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> We often see society as a problem, so more and more we try to loosen our need for it

I think that about sums up the "loneliness epidemic". Loneliness and social disconnection are exactly the results of seeking to loosen our need for society. Our society (regardless of where you live, the global monoculture is still there), is sick and we see it largely in Western post-industrial nations like the U.K. and U.S.A.

As more an more people realize the problems inherent to a postmodern, secular, capitalistic worldview, the more they intentionally disconnect to seek shelter from the onslaught of mixed messages, targeted advertising, disinformation campaigns, etc. , the more they realize that cutting themselves off is the only way out. I don't say this to explicitly bash capitalism or postmodernism - I see these statements as social facts that we're all stuck with for the time being. Despite U.S.'s place near the top of the list of social ills amongst industrialized nations (drug addiction, depression, obesity, bad Gini coeff, low life span, bad healthcare, etc.), it's worth saying that these and other problems still exist to some degree in other post-industrial nations. As we've steadily chipped away at traditional life, people have struggled to find replacements for family, religion, social outings, dating/marriage, work and play. While some people find success, other still are in limbo - raised in a world that no longer exists and unsure of how to bridge the gap into a world that offers fewer and fewer opportunities for an "analog" life.

Since modern life is primarily digital, the only escape from it is by intentionally seeking an analog existence. We can all see that excessive social media use, excessive email-checking, and constant connectivity cause social and emotional problems: addiction, feelings of inferiority, feeling drained, overall dissatisfaction. But the alternative is to purposely cut yourself off and suffer the other loneliness, where no one ever messages you, your crush never likes your photos, you never beat that person in a political argument on FB, you never see that cute picture of your friend's children or dog. At the cost of these things, you may gain back fun interactions with strangers, better catch-up conversations when you run into old friends who haven't been able to stalk you on social media, a more romantic first date when you finally talk to that person you've been seeing at the grocery store... At the risk of injecting my own experiences into this rant, the loss of social media in my life has precipitated a person who is more social when it comes time to be social and more at peace when it's time to be alone.

The solution to the broader problems though, of a society we feel we need to disconnect from, it would seem, is to start by fostering societies that we don't see as inherently problematic. Truly healthy societies don't breed drop outs, rebels, "lone wolves"... they breed people who want to get along and can at least stand each other enough to share some notion of the public good. How we do that is beyond me, though.
And there's also LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang)[1] if you prefer Lisp to Lua.

[1] http://lfe.io/
"Protagonist is poor" doesn't come close to what they are advocating. From the article:

Take The Same Kind of Different As Me, a movie that presents itself as being about a homeless black man, but is most interested in a rich white couple and the way their volunteerism at a soup kitchen saves their marriage, and their souls.

The protagonist being a caricature of a poor person doesn't make the film an insightful or interesting examination of poverty. Or even about poverty. That takes much more. It's more or a challenge, more of a risk, and when done well (see Florida Project) a much greater potential reward.
An IE shell called Netcaptor was the first browser to implement tabs, back in 1997. I used it myself until Phoenix (nee Firefox) released a couple years later.

Contrary to what this silly site says, MDI windows are not by any stretch of the imagination _tabs_.
When I took Pony for a test drive, the language itself felt pretty solid; the main obstacle was the tiny standard library.

When Pony's standard library grows to a useful size, it's going to be huge. The type system is gorgeous, the documentation is pretty good, and the community is extremely friendly and helpful.
Not to mention that you rarely hear some version of the, “We had the same good idea as some others, but we got lucky in a number of ways, including timing” truth. It just sounds better, and makes for a better book deal, to claim immense powers of foresight coupled with devastatingly effective business acumen.
Most people in the self-driving cars world are not talking about "taking away" other use cases for wheeled vehicles. It's a strawman.
If Toyota releases their Stan Meyer tech than fuel cells will most likely win. The only way to compete with that would be to release permanent batteries.
Seems like a lot hyperbolic to me. I know which one I’d rather be a mile away from when it’s used, or have contaminating the landscape afterwards.
Interesting - could it be that managing online discussions is really hard?
Smoking one cigarette in your life probably won't kill you.

Smoking 20 cigs a day will.

A few people living in the dismal swamp isn't a problem.

1.2 million people is.
Ladybird won at the oscars. That’s about poor people.
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What is your reason to believe ad revenue would drop to almost zero?

Revenue might be lower. That is not in itself proof of a worse outcome. Maximising numbers like revenue or GDP is not good per se. Neither is maximising the amount of content created. If you want to know the trade-off is worth it you also have to look at the costs. The impact of tracking on privacy is not zero. The impact of ever more attention grabbing ads is not zero. The impact of persuading us to buy ever more stuff is not zero.

Also, the vast majority of small scale content creators are hobbyists.
> Let's not ignore the fact that Sam Walton had enough cash to buy a department store at the age of 27. That helps too.

So poor people should never try to be an entrepreneur because the world is rigged against them? Well that surely will help reduce the wealth inequality.
I'm not a programmer, cryptographer, sysadmin etc but I like tech and find this site refreshing because of the politeness and respect in interactions like this one. I can apologize and it will be taken at face value, and someone can apologize to me and its sincere. I've been missing that sort of mature intellectual/emotional honesty in interaction irl and online for a long time. So thanks :)
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They certainly are using Blink, yes. But their changelogs include such lines as "Updated Chromium to 64.0.3282.143" so it's reasonable to think they add custom patches to Chromium, and don't pull Blink.
Can we be honest about ethics?
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Well, he didn't exactly have the money. He borrowed $20k from his father in law and used $5k from his own military savings.

No small sum I suppose. (around $300k adjusted for inflation). But also not a "small million dollar loan". ($4 million inflation adjusted even IF it were true.)

But Sam's real story is not the rags to riches. It the brilliant and hard work that took him from riches to extraordinary success.
> security questions

Security questions are a generation of security behind TFA. Everybody was born in the big city closest to their Facebook hometown and your teachers' names are all in the online version of the yearbook.

Apple is a hardware company. Google is a consumer cloud services drvien advertising company. It's no surprise that Google's cloud security is decent and Apple terrible.
>> predominantly affluent (and yes, white) masses

We know this argument is incorrect to an extent because at least for the top-tier films their world-wide collections overshadow the US collections.

US itself is not as white as it used to be, and when you add world-wide audience its more mixed.

You could have made your point by not stereo-typing.
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I don't think that there's an issue with someone reading 100 reviews of a certain restaurant on the internet, and summarizing them by writing a new review:

"Most people who talked about it mentioned the great salad bar, but said that the fish was sub par. They commented on it being lively and child-friendly"

That's what I'd guess they are doing.
Everyone should try, but with the understanding that the world is definitely rigged against them.
Well poverty is dispersed and does not compete well with identity politics which gives opportunities of political grandstanding to actors/directors and generate profits for studios.
man, I can't even find a kill switch with a decent iOS app to control it, I would love if there were more options, but since that isn't the primary focus of the project and I have a basically-working solution, I'm not going to put in the couple dozen hours it would take me to implement my own.
Sometimes it feels like some folks will only be happy when life is completely hive-like, when there is nothing to differentiate anything from anything else, everything is grey, nothing is whimsical, and nobody can put their mark on the world.
Shrugs, people invoke freedom of expression where it simply doesn't apply, YouTube is a private entity, they can pretty much nuke any content for any reason.

Frankly they have a tough path to carve between objectionable content and damaging their platform.

YouTube's suggested videos is a tire fire, they suggest stuff I'm not remotely interested in and wouldn't watch at all.

I mean my interests aren't hard to profile, engineering videos, chess videos and programming stuff.
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OP didn't suggest that though. Many people have a black-and-white ideal in which entrepreneurship means making the next Facebook or Amazon and end up aiming too high for their own means.
I would suggest applying and making a note that you are only interested in remote opportunities!
Earlier HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253127
Fiduciary responsibility does not necessitate a short term thought process. If you can show that the long term negative consequences outweigh the short term positive ones, the people you're complaining about will listen. The problem is that you can't tie these things to a negative financial impact. Boards of Directors frankly don't give a shit about your moral high horse, nor is that their job. Get off it and prove to them that your positive long term growth strategy will result in high overall profitability and they'll listen.

But, as someone else stated, airline tickets are a commodity now. So until you're personally going to be paying more for identical tickets because of something like this, be prepared to reap what you sow.
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As someone that is expat / travels a lot, can you please make this stuff optional or give me options other than SMS? I keep getting locked out of everything. I despise SMS 2FA.
That long-exposure photo of the Zuma launch is incredible! I've never had an intuitive sense of what the first- and second-stage trajectories look like, but that photo nails it.
Agreed entirely, I also have 1gig up/down, even 802.11ac struggles past 300mbit/sec through a couple of walls.

Plus very few servers seem to be able to reliably send at fast speeds, and TCP slow start means small files (<100MB) see 0 benefit at all.

The biggest problem I have is that a lot of portable storage I have (SD cards + USB hard drives) is way slower than my internet. I have one SD card which struggles at random file writes at more than 50mbit/sec.
I think Tango's point is not that one is right and one is wrong. I think the point is that neither side is actually listening and engaging with the other's position. Instead, it's "if you really understood my position, you would of course agree with me" - on both sides.

Note that this has nothing to do with one side being right, or with one side being morally superior. It has to do with being so certain that you don't listen.

And it's self-destructive. If you're on the anti-slavery side, you're morally right. But if you actually listen to the other side, you might be able to have a conversation where you persuade some of them. If you merely broadcast your own rightness (and the other side's wrongness, moral bankruptcy, and stupidity), you aren't going to persuade anyone. (Unfortunately, in the case of slavery, there may not be any route where you eliminate slavery without a civil war.)
Not really, data is replicable, assets aren't.

So you can buy a company, strip all of its data, and resell for a similar value than you bought it for. You can't do that with asset stripping.

But, on the other hand, if the data striping happens again and again, the company becomes worthless, even if it still has all of the assets and data.

Ah, the wonders of the information economy...
Since when is Carmack writing on Facebook??
Title does a disservice to the writing. It is a good read.
Ancient wisdom-- if u eat seedless fruit u become "seedless" or ur future gen becomes seedless...so all the best at digging ur own graves fellas
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The things that have most improved training neural networks since you left were: 1. Smart (Xavier/He) initialization 2. ReLU activations 3. Batch normalization 4. Residual connections

The GPUs and dataset size were definitely very important though.
For me, an entertaining film says something about reality, life, something meaningful, and done so in such a way it makes the most of what you can do with that medium. I wouldn't expect anything other from an entertaining novel, say.

Of course the crap coming out of Hollywood does say something about reality, that there is no hope left other than wish fulfilment, to hope that a saviour will come and save us all in the form of a superhero; or that the only hope for yourself is to get rich or for fortune to be bestowed upon you; or something else utterly implausible. But I've heard that story a million times, it's dull.
That's not true, Zagat was in Columbus Circle. They moved months after the acquisition.

Spotify was subleasing space from someone else in the building, something that the owners, Google themselves, did not know and most likely did not appreciate.
Hell, there are still plenty of people who don't have and aren't interested in SMS, even if they have a cell phone.
Ahh thanks, I was lazy and didn’t go looking for an answer. Though this line seems a bit odd..

> In this case, subscriptions avoid the need of coupling the auth model to the profile model. Profile simply listens to an action.

I guess it’s no different to using “vanilla” redux actions but because actions contain the reducer namespace then it’s inherently coupled to another model isn’t it?
The evidence against Yelp seems to amount to a (from what I can tell sizeable) population of small business owners who claim that Yelp 1. is extremely aggressive about selling its advertising services (perhaps annoying, but not criminal) and 2. responds to failure to buy these services by filtering or deleting positive reviews.

Now, this evidence exists mostly in hearsay-type form: blog posts, forum posts, huge reddit threads. You can find similar stuff for BBB and Angie's List. There are also a couple thousand FTC complaints against Yelp, at least.

Yelp has turned these attacks away in court, but the (apparent) last ruling on this seemed to come down to an inability on the plaintiffs' side to prove Yelp actually changes review visibility based on advertising [1].

It seems silly to believe random people on the internet over tossed lawsuits and a dropped FTC investigation. But I see this as the likely result of Yelp being cagey about how reviews and advertising interact, and being able to hide behind a policy that promises a scrupulous approach and proprietary algorithms. It's not like I'm using Reddit posts to support anti-vax arguments, small business owners can definitely reason about how Yelp operates from their interactions with it.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/11/people-keep-suing-yelp-over-it...
If they're thinking about pesticides and their taste while eating, it might be hard to seperate the thought from the reality. Like, thinking about maggots while eating your rice. I'm sure your rice doesn't contain maggots, but do you really feel like eating rice right now?

Try a double-blind test and ask a series of questions. Some of the questions about taste should be the things you're looking for. Others should be irrelevant, just to set a baseline. Perceptions of taste are very subjective and easily influenced. Experimental rigour is necessary to mitigate that.
I guess that's why Musk is paying big moneys to political campaigns of McCain and others to win legislative favors and maintain good relation with gov't.
So in addition to explaining to your parents what an SSL cert is you want to explain to them which domains should be whitelisted and which shouldn't?
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I hope not. I think the distinctions are in: a) it would be specifically for copywriting, b) it would be "productized" in that you sign up for one of a few plans, like email campaign for $X, complete website re-write for $3X, etc., with a guaranteed turnaround of under a week and c) there would be only a small pool of qualified, vetted writers available at any one time.
Why do entrepreneurs engage in self-sabotage?
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I disagree with this notion advice is mostly rooted in similar experience. 15 years of anecdata anyway have shown me differently. It's mostly rooted in well meaning of course, and I am not implying people are being malicious or anything. People do commonly ignore relevant issues that change the playing field in any given situation.

Also when you do meet others in bad situations that have overcome there is a strong survivor bias thing going on around them which leads to people being upset/confused when it doesnt work for you. You must simply be doing it wrong, right? People seem to often to get bothered/angry/offended with you if their advice doesn't work or isn't applicable. I understand the psychological root of this, but it's still disheartening and kills me when I see people feel like people like me simply don't want to be happy or have lives. I didn't post begging for a friend to cure my lonliness. I have far more pressing issues. I posted because it's relevant to my life and cant do much else atm.

You have mentioned church a couple of times and I am not ignoring it...I just don't know how to respond without offending you or someone else. It's just not my thing...I have tried it more than once. I don't want to debate or upset anyone. I probably worry too much about what others think of me...but it does make me feel worse to spread any bad feeling. I didn't downvote you either and always worry people will think I am giving them a "SCREW YOU WRONG" karma mark when I see their posts greyed. Sort of wish downvotes weren't a thing honestly.
It's just javascript... when I'm writing a redux-backed app I will often abstract out commonly repeated patterns in action creators and reducers. Every project is different so I just wait until things start looking predictable and refactor. Not trying to be snarky, I just see this a lot at work; people seem to be locked in to the patterns used in the redux documentation and never attempt to rewrite it as they would any other part of their app. It's quite simple (especially if you are using ES6 with its destructuring assignment) to write a function that takes an action type and a function body that eliminates most of the boilerplate.
> Where do authors like OP get the idea that I want to go to the movies to have politics shoved down my throat?

You seem to be doing that thing where you read someone's firm recommendations and assume that the author wants their recommendation to apply to everyone. I highly doubt the author expects people who don't care to see a movie about poverty to go and see a movie about poverty.

There's a similar discussion in the video game community where lots of people are upset at attempts to bring "politics" into games. The reality though is that most critics are just firmly critiquing games and not writing mandates about how all games must be. Art has always struck a balance between being a political and philosophical medium and a capitalist one, and often when people criticize a medium they're criticizing the political and philosophical part. It's totally fine for them to do so, because they feel that their criticism can help "improve" the medium even if you disagree. And likewise you disagreeing with the author is fine as well.

The problem comes about when people like yourself take personal offense to the efforts of others to improve a medium. You read this article and you read 'outrage', but film criticism such as this is a common part of critiquing any medium. Someone could write a similar article about a technique in film, but because its context isn't political people wouldn't read 'outrage' into it.

Similarly in games people view calls to dial back the sexualization of women as a "political" stance and attribute it to "outrage culture". They feel that they just play games for fun, and since the audience is mostly male the developers should focus on their audience instead of pandering to politics. But just like any artistic medium it's totally fair to criticize games for an intellectual failing that cheapens a lot of the medium's artistic merits.

People really just need to learn to read the criticisms of others without falling into the mindset "This is a capitalist medium, this isn't a capitalist critique therefor it's a political one and I'm upset by that." NO, art is political and capitalist at the same time, it's totally fine to criticize it from either perspective.

> The fact that they are not en vogue now does not speak of some kind of crisis-just like people clamoured over Black Panther as the first positive representation of blacks on screen, while conveniently ignoring decades of black cinema.

I felt compelled to point out here that the major reason people are excited about Black Panther is because the representation of black people in the world of super heroes has been poor. Kids are super into super heroes, and this gives a lot of young kids a character they can see themselves in. I don't think kids are ignoring black cinema, but kids are just more into super hero movies than other movies.
Speaking of latency: a well calibrated point to point wireless connection is less latency than fiber jumping a bunch of switches.

Proof: finance industry's wide use of microwave towers.

https://meanderful.blogspot.com/2017/05/lines-radios-and-cab...

There was another set of articles describing microwave towers in Europe, quite fascinating.

Not sure if this was the one: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...
Per the article, it's a commercial product now and already available in a couple states.