skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll try, although I don't think I'm qualified enough.

First of all, what he's talking about is usually described as different stages of _civilisations_ in english literature. However, he goes into much length to explain why he talks about ethnoses instead: in sub sense, it's a different definition, and a group which is smaller than what you usually call a "civilisation", so this distinction is important. It's derived from the word "ethnic", but again, he's very particular that it's not exactly the same as ethnical group in a genetical sense, although one usually correlates to another.

In general, it's very hard to summarise his work, because he goes into a lot of details that are really important to understand his ideas correctly. Unfortunately, it's very easy to misunderstand them, and sometimes in some very awful ways, if you just assume that the words he uses have meanings that you usually ascribe to them.

Then, he describes different stages of lifecycle of ethnos. Once again, there are stages that you would expect, from birth to death, but he adds a lot of detail, describing how an ethnos can be both in a dynamic arc going from beginning to an end, but also in a static, balanced state that can continue, without outside interference, for an eternity. He's a historian with a deep knowledge of very wide array of different human eras and places, and draws a lot of examples to make his point from all over the human history.

After that, he tries to describe the underlying forces that influence this process. He goes through all possible theories and finally arrives at his concept of "passionarnost" (derived from passion) to describe the cultural energy that drives these transformations.

After reading other contemporary books on the matter, such as Guns, Germs and Steel, and Neil Ferguson's Civilization, as well as dozens of articles and blog posts discussing these things, I think that his analysis and thoughts are one of the most interesting and engaging ideas about it.
I may take a century to realized it, but I think you are right. Historians will look back and see America's car-centric culture as its height of extreme decadence and the pivotal point to its eventual decline. When you think about the trucks and SUVs that people drive around everywhere, the entire infrastructure dedicated to it, the health outcomes, etc.
Yeah, it’s obviously all anecdata here but I don’t run in tech circles outside of work, and genuinely can’t remember a single post, tweet, or meme about Space X that didn’t come from my coworkers or few tech friends.

Tiger King though, whew. Even my grandmother tried out her new Netflix subscription with that.
@sumtechguy: “Former WincCE 2.x/3.x dev here. I had to work in this platform for a few years due the hardware my company wanted to ship. MS really could have owned that market”

WincCE, WinCE, you cannot be serious. WinCE was produced as a response to the ‘Palm Pilot’. WinCE ran on a “Palm PC”, not to be confused with the “Palm Pilot”. Palm sued and Microsoft renamed it to "Palm-sized PC" or the ‘Palm PC’. MS really could have owned the market with the TRON real-time operating. Microsoft did joint the TRON consortium and then lobbied to have it excluded from the North American market.

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-settles-palm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/microsoftjoinst-engineforum....
Nice to see smartphone vendors are waking up from the "a $700 phone gets you $700 of snob value" trap.

Maybe a $1400 iPhone gets you $1600 of snob value, but a $700 Pixel phone just shows you have bad judgement.
I’ve stopped using Reddit. The inability for the web interface to actually play videos reliably was a deal breaker in retrospect.
I'm using a Moto X4, so it is a few years old, but the official Reddit app runs terribly on my phone. Reddit Is Fun (RIF) is my preferred app since it doesn't try anything fancy and my phone handles it great.

To be fair, Reddit's mobile app looks very good and modern, but for a news feed, I'll take outdated design and speed over the opposite.
Ctrl-Space on PowerShell is outstanding, as long as your devs are actually properly commenting their scripts (I assume your in-house PowerShell is put into modules that get installed on user machines).
A probability has to lie between 0 and 1 but not every value between 0 and 1 is a probability.
MONKEY ISLAND 2 SPOILERS

Didn't the ending heavily imply that the theme park was just a trick of LeChuck? I never interpreted it as being what was actually going on.
> lack of any economic principles (e.g. just see their rhetoric on deficits when there is a Democrat in charge vs what they do when they are in charge) etc that sets them apart from major right wing political parties worldwide.

You literally described six mismanaged years of BJP in India

They did EVERYTHING which they opposed during Congress's time

They opposed FDI when in opposition
And now they approved FDI in everything including defence manufacturing

There even was a site called modilies.com containing all such listing of things he opposed as CM which he is doing as PM
I invented instar (https://github.com/boxed/Instar) which is quite similar to specter (imo a little bit nicer) because I also thought the built in API was weirdly clunky in these respects.
Well Mr. Trollaway, it is fun to argue, isn't it?

> And before you say ... What happens when the harm is below the noise threshold of that too?

Since you are at HN, you should know the answer to that. If the scientist doing the study is any good, the study will find very weak correlation and the conclusion will be something along the lines of "we have found no statistically significant evidence that lead released by faucets result in adverse health condition over a period of X months/years. More research is needed to measure long term exposure".

On the other hand, what I read was "I promise you, you will find no scientific evidence that lead is bad. Do not look at the man behind... sorry, do not waste your time looking for peer reviewed articles that disprove my point".

> There's a million things in our world that are gonna give us cancer or whatever in 50yr

Perhaps a million is an exaggeration, but precisely because there are thousands of molecules that cause barely measurable damage is because you have to take them all seriously. 100 years ago there were order of magnitude less variety of molecules, so even if people then had greater exposure, it was a reasonable expectation that they may only develop symptoms on their old age, or never at all. But now, since there are lots of them, each chipping away at your body, you may be seriously ill in a time frame that matters.

>in 50 yr

So, you are saying that it is Ok that old people just roll and die? Even if we accept the implicit claim that only old people is affected (I am assuming 50 + 20-ish here), the problem is that they don't just die. They spend their last years pointlessly suffering chronic diseases. They are forced into early retirement (loss of human capital, from a macro point of view) and they either deplete their savings or end up spending a part of their children's income on their care. They find themselves unable to lead an independent life (again, placing a burden on both family and the state). They crowd medical services that were designed with and overall healthy population in mind, and then somebody else dies because they did not receive the care they needed in time.

> if it's practically your only voluntary exposure
> It's like smoking one cigarette once

You are assuming that you can control how much of a exposure you have. If you allow hazardous materials into the INFRASTRUCTURE around you, you are committing your future self to the task of avoiding the hazard over and over again. Given that humans have limited attention span and will force, it is much better to make the decision once and not allow the hazardous material in the first place.
Ditto.

I was excited for Commento and signed up for a paid plan. I even contributed code.[0] The author sent me an onboarding email which included the line, "please reply to this email (I'm a real person)." I replied with some questions about the service and billing, but he never responded. Four months later, nobody has responded to my merge request, either.

I canceled my service at the end of the month.

[0] https://gitlab.com/commento/docs/-/merge_requests/41
They don't give you more info, but I think you could argue it's better info. Sometimes less is more, filtering noise is valuable.
Sadly to me, it’s socially acceptable to believe that the concerns of others are just, like, your opinion, man, and that it’s okay to not share the concerns of wider society, and furthermore okay that other narrower societies are not one’s concerns either; that to not care about others is a political stance, and therefore, to impress upon one the necessity of human rights for all, is to open the floor for a political debate. It’s strange to me, but nearly every time human rights are invoked, those invoking it are called out for being needlessly politically correct. As if being politically correct were the goal all along, as if being a sjw were a goal itself, so that the goal or argument in favor of the goal can be dismissed out of hand without discussion or debate. It’s a thought-terminating cliché.[0]

I feel gaslit by society sometimes. Where have all the nice good people gone? I know all those folks in Mr Rogers Neighborhood are real people irl, but they increasingly seem like characters and actors from a society that no longer exists and perhaps never did, but hopefully one day could exist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
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Here is the link to the document refered to in the article.
I wish this wasn't a link to the newspaper rather what apple posted :\
https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_downloads/gov_docs/...
I was about to post the same. The first thing that came to my mind after reading "technically horrible" part of comment
Am I the only one who thought this would be a game with the roaming around inside a QR code?
Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Sam n Max made me want to study CS away from my home country. I loved those games as a young teenager. 30 years later I still do...
I have come to the conclusion that reddit is 2 apps/websites.

The first is a tiktok-esque waste of time, instant gratification meme machine. Everyone on this app uses the reddit native app and doesn't care about dark patterns. They would never know that reddit's app is shit, because they literally don't care enough.

The 2nd is a Hackernews-esque collection of hobbyist sub-forums. These people are invested in their hobbies and sub-reddits. They use reddit to interact and discuss, but also a source of niche-news for their hobby. Every one here has a 3rd party reddit app or uses RES. (if you don't, please do). Unlike twitter, reddit lets 3rd parties offer feature complete wrappers for reddit. This group has ad-block, but will occasionally give someone gold. This group hates reddit, but also has no where to go.

If a person tries to make reddit both, then it is an annoying experience. I use reddit entirely as the latter. The front-page and r/all are garbage to me. Every super popular (barring sports) subreddit is trash. But, my niche subreddits are literally the best places on the internet to gain niche information.

Examples where the subreddit is the best source of open discussion on the internet for that niche: dota2, manga, soccer, metal, prog, civilized discourse, history, male fashion (kinda), calisthenics, small cities, fantasy fiction, niche YT channels, super authentic cooking....and that's just for me.

PSA : Use a 3rd party reddit app (SYNC is my preferred. Pay up the 2$ dollars. It is worth it). Use RES, and enforce filters strongly. Use RedditProTools to detect trolls, bias and top contributors. Use Imagus (hoverzoom has malware) for pop-image/video viewer. These will greatly enhance your reddit experience.
Thimbleweed Park is awesome. It feels exactly like it had been made by Lucasarts in the early 90s, and is definitely on par with others in the genre.
Duped by Russia, freelancers ensnared in disinformation campaign
Wait, you found a snake? I am confused. Anyways, I too looked for it at first because I expected the game to be visually embedded in the QR code as well. I was a little disappointed that it was not the case. Imagine a game embedded in the QR code that when you load it, either directly is able to reconstruct the QR visual itself, so like some sort of quine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) but with the visual QR being considered the “source” kind of in this case and the thing bring output. Or weaker but still cool if the game uses the camera to load a QR and then you play on it.
Averaging is thr worst. No laymen would know what 80% pregnant means. Better use majority vote.
Arguably, but I think you need more than that to make the argument.

Al Qaeda, the parent organization achieved something similar in the 80s. The spanish civil war in the 20s attracted international communists and anarchists (including George Orwell) to fight for their cause. Fascism spread across Europe very quickly.

The radical liberalism of the French and American revolution is an earlier example. These ideas spread pretty fast. In all these cases (including ISIS) war was a major catalyst. In all cases propaganda played a major role and it was disseminated by whatever media was politically relevant at the time.

Anticommunist revolutions of 1989 spread despite some pretty extreme centralization, censorship and control of media. Word gets around.

You can also find many pre-modern and arguably ancient examples.

FWIW, I believe a lot of ISIS propaganda was spread by cassette tape. For Al Qaeda, I believe this was the primary medium. In both cases, I seriously doubt that propaganda alone would have inspired and recruited so many. It was military success. ISIS recruits started arriving when they won Mosul. Once they crossed into Syria and established bonafide territorial control, the faucets were turned on.
Silicon Valley: Tech Me to the Moon
Ah yes, the "I'm really the one being reasonable here" deflection.
Performance management is subjectivity masquerading as objectivity.

I'm a broken record about this.
Virt-manager can connect simultaneously from many different terminals to many different libvirt servers. What do you mean by "you can't collaborate with others"?
Do you mean you disputed a UGC claim?
I think the organisation "sum of us" is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumOfUs

Some of the campaigns they are running:

https://www.sumofus.org/campaigns/
I guess this is like "mammal" vs "mammalia".
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Getting SRE Buy-In from C-Levels for Error Budgets and SLOs
Played MI1 and 2 recently with my 6 year old from steam. We had a great time. Worked flawlessly with proton.
Vote with your wallet.

E.g. when grocery shopping: Bring your own reuseable bags. Stop putting vegetable/fruit in a plastic bag each. You're gonna wash them anyway. Avoid buying veggies, fruit, sweets, whatever that's first wrapped in single/small units of plastic packets, then put on a plastic tray, and finally wrapped again in a bigger plastic bag.

Pro tip: for seasonal produce and stuff that grows locally, buy at your local farmer's market if you have one, supporting your local small businesses/farmers while you do it. Win/win because you'll also reduce the environmental cost of shipping produce across the contintent to you.

When shopping for clothes, don't buy five $5 t-shirts that fall apart after 2 months. Buy one $25 t-shirt and wear it a little longer. If more people did that, producing millions of ultra-low-cost clothing items in Bangladesh for cheap and shipping them halfway around the world to you on a huge container ship - arguably one of the biggest and worst causes of pollution in the world - would stop being so profitable.

When shopping for cars, go electric, but only if your power company offers a plan for electricity from renewable resources. Research if it's really produced that way or if the power company is only buying CO2 certificates for the money while still giving you good old coal power.

If you only need to go a few blocks away, don't take the car. Get a bike, a scooter, a skateboard, or just walk. Win/win for your health and fitness, too.

If you have a garden, don't mow the lawn each week. Let it grow a little wild if you can. At least allow some wild flowers or whatever to grow. You'll give bees and other insects a home, and you'll help offset at least some of the damage we've been causing in that area. A neatly trimmed lawn bears very little life.

I don't have time for more right now, but this is basically what comes to mind whenever people ask me what they can do, or why they should do something. Every little bit helps, will inspire others, will stack, will multiply, will grow. Lead by example and more will follow. Vote with your wallet and as more and more people do it, the profit margins will shift.

The defeatist attitude of "how can it even matter what I do when I'm only a millionth of a percentile of the cause" is idiotic. Do you expect others to do it if you won't even try?
I like your style.

I recently read "Decadent Society" as part of a binge on what another commenter calls "conservative intellectual" literature of the past couple of years. I'm not sure Douthat really makes a great case for his thesis but there is, to me, a sort of haunting note of truth to it--a sense of your "Fizzle" having entered a feedback loop that is difficult to ascertain from the inside.

Since I did march through the literature binge, I'll add that some conservative authors are quite a bit more pointed in their analyses than is Douthat. "Age of Entitlement," and "Return of the Strong Gods" are two titles that come to mind.
Sure, such other languages have the problem too, it's just that they are missing the best solution. It's possible for a solution to be simultaneously bad and the best available.
I saw the same as the reddit OP on my test machine (v2004 Home)

A shortcut to Edge also magically appeared on the desktop
How useful are react editors where you drag and drop components?
If you're going to downvote please explain. Replies after mine with inside information agreed with me.
>'Proportion' and 'fraction' unfortunately both suggest a ratio of integers instead of a unit real.

I don't mean to pick on you in particular abecedarius, but I find it amusing to be worried about signalling that irrational numbers are OK given the context is computing and all the numbers are rational anyway.
I No Longer Hate the Police
A succinct and pithy saying, but generally incorrect. Historically, good times create a food surplus. A food surplus creates well-nourished armies. Well-nourished armies, for better or for worse, create hard times for everybody else.

As I've posted elsewhere in this thread, I would recommend reading the following series of blog posts.

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
We had the same conversation, followed by at least $30 worth of double-checking over the next several days...
Ah yes, once we get rid of modern technology, I can die of bronchitis five times before age ten (that almost happened), and then be murdered after the next outbreak of Black Plague for using the blood of Christian children to bake my bread (yes, many people actually died because of the Blood Libel).

The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution and their consequences are the only reason I'm not dead several times over, and the only reason I can walk down the street in the place I live today in any kind of safety, so no, I'm really not buying that they were a disaster for the human race.
Teardown of Digital Pregnancy Test
The quality and sophistication of mainstream pop art is an important indicator, though. It is consumed by the majority of the population and gives sense to the "wisdom" of an era.

Nowadays you simply don't find any mainstream music approaching the levels of sophistication of, say, 1980s mainstream music. Where's the Dire Straits, the Gary Moore and the David Bowie of the 2010s?
In China, we pay by barcode\QRCode.
> that's a cosmetic difference

yes, mostly.

> Unix was "designed" by hyperactive comedy racoons with ADHD.

I have met the authors of lots of significant parts of unix and I have found them - universally - to be smart, competent and introspective.

I also found it interesting that most (85%) of top athletes were introverts.

Now to compare VMS with unix, you'll find there are some things that are better because capitalism works. Someone was in charge of VMS development, and people were paid to solve specific problems for the operating system or customers. But some things are worse because people were in charge of making trade-offs for current customers vs future direction.

On the other hand, unix also has some points in its favor. A lot of things have appeared that would not survive in a commercial business. Ideas seem to live or die depending on their merits more than by fiat.

The thing is - when people want "something that works" it usually involves tradeoffs that people don't want. You can run an older version of centos/rhel and you will find more 'it just works' at the expense of (relatively) older software. (or you can go look at the source and fix it yourself)
> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy.

I know that this is a joke, but let's remember to be inclusive and kind to our younger readers and take the time to explain (reiterate even) what pieces of old tech are, and what they were used for.

Computers have a long and complicated history. And the technical parts are being abstracted away more and more.

I think it's important to help people understand how we got to where we are today, and why it is (or isn't) an improvement from the way things used to be.
Mechanical keyboards seem like a example of creating a need through advertising instead of filling an existing need[0]. It worked well enough that I bought a $100+ mechanical thinking I was missing out. In a way you do get what you pay for since mechanical keyboards tend to last longer. But other than that they are not quantifiably better. For me I noticed my typing speed was reduced even after using it a couple weeks, so went back to low profile rubber dome and never looked back.

[0]: Actually I do not know the history here. What started the rush for mechanical keyboards? It feels like there was a point in time where they became fashionable, I assume it had to do with advertising campaigns but it could have been organic interest too.
Taxes are absolutely zero sum. In most cases only one country gets to collect the taxes from a person.

Stenberg is one of those rare cases where he has a huge impact on multiple companies in multiple countries. Most of us aren’t like that; I personally work for a US company paying US taxes, consume in the US paying more taxes and enriching US companies, and I don’t make any libraries or services with international impact. My contributions to the economy is so lop sided that it’s almost zero sum. If I were to move to another country, I’d deprive the US of my tax revenue & consumption, and provide all of that to my new country.
What Do Experts Say About the Future of Machine Learning (and Python)?
It may be easier if you have credentials, but it’s certainly possible without them.

I’d argue how your business is running is 10x as important as credentials.

(I dropped out of a non-prestigious school and had work experience at one company, have raised $120m+ in <4 yrs).