skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus, nothing is able to baffle anyone anymore -- in the way that each generation before could shock some part of the established culture (up to perhaps punk, ...

This whole paragraph made me think of Black Mirror.

> Instead, everything is fragmented,

Isn't there a new form of art (the likes of BM) that takes all these fragment and puts them back together in novel ways that help us reconnect them with the human condition and what that means in a post-modernist society.

Not so much trying to go back in time but trying to reach back for things that were important and give them new prominence?

As I write this, I'm considering the Jordan Peterson as performance art .. he certainly shocks and discomfits many people and as much as you might like him or disagree with him is position is pretty much unassailable.

Even Trump and Brexit look more sensible through this lense.

Indeed, isn't one of Putin's most senior advisors some kind of professor of post-modernism or something?

As PM becomes more and more mainstream surely it makes sense that society find new and unusual ways to continue cultural progress ...

EDIT some other modern media that pops to mind: Mr Robot with it's non-linear narrative and skewed perspective on modernity. The Handmaids tale which, though a few decades old, actually seems more relevant nowadays. I want to say "Ex Machina" but I kind of feel the narrative style doesn't serve the subject matter at all.
I think it sounds more like IRL on Twitch TV.
Oh really ... Not having DownThemAll just breaks my entire workflow, and there's no replacement. They should have at least considered the "most popular add-ons" to be in working condition before even releasing WebExtensions to all.
nntp / usenet. It had moderation problems, because it was built for the world where the internet was academics only, but it worked great before everyone came to the internet, and it still works great if posting permissions are properly managed (say, a company internal nntp server).

The problems with nntp where of the same kind that email has with spam these days, except they arrived there earlier.

However, the thing that really killed nntp was the fact that it was not supported in Outlook, at a time when Outlook was dominant enough to kill it (and promoting Sharepoint groups at the same time, which were inferior at the time).

So we are now left with google groups (proprietary, and hosted, and only by google), mailing lists (which are inferior in most ways, especially onboarding), phpBB and similar forums (which are inferior in most ways, except moderation).
It's not that I want to give more power to Facebook, it's that it's more convenient for my use case. Sure Facebook has too much power, but so does Google and I'd rather my video watching data was all aggregated in a much smaller ecosystem that only encompasses my social life and not my entire web browsing habits, email, phone use, etc.

So yeah, I want to transfer the power from Google to Facebook for now until a better option comes along.
The person has the same rights. The business - assuming we're talking about a corporation - does not, as corporate law is explicitly a legal creation that grants a number of rights to entities that have no independent existence in return for various reporting requirements.

If you don't wish to provide that information, the solution is simple: Don't put yourself in the situation of being a member of a corporation in a position that your local jurisdiction require details of.
a Western (American) culture in which the ends frequently justify the means

That's a really loaded and almost certainly inaccurate premise.
Type annotations more completely describe a program. This can be useful if your code-base's requirements are subject to rapid change (e.g. websites). But when your program is something which has been well thought-out from the start, and thus whose requirements don't change during the course of development, I trust a program which has been statically-typed to not develop bugs over time. case in point: /usr/bin/git
I would go a step further than the author and say that all forms of substance abuse is fundamentally rooted in other disorders.

People with stressful and unfulfilling lives will naturely search for an escape in either gaming, drugs or other substance abuse.

Taking that escape away from them won't help them, it will only cause them to relapse over and over again.
Not if it was incinerated. That's definitely where the sludge should have gone, but it's also where paper waste could go. That would also avoid problems with greasy pizza boxes, window envelopes, and impossible to remove toner.

Landfilling organic material is illegal in Germany (or possibly throughout the EU). That definitely applies to both paper and the sludge from recycling it; it might even apply to the black "residual waste" bin.
This is not a bad idea, but it’s not guaranteed that said tutorial will be worth reading.

Take a look at a Monad tutorial to see what I mean...
> Cool. Firefox already does, and I can also use it on Linux and Mac.

But Chrome doesn't and I don't use Linux or Mac, but if I were primarily using a Mac, I would be using Safari. And If I were primarily using ChromeOS, I would be using Chrome.

> I have no way to verify exactly what Microsoft sends to their servers (and their description is incomplete and out of date, if you care to trust it).

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-view-and-manage-diagnosti...

> The upgrade-to-windows-10 dark patterns are what you should consider when you think "windows control & privacy".

How is this a dark pattern? Windows 7 and 8 also have telemetry, but they don't let you view it as conveniently as in Windows 10. Also the OS itself supports more privacy control against 3rd party apps, which should be the biggest concern.

> Not in my experience of Edge vs Firefox, unless things have changed very dramatically in the last few months.

Firefox is among the most resource heavy, on both Windows and Mac OS.

> In my biased sample of the world, PCs have gone back to being work devices, and everything else is being done on the phone, with cloud sync bridging the gaps. I know a few people who bought a 2-in-1 but no one uses them except as a laptop except on very very rare occasions.

I do all my work on a Surface Pro 2-in-1, more than 50% of the time in tablet mode. I also keep a close eye on ChromeOS and iPads, but unless they support most of my software and use-cases, I see no reason to switch from Windows anytime soon.
AMC was doomed they replaced their MovieWatcher program (pro consumer) that was great with their Stubs program (rent seeking) that sucks and changes quite a bit.

It reflected a change from a useful service for movie fans, to a service trying to extract recurring revenue from customers.
Israel's air strikes in Gaza, Hamas stronghold Gaza approaching edge of the war
Thank you! That reading left me hungry for pictures.
My YouTube recommendations are spot-on.. very odd! Perhaps your privacy settings are high and mighty?
Can't be both? It is both. It lasts forever and the pieces break down into smaller pieces.
re: climate scientists - if 99% of scientists believe something to be true then we should believe them unless we have an alternative hypothesis that can't be trivially discounted. The "tone" that scientists take when talking to people has absolutely no relevance at all to the correctness of the science.
>...the thing about WeWork, however, is that you don't work for them, they work for you.

Give it time. Besides, when there's as large a dependency as "I get my livelihood through the services they offer" it might as well be the other way around, as one can't just drop them that easily.
I only have 3 chains near me, but I visit different ones based on schedule. Theaters are a commodity to me, except for a few drafthouses that play special movies.
Which are the same as the defaults of the host OS. So there is nothing to make a fuss about.
> For example, if I start Julia and type
[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] ^ 2'

Put that in a function and run it twice. The second time will be blazing fast since it's jitted. That's the workaround for REPL/Notebook usage. In my experience with Notebooks, I end up having to rerun the code all the time, so it will only be slow the first time around. And I've had my share of Python code that took 5 seconds or more to complete, every single time.
This is quite a generic rant about airlines trying to make sense of passenger data. Nothing related to seat 14C. I mostly pay more and reserve the 12/13 row seats (emergency seats) because of better leg space. I’ve never had a hostess budge me with personal details.
Norway too, leading to yearly "fishing expeditions" for newspapers writing about what celebrities earned and paid in tax.

The justification for this in Norway at least was that it's considered a social concern whether or not you pay your taxes, and that it was considered important that people should be able to trust that people around them also contribute.

But it's arguably shifted quite significantly in balance now that it's possible to look up online (and various restrictions have accordingly been put into place) vs. before when you used to have to go to the tax office and look it up in physical books - the latter took care of the public interest aspect while making it too cumbersome for people to do just to satisfy random curiosity (e.g. before it went online, I don't think I knew anyone who had ever bothered; afterwards "everyone" has probably looked up someone).
I use it. I just like it. It's like old Google Chrome, minimalistic and fast. I've yet to find anything that didn't work. Currently I'm using Windows so cross-platform support is not necessary. Actually I wouldn't use Edge at all if it would be cross-platform, I like native specialized applications.
I can recommend https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers highly, i have a bunch of containers for work, personal, projects, research, etc...
> modernism is clearly wrong and serves only to mislead and enslave via narrative control

No, it shows something completely different: modernism is merely subjective, just like anything else. I wholeheartedly agree with the subjectivity part of post-modernism, but I don't see how it contradicts or disproves the modernist concepts; if anything, it only strengthens the objectivits approach, where each person or a collective is assumed to act out of his own, subjective, self-interest.

The only thing it destroys is utilitiarian "universal" ethical system, which is completely deserved.
The UPC revolution is entirely against this - i.e. you are directly opposing the last 40 years of supermarket evolution. Good luck with that.

(remember, Walmart won't even carry products without UPCs, and this is nothing new - as of the 80s)
>> Generally speaking, logical modelling is too limited for good concept representations

In principle, First Order Logic and equivalent languages can represent anything that can be represented in natural language. The problem is that in practice it is very hard to transfer into a logic language all the knowledge you might need for a useful system.

In fact, this was one motivation for at least one branch of machine learning- the work from Ryszard Michalski, Claude Sammut, Ranan Banerji, Steven Vere, Brian Cohen and later rule-learners like Quinlan's decision tree learners and of course all the later work in Inductive Logic Programming by Plotkin, Shapiro, Muggleton etc. These are all rule-learning systems, that can avoid the knowledge acquisition bottleneck that probably did in for purely rule-based expert systems in the '90s (i.e. getting experts to transfer their knowledge into rules).

I rather agree that further progress in AI will require a, let's say, synchretistic approach- like I say in another comment, the obvious thing for me is to use deep learning for perception, logic for inference and probabilistic modelling to deal with the noisy world. There are some people working in that sort of direction, with different amounts of emphasis on each of the three approaches. For instance, Josh Tenenbaum at MIT, Evans and Grefenstette at DeepMind, Luc De Raedt at KU Leuven, Kristian Kersting at Dortmund, Lise Getoor also at MIT, Pedro Domingos at Washington, and many others.

Apologies for all the name-dropping without links. Let me know and I can provide them if required.
irc. It's still used by geeks, but all the modern alternatives like Slack and friends lock the data away from the users, are costly in both money and resources (Electron apps instead of irc chat apps that can run on a C-64).

Like nntp/usenet in my other post, one of the big problems is security, control and management especially with respect to bad actors. Perhaps there's a common way to solve this theme without ceding control of the data, but I'm not aware of it (and ... based on modern email spam, there is no simple effective way).
Will the European Union ruin the internet?
My introduction to Murakami was Hard-Boiled Wonderland [0]. It was unlike anything I'd read before and thought it was really bloody good. I think I read it over a couple of evenings, was quite hard to put down.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_the...
Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance are my favorites, in that order.

Norwegian Wood is the most famous.
Sadly, most tools are a little overwhelming for small teams. And a small team may have very different actors who would find value is very different tools.

As a dev/tech founder, I use GitHub Boards and Projects for pretty much anything. The rest is Google Calendar, Gmail, and Docs. These are all the "productivity tools" I need.

Some SaaS friends use ASANA, GitHub Projects and Atlassian to "glue" it all. And they are 15 tops. They are thinking of revamping it all to only use a single tool.
I want to add: 3. Use my hosts file so I can connect to my local dev environments
Ha, funny you should say that. I've enjoyed every Murakami I've read with the exception of Sputnik Sweetheart. Couldn't finish it, there was just something about the style and the plot that I didn't enjoy.

I started with A Wild Sheep Chase and thought that was a good start point. Also his book of short stories, The Elephant Vanishes, would be quite a nice intro if you prefer shorter stuff, I think.
If they think they're being taxed too much, they can move themselves and their business somewhere with lower tax rates. The reason most of them don't is because they are benefiting massively from the societies they live in - they just don't want to pay their share for the benefit they received.

I'd have much more sympathy if these people actually voted with their feet and left high tax jurisdictions (properly), but the reality is that most of these people want all the advantages without the downsides.
I use it as my cookie browser (where cookies are allowed).

In Firefox I have cookies disabled and selectively whitelist.
It's not a particularly convincing data set of a 'hallmark of success' given the end results of the Napoleonic or Germany-initiated wars.
It's dead link.
The country is Germany, the program is called 'Der Grüne Punkt' ('The Green Dot'):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_(symbol)
Meaning the Python standard library and common libraries are geared toward general purpose more than Julia.

I'm not sure that the Julia language itself is lacking in any general sense. It's just more geared toward scientific computing, but there's nothing about the language making it that hard to write general code. It's not R.
> Without negotiating those terms, why should society as a whole honour it if you decide to invent new rules and apply them to your new fictional entity to shield you from liability for example?

Because it only concerns them if they enter any agreement with this fictional entity, and they're free to choose to do or not do it.

> If I decide I'm King of my own kingdom, and insists that as king I can dismiss any debt I incur, why should society accept my fantasy to the detriment of other members of society?

Because people that lend you something would have to sign a contract (out of their own free will) where it clearly states that they're lending to a virtual "kingdom" of yours, where you can dismiss any debt you want.

> it has no real existence unless I negotiate that existence and the rules governing it with society around me

"Society" is a peculiar word. Because if you meant "people", then I agree - you'd have to negotiate it with people that you would want to sign agreements with you, as I stated above.

However, if you meant government, or people that wouldn't have to enter any agreements with your virtual entity, I don't see why the hell it's their business to tell you what imaginary entities you can create.
Good, level-headed post. Gaming is just another way to avoid real life for a little while, which is scary for almost everybody but more so for teenagers. It is also fun as hell, and builds certain skills such as reasoning and problem solving, hand-eye coordination, teamwork (at least some do), and so on.

Playing games is also a basic human activity and goes back for millennia.

Just imagine the amount of "social impairment" the top NBA players or Olympic athletes had in order to get to the top of their games? I knew a girl that had dreams of becoming an Olympic skater...her whole childhood and teenage years were utterly destroyed...and she failed. Was she sick? Did she need treatment?

I also knew a guy that tried to make pro baseball...his life was consumed into his late 20s or so. Didn't make it either. Did he need treatment?

Throwing away 20 years of your life in hopes of becoming the next Derek Jeter is ok but playing some video games for a few months is a disease? Oh, that makes sense.

Come to think of it, should I have been taken away from my mom because she encouraged my stamp collecting hobby, which took time away from other parts of my life? Just how far will they go with this.....??????
> Isn't there a new form of art (the likes of BM) that takes all these fragment and puts them back together in novel ways that help us reconnect them with the human condition and what that means in a post-modernist society.

Ah. Having started actually reading TFA this is apparently the whole point!
You don't need to reuse the original device name, just append a number to it. Think of it as device incarnation 2.
>Rust is an even more extreme example. You might get extra safety, but at significant development cost.

I don't buy this argument. If you want your program to do what you intend you have to know the types anyway. I've never spent significant time on finding the right type, even in Rust.

I have spent significant time on incorrect code, because of functions that accepted inputs with the wrong type and didn't complain, because the wrong type had the same method.

I have spent significant time on looking up what a function can do, because the IDE can't figure out what my parameter is.

I have spent significant time on programs that ran into runtime problems every once in a blue moon that would have been easily detected by a good type system at compile time.

Articles like this just show me that every language that needs to have maintainability for large projects will turn into strongly, statically typed at some point. Whether it's type hints or TypeScript.
Actually I would really like to use FF again. But each and every time I try it I'm impressed with the desktop version, install the Android version and instantly am driven away from FF.

Not only that FF on Android is awfully slow for me. But they also refuse to support either Android accessability services or the new auto completion services which makes them basically totally useless if you want to use a password manager on Android.

This one thing (and the performance, but that I could ignore) is what totally prevents me from using FF.
From the man page:

> If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously.

Although other implementations might be different of course.
That's true, and for others it matters that regardless web browser used on iOS, all you need to care for as a developer is that the user is on iOS.
>Isn't there a new form of art (the likes of BM) that takes all these fragment and puts them back together in novel ways that help us reconnect them with the human condition and what that means in a post-modernist society.

Well, that's the very definition of post-modernist art: putting fragments together in novel ways (only the sole novelty is in the arrangement, and not some inherent quality -- in the sense that two conjured random numbers are different, but they're nonetheless still numbers, not something else, like e.g. Stravinsky was still categorically different than Bach. Now we're all collage makers, and the only difference is what we chose to stuck together).

>As I write this, I'm considering the Jordan Peterson as performance art .. he certainly shocks and discomfits many people

Many people are mock-shocked these days (what with PC norms and all), but few or none are actually shocked.

In the end Jordan Peterson is just another public speaker/figure one hates or disagrees with, not "the end of civilization as we know it" which is how e.g. norm-breaking figures were perceived back in the day.

>Even Trump and Brexit look more sensible through this lense.

I think Trump and Brexit look more sensible under this interpretation: rich/power elites had lost contact with the people, and pushed their own interests (anti-middle/worker class laws and conditions) under the pretext of "globalization".

The "unwashed masses" then took revenge in the polls, and could care less if the new President is uncultivated or incompetent (they had an idiot president under Bush anyway, and the sky hasn't fallen), or if Britain is separated from EU (they didn't see much improvement in their everyday lives under EU anyway, and they prefer their autonomy to the German-driven collective harmonious pipedream that is EU).
They don't protect your wellbeing, they protect the entrenched interests of the hyper-capitalist corporate class.
I've posted a RFC about a potential service/solution for this 3 days ago on the LE community boards:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rfc-a-way-to-use-valid-h...

The idea is to basically offer a free subdomain service (ssl.fun) in conjunction with solving the DNS-01 challenge.

This would automate the existing practice of using a e.g. a public local.domain.com A record pointing to 127.0.0.1

The difference in this approach in regards to previous attempts is that the private key would not be compromised, as the client is issuing it directly.

Happy to receive feedback on this idea :-) As this would run into the 20 certs-per-domain LE limit quickly it needs some blessing before I can offer this service publicly.
Where the 'No Ending a Sentence with a Preposition' Rule Comes From
Windows / Visual Studio for creating a web app and supporting services and Azure for hosting it. Git/Github for source control. Slack for communication. Octopus Deploy for CD. VSTS for CI.
small checkboxes (or other mark) next to items in selection lists, which don't go away when you click in the wrong place or accidentally try to add another one while not holding down ctrl.

Seriously - when you have a large list of which you want to mark substantially some (say, 20%) of the items, some next to each other, and some not, the prevailing method of ctrl+shift+click suck horribly (and touch methods only slightly less).

Back before mice were common, you would have a "mark/unmark this item and move to the next one" button (typically insert and/or space), a "unmark all" (typically insert), and it was simple and effective. It's still available in 7zip on Windows, but AFAIK that's basically the last bastion.
>> "to actually tell people now to do things in a stupid way."

You mean "how not to do things in a stupid way", right?
Vertical video is awful because it doesn't capture any of the surroundings of the subject, and instead wastes those pixels it on filming what's above & below the subject (which 99% of the time is irrelevant).
Nice ! Good luck