skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But why is such a dysfunctional dictatorship so stable? Why did it last for three decades? The situation is very similar to Azerbaijan

My bet is natural resources.If i remember correctly Kazakhstan is the biggest uranium producer in the world. With big natural resources, you don't need a solid economy supported by a state of law to keep the regime running. Something similar can be said for Azerbaijan.

The trick is to keep regular people calm by letting them have enough of the cake so that they don't revolt, but sometimes the money flow reduces, or the ruling elite becomes too greedy, and the problems starts. That's what may be happening here.
Well, the important skill is saying no. While you won't get far saying no to the employer, all those other things on the todo list got there somehow. I'm now fighting the good fight of getting my own time back. I suggest trying the same.
This is so relevant in terms of tech and business thinking, many parts of the email response could be applied generically to any competitive threat.

Albeit the blackberry story against iPhone doesn't really fit this bill, the "incumbent" got put out of business pretty quickly
Isn't Sublime Merge a great cross-platform replacement for Git Tower?
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003”

― William Gibson
I dont pretend. I know what a cesspool of petty control the internet is. I dont want it to get worse though
Getting "Being John Malkovich" vibes from this comment.
I would like to think we are at peak absurdity but we probably have a lot of runway still ahead of us.
It's kinda funny to see Chomsky make that point, considering he tolerates totally-not-genocides as long as the perpetrators are politically aligned with his views (or so he thinks).
If having had omicron is reasonably protective against contracting delta in the short term, then this works. For now. Who knows how long any acquired immunity holds up.

Delta did pretty much eliminate prior variants in many parts of the world.
> I'd rather not. I doubt many people would be okay with that. I like living and being healthy. You can still feel free to do that in either situation.

Part of GP’s point is that you’re not healthy & free for those extra five years when the costs truly spike.
I guess it depends on the particular text and it's purpose, but if you are trying to run a business, using a singular I in marketing text would be weird, perhaps even a little narcissistic.
For those interested in fountain pens, inks, and papers, I’ve found Fountain Pen Network to be a great resource.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/
Actually already added to .gitignore file but then realized that .js files are not being discarded by .gitignore
instead of having a web3 Popcorn time, why do torrent websites not adapt a tokenised model to increment the number of seeders? could not seeders become sort of miners where they get some sort of token by hosting files? And leechers would need to pay a low amount of tokens to download some files therefore increasing the value of those tokens and incentivising further file hosting? furthermore, people who post content would need to lock some amount of tokens (and receive some profit based on the number of downloads) but in case the content they post is insecure they can be slashed. the number of tokens they lock determines the index of the result after a search. so more tokens locked = higher in the ranking. by slashing the accounts who post files containing viruses, this would make the files hosted on the website way safer.
If we think about it, Java was hyped, but it had poor execution. Very poor execution.

It tried to be too much and lost focus. "Run everywhere" where everywhere was Solaris+X, some other Unixes+X and Windows.

The language itself was a bit better than C++ (while it filed some hard edges and made it cleaner it wasn't much better) and overly bureaucratic. The API/stdlib worked but wasn't great.

Nathan Myhrvold's answer was mostly on point and time proved it right. Especially about what the PC should be.
He got a lot of things right but, like everyone else, they didn't predict the internet and its consequences.

Does anyone know of a proper prediction of the internet? And I don't mean predicting handheld devices or wireless networking. Predicting the decentralized communication part that makes distance irellevant and upgrades point to point communication to group.

And its consequence that it's very easy now to find a group that shares your biases :)
I don't care that he named his variables after women. What I do care about is that he named very temporary variables longer than a single character. 'n' and 'i' suffice and anything else is just pretentious.
Matt Damon was pranking people, one of them was a young Black man. He looked very worried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVHqSpO8Ko

Also a very interesting (long) read from a Black British journalist, who even had an episode of being clueless about racism in the US: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/01/gary-younge-...
> This is very interesting especially if you think "synthetic foods" not just literally but as take out, processed products and such. I know a lot of young professional people who technically never cook. Like almost never and whatever they have at home is just snacks, if you hungry > order. There are a lot people like these.

Anecdata – I'm on of these people. I live in central Stockholm, Sweden, and almost any hour of the day I'm able to either order in or go out and buy a meal. I don't even recall last time I cooked at home. Last time anyone cooked at my place was when a friend of mine who's also a chef stopped by for a visit. My kitchen is fully equipped, there's no want for tooling or space. I more or less never go grocery shopping, and when I do shop it's for whatever snacks and fruits I might want at home. Sometimes I buy bread and other things to make sandwiches, but that's maybe once every couple of months and it's the extent to which I shop for groceries.

But when I go to my summer home on a small island with no grocery store, I cook every single day. I think it's a combination of necessity (you have to buy groceries and anything else back on the mainland, and it's a trek) and the fact that usually I'm not alone in the summer house, my brother is usually there too so I have someone to cook for.

I really enjoy cooking, I can spend hours doing it and I don't even mind the tedious tasks like peeling potatoes or chopping onions and other things. I just never do it at home, for myself. Why should I, when I can just as easily order in? That way I don't have to throw out groceries that inevitably go bad because as a single person it's hard to shop just what I need, everything is in large multi packs. Even a loaf of bread will go bad before I'm able to eat it all.

It's odd, but for me it really is very location dependent. It was the same when I lived in London, I don't think I cooked at home even once during those years.
I clicked to the next most popular story at the site. It talks about how a developer wasn't allowed to use NuGet, and had to write packages you would normally import from it from scratch. At the bottom of the article, there's an ad for a product which wraps NuGet with permissions.

1) What a perfect way to deliver an ad.
2) Is the whole story fake, in order to deliver it?
3) What a perfectly "corporate" product, to further exacerbate developer frustrations in large company environments.

Please don't tell my company (Initech) about the existence of this product. I think there are several mid-level managers who would experience actual arousal at the thought of implementing it.
Is there a text version of this? I’m having trouble navigating the pdf with one hand on my phone from this hospital bed.
It depends on how you define childish, and also the age of the person in question, but in general: Yes.

Also, in case of adult women, if they speak in third person, to me it sounds あざとい(azatoi). I am sorry, I don't know how to phrase it in English without ruining the nuance. It's a mix of calculating, cunning, and a bit flirtatious? Either way, you also need to consider the tone of their voice, body language, and the contents itself. (Maybe if they want you to carry the shopping bag because it's a bit heavy for them, they might use this way of speaking.)

That being said, I do not have any real-life examples to back this up so take it with a grain of salt.
You don't just have to sell your assets, you have to spend the money from the sale too. If you still want to improve your future, that means you spend it on things that don't show up as wealth. Some of those are going to be great (education, prestige from endowments, charitable donations), but others are less so (bribery, lobbying, attaining political power, money laundering, self-interested "charities" like building a park next to your own house).
Basically the Atari 2600 didn't have any mechanism to prevent third parties from creating games for the system, and this led to a lot of games that were pornographic in nature.

Nintendo placed a lot of value in their family-friendly image and locked the Famicom/NES down so that to get your cartridges manufactured you had to go through Nintendo's approval process. Nintendo of America was quite notorious for what they didn't allow, going to some Comics Code Authority-levels of censorship.

Here's Angry Video Game Nerd's video about several of the controversial games on the Atari 2600: https://youtu.be/uLOVemRanhw
This nightmarish scenario for Microsoft actually happened. This is Android OS.

What Microsoft avoided was this happening in PCs.
Sure, it only works with corresponding regulation imposing consequences for ignoring it.
I guess I've never read these emails before. I was a child when these emails were released, so I really wasn't following these events in real time.

I'm blown away at how openly they discuss being anti-competitive. When I think about a company being monopolistic, I usually envision market and environmental pressures that culminate in actions that can be broadly identified as anti-competitive. I don't typically envision leaders sending emails to each other on how to best be cartoonish villainous monopolists. And I guess it's strange that there was a time that it was considered even feasible that Windows could corner the whole web. Then seeing "embrace and extend" literally quoted in the email feels like some bad hit piece on Microsoft.

Developers my age grew up with multiple OSes with web capability. When I graduated, Chrome OS just came out, Android, iOS, and OS X were all widely used. Most of my career Microsoft has... "embraced" FOSS. Just some thoughts from a different perspective.
This sounds like a most plausible explanation.

Or perhaps you unknowingly uploaded the file to another repo as well?

Others in the thread mentioned that they have private keys in their repo as a honeypot - if there was a security breach within GitHub, their keys would also be lost.
Minecraft is an intrinsically multiplayer game (singleplayer mode just spins a local server and connects to it) so yes it would.

Regarding the plugin, there might be a need to detect the user that kills the chickens for auditing purposes, but the basic idea should work fine yeah.
So emscripten is still the compiler, but this is an OS which can be targeted by emscripten? Am I understanding it right?
Yes, but I'd say that women in their 30s who speak like that purposefully try to be childish.
> What I'm saying is, is that lockdowns technically work. Keep everyone inside (including the delivery guy) and spreading will be reduced. Let's take this one step further. What if we could (hypothetically) isolate the entire planet for 1 month. We might just completely irradicate a whole bunch of deceases.

I doubt we'd eradicate any disease which is a significant threat to humankind with a month of isolation, for two reasons:

* In the case of many pathogens, there are extreme outliers who remain contagious for months (and of course with others, such as some retroviruses, it is normal to remain contagious indefinitely).

* There are sufficient animal reservoirs for many pathogens (including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza and many other respiratory pathogens) that, no matter how long humans isolate, they'll be exposed rapidly upon emergence.

> There's no doubt they work.

I'm not sure how you can say this, when a giant chorus of experts from all of the world's foremost institutions of medical research have expressed exactly this doubt.

I appreciate the exercise of your hypothetical, but even in the extreme case you present, it's far from clear that it will have an impact which reduces adverse outcomes. And in the real world, with its imperfections? I see no reason to believe that lockdowns have any positive impact, first- or second-order.
I think we can agree to disagree on many things. But I want to tell you something before I move on. I come from a country where positive rights are hinted in the constitution and applied in practice. The constitution states that "the government has to remove economic and societal obstacles preventing equality among citizens".

My country of origin has subsidized higher education, high redistribution, minimum guaranteed income, a public health system, strong union rights, minimum wage and many regulations of what you can on cannot do with your property.

I left that country, maybe forever.
And many many others that got higher education (either in the country or abroad) left and are never going to come back.

The net wage differential of highly skilled jobs with respect to the average income is not enough to justify the long studies if you are going to stay.
They even had to create a law that allows people that come back to pay much less taxes if they stay for a given amount of years to try lure some highly skilled people back to the country.

I believe it's because of all these government policies that the economy grows very little in that country. As a result everyone in that country is poorer that other more "negative rights" based countries.

My subjective experience is also that people feel much more entitled in that country and are less able to take personal responsibility. Everything is blamed on the Government (more than in the country I live in now).

I think my country or origin as a social democracy although it's never mentioned because people only talks about the "successful" ones.

I fear that all countries could become like that.
Exactly, but I think the biggest part of the users isn't aware and is deliberately pressured to buy/sign up/whatever...
GDPR fines can go up to 4% of global revenue so the 62 cent comparison seems apt.
I love the Uniball Signo .38 mm gel pens. They are smooth and doesn’t gum up at the tip.

https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-Signo-UM-151-Gel-Pen-0.38-m...
A good way to do this is to become a teaching assistant in the classes you want to go more in-depth on
.. they don't!
Yes. My first thought was "Initrode is real?!" It's not real. Whether that means the whole story is not real or not, I don't know. I know Initrode from Office Space.
> Sooner or later, the founders of BTC

Tell me you don't understand Bitcoin without telling me you don't understand Bitcoin.
They are definitely the biggest change in the past century and on par with those big innovations I mentioned, so I wouldn’t want to undersell them as they’ve been a major disruptive change to most / all fields.

However, they wouldn’t exactly be incomprehensible to someone from the early 1900’s, since they already had the telegraph, telephony, and fax machines which could send pictures over a long distance came very soon after this article was written.

Whereas I think a person from the early 1800’s would genuinely struggle with understanding the modern world.
Yep -- check out Marshall McLuhan & the Global Village, which he put out in the 60s. Very prescient.
Is that 400 for everyone?

Our government (UK) is not changing the existing single payment of £140 (means tested).

On top of that, the PM “misspoke” and told Parliament it was £140 a week…
> Proper legalization and regulation would mean it wouldn’t be sold as crack

I didn't mean to imply that it would. But from what I "know", crack is very easy to "cook" from cocaine, and is much more potent and addictive in this form. Throw cocaine in the microwave, something, something, and you have crack... So what's to stop anyone with a microwave from producing their own crack from legally regulated and obtained cocaine, and why would they want to do that instead of just using the cocaine as is? Were you suggesting that bc it's purer crack (nothing added to increase potency or mass), it's not an issue?

I also understand how crack was weaponized against certain communities, minorities, vulnerable and "undesirable" groups of citizens...

but again, I just wonder why and if individuals would start to synthesize their own crack if cocaine was legalized.
> I know a lot of young professional people who technically never cook.

I think there is a distinction here between people who buy meals-and-snacks as opposed to people who buy ingredients. When my partner and I shop, apart from the fruit and similar, there are very few things that you would directly eat. When my niece and her partner shop, there are numerous packets of biscuits and other snacks as well as prepared ready meals that can be microwaved / oven heated with no other effort required. They generate a lot more plastic waste, as well.
> Cryptocurrency being in use means people perceive the cost of using them being less than the benefit from using them.

Most of the cost isn't born by those who benefit from it, it's an externality to them.

> If the problem is the carbon emitted for power generation, then tax the carbon emissions (which already happens in lots of jurisdictions).

There's still the opportunity cost of available low-carbon energy being frittered away on cryptocurrencies instead of something more useful.
Video on AWS services and learning paths
What if he died and nobody knows it. Half the Bitcoins are in his wallet and nobody can get them out without the password, named after several of his girlfriends no doubt.
Crack is a form of cocaine that survives heating so you can vaporize it. Chemically, the freebase rather than a salt compound. As with other drugs, the inhalation route is probably more addictive. It's certainly faster onset and more euphoric. You could very easily make crack cocaine from regular cocaine in your kitchen with cheap supplies. One would have to truly enforce a cocaine ban to effectively prohibit crack availability.

So what happened to crack? That's a fair question. It's much less commonly used today than 30 years ago. My impression is that the American legal changes probably had some influence in suppressing it. Laws which make it much cheaper and safer to hold cocaine rather than crack obviously dis-incentivize producing the freebase form until the final consumer. And a new user is unlikely to go through the hassle of attempting to perfect cooking crack with their first gram of coke. So a simple influence there about the method of consuming the drug may have done a lot of the work. Here in Canada, we had no legal changes in the 80s/90s during the so-called crack epidemic. (We treat crack cocaine like cocaine, legally.) Crack's use waxed and waned with its popularity in American culture. The crack epidemic is also part of a much larger story about North American urban decay and shifting economic patterns. The conditions that gave birth to it are no longer true, so one wouldn't expect it to necessarily repeat.

At least not in the same form. The epidemic of cheap inhaled stimulant abuse you are worried about is arguably happening right now with methamphetamine, anyway.
IMHO this was because the JVM at the time had bad performance compared to native apps. I certainly avoided Java apps on my machine as much as possible if there was a native alternative, the extra load on consumer machine resources at the time just wasn't worth it.
They're here of course, and they're reading along with the rest of us.

And they're thinking: "Yup, that's me. That's my handiwork, my impact on the world." And then they think: "But what can you do? R&V, R&V, R&V ..."

As in: rest & vest
How could "Web3" make something "uncensorable"?
I’ll plug some to Jose Valim’s Advent of Code solutions that included NX approaches alongside “standard” Elixir ones for some of the days. It was good to see and get some ideas of what’s possible.

https://github.com/josevalim/aoc
Or .. fail in doing it ..
If it's not his property, it is a prudent thing to do regardless of race.
It would undermine official position. You cant have special cases when you make spectacle out of "doing the right thing", even if that thing was already proven to be useless (vaccination preventing spread in case of catching covid, or even preventing infection in case of Omicron in the first place).
You usually make sensible comments, so that even you are not understanding that the law says nothing about cookies and is needed only in specific circumstances when the data processor wants to do something that cannot be reasonably expected and violates "the interests or the fundamental rights and freedoms of the [user]" means we need to better communicate what this law actually requires and when.

> The experience of browsing the web in Europe is shit due to all the popups asking you about [some technical thing that you can, indeed, control in your browser].

I just made this overview of when a cookie wall is required, hoping that it might help clear this up.

(Edit: for mobile https://pastebin.com/raw/gDn5AwuV )

+-------------------------------------+
| Do you store data about users which |
| are merely viewing pages? |
+-------------------------------------+
| \ ________________________
yes `-no->|No cookie wall needed.|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
+---------------------------+
| Can this data be traced |
| to an individual person? |
+---------------------------+
| \ ________________________
yes `-no->|No cookie wall needed.|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
+------------------------------------+
| Are you legally required to do so? |
+------------------------------------+
| \ ________________________
no `-yes->|No cookie wall needed.|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
+--------------------------------------+
| Is it necessary, e.g. to make site |
| features work that the user enabled? |
+--------------------------------------+
| \ ________________________
no `-yes->|No cookie wall needed.|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
+---------------------------------------+
| Is it to protect the user's vital |
| interest, or are you a government and |
| the processing is necessary? |
+---------------------------------------+
| \ ________________________
no `-yes->|No cookie wall needed.|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
+---------------------------------+
| Considering recital 47, do you |
| have a legitimate interest? |
+---------------------------------+
| \ ________________________
no `-yes->|No cookie wall needed.|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
+----------------------------------------+
| Then processing their personal data is |
| none of your business but you can ask |
| for their permission ("consent"). |
+----------------------------------------+
\ _________________________
`----->|You need a cookie wall.|
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

What most people think when they see a GDPR banner: stupid law, politicians are stupid, "it's such a misunderstanding of regulators type of situation."

Reality: website wants to do something that you don't want them to do, and now the websites are required to let you make an informed decision.
As a Mac user working at Microsoft on Linux workloads, I definitely do not identify with that viewpoint.