skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that maybe GP has a better intuition about the systems effects of advertising, that you haven't fully considered?

- Advertising is a major driver of material consumption, much of which is unnecessary.

- Material consumption drives economic growth. There's also intellectual property, and there's the service industry, but even those contribute indirectly to material consumption.

- Economic growth and socioeconomic growth are unquestioned foundations of virtually every "civilized" society, but they make no sense. Growth works great... until at some point it doesn't.

Obligatory Albert Bartlett video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZA9Hnp3aV4

Obligatory Eric Weinstein video segment, focusing more on what he calls "EGO"s... embedded [unacknowledged] growth obligations. (Ignore the other three people in the video... even Jordan Peterson is completely out of his league in this "discussion".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagNM_oxssE#t=27m47s

The only criticism I'd make against GP's claim is that the advertising industry is just one spoke in the global wheel of impossible growth and consumption. GP's claim is not nutty, it's too narrow and limited. Ogilvy and Saatchi are only footsoldiers.

The only way this game of musical chairs ends without tears is if we luck into some awesome technology that leads to post-scarcity economics. That doesn't seem very likely from my perspective, except if we create AGI and AGI figures it out, but then AGI is an existential risk while economic collapse is just at worst a 100-200 year setback.
-Do you break the laws?

-No!

-How many laws and regulations are there currently to follow?

-???

-Then how can you be sure you follow them all?

The police are not your friends and unsolicited interaction with the Police can only harm you, not help. Their priority is not to help or protect anyone but the government system.
We should kill FM Radio stations already and use the frequency for these kind of things. The range and data-rates are excellent and the power consumption is low. If you want to listen to music or the news while in your car, LTE is cheaper than ever.
The "depleting" US industrial base is producing 2x what it was producing in 1990: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO :)

Which is pretty good growth, all things considered.

Mini-rant, feel free to ignore:

The alternative perspective which assumes total US industrial domination up to the present day (MAGA/Trump) is quite irrational considering world history: the US had almost no real industrial competition post-WW2 when all the other industrialized countries were either:

* shattered by wars in their homelands

* or completely cut-off from the rest of the world for 50 years...

So the industrial prowess of the US 1950 - 1970 (relative to the rest of the world) isn't coming back, now we're just headed for a normal equilibrium. One in which the US is still doing quite well from an industrial point of view.
> separate bag that apparently is recycled

This is a common misconception. The yellow bin (Gelbe Tonne) is not about recycling at all. The point is that, in Germany, producers of packaging need to pay a fee per packaging that goes towards disposing of the used packaging, through the Green Dot (Grüner Punkt) system. The yellow bin is therefore paid by them, as opposed to by consumers.

This is why the yellow bin is not being described as accepting specific materials, it's explicitly described as accepting packaging (both plastic and paper/carton).

When you put a non-packaging plastic item into the yellow bin, it counts as an "intelligent misthrow" (intelligenter Fehlwurf), which is one of my favorite pieces of jargon.
Bob Moog: The synthesizer pioneer who brought electronic music to the masses
Is watching this documentary still useful after having read Bernays' Propaganda?
Coulomb forces are much weaker at the ends of highly elliptical nuclei. We've always assumed atomic nuclei are spherical. They are not. Iron nuclei have ends where the Coulomb forces are two orders of magnitude lesser than assuming a spherical shape would predict.
Show HN: Embedded text-mode browser with JavaScript run in cloud
> What can one expect Apple to do

on macOS/Windows/Linux people can inspect apps and malicious apps will be discovered by hackers and reported in the news.

on iOS, Apple build a walled garden where nobody can see what happens under the hood. Zero transparency, and no way to opt-out. A perfect environment for misuse/abuse to go unnoticed.
I think it's a reference to Fukuyama's "end of history." It's not that history or mobile computing reached their end, but that the significant conflicts between world views and computing platforms are over. In history, the West won the Cold War. In computing, mobile won.
It's the end of growth in mobile, though he doesn't really make that explicit.
For a long list of reasons that aren't especially pertinent to this discussion, no, I basically don't ever tell anyone in my personal life "Oh my God, you've gotta try this, it's so good."

I'm happy to talk to people in an informational way about a lot of things, but I basically think it is unconscionably rude to try to essentially dictate food choices or similar to anyone for any reason at any time or otherwise put them on the spot where they might need to turn me down and then have to wrestle with whether or not to divulge medical information or other personal info that I might not yet be privy to.

I do this in part because there is a long history of me just making small talk and, to my horror, people jumping on it like it was excellent advice and it going weird, weird places.

I've wrestled a lot with the question of "where does good communication end and manipulation begin?" precisely because I place a high value on self determination and respecting boundaries, yet have all too often had people react to my words as if I were trying to make them do X. It's often not only weird, but also some manner of train wreck.

I knew a woman going through a divorce who was feeling old and ugly etc. I casually joked that the cure for that was a younger lover. My real point was "Oh, don't let your ex make you feel that way. His opinions no longer count." But the next thing I knew, she had a younger boyfriend.

We weren't even friends. We were casual acquaintances and she treated me terribly every step of the way, which just added to the WTF?? factor.

I bring those same rubrics to my paid writing, so I try to be very informational and explain what x product is good for and who might want it and why. But I'm very clear that if I do that well, there are people who will find my words compelling and promptly jump on it.

I sincerely believe you simply cannot neatly and cleanly distinguish powerful and effective communication from intentional manipulation. If I make the case strongly and effectively enough that this is good for x, there will be people who will jump on that without further thought.
Regardless of veracity of OP's claims on Twitter, it's worth noting he sells "bone broth" and other animal-derived health and fitness products. There's always a dog in the fight somewhere.
A horrible Rails-speak affectation. But it is well documented!

https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html
And we're talking about a trade war that the US started and then escalated, what do you expect China to respond?
We solved this by explicitly making the code examples non-copy-pasteable at all, for example include strings like "<put your URL here>" and things like that, so they won't even work by accident.
I wish there was a lower price brackets for smaller side projects / app etc.
Something like a "pay-as-you-go" sort of price, as in, 50$ per 10000 views but not capped to a month.
I think your approach works a lot with the sort of philosophy from the lean startup etc, but that sort of philosophy encourages to put products to the public with very little user and focus on quality.
If I make a side project that brings me 100$ a month, paying 50$ for analytics seems too much. Also, the sort of user that do such side / small projects might end up championing your products in their main job if it's nice.
You should be looking at the POSIX specification, and assuming anything GNU awk documents on top of that is an extension: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk...
as a software dev, not having to deal with other browsers is a blessing. countless hours wasted on debugging various browsers gets massively reduced.
second point, moving the conversation from "<browser x> hasn't caught up" to "everyone's caught up" helps the web focus on technologies more so than before. discussions should now concentrate almost exclusively around the next web technologies, no more competition regarding web engines, more competition regarding web technologies. clear win imo.

as a biz dev, it's a bit saddening to see a lot of browser competitors go down the drain. but this also means that the possibility of disruption will be much higher in the future. so this is a win for biz dev as well?
And here is the ungolfed version:

awk '{ if (! visited[$0]) { print $0; visited[$0] = 1 } }'
Exactly - the alternative would be that students were doing worse or exactly the same despite having the huge benefits from new technology, teaching methods, resources etc.

That would be far more concerning.

As a personal example - KhanAcademy launched the year before I went to University and helped me a lot as it meant I could be fully confident of my calculus and linear algebra skills (we studied these topics in Further Maths but not multivariate calculus etc.)
These Chinese gov did't intend to ban academics, but political materials. But since they value their own benefits much higher than the benefits of academics to the Chinese people, they ban all the things, maybe because it's not technically easy to just ban individual pages given the huge amount of the materials. That's a very bad thing to ban the free Internet access.
It has always amazed me how modern tools and languages can empower a single developer to do what large teams used to spend years building a few decades ago.
The CDAPI barely worked when it was released. It worked but poorly to the point that the Java Devs would have better not bothered at all. It's such a poor story for DOM Interaction that it effectively does not exist. Everyone prefered to use some UI library to render UI themselves.
Previous administrations tried to appease the CCP, hoping to cajole them into at least a moderate stance on human rights, etc. But the CCP is not a live and let live sort of organization, and merely took advantage of these policies to further their interests and wage a one sided trade war.
You lost me on "free agents", under the kind of system of advertising and PR we are under there is a very narrow window of "free agency".
Beware all examples in this don't cover ipv6. Should you have an ipv6 address, you are not using the vpn for most of your connections.

Sadly most Wireguard howtos don't cover ipv6.
That seems to suggest people in China are receiving deliveries from restaurants within walking distance. Quality of food gets worse the longer it sits in a portable container. Chinese food especially. Deliveries are unlikely to travel much distance, given the traffic condition of Chinese cities.
While I agree it should be more obvious, it does say in the opening section:

> Those functions that are specific to gawk are marked with a pound sign (‘#’). They are not available in compatibility mode (see section Command-Line Options)
Much more readable and understandable.
So paragraph tags have hierarchical names, and there is a contacts manager. Two main reasons to go with hyperbole.
> packages were built to not break their API

That's a lovely sentiment, but it doesn't help much when you've got no consistency between checkouts and builds are failing because of upstream changes that the code you're trying to work with doesn't even know it's using, and to try to fix an issue first requires you to spend days dealing with bitrot.

Here are some principles: 1. only the team working on a component should be able to break the build of that component. 2. Components should not break outside of commits.

The truth is, that your 'API' ends up being every part of your behavior that is relied on by your dependents and their dependents, ad infinitum, and it's almost impossible to make improvements without breaking such an API. Sometimes bugs are part of your de facto API.

It's one thing to say 'people shouldn't depend on these features, look it even says so in the doc', but should and shouldn't are moral judgements, what is and what is not are the distinctions that drive whether your development and release process are fit for purpose.

> I disagree with the idea that sticking with a specific version of a dependency is a good solution, it creates more problems than it solves

Well, there can be debate on the volume of problems on either side, but some other ecosystems attack this with tooling that can automate the process of getting notified that there's an upstream change, rebuilding with the new version, running the automated tests, and making it super easy to accept a commit updating the dependencies if the tests all work.
Depends what you mean by "big", but between Docker, Influx, Cockroach, etcd, all the hashicorp projects (consul, nomad, terraform), caddy, grafana, bolt, etc., there's a fair number of pretty big golang project around.

And most of them seemed pretty happy with dep...
Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack at a Time
There is an undeniable conflict between an article published in a publication financially sponsored by a given industry and the results that benefit that industry.

A study has shown that studies funded by a particular industry are 85 times more likely to bring results that favor the funding industry, so money has a huge influence.

The tobacco industry used this tactic for decades, the strategy is simple. To question the claims that a product is unhealthy, without ever actually denying it.

All they have to do is create doubt, and the public will be confused, throw their hands up in the air and eat whatever.

In the words of a famous memo leaked in the tobacco industry: "doubt is our business".

Here is a summary of the multiple tactics used by the tobacco industry, one of them is precisely to publish studies that aim at raising doubt, without actually addressing the health concerns - https://www.who.int/tobacco/media/en/TobaccoExplained.pdf

But I don't know if that is why the article was taken down, I'm just speculating. Probably the flagging happens automatically, after a certain number of manual flags.

Indeed there is a lack of transparency about why certain articles are taken down, at least a reason should be given.
I am Chinese, living in China and have been pro-U.S / democracy my whole life. But the recent actions by Trump government, U.S corporations, Fedex etc., and academics (IEEE etc.) made me angry.
The U.S government provided no evidence of Huawai spying or backdoor but acted hysterically to kill Huawei. And your corporations and intellectuals are helping it.

And there are lots of Chinese like me feel the same. Trump and his China haters are pushing away a large group of influential Chinese elites in all different professions, intellectuals, government officials, (yes, there are a lot of pro-U.S / democracy government officials in China), entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors even who used to admire the U.S.

This is far more damaging... There will be cost.
MacKenzie Bezos Pledges More Than Half Her $37B Fortune to Charity
I love this idea, but the practicality of it all does depend a lot on the language used to describe the diagrams. I have seen impressive "single file" LaTeX articles, where the figures were carefully crafted in Tikz, and the source code of the figures was all but readable.
If you are ever in Japan, IMHO, it is really interesting to go both to the Hiroshima peace memorial museum and the Yasukuni shrine war museum in Tokyo. The contrast is really interesting, especially wrt the interpretation of the end of WWII in Japan. I think it's fair to say that whoever you talk to there is a fair amount of propaganda pushing one, mostly political, view over another.

What I can say with some certainty is that after the war more than 1 million people in Japan died of starvation due to the combined effects of the US blockade during the war and the poor food distribution system in Japan at the time. In fact, Japan's protectionist agricultural system of today is based on measures put in place by the occupational government, designed to ensure that such a famine could not occur again.

Japan was already beaten by the time the atomic bombs were dropped. Firebombing would have been completely unnecessary. The US just needed to wait. The main issue, of course, was whether or not there would have been a conditional surrender or an unconditional surrender. Similarly talks of land invasions and militia trying to defend the main islands is also interesting, but actually pretty unrealistic. If you can find it, I recommend reading "Barefoot Gen" which is a manga about the time period written by someone who survived it. It is available in English.

As someone who now makes Japan his home (and hopefully eventually obtain citizenship), I am of mixed feelings about the end of the war. It worked out the way it worked out and I think people would be hard pressed to say that the outcome was ultimately bad for Japan. I suspect that Japan was even dramatically better off for having lost the war. Hindsight is 20:20, of course. However, I think the rationalisation of the use of atomic weapons is pretty darn thin. The argument that it saved lives is incredibly speculative and really not based in any realistic evaluation of the situation at the time. Even today there is a lot of propaganda flying around. I try not to second guess that decision. Whatever reasons there were, it happened the way it did. However, I don't think we need to perpetuate the image of America doing no wrong. We don't have to rationalise the decision. It was what it was.
Trump's shutdown of Huawei is a tactical blinder. I can see no move China can make in response that won't end up harming them more than it will the US. China's mercantilist trade policy of the past 40 years is coming back to bite them, just like it did in the 19th century.
In the case of Chrome, you can't blame Google. They made a good browser, did some marketing and it got popular.

However the current situation is worrisome, because alternative implementations are dying and in the case of the web, diversity is important.

Both Opera and Microsoft's Edge are now powered by Chromium. Chromium is a project controlled by Google. Its redeeming quality, in terms of its open source nature, is the ability to fork, however competitors such as Microsoft proved that they no longer have the capacity to develop a modern browser.

At this point the only remaining alternatives are Firefox and Safari.

I think nowadays Firefox is a much better browser and that Mozilla is better at guarding my interests, so I would use Firefox even if it weren't a better browser, however the market isn't necessarily interested in that.
> Police in other countries usually works out of a desire to help.

From my experience in India, Unless you are rich, you should try to stay away from police as much as possible, cause they can really fuck your life up.
Honestly that page isn't great at showing up in search results, but in any case -- POSIX can be too restrictive. I don't specifically recall an example for awk, but when every implementation supports something then it's a de-facto standard. If you follow POSIX then you become over-restricted compared to any shell you'll actually encounter. It'd be really nice if there was a page that showed the actual common features between various implementations of POSIX tools, not just the POSIX official features...
Mark Shuttleworth on Taking Canonical Public
This made it even worse (everything was one line). I tried changing "Fedora Linux" to Fedora, and even that doesn't work.

CSS!
I would point out that there _are_ consumer-grade chips with AVX-512 beyond the Xeons and Cannonlake: the Skylake-X chips such as i7-7800X, which even happen to have 2 512-bit FMA units, unlike some of the cheaper Xeons.

I will point out three things that make the Sunny Cove exciting to me, beyond the obvious new instructions (based on the available slides):

- There are now two ports for vector shuffles. For shuffle-heavy applications, which is often the case with bit-manipulation kernels, this is great news. This seems improved from Cannonlake.

- This was already present on the Cannonlake, but integer division is drastically improved, and goes from ~30ish uops to 4. Divisions that could take up to 90 cycles will now take <=18.

- There are now 4 LEA ports, up from 2, which for address calculation and small integer multiplications are quite useful.
The tradeoff of this solution is it stores all (unique) lines in memory. If you have a large file with a lot of unique lines you might prefer using `sort -u`, although it doesn’t keep the order.
Are you suggesting ray marching the object instead of drawing 2D shapes?
That's what most of us do in the UK though self-employed contractors use a third-party firm just for billing which is just a few quid a week.

Though that link is just showing how incompetent MS Hr was - when it happened I recall having a good laugh with some Colleagues who work in HR/IR
It seems this is for mathematical diagrams (X,Y or Venn), am I right? I was wondering if I could make flowcharts, mindmaps or uml diagrams with it. Mermaid.js is nice but limited.
Doesn't sort require keeping lines in memory as well?
In fact, doesn't sort keep all lines in memory, whereas this awk solution just keeps the unique lines.
but but Journalists are special :-)
Or maybe better:

awk '! visited[$0] { print $0; visited[$0] = 1 }'
Of course I'm a huge fan of philanthropic initiatives like this and I hope more people do get involved but I also want to mention there's no reason to wait and that there are more and less effective ways to give in order to do the most good (as in have the highest impact) with your money. If you're a founder or have equity, I recommend checking out Founders Pledge (https://founderspledge.com/). If you're someone who wants to just do good as an individual, I recommend checking out Giving What We Can which helps individuals direct their donations to effective causes that are the highest impact possible based on their assessment (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/giving-recommendations/)

If you're just looking for a more impactful career, then 80K hours has a job board and great resources/quizzes to help point you in the right direction (https://80000hours.org/)
King of the Iron Throne
THat'd be great, though there are many issues to handle:

- packages don't have the same name across distributions: python or python2? python or python3?

- most binaries don't have the same checksum (except scripts that aren't compiled: not many files)

- paths tend to change across distriutions: usual Linux has /bin/bash, FreeBSD has /usr/local/bin/bash, NixOS has... something else.

The closest I can think of are the per-distro databases, along with security advisories:

- warning: huge page hxxps://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages ; https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long

- https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/packages/ https://security.archlinux.org/

- http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/ https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html + http://vuxml.freebsd.org/

- etc.
Check the sponsors of the multiple organizations linked in the About page, here is one - https://academic.oup.com/af/pages/About