skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia isolated itself by reckless moves like using polonium and novichok against opponents in the West. Some of it like the takeover of Crimea are understandable reactions against a sense of encirclement from the West and NATO, but others like shooting down the Malaysian Airlines jet over Ukraine were completely unnecessary.
> Flash was an application platform (ok, so more like an Animation platform) first and foremost. Why would anyone run their whole site in flash? It wasn't the right tool for that job.

And this is exactly what I'm trying to say.

Back in the day you would very likely reach for Flash if you wanted to build an FTP client that ran in a browser. Totally reasonable use case because that's a highly interactive app that doesn't really follow the request / response style of a document style page. But you likely wouldn't reach for Flash to build some type of site that presented data in a document style (pretty much the general use case of what a website outputs).

But if you fast forward to today's technology, some front end developers are bringing in the complexity of creating SPA style applications that are primarily rendered with JS for everything -- even document style websites like a personal blog and the original comment I replied to is hinting they want to remove constraints from browsers to give us more of a FFA style of doing whatever we want to render pages. I was just saying that model didn't really take off for the general use case with Flash decades ago.

Fortunately we still live in a time where web developers can choose what they want to do, but browsers shouldn't change the concept of being something that renders HTML that is optionally combined with other things like CSS, fonts, JS and images.
>You know what's less conspicuous than a vape pen hooked into your computer in class? A pack of smokes and a lighter in your pocket.

Except the smell of having smoked cigarettes lingers on your person and when you waltz back into the room with that bathroom pass the teacher goes "How was your smoke break, I mean, bathroom trip". and your green apple jolly rancher vape smells like, a green apple jolly rancher.
They are cheap. That’s why they exist. Bathroom operators give zero shits about the environment.

With paper towels, you need to visit a busy bathroom a few times a day to empty the trash.
... The crop inside the limits of the hummingbird figure is for being offered to the hummingbird good or the hummingbird tribe. This other crop inside pelican bird is for being filled by the coastal villages. This maize inside the sun is for taxes for the solar god and those tomatoes inside the polygon saying netflix are for our targarian lords.

Maybe is just a taxing system. Fill this triangle completely with avocados or I will you next year.
If your employer is of smaller size, they will have greater leverage to match rates with larger plans because of transparency which could help you a great deal. Further, your company could have leverage with their insurance broker to provide better pricing / options based on public data.
So you're saying we have too many doctors? Because this is how you get rid of doctors.

I would gladly pay more to be seen sooner by a more qualified doctor. If I have to fly to another place to do that, I would.
China's #1 position will likely prove to be short-lived because of demographic decline caused by the one-child policy. Whether India or the US will succeed it is anyone's guess (mine is the US, India has a pattern of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory).
Joshua is a really friendly and generous one to run it for all these years. I'd trust this than some corporate who didn't bother to migrate customers.
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> I was indicating that the legitimacy of monarchs in the general populace came from their protection against aggressors.

To a point. But as jacobush points out in a sibling comment to yours, those aggressors could be local as well as foreign: the myth of the benevolent king protecting the poor from rapacious nobles. Think of Richard II rallying the revolting peasants in the wake of Wat Tyler's death (ultimately to those peasants' detriment, alas). And arguably the main source of a monarch's legitimacy was religious: he (or she) was seen as ordained by God.

> In fact, one of the main functions of a nation-state is to put up defence against other nation-states.

Well, yes. But providing a social safety-net for its most vulnerable people is also one of the main functions of a nation-state: it doesn't thus follow that nation-states formed for that reason.

A nation-state will likely be more able to defend itself than a looser, more heterogeneous polity, but it will also provide a better vehicle for aggression, and that aggression will typically be employed in pursuit of the interests of the powerful. When the Tudors laid the foundations of a nation-state in 16th century England, was it as a defensive measure, or to pursue dynastic interests in France and Scotland?

With a few exceptions (Switzerland comes to mind), the idea that a nation-state represents the conscious union of a people as a whole for defence against outsiders seems more like propaganda and national myth-making than an accurate recounting.
There are other examples at least from Germany where no warning or time to rectify was given, just a fine.

https://iapp.org/news/a/germanys-first-fine-under-the-gdpr-o...
The US/UK/EU need to push back hard. They are probably the only places that will actually hold their citizens accountable for cybercrime. Russians and Chinese can hide behind no extradition.

The west needs to draw lines, create treaties, create legal definitions and frameworks. It all needs to be done in a very public forum. Not secret courts. If the lines are crossed there needs to be real and serious consequences that aren’t all for show like the recent Russian and Iranian sanctions.

For god sakes no limited strikes.
I can't stand anything past about 80db and I absolutely hate these things. Worst part is that there's no way to turn them off once they've been activated.
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She may outgrow it, but she'll probably never forget it.

I'm a guy, but I recall as a kid feeling my dad's stubble when I gave him a hug as a child, when he came home from work, smelling of sweat and tar (he worked as a road maintenance worker - a very hard job, especially in the summertime in California).

He passed away 14 years ago, and I'm turning 46 in a couple days; how time passes...
Really interesting. Do you have any links you could share where I could read more about these ideas (both the freewill one and the vision one)
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Chinese neighbourhood auntie teaches Vancouver millennials life-long values
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Bystanders will intervene to help victims of aggressive public disputes
The Chinese education system is certainly not MUCH better than the one in the US. It is in fact terrible.

China is just enormous. Over 1500 million people(officially 1200 million), 4x, 5x times more than the US.

Lots of Chinese people are just very intelligent, just simple math tells you there is 4x 5x more intelligent people in China than in the US.

The math does not work because most brilliant people in China go to the States, as their quality of life increases. But they love their country.

The world is changing because most of the world population lives in Asia, just taking into account Indonesia and India.

What the US are doing is just reacting to this fact, they just want to maintain their hegemonic power in the world, like any other empire that came before.
That's not true, unfortunately.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d8d0c69a-620e...
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Empty New Tab Addon: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...

I use it for years now.
Maybe markets were once a useful way of communicating supply and demand for the greater good, but nowadays the way they're often used perverts that communication via exploitative usary.
I’m a Chinese engineer as well. If you don’t mind, would you also look at my comment history and summarize what’s in common/special about Chinese commenting on political news on hacker news?

I learnt a lot on hacker news how to not be flagged and debate in a western fashion, though many Chinese won’t bother to debate what they think are “common sense” (e.g. trust any wiki or media article)
A compromised Cambridge url gives a lot of credence to their claim though, especially with the paranoid coinbase developer they were targeting.
Full title is "Eight years and not a word of English, neighbourhood auntie teaches Vancouver millennials life-long values", couldn't fit it all in.
Which is a problem that needs to be pushed back against. SaaS is a step backwards in our relationship with our machines.
It's technically possible for the wick and the VOCs in the flavorings to burn in a vape that reaches too high a temperature. However: the exposure to VOC is vastly less than you would receive when, say, standing over a wok preparing stir fry.

It should be noted that many vapes, including Juul, use temperature regulation and it's highly unlikely that they would produce a burnt wick.
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Medieval Europe was a form of nation state....
Interesting one from Spain, accessing user's microphones to crowdsource publicbroadcast violations:

> The national Football League (LaLiga) was fined for offering an app which once per minute accessed the microphone of users' mobile phones in order to detect pubs screening football matches without paying a fee. In the opinion of the AEPD LaLiga did not adequately inform the users of the app about this practice. Furthermore, the app did not meet the requirements for withdrawal of consent.
There's countless volumes of information on price controls and their failures to have the desired outcomes.
https://github.com/PingThingsIO

Literally result number three for "pingthings.io source code"
There were multiple factors. In medieval Europe much of a monarch’s legitimacy derived from church teachings about the divine right of kings.
Everything is copied from GitHub down to the icons. Also, badly copied.
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Which bit do you disagree with?

I said I cant imagine a system more hostile to sociopaths. You've provided historic examples that are less hostile.
As much as I would like the coffee table version, I don't know that the long form and fairly technical nature is suited to that style.
>What is the difference between banning and criminalizing?

I would assume banning the sale of via business located inside San Francisco vs police throwing you against a wall and patting you down when they see you vaping something.
The One Child policy is gone now, and China is actively trying to reverse it in many cases.
Intelligence and analytical thinking don’t protect from illusory truth effect
It depends on the problem. Someone could say that static linking optimizes for runtime costs but for the problems that OP (and me) are trying to solve, I find that it increases runtime complexity since:

+ It tightly couples independent subsystems together, you can no longer see them (e.g. update) in isolation. Some of those subsystems explode when statically linked due to second-order effects (e.g. memory management).

+ Requires compilation.

+ Licensing woes that do not apply with dynamic linking.

+ Most important: Static linking reduces your runtime flexibility by being the opposite of late-binding and forces you to commit upfront. Many problems can be elegantly solved when one can take additional context into account (e.g. delay solving them until the 'how' becomes clear).

On top of that, static linking does not optimize for deployment costs, which can be substantial depending on the application and frequency of component changes.

For all these reasons, it should be avoided when possible. The counterpoint is that in practice, it takes a lot more effort to design a system that does not deploy static linking in order to solve the problems described by OP and me. Static linking is thus an easy and quick solution but it comes with many strings attached.
FTC, Law Enforcement Partners Announce New Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls
Some people enjoy retirement. We have a retired army major attending our local python meetup without feel. He learns Python with great enthusiasm. He is now trying to understand cyber security. Having said that, that level of enthusiasm is a rare mindset and signs of indefatigable spirit.
The general web loved Flash for cases where you needed an application rather than a document. It wasn't appropriate for everything, and it was unfortunately very difficult to mix Flash with general HTML, but in many ways it was better than today's web for both creators and end users.
Is there any conclusive evidence for this?
I might be mistaken, but I think what the parent tries to say is taht while there is societal pressure to 'not be an economic loss', there's also something more personnal about not being able to cope with having nothing to do.

A non-negligible amount of retired people just sit at home, depressed, until death, out of a lack of better things to do.

Even celebrating their retirement would not make their day less grim.
If I wanted disappointing, I would accept that some people in this world will never see the big picture and are so out of touch that they try 1-upping others on a message board by throwing out buzz-words.
Sunday Assembly
> Without it, all 48 other states get railroaded by the 2 with the highest population.

You're viewing things from the point of view of the states instead of the people. Either
- The states get railroaded because each person gets an equal vote, OR
- The people get railroaded because each state gets an equal vote.
I use a discount brokerage in Canada called Questrade. I keep as little cash as possible in my account (contributions and dividends get used within a few days to buy more ETFs), and my portfolio is entirely ETFs. If I also pay no commissions when issuing buy orders, how does the brokerage make money from me? Apart from the fees for order placement, is there interest earned for short-sellers borrowing ETFs?
Which makes them bad examples for the argument discussed here.
There's drill bits that do that
I think it may backfire. In my opinion, the dangers of "tracking" and "customization" are dramatically overblown and I suspect the average user has a much more sinister idea of what it all means than the reality.

Some people are going to try this demo and realize "Huh, so 'surveillance capitalism' really just means that I see better ads?"

Most non-technical people have this dystopian illusion when they hear about all of Facebook/Google/Amazon's fabled super-advanced-magic-tracking that there's either a human or a near-sentient robot listening in to every facet of their lives and forming a judgmental, human opinion of them as a person. Once they realize this shit is so basic that opening up a few browser tabs of stuff you don't actually like is enough to trick it, I think their apathy will increase, not decrease.
I don't think that paying for content would have stopped the tracking.

Or the advertising.

In my opinion, there is no limit to man's greed. Whether that's a good or a bad thing for humanity, time will tell.
Try unexpected, because one man's economic crisis can very well be another man's creative disruption of a very large market.
It is a prestigious domain - with a high recognition factor. And, as part of that, it will almost never be blocked by URL / DNS filters.

In this case, it clearly worked. The user saw cam.ac.uk and trusted it.
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That's so close to classic Prisoner's Dilemma that it makes me sad. When the majority of others "defect" (lie, exaggerate, or embellish in this case) your individually-rational best choice is to defect as well. So you get the job, which is (usually) better than not getting the job. And you're surrounded by other defectors, which is worse than being surrounded by cooperators.

From game theory, the "solution" is to favor cooperation anyway, but not absolutely. So you might miss out on some jobs, but the one you get will be better. Then again, there's a reason it's called game theory. ;)
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See that's the thing. It doesn't matter that Russia is an economical midget. They hold the keys for the energy sector in Europe - Russian fossil fuels supply Europe with energy. And as far as military power goes, many people underestimate Russia, but they took Crimea, they keep sowing disarray in Ukraine, Syria and now Georgia again.

And that's even before talking about their influence in elections and paid diplomats that push for pro-Russian agenda.
> using all-lowercase letters for the compiler and title case for the language

'rakudo' is an implementation of 'Rakudo', huh? It's only natural for one to tag the specification and an implemention of it with different nouns in one's mind, even when there's only one implementation. I tend to think of 'go' being the reference implementation of the language called 'Golang', although its Google backers don't differentiate their official names.
It also means the e-mail is significantly more likely to make it past a spam filter, even an aggressive one. There was very little in that e-mail any reasonable spam filter could possibly have flagged, unless they're going to start doing API calls to grammarly. But if they check spelling and grammar, filters will start flagging a lot more than spam.
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Or rather anyone starting a new project should think long and hard "is this a page or is this an app?". Too many web pages think of themselves as apps without any real reason to do so.
(Citation needed.)

They didn't demand it per se because no one actually asked. I'm inferring from the fact that users spent much more time on the interactive websites which resulted in more revenue for those sites and everyone else copying. There might have been a reason other than the interactivity itself, but we are where we are now because of user behaviour.
I'm inclined to disagree, but I guess the real problem is that webpages on the internet are being forced to serve both purposes.

Paradigm 1 - interconnected, hyperlinked web of text-and-content-based documents: open, accessible, amenable to indexing and tooling and so forth.

Paradigm 2 - delivery vehicle for cross-platform, full-featured, somewhat-security-sandboxed, applications.

I agree with the article that it's sad if Paradigm 1 is trampled to make way for Paradigm 2, just because (as you point out) we haven't been able to develop a viable alternative. In theory these could coexist, but the point of the article is people are being trained in Paradigm 2 and try to use it for purposes that are much more suited for Paradigm 1.

Just as sad, Paradigm 1 is more oriented around decentralization, giving power, options, and information to the user; Paradigm 2 is often exploited for lock-in, control over user's decisions, collecting information about the user, etc.
It's certainly true that the harm he does is not caused by his Everyman" shtick. It's caused instead by his brutal incompetence.
It's a fairly complex and difficult task to phish proof your corporation.
Recent history. The idea was proven out by the Romans and Egyptians on 1-2 magnitude larger times scales than which western society has existed.
For one, Soviet Russia together with the German Reich sliced Europe in two parts on the map and then invaded Poland together with Germany.

After that one mad dictator was faster than the other.
Turbo Pascal was great. I had heard of this C language that people were using to make games, but in the heyday I could never find a copy of a compiler for it.

It was only much later that an uncle of mine got a promotional copy of Watcom C DOS4GW that he gave to me.
> Not paying for content (small games, blogs, vlogs, journalism, code, etc..) in the last 20 years, is now one of my biggest regrets.

Just so you know, the audiobook of 1984 you linked to on YouTube is the same narration as the one I purchased from Audible.
Making a lot of money does not mean you have a lot of money. There are quite a few people who pull down huge salaries, spend it all, and live paycheck to paycheck.
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Hacking dark themes with CSS blend modes
> Retiring at 60 would pose financial challenges for many people in the US.

Which is frankly insane too. It's not like the wealthiest nation on Earth couldn't support these people.
Look at what cable TV became. Originally ad free because you were paying for it, but 'amoral optimization for profits balanced on the knife edge of the frustration of your audience through advertising barrage' is what any media company feels it must now do to survive.
That's very possible indeed. I remember when I was a kid my grandparent's tube TV was making a high-pitched sound that was figuratively driving me insane (maybe generated from the HSYNC frequency, now that I think about it). I couldn't understand how they could bear it but of course when I told them they didn't get it because it was probably way outside of their hearing range. I'm fairly sure that now that I'm in my 30s I couldn't hear it either.
Wow that's a thing I had forgotten about. I had an original iMac at the time and built a mouse mover and random site loader to trick the system. I think I made about $25 total because they shutdown shortly after that.
Really keen to see how this would play out in a criminal court. Something like "your honour, I did shoot Steve repeatedly, but science shows that I can't be held accountable"?
> Russia has been meddling with European affairs for hundreds of years.

This again?

That's akin to complaining that New York has been meddling in North American affairs for hundreds of years. Please please remember that Russia is a transcontinental country, a significant part of Russia is distinctly European.

“European Russia is the western part of the Russian Federation, which is part of Eastern Europe. With a population of 110 million people, European Russia has about 77% of Russia's population, but covers less than 25% of Russia's territory. European Russia includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the two largest cities in Russia.”†

The distance from Helsinki in Finland to St. Petersburg is a mere 400km! The thing is, Russia is so large it is part of Europe but also borders China.

Think about Russian culture for a second: ballet, classical music, Russian literature, a Latin-like alphabet (more recognisable than the Greek alphabet when you think about it), architecture – all recognisably European. Does it need to be pointed out that "Europe" has attacked Russia many times (the Napoleonic wars, the Wehrmacht) and that Russia was on the Allied side of WWII, the last hot war fought between great powers.

Russia has been demonised for too long for choosing the wrong ideology (communism) and becoming the sole 20th century political/economic/nuclear rival to the USA under the guise of the Soviet Union. I recommend the biopic Meeting Gorbachev by Werner Herzog for a perspective on the collapse of the Soviet Union by the person at its helm at the time‡. If you still think "evil empire" after watching it then I don't know what to say.

If by European you mean Western European please use that qualification.

All of Europe including Russia (but also India and others) are watching with trepidation as this geopolitical struggle between the US and China plays out.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia

‡ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_Gorbachev

edit: add religion to the common heritage as well