skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely, its called asymmetrical warfare and the Vietnamese defeated the US with it, and the Taliban are about to defeat the US with it. These were also foreign enemies, if you also consider the US soldiers would be fighting their own people, in their own land, yes....they could defeat the US military. Its not about totally destroying the US military, its about creating a situation where the US can't win and dragging it on long enough until its just pointless and heart clenching to continue.
The notion that having a Facebook account means you think Facebook does not need regulating nor makes significant negative contributions to society seems absurd.
To be fair, governments are the ones that define and allow the existence of corporations. Corporations only exist because of "government interference".

It used to be a hard requirement that as part of the grant of corporate status, the corporation had to operate in way that served the greater societal good -- and those that didn't had their corporate charter removed. That's not done so much anymore, and in my opinion that's a bad thing.

So, this isn't increased government interference -- it's a government thing in the first place.
This is not a "sentiment", it's the very foundation the country's freedom was built on. When you admit that you don't understand it, then ask questions in a leading form that way, you're effectively arguing against the idea and forcing people to respond to it, or reinforcing others who have the fallacious beliefs against the second amendment based on lack of understanding on military and political strategy.

It's astonishing how many people these days have suddenly become armchair generals to push back against the very foundation of the freedom of the United States in the form of this tired argument.
He founded the FSF. He created GNU. He is not an elected government official or a CEO.

SJWs are parasites. They are incapable of producing value. Rather, they attack and insinuate themselves into existing high-value organizations. They want power and attention.

This is a power grab and the SJW crowd don't care whose lives they ruin.
I think the context matters. In this case, 'not doing this' doesn't mean making a mistake, it means ignoring a company-wide imperative, being insubordinate, hubristic, etc.

I acknowledge that it's probably a joke anyway.
The history of corporations were one wher we started by evaluating if the completed work of the corporation would help society. The government would have to explicitly charter them as a single individual in the eyes of the law.

All other professions were treated as groups of individuals.

The idea that they are some inalienable right for people to receive limited liability and tax breaks is confusing, historically inaccurate, and largely made up in the last few decades.

You are more then welcome to act as an individual without incorporation, regardless of what value you provide. Receiving a charter from the government to act as a larger entity in society is exactly something we should be deciding about.
Because it is affecting how people in the United States consume information and that is affecting the functioning of our democracy
Is finding domains to invest in a manual process or are there various tools that you employ? (not asking for the secret sauce, just wondering logistically).
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This email from 2002 describes system design decisions which led to amazon developing AWS. I wasn't a professional programmer at the time, but as I understand it, I think service-oriented design patterns were rare, let alone microservices as a concept.
This was not exactly a Jeff Bezos mandate but the result of an engineering brainstorm. The mandate came more out of a "how to scale Amazon for the next decade" discussion. In large companies, one where distributed/independent teams are as important as distributed systems this ended up being the only way to operate.

Initially, during the good old days of Amazon, there was what you'd call a single datawarehouse. It made sense initially for every system that processed an order to access the data by querying that data warehouse—this meant that the processes would be distributed (different services), while the data would be centralized. It also meant that any change to the way the data is stored in the datawarehouse meant deploying code to a hundred places.

The most important problem that this addressed was however different. A centralized datawarehouse meant that every customer request bubbled up into N queries to the datawarehouse (where N is the number of services that needed access to the data—billing, ordering, tracking...).

The mandate summarized in one line would be this—"the data is the one that should go to the services, not the other way round." Voila, microservices.
>The only effective bombing campaign that subdued a citizenry outright in military history were nukes

The firebombs and the nukes didn't subdue the citizenry. They were still willing to follow their cause to the death. You can't win against that unless you're going to kill each and every last one of them.

The nukes showed their leader that his people would be destroyed with little cost to the enemy and convinced him to call it off.
Do you think the most correct answer is the same as the loudest one? And besides, you can use Facebook and still believe it should be broken up, those aren’t mutually exclusive things.
A Chinese fugitive was found by a police drone after living in a cave for 17 yrs
"...Ma has an absolutely minuscule understanding of the AI landscape." Has anyone defined consciousness yet?
The recent surge of ML research in various parts of Africa is awesome. But from what I've seen (including this article), it is not much of an A.I. industry yet -- most activity is in research with an academic focus. (So, no wonder it looks different from Silicon valley.) Hopefully this helps solve the chicken-and-egg problem needed to get industry going.
ideas are cheap
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I ctrl-f'd for something else and had to do a double take when I saw that. The worrying part is presumable someone actually does that job - which seems to only involve sticking tubes into people, never mind which hole.
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> The iPhone was released in 2007, but a smartphone that could technically have called a ride predates it by at least a few years.

From a technical perspective, there's no reason you couldn't have had a ride-hailing app on a Nokia Series 60 phone in 2006, or a Palm Treo 270 in 2002. All the necessary components were present in both of them. What was missing was a critical mass of users of those devices -- a user base large enough for third parties to justify building services on that scale for them.

Which could help explain why Amazon is pumping out Alexa devices in so many different form factors; they haven't cracked the nut yet on a single form factor that will attract that critical mass of users, but maybe if you can aggregate enough small user bases together they'll add up to a large enough one to attract third parties.
Vaccines do not cause autism. Regression events are likely due to genes being expressed (or failing to be expressed) at certain critical periods during development under which important neurodevelopmental processes are controlled e.g. synaptogenesis. This is a case of correlation does not equal causation.
Small caliber rounds. Tasers may come in the future. But back when that incident happened, tasers were not a thing.

Edit:
I am torn on tasers. It’s a viable tool. I am just very pessimistic. I fully expect them to used VERY liberally in all sorts of situations where we got along very fine without them. It’s yet another way of dehumanising an encounter
Not enabled by default but you can easily switch it on from powershell.

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0
Vice News was doing, IMO, some of the best coverage of the situation in Hong Kong. Sadly, it seems the new AT&T leadership at HBO decided to make their mark and didn’t renew their contract.
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https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/holding-wall-street-accoun...

Re ISPs:

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(See "A Public Option for Broadband")
Yes? Who takes a vacation and lives the entire week as a stoic? Just the stoics. Vacations are times of excess.

> I don't think it makes sense to blame the airlines for that...

I think that's along that same line of thinking where we blame the consumer for using the services. It's a great way to turn the conversation to some nonstarter ideas.
> Even worst tyranny has some public support usually.

Tyranny always has public support. The evil wizard lord of a kingdom scenario has never and will never occur in reality - someone despised by everyone cannot come into power... That doesn't mean the tyrant has the majority of public support, but I'd find it hard to believe any tyrant has less than 30% when coming to power.
She founded the CFPB, one of the most effective agencies in combating financial wrongdoing, and has a platform for dealing with banking and pharma. One headline does not a campaign platform make.
See the "A Public Option for Broadband" section here:

https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/invest-rural
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This is the primary. Democrats will be gung-ho on things that they think will win the primary then race to the center in the general election.

Either that, or they'll stupidly alienate over half of all voters by standing firm on losing issues again and again and hand Trump the victory.

I'm not Nate Silver, but I think it's 50/50 shot of either of these being true.
I agree that's the argument used, but you have to weigh that against the possibility that it also incentivises malicious actor(s) to subversive behavior because they will not be held accountable for their actions.

In the grand scheme of things it comes to a subjective decision point, and I would tend to argue that an increase in accountability toward the customers (us), wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
I hate Facebook as much as most who call for it to be broken up, but I absolutely disagree with breaking them up. We just need a few legal adjustments to make sure consumers are protected, and we should be good to go.
Why should there be a framework for handling this? Facebook, perhaps better than any other publisher or newspaper or public utility, puts the actual name of the guy writing this dribble front and center. Before you can even read the title of the article, you are exposed to the source. Facebook only warrants that the source that published this article indeed did so. It should be up to the reader, not facebook, whether or not to trust them. Facebook engages in no moral hazard by making it clear who wrote what.
> There's no way for me to win an argument like this

The way for you to win would be to counter my argument: Show the amount of money/time/etc. that went into resolving the AIDS crisis was minimal (and of course, you'll have to argue what minimal means). I can easily find resources to the contrary [0] [1].

> However, maybe you'll pay attention to all the dire predictions in the next ten years, and maybe ten years after that you'll notice that the world just keeps getting better despite all the people claiming it's worse and will end soon.

It keeps getting better because people keep devoting time, energy, and money into resolving these problems. "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance" and all that. We've seen what happens when people stop being vigilant: Things like the return of measles in the US.

I'm mostly shocked to hear this sentiment on HN of all places; IT is notorious for encountering "the servers run fine and never go down, what do we pay you for?" attitudes. Surprised you don't understand how it applies to other areas of life.

0: http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/first-long-term-study...
1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/18/077r-...
Alternatively we could use ethanol in fuel cells, and use electric motor, unfortunately it requires either finding new catalists or a cheap source of platinum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-ethanol_fuel_cell
I think your links prove my point, actually.

The article you provided is from 2015; her talk about breaking up Big Banks seems to have stopped once she started campaigning and platforming for her current run. Since then, she's focused on Tech.

Regarding Pharma, she's talking about allowing the government to produce generics i.e. increase competition to the coporations, which is very different than actually tearing a company apart using antitrust legislation. I don't think even Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos would have an issue with it if that's what she was trying to do with Tech.
But is it really that difficult to seed the image for that first boot?

For example, an installation process using an .iso image could, after verifying the .iso, put a random seed inside the .iso (unpack-modify-pack) as a pre-configuration step. Like an extra preparation step after downloading. New installation = new pre-configuration step, to avoid seed reuse.

The previous would apply to VMs and containers and such.

For traditional embedded/IoT style devices, the step could be done at the factory when flashing the image. Or maybe there could be a small flash area with the seed as part of the initial flashing procedure.

I guess some forms of installation end up being "problematic" to handle (ro root filesystems maybe).
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what about breaking harvard and all the expensive school system where she got paid 400k to teach one class and contribute way more to middle class slavery-debt than a social network
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The third link I submitted has the variant of this that stops just after 2012.
This is really similar to criticisms of Taiwan and Japan as they climbed up the tech advancement scale. Both of them now have for example in one HN related field, silicon foundries that rival the best of what's in the US. In terms of scale, China probably has far more PV capacity than the US (not sure where it sits relative to Japan).

I think it's an odd mix of self superiority/discrimination that actually lets the US sit back too relaxed and not competing on difficult and often costly, but fundamental investments (not just in silicon, but other industrial areas too). And too often there is too little coercion needed for US companies when they do make investments, siting manufacturing capacity in other nations while chasing lowest cost labor.
I've never flown a drone before. How easy would it be for me to learn?
Read the leaked transcript from Facebook yourself, it's much better than these takes from the press: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-...

I'm impressed by Zuckerberg's candidness and the depth he goes into explaining how he's thinking about things, and that he does this every week.

He seems like a good CEO.
That could happen too, at least in some states (in others it may be illegal).

However, given that these parents believe that puts their child and themselves at risk, they'd go far to stop it, up to faking vaccinations - at which point any outbreak would "prove" the vaccines are ineffective. So I don't think there's a way of avoiding a confrontation with the movement itself.
Nuclear is a red herring introduced by climate crisis opponents - the plants take decades to get away, are intrinsically dangerous and nobody wants one near them. Meanwhile solar and wind are far cheaper, much much faster to build and can be accompanied by batteries to smooth demand.
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Comparing the behavior of people now to people 20-40 years ago seems dishonest. Many new technologies have prevailed since then, and cultures around consumption have rapidly shifted.

We should consider instead the current consumption habits of both cohorts for an appropriate comparison.
The article mentions this as dog fooding, but does that really apply here? Did they do this with the idea in mind that they'd turn this stuff into a product? It struck me as Bezos wanting things built for the future, reducing technical debt, and the product-ification was an excellent byproduct, but perhaps not intentional.
Those stern words and zero dollar fine for violating 12 labor laws surely will teach Elon....that he can do whatever he wants as laws are merely a suggestion for the wealthy.
> remained fighting

Without interruption? Then I stand corrected.

I imagine the point would be to confound, give the time to extract the officer from immediate danger, not to immobilize the attacker entirely with a rubber bullet.

(And you’re right, I should not have phrased that as an assertion not being an expert in the field.)
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>> Some things just aren’t worth the effort
> This is a false dichotomy.

I don't think it's a false dichotomy at all, because some things just aren't worth the effort. For example, straw bans are pretty worthless, hurt disabled people, and allow people to feel like they've done their part when they haven't.

With respect to airlines, yes sure they can and should improve efficiency and emission standards. However, lobbying dollars and hours that can be mustered by environmentalists are finite and should be directed towards more useful things like power generation to have the greatest per dollar/hour effect on climate change.

In terms of what consumers can do, from a consumer perspective there's not a lot other than perhaps ratcheting down energy consumption. However as citizens they can agitate for better energy policy, which is probably a better use of time than thinking of workarounds for low impact high visibility issues.

We could in short order feasibly end coal power generation if the environmental movement got focused on that. However instead, people busy themselves with concerns about air travel, straws, organic food productions, etc.
This might be worth mentioning: American political-sci textbooks point out that US Presidents have historically been more productive by focusing on fewer initiatives during their tenure in office. So, if Warren were to actually become President and focus on just big tech alone, it would likely be a lot more successful than trying to go after big-everything, or big-<a few other things>.

That said, this idea only applies to their time in office, not their campaign (I'm sure lots of voters want to see a crackdown on many big businesses other than tech). But it still influences things.