skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The narrative that social security will eventually bankrupt the country (or the updated version: "it's a ponzi") dates back to its inception 80 years ago and it's been pretty consistent ever since:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/post_9910_b_7988...

While the economy has grown about ~400% dependency ratios have gone up about 11% I think. Social security's affordability has always been about political choice - e.g. tax cuts for the wealthy or money for pensioners.
It was a sarcastic reference to Trump’s “shithole countries” remarks about African nations last year.
This was particularly effective.

Its risky, but when done well...you get this.
Children used to be a source of labor and providing generational wealth. Now children are a source of financial cost, not benefit, and thus it doesn't make sense for poor people to have them.
Great find with Intra. Installed and working well on Pixel XL 2.
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That implies an equal number of each party or general affiliation - it wasn't. 9 of the 166 respondents considered themselves conservative.

Trump is not a good president, don't get me wrong, but that's just not good science.
Then make an argument about whether or not you consider freedom of expression to be a fundamental human right. You have stated that arguments on the topic are possible. You have done absolutely nothing to argue any position on the matter.
Why does not having MS office make this harder? What do you use for word processing?
Firefox for Android supports full extensions, so you can install uBlock Origin or even uMatrix.
These people are the overwhelming electoral majority. If the government gets involved, it will be to arm their sentiments with police power, not to punish them.
The average Windows user just learned how to ignore this dialog and click through it. Especially gamers, downloading unsigned indies from stores like itch.io.
Well, there is that.
867-5309 is a phone number that can't be used anywhere (at least where phone numbers take that format.)
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Do you really think this is why, though? It's hard to picture Steam the application being performance sensitive.
Your first sentence is confusing to me. Monoculture is not, necessarily, a social thing. Hence why I mentioned bananas and avocados. :)

That said, I think I agree with your overall point. With the amusing counter that most new languages do go way the hell out of their way to start implementing everything. In large to keep you in that language. Even in the web services world, it amuses me to see so many folks try and cram everything into a single service where they can.

The flip side, of course, is you do have a finite budge of energy to make things happen. It makes little sense to spend that budget solving problems you don't have. Worse, you could rathole into solving technical challenges that you may never actually have a need to solve. All the while leaving your customers dry.

So, yes, there is a tradeoff. I fully agree with that. Which is why this topic is interesting to me. All of the incentives seem to be to embrace monoculture thinking in most that you do. I can't help but think that is off in the long view, though. :(
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I can’t agree enough.
Yay you can be annoyed. Yet 17 years of being annoyed and neither political party wants to change this situation. Why?
Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
Interesting. This has me wondering about something:

I'm no incel or whatever, I'm also not particularly focused on a relationship (or sex, although there is a non-committed person in my life I see with regularity for both the casual romp and coffee dates to just sit and enjoy company), in married to the degree but I'm curious what you think: is there a difference between enjoying the art of playful flirting/courting and PUA? I'm someone who enjoys flirting and playful banter but have learned to have tempered expectations.

Part of me thinks that at the core, it's ALL an act of mind games to convince another person why you're worth their time (or conversely showing them why you're worth theirs) and there's going to be some level of duplicity involved. Be it "oh yeah I love sushi" (when you're really just passive about it) or "I drive a fancy car I can give you all the things" (when you're really leasing a slightly less than luxury sedan).

Just curious what your thoughts are
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I assume the point is that if (for instance) 3 people today make the equivalent of 159 people in the past, then it still works out. (Whether or not that's true, I don't know.)
"A big problem with successful ICOs is that the companies immediately have too many shareholders to let them pivot. "

I don't quite understand. What could you pivot .... to?

You were either going to the ICO... or what could you possibly be geared to do?

I know ICOs are all "techy" but outside that I don't see any reason someone offering an ICO would be good at anything else but that. It seems like a one shot business ... it either happens or it doesn't.
How do you draw that line, though? Say I start a business and own it 100%. Should I be allowed to pay myself? What if I'm already a billionaire? What if I buy it instead of start it? What if it's a few friends + me instead of solo?
My teens don't even have accounts.

They used to talk about when there would be more dead people on facebook than alive. I think they were mistaken about the alive people still on facebook part.

Facebook is going to be a small, odd, digital graveyard from the early 'net.
I think your browser, the various MS office applications, and Acrobat reader are some of the big ones that spring to mind, but there have quite a few!
My wife prefers a career working with autistic children, and earns much less than I do as a software developer because of that preference. She is amazing and I want to enable her to do whatever she is happiest doing using the money I am fortunate to be earning, as much as she is willing to let me help. You're looking at other human beings as merely economic objects and that's not going to net you happiness long-term. Consider each human you meet on the merits of their character, not their wallets...

This thread is ridiculous. Come back to earth, get out and meet real people.
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That's a really disingenuous number, most people were not eligible for social security the first few years it was in place, so the worker:beneficiary ratio was very high. The ratio has been pretty stable for 50 years. Its about 3:1 now, it was about 3:1 in 1970 [0][1].

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-persons

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html
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Let's back up for a second...

This article only refers to usage as 'visit(ing)' the sites, but nothing about interaction. Are we to assume that teens are actively consuming and producing content on YouTube?

There's a huge difference here. When I still had Facebook I would have never said I spent most of my time there. It's very easy to say YouTube consumes more of your time considering how easy it is to go down the rabbit-hole of related videos, how-tos, etc.

Even my dad always tells me to 'get on the YouTube' to look up videos on how to do things when he isn't here to show me because it has videos 'on everything'.

What I'm really getting at is there are completely different uses for each site. For advertisers it's important to know where the majority of time is spent but I don't think that means Facebook is becoming irrelevant.
Citation needed. Freedom of speech does not mean total freedom.
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Continuing education is different, and in my opinion far more valuable, than preparing for tech interviews. I may still complain (because it's time consuming), but I would feel much much better about needing to learn some actual new stuff to move up a level. Instead, we go back and refresh old stuff which we don't remember very well because it hardly ever comes up.
Interesting.

This reminds me of DDP. Meteor had a lot of good things right: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/packages/ddp/DD...
https://www.phoronix.com/ via RSS feed
s/single HTTP request/single connection/
It's weird how gcc and msvc end up in the same basket here. Mozilla say they're all about openness. gcc is a free and open source compiler, while msvc is proprietary and closed source. I can see the case for keeping gcc supported, but if you don't have to support msvc, why would Mozilla give it more attention than for example icc?
Could this happen to humans with AI domesticating them? lol
But that requires them to unlock the device. Using your fingerprint to unlock it likely requires a court order, which takes some time.
I find it hard to believe a F500 CEO cares that much about keeping their job after an acquisition. Presumably he has a bunch of options/grants that will be worth a fuckton due to the 30% premium Fuji would pay. Plus it's good for the resume. Look at Monsanto's Hugh Grant. He'll be loaded so he doesn't need to take a title-cut to be CEO of a subsidiary to keep some piddly 7-figure salary, and he can find another job without too much trouble if he does decide to keep working.
The Shakespeare accent reminds me of the accent that low level sailors are given in age of sail type films.
I don't really use it to communicate with people I actually know anymore, but I'm a member on several Facebook hobby/interest related groups (of strangers) that I enjoy. Also some local neighborhood groups. I do occasionally peruse the Marketplace but haven't actually completed any transactions using it.
If Vermont were a company I'd assume a play at cheap advertising: no far-reaching benefit, but a lot more eyeballs researching the state for far less than the cost of running an ad campaign.
I think what's being suggested is that if you launch an ICO to "build an amphibious sheep ranch" or whatever, and raise $100m, and then it turns out that no such sheep exist, you don't have to just shrug, go "oh well", and spend the $100m on Lamborghini's. You could pivot and do something else.

Here the company had an ICO to raise funds to build mobile crypto-mining rigs to move to where green energy was cheapest; if that's not viable, maybe they could build mobile crypto-mining rigs to move to where non-green energy is cheapest. Or maybe get into the green energy business directly. Or, I dunno, start making cooking shows, why not?

> What could you pivot .... to?

The suggestion isn't that they should pivot from "doing an ICO" as their business plan; that wasn't (meant to be) the business plan. The suggestion is that now that they've done the ICO, maybe they can pivot from their original business plan to something viable.

...or they can just spend the next few years suing each other and spending the money. That works too.
"Twitter eventua" what?

Purism's Librem 5 phone is funded and dev kits are only $400!

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

I'm a little excited about this company.
Whilen I entirely agree with your point, I don't think that a comparison between the Apple and Twitter is suitable. One is a company that publishes an operating system, which is locked down and requires software installation through their Monopoly App Store ( which I find highly distasteful), the other one is a web-based social media thing. iOS as a product is in no way similar to twitter.
There isn't one. As a proxy, one could do a bunch of data gymnastics based off of the number of times a machine+account uses a single IP address and display resolution + OS. It's a pretty bad approximation though.
Got excited when I thought this read "Lego design trends of 2018"
Do they all have a differentiator?
It's the same thing. iOS is controlled by Apple. Twitter's API is controlled by Twitter. Both invite developers to develop on their platform so they can reap the benefit of increased user functionality.
Eh, in terms of floppies, it seems like everybody used different on disk formats back in those days. Commodore had one, IBM had one, Atari, etc... All incompatible to some degree.
https://dzone.com/
All Canada has to do is to engage the services of world's #1 consulting firm Essential Consultants LLC and voila, suddenly Trump will be making Canada great again
Study Reveals Protein Longevity in the Brain Controls Flexible Learning
That's a really interesting and novel way to address it. It does leave a potential issue though, it could lead to double the current being available to a device in the middle which could mean it could overdraw for it's own specs and melt or start a fire. Unlikely though.

I'd also say that with an LDO, the LDO is providing the active monitoring since it'll need to monitor the output anyway in order to regulate properly. You'd definitely need a resistor following it, not as much to limit inrush or anything, but to prevent the two regulators from causing oscillations (one turns off because the voltage looks good, which causes the other to cycle too).
A Matter of Taste: Can a Sweet Tooth Be Switched Off in the Brain?
> The executives that made those decisions would be found, arrested, and imprisoned, if they were lucky

To give mechanism to this method, in America power is competitively shared. Those the ISP is blackmailing will stay quiet. But there are others intensely motivated to uncover the crime, both inside the blackmailed politicians' orbits (to preserve their careers post-downfall) and outside it (to boost their careers by taking out a competitor, to themselves or their boss).
Regarding your first paragraph, all of the Chinese domestic versions of Android have been totally successful without the official Play Store. The manufacturer such as Huawei, zte, oppo, etc installs the Chinese app stores as part of the OS load. What you wrote applies to the English language market.
It's been a minute since Borland or Watcom were mainstream C compilers on Windows. Consider the year between ~2000-2015. Based on my recollection, it seems like MSVC was used at least 75% of the time, with the other compilers each having a small slice of the remaining quarter. Today, very seldom do you encounter a program that was compiled with anything other than MSVC, although with Clang that's starting to change.

I don't know too much about the history of Mac compilers. You may be right.

Back in the days, it was easier to make a competitive C compiler, because the accretion of advantages to the dominant compilers was not so large. Today, the moat is too wide and too deep. There's also no reason to build a new compiler, because nobody is going to pay you for it unless it's substantially better than the free ones, which by this point are pretty damn good.
It's not science, it's a survey. And you know that about the respondents because they were transparent about their data.

And the self-identified conservatives rated him in the bottom five, too.
There is a way to do this without being toxic. If you are harming the other person, making them feel less so you feel more powerful, then it is a problem.

I am able to flirt with a woman without making them feel less so I don't know how to answer your question beyond that.
I like your proposals and I think they're a good start, but I don't think they are practical for a large portion of the population. They are only realistic for the wealthy, and most of us aren't wealthy.

People who are struggling to get by are not going to have the time, energy, or expertise to comparison shop. And when their identities get stolen because their personal information was leaked by a provider, they're just going to get crushed.

Those proposals of yours didn't happen for a reason: they are not in the interest of the capitalist class, and the way modern markets are set up, capitalists have way more power than other individual citizens.

Denied effective means of organizing to protect themselves from exploitation and abuse, is it any wonder that when the masses vote for politicians advocating regulation?

Find a variant of market Libertarianism where the majority of the population can actually defend their rights rather than get steamrolled and you'll see less regulation.
It's 2033 and a Mozilla Engineer is writing the same blog post but this time talking about Firefox adopting webkit...

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An API and an operating system that runs on bare metal are in no way similar. One has a bootloader, a kernel, a filesystem, etc. The other is just a set of apis. The freedom to run your own choice of software on the OS that you boot on the hardware you own is important. It's a very different philosophical choice from being able to, or not being able to make use of one company's social media publishing API via https.

If my operating system has a rootkit or APT I am boned. If twitter is hacked I couldn't give a fuck, it doesn't affect my equipment or how I use my computers.
I really hope you're making those up because they sound absolutely dumb.
How about this one? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/15/17355202/t...
https://outage.report/signal
if you reference a null pointer then this behavior is 'undefined' from the perspective of the C compiler - however it is very well defined by the operating system (if you are doing a user space application).

No nukes get involved here - only core dumps.
FB has always had a MSN.com or Yahoo.com vibe, but with the latest "see other posts across facebook" update, it's gone completely Taboola.

that's not even half as entertaining as instagram or snapchat right now. i feel like snapchat should really be a little bit ahead, because the social experience is a lot more interesting than instagram's, but instagram's larger user base means more interesting pictures and videos right now, even if these videos are a little bit "detached" from the user's social experience.

facebook's social experience has totally lost the plot when they started trimming the social feed in favour of links to websites outside of facebook.

really the crux of these social websites is that they need to have a social experience. if i wanted gossip news or political reading i'd go to a gossip website or a political journal.
it doesn't make sense for poor people to have them

I would speculate that the disincentive is larger for wealthier people. A lot of child-related expenses are for positional goods (house in a good school district, saving for college) where the price is basically "all your spare income". So if you're rich having kids means giving up awesome vacations and the option of retiring before 50; if you're poor those things were never on the table.
There have been recent changes in Microsoft's policy which now require a physical device to be used for signing. It's a giant pain. They alluded to cloud based services for signing, but other than Symantec's Enterprise offering (no listed price on their site), this doesn't really exist. I think MS needs to step up and provide a simple cloud based signing service. They should have waited to do this before forcing these changes.
Why? That still makes no sense - banning updates globally is not even what Russia wants, let alone a reasonable goal.
I ran across an interesting book on that topic, which describes pitfalls of privatization in a balanced way:

You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
The Economics of Privatization
by Elliott D. Sclar

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=8014010029039...
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Valve is a games company. They probably already had a stable of allocators and were used to that kind of programming. Also the Windows malloc was much slower in 2003 IIRC.
Land isn't the resource everyone is worried about though. Potable water, food, raw materials, survivable habits, etc.
Its my understanding that the reason for RS-422 (or 485) versus 232 is when you want long cable runs (say, over 10m). Not sure why this would matter much for computer peripherals.

It would make more sense if AppleTalk used it, but it used a common ground, which eliminates the benefits of the balanced signals.
In what sense is milk a vital need, though? Millions of people live without it.
> As any corporate finance book will teach you, increasing leverage simply means returns to equity holders are more volatile

English translation: Leverage reduces equity value.
But I thought Trump couldn't be bought because he's a self-made businessman who tells it like it is, no hassle, no haggle, no bullshit, unlike those effete city dwellers and globalist politicians?

Is America Great Again yet? A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage?

Don't worry about steel, we'll open the steel mills up again. We have to build plenty of new aircraft carriers so we'll need a lot of steel. And they'll have steam catapults, none of this newfangled computer nonsense. And the wall. The wall will be steel, too, of course, so when the Mexicans try to climb up it they'll just slide right back down. In fact, we'll need two walls now, one for the Canadians, too.

Sigh.

I wonder if this one will fondle Angela Merkel too?
Github is pretty diffuse to count much as a community, though there are aspects of community about it.

Stackoverflow and kin are very focused on specific questions and are elitist. I've participated for years and find that I cannot add my comments because I don't have sufficient points. And DO NOT post a stupid question or someone will suggest you delete it. (I'm of the opinion that there are no stupid questions but I do see the occasional stupid answer.)

The communities I see are a bit more general than programming. A good example is the Raspberry Pi community. Many of their discussions involve programming but more generally are "how do I do XXX." That community is also fostered by the folks who bring us the RPi.

Some of the more recent languages like Rust and Go seem to be fostering too.
Is there anyone in HN legitimately using Facebook anymore?

Yet another case of "Do people still watch TV? I haven't own a TV in 15 years".

https://www.recode.net/2018/3/1/17063208/facebook-us-growth-...

Facebook is massive in this country. More than two-thirds of Americans, specifically 68 percent, use the service, according to new research from Pew Research Center.
Think about Cloudflare itself. Millions of websites hosted behind a handful of IP addresses.
Sure, one is an operating system and one is an API. In the literal sense you are correct.

However, You're completely arguing a point that is different from what the entire discussion is about. We're talking about proprietary control points. The iOS operating system is proprietary and the App store dictates who and who can't publish on it.

The same is the case with Twitter. It has APIs and they control who and who can't use them to make apps.

Both companies have invited developers to make apps. Both companies have benefited from having those apps make their services/devices useful.
> The comment threads are spicy

Ah. Maybe it is specifically for teen. Because every time I scroll down there I instantly regret it. Not only the content of comments have no added value, but it's not funny, or even most of the time remotely intelligible.

And I say that why understanding the appeal of the content in video games forum, which on my personal quality scale is already very low.
I would suggest that a couple places to start would be eliminating things that are purely about value transfer and extraction.

1) Not allowing a purchaser to transfer debt from that purchase to the newly purchased entity.

2) Not allowing a company to pay fees for service to any corporate entity that has a conflict with a board member. The board members get paid to give advice...

Yes I'm aware these are imperfect solution, yes there are loopholes, yes these things rarely work...but those two practices seem to be particularly rife for abuse.