skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you can murder your way to (temporary) peace. Empires did it all history long. But they could do it (mostly) openly and did not had to pretend to be nice, so they could do it consequently. Killing until the rebell spirit was crushed and enslaved.

The problem empires face today is that this behavior is not acceptable anymore and the empires have to act like they are there for the local people. So conquering, but not calling it like that and pretending to be nice while doing it. Hypocrite. And does not work so effective in terms of control. Because if you kill only those who indeed fight against you, than yes, their relatives are your next enemies etc.

Related: What Ghandi achieved in India he probably could not have done if the Nazis would have been the enemy empire as the british empire allready was bound by human rights. The Nazi Empire was not.
Exactly, if employers lost arbitration 95% of the time, they'd find another arbitrator.
I have been to third world countries, seen the slums and underage girls walk around at 4 in the morning outside bars.

And yet when I land at AMS I immediately go back into first world mode. Waiting for luggage? Miss the shuttle bus for the parking? Literally rape.
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> Nobody ever denounced the press or said that votes shouldn't count, or that the courts are illegitimate, or that the constitution was somehow wrong. It was a formal rebellion seeking independence under a different democracy.

Umm...:

Press Denunciations:

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/us/sherman-letters-show-c...

Voting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_New_York_state_election

Courts:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/the-first-court-packing-pl...

Denunciation of the Constitution:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

The 'different' democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_(slave)

The problems of our ancestors remain just as alive today. Learning from history means to learn about the holes in ourselves.
It was sneakernet at its finest...
> That is like saying ice cream makers should focus on the 'core' tastes, claiming that that is banana and vanilla because you like those.

From my point of view, I'm suggesting the ice cream makers should stop trying to make paninis to go with the ice cream and instead focus on making sure the ice cream cones don't have holes in the bottom.

I nearly lost all my files because server-side encryption went wonky. That's core functionality that should, imho, be fixed before going off into ActivityPub.

More generally, I have trouble being enthusiastic about "We added activitypub" focus because of what it seemed to do to MediaGoblin. That project seemed to be chugging along and making steady progress until it seemed they focused a lot of their energy into ActivityPub. Since then, MediaGoblin hasn't really had any of its functionality updated, as far as I can tell. They certainly don't seem to have released a new version in over 2 years.
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Vietnam was almost as expensive as the (second) Iraq war after adjusting for inflation...

It's difficult to compare exact figures though since the Iraq war, the the "war on terror" (i.e., Afghanistan, Africa, etc.), and the post-war occupation costs are usually consolidated together. Currently that number stands at roughly $2.2 trillion (and Vietnam at roughly $700 billion, inflation-adjusted).
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When you see crap like that being made for $10 you should immediately think "that is made with disgusting labour". No part of you should be impressed with this. Not saying expensive branded stuff is any better, but they arent smart in making a $10 watch - they just don't have the momentum of a big brand to sell it a thousand percent markup.

TLDR; products like this are just a terrible production of waste using barely legal labour. Pay it no attention.
> In response to the situation, the US forces basically engaged in siege warfare. But atypical to historic examples, instead of attacking to break through fortified wall, they imposed the siege on the enemy by building walls.

This concept is about 2000 years old. [1]

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia
Mobile 3G/4G data networks are reusing those IPs, so at best you'll get a country or state-level accuracy.

If you're lucky. Right now I'm on a Verizon connection that reports me being in New Mexico.

My phone's AT&T connection currently says I'm in Los Angeles.

I'm half a continent away from either of those places.
The premise of the article implies that there are only "subscription" based models, and "advertisement" models. And really, all I have to point out is Patreon (which is a subscription / donation model), which already blows a hole in the argument entirely.

Consider the team behind "Kurzgesagt -- In a Nutshell". Beyond just Youtube clicks + Patreon, they're also an animation agency who contracts out their artistic skills: https://kurzgesagt.org/agency/

Patreon subscribers get some mild benefits, but for the most part, the whole world enjoys their videos for free.

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In addition: there's a huge community of free advice (rather good advice too) for a variety of topics in Western culture. Reddit / GameFAQs / Wikis have basically killed video game guides (RIP Prima Game Guides), because you can get deeper information from community websites.

Why buy a game guide from Prima (which will inevitably go out of date), when communities are able to build websites / extract frame data / hack the game for precise information for free?

https://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/bw_complete_damage_formul...

This is the level of competition you've got, for free, in the game of Pokemon. No serious game guide company is ever going to be as complete as the analysis available for free in the general Pokemon community.

Just because there's no $$ on this project doesn't mean that its worthless. It just means that free information in the West more readily available, to the point where game guide companies cannot compete.

And there's a huge variety of topics: from programming, to finances, to more, where good, solid reliable advice is free. Python communities, Blender 3d modeling, etc. etc. Its certainly a problem for authors / podcasters who wish to get paid, but I'm not entirely sure if it is a general problem in Western Civilization in general.

In short: Wikipedia (and other, more niche, community wikis) have killed the encyclopedia (and other non-fiction sources) in USA Markets.

That doesn't exist in China because China has blocked Wikipedia, allowing for a thriving nonfiction Book / Podcast market to exist. I'm not Chinese, but my understanding is that the free-information / Bloggosphere / Wikisphere in China is far weaker due to free-speech / censorship issues.

I'd take the open society of the Western World with free (in beer) and free (libre) speech any day over high-revenue for podcasts.
> A quote divorced from context is meaningless.

I'll take that non sequitur to be an acknowledgement that your previous denial was incorrect.

> … and "type" has always meant…

"Language safety is not the same thing as static type safety."

p6 Types and Programming Languages

Apparently the author thought the phrase "type safety" more ambiguous than you do.

> Types can enforce properties that no dynamic "typing" can ever achieve.

Yes, static type checking can enforce properties that dynamic type checking can not.
don't.
I don't accept this statement. If employees attempting to seek redress over HR issues would hurt the image of a company than that company has some really toxic stuff going on.
I agree with you, but would argue that this doesn't rise above experience, this shows experience. The value of having shipped something, maybe even supported it and maintained it is invaluable experience as a software developer, and not something taught at school, at least not my university.
The digital scans on their own probably aren't worth much, doing anything with them is a lot of modeling and shader work tied to the game engine. My bet's on good old fashioned money, possibly a cut of Squadron 42 sales, but probably not a cut of the giant pile of crowdfunding.

Mark Hamil and John Rhys-Davies might have been an easier sell, having been in Wing Commander. For the rest, maybe they were excited to work on something that hasn't been done before. The quality of the characters shown in the trailer is crazy.
Under "search tools", you can change "all results" to "verbatim" to fix that. Really not obvious, though.
I think the writer of the headline was not the writer of the article. A more accurate title "Most states need power grid upgrade for future EV demand".

Agreed that there was a missed opportunity in mentioning the rise of wind/PV/battery.
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I don’t know why everyone cares about machine learning so much. Frankly there seem to be so many prerequisites to knowing what goes on, when I imagine a software developer could just get better at java and then learn about parallel code or something to get lots of money for less effort. I’m not in software so I don’t know if any of that is actually true
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Definitely does! Just not full size!
Don't let codebase v2 clog the drain
> It is objectively better for employees to not have to go through a company-issued arbiter when the company has wronged them.

The main argument of your parent comment is that it's better for both employees and employers due to generally lower costs all around. You simply made an assertion to the contrary. Do you have any evidence to support your position?
Unionization is not a panacea. Unionization may be able to preserve jobs and defend employees from employer strongarming tactics but on the converse, it can protect employees who would have otherwise been fired for improprieties and other less attractive ideas as well as those simply not pulling their weight any longer.
When algorithms go wrong we need power to fight back,
That's great, where did your content for your Plex server originally come from?
One such thing would be the "Pharaoh's Tomb" and "Arctic Adventure" games from Apogee. If there would be a FOSS version of that, even with the original graphics and keyboard controls and so on, but possibly also with added stuff such as time limits and new pieces, that can be good.
> (2) prions will never be a wildfire plague. They have little or no tranmissive ability, by nature of being absolutely naked protein.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) (affects deer) can be transmitted by infected saliva. One of the symptoms of symptoms of CWD is excessive saliva production. It is very transmissible, and is devastating captive populations of deer, although it is relatively rare in the wild.

I think if a similar TSE affected humans, spreadable by infected saliva, it would absolutely be a wildfire plague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease
A modified Doom codebase can run on a Gameboy Advance with an acceptable framerate.

Doom's rendering trick wasn't dependent on CPU power as much as it was cache manipulation, memory access speed, and VGA card speed. Everything was already pre-computed, so the rendering engine only needed to look up a binary tree and spit out to the screen exactly what it was told. Even the game logic reused some of the renderer's LUTs when the code could get away with it, which was a lot.
Another option I don't see mentioned so far:

We use VirtualMin on our servers for all of our commodity hosting (it is based upon WebMin). There is an open source version and a pro version. We use the pro version — I don't personally know what the exact differences are, as it was my colleague's choice historically, so I can't comment specifically on the open source version's features. But we've found it pretty good, and cheap enough ($6/month/server).

It takes literally seconds to set up a new domain, provides config info to copy across to our DNS provider (we don't do DNS on the same machine, other folk can provide a far more reliable service at no extra cost: FWIW, we use Joker), it has support for autocerts from Let's Encrypt, and has fairly up-to-date app bundles for a lot of well known web apps.

I'm a developer, and have no issues with command line, but using a control panel for day-to-day basics is just so easy, pretty much a total no-brainer, and also allows us to have more technically minded folk manage their own domains/subdomains and services (if you wish to share/resell).

I've used Plesk before, and didn't like it much, for a variety of reasons (including when it borked an update, and was all kinds of hell to fix)

https://www.virtualmin.com
I like that use case. I'm often bored by technical books where I know some of the material but don't have the patience to find the new material. Ebooks/articles that adapt to the reader's existing knowledge would be interesting. Either via a quiz up front or marking sections you already know as you go.

Basically a form of adaptive learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_learning
An incidence of 1 per 1,000,000 may not seem that scary, what are the odds of knowing someone who gets CJD? Obviously, much greater.
Right on. I guess I've done it so many times that I hadn't thought about it. I have a medium sized site, about 12 rps, using rails with a bunch of backend operations (it's a social network), so I think I just have rose-tinted glasses on the complexities of doing that.

Other than setup time, are there any other really great reasons to use serverless?

Or, why is serverless so much more popular than heroku (currently)? With heroku, you have a lot more control.
Someone else linked the image and its original file name was "gimp-2.png" so it wasn't Photoshop :P

Doing it in Gimp is easy. Load the image; Filters->Edge Detect->Sobel
> Court cases are very expensive, regardless of the verdict.

Then fix that problem! In Germany, for example, in labor court even if losing a case all parties get to foot their own bills. This also disincentivizes companies from hiring uber expensive lawyers.

> People use the threat of legal fees to extort business owners

And business owners have insurance here that covers them. As for the fees of the court system, they're low. People expect the state to provide an affordable justice/police system and not one that has to fund itself through "civil forfeiture"...
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I'm not sure I agree, but I too will stop here too except to say that this whole exchange is a bit meta in that it seems to reflect the content and attitudes it is opposing. (I'm not excluding myself from this--I'm equally culpable)
The fact that those tweets exist and are given a platform on which they can spread the influence is what's harmful.

The words themselves can be hurtful, of course, but they're not as harmful as the power they have when they are tweeted out for the whole world to see. They are given value by being allowed on twitter. They are viewed as valid opinions that new people can adopt and spread. This is why I think twitter is doing the right thing by actually banning such accounts, and why simply giving an easier way to blanket "block" those accounts from your personal view might not be enough.
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> A few months ago I was talking at a family gathering and learned that one of my distant relatives has CJD. They're a high-ranking company executive, but their cognition is rapidly wasting away and will be dead within a few years

Are you sure it's CJD? Article says 95% of CJD patients won't live 12 months after diagnosis.

> Another family member that was a nurse in Kentucky(?) said they have a high rate of prion disease due to farmers inhaling contaminated dirt for years.

What kind of prion disease and what kind of dirt?
It's because we're not actually fighting the Taliban, or ISIS, or whatever other insurgent flavor is getting attention at the moment. Many, if not most, successful insurgencies through history have had extensive backing and support of 3rd party nation states.

It's a common political move for a country to back the insurgencies against their enemies. As examples, the United States had the backing of France during the revolutionary war, North Vietnam had the backing of both China, and Russia, and Afghanistan had the backing of the United States during the Soviet invasion. None of these insurgencies would have been successful without the intervention and assistence of the major nation states.

So in truth, these never ending "insurgent resistance" situations we've found ourselves in are actually proxy wars against at least Iran, Pakistan, and Russia. Countries like China and Saudi Arabia are also certainly involved to some extent. These countries provide funding, equipment, training, and refuge to these groups, providing the insurgents with the capability to continue operating indefinitely.

As long as these countries continuing to support the insurgencies we're fighting, there is no viable way to actually end the insurgencies.
If you don't think it can change for the worse, I'd like to point you towards some properly failed states.
> (...) he doesn't advocate that others follow that path?

I think it doesn't make sense for a number of reasons. You might want to change the direction into something that is not only doable but _better_. Remember Quake? It was supposed to be something completely different, based on their plans [1].

[1] https://d1lss44hh2trtw.cloudfront.net/assets/editorial/2016/...
Sadly a state-by-state approach would leave a lot of employees stuck without options in the most vulnerable positions.

I am not unhappy to see this start in the tech industry, white collar workers have much more power to effect change in their workplace than blue collar workers... But I am similarly concerned that this might not be carried to other industries (or for it to be limited to a small number of companies that slowly reverse their policy due to "competitive issues")
I'm a Seth Godin fan, and usually recommend several of his books to people who are interested in marketing. But outside of his material, my list of marketing books would include:

1. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries, Jack Trout and Philip Kotler

2. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries and Jack Trout

3. Re-Positioning: Marketing in an Era of Competition, Change and Crisis by Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin

4. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries

5. Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition by Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin

6. Marketing High Technology by William H. Davidow

7. Marketing Warfare by Al Ries

8. The Discipline of Market Leaders by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

9. Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
This is why I gave up on oauth. In theory it's nice have somebody else manage your user accounts, but even facebook, which is not in imminent risk of a shutdown changes its API response periodically.
I'm not against unionization, but I also wonder whether employee representation on the board of directors is a better approach in many cases. It seems like it may suit the culture of tech better, and avoid some of the unfortunate bureaucracy of a true union.
> Probably because this nonsense would cause a hellstorm in App Review on iOS.

Or because it wouldn't be approved in the first place. Say what you want about walled gardens, but at least someone is policing the ecosystem.
There's good and there's bad to unions, absolutely. There's good and there's bad to lack of unions, too, though. At some point, the negatives of unionization outweigh the positives - if employers were smart, they'd work to make sure that doesn't happen.
Oh no, Filmstruck[0] shut down??

I guess we're going to find those old harddrives and swap them around.

[0] https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/filmstruck-shutdown-wa...
> There Are Way Too Many Platforms

What's the goldilocks number of platforms?
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It is shocking to me how few old movies are available on Netflix. Here is a complete list of English language movies from the 1960s on Netflix right now:

* Color Me Barbara

* My Name is Barbara

* Barbara Streisand: A Happening in Central Park

It does not seem that unusual to me to want to watch a movie starring Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood or Elizabeth Taylor. The presence of even a dozen of the better movies from that decade would increase the value of Netflix to me and, I suspect, many others. What is going on?
> doubled-down on his idiocy

Ironic, given the topic of seeking the afforded freedoms...even if it's idiotic.

> Not even remotely comparable situations.

Pretty close, especially since what you have successfully done. I mean it's not the end of the career for anyone Google fires, so that's hyperbole, granted. It's comparable because you baked it down to a phrase in both cases, which describes behavior that runs contrary to Google's interests (in one way or another).
There is a reason it's still popular. PHP has some advantages:

1) Rapid iteration: Edit a file, hit refresh, see your results.

2) Ease of deployment: SFTP your changes, done (obviously you wouldn't work this way for a serious project...)

3) Simple execution model: each request gets its own thread (or process), each request starts from scratch.
The following doesn't do what you think it does

* > 10 && * %% 2

That is two WhateverCode objects which each take one argument. Since both are definite it gives you the second one.

my &a = * > 10;
my &b = * %% 2;

my &c = &a && &b;

&c === &b; # True

If it wasn't split up by the `&&`, it would be a code object that took two arguments.

# using multiplication (×) as a boolean and
# (it always cooperates in the WhateverCode lambda syntax)
my &c = (* > 10) × (* %% 2);

say so c(10,2); # True

say (1..20).grep(&c);
# ((11 12) (13 14) (15 16) (17 18) (19 20))

Note that `grep` is written in terms of `map`

(1..20).map({ ($^a,$^b) if ($^a > 10) × ($^b %% 2) })
# ((11 12) (13 14) (15 16) (17 18) (19 20))

If you need to refer to an argument more than once, you (generally) can't do it with the WhateverCode lambda syntax.

-> $n { $n > 10 && $n %% 2 }
{ $^n > 10 && $^n %% 2 }
sub ($n){ $n > 10 && $n %% 2 }

I say generally because array indexing will give you the number of elements for all the arguments you ask for.

@a[ (* × ⅓) .. (* × ⅔) ]
@a[ (@a.elems × ⅓) .. (@a.elems × ⅔) ]
I alluded to it being similar to trickle-down economics - what is good at lowering costs for business is not necessarily better for both employees and employers. Employees giving up their rights to take action against an employer is a net negative against the employee - I would submit that for employees that are wronged, its a more significant negative than any lowered costs.

I'm definitely for making it easier to run a business and afford to be able to hire people, but not at the expense of the employee. I didn't get into it much because it risks an argument on economic outlooks which I didn't feel was as important as the main point.
> but on the converse, it can protect employees who would have otherwise been fired for improprieties

I know of these cases in the US, but that wouldn't fly in a German union. They only stand up for you when the employer acts out of reason, but not if you're fired with a valid reason (e.g. sexual misconduct). Maybe a look at the German system could be of help here, though I sympathize more with the French model as their unions sometimes go the extra way for the employees.