skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your focus on consumer gadgets is incredibly narrow and overlooks so many other things where innovation happens and brings true progress to the world.

Also, you can't stop human curiosity and the drive to improve and compete. There has always been progress in arts, science and technology throughout history, no matter what political or theological system reigned at that time.
These days, Africans might have no running water but they have mobile phones. Sounds like a (slight) increase in the standard of living. Definitely "trickle down", maybe not "economy" but at least "technology" (which is what ultimately counts on the long run - we don't care who was rich in Ancient Greece, but we do care about their technology).
Given 60% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings, you are proposing they keep spending rather than saving more? makes sense.
It's fundamentally meaningless to compare nominal GDP between different years because of changes in the value of money. The current GDP of Japan is only nominally less than in 1995 because the values are measured on different scales.

The Great Depression would have been a better example to use because even real GDP declined drastically.
Exactly, also what about E-Mail accounts from the 90s of which I hardly remember the spelling? What about usenet? Oh, and I must guarantee that everything is correct.

If this applies also for the visitor visa, this is really not good news.

I don't care that they ask about why I visit, about the person I visit, what is my relationship to that and more personal questions. But it's starting to get a bit too much.
Love it. Exactly what I've been dreaming of
> snew.notabug.io
That's what the mod see probably?

I wonder what's the accuracy of this algorithm
Because Japan Times says, "Oh, it's been days since we published an article on hikihomori" and publish another one. People who read Japan Times, then post it all over the place (not just HN). It gets voted up on HN for 2 reasons I think. First, there are a lot of people who use social media (like HN) as a crutch for dealing with their own mental health issues. Because they spend a lot of time trying to learn how to become healthy, they are interested in a lot of things like this (and it's not just hikikomori -- it's depression, and schizophrenia, etc, etc). Just look at all posts about various drugs and diet relating to mental health on HN.

The other reason is because some people like to bash Japan (and increasingly Korea it seems to me). I don't really like the word "racist" here because it really doesn't fit, I think. It's more culturist. Some people really hate the culture and think it's wrong, so they promote stories that show it in a bad light. I would say equally prevalent are people who unduly love the culture and promote stories that show it in a good light. There are tons of overly optimistic stories about Japan on HN.

Japan Times makes money from this second category (people who unduly hate Japanese culture and people who unduly love Japanese culture) and so post a ridiculous amount of trashy articles about these kinds of things. If you really want to understand Japanese culture well, I would advise avoiding it as much as possible. They are only in it to whip up emotion as far as I can tell.
Only OTP login is not MFA
I think this is horrible advice, and while it’s anecdotal I’ve seen no reason to suggest that not writing code comments leads to higher quality code.

I once managed a developer who at a time could have written this very blogpost. He was also a big fan of the solid principles, and I think he generally wrote good code. I actually also agree with parts of the article. If you name your properties and functions in a reasonable way, then you don’t need a comment telling the future what you put in firstName on an employee object or what getEmployees() does. When it comes to business logic and intend, however, you need to help the future. My developer learned this the hard way when some business logic changed and he had to fix a system he had written a couple of years earlier. Suddenly the once so clear code wasn’t clear anymore, and he had to spent a week reintroducing himself to exactly what intent had gone into making the system. Maybe he was just bad at practicing what he preached, but he started writing code comments after that.

And that’s someone unable to get into their own mindset, it’s much, much worse if the code is handed off to someone else. If I task two developers with solving the same problem, as clear as they possible can using self-explaining code. Well, I’ll get two very different results, because what clear code is, is very subjective.
Science institute that advised EU and UN 'actually industry lobby group'
I Only Live for the Weekend
If they get their island back, why don't the Native Americans get their whole countries back too?
They're not. Inflation adjusted, Endgame's about to beat Avatar. Only Gone with the Wind is ahead. There's tons more money out there now.
Accusing a non-marxist that he is clueless about marxism is not that big of a thing. The demise of marxism (at least in the Western world) started when clueless people like Marcuse started riding on its wave without having any idea what they were talking about.

And on the back of clueless intellectuals like Marcuse you have today's pseudo-intellectuals (including people like Peterson) who ignore the big marxist elephant in the room: the fact that poor people are being exploited by the rich to this very day, instead they are focusing their intellectual "fights" on irrelevant things (like being a feminist or an anti-feminist).

To point back to the article, we have no Zola of our times.
Fold does not always have an initial value either. The Wikipedia article linked in the post to which you responded says as much.
I read it that way too, but it's sort of understandable that a free tier user is not going to get the same "customer care" as someone who regularly leaves let's say 50K USD with them.
They will link the accounts by IP (and other fingerprinting), and you will get banned.
I’ve run into issues with sites failing to validate .io addresses.
Most of the softwares like Slack are pretty much the same (Monday, Trelloa, Asana etc)

The difficult part is that you need to find the software that suits your business needs.
Gives one ideas about a novel with a plot based on an insane ecoterrorist group that poisons huge stretches of the earth with radioactive isotopes in a bet it causes less damage than the humans would have.
Decentralized and based on blockchain. Something like steem but with lower barrier of entry.
But a lot of countries have laws which say that you can be prosecuted upon your return for doing anything outside of the country which is illegal inside the country.
I don't work in the middle east anymore for a reason...there is no changing some things until there is leadership from the top
My experience is that trying to build "the silver bullet" always inevitably results in reinventing the wheel by finding a piece of software which solves the same problems after weeks of coding. That's probably why the classical "Unix admin approach" -- a collection of scripts to manage textual config files -- is probably the most flexible one, when combined with standard (for file formats, versioning, etc -- depends on your preferences). Basic scripting with JSON/Yaml/tenplating/git/systemd/etc is the way I would setup larger computer systems nowadays. I've seen this being successful in institutes with ~200 users and according computing facilities.
ProtonMail's response to the allegations
https://protonmail.com/blog/martin-steiger-false-statements/
It seems unlikely to me that we'd acquire the ability to revive a brain from death before the state of medical technology advances sufficiently to repair nerve damage or regenerate organs. You could put a kind of guarantee into this by only having your head or brain preserved, so the minimum viable tech level for resurrection would be regrowing a body.

I'd be more concerned with the emotional and mental challenges of being revived centuries hence, which would be considerable to say the least.
Physicists create stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet in laboratory
It seems to me like they need to differentiate more strongly between "using social media" and "using the computer". If you only ever look through windows to spy on your neighbours then you'd come to the conclusion that windows are bad and you should limit your exposure to them, yet there's nothing wrong with an excavator driver staring through a window at the work they're doing.

> When I travel too often and move around all the time, there is a certain "up in the air" - emptyness - it feels as if I don't ever arrive anywhere, and I spend far too much time in airports and in transit.

I've absolutely had this. The whole world starts to feel unreal and I start to feel disconnected from everything. It really messes with my head.
Massive QE is the right answer -- markets are not controlled by average Joe, but by people who benefit form the QE.

Wasn't the crash timed with the FED tightening moves?
> Threaded chatrooms are actually a pretty cool alternative, and I would love for them to have more wide spread usage.

Is there any practical prototype or example of threaded real time chats?
You're dead wrong. I have an Apple Developer ID and that's all. The free one, you know. Those 99 you speak off are required to publish your software on Apple Store, not to deploy your software on your devices. Please inform yourself before.
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Sorry, I worded that poorly: fold usually does not have an initial value.
Google didn't invent whiteboard interviews. Microsoft was doing it way back in the early nineties.
Cryptocoin scamming on Twitter, a first-hand account
'I'm Getting Pulled Over'
Well, homogeny certainly makes a group far easier to lead, since disagreements will usually be on grounds that are way easier to reach a liveable compromise on.
New York City sees extraordinary leap in whale sightings
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You left out the part where we aren't getting laid.
I feel bored when I have to listen to boring conversations (or worse, monologues), and can't divide my attention without losing the thread.
I wish that Hollywood still made movies for the the 30+ non-geek audience of which I am a part of, I almost literally fell asleep during the last Avengers movie. There are some gems here and there (the last two Peele movies) but they are getting really far and few between.
Nah, learning where a ball will land takes years of training too.
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A long and badly curated list of software -- at least from some I know, such as Trello or Freedcamp, they follow very different paradigms then Slack. They want to solve another problem.

Slack pretends to be a child of IRC. There are plenty of contemporary chat room alternatives, such as Gitter, Matrix, IRCv3.
Can we stop linking to Oath family websites until they sort out the cookie policy UI?
Google Gets Ready for Legal Fight as U.S. Mulls an Antitrust Probe
What is the point of this kind of comment? Can you not see that its information content is zilch. How about telling us why you take this view and then we might not have wasted seconds reading something to no purpose.
Full disclosure: I am the author of MaxTo.

Have you looked at MaxTo? https://maxto.net

It does not work in the exact same manner as i3wm does; it lets you decide on a set of regions that windows are maximized into (the regions can be a non-uniform grid). This lets you focus on one task at a time. It has great support for hotkeys. At the moment I believe MaxTo is the closest you'll get to i3 on Windows.
for many, it is a huge ideological taboo to even consider distributing resources outside current investment/wage model
have you seen an avocados nowadays, a seed could easily fit in a mammals stomach.
It'll be interesting to see if consumers will avoid the MAX. If the EASA rubberstamps the FAA approval I will avoid the plane.
Maybe you're just being vague, but I don't think that's even possible. I would say the effect is more that that it can innapropriate supplement their understanding of reality in matters that aren't contradicted by reality -- high-minded concepts that are popular subjects of discussion, but very marginal in day-to-day living seem to often driven by experiences with fiction, and that might be inappropriate. (E.g., People often assume space travel is inevitable or far easier than it is due to fiction.)

On the other hand, so many kinds of error can be distilled down to a failure to understand the difference several orders of magnitude make, so I wouldn't blame fiction per se.
I wonder why some of those very senior engineers don't leave. Anyone who got to Senior Staff or Principal at Google has some very impressive accomplishments to their name. Transitioning to a CTO role in a smaller company wouldn't be difficult. Why settle for stasis?
> but there is serious packet loss at the least.

Can confirm with Gmail in Europe. Everything works but it's sluggish (i.e. no immediate reaction on button clicks).
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When signing into Office 365's admin portal for the first time, "Set passwords to never expire" is actually the first and only wizard-type suggestion that's presented as a best practice to get out of the way.

It's a nice reminder and the option is already pre-selected so you just have to click Save. I've gotten into the habit of doing this now even before configuring domains, users, etc.

The next logical step of course is to enable/enforce MFA for all users as a thorough auth policy.
I think people fear that the trouble in China is reduced global demand, not just the trade wars or a local problem.
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On the topic of gamification, I really like how Stack Overflow did it, with a focus on earned trust and good and dependable answers. For all its faults, I've never seen a site so great at solving actual problems, and not just within IT.
Swift is 5 years old and yields more results then rust who is 8 years old. You know you have a good one when it picks up and just goes. All of them 3, poor Rust is the most talked about in HN and yet is the least used in real world.
As for upwork skewing, you really have no idea what upwork is. They have absolutely zero interest to hide results as their money comes from those jobs people get hired for. So why would they cut their own revenue?
Tufte Bootstrap
The Chemistry of Coloured Glass
Oh my god, I just got that title. Thank you so much!
You can't daydream if you must focus your attention on something boring. I wonder if Einstein would have come up with Relativity if he had to write mind-numbing reports all day.
err that applys to any company/organization in any country. You just can’t break a countries laws and hope to get away with it.

If anything IEEE was too quick to move, but I am not their legal team.
Fair point, I just worry about the prevalence of "stealth" advertising. For me at least, the article seems to boil down mostly to "Look what my lifestyle book did for this person". But if others are getting value from it then who am I to judge :)
Slack actually has threaded chat, which was really useful when you needed to dig deeper into a topic but it wouldn't be relevant for everyone in the room at the time.
The New Tiananmen Papers
Hm, yes. I had that happen with a '#'. Presumably there was some nasty evaluation going on and the rest of the password was treated as a comment.

I wonder why I never pursued that.
> recently risen from poverty? Those quotes seem very Western-centric.

Thinking of rich people in Asia only as those "nouveau riches" you see glitzing their wealth in London and Dubai is also a very Western-centric view.

You have to remember that "rich foreigner" population you see in the West is less than 1 percent of 1 percent of their home countries' populations, and those usually go apart even from their home country definition of "rich people class."

This is even more true for bigger emerging economies: in India and China, an even bigger portion of relatively rich people is completely content with staying at home, and not seeing a reason-d'etre in immigration to the West or imitating Western lifestyles.

I was recently on assignment in Kazakhstan, where I rented a room in possibly the most expensive coworking space in the country. All people around used mid-tier Taiwanese brands. And those were the people who drived LC200s or G-Wagons.

I had same feeling in Pakistan, where I met people making country's small, budding middle class. All of them successful young professionals, with nice cars, settled down families, and expensive houses in Bahria towns. None of them ever cared of not owning a 20th iPhone or a 5Ghz gaming PC. Most cared more about household appliances, and not having to obsess about specs of stuff they buy. They like practical, simple, well done stuff with some whiff of nice design taste added.
Have you read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman? If not, give it a read. ^^
How would protecting a single website help? If the password is shared among different sites, and one of the sites turns out to be malicious, I'll be able to access your single website just fine by typing the sniffed password into your textbox, whereupon it can use however much hashing and encryption as it wants and it won't help.
American Hero and Stoic: Tokyo Rose?
I think you just jinxed it.
This is unfortunately not true - browsers are driving. Especially when entity everyone uses (Google) also owns the most popular browser. They can, and did, implement non-standard features that only worked in Chrome. Super cool tech demos, you have to see it, just install this browsers from an advertising company. What could go wrong?
Hmm... "Disregard externalities" as a form of defecting?
I guess that's pretty much the core point the author is trying to make, and your interpretation loses it. Like, it points out, that while I'm typing this comment it is going to change the state of the HN DB and maybe transfer some information to you and etcetera, but also I may feel differently after it's done. The author rather suggests the point of view that all these things don't really matter and the only thing that this comment is (from the personal standpoint) is an attempt to make me feel like I'm socializing...
A substantial portion of this text appears to be concerned with traditional Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (and its extensions).

I have gradually come to believe that ZF theory has received a disproportionate amount of attention on account of the fact that it serves as the "official" foundations of mathematics, but that it is not an especially beautiful, or useful, structure.

I believe that ZF theory is an interesting object, worthy of mathematical study, but _not_ the best candidate for the foundations of mathematics! I am very happy to see that this year's Chauvenet Prize [1] was won by Tom Leinster's "Rethinking set theory", in which he highlights that Lawvere set theory looks like a much better candidate. I cannot do better than recommend you look at Leinster's superb article.

[1] MAA, Chauvenet Prize, https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communit...

[2] Leinster, T., "Rethinking set theory", https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6543
I just don't see it. I've tried Steem and some others experimenting with it, and I'm not really impressed. Could you please give me some pointers as to how it would work? On the other hand, have you tried IPFS?
It's funny how the lisp/fp often remove irregularity, at the cost of abstraction [0], which makes people pulling their hair off to the point of going back to simpler but irregular separate logical tools. Even if they complain about it very .. regularly.

[0] some people can't bear lisp uniformity for instance.
Alternatively, New York and West Oakland have different norm enforcement behavior.

I think the phenomena you’re describing is not uniformly common.
The Armstrong Report was also authored by someone who had previously worked in the Knapp Commission, which investigated and exposed corruption in the NYPD. Additionally, reasonable doubt isn’t the standard in the court of public opinion and history. Obviously the conviction itself must live or die based on whether reasonable doubt exists. But if we want to sit here on a message board and speculate about what really happened, the reports conclusion of what “probably” happened may be a better standard. (There is an important distinction between the state’s failure to meet the burden of proof, and complete exoneration, as recent goings-on with Bob Muller demonstrate.)
Some people I know in film have told me the following:

A lot of films that would have US pull no longer get made. That's because the US is at most 300m people, and there's billions more that aren't reached. Whereas any movie made now needs to have international trends. So you end up with comic books made as movies and tv shows. They have been tested in print, work with other cultures, and make money hand over fist.

Tl;dr. Making movies for a country is last century. New movies need to capitalize on international sales.
Hearthstone is like this. They have a ladder and I have played against pro players before on it and I’m mediocre at the game. They also have an open masters tournament that allows anyone to compete and feeds directly into a grandmasters league that’s on twitch.
that really depends. It could be easy or hard depending on how things are structured.

The hard thing could be any trusts or past agreements IEEE has made that depend on US law. Like they could create a swiss organization, but could they legally move certain forms of existing funds to what techically is a seperate organization. Like really only the IEEE knows how hard it would be to do.
Surely this is just a layer of indirection? It moves the onus for providing implementations of these verbs from software developers to the maintainer of the file type.

Personally I'd rather just stick to the existing analogue of verbs, which we call executables.
It's not mean to express boundaries. Strangers offering unsolicited advice, regardless of intent, crosses a boundary for many people. And since the employee making the comment would never be personally liable in the case of a lawsuit, such advice boils down to misplaced concern or simple nosiness/bossiness. People should mind their own business unless their is a clear and present danger to thselves or the public. A kid horsing around on a hauling cart does not match that description IMO.
If they breed it it's a farm animal like anyone else.
According to Forbes many companies are failing to meet basic GDPR requirements
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I don't think that their constant "Safety is our most important principle" or some variety thereof blather is really helpful to re-instill confidence into the company generally and into the plane specifically.

If I'd be a journo at one of their press conferences my question would be:

"If this is so then why exactly didn't you ground the plane after the Lion Air crash and faught through hell and high water to keep it flying despite its obvious problems?"

As part of the flying public my general impression from Boeing's communication in the last 6 month is that this company doesn't really give a fuck unless it's bad publicity or hurts their bottom line.
It's intriguing that you mention laughing hysterically, something twigged, it reminds me of me at the time as well. I don't think the situation necessarily warranted such extreme laughter in me, even if funny I wonder if it was that funny.

In fact I wonder if the condition caused me to laugh excessively. It almost fits in with what you say too - make sense?
Last of the Mohawk code talkers dies after finally being hailed a war hero