skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems a little sensationalist to me, but some interesting points. (I am not an architect)

"The Bauhaus offered young people a complete and simplistic worldview with every detail filled in, and a sacred cause that provided emotional and spiritual fulfillment."

I would argue that rather than nefarious motives guiding cookie-cutter designs its a lot of economics and fear of making a bad decision. This isn't really unique to Architecture, but architecture is much more visible and permanent than say a Dell Laptop.

Also it doesn't really offer a solution...but awareness is always good
That’s not a strategy. It’s an observation. It’s an important observation!

Now what do we do about it? Discounting carbon heavy industries is one move. How much? When will those heavy costs hit?

My own preference is to start coffee farming in North America, to offset the coming end of global shipping. What year will that be, so I can have my crop ready?
The Buzzfeed article seems to focus around a particular user usage pattern, in that these were sites I personally did not use that horribly much. My "old internet" was Digg, Slashdot, GeoCities, HowardForums, ISP `~username` pages, Usenet, IRC and a multitude of others I've long forgotten. The Consumerist has a better version that speaks to me: https://consumerist.com/2015/03/20/where-did-everyone-from-t...

In any case, we all agree Eternal September was the beginning of the end. :) http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/AOL-.html
That is the price to pay for reference counting as approach to automatic memory management.

If you want to hide circular references from developers, then a cycle collector is required on the runtime.

For example this was the approach taken by Mesa/Cedar, or for a more modern reference CPython.

If you look into C++/CX or C++/WinRT, this issue is also surfaced to the programmer.

Rust makes it even more explicit with its reference counting library types.

At the end of the day, it depends on what Swift designers were optimising for.

Which to me looks like the easiest and less performance impact to integrate with the Objective-C runtime and respective libraries.

Swift's approach is still easier than doing the same from Objective-C, its target audience.
I think it probably does mean healing as in healing our social interactions, relieving the anxiety of modern life, creating a space that is more conducive to human wellbeing. The spaces we occupy can have outsize effects on us, just think of open office floor plans or cube farms as a couple examples.
Yes profit isn't everything. Providing a safe, clean place to rent is foremost. But - if $2500 is the market rate for that living space there is no reason not to charge the market rate. The goal of a rental space is to meet those forces. A lower wage worker should expect less amenities, but not should be expected to live in an unsafe dirty place.
I'm not really sure what I am looking at.

EDIT: Now I am. Clever!
But is that actually nefarious, or meaningfully proscribed, or is it not understood that this kind of stuff is how Google makes money, and how it will continue to make money into the future? Is this unacceptable to most people? I am uncomfortable with it, but isn't this the way "business is done?"
prng’s are exploitable if the other agent is fixed and deterministic. A winning game can then be repeated as long as the initial seed is identical. In such cases it’s also possible to extract information from the prng as to which opening is used.

This is a common strategy with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool-assisted_speedrun, https://glitchcity.info/wiki/Luck_manipulation As Starcraft is also a single player game this is very much relevant.

So again, to be as clear as possible. Starcraft is deterministic, it’s only in multiplayer games when a players actions are randomized that the game appears to be random.
If this is the case, I can see how Mr. Ghosn fleeing the country could benefit everyone involved. The prosecutors get to save face and get an easy conviction in absentia.

Regardless of what happens though, this will have a chilling effect on Japanese companies' ability to recruit foreign talent at top levels -- but it would have been far worse if Mr. Ghosn had been convicted and imprisoned.
- Source code?

- Is this generated using a known algorithm? Can the same trick be applied to other years?

Very cool idea!
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Our blood rarely carries all the oxygen it can. If its suddenly saturated, that means more oxygen throughout the body for metabolic purposes.
One of those was forked and is alive and well. Neocitites [1]

[1] - https://neocities.org/
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As long as capitalists like him are not changing we are screwed. He is right with his statements, but only from an investment perspective.

As a society we need to do better than that. He will have no excuse when future generations look down on him. What a miserable state for one of the richest persons on Earth.
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No one has said it yet to my surprise. Arguably the most trusted news outlet in America today is the financial times. Wall Street Journal at one time was a competitor, but it feels like less so today. I would support the argument made previously in this thread, that the news orgs in print and paywalled online produce better content because they don't have to run the rats race of outrage and ads - FT is one of those.
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Nautical miles are a fun unit. They are one minute of arc of the earth's surface (idealized), so it makes sense why they took hold in the two forms of travel that regularly travel great circle routes.
> The internet of the 2010s will be defined by social media’s role in the 2016 election, the rise of extremism, and the fallout from privacy scandals like Cambridge Analytica.

When I think of the internet of the 2010s I think of clickbait farms like Buzzfeed politicizing absolutely everything. This statement by them is 100% in line with the type of content "journalists" have produced and polluted the internet with the past 10 years.
type vimtutor in your shell for the "intended" tutorial
I've helped architect the LI/Lawful Interception solution/integration aspect on a product that's not listed. I don't feel bad about this.

Should I? It's what's being used to catch murderers, kidnappers and terrorists. Its use is being controlled by very serious judges/courts.
> I'd choose my comparisons and metaphors more wisely.

I was basically looking for your comment but you're the only one that decided to look at the uncommon attributes between Iowa and Saudi Arabia. Metaphors compare dissimilar things with common attributes. The common attribute being an energy production behemoth.
Premature optimization is when micro optimizations triumph readability..
Fox News has zero Peabody Awards. I can't find anything on Yahoo News, Facebook, or Twitter winning pulitzers. Breitbart has zero pulitzer awards.
My dad gave me very similar advice growing up, as I love for things to be factually correct. To me, it didn't bother me if someone corrected me. However, most people don't appreciate it and it isn't worth upsetting them 90% of the time. This is something I didn't understand.

Another thing he told me was not to be a know it all. One example would be when people said something and I had learned before, instead of diminishing their statement by saying I knew that, I should say something like "wow that's cool" as it makes the person feel better.

He gave me lots of small little interaction tips that helped me come across as a better person even though none of them were nefarious in nature.
The great thing about vim is every IDE has a plug-in to emulate it. Why would I learn separate shortcuts for android studio and vscode when I can just install vim plugins?
>Wake turbulence was the cause of the second deadliest air crash in US history:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

Funny you mention 587. That was actually the first thing I thought of. That was the one where the pilot slammed the pedals lock to lock in response to turbulence and ripped the vertical stabilizer off. Aircraft of similar size take off similar distances behind 747s all the time. The pilot really reacted badly in the case of 587 though his training was partly at fault. From wikipedia:

"The first officer repeatedly moved the rudder from fully left to fully right... The resulting hazardous sideslip angle led to extremely high aerodynamic loads that separated the vertical stabilizer. If the first officer had stopped moving the rudder at any time before the vertical stabilizer failed, the airplane would have leveled out on its own, and the accident would have been avoided"

>And involved in this one, though the situation is harder to assess:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_427

427 was a hydraulic failure and any source of turbulence (e.g. weather) requiring rudder movements could have raised that issue. IT was part of a larger issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues#Secon...

I originally said "Thank you from changing the wording from "implicated" to "cited" because they mean very different things." but you since edited your comment to say "cause" and "involved" which IMO is as accurate on average as "implicated" but with greater standard deviation.
I find this kind of defeatism entirely baffling. Regulating corporations is hard so we shouldn't try? This is a lot less complicated than many sorts of regulation we attempt. Just give up on all of it, it's pointless? Where's the bottom on this line of thought?
Sounds like these might be useful to you...

— https://mint.com for your spending habits
— https://rescuetime.com for your computer habbits (email, web, apps)
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It is on Windows, because Swift hardly runs there, if at all.

Yes it matters, because many organisations get development stations managed by IT, and there are very strict compliance regulations regarding where data processing takes place.
The USSR had many challenges, especially WWI and WWII happening soon after founding. But pretty much every socialist experiment has ended in dictatorship. We just watched it happen before our eyes in Bolivia. It's worth considering that it may be a problem endemic to socialism.

Private property rights are the bulwark of a free society. You can have all the other individual rights you want, but those are just paper rights unless there are people with private resources to stand up to the government. Once you decide that the government has the right to allocate society's labor and capital as it sees fit, it naturally leads to the government controlling everything.
> where "politics" is really offhand for "non-local politics"

Who ever said that? Assuming that you are an adult, the you're completely capable of participating in both local and non-local government. For whatever that's worth to you
Texas produces 25% of its electricity from Wind and US produces about 5% of its electricity from Wind. The point is Wind is location specific - the plains and Rockies is where it is on land.

The state of Jefferson has bright offshore wind future ;)
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I subscribed to the print edition of the Wall Street Journal largely to get off the screen and consume less fragmented hot-takes.

The news and business reporting is amazing. The editorial board is very “Fox News”, but as someone who’s fairly liberal I get to see outside the bubble.

Edit: Oh, and Dan Neil’s car reviews every Saturday are one of the most relaxing reads of my week.
It's sad to say, but "we" as people who enjoyed the old internet or felt compelled to build and contribute to it are a tiny minority of internet users today. We are a niche. The vast majority are people looking to watch youtube, TikTok or some other social networking garbage. It's sad but this is the reality. People who are just looking for entertainment or social dopamine think the old internet is "boring" or "looks dumb".

:(
It looks like it's currently manual, considering the double date on the 18th
Faster code or faster iteration?
Birds will evolve to avoid them. Though I don't know if it takes 10 or 500 years.

If not, the ecological niche of eating the dead birds by our wind mills will be filled by some species.

Without knowing any numbers, I suspect the actual impact of wind power bird deaths is wholly insignificant, but it makes us feel bad since they're so visible.
Then fine her for shitting in public and not sleeping in it :)

It's like saying we should ban batteries because maybe you will throw them in the river.
> the CIA surely has sufficient internal incentives to fix privately disclosed vulnerabilities.

Do they? Also various people could have different definitions of "sufficient". They might previously have had 3 people spending half their time on it, and this might cause them to increase it to 5 people working full time on it.

Do major tech companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft) have less internal incentives than the CIA?

This XSS vulnerability apparently took a year to be fixed: https://www.openbugbounty.org/reports/164180/
For shampoo, I'd recommend going with a solid bar. They're hard to find outside of health food stores and the like, but oftentimes you can find them being sold with only a simple paper wrapping for packaging, and a $5-10 bar will easily last many times longer than bottled shampoo as long as you're keeping it somewhere where it can get a chance to dry out between showers. Conditioner is trickier; I've yet to find a solid conditioner that I like.

For detergents, we've recently switched to Dropps for both laundry and dish detergent, and I've been quite happy. It's mail order, so not zero packaging, but about as low as you can get, and they put some thought into designing a box that's easy to re-use.

For dry foods, if there's a grocery store that sells in bulk in your area, that can make a big difference. We made some cheap muslin bags that we take to the store when we're stocking up; most food co-ops and Whole Foods will let you provide a tare weight so you don't have to pay an extra $0.10 for the weight of the bag. People like to malign Whole Foods for being expensive, but their bulk section tends to be priced comparably to packaged options at traditional grocery stores.

For razors, double-edge safety razors are an option, but a bit tricky to learn to shave with. I've found I can also keep a standard Gillette Mach3 cartridge going for a good 3 months by drying it after each use (and keeping it dry - no storing in the shower), and "stropping" it on a tea towel before shaves. My hypothesis is that it's corrosion, not use, that is the main limiter of a blade's life span.
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First, you create the universe.

Then you build a new year of the calendar.
>Did you know that we feed prisoners food? Surely that's rewarding the behaviour of being in prison and thus more people will prefer being in prison rather than out of it because they get fed.

So, I think you said this in sarcasm but there are people that actually try to get into prison.

Here are some articles:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jail-getting-arrested-delibe...

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42057173

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/4425874-choosing-prison-w...

Also, IIRC, on TED Radio Hour in the past month or so one of the speakers was in prison and said something along these lines (I may be mistaken but I'm pretty confident he did).
For the last 3 years I've been printing several copies of the Compact Calendar by David Seah [1]. It's as its name implies a compact form calendar that spans the whole year in a single page, and leaves enough side space to annotate stuff as needed.

It's very cool and useful, although it would be nice having an open-source based version (i.e. LibreOffice), for those of us that don't have an MS Office license...

[1]: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

(not sure why but upon checking the website I'm seeing all text and links scrambled in the page, probably the author inadvertently broke it during an update)
Its not clear about such limitations as Feb <= 28/29 & Apr/Jun/Sep/Nov <= 30
reuters.com

- The UI (especially mobile) is pretty terrible so it's hard to get hooked

- It generally only reports global news that means something rather than talking heads or identity politics

- They have published some articles critical of themselves or affiliates, which in my opinion demonstrates objectivity

Also when I'm commuting to work, I'll listen to the local NPR station on the radio which covers some local topics.
Can't you farm crops under a wind mill farm?
No, "anti-democratic" would be a dictatorship.

This is just a different slice of society - one that doesn't favor the political party you are in favor of, and so you're happy to miscategorize it.

...but be careful. Eroding the public perception of legitimacy in the American system won't have the impact you intent. The only realistic way to convert to a pure representation-by-population system would be a revolution - and those seldom produce any form of democracy at all. ...and usually involve quite a bit of death and destruction in the process of NOT achieving their goals.
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If you're serious about trying to form a new habit, BJ - and people he's trained and bots they've created - runs a free 5-day program: https://www.tinyhabits.com/join

(I'm unaffiliated)
"We shouldn't use the only thing we have, we should hold out for a hypothetical and highly-coordinated future that I refuse to substantiate."

This is not "cynicism". This is not good-faith discussion.
Did you just make a new account to reply to me...?

Even if you are not from the US you care because because other world powers (China and in a much smaller way Russia) will be much worse for you.
You worked that into your comment, but ctrl+f for "trump" yields zero results on the article in question. Are you intentionally being this inflammatory?
This Barrett Brown piece doesn't really say anything, except that Barrett Brown is very angry at how Barrett Brown been treated by the Obama administration and, apparently, by journalists including and in the orbit of Glenn Greenwald.

As to Marty Gottesfeld, Brown has little to say, other than that he's been transferred to a different federal prison and that his wife has trouble staying in communication with him. Brown has much more to say about his own treatment than that of Gottesfeld.

Gottesfeld, if you're unfamiliar, is serving 10 years for launching a botnet DDOS attack against Boston Children's Hospital.

Sometime around 2013, (mostly) right-wing media took up the cause of Justina Pelletier, a teenager who had been referred by her physician to BCH and, after being admitted, had been taken into BCH's custody after a court determined that her parents had been harming her and impeding her care. Her parents didn't regain custody for over a year. The case is complicated, and nobody in it looks good.

Gottesfeld, a self-declared "anon", decided to declare "OpJustina", appealing for people to attack the facilities that had been involved in Pelletier's care. He recruited a 40,000 node router botnet which managed to take BCH off the Internet for several days. In the process, he shut down their central prescription service, their physician scheduling system, and all email between doctors, as well as the fundraising page that had been his declared target. He also managed to disrupt systems at several other facilities, including Dana Farber and Harvard Medical, which were hosted on a related network.

The FBI very quickly tracked Gottesfeld down because one of the accounts he had used to cheerlead the attack was registered under his name. They obtained a search warrant and found computers with incriminating evidence. Gottesfeld retained Tor Ekelund, the well known CFAA lawyer, and met with the DOJ to discuss a plea, during which he admitted to the attacks.

He then fled to Cuba in an unmarked 23 foot open-cabin motorboat, with his wife, passports, cash, and computers. His boat lost propulsion off the Cuban coast and, unfortunately for him, he was rescued not by the Cuban Coast Guard but by a Disney Cruise Ship, which returned him to Florida, where he was promptly arrested.

At his detention hearing, the US Attorney stated for the record that the guideline range they had been contemplating at the time of Gottesfeld's meeting was 3-4 years, and that there was some substantial possibility that, had he plead out before an indictment, he might avoid prison time altogether (at that stage of the investigation it may have been unclear how much damage Gottesfeld had actually caused). Instead, Gottesfeld fired and repudiated Tor Ekelund, and another lawyer, took his case to court, lost, refused to take responsibility after his conviction, offered a post-conviction memorandum stating that he was morally required to DDOS BCH and that he'd likely do it again, and managed to secure for himself a 10 year sentence.

I guess my point is just, don't be this clown.
I can't seem to find numbers to support 'massively'. This article says its near what New York's Central Park has (which is a normal amount):

https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2016/06/marshall-islan...
That would have been for the judges in the trials in multiple countries to evaluate and either convict or release. Now they won't happen since Ghosn decided to flee to Lebanon rather than stand trial.

Given how conservative Japanese prosecutors are reputed to be in bringing cases in the first place and Ghosn's decision to flee , I'd bet they have reasonable evidence.
This is correct, and it is implicitly recognized in the vertical separation intervals being less than the horizontal ones. What matters even more than distance, however, is time, and in this case, fortunately, the aircraft were travelling in the same direction and so had a low closing speed (it was actually negative, I believe.)
> The consumer-generation that's lifeblood of leeches such as buzzfeed/youtube has no experience nor right to write about "old" internet

While I share your sentiment towards Buzzfeed and clueless millennials, I don't think it's entirely fair to say they have no right to write about the "old" internet.

I began to experience the web around 1997, and it was different in a lot of ways compared to now. More personal pages, less centralization, little content policing, Netscape, Real Player, etc.

I'm sure some old fart from the 80's would tell me that I didn't know the "old" internet because I'd never used Telnet to log in to a BBS. While there's truth to that, it doesn't mean I don't have my own perspective of what's "old".
What Facebook and Google and Twitter and Amazon and American Express and so on collect and do with their data is not remotely necessary to operating their services and businesses, except to the extent that they make money by spying on people per se.
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It is interesting that people say "the internet never forgets", yet this article clearly shows it does.

Do we want the internet to forget, or not to forget? Is forgetting so bad? Not everything needs to be collected and catalogued and preserved forevermore.

There is a lot of crap out there - I'd be happy for some personal stuff I posted many years ago as a much younger and naïve person to just slowly rot away.
Bring back webrings, "favorite links" pages and the ODP/DMOZ. Good niche forums (both on Usenet and elsewhere) tended to gather FAQs and information pages that would ultimately aid discovery. That whole dynamic is quite dead these days.
> It is a _well_ explained phenomenon.

There are many partial explanations, but all of them are flawed.