skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still not sure what any of this has to do with China helping start an Asian alternative to the World Bank or making free trade deals. Both of those have plenty of positive benefits globally by stabilizing countries and improving the lives of hundreds of millions still left in poverty.

It seems entirely vindictive, without a real end goal, merely because the West (not just America or their current exec branch [1] but the west including Canada, EU, Australia, etc) completely failed to change China's political policy by other diplomatic bullying/force so they are extending it into the global economic system designed to help smaller countries and the extreme poor, attempting to box out China and others participation. Which ultimately has no noticeable affect on China, so there are only losers as a result, the small countries in need of capital and trade.

The West completely messed up the TPP via back room deals and other corporate hand outs which destroyed everyone's trust in its intentions. Which killed off their best counter balance due to their own self destructive anti democratic habits - which again started before Trump and was due to die regardless if Trump won.

1. This isn't just about America nor has the West's policy towards China hardly changed due to words of the US executive branch for 2-3yrs vs reality of the last few decades and the massive multi country beaurcracy that runs the world Bank, UN, and others.

Once Trump is gone people will quickly remember that Obama and whoever comes next faced the same impenetrable wall that sovereignty, economic weight, and significant cultural differences that exist including a well perfected anti western propaganda that they reflexively employ to explain away all the bad things that happen, something dictators from ISIS to Venezuela has utilized as excuse #1 forever, which makes any western good will very difficult to exploit. Not to mention the limits of power that one executive branch has to change policy in other countries (which is a good thing) is significantly overstated.

Even a no strings attached trade reform is a difficult ask for the west. If the US added a bunch of human rights stuff they wouldn't even get in the negotiation room. But apparently people think that will magically change with another US election.

There was a long string of failures attempts to force human rights and democracy on other countries. There's far more bad examples for every good South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan (which are successes that have as much to do with historical trends, local culture, and domestic economic influence than it was pure diplomatic influence towards a western style gov).
Sure.

https://gamasutra.com/view/news/248019/How_5_years_of_burnin...
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> Nobody will save the planet on their own

Quite. As I did in another thread, I'd like to point to the Extinction Rebellion as a pragmatic way to panic (eh, act):

Worl/UK:
https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/demands/

USA:
https://extinctionrebellion.us/demands

[ed: also mentioned in tfa.]
They have stores which only sell milk?
Well no.. I wanted kids as much/more than my wife. Why should I care about hormonal responses. My body is designed to get my wife pregnant and have babies. I embrace that. Whatever changes it undergoes is fine... That's the price you pay for family.
I don't like this article.

1. Fails to mention that the reason why many people block ads is because publishers sue overly aggressive ads or ads that advertise harmful content (scams). Publishers who use these practices should be losing money.

2. Pretends that if cookies are used then companies will stop trying to fingerprint.

3. Sounds like they are trying to prevent blocking cookies entirely- I'm not sure how that is giving more power to the users.
We don't need a WW2 scale response, dedicating our entire economy to the effort. We need an Iraq war scale response: a small multiple trillions of dollars. And just like the Iraq war, the main impact to the American consumer will be in a big jump at the gas pumps and a significant chunk of their taxes going towards the effort.
I was in my teens in the 1990s following the Kyoto Accord with great interest. I went through my own crisis of feeling bad, a period of bereavement in the early 2000s, thinking we’re screwed.

People and politicians are all talk and no action — denial or cognitive dissonance — it doesn’t matter as long as nothing gets done. The same result.

I live in a town where people fight any improvement that might make pedestrian life better, with less reliance on a car, even over the smallest inconvenience (e.g. another crosswalk).

I live in a small net-zero house with solar panels and an electric car. Meanwhile the local oil company/refinery gets subsidies so it can afford to operate.

Some of the local schools threaten kids with failing grades if they strike for climate but missing school for sporting events is encouraged.

It’s hard not to be discouraged but I’ve come to the point of just doing what I can and making it a priority in my own life and for my family. Not sure what else to do.
People do though. Why should we stunt the developing world's growth just because we've already fucked things up too much? Seems like colonialism all over; the West gets to keep polluting, but the developing world must stop developing?
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If the EC or DoJ forced a spin-off of Chrome from Google it would fix that incentive right away. Chrome would be in a position to extract a large TAC payment to be the default search engine (like Apple) and they could realistically focus on being the best browser for privacy.
Do you propose reducing the population to zero over the next twenty years? If not then you don't solve the problem.
I should’ve been more specific. Crop failures where middle class Americans start to starve. Society is nine meals away from revolution. Keep a close eye on US grain reserves and other ag indicators.

I agree with your points that crops are already failing. It just hasn’t impact the first world middle class yet.
It would be hilarious if they were to sell a case for the card too hahah!
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>Primarily, because we have no idea what intelligence is, or how it works, why it exists even, etc etc. This goes for human-like intelligence, but also for any kind of intelligence. We just have no good scientific understanding of the subject.

Speaking as a machine learning and neuroscience researcher, how thoroughly have you investigated the matter to claim this? I would definitely not say that we have "no" understanding of the subject. We have a number of predominant paradigms and competing theories regarding the matter.
In all fairness the Vietnamese had among the most battle-trained armies of the time, with massive manpower, enough of weaponry and extreme determination. Plus a difficult terrain. Equipment-wise they had infantry weapons, artillery, air force, aerial defense...

HK has maybe a difficult terrain?
Are you sure that the parent was comparong humans to cells? It strikes me more as this: "human intelligence is run by a network of nerve cells which are complex but could be modeled in all of their conplexity". So if you could model enough of these, you would get a functional replica of a human brain.
I’ll second the recommendation for “Born to Run” (mentioned in the article). Amazing story and inspiring to see what human beings are capable of.
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Snap! Just finished this last week too. An emotional rollercoaster and really interesting to boot. It inspired me to go out and buy a pair of thin-soled running shoes.
I knew the message "因果由國 容港治己" as it is now well known and well used slogan during the protest, so I picked it up quite easily knowing that there's a cryptic message in there.

Also, this slogan is often interpreted as protestor declaration for wanting HK independence.
Nope, it's just explaining there's a demand for non-grimdark work that Compelling Science Fiction's audience can compose of. There's no protection involved. Magazines select works to sell altogether as a product. If CSF's brand is non-grimdark, hard scifi, and they are successful at selling the product that is non-grimdark, hard scifi, then there's an audience interested in buying their work.

I'm not really sure where you get the protecting clause from, or intent. It's just market forces.
Yep, that's a controversal point. I think that they still consider weird spots to be bugs and you should not be there. You can definitely abuse it on battlegrounds to hide flag where you could not be reached. Also I won't be surprised if there would be a ways to skip some bosses in dungeons.
I still do that, even when I write in google docs.

But then again I don't think it was more than a month ago that some coworker lost work because Photo Shop crashed and they hadn't saved in a while.
But why are soldiers doing it? The IRS is also a federal government thing but it's not run by soldiers.
> less profitable

Source? Last I heard, targeted advertising isn’t more profitable.
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I just finished healing all of my chronic injuries after years of long distance running.
I would recommend anyone to do sprints and weightlifting instead.
How am I going to trust google on the word Privacy when just yesterday my Android smartphone force updated 3 apps on me while on 4G and preference is set to "no automatic" update at all and only on WiFi ?
I had heard of numerous great things of New Zealand related to jobs (low unemployment), good salaries/wages, etc...And then i read something the other day about either Auckland or Wellington being the cities with among the highest costs of living, as compared to other global cities (like, really high on the list). I guess it sort of shocked me....Mind you, I'm not an economist, but I naively assumed that healthy economies wouldn't necessarily have such cities/regions with disproportionately high costs of living. But, I guess in the case of (again, sorry for not recalling exactly which city it was) Auckland or Wellington, it sure sounds like it to me. Nevertheless, I look forward to visiting your beautiful country, and contributing my tourist money to your economy! ;-)
Non-personalized ads won't be lucrative enough to fund the web.

Yes they will. They will be plenty lucrative. Banner ads work fine.

Non-personalized ads funded TV and radio for decades.
Reminds me of this DefCon talk which discussed the effects of returning different HTTP status codes on various vulnerability scanners (without affecting the web browser).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OztMJ4EL1s

Differentials in how browsers handled weird status codes allowed for fingerprinting.
Differentials in how different automated tools/scanners handled weird status codes allowed for defensive tactics.
I do mean enums/switch, yeah. Makes it easy to have your code yell at you when all cases aren't dealt with.

The thing about making ADTs first-class citizens means that TypeScript stops being JavaScript, and one of the most valuable parts of TypeScript to me is that I can just look at it and know what the underlying JavaScript is. I kind of equate it to writing C on an old platform--it's going to be munged significantly but at a glance you can have a high degree of confidence that the code coming out the other end is going to be what you expect it to be.
I thought the US had extremely strong constitutional rules about not using the military on the US mainland?
This is like when Nintendo and Microsoft demand loot boxes include the 0.00000001% odds of getting what you want. They do this because they are looking for a way to save loot boxes because childhood gambling is immensely profitable and some children are so generous they may even spend thousands. They seek a safe middle-ground where most children can still be exploited and their parents defrauded but the mechanic itself is not made illegal and they are not breaking any law.

Google wants to save internet-wide tracking before it is irreversibly thwarted or outlawed for being generally abusive to society, because it put a hundred billion in their savings account and there's more coming.
OR JS developers are talking to their community and not you. The only language we can really use has evolved over the years to meet the problems that have cropped up. In the past a scripting language was enough to complement the HTML document it was served with. Now that web apps are expected, we need a real programming language and strategies.

They aren't the ones with zero self-awareness.
> They will be less targeted and less profitable, but you can still use them.

Specifically, about half as profitable: https://www.blog.google/products/ads/next-steps-transparency...

"Based on an analysis of a randomly selected fraction of traffic on each of the 500 largest Google Ad Manager publishers globally over the last three months, we evaluated how the presence of a cookie affected programmatic revenue. Traffic for which there was no cookie present yielded an average of 52 percent less revenue for the publisher than traffic for which there was a cookie present."

(Disclosure: I work for Google on ads, speaking only for myself)
I do add a disclaimer when I express an opinion. I didn't mean to imply anything here, I was just really pointing people to extra information. But I guess if that came across differently, it would have been safer to add the disclaimer anyway.
The Tarahumara are also known for being able to hunt deer and turkeys by running after them until the animal collapses due to exhaustion!
Whataboutism-style rhetoric can contain valid points, which makes it all the more frustrating. If it didn't, I could just ignore it as propaganda from the ideologically committed. I guess it's just too much to ask for people to bring up their valid points in a way that doesn't intentionally derail conversations on often orthogonal topics.

Also note that if an opinion is almost perfectly correlated with a nationality, that is a reasonable cue to question its rationality.
I assume the prepackaged varieties take less time to check out.
The problem IMHO is the old adage of the devil being in the details. I see a lot of engineers talking about things like deriving types from enums, and meanwhile the type system will merrily let you do this:

type Foo = {a: number}
const o: Foo = JSON.parse('null')
o.a = 1

It feels like people are lulling themselves into a false sense of security by making increasingly complex self-consistence schemes via type utilities, but they just shrug when I point out that the foundation of the scheme is still unsound.
If you want a complete solution that mostly works, then yes. However, I think there is a lot of benefit in tools like Phabricator, or rolling your own SCM with Gitea and implementing Drone CI.
But can we count on people to candidly self-report failure, even when it's optional? In either anecdotes or a research journal?

I don't believe so.

Aside: There's better exceptions to my original post, e.g. in US we release outcome statistics at schools.

- https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/catalog/student-outcomes.html (outcomes)

- https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/data-center/student/portf... (loans)

So we even get data in some cases. But experiences in many things like dating and job searching isn't mandatory for everyone to report. And sometimes the most impactful things don't fit into Pandas tables well :)
> It's considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day.

Nope.
”In the absence of catastrophic events we will need more energy today than we needed yesterday.”

In developed economies, this hasn’t been true in recent years.

Energy use (electricity, gas, coal, etc) peaked during the 2000s and has been mainly in decline since, despite economic and population growth.

Through improved technology, we have been able to extract more economic value from less energy. Hopefully this trend will continue.
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We all know recycling is a scam. Packaging should all be compostable, not recyclable.
If i recall correctly, men who are bonded (via sex of course given the huge oxytocin releases) to their childrens mother and who saw the mother throughout pregnancy and were sure there was no cheating have a higher affinity to that child and this can be measured hormonally. Its not 100 percent but probably good enough for natural selection. Also marriage and pair bonding is rather common among our closely related primate brethren

Edit: also the testosterone stuff is mostly a myth in the sense that, while testosterone of new fathers drops, it also recovers some months after the baby is born and older. So you get some months of baby snuggles and then you're back with your old libido. Also, men with kids are way more attractive to women (including their wives) anyway.
If you want your mind to blow up I recommend watching this year's "Lambda Calculus from the Ground Up" PyCon talk by the wizard David Beazley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCLMl0e_0k
That is insanity. What could you possibly study four hours a day that would be worthwhile? That's just pumping in useless trivia information that will crowd out the useful development knowledge. Is it a web development thing? Framework-of-the-week psychosis? It just sounds like a recipe to get burnt to a crisp in a few years.
The planet also doesn't care about countries. Per capita seems to be the fairest comparison that one can make.
You're right. But, Google does understand that their users don't want to be tracked. They just don't care.

The real solution is to "Get off Google". If everyone reading this did that, would it impact them? No, they would be fine. But I think it's better to do something rather than nothing.
I wonder what the sentiment would be if the situation was reversed.

Here we have a developer effectively looking to pay below market rates for artists, and then unsurprisingly not finding many good artists willing to do that long term. Not a judgment on my part, just saying that he's looking to keep the art budget to an absolute minimum.

Instead if it was an artist defending his choice to make relatively simple games because he just can't find good developers willing to work for cheap for long enough to complete a project.

The line that stood out me in this context:

I can't stress this enough: Finding talented, reliable, reasonably priced freelancers is HARD. Cherish them when you find them.

If the context of the discussion was about developers instead of artists, how would HackerNews feel about someone lamenting the fact that they can't get any "affordable" developers to work on their projects?

Also, as an aside:

The key problem here is that, when most people say, "Your art looks bad," what they mean is, "I want art that is good." They mean, "I want AAA-quality art." And I can't make that. Not even close.

That seems like a pretty big strawman to me. There is a large grey area between "crap" and "AAA-quality".
Firefox allows control over cookies, and there are a number of extensions which serve this function as well. Does Chrome not give an option re cookies?
Better than CTRL-C though. We used to have an Microfocus COBOL app (in the twin-floppy days) that would happily let you spend the entire day entering data, then fail to trap an accidental CTRl-C (it's close to "S", obvs). The developers had never allowed for that. Soul destroying..
I think this is why tech companies and venture capitalists are investing in bootcamps. Take the Lambda school for example - it got funding from Peter Thiel, Geoff Lewis of Bedrock Capital, Google Ventures, GGV Capital, Vy Capital, and Y Combinator.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2019/01/08/how-lambd...
Was this comment made in good faith?
This, for me, is the thing that really distinguishes Spiderweb's games: it seems that nobody else out there is still making CRPGs that I actually finish.

Other games look beautiful, yes, but they also somehow always end up getting kind of boring several hours in.
It does not follow, for either result or the process. For example, whether or not a scientist or you feels like a result is relevant or interesting is crucial to the scientific process.

Have you ever met a scientist in their element? They are passionate, mercurial creatures who will bitterly feud as well as sing the highest praise about their work. This seems to be integral to the process. Curiosity is a feeling, too.

I think you're idealizing science and I don't even think your ideal is a particularly useful aspiration for scientific activity.
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The trouble is, making sacrifices for yourself, as a voluntary moral choice, and just expecting other people to do the same is not going to be a successful strategy, because you're up against human nature itself.

Any pragmatic strategy to reduce the impact of climate change must start with international cooperation. From the point of view of the USA, this must start with a new administration. Then, with this cooperation we could find actions not strictly rooted in dreamy idealism, including enforcing the changes in lifestyle you mention at scale. (Through agreements, tariffs, etc.) A real global strategy also needs to involve some very bitter pills and compromises, e.g. taking a fresh look at nuclear, geoengineering research, and having the hard conversations about global population growth in emerging countries, and what people will do in the vast regions of the world which won't be habitable for much longer.

Any other strategy is just wishful thinking, and avoiding the cold hard facts. And the facts on this will catch up. All the trees you can plant or the most frugal lifestyle you are capable of will make precisely zero difference if it isn't based on global cooperation. Andrew Yang in the most recent democratic debate was right: a lot of the damage is already done and some of the discussion needs to be about how we can move to higher ground.
I don't want to discourage doing that (I've been using those for ~10 years and love them), but please be very careful getting ramped up with thin-soled shoes. They tend to put a lot of strain on your calves and ankles if you aren't used to running in them. Even for you're an experienced runner and in good shape, going more than a mile or two in thin-soled shoes can sometimes really mess up -- or even strain -- your calves if you haven't used them before.
Yes, by moving to another planet for the opponents, good luck with that...
Yup. We may have been born to run, but we also weren't born to live to 80... Have to consider how the activity affects our body's long term health.
Reminds me of the story of a 61 year winning the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne ultra marathon in his farming boots:

Short version:
https://elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young

Long-form:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/when-age-and-modesty-won-the...
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Reminds me of the basketball team of kids from the Triqui tribe[0]

[0]https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19655364/barefoot-how-ba...
> Non-personalized ads won't be lucrative enough to fund the web.

Non-personalized ads make about half as much money: https://www.blog.google/products/ads/next-steps-transparency... Whether this is enough to fund the web is debatable.

(Disclosure: I work for Google on ads, speaking only for myself)
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People are different. Training regimens and recovery methods and nutrition different. It's foolish to generalize in this way.
I think a huge cultural change is definitely possible. Residents of India, for example, eat 3% of the meat that people in America [1]. A lot of it is because India is poorer, but a lot of it is due to cultural differences as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons...