skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> New Zealand hasn't had conscription in 50 years and it's also a model society, as is Canada.

New Zealand had compulsory military service from 1909-1972, a period which saw a lot of social reform including the creation of social healthcare. Au, NZ, Canada, US and UK all had conscription during the great wars, so maybe a better framing might be why did Aus lag and US avoid the social reforms? They seem to be the biggest outliers and I know for Australia at least it was more about the domestic political situation (a divided left wing), maybe for the US it was because they were undergoing other big social reforms, like racial equality.

Of course a lot of that could just be timing and competition, but have there been countries performing a lot of social reform (healthcare, welfare, equality) in periods well outside periods of mandatory service?

> So, if we've shown that we don't need it for either reason, just "some guy's opinion", then I think this argument is resolved.

You're assuming there aren't more reasons. Having people trained with a lot of practical skills along with some discipline and fitness are some other positives.
That's completely wrong. Chargebacks are _primarily_ for fraud. And any merchant that accepts credit cards over the phone or Internet ("card not present") is liable for fraud, not the bank.
I commend the author on the level of detail documented in the article. It's clear that they have spent much time and effort on making an appealing stream.

And yet I still don't get live coding. I have about as much interest in streaming my programming as I have in having a coworker watching me work over my shoulder: zero.

I'd love to know what people get out of this. For me the sacrifice to flow is far too great for what benefits I perceive I could get through collaboration.

I do see the potential in social network / community building though.
In any protracted discussion of US politics, it's pretty common for someone to raise the point that other countries have better voting systems than the one we use, where a winner-take-all paradigm inevitably devolves to a contest between only two dominant parties, and where there is little incentive for the victorious party to form a working coalition with the other. Australia's use of ranked-choice voting is frequently cited as one area where our first-past-the-post system is behind the curve, and in fact we're starting to consider adopting ranked choice voting in some limited areas [1].

We also hear frequent arguments in favor of Australia's compulsory voting law as a way to combat the sort of voter apathy that led to the... unexpected outcome in our last Presidential contest.

Stories like this serve as good counterpoints for Americans to raise in those debates, I think. Yes, Australia has implemented a number of progressive electoral reforms... but those progressive electoral policies are obviously not getting them better leadership or better laws. So why should we, in the US, follow their example?

[1]: https://bangordailynews.com/2018/08/28/opinion/contributors/...
I'm not seeing much of a conceptual difference between owning a portion of your life by having a monopoly on all of your time for a limited period vs. owning a portion of your life by owning a percentage of your working hours in perpetuity.
It's definitely bullying but it's also definitely a predictable response from the PRC given the current political climate.
This is quite disappointing. Lot of good people I've known who joined this team at early stage are all gone and it shows. Kipman simply didn't seem to get this. Magic Leap should have at least taught them that it is very bad idea to have so much weight on headset. The AR is pretty much dead at this point and all these push towards creating demos for factories is pure media stunt. They even managed to lure US army and I'd like to know the story of how they did this but from my own experience trying to use Hololens in such situations would be a tax, not benefit. The battery life is miserable, its too heavy for wearing on head and induces headaches for most people. Also, using it in custom situation requires huge amount of software development costs which are rarely justified given inability to actually use the device.

Kipman has become an expert in working on projects that has initial oh-ah factor and media appeal but he doesn't think beyond that at all. Kinect's main use case was never gaming. It's too inaccurate for pleasant use after initial wonder fads off. Hololens's main appeal is never creating this virtual world but rather becoming a sensor that can be leveraged in all kind of applications. But that would be the least sexiest thing for Kipman to do and ofcourse that may not generate as many media articles.
Had not even heard of the game till now.

Streisand effect in the making?
> or even legal

Food of the Gods, by Arthur C Clarke (1964)

https://write.as/r9ov30n76ib5u.md
OBS is a child's toy in comparison to Vmix.

Xsplit > OBS > Vmix
I do share this "equality" sentiment, but I think there's a valid counterpoint in that only women assume the risks and responsibility of pregnancy and childbirth. Society depends on women putting their bodies on the line to produce more members of society. There quite simply isn't a way to equalize this burden between the sexes for the foreseeable future. Some people see a male-only draft as a means to artificially balance this biological inequality.

EDIT: Point out another group's reasoning that hasn't been mentioned yet, get downvoted. ???

For all the "forced impregnation" replies, forced impregnation isn't analogous to the draft. The draft and pregnancy are fundamentally different things that can't be made equivalent. The argument being cited here never implied that this would be an equivalent exchange. It's not.
We Can't Do It Ourselves (2018)
How about the opposite? Everything is a consequence of human consciousness.
So if mainlanders' feeling are hurt, it's fine to totally ignore their feelings, just because they are from mainland China? Does this count as racism at all? Or it still counts as mainlanders are not applicable to most usual social rules?
If you are migrating away from a centralized email provider you should move to a personal domain. That way you won't be trapped by any service in the future. There are numerous companies[0] that you can point your domain to and they will handle everything else. This costs a bit of money but it means that you will be the customer rather than the product.

[0] I use migadu.com but fastmail.com seems to be very popular with the HN crowd.
Sorry, I haven't kept up on my phreaking - is there encryption for 3G which hasn't been broken yet?
That's true. My go-to is to do nouveau.modeset=0 on any machine with even a hint of trouble, which gets me where I need to go.

Currently on that T480 I use the Nouveau drivers with the built-in panel plus two external 1440p monitors via a Lenovo Thunderbolt dock and it's great.
ipredator, because Sweden.
Both Chinese and Taiwanese are the same race, so how is this racism?
I don't hold too many theories that the majority in the tech community disagree with. But one of them is that we consistently underestimate nature. I'm open to being proven wrong, but I just can't believe we can artificially mimic what an animal is able to produce, better than the animal can do it and for less money.

When we raise chickens, we're not only generating chicken meat, we're also making eggs, and chicken poop used for fertilizer. So you not only have to mimic chicken meat, you also have to make it cheaper even after the chickens costs were lowered due to egg and fertilizer production.

Good luck.
Like most philosophies, pansychism has multiple flavours. To me, the combination problem is concrete. The physical location of my awareness seems to be inside the head and not my hand, even though both are made of atoms. ‘Everything is conscious’ fails to account for that.
If an evil app is already communicating on the web and is already on your computer, what can it gain more?
Can we say that consciousness is a process that occurs when matter is arranged in a particular way? In the same way that you could say a whirlpool is a process that occurs when water is arranged in a particular way. All of the water molecules in the vicinity are participating in the whirlpool, but that doesn’t mean that all water everywhere has “whirlpoolness” all the time.

It doesn’t seem like a divine mystery to me that a brain could have consciousness while a single atom from a brain doesn’t - it just means that consciousness is complicated and requires many parts to be assembled. In the same way that a single atom of silicon isn’t a computer or a single molecule of water isn’t a whirlpool.
> Australia deserves better than these clowns.

Australia's abysmal record on climate change affords it no sympathy. Australia, do your part.

(Australia resident and happy Fastmail customer.)
Well, yes. It's a naive interpreter. The source is translated to the obvious bytecode. At run time, everything is a CObject, including integers and floats. Everything which you'd expect to be a dict really is a dict. So you spend a lot of run time checking the types of objects, dispatching, and looking up variables. There's a bit of memoization, I think, to cut down some of the lookups.

It's tough to optimize a language where any thread can change the internal variables of any other thread at any time. Python has gratuitous dynamism. Rarely does code muck with the state of another thread, but it can, and the code has to handle the worst case. There's no such thing as a thread-local variable in Python.
Here's a comparison of different VPN's for anyone who's interested: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/
There are many (mobile) games those are released base on regional, so if it's locked for CN (or Asia in general) you'll need to sideload the games into your phones but it's risky to do it.
It’s not even true outside the USA, never mind “the west”.
I agree on both fronts, a well written article but to me the notion of people observing any missed key on the keyboard would only increase the likelihood of me messing up tenfold. Props to those who livestream coding, I don't think I could.
Your arrows contradict you
Well compared to Tesla 3, the Bolt is quite a steal, I'm honestly surprised they aren't selling more.

I picked my base model 2018 Bolt for $31k, after discounts. (pretax). $23.5k after tax rebates.

Compare that to the Tesla Model 3 which is $44k and has about the same range. (Bolt 236mi , Model 3 249mi)

I'm not surprised GM is losing money on them when Tesla is having issues with profitability at their price point.
> Your assumptions seem unlikely. There is no proof moral outrage is on the whole a good thing. No other species requires it.

I don't see why that's a compelling argument; no other species requires written languages either, but I think on the whole it's been a pretty good investment for ours.
This reply is worth a thousand down-votes. I see where you are coming from and I appreciate that you shared it in words, not just a click on a down arrow. Thank you.

But I still think the down-voters are taking it personally. I don't believe anyone is actually being chastised for their position by this commenter. I took it as offering another option - instead of telling someone who likes meat that you have a great substitute that tastes just like meat and they'll never know the difference, try saying "there are many ways to prepare any of a large variety of vegetables - maybe you can enjoy vegetables as much as you enjoy meat if you find some recipes you like". Maybe those dishes will taste "meat-like" or whatever, but there is value in saying "Stop trying to fake it. Embrace the choice to do it differently."

For the record, I personally believe that this is a more honest tack for someone who is pursuing the option for ethical/environmental reasons.
I think it's a good educational tool. It's like watching a cooking show and seeing how a chef goes from preparing raw ingredients to a finished product.
Have used many, the one that stuck is AirVPN. Best capabilities and Linux support.
High-end e-bikes are pretty awesome. The power output is surprising.

They can do things you wouldn't expect, like go up a flight of stairs or go 25 mph or pop wheelies.

Think of one like a light motorcycle with a high-torque 1HP motor.

They are divided into different 'classes' - I don't know which class these GM bikes are:

https://electricbikereview.com/forum/threads/what-are-electr...
I don't think so.

People know Taiwan != China. The censorship is a projection of power, not hiding a secret.

Nobody calling the king fat because he cuts off heads doesn't change the fact that everybody can see he is indeed overweight.
Currently manually pay for an EC2 instance and install wireguard on it (I have my playbook to automate the processes).
Question: Is it necessary to use "they" now that it's clear that she's a girl?

I thought you use "they" when gender is not clear as to avoid assuming it's a guy.
I dunno, I would like to be able to have a restricted account to give it to my daughter. Same for mobile device - she's too young to have her own but I would like to give her my iPad to run YT Kids for example and only that so some kind of multiuser-ness is needed but a different one. I'd say SE linux tries to achieve that but it is far from being usable.
Read this on Wireguard: https://restoreprivacy.com/wireguard/
Be aware.
> Just because an entity cannot assert itself, does not mean it is not conscious.

This does not give any more purchase on the world than we currently have. It’s similar to saying that just because we have never seen laws of physics change, it doesn’t mean they can’t change. Of course, that may or may not be true. But would you bet on sun not rising tomorrow? New scientific theories / entities must have give us additional predictive power (grip) than what’s currently possible. Otherwise why invent new assumptions?
Ask HN: How can I maximise work productivity?
I work 8 hours a day but my work productivity is not that great. I feel like I should be achieving more than what I already do.

What steps do you think I can take to get a huge productivity boost?
I was going through my Pocket to-read list and came across the AMA for the guy who wrote Metro 2033 and they were discussing this book. Now it appears here. Guess someone or something wants me to read this.
Would one not just infer the universe is conscious?

There is no boundary problem then, just one of degree.

Seems silly, but everything has a point of view and whatever level of complexity it has determines what consciousness it presents.

A rock has very little complexity. It literally is just an expression. What has happened to it equals what it is.

When something has enough complexity to be aware of the boundary between "it" and everything else, then we have a being of some kind.

Little organisms, insects, plants, all continue to present surprising behavior to us. Bees can do basic math, what nothing is.

And plants. They are slow, by their nature, but we are finding they communicate in ways.

Animals are a lot like us, just simpler.

>It’s exciting times! Let’s hope that we’re able to get a grip on this question of why we have this subjective experience of red colour.

Seconded. We may find there are rules, that experience may be predicted, or at least better understood.
Actually, C compilers with -O0 keep all of the local variables, for debugging purposes. O0 is deliberately bad. And if you file bugs complaining about debugging at higher optimization levels, well, if you want loop fusion and splitting for high performance, you're going to lose some debugging.
THeir engineering team seems pretty efficient, for 40 people. I'm curious how they're organized, what they look for in hires, their release pipeline, etc.
It's always a little disturbing to see speech like calling a political leader “Winnie the Pooh” get such a response.
The one I have has very smooth pedal-assist (you don't even really notice there's a motor), a big battery for longer trips, and high torque at lower speeds which is critical in SF. I'm out-of-shape and I have no trouble biking ten miles to work every morning, so the utility for me is very high.
Israel very much is a melting pot. Yes, only Jewish people are drafted. But that includes a wide variety of backgrounds - people whose families are from the Middle East, Russia, Ethiopia, the West (particularly recent French immigrants)... The drafting class takes people who grew up in completely secular homes and in religious homes. There's an ongoing political battle over whether to draft people from ultra-Orthodox backgrounds. Additionally, there are some ultra-Orthodox volunteers, as well as volunteers from the Bedouin, Druze, Circassian, and Christian and Muslim Arab minorities.

Indeed, the IDF is what forges an "Israeli" identity within the melting pot of Israeli society.
Sure, I hear you, and I appreciate your appeal to fairness, because I was going to bring it up too - why is it acceptable for China to demand airlines not even recognize the sovereignty of the nation of Taiwan, but it's not acceptable for Taiwanese citizens to call the man leading the country bullying them "Winnie the Pooh?"
Mullvad is amazing. Definitely my first choice as well.
> If I am reading FastMails statement right, they have been forced to add backdoors to their codebase and not been allowed to tell their team about it

I interpreted it as they could be forced to secretly add a backdoor, but I guess if they are sworn to secrecy on it, who knows. Maybe it’s time for me to switch from FastMail...
My family of four decided to go Wifi only on our iPhones five months ago. We've encountered a few inconvenient moments but nothing that has caused us to reconsider and go back to cellular service. We live in an area with wifi in practically every retail space. It's easy. Just requires a tiny bit more overhead for planning. The payback is having no internet temptation away from wifi spaces.
It depends how paranoid the security person you're trying to appease is, honestly. There are definitely better options, but that one will always "sound secure".
Curious: why do you say pansychism is absurd?

Red colour is something which has sort of become a canonical example of subjective experience. Nothing special about it - could have been blue :)
When I buy a game, or any consumable for that matter, I'm not expecting angry rogue staff to hide political Easter eggs. There's a place for activism/satire, but perhaps not on the salary of a presumably neutral employer.
Mainlanders have been destroying landscape / treating locals badly when visiting foreign country, talking about feelings, huh.
I guess I'd "enjoy" seeing it, but the folks who made the game have to live with the consequences. I'm not going to ask them to take that hit to amuse me.
P-zombies bug me. For a p-zombie to be functionally identical to a human, it would have to process all of the same inputs as the human, including its looped-back internal inputs regarding its own state. Asserting that it's possible to do so without producing an equivalent inner life to that of a 'real' human is just asserting some kind of supernatural basis for consciousness.
Several objections come quickly to mind.

1) We know that Russian women volunteered for the military, and fought, and died fighting. ("There were 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war,[1] which is roughly 3 percent of total military personnel." says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_women_in_World_War_II )

If women can't be drafted, because it's better to preserve their wombs for population replenishment, then why should women be allowed to volunteer?

2) Since Soviet women did volunteer to fight on the front lines, and even as partisans in German held territory, your statement "there's no such thing as "volunteering" ..." is wrong.

3) People can be conscripted without being ordered to the front for direct combat.
Buckshot++: An Outlier-Resistant and Scalable Clustering Algorithm
The classic textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has a chapter on implementing a logic programming language embedded in Scheme. [source: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...]
Someone got memed by WeChat's censorship policy.
> Why would it? Hardware support boils down to new kernels, mesa stacks etc and how many non-free drivers the distro wants to include.

Disagree. At least traditionally package choice and configuration by distro maintainers made a huge difference, as proven by the fact that problems could be solved by just fixing a config file or adding a package from the standard repo.
so...? i as well don't see the big deal only 800?... what's the problem...
as long as you can manage/remember them what's the problem...

(btw i suggest you do as i do- i don't use password managers for a good reasone... i don't trust it's secure enought... yes it usually is but you never know if and when a new zero day pops out...

i store all my passwords on a singel havily encrypted file... - and by havily i mean havily.... multilayerd aes 512 with diffrent keys for each layer and.... in short -very hard to crack and it was hard to remember... but hi man i'v got more then 3k logins stored in there so...)
I used a few over the years. Boleh, Nord, PIA, etc.

One day I woke up and realised I do not know who runs those companies. For example, Nord is registered in Panama, a country where declaring company ownership is not mandatory. Why should I trust them with my data?

After a little digging I found that Proton is the only VPN provider whose owners have put their names and reputations on the the line. The only one.

It doesn't mean I trust them 100%. But if someone is willing to put their face on their website, I'd say it gives them an extra incentive to do their job right.
TorGuard is great, I get excellent speed and very low ping from east coast.

the only thing I like is how they aren't actually associated with Tor in any way... lol...
They can ensure something, but law is law. If Fastmail employees pressed by Australia authority, they must obey, doesn't it?
It was widely reported at the time; here are a couple of cites, several of which were also linked in the OP: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170510/08191137334/bot-i...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2017/12/14/earth-to...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-web...

(Also, FWIW I personally witnessed it while trying to submit my own comment on the issue; the viewable posted comments were about 98% duplicates of that one "The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet" etc, and the names were somewhere in the E's.)