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> SE will turn into Reddit where leftist politics prevail in all of the major subreddits and most responses to factual questions consist of options or unsourced "facts"
> As well as child abuse imagery, these referrals include more than 8,000 reports related to attempts by offenders to meet children online and groom or entice them into sharing indecent imagery or meeting in real life.

It would be nice if people could commit to seperating out the requests by shoolmates for naked pics of 17 year olds and requests by older men for naked pics of 10 year olds when presenting these stats. :/

As it is, information like this (and indeed most stats you see in public discourse) is useless for determining the scale of a problem and sensible public policy approaches.
Ridicule of the government is quite common on Chinese social media.

But then a lot of Chinese folks who cross over to Western social media find the anti-CCP sentiment to overreach (no doubt bc of the geopolitical considerations involved), and switch over to a defensive posture as a result.
> Sentences that avoid referring to people with pronouns are awkward and forced.

Your post avoided pronouns. Was it awkward and forced?
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I'm wondering if NYT has a tech blog. They seem like an excellent resource to model oneself.
Except even if you pay you're still the product. Data is a currency, they'll happily take it if you offer it :)
That ignores the real cost of roads in cities is lost revenue from all that land. Ignoring of course how people would get around the city without roads.

NYC for example has over 6,000 miles of road * a very conservative 60 feet ignoring sidewalks is ~40,000 acres or 20% of the city. Central Park by comparison is only 842 acres. As Property taxes add up to ~55 Billion per year that’s (55/.8*.2) ~= 13.8 billion in lost revenue per year.

There are of course options to build more roads underground, but then they start costing as much as subway systems.
I've heard this argument before, and please forgive me if this is insensitive. Are people with disabilities eased by non-paper straws not able to supply their own? Perhaps steel ones that can be reused many times? I appreciate that allowances for disabilities must be made, but I can also understand that general popular use of plastic straws is harmful to the environment.
Model X sales are good compared to other luxury SUVs.

The idea that Tesla would be better off introducing ICEs is just insane. A quick way to bankruptcy (like all those other new domestic car makers who tried to start up the last ~100 years). People want the long-range, properly engineered EVs that Tesla makes. But I do realize you’re trolling.
The BBC is Maoist and pro-Communist Party of China? Hold the press, this is bigger than Brexit!
Seemed a little shallow to me and focused on a small slice of the Chinese population born between 1981 and 1996 (a widely-accepted birth year range for "millenials").

During those years, there was almost no Chinese middle class. All the growth in China's urban middle class happened well after 1996.

Even with that growth, they're still greatly outnumbered by rural and working class families, whose millenial children are likely quite different from what's described in the article.

This felt like an article describing American "hipsters" who are nowhere close to a majority of their birth cohort.
> If you lose your private SSH key, you regenerate it, and the server admin resets your public key. Zero data loss.

This is exactly the same data loss as when you lose your master password.

Just like you store multiple passwords in your password vault, your SSH key can give you access to multiple servers.

If you lose it, you have to "reset" your public key on _every_ server, just like you have to reset _every_ password that you stored in your password vault.
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Well, they did took over when it came to desktop. But in the 2000s the web became popular as a target for applications so their desktop dominance wasn't the only thing that mattered.

However in their niches MS Access and Excel (VB not anymore but that was because Microsoft forcefully killed it, not because the developers that used it decided by themselves to move away from it) are still dominant (in fact so dominant that they overflow from these "niches" - see how many stories of Excel VBA doing things that weren't "supposed" to be done in Excel).
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It's incredible how far online mapping has come. When I moved from central London to the suburbs, we moved out of aerial photo coverage into an area only covered by 'true' satellite imagery, at pretty low resolution. You couldn't make out individual houses. Now our house and garden are rendered in Google Maps from detailed 3D LIDAR models.
If I had to shoehorn it in a historical political ideology I might pick Stalinism.

People were “disappeared” overnight into Siberian labor camps or just shot with very little thought or due process.

At some point some caught on and started to report people they didn’t like for made up stuff, knowing the state would do the dirty work for them. You didn’t like your neighbor’s haircut? — No big deal, report them for criticizing the party, then watch them being dragged away.
I run a product/community of teenage game developers. The girls in my community do not want to reveal that they are girls, probably because they do not want to stand out. So basically everyone thinks it's full of boys (especially the boys), but in reality 50% are girls. So it definitely depends on the person and circumstances how they want to be perceived.

With European names, I also saw plenty of times when wrong genders were assumed, but those things shouldn't be taken as malice. It would be weird for an adult to use that a a means for insult, so why not assume it's an honest mistake?
I don't think the pronoun movement is about people using the wrong gender by mistake, and that's definitely not "rejecting your identity".

I'm male, and sometimes people outside my native country misread my name and read it as the feminine version of it. I've answered phone calls and gone to appointments where people were actually expecting a woman, not a fully grown man. That's people being silly, not rejecting my identity.

But I don't want any part in this discussion, like the OP in the article, I'll keep using "they" to refer to people on the internet.
I believe the story referenced is "At The Core", where stars at the core of the galaxy have gone supernova and thereby started a supernova chain reaction expanding outward from the core into the surrounding stars of the galaxy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Core
Who knows? If the system is rigged against the righteous and the immoral are in charge, maybe hacking the system is the moral thing?

Much to ponder on this one...
You'd need to ask for at least three grammatical cases: nominative, accusative and possessive.
We considered trying this a while back with our organisation's personnel tracker, but concluded it needed a disproportionate amount of user effort. So we abandoned it in favour of just stating the user's name and/or singular "they" everywhere (in line with UK GDS guidelines[1]).

[1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/gender-or-sex/
> If you took away the community entirely, would it be any less useful?

The whole platform is based around the users creating questions and answers. The site puts much of the effort for curation and moderation on to the community, if you visit the chat rooms on there you'll find that there's groups of people who congregate there who do a disproportionate amount of that work of keeping things running smoothly.

So I think there is a risk of the site quality sliding substantially if the currently highly engage segment of the community there disengages.
> Why do you attack the flag of the country (and even the flag of HK) rather than the flag of the party, then?

It seems to me, that in China to attack the party is to attack the state, and vice verse. To quote France's Louis XIV: L'état, c'est moi.

Am I incorrect?
The galactic core exploding is a major plot point driving the Known Space series.
> they bear no risk

how does the existence of loan defaults jive with the idea that loans have no risk?
you should read Musk’s “Tesla Secret master plan “ then:

“”[...]the overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution.“”

https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j...

The point being that he has to make sexy / desirable car that other people would rather buy and drive rather than ICE carbon-based polluting cars.
Or look at what China, the US, or basically any other industrialized nation did at the same stage of development. The government levied tariffs and gave out subsidies to support local industry even when it was less economic to do so.
But the best kind of ad is the kind the enduser doesn't realize is an ad. Not to mention that cross-posting happens all the time so your "ad" can make it all over the site for a day or so. And if it goes viral enough on reddit, it'll inevitably be picked up by a multitude of websites built around leaching content from reddit. Obviously there's no guarantee that it'll work any given time, but try it enough over a span of time and I can see how it would be more effective than traditional advertisements.

It's why Facebook ads look identical to posts at a glance. If you don't know it's an ad, you're more likely to click it, share it, like it, etc.
It is very hard to put a finger on exactly why though. Politicians discover that their pro-good-ideas stance puts them at odds with powerful forces. Consistently.
But it seems unlikely that there is an actual conspiracy afoot. There is some powerful incentive structure at work. Take war for example. It seems that consistently peaceful candidates are voted in then they end up invading somewhere.

It may be military lobbying; but even then it seems a little strange that absolutely no progress gets made on issues that seem to have a remarkable amount of support from what must be most voters. People voting for humanity or economic reasons would agree that endless overseas wars are a mistake - that catches most voters. Realistically it should even catch the imagination of the foreign policy people; power projection is one thing, but killing foreigners doesn't put America in a great place for the next generation.

It would almost be more helpful for politicians to honestly state why they keep flipping their positions rather than sending another smooth-talking politician in to see if they flip. Surely there must be some equilibrium where less people die but all the insiders are happy.
This sounds like complete nonsense to me, so I guess my understanding of what "blockchain" is must be different from yours.

To help me understand your comment/submission, could you explain what you think "blockchain" is?

Thanks.
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Theoretically, yes.

However, it seems to be a more or less open secret (from a friend of mine who works in the industry) that investigations won't be conducted as diligently as if the crime had happened on land.

Part of the reason for that is that it's difficult to secure evidence after several days or even weeks and the staff on board or the police in the next port often isn't qualified to do so.

Another contributing factor seems to be that cruise ship operators don't want any hassle or negative press and therefore push for investigations to be dealt with swiftly and silently.
>best statistic

It depends on what you're trying to do. On the other hand, there are a lot of injuries and fatalities in an absolute sense (or relative to most other types of accidents) so it's certainly worthwhile to do things that reduce those numbers.

On the other hand, the accident rate is really quite low already. So any technology or policies have to deal with an already pretty low base rate--which, as you say, has already been reduced significantly over time. There isn't much in the way of low-hanging fruit.
My word, but it must be awfully sad to have such an outlook.

Let's take the other side of what you just said. More information today is available than at any other time in human history. Their are those who choose to spend time in a futile fashion, and there are those who choose to learn. Perceptions of which is which vary person-to-person. For instance, I read HN because there are a lot of very smart, technically-savvy people. Others might believe it a waste of time. Maybe someone spends time on pinterest, but wishes to be an interior decorator and does further homework on the pictures found. I think most of us would agree tick tock is an abject waste of time, but so what? Adults have been watching tv long before "kids these days".

Now let's consider the benefits that the information age brings. A life expectancy double what we might achieve in the wild, plentiful food, a good job, and so much more. Though some people waste their time, all this information has opened greater orders of learning to those with the inclination.

On the whole, I believe "modern technology" to be a marvelous innovation, rather than a prison. While it certainly ought to remain open to critique, this sort of nihilistic opinion has never made sense.
Well one thing for sure, internet warriors are always willing to give up cars or have others give them up but the simple reality is that cars and access to them is a requirement for many even in the city environment.

simply put, living in town is not financially or socially viable for many and the freedom afforded by auto ownership is not giving the value is vastly underestimated by those who would restrict their use by others.

as with most lifestyle conversations it is far easier to score internet points with altruistic comments let alone being part of the clique. about as useful as hashtag diplomacy
I find it ironic that they claim "[s]ource code transparency is an absolute requirement for software solutions like Bitwarden" on their website yet they require SQL Server 2017, a completely proprietary RDMBS.
C'mon now... talking about data attributes on a html element is not illegal.

allrecipes.com has data attributes on their ingredient list. seriouseats.com has css classes on their ingredients. those are two that i just checked on the spot.
Some of the numbers in that table do not make any sense and makes me question the quality of the entire article.

Where are the numbers for the Cerebras chip coming from?:

- How do you have a TDP of 180W for an entire wafer of chips?

- Why is there a peak FP32 number when they are clearly working with FP16?

Each of these chips is a completely different architecture and it makes no sense to compare them at this level. The only meaningful comparison is actual performance in applications because that reflects how the entire system will be used.
Are you unironically linking to the Washington Examiner and Dailywire as authorities about the state of the press?

I am literally laughing out loud.

Also, CNN has always been pro-US-establishment pro-corporate pro-military, a general center–right outlook, with a focus on sensationalism and opinion, lots of time given to various “Washington insiders” and ex officials, and mediocre coverage of the news. It wasn’t (like Fox) explicitly set up to be a propaganda network, and there are many good journalists working for CNN, but the end product is still pretty bad. The whole concept of a 24–hour cable TV news station is absurd, in practice. It’s not that there couldn’t be enough material to fill the day, but since cable stations have to compete for channel-surfers, every incentive is to be as salacious and repetitive as possible. 1 hours per day is about the maximum most viewers have attention for TV news coverage, and e.g. the BBC or PBS are reasonably successful at filling a bit of TV time with news, but for extended coverage newspapers are inherently a much better format. All the small important stories on the later pages are never going to make it on TV.
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Ok, then there's the rest of the objections.

Add to this, plastic straws are a trifling fraction of plastic pollution, and the made-up furor distracts from actual important issues.
> I see this pattern in comments every day on social media all the time

I think you're reading rather a lot into my post that I didn't write. But one lesson of China is that you can have "money, voluntary exchange, markets" and authoritarianism at the same time. Especially in the context of international trade, where A voluntarily exchanging money for products made by B with the slave labour of C happens a lot.

What happens when marketing products (in this case, sport) to a non-free country with an official nationalist ideology (in this case, China)? The customers voluntarily choose not to give money to products that don't support the Chinese state. That leads to westerners voluntarily choosing to support authoritarianism, so long as it's happening to someone else. All through free exchange.

(I am certainly not offering a solution to any of this!)
Depends on the person in the Casino. Some people go in, feed the slots a couple of times for the thrill of what could be and then they move on somewhat entertained by the experience. Other people get addicted to that thrill and their lives suffer as a result.

Same goes for many things in life, not just casinos. It isn't simple.
It's a matter of effort for reward. I get the sense from you that you find standups to be miserable so any way to get rid of them is worthwhile, even if it's less efficient (and having managers/lead developers track who is working on what specific piece of software and organize conversations to make sure the right people are talking to each other is not efficient).

In my experience, standup has almost no cost and is generally enjoyable - people typically like talking about what they are doing and getting thoughts/advice. But if your standups are "half an hour or more", they clearly don't have much in common with the standups I've done. I would propose that maybe the problem is your standups are poorly run, not that the concept itself is bad.
While we are all talking about self crafted Clojure runtimes. Here is mine.

Me and a friend wrote a small VM to run Clojure. We designed a costum bytecode based on LuaJit [1] for it and a compiler in Clojure to compile Clojure to that Bytecode.

We had to versions of the VM originally in pre-1.0 Rust but that was always breaking. Then we wrote it in C [3].

For those interested in the GC, we use the OpenSource 'Memory Pool System' [2] originally designed for Dylan.

Its very nice incremental GC system. It fairly simply use, you basically just implement a couple functions related to parsing your objects and the MPS gives you a neat incremental GC for free. Lots of other neat features that are easy to use out of box.

Originally I wanted to write a simple JIT for it but I never actually did it.

[1] https://github.com/clojit/clojit-doc/blob/master/Bytecode%20...

[2] https://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/

[3] https://github.com/clojit/clojit-cvm
The FCC's push here should tell you everything you need to know. They claimed that the regulations weren't their place and that they should be implemented by legislation instead of administration. Then, when that starts to happen, they argue that their oversight cannot be overruled by state legislation. Their true goal is plainly clear: the FCC is a captured organization working on behalf of telecoms interests. So what do we do about it? I'm not sure.
Very cool! If it's appropriate I hope you post about it here when complete.

Also that TSAM vid is exactly what i had in mind, thanks!
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I was discussing with some friends what should change in our city that would incentivize the creation of a startup ecosystem, or similar, some sort of tech hub.

Is it government programs? A big company growing or coming here and attracting others, or just attracting top talent? Incubators?

I was hoping to see a discussion on that topic so any links are also appreciated.
1) Doesn't only apply to the high-paid professionals. All sorts of ancillary jobs do not pay $engineer money, but are still very tightly attached to the tech sector. Those professionals are stuck between a rock and a hard place right now.
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Busted how though? It's not like McDonalds, for example, would use a Mc-branded account to post random things to reddit with clearly visible McDonald cups or whatever. They'd use some throwaway account or buy an established account and buy upvotes to target that account's post. Reddit has no way to punish them for that. Maybe the reddit users find out and get pissed, but the site has no attention span and they'll forget and move on in a week.
I think most of the explanations fail to account for a very important point: music doesn't exist in the abstract but comes with a setting, a context and a community. You don't just listen to music, you experience it. Whether it's an opera house or a jazz club or a rave or a rap battle or a dive bar, all music comes with an associated experience. It can be hard to truly 'get in' a genre and understand why people like it if you can't experience it the way most people who listen to it do.

I think the reason many people get stuck with the music they listened to as a teenager is because their most intense experiences involving music occured when they were teenagers. Then they move on, and if they don't obsess about music, they won't have stronger feelings about the new stuff.
There's an inmense example of the difference of total private banking system vs shared (today's system). I will never use banks as the example, since we're moving towards digital and decentralized currencies.

> I could potentially agree with anti capitalist rhetoric if they had a shred of understanding human nature. In capitalism, its base nature is everyone is an asshole thus you must out asshole them.

No, capitalism is a sum of institutions, so, it's not being an asshole, because if you're asshole, you will have it hard to triumph. In capitalism, the only way to success is by being good. If you take the opposite approach, you will last until your entire capital is lost. There's huge amounts of book that describe the theory well. The only bad here in the equation are the goverments, because they use the force, and if you believe all humans are "wolves", what you will not do (to solve the problems) is giving a wolf all the powers.
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I love the comments stating "everything is political", is there a book that can convince and help delibrately build better politics?
In one of Niven's short stories an alien corporation hires a Human pilot to fly to the galactic core. It's a publicity stunt to demonstrate the speed and range of a new FTL drive. When he gets close to the core, his ship is almost fried by the radiation wave front coming from a chain reaction explosion of suns in the galactic core. This drives events in many of Niven's later stories.

The devastation won't reach 'Known Space' for thousands of years, but the alien Puppeteers that funded the trip are paranoid herbivores. They immediately start a mass exodus of their whole species out of the galaxy, causing a massive economic crash along with many effects on other plot lines.

Niven's Known Space future (and past) history is an amazing and incredibly influential achievement. Highly recommended. Most of it consists of collections of short stories and novellas written over decades, so it's very digestible.
I believe GP's remarks are that single hyphen followed by letters should each be individual flags, and double hyphen followed letters is a single flag in long form.

The application in question is using -generate rather than --generate.