadmin.

I can't really say anything else about the lower tier books, but the 35% off coupon is quite nice.
CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
It's being called data collection to be alarmist. It's the same thing as the iTerm bug last week. There's a genuine issue that is blown out of proportion by the network-Temperence movement. I agree that this should be an opt-in or at least opt-out thing, collecting anonymous checksums to start to watch for EFI vulnerabilities is a little different form sending Apple your DNA profile to be sold on the human clone black market.
It's no longer in production, but the Mazda RX-8 has them and it's still pretty common on the road.
> And their "copy machines" are actually racing against the clock, as more and more factories get fully automated and thus relocated home, not to mention their rising middle class, thus their cheap labor advantage will eventually go away. So when multinational companies will no longer assemble their products in China, what will they copy?

There's more to this than just being a provider of manufacturing services for overseas consumer goods companies wishing to outsource production. China has pursued a policy of forcing Western heavy-industry companies (infrastructure, aerospace, etc.) wishing to do business in China to form joint ventures with domestic Chinese companies which then serve as a means of transferring expertise to the Chinese companies. The Western companies go along with this because it's preferable to being shut out of the Chinese market altogether.

For example, Chinese high speed trains were initially based on imported designs (both the Shinkansen and European trains) built by joint ventures between the original makers and Chinese companies. But today China is domestically producing high speed trains using technology copied from those original ones.
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Addiction isn't a soft lack of will but an iron surplus of it despite perennial invectives; it's antifragile. Any cessation/treatment regimen/regime imposed on someone else merely reinforces their drive.
What I hear is that things are going downhill in Germany too with Euro jobs and eternal internships. but i think there is generally still an assumption to you should be able to live from a full time job
Completely counter to the author I would say everything is vanilla until you start compiling and pollyfilling. Once you start writing in idealized languages like TypeScript, CoffeeScript, or ES6 you're no longer writing vanilla JS.
Why do you feel that way? Do you feel tracking whether you prefer to maximise windows is a privacy violation? Or is the objection that your IP address is included when the telemetry is uploaded to Microsoft?
> Amazon's Achilles Heel is browsing. Their selection may feature 100,000 relevant items to my search but I seem to only find shitty versions of products

I would say their major problem is the lack of curation. The Amazon Marketplace brought all the garbage of eBay sellers to Amazon, and mixed it in with everything else.

As a result, you have to carefully watch out for things fulfilled by third parties (often subject to high shipping and strange return policies), and items with sketchy review histories. I can't find an article on it now, but I've come across items where it seems like the manufacturer pulled a bait-and-switch. The initial reviews are all very positive, and all the recent reviews are low and talk about poor product quality -- yet the item still has a reasonably high score. Did they seed reviews themselves? Did they actually change to a lower quality product? Who knows.

There's certain categories of products that I find to be an an utterly frustrating shopping experience on Amazon -- cell phone accessories is the one that immediately comes to mind.
Anything that harms FB directly or indirectly is a good thing.
How is this different from Vault?
Talk about visceral inputs. What about connected small clothes? When that person who swiped you on tinder will give you a nice little buzz in the right place.
I must have missed it - could you elaborate a bit?
While I believe your idea is with good intent and I am not going to bash you, I would strongly consider going back to the drawing board on this idea. I can't even imagine the number of ways this could possibly go wrong. From punishing lower-income students where parents are able to compete for the "good teachers", abuse by parents to punish a teacher, and even going as far as to create a racial barrier within the school preventing access to "good" teachers by parents blocking access to classes.
I visited China for a month and my view is limited, but i do not think the average Chen in China cares about this, just like the average John in America doesn't. They are happy to be able to grow their personal GDP as much as they can. A lot of people there are part of the waves of the population that are provided incentives to relocate from rural areas to urban areas. Censorship is their least concern. They are happy to be able to have access to new products and start businesses and help their kids develop as best they can. Throughout my travels in other countries in Asia, i met a few students which will be going to Chinese universities. One of their reasons was that Chinese universities have bigger budgets for research compared to their respective countries. So that was highly attractive to them in their educational development. From walking around i got the impression that China inflates their GDP by constant construction and tear down and construction again. I am inclined to believe that this happens also in the tech industry. This churn creates jobs, companies in a loop and makes the economy look stronger that it actually is. I also saw many empty apartments and was told about this as well. Imagine how much money China would loose if people would solely use western alternatives of the apps they currently use. This GDP churn they have going there could not be done if your population is using solely western products. I do think there is an economic reason as well. I happen to like WeChat, you can do many things with it. I watched this dude i met there buy a hat from a street vendor and payed her with the app, super easy. The convenience that is baked in that app is awesome. I wish we had something like that in the US.
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I worked in a school's IT department a few years ago and the way the approach to tech worked was downright frustrating. It basically culminated in teachers request XYZ and us providing it. No one, not even our director, took the time to find out what the actual needs were for teachers. All they did was throw money and technology at the teachers and said "here, use it".

I get really uncomfortable when people without any experience inside of a school try to solve problems by just throwing technology at it. There is so much more to a classroom then just having a tablet or chromebook and wifi. The biggest hurdle is always going to be our curriculum set up and how incredibly inflexible it can be in schools; not to mention how many of them are downright jokes when it comes to K-12 tech education.

Edit:

Going to go an extra further here and say no solution for education with tech is valuable unless you can provide a way to make the administration, teachers and parents understand the value in. This means not only making it known why they should try your new startup, but also providing some top notch on-boarding and training. Far too many companies come in and make a product look like gold, but then bail when the time comes to get some continued training on something.

Also understand that a lot of schools have very constrained budgets. It's simply not easy to justifying projects in the XX-XXX thousands range of a budget. So if you're doing this also be sure to figure out some steps on how to work with the school to find ways of justifying the finance, or perhaps grants from the state, to implement this.

Be mindful of state curriculum guidelines as well. Every state has their own guidelines for the different subject areas of education. There are bulleted items that schools must hit to meet them so you need to consider this. You simply cannot come in and say "here's some VR headset to use for history". Work with teachers and administration to have boilerplate lesson plans to meet the criteria of the curriculum. They've been doing things for years and are already busy. The last thing they'll have time for is sitting down to re-write lesson plans to fit a piece of technology in. Some will be eager to do it, but a higher percentage will probably be resistant.

These are all issues and observations I saw when I was getting my education degree and then working in schools for 5+ years. Things have changed a bunch since I left (2011) but I'm sure a lot of these headaches still remain in various ways. There is so much to what makes a classroom work and work well that isn't just in the tool. Teachers, administration and parents have to buy in 100%.
If Chinese start an economic and cultural expansion which includes PRing their culture, movies, tech, products and building special relationships with developing world in Asia, Africa, south American and Europe they may end up being the globalization leader.
That was at a permanent checkpoint. That would be a functional equivalent, in the eyes of the court - or so I understand.

For example, I live on the border - pretty much. I'm just a short drive to Canada. Border Patrol can't actually stop me and search my car, search my house, or anything like that - unless I'm going through the border.

If I'm not going through the border, they need a warrant. There are no checkpoints other than at the border, but those would be functionally equivalent (in the eyes of the court). I believe temporary checkpoints also count as functional equivalents but that's a guess - I'm not sure if that's been tested in court yet.

Other than those checkpoints and the border, you retain your rights as you would elsewhere. Or so precedent and SCOTUS say - except I speculate that they include temporary checkpoints along with permanent checkpoints.
IIRC the social security number is not a globally unique identifier (only 1e9 unique values). However, in practice, the (SSN, birthdate) tuple generally is unique.

This is probably why it's considered "sensitive."
> I don't think it'll be a contradiction for China to create a special city with more liberal values to attract liberal talent, or if China permits liberalism in a controlled context.

Hong Kong has been the test laboratory for what the Communist Party calls “One country, two systems”. It doesn’t seem like the regime is very happy with the experiment, or would be looking to expand it.
Oh no! The emperor's has no clothes!
I don't see, "less capable as engineers" stated or implied in that quote.
Are you serious about not washing your jeans regularly? I have skipped a couple of weeks on lightly worn pants, but default is definitely to keep it in the wash cycle...
I have a friend who's been in China for the last year. Been talking with him on Facebook Messenger the whole time...
I think you're right - the submitted table has no entries for "fork" and "clone".
Oh the things I could say...

There are probably things you don't even immagine to pay for, that are now done by machines, and that used to be performed by humans.

Think of circuit-switching telphony, when you used to say "operator, connect me with number xyz-xxx" and someone on the other side would phisically create a connection between you and someone else to talk.

Consider mail delivery. There used to be a milkman. Mail was only paper.

A lot of stuff.

On the same planet, self driving cars are about to be easily available, no more drivers or cab drivers, amazon has robots doing most of the heavy lifting (quite literally) but we enjoy these other things, and do not complain about anything because they're cool, i guess.

I cannot wait for this thread to be featured on n-gate.
"Let's call it as it is, an entire continent was usurped, a gigantic fertile landmass rich in resources was stolen" for a moment I though you were talking about this event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas
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Ben Thompson goes all the way back to 1962 to chart the forces that would end up killing Sears:

1962 was perhaps the most consequential year in retailing history: in Ohio the five-and-dime retailer F.W. Woolworth Company created a new discount retailer called Woolco; S.S. Kresge Corporation created Kmart in Michigan; the Dayton Company opened the first Target in Minnesota; and Sam Walton founded the first Walmart. All four were based on the same premise: branded goods didn’t need the expensive overhead of mass merchandisers, which meant prices could be lower. Lower prices served in turn as a powerful draw for customers, driving higher volumes, which meant more inventory turns, which increased profitability.

Sears, which had introduced a huge number of those brands to America’s middle class, first through their catalog and then through a massive post-World War II expansion into physical retail, was stuck in the middle: higher prices than the discounters, but much less differentiation than high-end department stores. By the time Buldak gave his statement the company’s fate as an also-ran was sealed, even though no one at Sears had a clue: Buldak’s stated mission of being “an integrated, powerful specialty merchant, with brand names and our own lines of exclusive merchandise” failed to consider whether customers gave a damn.

https://stratechery.com/2016/walmart-and-the-multichannel-tr...
Part of Men's Rights Movement can be historically describe as the Equality feminism[1] division the feminism movement when the "equality-versus-difference debate" in American feminism concluded in the early 1980. Its not without reason that before this, Men's Rights Movement did not exist. Their activism would be squarely within the goals of the feminism movement.

Here in Sweden we saw a bunch of laws being removed that distinguished between gender in the period of 1960-1980. Alimony was removed, and laws was drafted to address social problems in a gender neutral way. Divorce law and family law was also changed. Practically all those changes stopped at the end of the 1970, with the only exception being gender equal conscription in 2017 (which the feminist movement has been mostly against and the MRA movement mostly in favor).

As with any movement there are extremes and splinter factions, but MRM is mostly a reaction to feminism leaving behind the theory of being undifferentiated.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_feminism
I think there may be a third question: Do differences between men and women, in combination with the effects of historicity, lead to different patterns of engagement or attrition with a domain? Such as teaching or child-related jobs?
I was of the impression that APFS would still default to case insensitive.

And if it does change the default to case sensitive, wouldn't it still break apps like Adobe and Steam etc? I mean, if their problem is that they refer to internal files with the incorrect case, what does it matter how the FS is implemented on a low level.
And leading in many other industries too, like robotics and video games.
Yes, those were infuriating. Those can easily be disabled, though, via this method: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-ads-notifications-exp...
You must be mistaking Kaku for someone else... Kaku is concerned that dishonest people attempt to control masses using people like Tyson. He describes two different worlds yes, but rather one where a big government controls thought with propaganda and by manipulating science, vs one which does not attempt to do so. Kaku discusses implications of such manipulations and explorers parallels to history, while DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are simply tools used to carry out those manipulations, for money. One has been driven to obscurity by the mainstream media, the other bathes in it's wealth.
The only ones that ever show are the harbingers of the purported evangelism strike force :)
Countries may not want it exactly but most will go nowhere near blocking it. Or else every country but the USA would be blocking Facebook.
The kind of advice that you pick up from articles like those routinely linked here on HN, in my opinion, can help you limit mistakes slightly and can help you learn slightly faster; basically, improve the outcomes somewhat. It probably also compounds nicely with actual experience, as reinforcement.

I don't think there's any good substitute for doing, as a means to learn how to do start-ups, and more broadly understanding how companies should operate. That naturally includes working for other successful companies first for a couple of years, which is a tremendous way to learn as much as possible about the fundamentals of how companies run before striking out on your own.
The point is that the law doesn't make any sense, and can be used to intimidate and imprison difficult people, at the Crown's discretion.
WeChat acknowledged the monitoring :(

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/wechat-c...
The production is just as outrageous as the subject matter of that film...
Good catch, thanks. I use Safari so didn't notice... favicon is updated now.
And the data acquisition.

It does tie into a strange idea that I've been tossing about for the past decade.

A cluster of used cell phones. They're easy to power, probably free for the taking, and might make for big computing while just using something that'd normally be thrown away.

My original idea was SETI or one of the unfolding@home type projects, but something like this might make for a good project.

Alas, I'm way too lazy (and not qualified) to do this. Laziness is one of the perks of retirement.