skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, who could argue with such a great package.

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The doomsayer crowd should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this kind of emotional burnout.

Even the worst IPCC projections don't speak of anything remotely like humanity being wiped out within 15 years. Panic does not jump start change nearly as much as it seems to jump start despair, bitterness, and contempt for anyone with doubts, which apparently now includes people who do not think we are doomed.

These things that are very orthogonal, or in the way of, solving any actual hard problems that lie ahead of us.
He's saying you don't have to worry because by the time it gets really bad, it will be someone else's problem. Which is exactly how we got into this mess in the first place.
What about a runaway climate change feedback loop making the earth uninhabitable? Or even more moderate climate change causing a collapse of the food chain?
Are those applications installed by default these days?
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Both replies have (assuming good faith) misinterpreted what you’ve said, so to flesh out: Vote Leave said that the remain campaign’s claims about the consequences of a vote to leave the EU (and, indeed, its implementation) were “Project Fear”: a campaign of at best exaggerations if not outright lies to scare people into voting for remain.

Having won, the leading members of the leave campaign (who now run the UK Government) now say that people knew what they were voting for because the remain campaign said what the consequences would be. That’s having your cake and eating it.
>>>Do you honestly think people would have any chance against probably the most powerful army in the world?

You are placing waaaay too much faith in technology. Look at the Saudis: one of the worlds highest military budgets, and stockpiles of first-rate western hardware.....they are getting absolutely routed by Houthis, who run up desert mountains with just sandals, an AK, and a mouth full of stimulants.

>>>Sure, they could try fighting a guerilla warfare, they'd even inflict some casualties against the enemy but it's unlikely that in the end they'd succeed against an army that is professional, highly skilled, better equipped, has better offensive and defensive capabilities, knows a lot more about tactics and logistics and has trained for this type of situation on a daily basis.

What is the data that is driving you to this conclusion? Are you ignoring pretty much every counter-insurgency experience the US has had for the last 50 years?
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>>>I suspect a lot of them would destroy towns if they we're told that these are now enemy bases.

I suspect you don't know actual American military personnel very well, especially officers and NCOs, and how seriously we take the Laws of Warfare, AND the Constitution.

[1]https://www.snafu-solomon.com/2019/09/pics-of-houthi-rebels-...

[2]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/05/why-america-lost-in-afg...

[3]https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2015-0...
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Yes, for some light airplanes a constant speed propeller is not required, but if it is simple enough and you get sizable benefits (even 10% more range), then why not?

There are many planes in Europe that have the cruise speed much higher than the best climb speed. The best climb speed is around 100-120 km/h for light planes, while several plane models have the cruise speed over 200 km/h, up to 250 km/h. I am not aware of any plane with cruise speed below 200 km/h to use constant speed propellers, they have fixed pitch propellers, but the faster ones have in-flight adjustable pitch. I personally flew 7-8 different models of planes, only one with adjustable pitch, but they were all in the LSA class and const-speed is not used there.
The way things have been trending, I'd anticipate something like a label for satire and a label for "opinion, was not not fact checked" (which would apply to any piece that could be considered an op-ed), and fact checks applying to anything purporting to be news.

To be honest, setting a rule that anything that purports to be "BREAKING" will be fact checked at least to the extent of "the contents of this article cannot be proven entirely factually correct" would be a pretty big step forward and potentially reduce the virality of outright disinformation.
why would a second black plague wipe out humanity?
I own a couple of these. Because it has multiple options for virtual assistants, nothing is running out of the box as it wouldn't know which account to use or what service to route to. You have to go through an additional setup process after setting up the speaker for music playback.
>I quit social media for a long time too. And then I noticed how disconnected I was from all my old school friends and contacts.

As opposed to faux-connected through FB though?
He is still on the mainland. I’m Swedish by the way and follow his daughter, Angela Gui. His daughter has been given very limited access to her own father, and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also has difficulty reaching him. For some reason, the CCP felt it necessary to use a Chinese businessman to try to make a deal with Ms. Gui where she would limit her media apperances and be given more contact with her father. Hardly respecting freedom of speech, in my own country no less.

And, again, this was because of a bookstore owned in Hong Kong, not the mainland.
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I think even if it is not that great it still beats DJI from a price point and technical specs perspective.
Fame and success is still valued by society writ large. This is deeper than this most recent social media layer. I also left social media but I feel just as much pressure as before because the people who I hang around with (who themselves are on social media, but that's not the only reason they act that way) directly or indirectly put pressure on incentive levers which all in all culminate in me preferring to be a "somebody" rather than a "nobody".
Why? It's super handy and the general idea has been well proven in FreeBSD and Solaris. It's very convenient to encapsulate all of you dependencies into an environment segregated from the rest of the system, and chroot just isn't complete enough.
At least as of 3 years ago when I left, the software systems that drove the mandate towards SOA were still massive systems that communicated almost purely through a monolithic Oracle database. It was the software system(s) that was responsible for all automation and accounting at fulfillment centers. This is one of those rare times where I actually think a full rewrite from scratch would have been a better idea.
yeah, I've never understood myspace or FB. I remember when myspace was first blowing up, people were talking about having 100 friends, which always blew me away. I couldn't imagine trying to keep up with that many friends.

I had a brief 1-2 year stint on FB where someone finally convinced me to get on it, and I had 13 friends on there. All of them people I know and hang out with regularly in real life. All I ever did was post funny things I came across, and I eventually got pushed off during the election cycle because I got REALLY sick of seeing all the misinformation about hilary and trump (both sides were doing it).

I just don't understand FB.
First of all, if you are going to make a serious comment, don’t stereotype. That’s like saying “all Democrats hate babies” which is obviously a ridiculous statement. There is a plethora of reasons why people are anti-vaccine. For me, I think that the preservatives are incredibly dangerous. If I could buy vaccines without preserves I would gladly pay more and happily give them to my children. The fact that I have to inject my child with additional chemicals not required for the vaccine has me in the anti-vax boat.
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How is it relevant? The fact that he's proposing an alternative option doesn't change the fact that he's also presenting a completely insane one.
I feel similar. Years ago, I used to be very into YouTube. I followed the channels I loved closely and loved discovering new channels. It felt like I could search for any topic I was interested in and find a small, cool channel about it.
Then yesterday for example I was reading an article about tornado alley and wanted to watch some storm chasing videos on Youtube. My searches just turned up page after page of "Family Vlog" clickbait, with people using their frightened kids as the thumbnail picture. Was so off-putting that it killed my interest.
Instead of criticizing another perspective, you should put effort towards convincing people of another view point.

Why should someone be ashamed of themselves for having an opinion? Projections are not facts so why are you treating them as such and saying “sorry you’re wrong”?
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Directly from the Wikipedia article you linked:

>The Jews of Germany constituted less than 1 percent of the country's population. It is preposterous to argue that the possession of firearms would have enabled them to mount resistance against a systematic program of persecution implemented by a modern bureaucracy, enforced by a well-armed police state, and either supported or tolerated by the majority of the German population. Mr. Carson's suggestion that ordinary Germans, had they had guns, would have risked their lives in armed resistance against the regime simply does not comport with the regrettable historical reality of a regime that was quite popular at home. Inside Germany, only the army possessed the physical force necessary for defying or overthrowing the Nazis, but the generals had thrown in their lot with Hitler early on.

You could even argue that armed push back from the Jews would have resulted in more popular support for their extermination and would have hastened and worsened the Holocaust.

>As for our situation, I think we can appeal to the declaration of independence...

The Declaration of Independence is irrelevant here. We aren't talking about any legal, moral, or ethical reason for opposing despots. We are talking about it from a practical perspective. It is wildly less practical today than it was in the 18th century because the growth in military might of today's government has far outpaced the firepower available to the citizenry.

>You're comparing a transient discomfort for a relatively tiny number of people entering the country illegally, to events where millions of citizens were systematically and intentionally killed or starved to death by their governments.

And just like with the earlier examples, things start slow. The temperate of the political water in the US is rising and like a frog, no one has yet jumped out of the pot. That doesn't spell doom yet, but it also doesn't forecast great things if the political environment continues to worsen.
The discussion leaves out account/identity recovery, which in practice is the most important part. You can use a PGP keypair as your identity, but if you lose access to it then you're screwed. So from an identity perspective the "brands" he mentions are a set of account recovery services of varying effectiveness, consisting of email, SMS, phone, and more complicated/unreliable methods like begging technical support.

At the end he mentions a statistical analysis in Mathematica and a text adventure in PHP. The second seems easy enough to share by just giving out an IP or using a dynamic DNS service. Mathematica is less clear, because it's proprietary, but it comes with a cloud subscription so presumably one would just upload it to the cloud. It's pointless to complain about a "brand" when the software itself is the brand.

And the last part where he talks about identifying people is also really simple. Everyone has a phone, so just using GPS narrows down the space to a few hundred, wherein one can use other methods like scrolling through the list. The hard part is doing it in a way doesn't allow user tracking, but that's a privacy rather than an identity issue.
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> Why should someone be ashamed of themselves for having an opinion?

They should be ashamed for irrational fear-mongering.
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Yes, mine is very similar.

Though, (and I should have mentioned this in my original comment, sorry) I've never actually used the functionality in question, so I don't know how well it actually works.
And how likely are either of these?
No reason an insurgency couldn't coexist with a dictatorship. I just don't believe this kind of embedded insurgency could reach levels of organization great enough to overthrow the dictatorship.

Certainly an insurgent in a dictatorship has not won back his liberty. Therefore an armed populace, in my mind, does not prevent a dictatorship.
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And in fifteen years when humanity still exists, how will these no longer young folks react? Will they feel mislead and turn against those who promoted the ideas? Turn their backs on such issues forever, no longer entertaining the possibility that it is a problem but longer term? Or just move the goal posts?
This article seems to present the state of the Internet as a kind of feudalism, where one must swear fealty to an established "brand", and carving out a life as a freeman is practically unattainable. I'd say the reality is that it's easy to join the Internet land-owning class (buy a domain; get a cert; run services), yet most people prefer to rent because they are not so inclined.

Email is widely used, HTTPS is widely used, and they don't require you use a gatekeeper brand. Many instant messaging platforms, while run by brands, allow you to bring your own email address as an identity.

I don't think authentication of identities is a feature that ties people to brands. A phone number is pseudonymous, and acts as an identity for many mobile messaging applications. Authentication in many cases is performed socially: you got the number from them, from a mutual friend, or they told you who they are and you were convinced.
I do get the point of the author and I share it's thoughts and values, but for me it went quite different.

I have never been a really social person. I have never had many friends. No one really asks me ever where I have been or what I have been doing or whatever. I used facebook to shitpost. To shitpost a lot and MAYBE get a few likes. It worked. It worked for way too long. Then someday i literally fell on my head, my depression got way worse and I finally started working on it.

I then realized that I had no values at all. I always felt like facebook is bad, but i never acted accordingly. So I quit that. I thought 'yeah, maybe i will feel better now.' and i do. I feel great. But now, I don't even have anyone to contact and ask if there is something going on on the weekend or if people want to go out. I don't really have anyones number either (because i deleted A LOT of my private stuff in a furious rage). Now I am alone and I don't know how to get out of it. Social media is no option though, I don't want to be that attention seeking person anymore. I want to be the person i am and find people who like me for that exact reason. I just don't know how.

End of story: Quitting social media made me a better person, but if I add everything together i don't feel better (yet)

Woops. Went a bit offtopic, but whatever. Thanks for reading.
Because people are more fluid than ever. The world would probably need to stop all air travel and cross border travel immediately to contain it.
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> Google has worked this way since time immemorial.

Do internal Google services exclusively use the Google Cloud Platform APIs? The implication is that internal Amazon services exclusively use AWS APIs. I've never worked at either company though, so I don't know if it's true. Perhaps someone could clarify.
I've never understood this type of apocalyptic thinking. Humans are the most adaptable and most widespread of the large animals. We are arguable the best at surviving, at least in our 'class'. And while it's true we've come up with some pretty devastating ways to destroy each other and ourselves, that is very different from destroying all of humanity. We've faced plagues and global wars before, but even when huge portions of humanity have died off it's still not even close to all of it.

Even trying to devise a way to guarantee that humans go extinct seems like an almost impossible thought exercise. How do you exterminate 7 billion people spread over ~57 million square miles of land?
> Sure, they could try fighting a guerilla warfare, they'd even inflict some casualties against the enemy but it's unlikely that in the end they'd succeed against an army that is professional, highly skilled, better equipped, has better offensive and defensive capabilities, knows a lot more about tactics and logistics and has trained for this type of situation on a daily basis.

Have you heard of the Viet Cong?
I've got around 20 "friends" on FB (mostly family, and not really posting anymore), but subscribed to many feeds (mostly bands I like)

If they ever add RSS to their own websites, I will have no more reason to be on FB.

Please make RSS a thing again !

On the other hand, I was reading a tweeter feed an hour ago, and I was so disgusted by the hatred of the exchange that I told myself (again...) "Why are you inflicting this on your sanity ?"
How about regularly Hosting public meetings during hours when young people are working?
Perhaps in another 25 years, after they've seen a few more rounds of "we're all going to die" (from Ebola, H1N1, AIDS, Killer Bees, Zika, etc...), they'll become a bit more suspicious of doom and gloom predictions.
This article presents no evidence to back up its thesis.
Ooo, that's a good point!
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I hope so but I'm reminded of the saying: you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
It's a bit like englightment isn't it? Not in terms of rarity of course, but the ones who reach it don't preach it about it.
Nah. For example Sony was hacked by North Korea. CIA was repeatedly hacked by Russia (Vault 7, director emails). And yes, every high-tech US corporation is sucked dry of secrets by China (Micron, Intel, Supermicro, Waymo, Boeing, etc.)
If humanity is causing extinctions, it's due to habitat destruction and local pollution. Climate change (+0.38C from 1980-2010) is not the cause.
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How many frozen pizzas does a pizza factory make, per hour? Is that the real competition?
It pulls runtime from FSF, which has GCC Runtime Library Exception.
And it will be self-defeating. I doubt that we will really do anything in the next 15 years to fight of climate change and then when these youths are alive 15 years from now, they will be easy to convince that this was just all an example of chicken little screaming that the sky is falling.
very unlikely
I always found it annoying how things get "declassified" only after anyone that could have provided context and good points of objection, in order to develop a better system of rules, is dead.

How can you expect to perfect a system by making the negative feedback loop ineffective.
>If you were creating a new system, would you include a clause that says: just in case I'm getting this wrong, let's make sure it's an unalienable right for people to have weapons in case they need to kill me?

I didn't grow up in the US, but being exposed to US political discourse, I always took for granted this right wing talking point (though I thought it was ridiculous from the outset). Thank you for providing clarity and a decent looking source on something that, as you point out, makes no sense once you think a little longer about it.
Do you have some research to back up the dangers?
After months of protests. That alone does not convince me.

However, the fact that such a self destructive bill is even proposed by the pro-Beijing government in the first place alone convinces me that ”one country, two systems” is being hollowed out.
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The NYC rate is justified if they work you harder or if your job requires face-to-face interactions in NYC.
Thanks for posting :)
The question wasn't specific to climate change
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