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I'm disappointed in this thread. Not the post itself, but the discussion, most of which seems 1) utterly divorced from the article, 2) largely (and on several sides) reduced to ideological rhetoric and axe-grinding, singularly both uninformed and uninformative, 3) voluable (approaching 200 comments as I write) and far more noise than signal.

It's about whaat I'd expect if you'd asked a diverse group of 1550s Europeans to civilly diiscuss Catholocism vs. Reformation.

(I've spent a fair bit of time researching the history of the notion of free speech. Among northern Europeans, there's generally been a specific carve-out against free speech to Papists, as they were frequently referred to....)

There are only four references to the key individual within the article, Karl Polanyi. Three of those reference the lack of reference to him. (I've just added a fifth reference, though also of a nonproductive meta-commentary.)

There are several likely reasons for this. One is that "capitalism" and "democracy" are themselves both poorly defined, and cultural shibboleths: signifiers of group affinity far more than semantically functional terms. I'd read economics myself ay uni and would have been pressed to give aa coherent definition until relatively recently. Even now, that's more by calling up a definition, or set of definitions, than something that comes readily to mind.

E.J. Mishan was a Chicago-trained, though very much not a Chicago-scool, economist of the 2nd half of the 20th century. He examined, and questioned, many fundamental precepts of economics, including the meaning and definitions of "free market". (Close to though not identical with "capitalism".)

Mishan notes that "free market" may refer to one or more of the following:

1. The private ownership of capital, or productiive (nonhuman) assets

2. The private management of economic enterprise

3. The decentralization of economic enterprise

4. Competitive enterprise

5. A price system

6. A market system

He also notes that these definitions my either rely on, or oppose, one another. E.g., pricate ownership (1) tends to centralisation, opposing decentralisation (3).

http://booksc.org/ireader/28521331

https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.1975.11503319

Other authors, of late Naomi Wolf in Shock Doctrine, have pointed out the affinity of free-market advocates, Milton Friedman in particular, with authoritarian and genocidal dictators. Similar parallels were drawn in the 1930s with fascist Italy and Germany, and you can find similar sentiments in the works of J.S. Mill and Adam Smith.

But for discussion, HN can and should do far better.
Besides the ads I really like all of those things. You make them sound so nefarious with no useful purpose. I find new channels all the time from my recommendations and if I didn't have autoplay then I wouldn't be able to coast on a topic I want to learn about passively.

It's immensely useful to me and just because you don't like it doesn't make it some evil plot to control our minds. Remember that TV has had autoplay since its inception. It's just a natural way to consume media passively.
> It is overwhelmingly obvious that YouTube designed their site in a way that would get people addicted to the point of needing a tool like this. The fact that they auto-play videos when they know the viewer is a child is downright disgusting.

I don't personally see a significant difference here versus something like cable TV. Do you think this issue carries over into that domain as well?
The so-called 'war on cash' seems to be progressing nicely.

Don't the bankers know that this will only make cryptocurrency more attractive to those who want privacy?
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I think this is the correct video link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlEj6daNEo
> I can pick up groceries on a Monday when no one is at the store!

Definitely helps the traffic jam issues on megacities!

Also the flexibility to run errands to post office, banks, schedule service repairs etc. is just so tremendous.
Me too. What's the correct pronunciation? "Ass-cinema"?
Can they do it without someone else simply filling the vacuum left in their wake? Or do you mean something other than stopping creating things that steal attention/etc?
>he's always struck me as a marketer, retweeter of self-help quotes, and curator of other people's ideas, at best. something about him tells me there's nothing there.

Yeah, sorry. In America, to me, public intellectuals are synonymous with all of that. I guess that’s less true elsewhere in the world. But it’s probably too generous to even given him that label and plays into how he’s trying to market himself.
> Cities are supposed to impoverish the regions directly around them in this way, as well.

This doesn't make any sense. Cities exist as trading hubs: where people trade labor, services and goods.

Why are you bringing cities into this anyway? Makes no sense at all...
Or just the `script` command?

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/script.1.html

Still, that's pretty sick that you can pause the "video" and highlight/copy/paste in-browser
> incredible power of democracies

I'd say free markets. The US was able to handily fight two wars (against Japan and Germany) as well as massively supplying Britain and the Soviet Union.
I think it's easy to view this that way from the outside, having spent time in this space(on multiple angles both gamedev and HW/OEM):

1. This is still happening "at work", from the outside the optics aren't awesome.

2. This is on an official company blog and not Joe developer's blog/etc. Saying "We pissed off their spouses, but hey wasn't it funny!" doesn't paint your company well.

3. There's a culture of "family-second" in the industry which this is just a natural extension of. Yes, they technically had the "free will" to put their foot down. However once you start exercising that option you get marked as "not a team player" and slow-rolled out the door.

4. A lot of younger engineers(myself included at the time) just don't know better and can be naive when it comes to work-life balance. We should be setting a better example so that the industry becomes less of a meat-grinder. The number of really good engineers I see hemorrhage from that industry is incredible.
There's a “Contributing” link at the bottom of the page.
Based on recent electoral trends from around the world, this sort of engaging spirited behavior may be exactly what consumers want.
Wouldn't animated svgs be a better output format for something like that?
And the Genesis message with sin bringing death into the world, too. But I'm not sure what your point is?
If the TV has a 'game mode' you can typically get rid most of the lag.
It's interesting to personally experience the rise of politically motivated technology like this.
Innovation does not happen with a drive to make it happen.

The vast sums invested in Radar, Nuclear Technologies, Computing, etc - never would have happened without war - while you're correct, they could have been paid to do so at any time - no one would take such grave technological risks without something driving them to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/feed/history will at least tell you which one you watched last
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We updated the app based on that feedback.

We used to show "unblockable" because there was a problem with false positives. Lots of families had sequential numbers that were accidentally getting blocked.

Now, if you give us access to your contacts (local processing only, never transmitted to our servers) we can completely block them.
> Is the purpose of your comment to say that more expensive laptops are better?

Uh, no. The purpose of my comment is to point out there's a company that builds and sells Linux laptops that are of higher quality. They've put in a lot of work to support Coreboot, disable ME, and have a working TPM. They are trying to reduce their dependence on non-free software.

It's a coincidence that in this case you 'get what you pay for'.
Copenhagen has it. So do many cities in the Netherlands. It's great. There's the road for cars, a small curb, a lane for bikes, a small curb, and the sidewalk.
*New Piano Composer*
I have composed a short, melancholic piano piece. It is called 'Per Non Tornare Mai Più' which means 'Never To Return Again'. I would be really appreciative if you were to listen to it and tell me what you think. Here is the link to the music :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32pGjbcjhAA

Thanks for taking the time to read my post,

Alexander :)
...and simultaneously invent the atom bomb.
From the website: "asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh"
Also, there's an option to turn autoplay off. It's a special kind of nefarious that lets you opt out at any time.
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I just don't see how monadic IO is relevant to this issue. putStrLn either acquires a lock or it doesn't. As it happens, it doesn't. It just as easily could (without any change in its type). The same issue arises in any language that supports threads.
- Chance and necessity by joques monod. It was the first book that brought me out of my faith-based view of the world into one defined by science. Seriously rocked my worldview over 15 years ago.

- Nothing special by Charlette Joko Beck, Steve Smith. I have been playing with meditation for years now, but this book has really changed my perspective.
I think there’d be an interesting study about why that happened, and why languages like Perl peaked and declined so quickly.

Anecdotally, I noticed a lot of people who missed some feature from Lisp, C, etc. but generally decided that Python made everything else enough easier that they didn’t mind very much. There’s probably an interesting discussion of language usability in that.
I'm sorry but the first paragraph is very unfair and not true in my opinion.

You can figure out for yourself, watch this debate and tell me if Peterson is the type of person described in the article.

https://youtu.be/FmH7JUeVQb8

I promise I'll read your full article beyond the first paragraph :)
Yeah, well HN isn't your castle, and you ain't its king.
If you like Stoicism you should try Pierre Hadot's What is Ancient Philosophy and at least the main essay from Philosophy as a Way of Life. He's an excellent writer and you can get other useful perspectives from the other ancient schools. The Epicurean take on pleasure (absence from pain) is helpful as well as the ancient skeptical practice of equipollent dispute.
God I've had people do that to me with dogs. No, I will not be conversing with you further about spending $1000 more on a dog I don't at all want.
I was thinking more specifically of the internal architectures of data processing platforms, especially the categorizations that emerged from the MPP database world. The "shared nothing" architecture has been dominant in databases (and is also the core architecture of Hadoop), designed around "co-locating data and compute". Kafka largely follows that architecture as well, using local disk on the compute nodes as its persistent storage layer.

A lot of new data processing platforms, from Snowflake in the data warehouse world to AWS Athena to Apache Pulsar in the broader data processing world, have moved to decoupled architectures.

Containerization and container management frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes) certainly do change the meaning of "local" storage, will be interesting to see how that plays out.
My first thought was of all the wealthy suburbs surrounding even relatively poor cities like Detroit. Cities definitely don’t create a desert.
I just went through a phone interview with a candidate today who did this. He had pre-shared a 36-page presentation of his career/goals/etc.

I spent some time studying this presentation ahead of the interview and thought he was thoughtful and that this indicated an attention to clear communication.

Then we started the interview. I told him I had read his presentation in detail and commended him on the homework. He then super-politely asked if he could spend ten minutes to quickly go through it to add some more details, via a shared screen service. "Sure, why not?"

40 minutes later I finally cut him off, two thirds into the presentation. I came away from this thinking he was trying to control the communication, perhaps stearing me away from probing at his weaknesses rather than thinking he was a proactive comminicator.

Please don't do this.
I've always read 'as-ski-nuh-mah', like 'ascii' + 'nema' of 'cinema' - but with the timing of 'as' + 'cinema', stress on 'scii'.
Btw. regarding the Dell XPS advice found in the original post:

Three years ago I bought an Dell XPS 15. After a few month the touchscreen was broken (did not respond to any input). As I didn't really need it, it took me a few weeks before I contacted Dell. Their support tried to fix the devices remotely for nearly an hour (flashing firmware updates), the touchscreen was still broken. So they send a technician who tried to repair the device in my kitchen. Sadly he didn't have a replacement screen with him, so a few days later another technician came and replaced the screen.

Afterwards the touchscreen worked again. But a few weeks later the Screen started to flicker occasionally. At first I wasn't sure if it was related to the battery level or some software error, as it just happen from time to time and I wasn't using the device that often anyway. But after searching online for the issue and having used the laptop with Windows and Linux for months I am confident that it is another hardware malfunction. Sadly the warranty is long time over.

I liked the effort the support put into fixing the device, but I am a little disappointed to have had so many hardware issues for a device with such a high price. And while I had very few driver issues, the overall quality of the product didn't convince me to recommend it :-/
> As for the reason this was closed as working as intended, it was just done accidentally, we had already an internal bug tracking clickjacking in YOLO. Sorry for the confusion!

https://twitter.com/sirdarckcat/status/994868604695916544

Somehow this was known, the blog (innerht.ml) gained some traction and then action was taken. Seems that some miscommunication occured inside Google and this problem atracted much more attention than it was necessary.
I don't know how good a job I'll do describing it briefly, but I can try.

The fundamental message we can take, in my interpretation, is that every human being is deeply flawed and yet had inherent dignity and worth, regardless of nationality, status, wealth, etc., and that it is the duty of a Christian to keep these things in sight and help his fellow man. Not necessarily in dramatic or obvious ways, but as a general inclination. Of course there are a lot more details but I think this is the core.

Of course you might object that you don't necessarily have to be Christian to believe those things, but looking around you'll see many examples of behavior driven by different axioms (and given the environment Christianity came to exist in, a message about the dignity of the poor would actually have been going seriously against general trends).

This isn't as clear as I'd hoped but I hope it gives some idea of where I'm coming from.

Since you are a scientist, I'll mention I thought this Feynman talk was astute. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm
If you went by the mantra "No one ever got fired for buying IBM in 1983" and decided to build your product on DB2 and COBOL, you could still get support and new compatible systems 35 years later.

If you decided to build your stack on top of MS SQL Server in 1990 you would have still had a relatively painless upgrade path over the years.

We can also add products byy Oracle and Adobe.
The Washington Naval Treaty [1] was also in effect until 1937, limiting new naval construction.

I think the original point is valid, subject to the vagaries of international agreements at the time.

The production dates and rate of the Essex class [2] were simply ridiculous... (said as someone whose grandfather worked at Newport News during the war)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex-class_aircraft_carrier#S...
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As a counter point, since throughout history we have had plenty of states with a big role for the military, I don't think your theory that it helps "heal" the nation passes the test. I'm not sure, I'm far from being a historian, maybe somebody could offer an educated opinion on the subject... but my point is we don't need to wait, there should be plenty of data to look at.
According to "The Pity of War" by Ferguson, the Germans in WW1 were able to kill British soldiers at about twice the rate as vice versa. They attributed this to the German Army giving goals as orders rather than methods, allowing the lower officers flexibility in achieving them. The British Army, on the other hand, would give orders as methods, with little flexibility.

Flexibility means needing intelligent soldiers, not cannon fodder.
The script command doesn't record timing data, so it's not very useful for playback. It's designed for transcripts, not for videos.
Its unique value derives only from its ubiquity (2+ billion users), not from any specific feature it offers.
Tel Aviv and surrounding environs as well.

The Israeli government also supplies a great deal VC.
Is it public discourse or private discourse?. If public, then you have no right to anonymity or to be forgotten. Anyone can record what you say in public, and that is reasonable and expected. Myself, I would like to have both - just as I do in the non-digital world. I don't expect that one platform can serve both purposes.

Private communication is not possible. Humans have been striving to achieve it for all of history. I guess that the rich and powerful can achieve it to a certain degree. The analog hole is the problem. Why is there not more technical discussion about plugging the analog hole?
I dont think developing tech for government money would be possible without army.

Government has no reason to develop tech and many reasons to just use that money to grow beaurocracy. I belive most of US tech advantage is due to army being able to pay for development of whatever tech it wants. That tech eventually trickles down to civilians.

Not sure if that's the way it should be but that's the way it is in US.
Maybe I misread you, but I thought you were suggesting something to the effect of Paul telling people that sinners, as judged by humans, should be put to death.
This is exactly what I mean. Also it's best to observe them during high stress periods when they are busiest. The pain points will jump out at you in those situations.
Electrification will cut the exhaust stench down a lot, but it won't stop the lurching or the overheating in winter, both of which reliably make me nauseated.

I'll stick to my bicycle.
Share a similar cynical view of this, smells like a preemptive CYA move. Reminds me casinos with the help numbers for gambling addicts posted.

There's been high profile articles shining a light on the predatory design tactics in tech recently so the awareness of the issue is on the rise. The idea of a 'design ethicist' while novel seems fundamentally opposed to the attention-economy.

Overly cynical view is this is google angling to make the case to self-regulate vs. managing an intrusive regulatory body investigating/fining them for violations once more people are aware of the current shenanigans.
Troublemakers are underrated and highly necessary, says a Berkeley professor
The strategies are orthogonal. Google's interest is not in making money from smartphones, it's in preventing Apple from having a monopoly wherein they can charge Google unlimited amounts for access to mobile users.
Try Magic Actions [1] if you're a Chrome user - it allows setting of several useful options (night mode, yay) and more importantly disabling autoplay.

(long time lurker, previously registered, but forgotten password and email account no longer in my control)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-actions-for-...
Their list automatically updates based on whatever mysterious processes happen in their end, so it should be an improvement over manually blocking numbers after you get a spam call. Hopefully it will help a little bit. It's definitely not a cure, but we have to take what we can.
His emacs customization apparently: https://github.com/incandescentman/Emacs-Settings
It's fragile because the penalties for mail fraud are so steep. Only an absolute blockhead would attempt it.
TS > flow.
If I read a 300 page book and it has even just one sentence that somehow speaks to me and makes me introspect or reconsider or change some mental model I have, I absolutely find it with while. Sometimes the one encounter is enough to cause change (though sometimes it takes a while for my brain to change/adapt), and sometimes it takes multiple encounters with the idea.

IMO any book can be categorized as "self-help" - most business books I read, psychology books, biographies, etc, I read to enjoy, and the best ones (the ones I tend to enjoy the most and remember) are those that I'm changed by (ie. improved) in some way.

People get too caught up in labeling things instead of trying it out and seeing it works for you. You can read (for example) a celebrity gossip magazine and finish with great personal insights - the probability is just low - but if you do, awesome! Same goes with "self-help" books.

I also think it's highly dependent on timing. A book one year may have no meaning to you in one moment but be life changing in a future moment. It's the difference between reading things applicable to your situation now vs future need - the former approach is generally much better.
I think William James had some interesting thoughts about this a century ago:
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/proposing-moral-...
> My brief electric bus ride was not mind-blowingly different from a conventional one.

It has been possible to experience an electric bus ride for well over a century to verify that it's not "mind blowingly different".

Ever heard of the trolleybus? It's an electric bus that draws power from overhead cables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus#History
The Mark would be better ;)
Thanks for your thoughts!

When I saw my son coding in C++ I said to him why not Go or Rust?

But on the ride home thought doing it C++ makes total sense as no matter what he uses when gets a job knowing C++ is required today. So much older code still in C++.

BTW, he was working on lower level primitives as for higher level I would have suggested Python and a backup of R.
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That depends on what the source of the lurching is---if you live in an area where surface street road quality is rough (e.g., Seattle), then it won't help much. But electrification can mean the bus will use a fixed gear instead of a rough-shifting transmission.
Upwork previously was oDesk AFAIK.
This particular complaint is that they are just rebranding OEM hardware, so you might as well just buy the OEM hardware.
How not to do UX (new Reddit.com)
(1) Click on "visit new Reddit" from old Reddit.

- It immediately brings you to a login page instead of Reddit.

(2) https://old.reddit.com/

- Go to old Reddit

- Have your page blocked out by a login dialog with a small link to close the window that does not save to a session variable so every time you load a new page on the old Reddit it pops up again.

(3) New Reddit looks like a Facebook feed and much less content shows on one screen than before. There is a ton of wasted space on screen for no reason. The sub-Reddit listing on the left is tied to your account, not the session or cookies, forcing you to login to get features.

Every single one of these visual design decisions is irritating to interact with and makes me want to close the site and never visit it again.