skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
another end-of-the-world movie (they all are nowadays). Fatalist, not cyberpunk or dystopian
There's no such thing as pretending to be first-party. All ads are going to be served through a service/software provider the same way sites run on Wordpress or use a CDN.

The data relationship changes with first-party serving because it's now isolated to that site.
I don't know but I am curious about where you are planning on getting clients. Arent you worried about getting undercut by developers in other countries?
What I've learned from owning an electric vehicle in San Francisco for a year
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Hey all, I'm the engineering manager for teams at Twilio responsible for WhatsApp integration, among other channels. We're more than happy to answer any technical or general questions -- fire away with replies. Will keep an eye on it today.
I actually liked the 2000s-era anime Eden of the East for imagining the world 1-years into the future.

Eden of the East takes place on November 2010, but the air date was November 2009. The "near-term future" allowed for futurism thoughts.

And before you hate on Eden of the East... remember that Kenji Kamiyama (its director) was also the director to Ghost in a Shell: Stand alone complex. Kenji is a veteran of the Sci-Fi anime genre.

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I think "near term future" is cooler anyway. Stargate SG-1, back in the 90s, was contemporary but invoked futurism occassionally.

"Far future" stories of the 70s are either the Jetsons or Star Trek. Star Trek frankly is a fantasy series with a venier of sci-fi (filled with Elves, and Orcs... I mean Vulcan, and Klingon)... while the Jetsons shows how out-of-date the future can be in times of actual progress.

"Near Term future" ages more gracefully: its reminiscent of the era it was built in (ex: Stargate SG-1 still feels 90s), but still has enough "future optimism" to excite audiences during their air date.

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Now that I think of it... the "Futuristic" stories of the 2010s decade was "The Avengers". Heli-carriers, Vibranium, Space-tech, Iron-man suits, Sentient AIs (two of them! Vision and Ultron) and even time-travel. You've got it all.

Plenty of optimistic "futurism". But instead of calling it the future, we're so optimistic these days that we pretend that these things are happening in the now.
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>and everyone needs to pay their investors, no-one can really cut production and everyone needs to sell at whatever price they can until someone goes bankrupt and capacity is reduced again.

So it has nothing to do with market supply and demand problem but companies cashflow problems? So theoretically the banks which funded these extraction can also hedge against it with the rise and fall of lithium price?
> My bigger issue here is the complete lack of transparency or visibility into the process.

This is indeed the core of the problem. If Apple provided a clear citation, e.g. “the following protected information was shared under your name at this URL on this date, which violates section xyz of your developer agreement,” it would still be unfortunate, but it would be miles ahead of Apple’s maddening “for more information please reread” stance.
I wrote documentation for configuration files in xsd with the idea that I could use xslt to display them in a browser on any system and use the same files for validation. This worked a year ago.

Now browsers consider local files that access other local files suspect and will refuse to load anything unless beaten. So I now use a python script to run a simple local http server to view my local files from a single "origin". However http itself is already considered suspect and many claim it should be deprecated for https.

In the future I will have to provide a lets encrypt signed https server with valid domain so anyone can view those files on their browser without having to mess with about:config settings or their own certificate cache. The cloud is the future, do not dare to build something that runs locally.
How big of a WASM binary would that be? Can we block WASM binaries that are over a certain size in the browser?
Do you mean that it's reasonable to assume that the USSR wouldn't have backed China? Or what's the "alternate" part of this history?
Spend an hour learning whether you can safely attempt something.

There are two complimentary problems: some people don't realize that they can do something, and will never attempt it because they assume it requires training and skills and materials and time beyond their reach; other people don't realize that they shouldn't do something, because it is dangerous, because it is illegal, because it would require far more resources than they can reasonably devote to the project, because they just aren't good enough.

Regardless of which camp you tend to fall into, spend an hour every now and again determining whether something you're thinking about is feasible. Maybe you discover, "Huh, it's really easy to repair my running toilet, and very little can go wrong in this case". Maybe you discover, "Wow, if I screw up that electrical work I could electrocute myself or burn my house down, and I'd still have to get it inspected in my jurisdiction anyway so I might as well hire someone.". Maybe you discover that your startup idea would require an absurd amount of capital and would probably only ever have razor-thin profit margins at best, maybe you discover you could make a reasonable living self-employed.
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Correct, it was a bubble for the time, but it is dying.. maybe not 100%, but there will be less money for these types.

Now there is word of mouth, or target advertising or just listening to your mic (FB, Google, NSA) to then push ads on every platform.

For example, billboards are very expensive with not much ROI. How many billboards do we drive by and not pay attention, or will never buy that product or get the message thats on it. It's rate imho.

With tech, there are less or no ads/commercials in TV episodes. We can either fast fwd through the ad, or there are none.
Empires rise and fall, and are replaced by new ones. It's the cycle of life. As much as I would hate to live in a China-dominated global economy, it now seems highly likely to happen within my lifetime. Better learn to live with it, or move to a country which isn't so dependent on the global supply chain by virtue of its Western lifestyle.
I think 'Her' is a very great sci-fi view of future tech, especially how they use voice as the primary interface
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I have experience with SerpMetrics and 80legs.
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I do, but the premises is basically we live in higher dimensional reality, and we are simultaneously higher dimensional beings experiencing our reality in 3 spatial dimensions (and 3D is what we commonly call gravity).

I think its fun and certainly quirky (imagining the light you/every object emits is actually still one and the same as you/the object, its just that part of you/the object transcends 3D into higher dimensional).

As a result I fear it would be considered less as a Flatland style writing (fun, educational story about dimensions) and more of a Flat Earth style conspiracy theory (we are 4D beings and "they" are keeping the truth from us lol). Who knows maybe it would be fun to launch the next flat Earth theory...
It's not just China. It started with Japan, and even without China, it will continue in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Vietnam, and eventually it will be replaced by automation.
Blade Runner was not at all an optimistic view of the future, though.
It didn't seem to help the Dash developer. As far as I know, he never got his developer account back.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/10/apple-and-kapeli-respond/
blade runner is a dystopia though
> We talk a big game about fighting against white nationalists in our own country, and pride ourselves on standing up against “fascists”. It’s time we turned attention to the real fascists, on the world stage.

Are you implying that domestic fascists are not real fascists?

See e.g. [0].

> 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

Is it really useful to compare everything to Nazi Germany?
What is the actual connection? Nazism was a very specific phenomenon at a very specific time, I think it does your argument no favors to play the Godwin card[1].

> The people of Hong Kong have been constant allies to the West, and their liberty is at stake.

I don't know what this means. The people of Hong Kong have been _colonized_ by the West, among other things.

I find it very naïf to talk about "friends of the West" (and consequently, enemies of the West). This is a geopolitical conflict, nobody's "friends".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomwaffen_Division
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
The Expanse is nearly cyberpunk (without the cyber) in space. Spacepunk? Astropunk?
Perhaps "being able to change your oil" is actually "knowing how to change your oil" or "why you should change your oil". The knowledge is the power in it, and it compounds into a lot of menial DIY tasks that one may or may not be interested in always doing.
Imagine what fully self driving cars will do, uber without the cost
Yes, this is true. I will be involved with the Twilio blog as part of my duties, by writing original articles and also by working with other contributors to get their posts published.
Mine was finding a personal project easy enough to do in Haskell.
OpenX bypass of antitracker blockers? (reidentification)
This is an often-popularized figure that the evidence doesn't really support (as much as I enjoyed Pinker's Better Angels, it bears a lot of the blame here). The "after" number is net of the loss of territory representing a quarter of the empire's territory, coincident with the breakdown of the census system, and post-removal of certain classes of people from being counted in the census. It's not a good proxy for lives lost during the course of the Rebellion. On top of that, the armies involved added up to a million people total, a tiny fraction of China's total population. As is almost always the case with large wars historically, the majority of deaths came from famine and disease caused by upheaval.
These giant walled gardens should seriously be regulated. One company should not have complete control over an entire industry like this.
>Now, if you ask any pol running for the nomination who the greatest threat to America is... it’s not going to be China...

Well, that's not exactly true. There is at least one person who ran his campaign saying exactly that- China was America's greatest threat... He's "the guy nobody likes"... he is the current President!
PG&E has not been maintaining equipment. That's the entire crux of the issue. They have been found legally negligent with maintenance.

I'm not sure why people keep pushing this narrative about PG&E doing everything right when it was clear they did many things wrong. They've been found criminally negligent multiple times now on separate occasions.
Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery. You could do it from commodity parts and it would be trivially reparable by slapping in bits you cheaply order off Amazon/New Egg. And compared to 1980, it would still be mind bogglingly sci-fi - it just wouldn't be as sleek and svelte as your new iPhone.

But I do get your point. I do miss the days when my iPhone 4s would get horribly damaged, I'd order a part online, and a day later I have fixed it myself.
I feel like The Expanse is a more accurate vision of the future, at least as space exploration is concerned, than Star Trek.
Did we all just as a society completely forget about Enron? Enron did rolling brown outs to help boost pay, and used the excuse of demand. Now PG&E has stepped it up by doing blackouts and claiming its because of fire risk.
Metals are far more important because metals provide better tools and weapons.

Better fibers give more comfort, better resistance to the elements. But, in itself, is not as much transformative as better tools and weapons.

If you went back to the distant past with modern clothes, you'd have some marginal survival advantages, but not enough for your tribe if you needed to fight for scarce resources like food.

So yes, Iron is far more relevant than flax. Because Iron gave better tools, and our history is basically the history of our tools (and weapons)
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The date on that replica prop newspaper* can't be right then:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/11/blade-runner-day/

* https://www.replicantprophunter.com/2018/03/white-dragon-noo...
Oh, they understand it very well, because they know exactly how to subvert it.
I don't think I understood you then, if they send 1st party cookies they won't be able to match you against a 3rd party profile, will they?
> On the economics issue though, readers should know he disagrees with economists, who nearly universally agree that trade with China benefits Americans as a whole, with the caveat that there are concentrated losses in certain populations.

The thing is: economists are hardly unbiased and neutral. Their theories are far from scientific truth, and typically embed significant political content.

For instance: "benefit" can be a highly political term. How do "economists" define it and is that the definition we should be using?

This is an interesting article on the subject:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalizatio...

> ECONOMISTS ON THE RUN

> Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House?
Does Chromium contain the DRM needed to play sites like Netflix? I know many here are against DRM, but it’s necessary if I want to use my Netflix.
I'm very happy with a tradeoff where people damage their own health instead of innocent people on the road.

I also wonder how much of this increase in drinking at bars is drinking that would have happened at home previously.
If I read this article right, if anyone breaks any part of the build it breaks for everyone? Doesn't sound very scalable. Shouldn't the main goal be to break up your continuous integration steps so that a person in one end of the company can continue working even if a person in the other end broke his build?

That way you can also add tags for flaky tests etc, to make your builds more reliable.

Edit: I didn't understand before what people had against monorepos, but I guess if you tie an continuous integration builds to each repo then having a monorepo becomes a huge pain point. Are there any open source tools to fix this?
I'm a Chinese. I admire your courage to post this article.

But there's one thing that's fundamentally wrong in your article. Trading with China is, for now, beneficial to EVERYONE, including you, Drew DeVault, and the top 1% richest. Specialization and trading are the fundamental ways to advance the economy. Surely there will be blue collar workers in the US losing their jobs, but that's just how economy goes. We care about individuals, and it's a tragedy that anyone loses job, but looking at the big picture every working individual should be able to learn new skills and ready to move to new industries if the current industry no longer provides enough jobs.

When Samsung moved its factories out of China and into Vietnam, lots of Chinese workers lost their jobs. One day if Samsung pulled their factories out of Vietnam and moved to an even cheaper country, workers in Vietnam will lose their jobs too. What should those workers do? Learn new skills and move on to other industries. That's a cold thing to say but that's how the economy works. Workers in country A lose their jobs because of the trading with country B does not mean trading with country B is wrong.

If you hate (and you should) what the Chinese government has been doing, the right thing to do is work together to move factories, plants, and companies out of China and to another country, if and only if they can still provide the products/services at the same or even better quality with a lower cost.
> Given access to the right raw materials, any civilization that can make iron can make bronze but not the other way around.

However, in a sense the spread of bronzemaking required a more advanced society and intercultural trade because rich deposits of copper and tin ore can be located thousands of kilometers from each other. Most of the tin used by the Mediterraneans was imported from Britain.

> Open fires aren't hot enough to melt any but the softest metals, like tin.

Extracting metal from an ore (smelting) does not in general involve melting temperatures, and neither does working the metal into tools.
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> Are there any contemporary visions of the future that are as forward thinking as the cyberpunk universe imagined in the 80s?

The Expanse
From a sampling of users:

https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/200449744-How-ar...

Why ask a vague winky-face question when you can make your assertion instead? Now I have to wait for you to respond just for you to clarify what you were trying to say.
Thanks for having the guts to say this. Granted that collectively "the West", those who explicitly or tacitly support the Anglo-American banking cartel, are not without major flaws and human rights abuses as well. But execution of your political opponents to harvest their organs for money? That is above and way, way beyond the pale.

We don't need China. Increasing automation, and with other countries picking up the slack, China will become more and more irrelevant. We don't need to support in any way the completely amoral CCP.
I don't disagree with anything you are saying regarding the culpability of American politicians, but this common narrative overlooks the role of unadulterated greed on the part of American corporations. BigCo saw a billion person market. They saw cheap labor and a Wild West of regulations, especially environmental. Nevermind that they had to form joint ventures and expose their IP, it would be worth it. I saw an article earlier this year - think it was in the NYT - making the statement that now the US understood that the Chinese never had any intention of letting US companies gain a foothold in their domestic market - well duh! It was clear as day twenty+ years ago to anybody paying attention. It wasn't the Chinese that did this to the American worker and consumer, it was our own corporations with the full support of politicians.

The current buffoon political administration has identified a surface problem, but not the causes and certainly not a solution. The only solution I see comes in two parts:
1) The world needs to make China persona non grata.
2) Shareholders and corporate boards need to hold corporations accountable, not just on a moral basis, but also in terms of good business. Foreign companies cannot win there because the playing field isn't fair.

Thus, while yes we need politicians who can defend American interests, we also need to hold their corporate masters accountable.
Free trade only benefits the rich. However, there's no need to cut trade completely, impose higher than 100% tariffs would be a better option.
Those public statements are part of his negotiating style. It's mostly disingenuous speech.
I find the biggest challenge with these kinds of logic puzzles is in translating from the English (or other human language) into symbolic logic. It's not well-documented and bug-prone. Er, (not well-documented) /\ bug-prone. Not (not (well-documented /\ bug-prone)).

Like the famous Two Guardians riddle: one always lies, the other always tells the truth, you get one question, etc. There's a translation that starts "You have a wire and a NOT gate..." in which the puzzle becomes blindingly obvious. (Details omitted so as not to spoil the puzzle for anyone.)

Once you have developed a facility with the special jargon of logic puzzles and know Prolog, I've found that, while some puzzles become boring ( https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/Boring%20Sudoku.swinb ), many are still interesting as an art form, much like le demo scene you could imaging puzzle scene and not be too far off metaphorically.
Full of bs that rides the trending US narrative on China. How much a self-fulfilling bubble of lies the western propaganda machine has weaved. Reading this article makes me feel like reading a white day dream that totally misses the reality, but checks all the right marks for the crusader mentality.

I see how quickly this gets down voted. I guess the media is not to be blamed for fabricating all kinds of lies, for it what does is only a reflection of what the western audience wants to see. The world is dividing just as quickly as the US is dividing internally. I would not doubt the possibility of another cold war, if the US bloc continues down this path by painting rivaling nations with a different ideology as a heretic against US' version of democracy and freedom, as an ultimate evil to be crusaded, its people as mindless zombies brainwashed and eager for a quick dose of freedom drug. After all, the zealous fever commits all the worst atrocities with the most self-righteous goals. History has repeated itself enough times to not see the obvious.
They didn't cover any products from manufacturers I actually use. In my experience, consumer products can be quite different from enterprise products.
> Can I form a corporation, employ myself, then act with impunity too?

Pretty much, although you won't be very popular
Apple Health and Activity also seem to work this way, although they also sync to iCloud.
Sure, let's act. But is cutting trade ties with China the right way to achieve our goals?

I disagree with the premise that starting an economic war is the right way to get China to change its policies.
Scaling workloads through parallelism and the role of Little's law in arriving at an optimal number of concurrent sessions for maximum throughput while maintaining low latencies.
> Now imagine that this happens for every good that is produced largely in China and think again if bringing back a few ten thousand jobs is worth the total loss of consumer welfare in the states.

On the other hand, perhaps a reduction in frivolous consumption would be good for an ailing planet.

> it's not clear why discounting their welfare is anything other than tribalism.

They are citizens of an authoritarian regime, and for the most part, deeply nationalistic. Their labor produces the regime's prosperity, and enables the very economic influence that leads the international community to constantly turn a blind eye to its human rights abuses.

I don't think it's controversial or inhumane to suggest that we should allocate resources to those who play by (or belong to groups that play by) fairer rules.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873
Straight from the heart of a coding nerd and amazingly well written. I had to make an account just for this. It there were pulitzers for blogs, this nameless coder would win it.
> There’s always a risk that these posts turn into a 5,000-word humblebrag. But I really do think it’s worth a read because, unlike most business acquisition stories, which often feel like an out of the blue stroke of good luck, the way that I sold Storemapper feels very replicable for other entrepreneurs.

Emphasis mine, but that's why I love reading about these things. It seems somewhat realistic compared to moving to silicon valley and doing the VC fueled rocket ride.