skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the point of war in the modern world?

Gain land/people? If there's a thriving economy there, war will probably change that quickly. If there's no thriving economy, what's the point?

You could try to exploit the people/resources there, but the profits in that seem (at least compared to a world power) pretty thin. Unskilled labor and unimproved land are just not worth what they used to be.

Specific resources might become dramatically more valuable. Seems not terribly likely with oil (more technology, more producers, more alternatives). Maybe water, but the obvious pressure for that would be population, which is somewhat leveling off (though maybe global warming would do it).

I would think any modern war would be very different and less bloody than we're used to. Some kind of weird power play that results in a takeover but is not disruptive enough to damage what was taken. Something more like Russia taking Crimea and less like Germany invading Poland.
Well, you can already do that, but the file has to be written to your Downloads folder or wherever.
Apple’s T2 security chip blocks some third-party repairs of new Macs
This is so sad for all my life I have been following comics and have been an avid marvel fan, life its not fair, here is a drink for you captain Stan if you are watching from upstairs!
I switch from GMail to a personal mail tired of their non-standard IMAP, their more and more heavy webUI more and more tied to Chrome. So...

BTW switching to personal mail not only improve my workflow but also push me to expand my knowledge like never before. Now my personal, notmuch based+scripts automation automate far, far, far more than Google and far better. If I'd like to have template replay I can add them in a snap.
In fact, that could be a feature. Instead of “smart reply”, how about “smarter not to reply”:

“The reply you have entered is not actionable. Do you still want to send it?”

Nip vacuous e-mail in the bud.
You can have multiple names in the cert, including the apex.

Here is how I do it using acme.sh:

acme.sh --issue --dns --force --yes-I-know-dns-manual-mode-enough-go-ahead-please -d "${domain}" -d "*.${domain}" > /dev/shm/.le."${domain}".txt
How about we just give back .dev for registration free? :)
It's not about what I think, it's about why CF would request access to your microphone data in favor of giving DNS Service at 1.1.1.1. In the Android app they advertise: "Greater privacy". What privacy does it provide giving application access to microphone?
Price Wise, a price tracker extension from Mozilla
How do you know that Youtube loses money?

(Curious. Really.)
I think you'd need to look at these adjusted by population, for instance well employed people in a certain area
The Cuban missile crisis is an example of MAD working as intended. If it weren't for the threat of nuclear war the Cuban missile crisis would have turned into the "Russian tanks in Paris and Marines in Havana crisis"
Point being, if your computer isn’t doing the work then the human is, which has the most expensive compute cycles.
When logged in, I was prompted to upgrade. Incognito let me read the article
> The Chinese seem to be playing the long game by strategically investing in infrastructure like roads and rail across Africa, probably both for strategic advantages (given Africa's large reserves of anything from rhino horns over diamonds and uranium to rare-earth metals) and economic advantages (the US and EU markets are saturated, South America is going down rapidly, but Africa can only grow and buy Chinese products in return - basically the Marshall Plan just without the war).

There is a key difference between the Marshall Plan and China's modern African investment. The Marshall Plan was pretty emphatically a plan to help coerce Western Europe into supporting what effectively became the West, and combined vigorous restoration efforts with criterion for supporting certain kinds of economic reforms. In particular, it was very much meant to build up Europe not so that it served as a market for American goods but rather so that Europe could be useful junior partners in a coalition. China's current investment hews much closer to neocolonialism: it's building African infrastructure, but managed by Chinese, owned by Chinese, and even built by Chinese imported for the labor. It is not engendering local goodwill for China, and unlike the Marshall Plan, it isn't helping move these countries into China's camp in a putative global war.
Dammit. It's.... dammit.
> The C language is finished

There's no evidence of this. There's just existing code. Ok. There's existing code in lots of other languages with different syntax (large and small differences). So what?

The latest video about Oden was a fantastic primer on QoL changes that should be standard, but there are people who always think what they learned is optimal. These are the same people who trivialize evidence to the contrary, in defense of their particular viewpoint.
Well, they can be, but what if the regulations substantially shrink the market as a whole? May be more profitable to have 30% of a large market than 90% of a small one.
If the user can control the sandbox, say by a runtime setting or preference, then the user still is in control, but default safe.
Then turn it off? I got a pop-up asking me if I wanted to enable it (I did), but you can turn it back off by going Settings -> General -> Smart Compose -> Writing suggestions off
Is there any evidenced that the inclusionary rule is deterring private developers?

Because it certainly is not in New York City.
I think this comparison assumes that we want to do whatever brain does - the way brain does it. Because we don't know any alternative way to do it. So we try to emulate the brain (replicate neuronal operations) using transistors (or memristors, etc).

This does not make sense for some tasks, such as doing matrix multiply in FP64 precision, but it does make sense for the tasks we care about the most - whatever it is that makes us intelligent (AGI). At least until we can abstract the details of the brain operation which are not important from AGI standpoint.
This has depressed me...not just because of this guy's brilliant poems and the potential within, but because there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for any of this suffering.

Even if you don't personally buy laptops or phones, companies like Google/Amazon etc. are buying them on your behalf to put in the "cloud". There's really not much average people can do to stop this.
If you're using any mind/mood-altering substances, at least evaluate what role they might be playing in your ability to focus. I've found stimulants, including caffeine, to have an impact. Also recreational drugs like MDMA can have serious derimental effects in areas of focus, memory, and cognition.
My reasoning is that it's similar to student suicides that occur on university campuses - although the overall suicide rate by percentage is often much lower than the regional/national average, the topic of conversation is situated on what environmental conditions may be significant causes or factors for those suicides, whether it be student stress/mental health or hostile overwork.
I agree. This is one of the biggest things some of my applications have needed Electron for. WinJS has a similar API to the proposal here (it's picker-oriented to keep it somewhat sandboxed), which opens up options for Windows-only support in a PWA, but it would be great to see a more web platform-wide supported approach.
I think you just killed the site. I get a 504 error.
That would be great, but it does not appear to be included in http 3.0. At least, google does not agree it is needed, so it won't likely be. It can only be added in a major protocol version.
Nice, I didn't realize there was an available non-chrome WebRTC DataChannel library at that point.
> it's much more common in the US than people realize. Everyone is overworked.

Indeed, Alexis Ohanian has been speaking out about this very recently too.
Consider what those “exploited” workers would be doing if enough fewer people bought iPhones for their labor not to be needed. Would they be better off than they are now?

This is the same attitude that led to the rise of unions in America.

The factory owners kept telling their circle of friends that the workers were better off than not working at all. It was all a big echo chamber until one day "better off" turned into "not good enough" and people died.

I'm not a big union guy, but I see a lot of history repeating itself in SV.
I see a lot of Chesterton’s fence/self fulfillment around text editor folks.

I don’t care if you use a text editor but I do care if you make design and process decisions that mute or erode the power of IDEs.

There are ways to organize code and modules such that you have to have a mental model of the entire system because they sabotage the static analysis that IDEs build much of their functionality off of. Don’t do that and we’re fine. Do that and we have a problem.
Why? Did anybody think it was technically impossible for youtube to delete content before?

Do you also believe that when you, just once, move a large branch that had fallen from a tree you suddenly become responsible for the safety of all the city's sidewalks?
The original title was a little too long: Airbnb And eBay Just Said They Would End Forced Arbitration For Sexual Harassment Claims.

From the article, Buzzfeed received statements from Apple, Lyft, Pinterest, Reddit, Oath, Intel, and Netflix saying that each of them either never used or no longer use forced arbitration.

"Meanwhile, Snap, Spotify, Netflix, and Salesforce, did not respond to BuzzFeed News’ question."

"Three companies, Tesla, Twitter, and Slack, declined to answer."
The devil is in the details. There are thousands (more?) of different things you can franchise. Each has different terms! Some are outright scams. Some are great deals. Some are in between where your skill as a business manager is the largest factor.

Owning the land/building is often a negative for a small business - you want to focus on managing your business not maintaining your building (an accountant can explain other reasons why renting is usually better).
Sure, the interop is unmatched.

What they don't share is mindset; C is all about keeping it simple, I don't even know what C++ is about any more, but it sure isn't simple. Many fundamental tricks that are routinely pulled in C require jumping through plenty of hoops to keep a modern C++ compiler happy.

Speaking of interop, calling into C from other languages is very different from calling into C++. Yes, you can write C wrappers, but it's rarely done. And the further the language drifts into template lala land, the more tricky it gets.
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A lot of tech industries seem to be winner-take-all, so aiming for 30% might not be a sustainable plan in many cases.
Enthusiasts vs. Pragmatists: two types programmers and how they fail
Call it a major UI enhancement. Is it still appropriate use of "awful"?
There's a fundamental difference between curating content like a newspaper does vs what Youtube and similar sites do. It's a whitelist vs blacklist approach: a newspaper approves things one by one and only has so much content, while Youtube allows anything by default and then removes thing in certain categories.

And even newspapers use the latter approach for some things. I doubt the New York Times wants to be held responsible if someone posts a link to pirated content in an article comment, for instance.
Your second request seems considerably outside the style and philosophy of C. Or was that sarcasm?
As you surely noticed, for last 10 years the browser is actively trying to replace your desktop OS, so that the browser would become the platform, instead of Windows / macOS / Linux / anything else. Imagine the desktop becoming ChromeOS on any computer, not just Chromebooks.

For this, the browser must make all the traditional OS interfaces available. It has interfaces for accelerated 2D and 3D graphics, audio, USB, process management (workers), networking (including peer-to-peer), and a number of persistence mechanisms. But before it takes over completely, it has to interoperate with the host OS a bit, too, by exposing the filesystem.

(A decade more, and maybe the vision of Inferno [1] will sort of kind of be implemented.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
And more than that, I honestly wonder about the motives of an advertising driven company these days.

It feels like 5 years later this will come to bite us in the ass as another way of exploiting access to our computer and data.

What if websites start requiring specific files to exist before allowing access?
Part of the problem, for developers, is that build toolchains are a garbage heap of hacks that get slower and slower.

So you need crazier and crazier laptops to support the containers and IDEs and transpilation and asset pipelines and all that.

I code on a 5 year old laptop very happily. But the only reason I can do that is I code close to raw language, with a minimal build chain. I expressly design my software to need less support.

Most pros don’t have that luxury. It’s incorporate the new hotness or we won’t be able to attract the cheap devs fresh out of school.
"The primary entry point for this API is a file picker (i.e. a chooser)."

...so what would be difference to today, where a user can "upload" files to the browser's local storage, and then the web app can work with the file(s)?

I get it that you avoid to have to "re-download" the file, but that seems to be a small benefit for the risks we get.
>processed/cured meat regardless how you make it.

Have you heard of ordering pizzas without meat?
15 unmistakable qualities of bad managers
More than 50 nations, but not U.S., sign onto cybersecurity pact
Well, if you don't have exceptions, stack unwinding, RAII, you've got to manually code the same sort of logic using repetitive code.
Or you would have to change your design to minimise the pain of hand-coding stack unwinding, most likely paying a price for that in form of damaging other aspects of design.
In other words, NOT having exceptions, IMO, results in having to write a huge amount of code accomplishing a trivial task - aborting some unit of functionality upon unexpected error.

"And not catch all the other errors"
I think, in most cases after an unexpected error happens it doesn't make sense to continue the task and report more errors, most likely induced by the first error.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of cases when returning errors as values is the best fit and using the exceptions would be a disaster, but my point is that, IMO, the situation when errors abort tasks and are handled in more or less the same way is much more common.
This is exactly the movie he refers to.
Another great war could mean at least one country preparing for it and building weapons in advance.

As of now the US have the greatest army, but if let’s say China were to prepare for it for enough time in a somewhat stealthy way, couldn’t it bring the USA into a long and dirty foght ?
Private tutoring is illegal?
Obligatory life-saving browser extension: https://makemediumreadable.com
the fear of MAD also implies that a big power spends a lot of effort to avoid running into a direct military confrontation against another great power; direct confrontations run the risk of escalating into all out war. That's why you have so many proxy conflicts - these ugly little conflicts add some layers of indirection so to speak.
I stick strictly to Debian stable. If a software is not in Debian stable I will not use it, no matter how "good" it might be.
Therefore there is seldom manual maintenance necessary despite initial configuration.
> user-friendly (or even relatively techy but not a network engineer user-friendly) instructions for... what to do.

I am an experienced SWE and this is not something I can do without setting aside a day or two to investigate all the tools and purchase an RPi.
Auto-replies save me the hassle of personally typing out an acknowledgement of receipt or confirmation of a meeting, which I find very useful. I don't get the problem with an optional feature which clearly makes certain types of common emails easier to deal with.
I think you underestimate the degree to which social media is providing a check on power.

More and more slave owners are being revealed every day, and people with their dollars force companies to improve policy.
I'll give you a firm example. I'm close to a town of 20,000 in rural Minnesota, and the biggest employer is a well known turkey company. Their plants used to be staffed with primarily native (and being in Minnesota, white) people. It was menial, hard labor but it paid well because of that. By the 90s the plant was primarily staffed by illegal Mexican immigrants, and now it's almost entirely Somalians.

The jobs are repetitive, mindless, and it's cold, wet, and loud in there. The pay is barely above minimum wage. If the company didn't have access to those immigrants that are happy for any work at all, they would have been forced to raise those wages long ago. If people in the plant were paid, say, $15 an hour, the hourly workers in the office next door sure wouldn't be happy being paid the same amount. Their wages would have to be higher, which would mean the salaried folks would also want to be paid more.

That town is a perfect microcosm of how the massive amount of immigration our country has seen has kept wages stagnant.
Then why do Chinese farmers line up outside the gates of factories hundreds of miles from home in the hope of getting a job?

Because they've been forced to relocate from their farms to manufactured cities by the government which then bulldozed their villages.

Then once they're in the city, their choice is to work in the greenhouses of a big government-backed company, or work in the factory of a big government-backed company.

There are many documentaries about this.
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Enterprise shopping season starts early with almost $50B in recent deals
We won't. A few might. You will get a few hidden places here and there. But nowhere near the amount of creators and consumers (not just you and me, but everyday internet users) a platform like YouTube combines. Because once such a place becomes common enough to attract enough visitors to keep it viable for creators it must be so available it cannot be hidden. And the regulations will catch up.
Choice quotes:

The original signatories included more than 50 nations, 130 private sector groups and 90 charitable groups and universities, but not the United States, United Kingdom, Russia or China.

Key absentees from the agreement included the U.S., U.K. and Australia — three of the five nations in the powerful Five Eyes digital surveillance alliance. The others, Canada and New Zealand, both signed.

Many restrictive regimes also did not sign on, including China, North Korea, Russia and Iran, who all have active cyberwarfare programs, and Saudi Arabia, which does not.

Israel, which has a large domestic cybersecurity industry, also did not sign on.
> Modern warfare grants (perceived) first-strike capability to almost any state, rendering the power of MAD and military alliances close to negligible.

That is folly. The idea of MAD is that you have second-strike capabilities that are sufficiently hardened that no first-strike attack is capable of preventing the second-strike retaliation from occurring. In essence, the idea is that the calculus becomes "if we go to war, the only outcome is that we both lose."
I thought the placebo affect can still work (to some degree) even if you knew you were given a placebo.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
I'm not sure what to think. It's a form of accidental post-modernism.

The translation and simulation of the art ends up being very post-modern in its implementation. There really is no one experience to viewing this collection; some of us may view it on our phones while at work, some people on a gorgeous hi-res screen to see every brushstroke, some on a washed-out $199 laptop screen, some on a $50 Kindle Fire as a homework project, and some secondhand, like the pictures on the blog that links to it. It's very much anti-modernist in that it denies the physical presence of art and is arguing a little for the death of the artist (i do not mean literally) by severing viewing his art from viewing the actual piece; that the meaning can be adequately shown by a simulation designed to be accessible to all, and that is reductionist to boot.

The weird thing is that this is accidental-the postmodern presentation is not done specifically for effect, but it's a byproduct of a very modernist idea about the importance of viewing great art. The simulation is created and is given weight and importance, but there is no commentary or reflection on it; the format is simply there because postmodernism is the only way to simulate in this media. To render physical artwork on the net will always be a simulated, reductionist project in some manner.

The person who goes to a museum, somehow records his experience on video, and narrates his thoughts is making in his own way an equal simulation yet superior. He is also reducing the art into a simulation, because its attributes cannot be fully transmitted to another medium without reducing it, but he enriches it in a sense by the depiction. There is the post-modern interplay between viewer and viewed, between work and audience, on display and then reflected again by the person watching his video on youtube.

Here there is still these elements, but in an odd situation. Maybe it would be like those old VHS tapes that tried to faithfully reproduce a Broadway show performance, or records that did opera. The goal is fidelity but the medium transforms it just by the simulation. It may be valuable in the sense simulations are, but it's also transformative due to the medium used. It creates a weird thing divorced from itself, but with no commentary or reasoning that acknowledges it.

So mixed feelings. Maybe its just my mountains of sketchbooks filled with amateurish art talking, but i'd prefer even an art book to this, I guess.
Ironically, in the US pressure is mounting for content platforms to police "fake news" which is a moralistic mission, rather than enforce something fairly obvious like massive content piracy and systemic copyright violation as a service.

Even in 2018 it seems that Youtube is being funded by the "Napster model" of allowing de facto circumvention of copyright law.

Or, put another way, Youtube is profitable mainly because of vastly imperfect enforcement of laws.
What about the political influence this wealth grants the top .0001%?

IMO there is much more happening then arguing over slices of a unsustainably growing pie.
This is simply not realistic in any heavily populated city.

I especially hesitate to encourage DIY house building on major earthquake faults.
Next time, please disclose the fact that you are the founder of the product you are promoting.
Ohio State University used to have a student group that organized to go to events with free pizza :-)
They don't say so but people have calculated estimates and it seems there's hardly any way youtube could be _making_ money. Just google it, there's tons of articles with interesting speculations.
I am seeing this error printed directly to the DOM:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL server host 'mysql' (1) in /home/ltu/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Unknown MySQL server host 'mysql' (1)
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I can say "pwn" is not something I would ever write in a serious document, but I'm also an old fart.
Which still just leaves the highly-processed carbs and high-calorie dairy overload.
2 new slices and a can of Pepsi was my go to lunch for years in NYC. I am now 80 pounds heavier than I was when I started working in NYC.