skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The origin of this thread was NY Times emphasis on doom and gloom. The reason is that it sells, even if the world as a whole is getting better.

For your specific points:

Yes, it looks like overall insect populations are down (and more than just decimated). But note that projections of insects thriving because of global warming are also framed as bad news: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/climate/insects-eating-mo... https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-insects-crops.html

"environment where glaciation is increasing": Greenland 2018 "large net mass gain for the ice sheet in 2018 of 150 billion tons" https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/ (the exception that proves the rule, if you like). But note that if we start our glacier baseline at the end of the little ice age, we'd expect a lot of glacial retreat simply from reversion to the mean.

Record temperatures is really not a good indicator (weather, not climate), especially with the bias of increased urbanization, but the southeast US is getting colder https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/02/20/defying-c... and note that the list of coldest temperatures recorded includes many in the 2010s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records#Lowest...

If you want to frame global warming in a more positive light, the temperature changes in the world up to this point have been overwhelmingly positive. The climate of the 1800s was too cold in much of the breadbasket regions of the world. Temperatures overall have moderated (warmer colds) rather than become more extreme (hotter hots) (which is consistent with CO2-influenced warming).

That isn't to say that all warming is beneficial, that future warming will be beneficial, or that CO2 doesn't influence the climate. Just that there's a lot more reporting of the "dooooom" than of the "look how much progress we've made".
what is the right wing stance on wikileaks?
Really the Chinese market seems to be a greed trap. Companies drool over themselves at the prospect of the second largest economy, compromise themselves and harm existing sales only to find that China isn't a greenfield market like they arrogantly expected and if there wasn't already a local competitor there will be soon.
> of which the cord is replaceable (which I did) but how long will that specific cord be available?

Isn't it a generic 3.5mm to 2.5mm jack for nearly most of them? All headphones with replaceable cords I own and have owned have this cable.
Could have been simplified to "no"
Unfortunately this attitude of assuming that old people are running the world is why young people don't do things that matter (e.g. voting).
Why doesn't Google offer massive Tor services and related tools so the Chinese can use the regular version of Google search?
>It sickens me when I see workers with those sprayer packs or trucks that look like small chemical plants.

I hate insects. They are often annoying and sometimes outright dangerous.

We live in the same Earth so we'll have to reconcile our points of view.
Are you okay with Microsoft doing the same thing then or do other rules apply for non-Apple?
This one I presume https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12906119
Reminds me of a lot Brian Krebs doxing of the pr0gramm staff.
The joy of market processes is that those who like Pepsi more and those who like Coke more can both be satisfied at the same time, unlike the Republican voters of San Francisco or the Democrats of Utah.
I am 34. I was raised in an era (esp. mid-90s) where we were taught color-blindness, gender-blindness, non-discrimination as the proper ways to approach eradicating sexism and racism. All are equal, and have equal protections under the law.

In the 2000s, it seems this message is changing. It is not enough to assume everyone can achieve the same levels of success. The emerging idea now is that those groups who show a statistical deficit are to be given extra opportunity that is not afforded to others.

The problem is that directly conflicts with what I and (I assume) others from my generation were taught and internalized. Hence the pushback. It is discrimination, plain and simple.
You can do merkle-tree-signing and other clever things with cryptography to provide auditability without needing any kind of distributed consensus via proof of work/stake/etc. so I think the flowchart could have a couple more "No" branches.
I think, clearly, the larger issue here is the false idea that the USA is a proponent of free speech or human rights.

I would certainly never in a million years hope anyone would seriously claim the US to be the greatest country in the world.
It's literally in the first sentence of this twitter thing.
In the same way as 'econophysics' which is a fascinating field in itself.
Everyone is replaceable.
I worked the door for a friend for a charity event. It was super early, and there was a regular bouncer. This skinny kid comes up and asks if he can go in. I said sure and let him in.

The bouncer comes up and says "what are you doing?!"

Keep in mind, this is my friend's event, for charity. I know all the people involved, and I know it is empty.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"You can't just let him in."

"What should I do?" I was really curious.

"Ask him if he is on the list. Look at your pad. Go in and check. Then finally let him in."

"Why?"

"It makes him feel better about getting in."

Its like an open secret everyone in the industry knows.
This is about raw bean sprouts.
and that side is supposed to stand up to the "pro-business" side. Rotten system, we have. say they are 500 important elections every couple of years.

500 * $5000 each = $2,500,000. Let's quadruple the amount to $10m to allow giving more to a person or for staff to handle that. That means that every state AG, Governor, Senator, Congressman etc etc can get money from hundreds of US companies and the companies would not have to switch to generic cola to afford it. What's $10 million a year to MSFT, AAPL, Google, Facebook etc???
I absolutely agree with all the comments on how much of a puff piece this is. Are we going to waste our collective time killing websites that says "birds are cool" next? Can we please flag and kill this.
Yea, I think most silicon valley employees would be shocked if they found how many members of the House and Senate had been 100 ft away in a secretish meeting at their company.

Also to put this in perspective, these secretish meetings occur at every important financial sector of commerce.
We have a real corruption problem in our government.
leaving and doing something else is a far stronger personal statement than staying and agitating
Even for that purpose, I'd rather have a white clover lawn than a grass lawn. Clover is great for bare feet.
Seems to be very similar to this diagram from the hyperledger edX course.

https://www.jsemeraro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Blockch...
And then the exhaustion of it all urges us to take a vacation and get away to nature.
Well if Baidu sucks so much as people say, maybe they have limits. Or maybe Baidu will catch up.
The PCIe bus can only be a bottleneck if you have a fan-out PCIe switch somewhere. If all your drives are directly attached to the CPU, then the bottleneck is usually the software overhead of the RAID. Sometimes with fast SSDs, the abstraction layer can add so much latency that your investment in fast low-latency drives is squandered.
This is a bit older, but it's a citation:

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/from...

> You said: "There has never been a better society than in the United States in 1958." What do you mean by that?

> FROMM: Well, I mean it, of course, in relative terms. The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas--and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique. So, I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

Not that I disagree with you, and a lot of things changed for the worse. But still, the US has a lot of tools to fix its problems that other nations never had, and currently don't have. If the US falls for good, it will have an incredible domino effect, I for one don't want to see that happening. Wherever you are, count your blessings -- not to rest on them, but to use them, fiercely.
This should be looking at allowing users porting capabilities for their Apps from iOS to Android (or others). That’s the real monopoly across all platforms and devices, not the App Store.
I never much liked dropping a link as a reply to a comment, because nobody can tell what you think about it.

But I will say that indeed almost all viable businesses involve some amount of schlep. But just because something involves a lot of schlep doesn't make it a viable business.
I wonder how much (volume) discounts you'd need from AWS to profitably host a digital ocean on top of it...
Microsoft got hit for using their monopoly in one market (the market for operating systems) illegally to try to obtain better/monopoly status in another market (the market for web browsers.

If you have an evidence-based argument to make that Apple has a monopoly in the market for mobile operating systems and has illegally used it to try to obtain a monopoly in the market for web browsers, I would be intrigued to hear it.

(in other words, not every bundled web browser is automatically a violation of antitrust law; nor is every attempt to forbid something on iOS automatically a violation)
>The best way to solve this is to create a single page application

Another way (arguably more convenient than redesigning the site) is to make a flattened copy of the site's files using a tool such as https://www.httrack.com/ such that all the component files (CSS, JS, etc) end up in the same IPFS directory and hence accessed under the same hash.
That's actually what I was expecting.
English works that way, this is not logic's fault.
Is "sedan" really a throwback?

This seemsa part of current vernacular to me, and I have lived in several different regions of the US.
Can someone explain me how does this work? Is it an orchestration service for containers like Kubernetes or is it any different?
A key element in proving anticompetitive claims is defining the market. Even If the market is defined narrowly as “music on ios”, alternatives to Apple Music exist. But that’s not taking into account the option to buy a non-iOS device. If you expand the market to include other os’s, Apple isn’t even dominant. Back when MS got dinged for bundling Explorer, they were dominant in the broadly-drawn PC os market, across all devices and os’s.
Being chill about something is not equivalent to being apathetic. And cheering yourself up does not preclude you from doing something about the problem. I definately don’t believe the attitude of people-who-run-the-world and mine are comparable.
I replied to someone making reference to MS licensing pricing (like Exchange CALs and such), not Azure pricing. MS has done great work in the cloud with Azure.
Are you sure it's not there because it is finding high net worth clients across the street?

As for nuclear power and research on cleanup - it appears this industry will be worth a lot of money post Fukushima which does appear to be spurring the requisite R&D, which should be good news for this kind of tech. Granted, probably not what is required to really make this decontamination jump to the level that it becomes "easy" but at least it is something better than "Oh sure eventually we'll put them on a train and stick them in the ground, you know, as long as the earth doesn't destroy those plans first with an earthquake, hurricane, etc"
You shouldn't compare rpm with apt. rpm is a different layer equivalent to dpkg in the Debian world.

As you point out, apt layer/functionality is provided by zypper, yum, dnf, etc. and the main difference is that it is not unified across the main rpm distributions. Still, Fedora/Redhat yum replacement, dnf, is built on SUSE/openSUSE zypper's solver library (libsolv).
>User: Hey does anyone notice that when they put their hands on the stove it still burns even though the stove says "OFF"? Guess I'll keep buying this brand of stove!

>Stove company: Well, the people are complaining again, but they keep using our stoves, so no reason for us to change.
Doesn't that somewhat depend on how you define a blockchain? Blockchain doesn't inherently require proof of work/stake/etc, just a chain where each block contains a hash of the previous block(s). Proof of work/stake just happens to be a popular implementation detail because of cryptocurrencies.
I just finished reading American Caesar[0], a great biography of Douglas MacArthur. I highly recommend it as the story of a fascinating and brilliant man who is too little remembered today. I especially enjoyed and respected MacArthur's place in the rebuilding of Japan; his almost absolute power gave him space to override the more vengeful elements within the United States to implement an extremely conciliatory post-war settlement. I don't think it's unfair to call him the founder of the modern Japanese nation, both in terms of governance and political economy. Though not covered in the book, the distinctions between MacArthur's Japan and Weimar Germany are especially stark, and it is sobering to consider what may have happened had the Japanese fallen into the malaise which in Germany gave rise to the Stabbed In The Back myth[1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/American-Caesar-Douglas-MacArthur-188...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
New, secure, VM..

sudo chmod 777 /dev/kvm

But... but... almost.
My husqvarna automower keeps me from wasting time. I haven't mowed my .3 acre lot in two years. So worth it.
Go to apple.com with a non-Safari browser in iOS to see why.
Ask HN: Where do founders vent?
What app do they use? If they do it offline then how?
Here in the UK, about 1000 years ago, the French invaded and took over, siezing control of the (basically German) population by replacing the top level of society.

Suddely, the lords were French and the serfs were German.

1000 years later, you can predict someones socio-economic level by surname. French surnames do better than German ones. Surnames linked by blood to royalty do better than both.

1000 years. Lack of social mobility overrides genetics?

[I'm sure you can do better than this link but its what I found: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/842...]
To me, that's further proof that this letter is spot on. Why should we ever cooperate with a government that has tens of thousands in concentration camps? It is becoming increasingly unethical to do any business in China.
It's many things at once. For some people, it's just an aesthetic. It's the whole "hacker, rebel, techy, lone-wolf" aesthetic.

It's also a genre of science fiction. It basically combines futuristic tech with dystopian/utopian elements, and grimy, old-world stuff. For example, a cyberpunk setting may have godlike AI, but everyone lives in the ghetto. Usually there are rogue actors that try to disrupt or exploit the technology system in place-- the "hackers". These actors are all about reclaiming old tech, building gadgets, and often cyborg-like body mods.

Cyberpunk is a sort of philosophy as well, along the same lines. This is where the subculture aspect comes in. Ever heard of steampunk? Steampunk in a fictional setting is where all technology is mostly mechanical, usually drawing on Victorian elements as well, and sometimes magic or supernatural stuff is included. Steampunk can be boiled down to an initiative to create stable, reliable, mechanically sound systems, usually put to interesting/novel use.

Cyberpunk as a subculture is similar. It's all about making tech work for you, pushing it to its limits, experimenting and exploiting within the given system. It's a rebellious attitude and a response to corporate and government tech control. It incorporates a fashion element like all good subcultures, likes to resurrect old tech (like nixie tubes), and often incorporates body modification (like NFC chips under the skin). People like to repair their own technology, modify their own technology, and collect obscure technologies. Many are also hackers, or want to be.
Except this is an actually helpful diagram that points you towards other solutions depending on what benefits you think a blockchain might give you, instead of an (unhelpful) outright dismissal.
I like how everyone in that thread is ignoring the AT&T call in the middle, even though it's worth more than the facebook one. Guess net neutrality on the wireless spectrum is dead for at least the next couple years.
Outside of the US, one thing I have trouble understanding is this idea that farmland is somehow natural. I talk to people who say they want to visit nature and then we go look at... sheep on grazing land. Not a damn thing natural about it. And then local councils destroy plants on the road verges because they're "untidy". Those verges were one of the last refuges for native insects and birds.

I think the place I live (Ireland) has been so completely denuded that people literally don't know what nature is. It looks like that will be the whole world in short order.
Can you provide more details regarding your cosmetic filter and why posters from a post on China would be good candidates? It’s not clear to me from your post.
Are we to dismiss philosophers of science for talking about the philosophical implications of science?
I will not work for Google for the same reason, fwiw.
...or Chester, as his aunt (I believe) insisted on calling him - probably the only person to use his given name!

In retrospect (I read 75-80 Hardy Boys books as a kid, many of them over and over), it is amazing how formula-based the story trajectories were and how one-dimensional all the characters were. I bet with some practice, an author could churn out a book in the time it took me to read one.
Let me remind you that the original question was "What exactly is their issue with Apple?" and the answer was "The lack of freedom".

Now, it seems you are trying to argue that not computer literate people need a single chef (Apple) to tell them what to do and what not to do with their devices. Let me explain to you that freedom, which Apple devices lack, would allow such people to choose, whom they trust, increasing the competition and improving the market situation. For example, you go to a repair shop you trust and ask them to install any operating system they think is reasonable. It also concerns physical repairs. Apple more and more prohibits independent repairs.

Even if Apple is solving "big problems" as you claim, the answer given is still legit. There are people who need freedom and Apple goes against it in many ways. And it is not always possible to switch to other vendors, see "Vendor lock-in" in Wikipedia.

tl;dr: You do not have to be computer literate person to benefit from such freedom.
The "paradoxes" discussed in the linked page are a result of properties of English (and most/all other natural languages). Of course, there is no inherent problem with material implication as a logical connective.
These kind of attacks can easily just not publish commits to GitHub though. The attack vector is npm, not GH.
However, their point stands true: in exUSSR climate, registering a dummy entity through an ignorant proxy is an easy and common way to run a shady business, and sometimes even a legit one. It's entirely unnecessary to bring Magnitsky's deal as an example, but this method is well known and practiced since perestroika. It's safe to assume the person in question was a proxy, and that further investigation is needed.
I listened to a longform interview with the head of their HR strategy which referenced the company consistently citing talent attraction and retention as the number one limitation on company growth.

They invest extremely heavily in minimizing attrition and widening their funnel for recruiting. That's why their offices are crazy, they do 3 meals a day for employees, they pay a ton of money for people right out of college and for interns, everyone gets free massages, etc. They take any effect that narrows that funnel or increases attrition very seriously, as they view the company as fundamentally being a stable of the best software engineers they can get competing with the best software engineers other people can get to put out better solutions to problems.
God, you’re stupid. Can’t wait to see you on Webshit Weekly.
Lords had quite a lot of power at the time, supplying soldiers (equipped) was basically one of their taxes to the king. I would be surprised if lords didn't maintain their own capability to produce arrows.
Plus in a siege situation you would also want to be able to repair weapons and such.

I don't think a full stack smith would have been that unusual. Certainly at the low end.
The friendly local blacksmith would probably be expected to do just about everything. If you wanted a top end sword, that would be much more specialised. I don't have any idea about the relative size of the groups though.
Creative functional programming with Ramsey Nasser
> But why do you want to get rid of the headphone jack? For iPhone, this is a direct downgrade, loss of very useful functionality. That's why people are complaining; while companies seem to like trading utility for fashion all the time, this case was unprecedently blatant.

I'd say that in order to get rid of cabled headphones at some point in time, you have to start somewhere. I do think that wirless headphones is the future and that headphones with a cable will cease to exist in a few years. I can't argue that there are financial decisions involved into it and that they are not making a killing with it. But someone needs to start somewhere.

I think this apply to any technological advance we've made so far as humans and its part of evolving.
Lawns are a much more natural phenomenon in England, where the grass is native (apparently "Kentucky Bluegrass" is actually from Europe!) and they can be maintained organically. Capability Brown pre-dates the Haber process. It rains often enough that they don't need much watering if the soil is good.

Unfortunately in recent years global warming has made summers longer, hotter and drier and the natural temperate "lawn zone" is moving northwards. England will more and more see "hosepipe bans" against using clean water in gardens.

People choosing lawns in dry, unnatural areas of America are doing so to replicate some European ideal. People mandating lawns are doing so to mandate the Europeanness of their neighbours.

(A good summary: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practic... )
> Don't ever underestimate brand inertia, especially in a "super-patriotic" country like China.

OTOH Chinese consumers are recently obsessed with western products actually. Not with iPhones (you can buy Xiaomi smartphone, laptop, and Bluetooth headset for the price of iPhone), but with clothes, food, and many other goods.

> If Google can't beat Yandex, it absolutely can't beat Baidu

Don't underestimate Yandex.
In most cases you don't need a motor at all. Reel mowers are perfectly adequate for most lawns. No air pollution, no noise pollution, plus they're lighter and easier to push.
If you can put up with the dirty looks from neighbors and resist the peer pressure, cultivate crabgrass! it's drought-resistant, grows low so never needs to be mowed and still green. I'm quite the crabgrass cultivator - my main technique is negligence and general laziness.

If you live in a strata or HOA, all bets are off - maybe lobby for an astroturf exemption?
Hypocrites. Have you considered the human rights of Chinese users?

Thanks to the absence of Google, monopoly of Baidu has enabled them to sell ads of unlicensed hospital that literally kills people.

A censored version of Google in Chinese will undoubtedly improve the quality of life of Chinese Internet users.