skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utilitarianism seems appealing, but arguments like this dismiss it so thorougly that I'm surprised it still receives so much attention.

Where utilitarianism reproduces intuition, it's redundant. Where it contradicts intuition, it doesn't do any good to say "Well, under utilitarianism, that's just fine". It's a good framework for discovering and analyzing our internal contradictions, but it's often treated as a pragmatic construct, and I don't know how well it serves there. You still need to check all of your conclusions against intuition, so it hasn't saved you any effort, and you risk being able to say "The model says this I'm going to follow it slavishly", leading to Repugnant Conclusions.

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

Even if a perfect utilitarian model existed, we don't possess it. So as appealing as utilitarianism is, I think of it more as a useful academic strawman rather than a real engine for moral conclusions.
Hey all, to give some more context, my cofounder and I would love feedback on a couple of projects we've been working on, that we think will be particularly helpful in these work-from-home times. The first is a deep breathing app that you can interact with using a number of proxies for your breath, and the second is a posture tracking app that uses only your device's camera, and that you can use with your friends. If you're interested in beta testing, please go to mantlecore.io, and if you have any questions or comments, we'd love to hear them. Thanks!
that is way too broad. mathworld does not give many examples
20 "Mega Trends" from the article:

1. Continued increase in global abundance

2. Global gigabit connectivity will connect everyone and everything, everywhere, at ultra-low cost

3. The average human healthspan will increase by 10+ years

4. An age of capital abundance will see increasing access to capital everywhere

5. Augmented Reality and the Spatial Web will achieve ubiquitous deployment

6. Everything is smart, embedded with intelligence

7. AI will achieve human-level intelligence

8. AI-Human Collaboration will skyrocket across all professions

9. Most individuals adapt a -like “software shell” to improve their quality of life

10. Globally abundant, cheap renewable energy

11. The insurance industry transforms from “recovery after risk” to “prevention of risk

12. Autonomous vehicles and flying cars will redefine human travel (soon to be far faster and cheaper)

13. On-demand production and on-demand delivery will birth an “instant economy of things”

14. Ability to sense and know anything, anytime, anywhere

15. Disruption of advertising

16. Cellular agriculture moves from the lab into inner cities, providing high-quality protein that is cheaper and healthier

17. High-bandwidth Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) will come online for public use

18. High-resolution VR will transform both retail and real estate shopping

19. Increased focus on sustainability and the environment

20. CRISPR and gene therapies will minimize disease
The Problem with Flippa
I used Linux exclusively for a number of years and was pulled into the Mac world kicking and screaming for bureaucratic reasons.

I actually like it. I get a sane shell with all of the basic *nix tools I need and I get the wide consumer-level support of the rest of the OS.

One basic thing I really enjoy is having extra monitors just work without wrestling with display settings. A small thing, sure, but it was a surprisingly persistent pain.
Tipping the driver in cash hides the larger problem of the gig economy and the VC funded startups that take advantage of it. While I agree these people need real income, this isnt the way to do it.
Based on my extensive 5 minutes of googling... There are many methods used to evaluate the value of goods used to determine customs duties. There are rules around which methods you are allowed to use. Presumably Apple is able to pay duties on the cost they pay to Foxconn which is substantially lower than the retail price. If Walmart had to instead pay duties on their actual cost i.e. US retail, that would be substantially higher. It appears that some methods (Transaction Value Of Identical Goods, Transaction Value Of Similar Goods, Computed Method Of Valuation) could allow Walmart to pay lower duties than their cost of goods, but I'm not a customs attorney so I don't know if they are applicable.
It's a shame that some apps takes a commission on tips
Sure it does. Scaling can absolutely be tested in a robust way, it just requires a shitload of engineering resources to do. Apple absolutely has the financial means to test things properly, they just... seem to not care.
You are not wrong in arguing that the Copernican model is also a model. I think the discussion here is about computational stochastic models.

I also don't really need a model to predict warming in the summer and cooling in the winter. A lookup table should suffice.

Edit: Can't believe parent is getting downvoted for asking a question that people disagree with.
Fellow Gen Z-er here. I recall reading Stallman's writings some time during high school (a few years ago), at first taking them seriously, using free software as a much as possible (even installed and used Trisquel at one point) but then gradually due to peer/environment, even school-related pressure I became more complicit in using non-free software. I began to dismiss Stallman's predictions as unrealistic or overreactive, but as the years passed, as many have noted, these predictions have been realized on a massive scale.

Opting out of this stuff is hard, and in many causes would involve changes at educational institutions and companies. IMO it's the normalization and following-by-example of adults that lead children to sacrifice their freedom and privacy. Things such as

- creating G-Suite accounts for users joining an institution

- school-provided MacBook Pros/Chromebooks

- making use of a proprietary program (when free alternative exist) mandatory in a course

- strong one here, peer pressure from the network effect of services such as iMessage, social networks, or even AirDrop

If anyone is in a position of influence for the next generation of society, please think about these points and at the very least make it possible to use FOSS alternatives and make users aware of the issues surrounding digital privacy and freedom.
I'm guessing that a big chunk of the desktop market was in corporates and they have been switching to laptops while people work from home. That was certainly the case in my wife's office.
> A lot of the 'employee choice' arguments depend on an illusion of free association when the employer has almost all the power to set work conditions and can let the employee go at will with no compensation.

The "illusion" existed at a time when there were company towns and a Big Three automaker cartel and you really couldn't just go work for somebody else. It's a pretty outdated argument when if you don't like working for Walmart you can realistically just go across the street and take a job at Target.
> What on earth does that have to do with this topic?

Presumably, Brave doesn't include the Widevine DRM components from Chrome?
They are mostly popular in the USA, aren't they?
It's not clear from the article, but is Turchin only looking at US/North American history? And so do his propositions only apply there?
Does it really come from the battle between VCs though? My understanding is that these VC-backed companies of Uber type are designed to run at a loss until a) the market dominance is achieved, at which point the prices are raised to get to profitability; b) it's clear that the market dominance won't be achieved any time soon, at which point the funding is pulled and VCs leave for greener pastures. Such companies aren't designed to compete in your typical sense, i.e. by improving service or reducing operating costs. Instead it's about which VC is ready to lose more money before their competitors go bust. Am I being too cynical here?
Interesting. :)
Positives could still be confirmed remotely.
Sidenote, i'm in a similar position but i went about it differently.

My conclusion is that any Linux OS will require fiddling; somewhere, somehow. So i embraced that idea, and am attempting to make my fiddling concrete, repeatable, documented, etc. My tool for this is NixOS.

That's a big leap, as i quickly fell into NixOS, Nix package language, Flakes (for concrete repeatable builds), and Home Manager (moving my dotfiles from Git).

The process took me a solid few days of confusion and frustration, but after that i've had a really nice experience. I can experiment with issues, like bluetooth drivers - and revert as needed, and document any forward progress.

I've reinstalled my OS once since embracing this model, due to a new hard drive, and it worked really nicely. It also pointed out any configuration i didn't track - like my XFCE configs, since those are not (yet) tracked by my Home Manager setup.

Food for thought :)
Not everyone learns the same way or for the same reasons.

For example, I learned to read at the same time I learn to code, and from the same source — I had the unusual combination of not just the right birth year, but well-off parents and two elder siblings that had gotten bored of their Commodore 64 just as I was reaching reading age.

Back then my coding was, naturally, 95% transcribing from the manual, but it was fun. One of the few ones I can remember reasonably well this far removed from the experience was a sentence generator that had a list of nouns, verbs, etc and picked from them to build grammatically correct gibberish.
> Put your finger on the Median republican line starting in 1994: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-d...

Thee problem with that is that several of the questions that make it up are assessments of current conditions, not pure ideology. If (as is, in fact, the case) the underlying facts changed away from Democrats preferences over the studied time on those issues, Democrats with constant preferences would appear to move left (and, conversely, an apparently stationary position on those issues# would represent a rightward shift in preferences.)

Conversely, see: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/31/the-repu...
Personally I find that after a while I can adjust to the scrolling but what I can't get over is the lack of back/forward navigation gesture.
> Which can get them kicked off the app

Can you cite a single example of this?
One benefit of working with JS is that it was an easy transition to providing both client-side and server-side JS within the same application/project. Go would work on the server, but integrating it into a native MSVC Windows app, yet alone Chromium, would be... not fun.
Yes, screenshots of the demo examples.
Yeah pretty much, because there is nothing else that compares in that way. Climate change is long and drawn out, meteors and disasters are acts of nature.

There is nothing else so swiftly and completely destructive that is entirely driven by humans and their choice as to whether they should destroy or not.

That's the thing about nuclear war, unlike all those other things, it really comes down to a few humans deciding not to do it. That's what makes it more terrifying than those other ones.
There was a bit of a plateau in the last years when intels processors stagnated but they could still improve their laptop parts. Now you can get a decent 8-core laptop that isn’t much slower than a desktop which might have 10-12 cores max.

The new Ryzens may have ended this, and made 130W again usable to get more perf and cores and not just heat.

Being able to shift locations even if just temporarily is still great. Perhaps the solution is to have a beefy desktop and a tiny but weak laptop with good battery, and just remote in to a desktop when on the move.
IPsec is really an IP protocol, just like UDP and TCP is.

For pragmatic reasons (firewalls, NAT, that sort of thing) it is nowadays mostly tunneled over UDP.
Anyone want to join my game?
https://justpoker.games/table/chatty-moose-88
Apple M1 is 1.6x faster than 2019 iMac in Affinity Photo Benchmark
"literally every tech company" is a significant overstatement. There are a lot of tech companies that were profitable at time of IPO and that did not include the first statement.

Just because it has become standard operating procedure for tech companies to go public with a business model of "lose money on every sale, but make up for it in volume" (with a hope that they can sustain predatory pricing long enough to dominate the market) doesn't mean it's ever less interesting. It's a fairly recent phenomenon and IMO will never get old to comment about every time there's a notable IPO.
The menu is broken for me on Android Brave.
Oh come on! Big companies! and Atlassian! Being hard to do business with is so 1980s.

FWIW, Stripe.com supports ACH (Automated Clearing House electronic funds transfer in the US) as well as payment cards. So a SaaS can take that kind of payment too, without lots of hassle. I haven't investigated Stripe's worthy competitors' ACH offerings, but they surely have them too.

And, big company purchasing departments can definitely get their hands on suitable payment cards for this purpose. They can guard them closely, and don't have to hand them out to random people.

This problem can be solved. (Well, it might take a decade or two...)
Elon Musk Reports Wide-Spread Covid Testing Fraud
It wasn’t really profit - it was the money to pay your own wage. Now, if you took say $10 an hour out, it might be fair to say the rest is profit.
Or hydro. Or nuclear. It's not like it's a new thing.
Most people don't choose lock-in. They choose a provider that works for them on the budget and timeline that they have, and they build on that. Expanding to multiple providers isn't always feasible depending on a company's business model and financial state - it takes time and development resources to do so, which can both be very sparse for company with tight profit margins.

You have to start somewhere. Unless you have been handed a substantial amount of starting money and baked "we need to be provider agnostic" into your company beliefs from the beginning, it's rarely an early priority. Becoming profitable is usually what comes first. Securing a stronger foundation for your platform comes over time.

> If you don't want to talk about fault, fine, but then don't go on to talk about fault :)

What is the point of saying this?
- Yes it makes sense that apple might make such a boot tool that has both versions on it. I don't think it helps anything to have m1 macOS binaries on my intel mbp.

- again, yes it would make sense to have this if you're booting from an external drive. Should be optional to have both binaries though.

- yes, the apps themselves will have binaries for both. That makes sense to me since you want one download link for an app and a lot of users don't want to think about what kind of mac they have.

the OS update tool should be smart enough to just get the OS binaries I need. Unless it's some kind of external boot disk like you mentioned, but that seems like a special case to me.
I don’t think “very few” is the right way to look at this - the US is a very wealthy country. In 2019, something like 42 million Americans - not much below the population of Spain - had incomes over $100,000 (the 87th income percentile was $100,478). Almost all of those people are able to afford a $25pp visit to Chili’s outside of a special occasion!
Intel and AMD theoretically also support zero-copy but I wonder if it gets used in reality since most apps are probably optimized for discrete GPUs.
I believe the Safe browsing list in Google Chrome (list of malicious URLs) uses a bloom filter locally.
As they should be, one thing I want to knock System76 for here is for not doing more around making the Linux Desktop experience more seamless. Still requires a ton of fiddling.

It would be worth paying for, and honestly, I think it should be Bourne by the manufacturers of linux machines, not end users.
To clarify, it is a lower risk for you. It is not a lower risk for the driver, who mingles with multiple restaurants and goes to multiple houses, and it is not a lower risk to the restaurant.
I would also support tipping via Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle for those who aren't willing to keep cash on hand. The goal is to tip out of band to prevent the usual gig app shenanigans, further harming gig workers beyond the usual gig work transactional arrangement.
I use a Mac and windows everyday and I find the third party windows management tools such as ShiftIt, Spectacle, Magnet, etc to be much better than anything that Windows 10 has built-in.

Primarily, I can never seem to predict what pressing win+Left will actually do. Sometimes it moves the window to the left half. Other times it moves to the right half. And some other times it does nothing until I press win+right first. Overall I think it’s a terrible window management system. Sure MacOS has nothing built in but it takes about 5-10 mins to install and configure a much better system.
Thanks for the details. Nasty stuff :(
> Getting off social media

Can anyone who lives alone at home, get rid of social media? I have lost contact with my parents, I’m single, I do have 20-50 friends in my city but not enough to feel loved during lockdown anyway. I know social media and movies are a poor man’s affection, but I removed that, I’d be madman #10000th. I’d also argue most studies don’t check whether it’s not the lack of affection/social fabric which causes addiction to social media and other problems.
Thinking about the state of the software world in the last several years always makes me think of Vernor Vinge's notion of a "Mature Programming Environment" from _A Deepness in the Sky_ (1999),

"The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more significant code than can be rationalized. The best you can do is understand the overall layering, and know how to search for the oddball tool that may come in handy"
(Longer excerpt with an earlier bit about rewriting things always eventually just moving around the set of bugs, inconsistencies, and limitations rather than improving them here: http://akkartik.name/post/deepness )

And and Danny Hillis' idea about the Entanglement ( excerpt from a 2012 interview with SciAm) -

"But what's happened though, and I don't think most people realize this has happened yet, is that our technology has actually now gotten so complicated that we actually no longer do understand it in that same way. So the way that we understand our technology, the most complicated pieces of technology like the Internet for example, are almost like we understand nature; which is that we understand pieces of them, we understand some basic principles according to which they operate, in which they operate. We don't really understand in detail their emerging behaviors. And so it's perfectly capable for the Internet to do something that nobody in the world can figure out why it did it and how it did it; it happens all the time actually. We don't bother to and but many things we might not be able to."
(more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-comin...)
No, it's not obvious at all.
> Ah, the foundation trilogy. Prepper culture apocalypse fairy tales – but for academians.

It was written in the early 1950's. Did prepper culture exist then to the same extent as it does today?
I get that, but even the simpler side of the instrumentation tools we used wouldn't have been a problem to use for them. The most basic one basically just (with knowledge of the language) inserted outputs at function entry/exit and branch points (if, else, loops). However, it was a commercial tool that did this for us as part of their suite of tools. I have no idea what the status of open source/free tools would have been in 2004 to do the same thing.
Amazon winning food-stamp shoppers away from Walmart
The wish behind your wish is perfect engineers - the only way to achieve what you're describing is to have engineers and designers so good that they converge on a perfect, bug-free system on the first try. What we have in real life is developers of sometimes high but always finite intelligence and sometimes high but limited foresight.
True, but I think people who gifted these tools are the first who got them taken away again.
Windows has been sending lots of data to and from my desktop as well, anecdotally.
For macOS, you also have to buy the right hardware. You cannot throw it at random $300 Acer garbage either.
GNAP: OAuth the Next Generation
I imagine setting up an automotive company in the US is not inexpensive.

There is a lot of regulation involved, and then on top of that you need to price warranty repair and things like that into the cost, or they would go bankrupt immediately.
Exactly this.

Doesn't need to be a political statement or be aimed at achieving some secondary agenda.

It is enough to just not spend time and money on things that only stand in your way or violate your rights (the right to make a personal backup copy is still a right isnt it?).

You do not have to break anyones rules to just _not_ engage with people who assume their paying customers are all criminals and violate the spirit of copyright law doing so.
Warp: Improved JavaScript performance in Firefox 83
I'll bite. I tried to order a Taco Bell bean burrito. Small item, so you can throw stones about that, but here's the price:

- $2.03 for the burrito (vs 1.29 in store)
- $2.99 for fees and taxes
- $3.99 for the delivery fee
- $2 for the dash tip??? Is 20% customary? It's the lowest dash suggests.
- $11.01 for your burrito

So, for your $1.29 burrito, the price of the item is jacked up by nearly 60% to start. And slam fees, taxes, tips, and you're talking about a total that's 800% higher than the actual item.

It's ludicrous. They're catching you at every point to extract cash. Yes, a human delivered something to you, but for the cash conscious, this is an absurdly expensive tilt.
Unless I missed something, we can still build custom computers right?
I quite agree... The moment I find a simple note-taking app that synchronizes well between Win7 and Android, that moment will be the last moment I use Evernote.

(well, I use excellent DokiWiki engine as my primary knowledge base, but to make it available on the mobile phone requires setting up and securing a web-hosted machine which is too much bother for me right now)
That could help explain why it seems like 50% of users on Reddit and Imgur suffer from depression. They’re (partly) depressed because they spend to much time the media where they write about being depressed.
A desktop is only a premium experience if you're an engineer of some sort and really need the horsepower...

Just about everyone else on the planet sees a desktop as a huge space waster.
Or it could be even better!
- In the United States, elites overproduce themselves through economic and educational upward mobility

- A person can be part of an ideological elite rather than an economic one.

- Elite jobs do not multiply as fast as elites do.

- You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites

- Elite overproduction creates counter-elites, and counter-elites look for allies among the commoners.

- If commoners’ living standards slip—not relative to the elites, but relative to what they had before—they accept the overtures of the counter-elites and start oiling the axles of their tumbrels.

* it's a summary of main points of the article, if you cared to read it, downvoters
Type in your favorite search engine: "Deliveroo stealing tips".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesradclyffe/2018/10/16/tip...
There are many conversion kits you can fit in a car in the place of an internal combustion engine.

I haven't seen any that gets rid of all the transmission, however. It's a sad thing to have an electric motor saddled by a gearbox and even worse when it's a manual gearbox.