skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accessible isn't necessarily the same thing as democratic. The future of the Internet was always decided essentially behind closed doors. No surprise that it is now being done at the big companies rather than 'by the public'. Any country could regulate the Internet in a democratic direction if it wanted to, but that isn't very popular from what I have seen.
What if bill gates or his wife ran for potus against Trump 2020? who wouldn't vote for him?
I'm not sure I'm picking up what your putting down, but I don't think I disagree with much you've written.

However, if you just increase energy efficiency, energy consumption will not go down. If it was worth your time to get X energy to produce Y results, and now X energy produces Y+1 results, it isn't particularly obvious to wind back X. It makes more sense to keep X constant and enjoy the greater results. If you could justify using X before, it is even easier to justify it now.

If you want to reduce energy consumption without compromising living standards, then you will indeed need to increase energy efficiency, but simultaneously you are going to need very firm measures (bans, punitive taxes, etc) to stop people just enjoying having more stuff for the same amount of effort. I think that is a mistake myself, and likely to lead to very angry voters.

There were predictions years ago that we wouldn't need to work because we would be so productive by this century. They got the productivity increases right, but radically underestimated how much people value leisure vs having more stuff. We still work a 5 day week, despite the fact that we just don't need to do that to maintain a lifestyle our great grandparents had.
"The decline would have ..."

this decline is to grow 5% a year next 50 years?

Or is the Nuclear Armagedom?

Or is to delay a few years the chinese pretty girl landing on the dark side of the moon?

The last video was not fake, I mean, the one on the dark side of the moon.

And as long as I know the massive miles and miles long Infrastructure Integration with Pakistan, India and Russia on Railways,

Oil pipelines and wherever and whatever is going very strong, thank you for your concern.

(If there is any update and it was cancelled ,and my info is old, please correct me) (I'm hidden in the woods eat berries off-grid)

So Russia is the one who has The Proton rockets and the Avangard (NATO denomination is Snow Flake) Heads in this rockets so the Chinese are not stupid , right.
You post an article about open societies and then I can't access it without subscribing - LOL

Just my opinion then without reading it:
- in China we already see what a government can do with technologies including AI to control the behaviour of people
- the West always seems to think it's not going to be that evil around here because people are moral superior (I don't believe that - with Hitler in Germany we saw how quickly things can change and with refugees and poor citizens in all those countries we see how badly people can treat others and still think this is correct - even without an AI they'd believe blindly)
- too many techies have no moral & ethics. While studying and also in business I saw most of the people just being interested in personal welfare and earning the most money they can

TLDR; This (whatever 'this' will be) is definitely going to happen if not enough people find back to humanity - with or without support of IT/AI/... (just tools)
Underlying issue here is US employment laws. No one should ever work for someone else any minute over what they are being paid for.

How can you go through work life not knowing if you have a job on Monday? This seems so insane to me and it must take a mental toll on people.
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isnt his approach to use the nuclear waste of fission in a new reactor?
Do you also consider it a lie when postgresql's planner starts a query by assuming that it'll deliver thousands of rows, but once it's run the query to completion there are only 47?

Postgresql does that because the initial number is based on samples and statistics and heuristics, and is produced by the query planner as a side effect of making the query execution plan. I imagine Google, too, has a query planner.
If 100 signups is all it takes for OSM to release a 22-page postmortem full of charts, then OSM has bigger problems.
Btw you can read the article for free by registering, though it's a hassle.
Might be easier to read from some of the alternative links with the same speech posted by others here:

https://www.wired.com/story/mortal-danger-chinas-push-into-a...

https://www.georgesoros.com/2019/01/24/remarks-delivered-at-...
Why would they need to evolve this? Is the dictator examining the source code? How would he know exactly what is being coded? By the time everyone else is eliminated it’s just him and the AI. How would the dictator know what the AI will do?
For more detail, it's "The Package" episode, Season 8, Episode 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Package_(Seinfeld)

It's also the episode with the "boudoir" photographs of George taken by Kramer, for the benefit of the photo development clerk, who he thinks slipped in a suggestive photo of herself in the photos she gave him of his last roll of film. You may have seen the images of George posing before even if you're not a Seinfeld fan. It's a pretty memetic set of images. People have done oil paintings of them, lol. Here's a screenshot example (mildly NSFW, male in only boxer shorts): http://www.inpapasbasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ge...
I use http://dontbreakthechain.com and have a few different 10 minute things in there.
This one is good to get started: https://codecasts.teachable.com/p/python-crash-course
After 10 years, Android apps are still worse than their iOS counterparts
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I used to work for a delivery company on the software side. Our drivers were responsible for paying their own tickets, and there’d still be one or two a month.
>Software development is a job that changes frequently, and that requires engineers to stay "on top" of these changes.

Hype oriented programming as it is.
> In C# if you're not careful your codebase gets littered with tasks everywhere, even in code that has nothing to do with concurrency originally.

This is a spot-on. The only language I know that did this all right is Haskell, where most of your code doesn't need any thinking of async operations (either runtime gets you covered, or function takes a callback as a parameter, instead of any await magic), and when you need them -- you have `async` library that gets all you need.
You guys have a different value of ugly. Also a LOT of astroturfing in here.
To reinforce, China is already expanding its influence around the world, picking up low hanging fruit in countries the west has neglected in Africa and probably elsewhere. I don't think Japan ever had those opportunities.

On the other side, China is also raising its first generations of people born in middle class, who are starting to expect social government. From health care to the environment, to safe and comfortable jobs. We will have to see if those things will burden China as they burden Japan, the EU and the US.
Technical debt is okay, sometimes
you mean Python and Ruby like languages are unmaintainable and therefore deprecated? I rarely have a problem with maintainability in JS because of types, but I do have problems with poor constructs, poor readability, dependency issues and so on. It's a typical illusion of TS proponents that code becomes magically maintainable.

JS developers moving to TS should at least do a few weeks of Assembly and C programming to first understand the origin of types. I've spoken too many front-end devs who don't have a clue what a type actually is and at the same time promote TS. It's a godsend we don't need them in scripting languages. Use tooling to catch issues, that's the future, TS is just a whim.
I'd love to hear from full time parents how they do routines like these.

I'm sure it's absolutely possible but between a 2 month and 2 year old I don't come close to finding the time to think about extra projects.
Many nationalists and traditionalists hate him because he doesn't share their values. Rather, he uses his wealth to influence the movement of power from national to supranational institutions.

In particular the Soros-sponsored Open Society Foundation has had many dozens of meetings with the EU Commission and a hand in forming multicultural-based policies.

My own thought is that this political agenda is naive and may result in a backlash that ends up achieving the opposite of what he intends. There are already signs of this happening.
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It is self evident that labeling any knowledge, technology, or artifacts to be against open society is completely nonsense and contradicts the very concept of open society itself.
Very interesting, I'll order your book tomorrow!
These are not normal account signups, they are signups to become an associate member (https://join.osmfoundation.org/) which can vote in foundation elections.
As Joe-Z says, there's a large supply of cleaners available which keeps wages down. I'd add I would pay a premium for really good cleaners. A company that employs cleaners who can clean properly and who understand the ways tech workers think would be able to charge more. For example, not moving people's monitors when they clean desks...
Oh, that's good to know, thanks.
What do you think of c++ coroutines?
This was a refreshing read. It reminds me of a book I was sent recently: https://www.waterstones.com/book/team-human/douglas-rushkoff...

"Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals."
But that’s type inference.

Haven’t touched java since version 7 i think. But was pretty convinced they both have comparable type inference capabilities when it comes to parametric polymorphism.

The big difference between C# and java is the reification of the parameter values, inferred or not.

And the reification method choosen for C# gives you some extra metaprogramming capabilities, especially when combined with reflection.

My argument was that this can be provided design time instead (inference too) while retaining the extra safety of having theorems for free
> The average Chinese is better off than they were 30 years ago.

There is like Zero reliable data to base this observation on. Also you want the modal income because average and median are misleading when it comes to ignoring the most miserable.

China, as an entity, has grown its economy. Big whoop for mankind /s.
I remember how a few years ago a company paid a speeding ticket for one of the workers, and was promptly fined itself for contempt of court. Judge summoned the manager who approved the expense to court, gave him an earful, and told them in no uncertain terms that if they tried that again, contempt of court fines would go up until they stopped this. The ideas was the whole point of the ticket was to punish the driver, so if a company removes the punishment, they were actively sabotaging a legal punishment.
India's Ruling Party Volunteers Use WhatsApp to Fuel Fake News Before Elections
The mortality per TWh has nuclear winning by a long shot.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Are we really listening to what this Nazi collaborator has to say?
maybe you have become blind to the torrent of posts about facebook.
What exactly are the qualifications? I would have thought a serious, sustained study of statistics--starting with a strong base knowledge of the mathematics of probability and building from there. But based on the resumes I've seen that doesn't seem to be the common opinion.
I support Iran’s right to have nuclear power as well as nuclear isotopes for medical use.
I see this the same way. Like the notion that purely cosmedic changes should be committed distinctly in order to not clutter up commits that change behavior (so they are simpler to read), it makes sense to me that one would commit entirely new units of code separately before re-wiring the logic of the existing code accordingly. That way the first commit basically states "I've built this new thing", and I don't have to consider 300 random existing codepoints in understanding what it does.
I think that is often the case. As the most prominent funder of left wing / human rights causes he tends to be a bit of a hate figure for the far right.
I started using the Pomodoro technique a few years ago, and I've successfully shipped 3 (almost 4) FOSS projects since then. The hardest part is getting started. It's surprising how much work gets done with only 30 minutes a day, over a few months.

On an unrelated note, like the author, I also keep track of how much time I've spent on these FOSS projectss. But it's disheartening to see how much time I've spent on FOSS, and while I have users (they want support/features :) -- potential employers spend almost no time looking at my work, but will still ask me to spend hours on their tech challenges (averaging ~20 hours per challenge).
Sure, it does some stuff that's fine, but that's not what makes it win (yet). It's basically playing in Archon mode (but alone) where it can see and act all over the map at the same time - humans can't do that. I'm sure it will at some point become better at strategies, too, but so far it's hard to compare because the API it has is much more powerful.

When they did change that aspect of the match, the 10:0 turned into 10:1. Would Mana have won the next 10 games? Nobody knows, but at least it would've been a lot closer. SC2 rewards micro a lot, and a computer will always be better at micro than a human (unless you make it harder for the machine).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PLplRDSgpo This is a couple of years old, and at that level, it would certainly beat any pro, even without a superior strategy because micro is a leverage for unit strength.
My friend are you living on the planet Earth???

Is there any headline about collapse...

Is this from whatsapp religious groups reinforced messages? (GenuinE QuestioN) ???
Software engineers are given the SDE title at Amazon but I just used SWE as the more general "software engineer" acronym.
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But the blocking of the funds, unlike with Cc, were the non chargebacked funds so our rolling cashflow. With Cc we only lose that one customer payment and that is it. PayPal blocks the entire account. That is very different.
[Note: while submitting this, I had to edit the title to reduce the length since the original is a lot longer than what HN allows]

This is very disturbing. The article also states that the other major party, The Indian National Congress (usually called as just “Congress”) also spreads fake news through WhatsApp, but there are a couple of differences:

* The BJP (the ruling party) has a lot more money while the Congress party is cash strapped.

* While both spread fake news and misinformation, religious hatred is spread by the BJP.

In a country with no data privacy laws and where literacy is low (not that literacy makes people better; there are many educated people with master’s degrees who believe all the fake news and spread it), people are being manipulated by those who have power and money. It doesn’t bode well for the country as a whole.

The fake news in the U.S. elections and elsewhere (including India) are reinforcing the machinery that’s used for fake news and propaganda. It’s becoming like a version of “1984”.
Perhaps! I'm new to .Net and Entity Framework.

But from what I can see, EF is trying to provide an abstraction layer that pretends that I am just working with collections of objects, which I don't like at all because it makes it harder to control which queries actually get executed and when!

On the other hand, Eloquent provides an abstraction for generating queries, but this maps pretty closely to SQL, and it otherwise largely stays out of the way...

The type safety is nice, and of course you don't get that in PHP. But IMO that's more about the language than the library.
Why not including an Arduino-logger with accelerometer, tilt-sensor and clock/timestamp. This way you could figure out where in the transport the rough handling is happening.
I miss cycling to and from work. I used to live 27 miles away from the office and I'd do that ride 5 days a week. Yeah it was 3 hours out of the day but the alternatives didn't add up to a whole lot less than 2 hours anyway so I didn't mind. But my fitness was incredible. I could jump on the bike at the weekend and do a hilly century no problem. I once did an Everesting challenge which amounted to 13 hours going uphill and I held several KOMs on local Strava segments.

But I had a bad collision which has kept me off the bike for 15 months now. When the doctors were attending me in hospital they had to double check my birthdate because they assumed I was 20 years younger. They wouldn't make the same mistake now -- I really feel like I've aged 10 years in that time.
> Again, your „data“ consists solely of political aligned think-tanks

Instead of trying to understand what the study describes (which is not 'data') you attack their so-called 'political alignment'. Then you deflect it to a totally different topic.

> Agora Energiewende is by no means a neutral organisation.

There are no neutral organizations. The goal of the foundation is well documented.

https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/about-us/agora-energiew...

> even proponents of green energy

B.KWK Bundesverband Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung e.V. are proponents of cogeneration - which is a technology independent of 'green energy' and widely used with fossil-fuel or nuclear power plants.

The Bundesverband KWK is lobbying about lots of money - often for gas-powered power plants - while there was pressure from the EU to reduce/remove the special treatment by the German government.
I see Internet as somewhat neutral neutral in relation to democracy in already existing liberal democratic societies. It promotes diffusion of information, but not synthesis.

Internet really promotes anarchism. Even today with most of the discussion going trough few choke points.

Internet is an anarchist force and as such it's prone to informal elites. They are cliques that control people without well defined responsibility, and often without peoples knowledge or consent. The controlling groups can be rich individuals, corporations, foreign states marketers and political operators.
The other half of the story is that git also makes it easy to commit.
The internals of how HN does this are pretty interesting. Is there a write up about the back-end somewhere? Maybe with screenshots or walk-throughs on what it means to be an admin on HN? I would find that interesting.
Neither Signal nor Wire (or Telegram, for that matter) deal with SMS. On iOS, third party apps cannot access SMS. SMS is accessible only to Apple’s Messages app. But Wire does have video calls and chat.
I think that was a bit of a weird conclusion. The "flame war detector" is terrible. What is does is cave to the will of the flamers and create a positive feedback loop for them. They will then go on to post on other topics, which why even the most benign posts will have crap comments. It is what it is, but certainly not even close to ideal.
Articles by individuals about self discovery are my favourite. "Here's something I learned. Here's how I learned it. Here's how things are different because I learned it." Especially when it's not cutting edge stuff. Especially when it's by individuals who aren't serial bloggers.

Honestly, everything else feels like an unfulfilling facebook-like time sink. Current events, advertising, new libraries of random languages I don't use, echo chamber issues, self-serving content where "experts" sell you their perspective for ad revenue.
It does not "fall back" to thread pool. Whenever a thread pool is used, it is because you requested it, e.g. like calling Task.Run().

The async/await implementation will never fall back to thread pool by itself. Tasks are "futures", and in that sense a thread/task pool may be used in async/await when you need to run tasks in parallel. But when a thread pool is used is always under the control of the programmer.

Task is a more basic concept than threads. Tasks are about asynchronous execution, thread about parallel execution. Parallel execution is inherently asynchronous, but asynchronous execution is not parallel.

Indeed, that it the whole idea behind async/await: Enable the asynchronous model without the overhead of multiple threads.
It’s not nonsense, as you cannot carry on mass-killing events like the Holocaust or the Goulag without a modern-ish technology like the railway system. Or, to go directly to the source, let’s use Goebbels [1], as he was explaining that without modern technologies like the radio or the airplane the nazis’ ascent to power wouldn’t have been possible:

> It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio and the airplane. It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio.

[1] https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb56...
> Only a union supporter could argue that a worker can 'overperform'! Tell them to stop doing so well they're making everyone else look bad!

You must be very sure of yourself that you theoretically belong to these "over-performers", yet somehow very insecure and contingent about being recognised for it. Like you want to get paid well so you can point to that and claim it means you performed well, regardless of whether you did.
Also, it works now.
Those shops that you talk about are typically large banks and / or insurers where change requests processes are put in for a reason. Cost of an error can cost millions of $s.
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I don’t understand on what basis you made that comment and what you intended to convey. There certainly is a “WhatsApp account” and has been for several years.

WhatsApp calls every number as an “account”. I deleted my account when WhatsApp was bought by Facebook. Here are the links to WhatsApp’s own FAQ to delete one’s account on iOS [1] and Android. [2]

[1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/iphone/21325453/?category=524524...

[2]: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/21119703