skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 60s science fiction we had all those advanced aliens who had artifacts that were nearly indestructible, worked forever and could output tons of energy. That was our vision of "high-tech". In the 80s we got the idea that maybe advanced aliens would have "smart" devices that could adapt to their environment, repair themselves and be incredibly versatile.

In those decades SF technology has one thing in common, regardless of the specific narrative: it granted incredible agency to the person who wielded it.

We also constantly tell ourselves that out technology advances forward, sometimes outpacing science fiction... Except the actual properties of our technology "evolve" in the opposite direction. We now have devices that are low-power, utterly fragile and dependent on tons of external services.

Our real technology today takes our agency away. As the article points out, it's often deliberate.

I sometimes entertain the idea of making a web comic where people have science fiction tech (spaceships, tasers, AI) with all our current problems: glitches, constant updates, loss of functionality due to poor connectivity, DRM, incomprehensible setup procedures, etc.
Well, if you like drug taking communists in space, complete with snarky drones, there is always the Culture....

I really hope the Amazon version of Consider Phlebas works out OK, even though its protagonist is fighting against the statistically demonstrated good guys.
Mark Fisher on the slow cancellation of the future https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCgkLICTskQ
This is now published on crates.io for those of you interested in playing with it:

https://crates.io/crates/tracers

Better docs and a quick start coming soon.
>> There are a lot of jobs dependent on trade with China (our company was affected by the Huawei ban, for example), and the fantasy that you can just cut-over to US manufacturing without huge transition job losses is unrealistic.

Completely agree. I very much empathize with the author and this issue is the only one where I feel some sort of connection with the current POTUS, but the engineering-at-scale capacities in the United States pale in comparison to China for a variety of reasons - some due to a cheaper labor force and more "flexible" labor laws, and some simply due to culture.

We do not have this capacity now and it is dubious that we can build it quickly without serious governmental subsidies and efforts not seen since World War 2. I'm personally good with the change, but it will cost billions if not trillions of dollars in lost productivity and marginal costs over the next decade or two, and this is not something to handwave away.
The Happiness Ruse
I think the compartmentalized nature of Apple corporate culture probably influences that. You can’t be upset about a project you don’t know exists.
How to Succeed at Remote Job Interview Without Getting Lucky
A number of commenters have mentioned that Rambo has a day job where he publishes leaks and other internal details of upcoming Apple releases. I'm not sure why he hasn't mentioned this in the article, but if it is related, it's still not the best look for Apple. The only time I can think of where the company has done something like this was banning Charlie Miller from the program, for publishing an app that allowed remote code execution to the App Store and then doing a presentation about it. In this case, Rambo has certainly done things which would violate the developer program NDA–but every news outlet that covers Apple does this by posting images of NDA'd prereleases, including developers and journalists that Apple has a great relationship with. It might be that Apple thinks it is wrong and/or illegal to look at their unreleased intellectual property (as Rambo has had access to internal-only builds presumably leaked to him by engineers) but silently banning him from his developer account is obviously not the correct way to deal with this, either. And finally, if Apple honestly thinks that this would prevent leaks: they're just wrong. Even on the software side, I can think of a handful of ways that would work just as well at finding prerelease information, completely legally, even without violating my developer NDA. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I don't spend time doing this professionally.
which means he is voting to keep the incumbent in

This is a binary choice dem or repub any other choice is a vote for the incumbent
> Which means you don't have a good position when typing?

Well, can't speak for OP, but personally I just slide the keyboard back over when I'm done gaming and going back to typing. I don't just leave my keyboard to my left relative to my sitting position.
Is there anything that trumps the needs of astronomers in your book? If we could go to 100% carbon free energy, but severely reduce ground based astronomical observations, would you be against that?
What does internet infrastructure have to do with ads? We're talking about content, and ads are the subsidy that lets billions consume for free.

That there's more content for more people across more channels is objectively true, and advertising pays for much of it. You seem to be conflating ad UX with economics.
This just makes me think more about what is going on in China and HK.
I hate it when a page consists of nothing but a video. I like to take things in at my own pace by reading. There should be a warning in the title.
How is that a misrepresentation? He's started a trade war with them. In a world with a few nations with ICBMs it's often valuable to maintain some semblance of respect with countries capable of destroying you, even when initiating a trade war. Most people didn't enjoy the cold war.
That one could attribute %62 of alcohol related collisions (and their associated injuries and fatalities) to the price fixing by cab licensing bodies is very interesting indeed.

Taxi companies and driver unions insist they provide safety and reliability. Appears there was an externality they need to account for.
Actually it was yesterday, 19/11. jwz.net explains more

there s interesting fan work on reproducing Deckard's newspaper

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e6uSgoZAerk/Wph9oqO_PwI/AAAAAAAAH...
Macros. Its a pretty fun exercise. I just started a few months ago. Still building muscle memory:
0 reruns test, . breaks test
1 opens inspector, 2 opens console, 3 opens network
5 refreshes browser (for some old stuff without livereload)
The Nationalist trap is not isolated to China. Indeed Trump is flirting with the same issues, as is Kim Jong Un, as is Bolsanaro, as is Duterte, as is Erdogan. All over the world strongman nationalists are gaining power and simultaneously dooming us to the conflicts of the older generations. It's depressing as shit that so many countries are regressing right now when we should be more united than ever.

China may be the most flagrant (debatable) but they are far from the only instance, and the problems that are haunting Xi now will haunt all of these leaders eventually. Some already are feeling it.
Meh. My google account is really just getting forwarded e-mails from another provider. If they banned every account I own I'd have to switch to Apple and restore my contacts from backup I use to feed my voip provider and photos from backblaze. It would be annoying but not devastating. However you can bet I'd raise holy hell on social media to try and undo it since that seems excessive.
They aren't, generally.

Given the condition of the lowest of our nation, "traitors" isn't an unreasonable way to describe the 1%, and no one in the 1% has ever seen a firing squad or the electric chair. Not even lethal injection. If they aren't subject to the same rules as Americans, are they really Americans? If they have a higher amount of wealth than sovereign countries, can they be considered anything but sovereign?
I think there are plenty of modern interpretations, although it is possible they just don’t exist anymore in mainstream cinema.

The movie market itself has changed greatly from the 70s and 80s. There was no such thing as video streaming and the home video market was in its infancy at best. If you wanted to watch a movie at that time you probably had to go to a theater or maybe wait for a TV airing.

Blade Runner was considered a financial flop when it released, and even its (mostly superior) nostalgia-fueled sequel failed to do much more than break even.

These kinds of thought provoking films don’t appeal to a mainstream audience: to fill a modern theater, you have to provide something to the specific kind of audience that wouldn’t rather just watch a 10 part series at home.

So it’s either a mass-appeal big budget thriller with merchandising potential, or a low budget low risk movie.

Showing “the future” on screen isn’t usually cheap, either. And you can’t do a lot of world building in 2 hours.
Social media in China is also heavily censored and manipulated. There are quite a few in mainland China who understands what's going on here in Hong Kong, but most buy into the state propaganda and wants us exterminated for being "separatists" and "traitors of the Chinese race."
Did you by a computer that came with Ubuntu? IIRC, Dell and a few smaller vendors sell these. I would imagine you could get some support from the computer vendor if the video card driver was that broken.
It's funny that you say that as the Culture series is the only thing that's scratched this itch for me in decades. Highly recommended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae

> In Japan, honne are a person's true feelings and desires (本音 hon'ne, "true sound"), and tatemae are the behavior and opinions one displays in public (建前 tatemae, "built in front", "façade").
Administration Declares Open Season on Consumers for Subprime Lenders
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." [1]

Crack cocaine carried a much harsher sentence then Cocaine, a law that very clearly targeted black people. [2]

Marijuana use is the same between white and black people, but black people are 3.73x more likely to be arrested for it.[3]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-fed...

[3] https://www.aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-w...
Hi Dale, I'm one of the local-first paper coauthors. I'm a fan of PouchDB (thanks for that) and the whole CouchDB lineage--the CouchDB book[1] was an early inspiration in my exploration of next-gen storage and collab models.

I've been down the CouchDB/PouchDB path several times with several different engineering teams. Every time we were hopeful and every time we just couldn't get it to work.

As one example, I worked with a small team of engineers to implement CouchDB syncing for the Clue Android and iOS mobile apps a few years back. Some of my experience is written down here[2]. After investing many months of engineering time, including some onsite help from Jan Lehnardt[3] we abandoned this architecture and went with a classic HTTPS/REST API.

Other times and with different teams we've tried variations of Couch including PouchDB with web stack technology including Electron and PWA-ish HTML apps. None of these panned out either. Wish I could give better insights on why--we just can't get it to be reliable, or fast, or find a good way to share data between two users (the collaboration thing is kind of the whole point).

[1]: https://guide.couchdb.org/

[2]: https://medium.com/wandering-cto/mobile-syncing-with-couchba...

[3]: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
I run VR with an i5 4440 and an RX 580 8gb. The CPU is 6(!) years old and the GPU is about 3. I have no trouble running VR games at 90fps consistently and 1.5-2.0 supersampling. Games like H3VR, VTOL VR, and I still have headroom to transcode video using OBS studio and stream to twitch and save locally. I also run Windows 7 meaning I am missing about a 10-20% performance bump from advanced features of the Windows 10 drivers.

While a 15 year old CPU is definitely hyperbole, if you bought the most expensive intel cpu 10 years ago, you could probably run VR on it.
True, but I do play piano a bit.

Conveying emotion probably has many extra factors when it comes to vocalizing, so I'd agree on that point.
Max Headroom TV-movie and the series, not the show is surprisingly good.

It has some very good episodes and works today as retro-future. The aesthetics and the mood are nice.
Since day one of the app store, there has been a persistent stream of complaints of terrible customer service to developers. Apps being rejected for reasons nobody can figure out, app reviews taking an egregiously long time, account lockouts like this.

On the one hand, when a developer account is only $99/yr and there is a strong incentive for some developers to try to get away with things, what choice do you have but to provide only automated service portals and call center employees who are powerless to fix any problem not anticipated by their scripts.

But on the other hand, there are lots of people making big bucks developing apps, and who are genuinely trying to follow the rules (even if they think some of them are dumb). Apple should have an option for these people to pay extra for real customer service.

If I made my living as a solo app developer, I wouldn't hesitate to pay any 4-figure annual price if in exchange I got siloed into a small dedicated support team so that my apps were always reviewed by one of a small number of people in order to get more consistent rejections, and reviewed in a timely manner. And I got an account manager I could call up and get weird problems like this resolved the same day - even if the resolution was sometimes unsatisfying: like being told that Apple decided Electron apps use private APIs and will all be denied until Electron fixes it, or being told that I violated the terms of my agreement by publishing details of unreleased products, and so my account has been irrevocably locked.

If I were a moderate sized company, there are many 5-figure annual prices I would pay for the same.

For many app developers, there's real money on the line. Apple should charge them real money and give them real support.
Publishers aren't going to build their own ad software. This is no different than running wordpress.

The issue is data and privacy, and first-party means it's a much more direct relationship with the site you're on.
My partner and I had several years of couples therapy together, and I can confirm your thesis in thread is spot on, great comments. You have to be able to grow together, live through the parts where that new relationship energy and passion are burning lower than they used to (and not act out destructively because of it, lots of ways to accomplish this, limited only by negotiated boundaries of the relationship), but still be able to check in with each other to ensure each other's needs are being met.

IMHO marriage is about finding a teammate, not a soul mate. It is more of a business partnership than about fairy tales and romance, and I think too many folks don't understand that upfront. TLDR: You are looking for a life cofounder; choose wisely.
After the horrific events of World War II, people wanted a positive view of the future; an escape from what we had just gone through. And there was fantastic progress in the world with the dawn of the nuclear age, space age, and computer age. Hence all the retro-futurism media of those following decades.

It's now been a generation since and while the world is filled with tragedy, there has been no apocalyptic scale war in most living persons' memory. People don't need to escape to a fantasy world where the future is bright; we live in a bright future already. So we see more media around dark futures, new wars, and apocalypses; because those are fantasies in the minds of the modern viewers.

That's overall a good thing, though yes we miss out on a lot of that optimistic-futuristic creativity of the past.
How so? It already says it's in "development" stage, while Figma is a far more mature tool.

The website doesn't even list the features of the tool. "Wireframing" is very broad. You can create wireframes in PowerPoint if you need to. Other functionality, like generating a clickable multi-screen prototype that can be loaded on a mobile device or shared with a client, that's more advanced functionality that's required for corporate design work.
I heard the economic side of the argument before; I do not believe it entitles China to break the deal it made - the date set was 2047 not 2019
Black Mirror is pretty good, but tends to be more grounded in reality than wild imaginations from the 80s. Whether or not this makes them more accurate is to be seen :)
> What exactly is the problem with first-party ads?

The problem is that they're ads.

> At some point, you have to admit that you just want the content for free.

I understand it's a bit of an ethical conundrum. Quality content and/or service requires compensation. At the same time, advertisement is a form of harassment and intellectual terrorism and they make content undemocratic by nature. Altering your own software in order to see NO ads of any kind under any circumstances is perfectly justifiable.

With that said, I don't buy the myth of the struggling internet entrepreneur being unable to make ends meet because of the selfish adblock users. I think that's as ridiculous a notion as the idea that Napster could kill independent musicians. Fact of the matter is that ads are a form of revenue and there are healthy alternatives out there.

For instance, instead of giving away an infinitesimal fraction of our mental health to every single internet business, we can instead enter a social contract in which everything is free, and consumers are expected to pay into the channels and services that they like best. This is, for instance, how many Podcasts and non-advertiser-friendly Youtube channels work.
No mention of the TPP?

Seems like a pretty big omission, given that it's what smart people were putting together to give us some better leverage against them without "going cold turkey", which would tank the economy in a massive way that would absolutely crush those who are not so well off.
huh .. interesting. So in the original, they chose a date far in the future (2019) and it was Sci-Fi, but the sequel keeping with that timeline, kinda changes it out to alternative-history.

That is a strong attention to detail/continuity. Kudos to the script supervisor.
Facebook: We don’t need your consent
What's everybody's preferred "shit I'm developing RSI and need to make ergonomic changes" keyboards? Wrist and thumb is unhappy, if that's happened to any of you.
Without a doubt, CPR.
You're being downvoted for expressing a contrarian viewpoint.

This kind of censorship isn't even targeting hate speech, and it drives me crazy. Why downvote them?
He started a trade war with the country. He isn't just one thing, but idk how people are forgetting the last year and a half so quickly on the run up to Christmas. This guy is notorious for being 'post truth' and making off colour jokes which is bad, but what he says is surely quieter than what he does?
As long as they store your ip in their logs, they know where you have been.
Basic options trading.

Most people should learn how to use a covered calls strategy to build income outside of owning stock outright.

With a covered call, the idea is to sell/write out of the money call options with a strike price higher than what it is today. You collect this premium while still owning the underlying stock, and if at expiration the shares are lower than the strike price you wrote the option for it expires worthless and you keep the premium. If it expires in the money, then you are "assigned" and you will sell the shares you have at the agreed upon strike price while still keeping the premium.

It's the least risky options strategy, safer than owning stock outright, and can create steady income for you in the form of the options premiums.
whoa! that makes the cybertruck reveal tomorrow make much more sense
Yeah, I realize now I should have committed more words to explaining that part. An older manager per se was not a problem. It was that fact that every line manager had 15+ years of experience, and thus this level of tenure appeared to be a requirement to actually advance. It crushed any feelings of ambition, because there was literally nowhere to go even if the other management problems didn't exist.
We did get consumer VR though.
> Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration can generate?

Well, the _most_ valuable ones were probably taught to you in kindergarten, eg tying ones shoes, writing your name, etc. ;)

I feel like in my profession (AI/Devops/SRE), a lot of knowledge is high risk (you never end up using it) high reward (if you do need it, it's super valuable). Look at those 'things every programmer should know about X' pdfs. They're like 100 pages long and full of obscure stuff programmers don't actually need to know. Similarly, the LDAP for Rocket Scientists book most folks don't need to know, until you're trying to debug and authentication issue, adding a new schema, or trying to speed the system up.

If there is anything truly simple yet valuable, it's probably pretty basic, like 'know your IDE, know your VCS'. And probably kinda meta -- learning about learning. Random ideas:

- An hour running through chapter 10 of the git book can help users understand what git is actually doing

- an hour running through a debugger tutorial on your IDE of
choice can make up for a lifetime of printfs

- learn a note taking system like Stanford Notetaking system

I suspect what people really want from this question is more "whats the most valuable thing people haven't yet learned in an hour?" Which kinda depends on the person, no? But I do plenty of interviews, and here's a small idea set:

1. Learn statistics. Virtually nobody knows anything about them. Even AI engineers can't discuss the central limit theorem. I'm still re-learning this stuff but it seems dang useful for discussing how to tune alerts.

2. Learn spreadsheets. With the advent of google docs and shared storage, spreadsheets you make are basically for life. That dramatically changes the cost benefit analysis of planning documents. Learning how to build and reuse them can help in a variety of contexts.

3. Use git for settings and configs, even personal and minor stuff. I have my homedir in git, and that forms a framework for
studying settings. Learn a new timesaving vim setting, add it to git and it's mine for life. Add a new shell alias, and it's available on every system I use regularly -- I have a Chef cookbook for setting up my user that includes checking this repo out.
Walled dictatorship treats dissident poorly.
Cue "but he violated EULA" chatter.

Facts that remain: walled dictatorship has crumbling infrastructure, openly spits upon it's Stockholm-syndrome-afflicted subjects, and we all saw this coming from approx 1.7km away...
> It’s nice to believe that we would have stood up to Nazi Germany if we had been there in the 1940’s. China is our generation’s chance to prove ourselves of that conviction.

This, right over here, might explain why Hitler got away with what he did for a long time before the international community decided it's time to do something.
Talk to a professional. I personally suggest you find a specialist in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology

I have one in my local area and they helped me a lot.
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