skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get a new device and pick a manufacturer that provides updates.
Also don't forget the "second route" where even if you do your grades 5-11 in the second highest tier of school and then notice you still want to go to university, you can add 2-3 years of school, which is not that uncommon for people who seemed to be not up to the "higher education lane" at age 10-12, but are absolutely capable at age 16-18.
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> Most important isn't really the release date, but the date it was last sold to the public.

Agreed. I picked mine up 2 years ago and am now forced to upgrade to a newer model or install a third-party version of Android like LineageOS.
This is illuminating, even if humorous.
>Real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981, by the World Bank.

Perhaps we didn't collect data on poverty globally before that, but we most certainly collected data on poverty before that regionally.
> It probably won't. The reason is climate change.

But as is the case with automation predictions and massive net job destruction, it hasn't happened yet. So it's possible we're wrong about such predictions. We've been wrong in the past about environmental doom and job loss.

Or maybe not this time, but we should keep that in mind and be a little bit skeptical about our current state of knowledge when predicting the future. It would be one thing if the trend was clearly toward things getting worse because of climate change. But it's not so far.
Gates and Pinker are promoting the idea that the world is getting better overall, economically, and that poverty reduction is a real thing. They point to advances in economic development as a major driver of this.

The 'rebuttal' is a little tricky. Hickel argues that the data is bad (at least before 1980's). Moreover, he argues that it's really only in China that people have dramatically 'come out of poverty' and that the data without China shows an increase in poverty.

Hickel accuses Gates/Pinker et. al. of promoting 'hard neoliberal' (i.e. strong free market) ideals. I don't believe this characterization is fair.

Hickel argues that neoliberal policies pursued by IMF etc. have led to setbacks and that China i.e. the 'winner' in this area is not capitalist, rather more or less 'statist/nationalist' etc..

Pinker is publicly lamenting this Hinker guy as 'far left' etc. which is an odd twist due to the ad hominem.
My only interest is missing as I see at first glance: GPU support

Edit: found it as "Graphics Card" :D
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Reddit’s revenue per user is much lower than that of other social networks
> promoters of apocalyse narratives ... [b]oth hard left and hard right both require people to believe the "world getting worse and worse"

There are still veterans of WWII alive today, and that was pretty much an apocalypse for the people involved. Just because the last 50 years have been peaceful doesn't mean good times are guaranteed, we should remain cautious of threats. Change is extremely rapid. Many of the issues raised by both sides are concerns worth taking seriously, even if the people raising them are wholly unqualified by temperament to do anything about it.
Hahaha that's so lovely! Awesome :)
Pinker is not arguing that economic neoliberalism is perfect.

Almost nobody is.
Hopefully never think of the implications, but in reality probably in a few years/decades
I'm not sure anyone is debating that in the terms of PHP7 vs HHVM. Hack has been a different language for quite some time and that is exactly the problem. The more it diverged from PHP the less sense it made for most people to go that direction.

Also on a personal level I'm really not sure why anyone would want to go that direction. Of all the problems people usually say they have with PHP, just fixing the type system is not even close to #1. If Hack then really is a different language and you don't like PHP, why not migrate to something completely different?
A tiny Swiss company thinks it can help stop climate change
I think it was more about economic will. It was seen as an amazing commercial opportunity that attracted investors who funded the trip.
I've lived at 64 degrees north Sweden all my life, yes you get acclimatized. I have recently rediscovered them thanks to relatives from south europe visiting and reminding me of what goes on up in the sky during the nights. Started going out when the aurora reports says it's a chance and keep seeing them pretty regularly. Every time I do, I meet some french or japanese or other nationality students with cameras out in the edges of town. Mostly students having relatives visiting from homecountry, wanting to see it.
Breakpoints can still help you here. You really do need to use an IDE, because things like Goto definition, variable inspection live on breakpoints, being able to jump up and down the class hierarchy at a breakpoint and "find usages" will allow you to get a higher level overview of the project as a whole
If only Apple sold an iPhone besides the 512Mb iPhone 10XS Max.

You realize Jobs has been dead since 2011?
Hello! Thanks for the answer, I liked how you approached the problem. The issue is that I cannot focus on a single project.

> If you work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks of the year for five years that equals 10,000 hours. So if you can learn a skill that increases your hourly wage by $1 you will have met your goal.

I have a steady 9-6 job as a React Native developer, where I keep learning and growing and can apply my knowledge to front-end React as well

> or spend it on teaching yourself a skill that will translate into a higher income.

I've just invested in a yoga teacher training and started teaching yoga classes, so some of my time goes there

> Start a side hustle if you want

I'm building http://music.hatharaja.com and http://spotifyxgenius.now.sh in my spare time, making yoga websites for my friends (for free), and building a model to recognize yoga poses.

> Since the amount of money you're dealing with is fairly small, I would suggest putting your energy into a single project instead of multiple ideas.

I really want to start learning about 3d modelling and product design (inspired by https://www.instagram.com/dobu.haishen/ https://www.instagram.com/blankwilliamnyc/)

I'm also learning machine learning.

The Snowball book about Warren Buffet also advises focussing on one thing, which I wish I could do. Anyway, my point is that my time is already diversely invested, which is why I am also looking at some more passive forms of investment. People have been suggesting ETFs as "safe" long-term investments, which I'm looking into. Maybe I can use 50% of my investment capital to build some products after I've learnt 3d modelling and then invest the rest in ETFs.
Cool! This is nice to just run locally and play around with the parameters. I know the feeling of rediscovering abandoned sketches and projects, and thinking that they're not so bad after all.
Last I checked, nothing the old iTunes Store infrastructure touches including the App Store takes Apple Pay either. For that matter, neither does the Online Apple Store app, at least as of May last year when I last tried it.

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Apple to stop repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to anything at all to do with their e-commerce platform.
The author nit-picks some of the numbers, noting that the poverty numbers prior to some date are unreliable. But this is all meaningless as the numbers aren't Pinker's point. The point is that society is getting richer and both relative and absolute poverty is dropping across the world.

I think most reasonable people would believe this to be true. Those of us old enough remember a time where we didn't have the luxuries we have today. We had a choice of three channels on television, paid exorbitant long distance fees to call our family abroad and rarely traveled by plane. And that changed over the last 100 years or so. Surely on a larger time-scale we would notice even greater change (indoor plumbing, air conditioning, antibiotics, food safety).

But the author doesn't see that:

> As to my actual claims about the past, my argument was straightforward. I simply pointed out that we cannot ignore the fact that the period 1820 to circa 1950 was one of violent dispossession across much of the global South. If you have read any colonial history, you will know colonizers had immense difficulty getting people to work on their mines and plantations. As it turns out, people tended to prefer their subsistence lifestyles, and wages were not high enough to induce them to leave. Colonizers had to coerce people into the labour market: imposing taxes, enclosing commons and constraining access to food, or just outright forcing people off their land.

Yes, people joined the urbanization movement but only did so kicking and screaming. They were perfectly happy living subsistence lifestyles.

This strikes me as not only wrong but somewhat offensive. I don't know anything about the author but I don't think he lives or has lived a subsistence lifestyle, and neither have I. But from everything I read from less ideologically minded researchers, it was a brutal existence. It is a lot easier to live this subsistence lifestyle today. The world is still a large place. You can easily buy a cabin in the woods and avoid taxes. Ironically, the capitalist system the author likes to criticize promotes property rights that allows for living off the grid.

So I welcome the author the chance to grasp his full potential and go off the grid. He and his followers could buy 100 acres in Texas for 75k, and pay only $500 in annual tax [0].

[0] https://www.landwatch.com/Hudspeth-County-Texas-Land-for-sal...
Absolutely. I think his main issue is with Pinker and Gates way overselling any successes and attributing them to neoliberal globalization.

I'd posit that anyone characterizing this as an apocalypse story hasn't actually read the article.
"Be careful" is not very actionable. Here are some things you can actually do:

- Perform periodic external security reviews

- Use fuzzing for all uncontrolled/user-inputs

- Use static analysis tools

- Maintain a security bounty program

- Send your employees to security training

- Use a memory safe programming language
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At some point we made sure that phpMyFAQ works on HHVM - but afaik we never really got any feedback that anyone's actually using it, but we're not on the same level of users as phpMyAdmin for example :). And with this direction it will not be advertised or checked any more in the future either.
It seems to me that the whole debate would benefit from some Quantum Thinking.

The world can get better and worse at the same time. Poverty can go away in some parts and increase (in absolute or relative terms) in others.

People can be more happy because they don't starve, don't die from trivial diseases and don't get murdered anymore on the street - while at the same time starting to be depressed about lack of meaning or sense of belonging, senseless (but well-paid) jobs, worries about allergies, eating animals, stress, climate change or whatever thing they worry about basic needs are met.

There is just no point to attempt to come to a conclusion from a binary set of options ("things getting better" vs "things getting worse").

In my eyes, this question is too complex, too philosophical and too subjective for anyone to actually come to an absolute, definite and unassailable conclusion which everyone else could stand behind.
Ouch. There’s been a lot to think about over the course of this thread.

I think South Africa is a good example because there were wide ranging trade sanctions against them during Apartheid which could have supported actions such as yanking government apps as a matter of international agreement.

Overall though I don’t think it’s a good idea for FAANG companies to unilaterally wade into foreign policy or cultural influence even more than they already do.

Other commenters have made some good points that the platforms are already very not neutral, pointing to adult apps and arbitrary TOS violations as app store death penalty.

I agree that this is true but I remain broadly opposed to the idea that we must stop others from running code that we don’t like. Overall it doesn’t seem like the right mechanism to do politics.
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XOR was never faster, it is 2 bytes-vs 3 bytes instruction size.
Care to elaborate on actual data?
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Cool image! That looks like the subway map of the solar system.

Is that your own? If so, what software did you use to paint it?
"is that the poorest countries in the world are currently improving faster than any country ever did, at any point in history.
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This isn't surprising and the reasoning isn't that hard.

Economic advancement is very hard if you have to 'figure out how to do it' i.e. intensive R&D.

But if you are 'far behind' and there are examples to copy, you can just copy.

Developing nations not only have many examples, but they have access to capital, credit etc.. Many of them have natural resources to get things gong. As long as there is conscientious leadership - they can grow quickly.

There are examples of countries growing 'even more quickly' than such developing nations - and those are post-war nations. Nations that already have functioning institutions, when faced with a cataclysmic shock of war - don't need to build from scratch, rather, they are 'repairing' their economy.

Europe, S. Korea, Japan in the post-war years really boomed.

China, one might argue is not just 'developing' but it's 'snapping back' after a long period of oppression.

But once development reaches a certain level, it tends to slow, and come in line with the development of other advanced nations.

You can see this glowingly with Japan and S. Korea as they rockted forward, but are now in the slog with the rest of us.

When you have 'no roads' - investment decisions are easy.

But when everyone has 'stuff' ... well ... it's a lot harder.
I don't think a real argument can be made that morality is subjective. If morality were subjective then the choice would be clear, no, Google and everybody else should respect other peoples' morals.

But things like slavery and the Holocaust make that determination, well, difficult. To say that morality is ultimately relative is ultimately to condone societies choosing to do really repugnant things to people.

There is a line to draw. That much is certain. The only question is where. I don't think we should be charging into the Sentinel Islands like a bunch of idiots and destroying their culture. But Apple choosing not to technologically enable the Saudis to further disenfranchise their women seems to be worthy.

In 1807, Britain passed the Slave Trade Act, outlawing slavery throughout the Empire. Passing the law wasn't enough to actually stop the slave trade. So the British Empire established the West Africa Squadron at considerable expense, to curb the illegal trade.

At first the squadron was hampered by the need to remain on good diplomatic terms with other European countries, but soon they signed treaties allowing Britain free reign to interdict and search ships they suspected of carrying slaves. At it's height, one sixth of the resources of the Royal Navy was devoted to curbing slavery.

What should be the arbiter of morality? I don't really know. But the public willingness to devote considerable social resources to stamping out an awful practice is a gift we shouldn't turn away.

Another example is the Latin American drug trade. The liberal-minded thing to do is to legalize drugs so that the cartels can't profit from them. But history teaches that cartels are in the business of doing nasty things, not in any one nasty business. So if they can't make mountains of cash funneling drugs across borders, they'll make hills of cash funneling humans.

It takes cross-border cooperation to smash these quasi-states, as they largely managed to do in Colombia.

Saudi Arabia is not interested in rapid social change, many many countries are doing the best they can to resist the destabilizing effects of Western technology on their traditional cultures. China has their Great Firewall. North Korea is closed off completely.

Maybe they have a point. But the West can't put the genie back in the bottle, we can't go back to a world before the Internet. And the elites in these traditional societies are perfectly fine profiting off of the tech when it's convenient for them.

So I don't really have much of a problem with Apple deciding to stick their neck out, or with us placing a moral onus on them, to stop facilitating the exploitation of humans.
you're overstating the appeal of American Football

He didn't refer to "appeal" on an aesthetic level. He wrote of revenue.

NFL in-person attendance is spiraling downward. Don't look at published attendance figures based on "tickets issued"; look at video of actual butts in the stands.
Likely it is more of a scale pricing. The products are new and the market is small, so production is still sized to meet the demand. With a smaller production run, prices are higher. Once the demand scales up, and the supply with it, prices to manufacture will fall. Plus with a larger demand; competition will help pull down the price.
> An aircraft like that has so many highly automated systems it is impossible for the human operators to fully understand them.

The aircraft was stalling because the pilot kept the flight stick pulled all the way back. Nothing automated or complex about it - a wood-and-canvas biplane would have had exactly the same problem.
> A wealth cap / much stronger taxation on individuals and businesses funding a basic income would be a good way to fix this without breaking the market mechanism.

How is this at all relevant to the issue at hand?! There's many public companies that have much more dispersed ownership than Amazon/Google yet have massive amounts of money/market cap (e.g. oil majors, older tech companies, ...). Wealth can and will concentrate in businesses regardless of what kind of wealth tax on individuals or income tax on businesses you impose (unless of course if all business become unviable and unable to make money).
I would like to know what exactly was disciplining effect of WWI. Cause it ended in quite undisciplined mess, revolutions, high criminality, you name it. Bands of ex-soldiers and young men roaming streets beating people to push for this or that agenda - or just because they can. WWII did not made us disciplined either. It made stealing and rapes more prevalent. People were stealing to survive.

Also, rich and poor might be identical when side by side in trench, but I would much rather be rich during war then poor. Rich have better survival chances - less chance to be sent to trench. More money to buy food during necessary hunger. Able to bribe enemies and own government alike.

Btw, communism tried to do the have everyone spend doing laborious tasks: construction, mining, fishing, dishwashing thing.
>Remember, this is the period of the Belgian labour system in the Congo, which so upended local economies that 10 million people died – half the population. This is the period of the Natives Land Act in South Africa, which dispossessed the country’s black population of 90% of the country. This is the period of the famines in India, where 30 million died needlessly as a result of policies the British imposed on Indian agriculture. This is the period of the Opium Wars in China and the unequal treaties that immiserated the population. And don’t forget: all of this was conducted in the name of the “free market”.

Free market doesn't just mean low or no taxes. People will do all sort of evil things and hide behind some nice ideal.

The important thing is that none of those countries are doing it anymore and those who do, are quite the opposite of free market capitalist countries (ie, North Korea)
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And here is an answer to that critique: https://motls.blogspot.com/2015/11/first-quantized-formulati...
Yeah but dying on earth is too mainstream and everyone does it. A lot more people will hear about someone dying on Mars for the first time ever.
Must reads about what was done to South America:

- Various works by Smedley Butler, c. 20th c.

- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Español: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias), c. 1542

- The well-researched videos of TheHistoryGuy on YT. Bunga! Bunga!
"I don't even know what street Canada is on."

-- Al Capone
So now you’re wasting money on not only the new hire, but also taking time away from your existing employees.

Besides refactoring is a lot different and the tooling better for statically type languages. Good programming practices is also about idiomatic programming that comes with experience in the chosen language.
> So many comments here are really depressing and lack a sense of adventure and romance.

(Since you are not replying to any specific such posts, I assume you are referring to those who point out that this was expected because Mars One was clearly not viable.)

Adventure and romance are good, and can be communicated through fiction, sky castle thinktanks, forums for interested people, etc. Pretending to actually do it is not necessary.

Lying to people and siphoning money out of crowdfunding can not be excused by "at least they made it sound fun". That's what all fraudsters do - they sell a dream and remove your money.
The process of forcibly integrating colonized peoples into the capitalist labour system caused widespread dislocation (a history I cover in The Divide). Remember, this is the period of the Belgian labour system in the Congo, which so upended local economies that 10 million people died – half the population. This is the period of the Natives Land Act in South Africa, which dispossessed the country’s black population of 90% of the country. This is the period of the famines in India, where 30 million died needlessly as a result of policies the British imposed on Indian agriculture. This is the period of the Opium Wars in China and the unequal treaties that immiserated the population. And don’t forget: all of this was conducted in the name of the “free market”.

This paragraph basically backs up all of Pinker's criticisms. No one advocating for neoliberal capitalism would suggest that any of the evils of colonialization are the policies that most quickly brought prosperity to developing nations. Pinker is advocating that as economies become more free, they become more prosperous. There's nothing free about forced labor or death marches.

The bit on "absolute povery numbers" is insane:

The poverty rate has worsened dramatically since 1981, from 3.2 billion to 4.2 billion, according to World Bank data.

This willfully ignores the fact that the world population has gone from 4.5 billion to 7.5 billion, because of plummeting mortality rates and access to healthcare and infrastructure. 3 billion extra people survived in 30 years. That's CRAZY! We should be having parades about that everyday.

And the main problem with his poverty metric is that he's changing the numbers to obfuscate the progress. It doesn't matter if you use $1.90/day, $3.20/day, $5.50/day or $7.40/day. What matters is that fewer people live on the wrong side of the line today than they did yesterday, and fewer people did yesterday than the day before, and that has happened every single day for the past 30 years.

Almost every example he uses of capitalism being bad are really colonialism enforced by state power. He rightly points out that some countries enjoyed increased prosperity when they freed themselves from their colonial powers, but that only enforces Pinker's arguments.

Hickel spends most of this piece turning Pinker's arguments into strawmen. It's a marxist rant with cherry-icked stats that don't actually support his position. He should rightfully be dismissed as a bad faith actor in the conversation.