skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You're ignoring the context of Japan having been the aggressor and the United States (and its allies in the Pacific, including - again - China) wanting to end the war as quickly as possible."

Who being the aggressor is irrelevant in the moral calculation of whether or not to use nukes. Defeat was inevitable for Japan.

"Like, you do know about World War II, right? How Japan bombed Pearl Harbor? How Japan invaded China and murdered/raped its people?"

Those considerations only matter if you care about revenge when it comes to a foe that can no longer do those things. That can't be what you're advocating for now can it?

Wanting to end the war as quickly as possible is not a morally justifiable reason to use nukes. Waiting out Japan was an absolutely viable option. The recommendations for using the nukes included seeing how they would work in a real use case, not wasting the money put into the Manhattan Project, as well as intimidating the Soviet Union. It was also partly influenced by the Soviets entering the war against Japan

"It was a regrettable but necessary decision. China's past and present atrocities do not carry anywhere near that degree of necessity."

This is a myth bordering on propaganda to justify the usage of nukes.

https://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_Weber.html

Quote:
General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of US Army forces in the Pacific, stated on numerous occasions before his death that the atomic bomb was completely unnecessary from a military point of view: "My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender."

General Curtis LeMay, who had pioneered precision bombing of Germany and Japan (and who later headed the Strategic Air Command and served as Air Force chief of staff), put it most succinctly: "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war."
More money spent on government projects does not guarantee a proportionally greater benefit, and comes at the expense of other factors which are necessary for growth, such as private investment. Most of the things a healthy economy needs do not come from government and are not paid for via taxes.

As a simple counter-example, let's say 100% of income were taxed and spent on the best educational and transportation systems money can buy. You'd have excellent schools and the best roads, but zero incentive for anyone to work, much less start a business. The capital needed to produce the goods people want would be consumed without replacement. That's a recipe for economic collapse, not growth.
It means people who think VR has more interesting and useful possibilities than AR are delusional on the topic.
USA by far.
This is disappointing. This device would have allowed millions of old stereo systems to enter into the modern age. Now? They will be thrown out, can't compete with the Google Home!
Thanks for this, now I know exactly what I was trying to ask and the answer. I wonder if more companies moving away from VC opens the door for more founders to take advantage of the principal-agent issue.
No, willingly entering and operating in a country where you know you will have to compromise on privacy is putting profits ahead of privacy.

Take the Google/China situation. If Google entered China and handed over all info on Chinese users to the government, it would be doing exactly the same that Apple does now.

Just like other companies, Apple cares more about profits than privacy, so it will operate in China for the profits, even if it has to infringe on the privacy of every single user there.
China's spying, IP theft, and other bad behavior is nothing new or secret. Someone got arrested in Poland, well that's what happens when you get caught. Why so much China whiteknighting here and in the other story?
Yes. The closer to 1, the greater the impact to the fundamental system. The purpose of those leverage points are not just to change the external behavior of a system but to change the system itself.

You can change the external behavior of an economy by increasing/decreasing taxes. But this may not alter the fundamental system itself.

Consider #9: Length of delays relative to rate of system change.

This is precisely what the Agile and Lean movements wants (OODA and PDCA loops). By reducing the delay (compared to Waterfall and comparable approaches) between doing something and getting feedback, they can adjust their processes and systems to meet customer demands more reliably. This is much more impactful than parameter changes (#12) which is: hire 10 more people, or give the best devs a 25% bonus. Those may help to motivate people, but they don't alter the fundamental system (ok, mass hiring can alter the fundamental system, but often not in the desired way).

On the other hand, introducing delays can stabilize a system. So reducing delays isn't the right choice for every circumstance.
I caught one of the Akimbo podcasts a while back where Seth Godin argued that kids will need creativity and leadership as the core skill set for future jobs.

I tend to agree with this, the current form of public education worked well when manufacturing jobs were plentiful post WWII. Those types of jobs have migrated overseas. Trying to bring them back here will not work as many firms have begun using advancements in robotics.

Some form of art, craftsmanship, or apprenticeship will likely be part of the future mix of jobs. If you read books like The End of Jobs by Pearson or The 4 Hour Work Week by Ferris, you get a sense that being an entrepreneur is a possibility. However, I think one has to consider the real odds and survivorship bias.

What I have done with my kids is to try to instill a love of learning. I have taught my 5 year old daughter using a visual programming language. I think it is very important that you make an effort to teach your children skills that are not generally taught in school.
Confusion, rumor, and misinterpretation sparking mob rule and misguided shaming is one of the technological excesses listed on the ledger. Hopefully humanity is learning to be more careful before rushing to "burn" people's lives to the ground (which destroys their capacity to be a productive contributor to society, their capacity to do social good and harm, and their family). The social movements you mentioned are also damaged by infighting and public scrutiny when outlying elements do not hesitate to take them to excess.
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The internet, but not as we know it – Life online in China, Russia, Cuba, India
It's faster to get an answer by email info@ycombinator.com
Yep, by the same companies that will bring you _Surveillance Lidar_!
How of those old stereo systems still exist?
That's an interesting take. How would it work in practice? I would think that most teams want direct control what gets surfaced via severity, due date, etc. Or at least that's what they're used to...
I tweeted at him to ask him what size lens and sensor he has so I could estimate how much energy/flux was hitting his sensor. Anyone have an idea of how many lidar it would take to saturate an area and make distance measurements useless? It's tougher with lidar because you can't easily frequency shift like with radar.
Those Megatouch coin operated games you can find at bars and such run Linux, and use Allegro. Not sure how recent they are, though.
Mammals, lizards, amphibians, and birds all have water-based eyes, but I wonder what this would do to insects.
Framing it as "influence" is wrong imo. History points to the Chinese having less interest in this power than western countries.

My understanding is that China has aided Vietnam in arresting criminals the Vietnamese government is after. Do you have an example of what you stated?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Branges_de_Bourcia
Exactly. The key factor in growth is the production of goods an services.

To easily demonstrate: imagine everyone stopped producing goods and services tomorrow in the US.

Everyone would still have the exact same amount of money, but you will not be able to use it to buy a fresh loaf of bread (since none are being baked) or have your car serviced.

The value of money will drop to zero. It won't matter at all if it changes hands; indeed, it won't, since there won't be anything to buy.

Thinking "money changing hands" powers the economy is thus mistaking effect for a cause.
One advantage Amazon's Echo Dot has over Google's Home Mini is that the Echo Dot has a 3.mm connector in addition to bluetooth, so you can easily connect it to your existing speakers or receiver.

Right now the 3rd-gen Echo Dot is $30 and the 2nd-gen is $25.
Ideological flamewar is not welcome on Hacker News, regardless of which ideology you're flaming.

You did more than anyone else to turn this thread into a hellish flamewar. We ban accounts that post like this. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm about 20 years too late, but me and my boys still think it's flipping cool to drive our car onto a train that goes under the sea to France. Love it.
This is a cool project!

- CMake, yay! These make generating build files for a variety of platforms (even Windows) a breeze. It also works with code completion stuff (CLion IDE, KDevelop both have CMake-based projects)

- I like how it splits stuff up as well (https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/tree/master/src/gam...).

- As for vendorizing SDL2, there is an opportunity for optimization: The shared libraries and header files can be scanned through CMake scripts. Example: https://github.com/tcbrindle/sdl2-cmake-scripts.

- I see the .clang-format file, nice! (This is for clang-format: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html)

Unfortunately, license is going to be a real barrier to most game developers. The ironic thing is this engine includes SDL 2 which prides itself on being on a permissive license. (https://youtu.be/MeMPCSqQ-34?t=405, 6:40 to 7:30)

If it's the intention to create an open source library to be helpful as possible to developers. If it's the intention to have a library just for use in the GPL ecosystem of games (which isn't bad: OpenTTD is GPL!) then this is okay.

The reason why is a private game developer want to retain control of their intellectual property, even throughout the prototyping phase.

As for open sourcing, I'd approach it in a different way: I'd release reusable components under a permissive license (e.g. MIT, BSD, ISC, zlib, etc.) and keep any creative work product code/source files private.

Similar SDL2 framework for 2D games (I made some CMake contributions a while back): https://oxygine.org/
I'm not sure that I feel that some bias is all that bad... while I'd rather see more from the likes of The Guardian, BBC News and Al Jazeera. There's clearly polarization from the more U.S. based sources towards one direction or another.

I tend to lean pragmatically towards classic liberal / libertarian. I get miffed less often from right leaning sources than left. Left news often just feels so far to the left that the center is now right.
The phrase lost any realistic meaning after it was hijacked by Trump. This was his intent, since it originally meant the complete horseshit that propagandists were publishing to support Trump, spread by targeted Facebook news articles.

I don’t expect to hear the term much by the time we don’t hear about him much.
I love my Chromecast Audio Setup. It was amazing to create a very cheap multi room setup for our Office Opening Party, literally orchestrating all the speakers I could find into one large group was like magic. So cheap compared to alternative solutions, i'll try to pick a few up if I can, as I expect them to work for atleast a few more years.
I lost 50lbs a few years ago.

Walking was a great gateway drug for exercise since I really hated the idea of exercise and sweating, plus I felt so awkward and out of place going to a gym. It always felt like everyone at the gym was staring at me and I felt stupid not knowing how to do things properly. Walking was a solo activity and pretty hard to do wrong, so it eliminated the self confidence barrier at least. Listening to podcasts and audiobooks made the walking more enjoyable, sometimes I’d walk for hours and not realize how sweaty and tired I was until I stopped due to a phone call or something.

Beyond walking, a friend got me into rock climbing. It seemed super daunting since everyone at climbing gyms is so buff and I had no muscle and lots of fat and couldn’t do a pull up to save my life. But it turns out with proper instruction the entry level climbs are pretty easy, no harder than climbing a ladder. But then when you get to the top there’s adrenaline from the height looking down, plus a real sense of accomplishment. It helped me build momentum. Eventually things got easier as I did it more often. And once I started looking in the mirror and seeing actual muscle on my arm it was a huge confidence boost and I doubled down on my efforts. Getting over that initial hump where you don’t see any benefit yet is the hardest part. I never fully lost my belly fat even today, but the visible muscle growth was something I could latch onto to keep motivated.

TL;DR: start small, avoid situations that hurt self-confidence, find things that are enjoyable or exciting, look for signs of progress in order to stay motivated

Edit: to be clear my diet changes made a huge difference as well, I’m not attributing my weight loss entirely to the exercise. But I was responding to the question of how to start exercising. I do think it made a difference. I found regular exercise improved my mood which probably helped me limit overeating from depression/stress.
Strawmen aren't helping here. "The labor of the productive" is becoming a very small set. Clearly they'll have to be motivated differently. Obviously the way forward isn't breaking the system with a hammer, so lets stop going back to that.

Incentive to live is different from incentive to work. Look at open source; look at researchers in universities. Wealth is not the motivator there, yet there's tremendous productivity coming from that.

The meaning of wealth is going to have to change.
> Any military that places inordinate faith in low tech solutions is liable to lose most of their armor and infantry to an aggressor that they can't even see, much less fight

This would of course come as news to the Russians, who absolutely creamed the much-higher-tech Germans in WW2. It turns out that five lower-tech tanks that start reliably are worth more than one high-tech tank that doesn't.

It's also worth noting that none of the technologies you list have ever been deployed in the field against a real peer competitor, and many have never been used in combat in the roles they were originally intended for. (The F-15 was designed as an interceptor, for instance, but in actual combat has mostly been used as a strike fighter. The M1 was designed to fight Soviet T-72 and T-80 tanks, which it has never had a chance to do -- even at the one real armor battle it has taken part in, the Battle of 73 Easting in 1991, it faced less capable export-version T-72s alongside older T-55 and T-62 derivatives.)
Interesting. I also remember hearing about a device which zap mosquitos out of the air with lasers and a lot of careful accuracy. Is the future going to include nefarious actors with devices which near-instantly destroy all cameras (...or eyes?) in sight?
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I would consider 9front quite active from their Hg repo.

https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front
That is a helpful explanation of Donella's thought process (thank you), but it doesn't really get to the heart of my question: how do you cause a cultural change or mindset change?

There are a limited number of ways to have any substantial effect on a bottom-up system like the economy in a free society. You can pass laws forbidding some activity, or offering benefits to try to encourage some activity. You can raise taxes to make an activity prohibitively expensive compared to the desired alternative. You can educate (or propagandize) the population to recognize or believe something. You can conscript people and force them to behave in a certain way (tough in a free society). There aren't too many other options.

When we're discussing how to increase growth, it's not really helpful to say that we should ignore one of the primary levers we have to play with, because that lever isn't nearly as powerful as "changing the paradigm". Okay, great, but what specific actions should we take (i.e. what lever should we play with) to change the paradigm, other than the lever we're talking about?
Yeah, this comment falls in the camp of "it's not a problem for me so why is it a problem for anyone else?" category.

That is, unhelpful.
FYI, Factorio still runs just fine on OS X.
A good extra bit of data to have. Your link to the Media Bias / Fact Check for the site states that it "is biased and uses loaded language especially in headlines" while not actually misreporting anything. It's an interesting and rather disturbing situation: how to define the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable levels of headline and conclusion sensationalizing w.r.t. providing an overall ranking of a source's "factualness"? There is presumably some level of sensationalizing that would undeniably transcend a hypothetical site's nominally-factual reporting to render its value as a socially-beneficial information source net negative. The hypothesis there would be that exposure to heavily-biased sensationalism over time might psychologically prime site readers to accept more and more extreme headlines as true, or that the sum total of the sensational headlines, while not directly deceiving the reader, might give him or her a false perception of reality along some specific axis of bias. However, I haven't studied the matter deeply and I have some reservations about this "gateway drug" theory. I wonder if any actual research has been done on this topic.
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Major (ie insignificant) lurker here. No chance there is a superfluous 's' in the people epithet?
Do you have statistics to back that up? OP is providing you with stats showing people over 35+ have that median income so I dont see how your gonna argue data with anecdotes..
It'd be cool if you could extract from bug reports (or test runs) when an "issue" occurs, and count that as an upvote. I've seen sth like that that up on dashboards at a company, they had an in-house test cluster that was continually running the think, counting exceptions, and showing the leaderboard of exceptions up on a big screen.
I used to think the way you did ~10 years ago. Little did I know...

Back then I was running a very comfortable business. My main competitor, if there was any, opened shop with over $10M in the bank. It took a few years for things to play out but I never stood a chance.

A half dozen years later I was working on a product that I figured was original at the time. A year in or so, I learned I had two competitors that had raised over $100M to throw around. I stopped on the spot.

Measuring your company on the number of customers it has is meaningless if your possible competitor is raising 100x more than you'll earn in the next year or two.

Focus on profit and quality; yes. But then, unless you're onto something so supremely complex that essentially no one can reproduce it, rush to get money so you can focus on growing your market before someone goes after it while figuring out the former along the way.
Couple it with this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0071HZ5LE/ and you've got a great low profile audio system that anybody can connect to with their phone for around $50. We've got that pair in our gym in the basement.
Also related, lift locks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Lift_Lock

The Peterborough lift lock tour is pretty awesome, if you're ever in the area. In addition to taking the lift itself, it also goes through the Trent-Severn lock (a smaller, hand-operated lock), and the maria st bridge (a movable bridge that swings sideways to let vessels pass)
I got bored one day and decided to spend an evening going through a full discourse with somebody who was using the gamified rhetoric, essentially making a counter point and dropping a link with a "study" that had a title and synopsis which sounded like it backed up his claim.

I sat down and read every...single...link.

What I discovered was that not only had he clearly not read anything he'd posted but that what is allowed to pass for a publishable study is borderline laughable.

After going through it and then realizing that several "prominent voices" on my assorted feeds use the exact same approach, it became apparent that these folks only goal was to keep a conversation thread going in order to amplify the headline reach of a post. Slightly more sophisticated spamming essentially. The only solution was to realize what was happening and refuse to engage.

Now the only conversations I'll have about topics online are a) off of Facebook and b) logical conversations that can be had without link bombing.

The more conversations I've been involved in, the more I've realized that if it seems like what's being said doesn't add up...there's usually a reason.
Is this just a slant saying that conservatives share more false news? That feels dangerous.
Blame Valve's lack of interest in maintaining their franchises for that one.
Hopefully coming out as "Ayaan Hirsi Ali"s, and not "Linda Sarsour"s. The feminist alliance with Islam in the left-wing is one of the most confusing things in the current political landscape. It seems to be entirely predicated on "intersectionality" and perceived oppression, but at the expense of investigating the cultural contents of either population.

In modern feminism, for example, Christianity is mostly regarded as an agent of patriarchy and an oppressive colonial force, whereas Islam (equally or more patriarchal, and colonial by doctrine) is not investigated for its qualities, but rather its perceived status in the oppression hierarchy within western civilization. A western woman wanting to be a housewife is regarded as "internalized misogyny," but a woman "wanting" to wear a hijab is...empowering?

I would be very curious about the perception of modern feminism among the women fleeing Saudi Arabia.
Jackie Chan says a lot of shit all the time. I wouldn’t take his words literally. He is known for spewing out random nonsense now and then base on anecdotal evidence. Hence the uneducated part.
High end audio equipment lasts a long time
Poetry, at least IME, tends to benefit most from being read aloud. You feel a little silly if you're by yourself, but reading it aloud enhances any lyrical aspects that are present.

Note that this doesn't work for all poetry, something like 'the wasteland' wouldn't benefit and I don't think it would be possible to read EE Cummings aloud at all.
Well, there are tons of third-party Chromecast target devices, including several speakers. I suppose it's possible one of those companies may step in and develop a similar product to fill the gap.
Thanks for reminding me Dang. I'll stay within the guidelines.
> I consider it rude in the sense that women are not even considered in the consumer spectrum of these products

Fair point and one I hadn't considered. I had assumed that my income level meant I wasn't considered on the consumer spectrum. I can see where the inclusion of a booth babe could tip the scales from something I couldn't afford if I tried to something that doesn't want me to buy it even if I could. Thanks.

>I'm not picking up a fight about this, but it's now the time for these companies to notice that women are also in the market and we like to be included and more importantly, respected.

I have to keep stressing that my inquiries are genuine simply because it's very easy to read these kinds of things as disingenuous. What if there were men up there as well? Assuming that the marketing trend of "sex sells" doesn't stop any time soon is that an improvement? A lateral change towards inclusivity while still remaining classless?