skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are in a sub-thread, about Sweden's changing trends in censorship over the past 10-20 years. To claim that American hegemony is the cause, one must claim that American hegemony grew drastically stronger in that timeframe (a.k.a. the 9/11 era).

Put differently... you have to claim that the Marshall Plan and a half-century of Hollywood exports had no effect, but YouTube and Facebook did cause a reversal. I think you have to be very young with a limited perspective for such a premise to even occur to you.

If anything, American hegemony has dramatically WEAKENED over the past 20 years. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars were such folly, the Norwegians welcomed Barack Obama with a Nobel Peace Prize for no tangible reason other than him NOT being George W. Bush! Disgust over Tony Blair's role as U.S. collaborator reshaped British politics for a generation. Weakened U.S. clout emboldened Russia to annex Crimea, and prevented any effective international response to the crisis in Syria. And can anyone say with a straight face that U.S. has more soft power influence on the world stage since Donald Trump's election?

Beyond political hegemony, its cultural counterpart seem weakening also. Large American films are now constructed to appease Chinese state censors, for access to their market. Back in the 1990's, it was routine in online web forums to act as if other countries don't exist. Today, that is routinely challenged.

As for the U.S. imposing sexual puritanism on the Internet... YouTube might be headquartered in the U.S., but so is PornHub. If there were really a huge market for something like YouTube, with a more relaxed TOS, then why hasn't a French startup created it? Unlike China, there is no Great Firewall in the U.S. that could squash its competition.

To answer your question, I cannot speak with certainty on why Sweden's censorship practices have shifted over the past 10-20 years. If indeed they truly have, then I might suspect immigration trends and a changing role for women (the same reasons commonly attributed to European nude beaches being in decline). I can only say that the idea of American hegemony in these past two decades growing stronger rather than weaker is absurd.
Love this for WSL. Makes Microsoft Windows 10 even more cool!
The first day I started working for a company that had Sparc/Solaris machines around I got warned about that, and to never use the "killall" command. On linux that kills just matching processes. On Solaris that literally kills all processes.

Even though I haven't had to deal with Solaris in about a decade, and it being safe to do killall, it took me ages to break out of the habit of doing:

ps waxu | grep "[p]ython" | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill
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> As exciting as this is to see. It's hard for me to watch Portland change into a different city.

It was going to change into a different city either way. The only thing you get to control is what kind of different city: one where, per the article, "only programmers can afford to live alone," or one where everyone can, but it's much more dense?
My best guess would be that it's cheaper to pay extra towards your routine appointments and catch problems early versus waiting until you need major work done down the road due to neglecting your dental health.
Adding an interface to access the tag store won't be very hard.

It would be harder to make it so that all the tag-oblivious programs, like mv or vi, to say nothing of rsync, would preserve the attributes when moving or modifying a file.
A few years back, I remember being on my way out of what I thought was a pretty successful interview with a very well known (CEO seems to be on the front page of HN every week) U.S. Silicon Valley company. The interview itself was professional and by-the-book. While the H.R. rep was walking me to the front lobby area, she was making small talk and eventually asked something along the lines of "So, are you married? Have any kids?" I was shocked to say the least, and mustered up "You know, I don't think you're allowed to ask that question." I mean, she's in H.R. If anyone in the company should know what to ask and what not to it's her. Never got an offer, and always kind of wondered if my push-back might have been part of it.
That the insurance company feels comfortable nobody will punish them for stealing your money. Their business model is who can they get away with not helping really.
Years ago I used to do stop-motion just using an old iPhone and Apple’s QuickTime Viewer. It would let you import an entire directory of photos and spit out a video from them.

Apple has a habit of adding and removing and re-adding features to its base programs, so I’m not sure if it’s still available in Mojave. Might be worth a check.
I have 150 Mbps and a sub $50 router (ac-68u commonly sold by t-mobile on clearance as tm-1900) does fine with sqm without any significant loss in speed. Note that this has no open wifi drivers. So you'll need a separate AP, or use a more blob friendly distribution like dd-wrt. Or use two of these, one with blobs as AP and one without blobs running openwrt. That was a great combination under $100.
I didn't realise Netware had finally been discontinued. That's the server OS I originally cut my teeth on, dealing with IPX/SPX based networks.
Please don't ever give a person a copy of your passport as part of a job application. You are being scammed.
I know little about insurance from a professional context, but as an investor what I know is often insurance companies do not earn more than they pay out from premiums, they earn it from the float. This can persist for very long periods of time.

The entire “cyber” insurance thing has seemed extremely questionable to me. Technology is changing too fast and software propagates far to quickly to meaningfully quantify risk based on anything which has happened in the past.
Sexual control is universally directed primarily towards women. No matter where you are in the world, male heterosexuality is far less restricted (often thought of as "conquest") whereas female sexuality is heavily restricted ("slut"). This gives a backdrop of delegitimizing women's choices over men's.
I'm gay, and repressive sexual attitudes did tremendous damage to me in my youth, as I grew up in a conservative area. I don't understand how you can say with a straight face that sexual repression is not associated with homophobia or discrimination against women. I lived it, and so did every other gay or trans person I know.

Also, who gets to decide what is appropriate? A few years ago, people commonly argued that gay people on TV isn't appropriate for children, using some variant of your argument. That's considered a reprehensible viewpoint now. The same is currently true of depicting trans people on TV, or accepting the reality that they exist. In 10 years, that will be considered reprehensible.

I now live in an area with a more positive view of sexuality, and this carries over to acceptance of homosexuality, gender nonconforming behavior, etc. Sexual repression, empirically, is always linked to devaluing of women and other disadvantaged groups.

edit: Openness about sexuality does not translate into acceptance of nonconsensual or harassing sexual behavior, which is what we should all be concerned about. Quite the opposite. Openness encourages victims to come forward, as has become very apparent in the last few years.
How fortune the author was to have had these interactions with him. Feynman was my greatest hero as an undergrad physics student (largely because of "Surely...", and the Feynman Lectures) and I was heartbroken when he died before I could meet him.

Among other things, he showed again and again how much economy and power was gained by attacking problems from different angles, and by building up and applying physical intuition, rather than relying solely on brute-force calculation. More importantly, he showed how much fun you could have solving hard problems, simply by playing -- lessons that I was able to apply well outside of physics.
I mean, you're neglecting to mention Google's equity, which would at a minimum bring the compensation in line with the other company.
The story's been floating around for a few years. It seems apparent that he worked on some precursors to TC at a bare minimum.

There's a ton of information here: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind, and it seems there's a book coming out or already out by the same name (Mastermind).
"Which one is more important, keeping the "charm" of houses and neighborhoods where you cannot afford to live anyway, or keeping those 12 your closest childhood friends, even if that means allowing to build apartment buildings for them to live in? You choose."

It is worth noting that both of those are reasonable, acceptable democratic outcomes.

I personally would like to see much more in-fill and height in a lot of the city of San Francisco - but I am dismayed when I hear other such proponents of this idea rejecting the results of democratic processes as illegitimate.

There is a serious movement underway in California to remove local control of housing/zoning/development and enact statewide, top down controls and incentives - simply because democratic processes did not produce "acceptable" results.

The common retort is that local councils and county boards and neighborhood associations - local control - is by nature undemocratic (something something only old retired people have time to go to county board hearings something something) but I would like to point out that those very same people who hope to remove local controls in favor of top-down, region-wide planning, were very much in favor of legalizing marijuana (as I was) and instituting local control at the expense of the (federal) top-down, region-wide planning.

Democracy for thee, but not for me ...
Umm, what about the huge adrenalin and testosterone rush that you get?

> Apart from activating the body’s system of temperature regulation, there is also a hormonal response, which increases body metabolism and the concentrations of adrenaline, noradrenaline, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), cortisone, pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), and β-endorphins in blood plasma as well as male testosterone levels

The most awesome head high I've ever experienced was jumping into a icy creek after hiking all day on a hot spring day.
These systems will be the perfect "faceless bureaucracy". Nobody knows exactly why they are doing what they do and can't be held responsible but the people who deployed them will get the profits.
No clue about NL specifically, but I would think a bunch of those should be illegal under GDPR?
Incorrect. Racism is an innate human problem. Every group will have a self preference without massive work to train themselves otherwise.

There are a lot of minority groups that look down on other minority groups. It's part of human nature.
OSX app bundle is to OSX as ____ is to Linux.

Can the blank be filled in?

If so I'd love to use Homebrew to manage dependencies on both Linux and OSX. (msys2 has my Windows build covered.)
By that you mean the original articles promoting 23 and Me were paid advertising and this is the nytimes' attempt to be less biased?
People can cheat on take home exercises. At the scale of google, a nontrivial number of people will.

If you'll end up having to do a face to face analysis to make sure someone didn't cheat on a big take home assignment like that, why not just skip to the face to face analysis?
Yeah keeping cables in can be an issue, and I don't know of any polished solutions.

I have occasionally used high quality adhesive hook and loop tape to affix USB hubs and hard drives to the backside of my laptop screen to help avoid similar issues.

I taped a few strips of the soft loops on the lid which I replace when they get dirty, and then hooks on the accessories.

So while it won't lock the cable in the USB slot, maybe it could help to use an industrial hub with either lockable, or high-retention USB ports affixed to the computer, and then only have a very short and soft cable to the laptop USB-C port?

Sample lockable ports hub: https://buy.advantech-bb.com/USB-Communications/USB-Hubs/mod...
To answer your first question: yes 110% that is what is being said

I'm in Germany and used to date a Russian guy. He would occasionally go off about how evil the US is and how they've already stationed missiles in Poland. He skipped the part about then being defensive and just talked as if they were offensive. I had literally no idea what he was talking about, this must have been what he meant. This is the Russian propaganda tactic: they scream and cry that they are the innocent ones, and are only making rational moves to protect themselves against the "evil US" and NATO. Any and all aguments about anything that Russia might have done wrong is met with Whataboutism.
There is no way MBA CEOs can ever do any good to these companies.

Their whole training is to convert high performance engineering places to minimum wage paying furniture assembly shops.
> I pay $3000 for a one bedroom

> If I could move, I would.

If you don't mind, why can't you move? Caring for family members?
My partner has to manage having a 500MB quota on their home directory at work. A couple of times a month something decides to dump 300+ MB of data in there and break everything.
I would really love to buy a Pixelbook (or another Chromebook) because I really like the software stack. But the fact that Google never updates the kernel on those things (you're stuck with whatever kernel version was on it when you initially purchased it) is a major reason for me to not get one.

On my Linux laptop I can always run the latest software. On my Macbook Apple will stop to provide software updates at some point, but in practice the hardware is probably going to die before that anyway. On a Chromebook parts of the software stack are never going to be updated. And while most of the users probably don't care about the kernel version itself, a lot of Chrome OS features are dependent on the kernel version: with an older version you're going to miss some features (such as being able to run Linux apps), although the hardware itself would be capable of supporting them.
Repeat transactions are very common at the grocery store, very rare (if including actually getting a claim) from an insurance company.
Here you go -
https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/see-light-night-sight...
An interesting example of this is an episode of DigitalRev's Cheap Camera Challenge, whereby the filmmaker Phillip Bloom was tasked with producing a short film using a Barbie with an integrated 240p camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VS3C183G8g.
I don't get the wasm craze in the rust crowd. There is no popular language that cannot be compiled to wasm. It just feels sad to spend time there.
I don't think that's even remotely true.

For example: Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Da Vinci Resolve, Premiere, Ableton Live, and a very long etc. Those are not your crappy Electron apps, but industry standards.
Oh wow I had no idea it went that deep! I concede my point then.

I guess the flat earthers I’ve heard have been media personalities who had very few arguments to articulate.
https://jaitechwriteups.blogspot.com/2017/10/kafka-with-open...

It looks like with Java 9 the SSL stuff in Kafka saw a drastic speed boost.
> Wait, if inequality is bad, then isn't it a good thing that the rest of the world is being lifted out of poverty?

If the middle classes of the western countries are destroyed in order to make this happen then no this is not a good thing at all. The result of that is effectively feudalism.
It avoids the realization that you have been paying AWS to back up ~/.cache and ~/.local for the last 6 months.
I wonder what it’s like working on Itanium over the last decade (and perhaps earlier). I can see someone joining early on when the marketing buzz was exciting and reality had not set in.

But now...you’re working on a product that is widely mocked and has no future, yet releases are still being made. How depressing...what causes someone to stay on?
To be honest, that router costs 28 000 RSD ( https://www.gigatron.rs/ruteri/asus_dualband_wirelessac1900_... ) which translates in EUR to 236 EUR, so your point is not valid for outside of the USA. To get a feel for a router that costs exactly €50, see TP-Link MR3420 V5. Also, the router you mentioned (ASUS RT-AC68U has a dual core 800 MHz Broadcom processor and 256 MB RAM and 128 MB Flash storage, while most routers at 50€ have a 400 MHz Ralink/Mediatek Processor (single core) with 32MB (at most 64 MB) RAM and 4 or 8 MB SPI memory. ) I'm glad you happen to live in a country where you can obtain such a router for so little, I am not so lucky, so I use my ISP provided one that barely manages that 150 Mbps (thankfully with a Gigabit port (yes single LAN port)).
23andMe currently uses a genotyping chip, not gene sequencing. So, this article is misleading at the top (but gets more accurate at the bottom).

Early variant discovery suffers from the winner's curse phenomenon: we overestimate the effect of newly discovered mutations.

As time has gone on, it has become clear that even for many Mendelian diseases, the genetic background plays a significant role in terms of who will develop the disease (or how early they will do so). The estimates of "penetrance" have fallen as we have obtained more data.

This affects clinical genetic interpretation as well as the automated stuff that 23andMe is doing.
Obviously we disagree about whether any attempts to add lifetime analysis to C++ gets anywhere near 80% of what Rust can provide.
You're right, it is kind of disappointing. I think the fact that it would cost so much to come up with something novel and then optimise it to the point that conventional CPUs are at that it seems hardly worth the expenditure. The next major frontier in CPU design would appear to be in materials and manufacturing rather than architecture - although no doubt whatever the post-silicon world looks like will influence future architecture substantially.

Mind you, if nothing beyond the smallest silicon processes turns out to be practical then we might see attention turning back to re-thinking CPU architecture, but until then I think a lot of money will be spent looking at materials and manufacturing over interesting ISAs.
Ask HN: When it comes to developer blogs, what are your pet peeves?
I for one really enjoy reading other developers' blogs, and if it's really good I'll often binge read all their posts. I myself have a small personal blog that I've been working on, and am wondering what habits, or design traits should be avoided? I get the feeling we often copy others without knowing whether it's a good practice or bad habit.

Personally my list of pet peeves are:

- No code syntax highlighting. If code is the main focus of the blog, then why not make it look nice?

- (Stolen from Jeff Atwood) Blogging about blogging. It builds up junk content quickly that diminishes overall quality.

- Having an always visible side bar with your profile picture staring at the reader.
Deep Learning could in fact enable the next Deep State. Not that I love repurposing madness of today.
Sounds like you might need to hook rename() if you'd like to add that feature too, but I would still say it's straightforward.
I guess it's all part of the "silver bullet" and "hype" culture. People want something that will automatically scale their new giga-scale web product that is going to be "the new facebook!", and managers want something that will make them rich without too much work, so they sign up for all the latest cool tools instead of thinking deeply about their real requirements and good old fashioned hard work. Some of the latest cool tools really _are_ amazing and worth every penny and more, but I'm sceptical about some of them...
Also Fuchsia at Google.
Same. My current org actually got rid of our project managers over the last year and a half. So now my direct (engineering) manager is basically an overburdened full-time PjM, with spillover landing in my lap constantly (I'm an engineer and a team lead). It's extremely frustrating. And I can't even remember the last time he and I had a one-on-one.
I'm personally willing to give SSH a partial pass because I feel like having it separate makes it easier to reason about from a security perspective (this would also apply to GPG).

For vim... yeah, AFAIK "vim" does that, but neovim uses ~/.config/nvim :)

And to your general point... yes, many of these programs predate XDG. I happily support keeping them backwards compatible (which should be easy; checking multiple places in order is a time-honored tradition). But I honestly don't think this was a good idea even decades ago, and "we've always done it this way" is a terrible reason to not even support a newer, cleaner approach. Again, there's no reason to break existing systems; just support an additional location, probably make it the default, and everyone will be happy.
>Your perception would be wrong. The vast majority of sex workers are doing it for the money, same as any job.

So, precisely exploitation and pressure, same as any other job.
there's a comic that goes :

- it wasn't elective surgery. I would have died!

- but you elected to live.
The post isn't about the problem of cluttering- it's about the problem of programs not caring to adopt a super simple solution
Of course it does have to do with the topic. I can know the CEOs number in a 10 person startup. And the number isn't the point, the point is having an official unscripted channel to voice concerns.
You should not use Homebrew. The maintainers are not trustworthy.

https://chr4.org/blog/2016/04/26/homebrew-betrayed-us-all-to...
Can you beat the uncertainty principle using entanglement?
How nice, even a wasm interpreter, that's dandy
I think the point is Rust is a very good language in its own right. The fact it compiles to WASM is a great feather in the cap.

They are able to deliver a demo in the browser for something that would normally require downloading and compiling. I think that’s pretty cool to show for a project people wouldn’t normally be able to try out with such low barrier of entry.
Would exporting HOME to something else (eg the xdg root/appname) prior to invoking programs solve this problem for most apps without code changes?
I bet your coworkers loved having some smug asshole barging in and shitting on their skills unprovoked while they were trying to have a conversation about gear.
Do you think the billions of people lifted out of poverty would feel the same way?
Apple's Macintosh did this in 1984. Files were tagged with 32 bit codes: one for the "creator" (the associated app) and one for the type. These were often made up out of readable characters: a so called "fourcc" (four character code). The "fourcc" persists in cross-platform media formats.
It's basic risk v reward. When you buy insurance you always lose on average. But the point is when you "win", you "win big". Meaning when something bad happens, it doesn't wipe you out.
Sidecar files might work, and would also be filesystem-portable.
Remember the time when the planet was hijacked by kings and warlords?

The page linked is a short piece of left-wing discourse, also liking to a book which alleges that billionaires use their charitable funds not for charity but for money-laundering.

Unfortunately, the piece is not insightful; whether you're left-leaning or not, you see nothing new, and move on.