skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Armed Forces allow enlisting as a permanent resident: https://www.usa.gov/join-military

There are quite a few exceptions to "militaries don't recruit non-citizens": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_militaries_that_recrui...

Most relevant to the case at hand, a number of EU countries allow EU citizens to serve in their militaries: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and Luxembourg
You come across as somebody who's trying to fallaciously prove how smart they are, so can dismiss any argument you think isn't worthy of your esteemed intellect. It's not a good look. Your username adds to the suspicion that you're just a troll.

If you really want to, compare the past 150 years with the previous 2000: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1401-2
Be sure to check out the tips app. It has stuff like this in it.

The long touch spacebar method still works great for cursor movement and it’s my preferred way.

Also, that’s weird about the select all. Still works for me, but I can’t be sure the behavior didn’t change.
Can you turn this off? I am asking because using an iPhone unlocked while cycling is activating this great feature regularly.
Who Killed the Scrollbar?
The Next Big Startup in Silicon Valley? Retool
If a service provides a useful value that people are willing to pay for at $50 then why shouldn't the service provider charge $50?
This is a bizarrely rose tinted view of China, which not only completely ignores mistreatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities - from imprisonment and 'reeducation to literal organ legging; but also the everyday horrors of life under an authoritarian dictatorship.

For example the frequent adulteration of food (including baby food) with poisons. The panopticon surveillance and control of movement which prevents the poor and those living in rural areas from travelling within their own country. Restrictions on free speech, not only political in nature but critical of any aspects of civil society - and the inevitable lack of reforms to public health and safety.

Increasing nationalism, police observation and 'patriotic' violent attacks on foreigners. Violence against medical professionals when patients feel (rightly or wrongly) that they haven't received the treatment they should have.

The rise of an unelected dictator forming a cult of personality and the subsequent reinvigoration of anti-foreign, nativist han Chinese sentiment, and the increased suppression of minorities and dissent that has resulted.

The thousands of 'incidents' of protests (attempted rebellions) that are ruthlessly crushed each year, while being actively hidden by Chinese media and social media.

The incredibly successful censorship of both China's own history and any discourse about political reform.

On and on.

China is a spectacular case of all the ills that can befall a centralised authoritarian regime when people cannot directly criticise their government. This article seems to advocate 'learning from China' in a way that implies replicating their authoritarian control. It reminds me of a bizarre TED talk a few years ago that celebrated the supposedly effective meritocracy of the CCP - just before it became one man dictatorship - while ignoring the fact that the CCP leadership is almost exclusively composed of the children and grandchildren of the communist party leaders that supported Mao. It is in short, thinly veiled propaganda.
The problem with repairability is that you must decide to what level. Replacing transistor in a chip has been impossible for 50 years. Replacing chip was possible 30 years ago. Right now we have soldiered on ram and storage in phones and glued displays.

I think that we should insist that parts are replacable - we split the phone into 10-15 parts. But even if I could rule by decree I am not sure I can make the right call what exactly is the right way.
Not if they're both building on top of a shared body of mathematics (or even shared sensory organ evolution and brain structure). Aliens may be working from an entirely different foundation, resulting in entirely different mathematics.
It was two weeks ago when I started suddenly having delivery problems (ie consistently delivered to the spam folder) for emails sent from SES from AWS.

It’s very obvious to me now when reading these replies that Google changed their spam filtering and it’s affecting many more than just me
Sure, you can require someone to be fluent in English before you're willing to hire them for your team of programmers (a standard). That doesn't mean people who don't want to work for you should be required to learn English before they can start to learn programming (a barrier).
From earlier this year, an article about programming in languages other than English: https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as...
Been using this for the past 4-5 months, ever since I saw a personal story of someone using it posted to HN.

It's been a game changer for me. I can WFH productively for the first time in my life, and have had 95% enjoyable experiences with the people on the other end of the chats thus far.

To those complaining about the pricing...they just started charging and I'm sure that's why it's not in the FAQ. Also, it's $5/mo, they aren't trying to get you hooked on something and then surprise you with $500/mo or something.
The attitude that even cheap phones are throwaways is troubling to me. Not just because throwing away $200-300 seems reasonable to people here that average people can afford to do this regularly, but mostly because every phone cheap or not, takes resources to produce, many of which are non renewable, resources to ship and distribute and sure they're recyclable, but I'd be willing to be not a lot of people put the effort in to actually recycle them.

Continuing to produce new phone after new phone with only slight improvements between each new model with the expectation that people will just buy a new one rather than upgrade parts or repair old ones is just completely and utterly wasteful from an environmental stand point.
to me it reads as
if (density == Density.Moderate) // speed up
else if (density == Density.High) // slow down
Lobby money. Legal bribery at work
But I mean it’s not what the story is about - the story is about them being a new class of non-deployable soldiers - them being citizens or not is unchanged and orthogonal. So why’s it in the title as if it’s party of what’s newsworthy?
Hydnora had an obvious influence in Dune, IMAO
I don't get why this is so controversial. Programming languages should absolutely be in a language that the majority of programmers can understand. Everyone is bringing up the fact that programmers can't understand each others' code; do we really think introducing more languages, whatever they may be, will help that?
You are appearing to confuse VC backed non-tech startups with tech.

To talk about tech in general, look to the major players: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and so on.
Is that true? According to this, in the US at least, "Roughly 35,000 non-citizens are serving in active duty military and about 8,000 join each year."[1] The US government also deports some of its honorably discharged veterans.[2]

[1] https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/eligibility-requi...

[2] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/06/12/...
For some reason, I just made the connection to the flowers of Minas Morgul, whose description I always loved. Now I can confirm, there are definitely some mycotrophic plants on the foothills of Mordor:

"Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers. Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air."
Not to mention that, once in a while, even people who don't dare speak against the authority get caught up and obliterated by the system. It's the nature of oppressive authoritarian systems where the rule of law is absent. You don't necessarily need to do anything for it to single you out.

On the topic of the 'American Dream': the more successful you are, the more likely it is in such a system that you don't pay off the right guy in time, or don't surrender enough of your wealth to a well-connected guy who wants a piece of it. And off to the Gulags you go, sharing a cell with the 'political prisoner' who pointed to as a cautionary tale of why you must not speak out and criticize the government. Wait, does that mean you're also a 'political prisoner' now too?
It feels like change for the sake of change when it worked perfectly before.

I fired up my old launch day iPhone a few weeks ago. The phone works great, though some of the apps no longer have services to connect to (Weather, for example).

What struck me is how intuitive iOS 3 was to use. Everything seemed more (to use the parlance of our times) "discoverable."

Maybe part of it was just remembering how things work, but it seemed like a much better experience than iOS 13.

Also, as much as people on HN enjoy bashing skeuomorphism, the fact is that it works, it's intuitive, and is 9,385% more user-friendly than a bunch of identical Playskool-colored squares with no demonstrable function.
I think it's very device dependent sincem ost OEMs ship some kind of non-native shit UI on top, but my Android phone has a slider (hardware) on the side of the phone like an iPhone to toggle between this.
I have been looking for that for so long!
If we are talking about that specific time period, then what China is doing now is hardly any worse than what was being done to African Americans in the US at the time. And the scale is absolutely comparable.

The major difference, however, is that the US was still a democracy that had mechanisms to allow for things to be changed for the better. It’s hard to see what mechanisms for improvements exist in China.
I wholeheartedly agree. "Pretentious" is the word I would use for it. "Insincere" is another.
This line of thought has become very popular among city planners here in Austria, but I've seen it implemented in 2 different ways:

- in Vienna, they give priority to pedestrians in such shared zones, cars have to go very slowly and often struggle with large numbers of people in areas frequented by tourists. There is also a lot of confusion around the question where cars are actually allowed to go and when

- in some tourist areas in Italy, where lower traffic roads have no sidewalks and cars go 30 Km/h, pedestrians walk on the edge of the street. This seems just as safe and less frustrating for drivers.
Yep I remember them scare mongering with that line. Which really gutted the already short supply of developers available. I also remember when the outsourcing wave came crashing down on their dreams of cheap development labor and they had to come back hat in hand to US developers who understand US business processes to bail them out. BOA being a big one that's project busted spectacularly. Most of us that witnessed this period held their feet to the fire and jacked up our rates, due to the limited supply of developers.
It is disappointing that you decided to ignore the death and misery caused by this version of the bus and instead chose to pose a question on journalistic integrity. You did not provide evidence or refute any facts to support your claim that bendy buses were indeed safer or the routes even traversed the narrow streets, where 'Chelsea Tractors' (Range Rover/BMW X5/Cayenne), generally used to roam. There is also no evidence, that this 'lobby' you speak of, actually existed, let alone being overly concerned about the surrounding issues.

For the uninitiated, articulated/bendy buses were in operation from 2002-2011, the article linked was written in 2007 in the Evening Standard (ES), when it was still under paid circulation.
I specifically mentioned electronics. In the 90s assembling a PC was already like assembling a lego, that didn't require too much knowledge. And computers were usable enough with the internet to become indispensable part of our live.
I know Zuckerburg is being grilled by Congress this week, but that's an overly harsh thing to say about facebook(corewwwi).
Public keys are not enough for SSH security
> I don't think they're against computers either

They aren't. There are in fact computers specifically designed and marketed for Amish business work. They're more like a classic Word Processor than what we call a computer.
In some ways the Dickey Amendment empowered them to push the false narrative of a strong relationship between guns and crime. Rather than having to put forward quality studies for their political purposes, they could just handwave at the legislation like it was a foregone conclusion.
Congressman pens letter to Mulvaney demanding answers on WH cyber departures
It's difficult to build an interface for high power draw which is convenient enough that doesn't break down over thousands of uses.
I've seen this website pop up here a few times and the amount of pro-Chinese content together with apocalyptic stories about North America and Europe on it together with the self-proclaimed talk about a "post-liberal" future is pretty off. Is there information available on who funds this?
I wish we were able to meet in person to discuss further, since it seems like we could have an interesting discussion.

Thanks for your thought-out response. Just from reading your post I still don't see how you're arriving at some of the conclusions you are, but I'll research your angle.

Cheers!
Is SMS free in the US? I don't understand why it's still so widely used when almost every other country has moved on to WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, Viber, Signal, Telegram, Messenger etc.
Was this announced anywhere in any fashion? Or did they just change things and assume it was all "discoverable"? (Triple WTF's at the "three finger un-pinch".)
Chinese president indentifies blockchain as breakthrough for innovation
Affectionate communication deprivation: associated with depression, loneliness
> The only way right now to ensure repairability is to legalize how phones should be assembled and basic architecture.

Which would prohibit further innovation and optimization.

I'd like to see smaller devices available. Many people would like phones with smaller screens that better fit their hands, which leaves even less room behind those screens for modular components and batteries.

I'm currently looking forward to the Purism phone, because it'll serve as a platform for Open Source innovation in small touchscreen interfaces. That doesn't mean I have any illusions that it'll be anywhere near as nice as a less modular phone, and I really have no interest in the modularity aspects.

I like the idea proposed elsewhere in this thread, of pushing for standards on recycling and then letting manufacturers innovate on how precisely to meet those standards.
Yes the US and UK are notable examples of exceptions. But in most countries it’s the case.
As of September 2019, the American Wind Energy Association claims there is only one. [1]

> The U.S. currently has one operational offshore wind project with many more on the way. The nation’s first commercial offshore wind project, the Block Island Wind Farm, came online in December 2016. Developed by Deepwater Wind, the Block Island Wind Farm is a 30 megawatt (MW) project with five turbines located three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

> According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. has a total project pipeline of 25,434 MW of offshore wind energy as of June 2018. This pipeline includes 3,892 MW of project-specific capacity and 21,542 MW of undeveloped lease area potential capacity. Out of this pipeline, project developers have announced that roughly 2,000 MW of new offshore wind capacity is expected to be operational by 2023. States including Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut have completed solicitations for nearly 1,770 MW of offshore wind energy, and additional soliciations are planned for the near future.

> The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued twelve active commercial wind energy leases to date. Another four projects have submitted unsolicited lease applications to BOEM, while four demonstration projects have obtained exclusive development rights to a site from federal or state authorities. While a majority of the nearer-term activity is concentrated in the Atlantic off the Northeast coast, projects have also been proposed off the Southeast coast, in the Pacific off of California and Hawaii, and the Great Lakes.

> With stable policies in place, the Department of Energy found the U.S. could develop a total of 22 GW of offshore wind projects by 2030 and 86 GW by 2050. As we continue to develop this homegrown resource, costs will continue to drop, value to consumers will grow, and the U.S. will see new jobs and investments in manufacturing and port infrastructure.

[1] https://www.awea.org/Awea/media/About-AWEA/U-S-Offshore-Wind...
Facebook is a tool for grandparents to see pictures of their grandkids since no one calls them anymore, why does this surprise anyone? Every time I see a nerd in SF walking around in a facebook hoodie I want to take them aside and ask, "do you know what you spend your life working on is garbage? Did you drink the cool-aid or are you just in it for the paycheck?"
Your contention was that their lives are not fundamentally different than the average person. I gave a few examples to illustrate that it is indeed quite different. I think you just proved my point.

As to whether online dating/less social interaction in public/lower birthrates/etc. are ultimately better or worse - that's a different discussion.

I am not Amish, have no intention of becoming Amish, and indeed don't know a single person in the Amish community. Yet I applaud them for taking control of the technology in their community - even if I personally disagree with some of their views - unlike the rest of society, which by and large blindly adopts whatever is trendy, pleasurable, or pushed by monied corporate interests.
Aha! You perfectly expressed why I'm turned off by much of modern art - it's form, but no content (though sometimes the lack of content is the content, in a meta way, but it still makes for boring art).
I knew because it was in the tips app, that shows how to do new stuff with new releases. I got a notification from the tips app after I upgraded, offering to show me what’s new.

Somehow this doesn’t seem to work for everyone. Not sure if people just ignore the tips app notifications or if they don’t get them for some reason.

It’s a normal app you can run any time. I just looked and the cursor movement as well as peeking at the times of messages are both in there and demonstrated.
I've implemented Grafana at many different jobs and in many cases have had an executive who would have been willing to pay for the featureset we got for free.

My two cents:

- Deliver a version of Grafana that is available packaged as an appliance, with very little need to edit the INI files. Click to deploy from the Amazon marketplace with the enterprise license included. Easy guide to getting it running with the IAM roles needed to be a first class Cloudwatch adjunct.

- Build on your current SSO offerings and get support for SAML into the mix, as it's what most companies have settled on for access control.

- Keep working on the dashboard provisioning tech and maybe even provide a templating mechanism accessible from the UI that spits out new dashboards on demand, beyond the (excellent) variable functionality that's currently there.

- More work on alerting! You're so close to a first-class alerting system, but we need template variables in alert text and subject lines, support for alerts on dashboards with template variables, severity levels, and a better UX for configuring alarm conditions. Another feature I'd push hard for any company to pay for an Enterprise license to get would be any kind of adaptive, trend-based thresholds rather than the fixed min/max you currently have. It's about the only reason I'd still push some folks towards Datadog and they rake the money in hand-over-fist.

Thanks so much for your product, it really is an absolute gem. Hope I can get an employer to start paying for it one of these years.
While I disagree pretty heavily with the author's central thesis (and this thesis relies on an ill-defined "american dream" that the author roughly describes as the period of postwar growth & prosperity for middle/upper class americans in the 1950s), I do have to agree with this part of the author's conclusion:

> China’s success scares me. There is something deeply disconcerting about watching China surpass America in the ways it is. China is transforming fishing villages into major industrial cities, while we fail to build high-speed rail or new housing. How are we going to catch up?

Right now China is still high off a period of heavy growth and industrialization. How China can handle easing out of heavy growth in the next 2-6 decades will show how real the Chinese dream is, but my personal fear (as a person who believes strongly in western liberalism) is that a rich authoritarian country can unlock a world of efficiency that the western world can only dream of, leaving our standard of living in the dust by comparison

I fear that this will lead to an era of global authoritarianism as countries around the world seek to emulate the success.

As a rail enthusiast, watching China build huge subway networks and a massive web of HSR almost overnight while my very rich western city struggles to extend a century old trolley by a few miles in the same timeframe, it really feels bad.
There is a lot of crufty old stuff in Shakespeare, the stories are re-written pretty much yearly pretty much all omitting this stuff. I'm not a part of that world, but I'd be pretty surprised if theater companies that regularly run Shakespeare plays weren't revising the plays in that regard.
>Most people I know just buy the cheapest Android they can find; those are definitely throwaways

Well there are 100 Million iPhone users in the US (45% of the market). And the Representative that killed the Bill by requesting a year long study I'm sure has no conflicts of interest (Apple stock, Google Stock, hell no interest in the group that will be awarded the government contract to conduct the study)
Amazing! I remember reading about a fictional water-powered computer in Terry Pratchett's "Making Money", and assumed it was just used as a fantasy equivalent of electricity; I never realized there were actual computers that worked like this!
When I was a teenager and was interested in chemistry 30 years ago, the question that bothers me all the time if it is possible to predict physical characteristics such as color, phase diagrams, and - yes - smell from chemical composition and structure. Tried to do that with pen and paper, but did not get much farther that acids smell acidic and alkali smell alkaline, and salts largely do not smell unless they easily dissociate. I quickly realized that the most interesting part of this problem is in organic compounds but that was well beyond my reach. Thinking about it now I am wondering about the choice of “variables”. To me it looks like we are trying to describe complex smells in terms of combination of other probably also complex smells. Is it the right base? If I were researching that I would try to find the bases - either chemical compounds with the simplest structure, like benzol, or compounds that trigger the minimal number of receptors and different and disjoint sets of receptors at that. Is there any research in that area?
1. Do a three finger unpinch gesture, and it will paste at the cursor.

I sneered at the pinch/unpinch copy/paste gestures when I first read about them. But Apple's implementation, at least on the iPad, is stellar. I'm still not used to it, but when I remember to use it, it works flawlessly every time.

And there's even a little feedback bubble that pops up at the top of the screen letting you know you did something. That kind of feedback in invaluable, and desperately lacking in this era where programmers look down on feedback animation as superfluous.