skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to show you an unbiased analysis of long-term economics of individual shale wells, I have a few. But, confidentiality.

I can say that:

First of all the picture is quite complex, and of course not all wells are the same.
Second - talking "in general" - the break-even oil price for shale oil wells has declined quite dramatically, from around $80-100 in 2014 to $40-50 today, with current wells costing less and producing more than wells of 4 years ago.
However, third: The improved economics are not primarily a result of technological advances. Rather, the lower well cost is largely due to lower rig rates and cheaper and more efficient labour. The lower rig rates are not sustainable in the long term, they are low only because it is better to have the rig working and earning at least a little money (not enough to justify buying a new one in the future) than rusting away in a yard. Labour productivity gain is partly explained by the fact that the only the most experienced and efficient crews are now working, and higher well productivity is partly due to only drilling the very best prospects. The quality of crews and prospects is a barrier to raising production further.

In summary, I believe the shale boom is an economic oddity. Whether it continues for any length of time depends on the oil prices. At the current prices, it is not sustainable.

Corollary: If the oil price is effectively set by the true cost of shale oil, we should expect that the price of oil will rise to $80-100/bbl in the medium term.
I worry about a society that sends anyone to war. Its completely unethical no matter who it is you send.
Exactly, I would personally fight against anyone willing to forcefully my girlfriend. Only a coward would do.
I think it's less being old fashioned and more the idea of what we think gender roles should be or indeed are. While there is doubtlessly an advantage in terms of efficiency in men fighting wars, due solely to physical strength (as far as I understand it), we get gender roles being an issue as soon as we start saying that women need to be protected and shielded - see for instance the degree to which we speak of "women and children" - to many, although they might not want to admit it consciously, they fit very snugly into a category together as something vulnerable.

The other aspect of gender roles here is the idea that women ought to stay away from battle because they should be raising children or doing housework - to me this reads simply as another manifestation of what feminists since the 60s at the latest have been arguing against - the separation of women into the private sphere of life. There isn't much reason I can see why that should be further carried over to the matter of war.

In the end, I'm sympathetic to your concerns, but I must admit they are almost entirely ideological ones, based on new rationalizations of ancient ideas of 'the fair sex' and influenced by modern attitudes towards masculinity and femininity.

There are two good papers on the topic of women and conscription and their actual experiences in places where it's practiced (e.g Israel):

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243207303538

https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refer... (see section V, "Analysis" on whether women are "different" enough to be exempt from conscription).
I've been trying to remember the name of this game for decades. I also thought it had a HyperCard feel, which inspired me at 12 years old to attempt making something similar.

I never completed that attempt, but it was my first serious programming effort and I've been programming ever since.

I never managed to finish Enchanted Scepters, but it seems I can fix that now.
This is the biggest waste of time in Iranian society.

This is literally government mandated slavery. The current system already incentives you quite a bit to join the military for all the perks you get once you're done.

I'm honestly surprised the top comment is advocating for something that goes against every core value of the United States.
Military at its core is a mechanism designed to erase all personal identity and free will. You can achieve collaboration, unity, discipline, exercise etc via more peaceful means like volunteering to build houses for the poor, teach kids, build infrastructure in disadvantaged neighborhoods, natural conservation etc. As we become more resourceful, hope is that political boundaries will be erased and nations unite. May be 500 years down the line people will be amazed that we used to keep military and spend large chunk of our fruits of labor on it.
"not to mention loss of human liberty."

That liberty is only made possible by those willing to step up and do their civic duty.

If there is going to be a 'service' and there has to be in 2019, then it makes much better sense for everyone to serve.

The issues, to me are when we get into 'unneeded' interventions etc..

Perhaps people could 'chose their corps', because there'd surely be a lot of medics, non-combat Engineers, IT etc. volunteers.

Sweden, notably one of the most socialist countries on the planet does this out of obvious necessity: Russian on their doorstep. They stopped mandatory service and then re-started it again.

"and the benefits of these don't outweigh the costs, risks"

What costs and risks? To you? Or to the nation? It might actually be a lot cheaper. And I don't see any endemic risks in having everyone serve a couple of years.
Jamming should be enough. But depending on the frequencies used, one band might not be enough.
Evil Communist Islamic Fascist Caliphate of Mexico, Canada and China: "We're declaring war."

Drone operators in air-conditioned office buildings in Nevada: "Bring it."
The military will be there no matter what. The US spends $700/bn a year on it. This is a question of who takes part in it. A lot of modern countries have mandatory service,look at it this way,you pay mandatory tax which is a result of your labor in order to support government. This is a tax except you pay directly by labor.
Social norms tend to get suspended when mugged by reality. In your scenario, given no other supply of men (foreigners, old men) I would expect polygamy to become tacitly acceptable.
How the heck would men dying make the next generation of men shorter?
Exactly this. No program can produce graduates to compete with experienced engineers. So it's not a threat to experienced engineers. It does force us though to keep learning, otherwise we might well find ourselves in competition with people with less experience.
It occurs to me that it's entirely possible CQ would sort the comments by alphabetical order of the commenter before submitting them in bulk, still not sure where it's from but that seems a likely explanation.
Maybe the military should just be tasked with more civil service work during times of peace. Then people will notice the absence of this work during times of war, putting political pressure towards ensuring wars are short and extremely justified.
> Unless the Python language specification is specific about this case

No there's no such thing called Python language specification. Every implementation of Python is based on CPython. This also leads to the sad fact that every non-CPython implementation has to provide C API that's compatible with CPython if they want to be adopted widely.
"be sure you're ready for that level of intervention before you ask for this level of investigation."

There's no good reason not to, for example, have every car use a breathalyzer to start the engine -- those driving drunk on occasion would protect themselves from DUIs, lives would be saved, etc. Or to implement other, similar deep regulations. But the ideology around cars ("freedom"), vs. planes ("safety"), is too different to allow for such levels of intervention.
Thanks for the reminder, three investigations. It’s been awhile and FNAEB was always a terrifying word that imprinted on my brain. Accepting responsibility was definitely a key part of Naval aviation.
I briefly looked at those links. The first one, "Beliefs and Attitudes toward Vegetarian Lifestyle across Generations", says in the introduction

"Younger people significantly agreed more with the moral reason and with the environmental reason. People ages 41–60 significantly agreed more with the health reason. [i.e. not in absolute terms, just compared with other age groups]

A study publish[sic] in 1992 found that the highest number of vegetarians, 46 percent, chose a vegetarian diet for health reasons, 15 percent chose to be a vegetarian for animal rights reasons, 12 percent for friend/family influence, 5 percent for ethical reasons, 4 percent for environmental issues and 18 percent indicated other reasons.."

Their study:

"The objective of the study was to examine whether reasons to adopt vegetarian lifestyle differ significantly among generations. ...This cross-sectional, observational study was completed at Andrews University which is a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) institution of higher learning. SDA represent a unique population known for their wide range of dietary habits. This conservative religious group prohibits the use of alcohol, tobacco, and pork and recommends that members adhere to lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet. ...Participants were drawn from a large undergraduate introductory-level nutrition class that is open to students from all academic directions."

So, 609 people at a Seventh-Day Adventist college who'd signed up for a nutrition class. That seems a super-bizarre, unrepresentative group to study for the purpose. And in Figure 1, the "Health" reason seems to be the strongest reason given, for every age group.

The other link is to a picture, which seems to be an Australian event, Veganuary, I guess trying to get people to sign up to be vegan in January? Anyway, that says people who signed up for that gave 43% "animals" and 39% "health" reasons, 10% environment, 8% other. They're mostly not vegetarians or vegans, it also says in the picture.

Neither of those two, and particularly not the first, seem to suggest that vegetarians and vegans are principally concerned with animal ethics - even if one assumes they're what they're not, perfectly representative of the beliefs of the entire population of the planet, or your country, or whatever region you're talking about. Still, they were interesting, thanks.
Many countries don't actually have military conflicts though.

In many countries (Korea, Israel), they are defending their homeland. American military has been engaging in military conflicts all around the world, and right or not, many may disagree with them.
Is it possible that taller men were selected for the first war? (I have no particular position on this, but if we're asking the question, let's think seriously about it.) World War I and II were about 20 years apart, so it seems just barely plausible that, if soldiers from the first war did not pass on their genes, and taller men were selected as soldiers, then the average height might have decreased based on genetic factors alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription

The majority of the developed world has no mandatory service, and "look at the society" in all of those places, many of which border Switzerland that you mentioned as an exemplar. Are Iceland, the Netherlands, or Canada violent hellholes of tribal insularity? No, and they didn't need conscription. Meanwhile there are plenty of horrible places with mandatory conscription, per the maps on Wikipedia.

You can't magically make people love each other by putting them in proximity or the middle east would not currently be on fire.

Particularly in America, mandatory conscription would be a fantastic way to get people to resent the government more than they already do, which is probably currently at an all-time high.

Finally, you go serve if you want to, but it's tyranny to tell other people what they have to do, esp. when you're talking about many months or years of their life. What's next, mandatory church? Wouldn't that also be great for society, according to some opinions. Church attendance, also, is extremely high in South Korea, are you sure it's the conscription and not the Church responsible for the society you admire?
No, it means countries would be much more willing to negotiate a fair deal rather than die over it. Why would you start a war over resources when you can cheaply buy them.
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes Democratic Party Failures
A solution to a problem that doesn't exist
I heard most recruits join for the college money anyways? When the country goes to war,it's this class of people that fight and the rest of the country that doesn't take part just stands from a distance and thanks you for your service. Mandatory service can change how the country thinks about war and external conflicts.
Steve Jobs make a joke about foldable phones, and those 2 actually made it... spending billions on RnD in the process...
I'm glad to see Jigsaw tackling the UX side of things, but some caveats about shadowsocks (the protocol backing Outline): it's an encrypted proxy, not a VPN, and there are some open questions about weaknesses (not necessarily flaws) in its design[1].

I think easy-to-manage platforms like Outline will probably be the future, but I'm not convinced that shadowsocks is the right foundation.

[1]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/39776/evaluatung-...
Good news! There already is no draft.
Equating compulsory military service with slavery as it has been experienced in this country is disingenuous. Getting paid vs. not paid, universal vs. race based, done by all vs. forced by one group onto another for the purposes of economic extortion and fundamental oppression...

I do think that military service is a bad idea; but that some kind of civil national guard / social service like EMT, nursing, and service to the poor and elderly might go a long way to bringing the country closer.
Mandatory slavery on cotton farms will alleviate so many social problems in the US.

* It will teach people how to take orders from masters.

* They will develop a sense of brotherhood and friendship when forced to work in hot sun all day.

* Since slaves are chosen randomly it will not be linked to race.

* A lot more people would be exposed to real work in the field instead of sitting before TV all day.

* America is dying as a result of extreme social fragmentation, ice caps are melting global warming is increasing (put your favourite dooms day prediction here), but moving millions away from consumption to hard work will be great.

On a serious note, there is no good reason why a perfectly good human being should join something as ridiculous as American Military. It is large camp where you convert human beings into order taking zombies who then go to godforesaken countries to die for absolutely no good reason other than transferring taxpayer money to defence contractor. (Of course there might be people joining it for personal interests etc. and in that case it is a perfectly good career choice.)

In general I think USA should frown upto military and linking military to patriotism or virtue. It is just a goddamn job.
Easy - kill more tall men than short men. The offspring of the remaining men will be shorter.

It's like how fishing for big fish makes the remaining fish population shrink over time.
Check out Keith's project's page - https://keithclark.co.uk/ - and his lastest js1k entry - https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/js1k-2019-flux/final/

He's a clever guy
Is there an option for "western" phones?
But the poor would be less than likely to take side with rich against other poor people?
Which is why one needs to be cooking for themselves as I have while eating my--coincidentally enough--made from scratch spaghetti and meatballs for dinner tonight.
My driveway gets covered with them.

They love cooking on that black top.
Who said everyone needs to take a foreign trip or have a combat role?
There are multiple European contriea with compulsory service as well. I dont know off the cuff all of them, but I'm pretty sure Switzerland still requires service of all able bodied men for 2 years.

Thing is, in the US, we have the 14th amendment to the Constitution, that among other things, guarantees equal protection under law based upon sex. This ruling was long overdue, even before the female combat restriction was removed. In a time of need for a draft, there are still plenty of non-combat roles to be filled.
Violent conflict is one of the most fundamental interactions between living creatures. It is terrible in the same sense that death and taxes are terrible, but that is no reason to shield people from the social customs surrounding death, or the payment of taxes.
> Look at how the society is in countries with mandatory military service (S. Korea,Switzerland to name two)

And China, and Russia, and Thailand, and North Korea...

You really can't simplify something that huge. There are pros and cons. Even Israel's military, often one of the first countries bandied about for compulsory service, has seen negative side-effects from the implications of compulsory service. If you just conscript everybody, often they'll perform poorly because they're not really motivated to make it their career. And often religious or other reasons will cause people to want to find a different way to serve, or they'll end up draft-dodging.

With regard to the US, conscripting is a very quick way to make the "undesireable" parts of society "more useful" without actually doing anything to support those populations. The US military often chews up poor people and then doesn't support them once their tour is over. So this policy would have very real oppressive effects on certain populations.

Here's a list of all countries and their military service policies: https://www.quora.com/What-countries-presently-require-manda...
The US already has a good blood distribution system so I doubt many lives would be saved by adding drones. Our major problem is convincing enough eligible people to donate.
Chargebacks are for disputes, not fraud. Provided the merchant did not incur liability by doing something immensely stupid and insecure, the bank is on the hook. If the perpetrator is caught, they will pay restitution to the bank.
Should also check out wiby.me, it is a search engine that only contains lightweight websites.
The US has a peaceful presence in many countries. I’m pretty sure that’s what OP is talking about.
> which gives its guarantees per node

There is no such thing, because Nodes (and even entire datacenters) can fail.

In other words, node failure is an infrastructure problem that is best NOT handled by your bespoke application code. Replacing failed nodes should NOT be custom code in your app, that way lies madness.

> kind of looks like K8s wants to invent Erlang/OTP for infrastructure

You can say "K8s and Erlang implement similar ideas implemented at different levels." But you can't pretend one is a substitute for the other, nor that "Erlang has done everything that K8s can do."

E.g. Writing in Erlang doesn't magically get you:

- deploy/upgrade of the Erlang runtime, including rollback + multiple versions co-existing, including any compiled foreign code (which is required in the article).
- ability to log, monitor, probe and reroute the connections between services -- In a standard way such that the application doesn't have to be modified.("service mesh")
- Ability for an entire ecosystem of tools to inspect the versions of your application services that are deployed, because it's exposed as an API.
- A standard ecosystem of plug-ins for operators (autoscale, autoscale to EC2 spot instances, capacity planning, "best practices" of running a MySQL cluster, etc.) None of these should ever be mixed with the application. (Unless you are Kelsey Hightower: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/hello-universe )
On the contrary: what politician in their right mind would vote in favor of a senseless, needless war? No matter what district or state you're from, the people voting would remember that you sent their kids into a war zone. In a generation, most voters would have served and be able to recognize a bullshit war.

Iraq would have been a political impossibility.
Apple invests a lot into security and performance R&D.
Same here. Still thinking about this Nietzsche quote: “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” [That I consider a valid explanation of why Twitter is so damn great!... [1]]

[1]: ... once you have curated your perfect list of "following".
Just to be clear. I'm equating compulsary service of any kind, military, civil, or whatever, with slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Forced_labour
I disagree. For me, I'd be a lot more of willing to accept an order that could get me killed if I has signed up voluntarily. If you press me into service & then order to me to charge in the direction from which the bullets are flying, I'm much more likely to tell you to go eff yourself.

To look at it a different way, would you rather be shoulder to shoulder with people who had all signed up willingly, or with people who had been drafted against their will?
That was the theory. The fittest were selected for combat, and as they got ground into hamburger the less selective the drafting went.

For a similar example, initially WW1 pilots were selected from the nobility. Once those got massacred, the various Air Forces had to abandon that idea, and allow commoners in. The subtext of the movie "The Blue Max" was about that transition.

(The life expectancy of a British WW1 RAF pilot was 6 weeks. There's also a movie about that, "The Dawn Patrol".)

This also happened to the officers, which ended the notion of officers being restricted to nobility.
PEGs have the same downsides the parser combinators have. If you put things in the wrong order you can have programs that work most of the time but do the wrong thing on a corner case or in a parsing ambiguity.
LuaJIT is the same, as is V8 (at least with Ignition & TurboFan). The article's assumption that fewer instructions = faster does not necessarily apply to these implementations, but is approximately correct for CPython (because it's a simple bytecode interpreter).
Certainly this would be less of a stigma considering 75% of men would be gone.
> (S. Korea,Switzerland to name two)

Here's a couple more: North Korea, Turkey, Egypt, Colombia
Jackkamm/undo-propose-el: Safe undo navigation in emacs
Here's an answer: You experience your own experience because it is the only way to understand what it is to be you. If you also experienced the experiences of others, you would understand instead what it means to be that amalgamation of experience.

We know that a human being can survive with large portions of their brain missing. Entire hemispheres in fact. You understand what it is to be the amalgamation of experiences from both hemispheres, but the hemispheres don't understand what it is to be that experience, they only know the experience of being a hemisphere.
>tarball installs is pretty much close to the state of Windows app installations.

Except that they're hard to install for a novice user.

>You have to find the bloody things, download them each time and hope you have found the right one and not a trojaned one. Each one needs its own update routine and will not be updated when the rest of the system is updated.

None of those are problems for me, the actual problems are: installing all the dependencies and then executing the make commands. Both of those could be solved with a well designed API.

>The Windows and Apple software distribution model is archaic compared to all Linux/BSD etc distros.

The Windows and apple software distribution works for all my use cases, the Linux model doesn't (eg: if I want many versions of the same package, if I want a package that isn't included in the repos, etc).

Also, from a philosophical and aesthetical point of view, the Windows & Mac distribution model is better: you get your OS from the OS developer, and you get your specific-use applications from the developer of said application. You are not dependent on a single entity that supposedly knows what you need better than you.
Men outside of mandatory service ages can father children.