skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not really thought about it this way, but I believe both statements. Nobody should be a slave to how someone else wants them to behave, because people are autonomous beings with their own capacity and right to make their own decisions, and there is no universal law about how we should decide or prioritize things. I believe of course in many of the societal constructs we have (most of the ten commandments e.g., taxes) but I think there has to be an almost impossibility high bar in any new imposition we make on peoples right to have their own priorities, because we're all equal in the universe.

Maybe a weird answer, I'm not a philosopher, I just don't think there is a scale of rights that people have, or in the idea of an elite that has special decision making power because it is enlightened.
All of your talking points are the reason why I can't devote myself to the Apple ecosystem anymore. On top of making it borderline impossible to retrieve any of your data as a file, they have been focusing way too much on Apple One and their SaaS models than they have their actual products. It wasn't until the M1 came around that I really looked upon them very disfavorably.

But now with Macbooks reaching $2k for a decent base model on the horizon, I'm really starting to just dip further into Linux every day. At least with ext4, btrfs, or zfs I can access those files on different operating systems. APFS? Have fun with recovering those backups without having to shell out for another Mac. Not to mention the OS is free. Had I still been an avid gamer Windows would hold it's leash on me, but Windows 11 is not looking better either.
From the article, the study assumes that COS is released primarily from plants. Are there any industrial processes that could be releasing this as a byproduct? The claim seems like it could be better tested by measuring COS in a controlled atmosphere.
And even then they still used the PowerPC chips and branding.
> "Concerning the debate between eternalism and presentism, a typical physicist would say: 'who cares?'"

Don't some hypotheses in cosmology effectively presume eternalism? For example, the Hartle-Hawking state aka "no boundary proposal"?
That would at least arrange the messages later on in the right order(I think they do this actually), but still means, they might get received in the wrong order. So you get the notification and look on your phone, but see only one of the later messages without context or knowing that there is missing information yet to arrive. That can be very irritating and annoying.
Economist is almost $200/year for digital-only, after the first year ($94.50 currently).
Newcomer here. What's the answer?
The problem is any winner-takes-all process. Ranked choice solves ticket splitting.

For instance, many Americans heavily favored Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who were both policy candidates in 2020. With ranked choice, they would have been the P/VP pairing. Instead, it went to Joe Biden because the candidates all dropped out and gave him their endorsements months prior to the end of the primaries to prevent Sanders' nomination and to secure a little political capital.

The current system is designed (to be able to) rob any candidate who builds popular support over the establishment. For instance, superdelegates are bullshit, but they're the tool the DNC decided on to prevent another Carter from happening, which is how they viewed Sanders.

Biden didn't even campaign and ended up POTUS, and he hasn't done anything towards enacting any of the promises he gave lip service to during the debates. I just wonder if that's not backfiring, what is?
The solution, as it always has been, is political and educational. A fully-rounded education is essential to creating minds that use all sources of information - historical, statistical, philosophical, religious, etc - as data fed to a critical thinking machine (your brain). And politics must be of a nature that the best conclusions are elevated while the worst are discouraged.

There will always be people who will build weapons, and those weapons can always be used on innocent people. The only hope we have is that the people holding the weapons will have the right environment and presence of mind, and we can only do that through culture and education.
Hmm I’m not sure I can’t see it explained on their website, presumably for employees.
Sounds Like a screener with alerts?
WhatsApp video [1]

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jeff-bezos-phone-hack-mbs-sa...
> APFS? Have fun with recovering those backups without having to shell out for another Mac

I've successfully used Paragon's APFS filesystem driver to mount an encrypted APFS drive on Linux. The price was reasonable too: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-linux/
It's not clear to me that censorship isn't making it worse. You have a mass populist/anti-elitist movement in the country. You're telling me that a solution to this is to have elites at multi-national mega-corporations deciding what information should reach the unwashed masses?

What exactly is the end-game here? You're not going to beat (or educate) the populism and conspiracy theories out of Americans. We're talking about a country where a prominent tech billionaire died because he disregarded "the medical elite" and went on an all-fruit diet to treat his pancreatic cancer.[1] That river is wide and deep, my friend. Telling people that the elites are controlling information sharing online for their own good is unlikely to have the desired result.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j...
This is sort of like a “for nerds by nerds” solution. Nobody is going to remember this coding system.

I’d rather just see the specs written down on the cable or on the connector in words if it’s going to be marked.

Or, your device could just alert you to a sub-optimal situation in software.

Aside from that, most of the distinctions aren’t actually important to consumers. If you need 3.1 Gen 2 instead of Gen 1 you’re probably the type of person to already know that and plan accordingly.

Your typical consumer knows that the cable that comes with their computer or phone charges the system. They probably never use the cable for anything else. At most they’ll connect an HDMI display with an adapter.

They aren’t generally impacted if they accidentally don’t get the highest possible transfer speed - heck, they probably don’t use non-cloud storage in the first place.

They also don’t really care about getting the fastest charging possible. If you want evidence for that hypothesis, just check out the vast army of 5W iPhone power bricks and 30W MacBook Air chargers that are out in the wild.
It's not one or the other, they can both care about their product identity, but by the same stroke arbitrate morality by doing so. (Product identity takes popular morality as an input).
I very much agree with this sentiment. But given that, I don’t care about social platforms anymore. I don’t use FB since years, I use Signal with those who care, I visit reddit very irregularly since a while and twitter only if I get a link from someone outside of it.

What I’m trying to say to say is that I find the whole model just not very compelling anymore, maybe even harmful. There are some subreddits that are more like forums (like this one) but the general experience is just not something I think is worth striving for, whether it is decentralized or not.

What I do care about very much is communicating with interesting people and to read or watch interesting content. The signal to noise ratio is typically disappointing on these platforms.
I wanted to give people a chance to try out the app before purchasing, unfortunately there isn't a way to do both currently.

There is an email list for feature updates :) You can subscribe on the website: https://checkyourlist.app/
> I really don’t find any value in having tabs open that aren’t immediately relevant to what I’m doing. 10 seems like the upper limit of focus for me.

It's clear that you do understand the value of preserving tabs that aren't immediately relevant to what you're doing. What's the difference in value between writing tabs in your notes and simply not closing them?

I'd understand if there weren't tree-style tabs - you can organize things better in your notes. There are tree-style tabs, though, so you can organize your tabs as you need them, and dropping into a root node is just like dropping into an old thought process.
As long as there is demand for a "safe" explanation for The Gap, an immense amount of spurious research will be funded and lauded.
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Yes and this is why individual freedoms and local decision making should take precedence over collectivist thought, tyrannies of the majority, and top-down decisions.
This article gives many reasons why the text of the "Cmabrigde Uinervtisy" meme is deceptively easy to read, and assesses its claims: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

It also includes a link to a handy text jumbler written in AWK: http://www.stevesachs.com/jumbler.cgi
To nitpick: it measures our ability to *communicate* the issues.
I have been noticing were I live, it has been getting greener and greener for many years 30+. First time I saw conformation on this.
Why don't you create in-memory database (see SQLITE_OPEN_MEMORY, or ":memory:", or sqlite3_vfs_register) and copy result to a real file?
I would like this too as I do not enjoy living in a heavily policed society, not to mention all the racial/class bias that seems to pervade policing in the US. But like I said, I think you'll have a very hard time recruiting or financing unarmed security as a public service in the foreseeable future. Investing more in alternative social services seems like the best approach for reducing demand, but you're probably looking at 5-10 years to produce statistically significant changes than you can rally voters behind.

To be clear, I'm not saying police should be heavily armed, but you have an uphill struggle persuading people who do think that, which includes many of the police themselves.
> mostly because they're more interesting than job ads

This made me think actually, I love reading everything like this, and seeing new startups, but what is the goal of “meet the batch”?

I always assumed it was part getting them customers, and part encouraging more people from the HN community to apply to YC. But is it also a goal to get people to work for the startups? Because that’s something I haven’t thought about in such context. But it would make sense as well I think. I am not familiar with what actually happens during YC, is it only the team that applied or do many of them start employing people while they are still in YC?
Or fuzzing? Why is it that Google's Project Zero has to point out their mistakes for them? Apple's complacency on security is infuriating.
> In your example there's no downside to changing the name, though.

Changing a name in response to a conflicted and un-valid paper is a downside in itself.
I’m not sure I’d put arrival in this list. It’s a great short story and a pretty good movie, but calling what calling what happened time travel is kind of missing the point or really stretching the term.
I think you could make a basic content richness argument. There are interesting nuanced left, right, libertarian, socialist, etc. ideas but none of these are the ones discussed. The stuff that gets popular is meme level trash. Social media selects for punchy sound bites as much or more than the old media it is replacing.
> It's a low stakes decision

At least not until the reactionary media's outrage machine decides to make it their current hill to die on...

Also, this is America, where sports are taken far too seriously.
Seen in a changelog:

"Fixes: Little here, little there, little everywhere"
“Life imitates art.” — Oscar Wilde
Yes, but the tricky part here is that "those in power" is far more than just those in government. As this very thread topic itself demonstrates, there are plenty of people and organizations that are not the government that have a large amount of power.

In a democracy, we have a way to limit the power of our government -- but what's the way to do that for those in power who are not in government? The traditional approach has been to use government power to check non-government power, but this seems to run counter to the whole "limiting the power we give to those in power." But if we don't use government power to check outsize private power, then we are again ceding too much power.

My own view is that the answer is less about how much power we grant than about how much accountability there is -- ie, broader and deeper democracy. But that seems to work mostly in theory; in practice this often gets circumvented by those with power and we get shallow democracy with limited accountability and thus unsatisfactory restrictions on both governmental and non-governmental power.
The internet treats bad business models as defects [Thread]
Signal just spent a year being closed source.
Is "Launch HN" a "regulated" (for the lack of a better word) concept uniquely for YC startups, or can anyone also submit those for their own (bootstrapped or non-YC-funded) companies?
Making GLES3 the baseline and dropping GLES2 is the right thing. I'm glad that Godot was able to make that decision now that Safari is getting WebGL 2 (GLES3) support. I spent a lot of time on the implementation of WebGL 2 in WebKit and it's good to see it helping people.
ImageIO is a fairly widely framework, so the number of vectors is very wide.
If it’s not true, hopefully OP is aware and will recognize how Docker might help in remedying that problem.
>You can't just ignore the fact that social networking has become the new town square because its inconvenient

That's not a good analogy. Facebook is most used as a semi-private space (akin to an open-house), or as just private (private party with friends). No one moderates that; you don't want to listen to it, you don't join the party (aka follow the person/page).

In a town square, if you scream profanities, harass people, etc, they have to listen because it's the only town square.
"since 9/11" is one hell of a cutoff

cf. https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/31/terrorists-vs-chairs-a...
This is an amazing film. It was a real pleasure comparing it to the Hollywood version and also the book. The Hollywood version is also quite good, but focuses on different things (Kelvins relationship with his ex wife, as I recall) than the Soviet version.
> You're telling me that a solution to this is to have elites at multi-national mega-corporations deciding what information should reach the unwashed masses?

No, I’m specifically not telling you that! I’m not sure I have any good solutions but I specifically called out that censorship probably wasn’t the best plan!

I just wanted to say that the concept of a marketplace of ideas, as commonly envisaged in terms of ideas with merit rising to prominence, seems to be naive, and when we’re building systems to facilitate an uncensored or uncensorable marketplace of ideas, perhaps we should keep that in mind.
Most startups are too early-stage to be hiring during YC. If all goes well, they raise money at Demo Day and then are in a position to hire after the batch. But YC does fund some startups who are further along, and occasionally they hope to attract potential employees with their Launch HN.

The goal of "Meet the Batch" is simply to distribute HN-launchiness to more startups than we can do with standalone threads. It will of course be more diluted by being spread further (I think Jerry Weinberg used to call that the Law of Peanut Butter), but hopefully still useful, and the startups retain their chance to do a standalone Launch HN in the future.

As for why startups launch on HN at all, I suppose it's to attract (1) customers and (2) investors—hopefully in that order—in addition to the hiring case just mentioned.
So native Americans tribes have for the majority almost been wiped out and eradicated due to something not very far from genocide (or at the minimum, a very targeted policy of extermination)

And somehow you think that schools that have nothing to do with those people finally changing their very questionable names is due to a “conflict of interest of a psychologist”? Not because it was just racist?
This is DNS over HTTPS, and good point.
You can only use one external monitor
I didn't ask a question. So your milage varies - not surprising. My experience differs vastly with yours. I've yet to see an understaffed establishment in the Tampa Bay area, nor the three metro areas in FL I've been in recently. Different experience, doesn't make it any less valid.
Not necessarily. You could also run the "unformatted" files through the formatter before doing the diff.
10-15% carve out for ESOP is pretty standard from what I’ve seen. 15% for $2MM also is giving you a $13.3MM (repeating of course) valuation which no one can really speak to without further knowledge of your metrics.
Feedback-wise, here's mine: I'm not sure this is a good idea, as it means discussion will be drowned out & mixed up if you combine multiple different startups into one thread.

I personally don't mind seeing more Launch HNs concurrently, as the voting system will quickly clear out the non-interesting ones. And if they are interesting, they why not? It's more interesting/insightful/thought-provoking content for the front page which fits the intent of the site, and comment threads are often a goldmine of information even if the startup of the post itself is irrelevant to you.
I think we've gone from actual scarcity to the current era of artificial scarcity. Hopefully we get to post-scarcity once we solve that.

We have plenty of everything, enough for everyone but we allocate and distribute it too inefficiently. Supermarkets destroy their unsold food, and Amazon their unsold products. Zoning laws mandate low density areas when we have the engineering to build enough homes for all vertically on the land we do have. Apple could provide iPhones at a cost that everyone can afford but they deliberately price them at a level that only a top % can handle. I think we all know about the scam of diamonds at this point as well.

It's all just fake and caused by the desire for short term profits.
HN is not the place where you get to tell people to check their privilege or to warn people. Write a blogpost, or write to dang@ if you feel strongly about it.
Signal choosing not to federate isn't in the scope of this thread. IMO not federating is a guarantee of client quality. The last time I had a look at Matrix E2EE implementations, only Riot was barely usable. There was a ton of clients that didn't support it, didn't intend to, didn't have the confidence to go about implementing etc.

>Also, what about the server source code?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server There you go, last commit two days ago.
If you compile on the command line, modify your compiler, such as mvn.sh, to end with: ‘say “Done”’
I don't know what's in the pipeline, but might there be a way to broadly batch them by topic? If it would be a topic one is generally not interested one wouldn't need to check all the individual ones to see if they are interesting. Could also be helpful if the blurbs are all at the top in the description, as the comment section will probably get pretty long and then it might not be so easy to go through the list, esp. on mobile. Also thanks a lot for your work .
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I love HN. Anecdotal evidence that goes against the accepted narrative will be downvoted to oblivion. Anecdotal evidence that supports the narrative is praised.
vdom has the potential to do optimizations that simply aren't possible in individual functions because it sees the whole DOM at one time.

There's also the preact method which diffs against the DOM directly, so that overhead goes away.

Do you remember when InfernoJS broke the framework test? It blew away 2-3 versions of vanillaJS with it's vdom implementation. They literally tore apart what it was doing in order to finally create a vanilla version that was faster, but very unmaintainable.

Today, "native" frameworks like Svelte are only fractionally faster at synthetics. At the same time, each component contains a brand new set of functions which has two major drawbacks. First, code size grows at F x N (where F is framework size and N is your normal code) rather than F + N. Linked to this is the performance implications. Once the JIT warms up the vDOM code (almost instantly), the user gets max performance for the most critical loops when visiting pages for the first time. With "native" frameworks, each new page means switching back to completely unoptimized code.
Where does this come from? It plays extraordinarily conveniently into a left-wing narrative.
As a matter of fact, I have done both of those a lot, and I'd argue that knowing how model design interacts with the database is arguably more important because if what footguns the ORMs can be.

But you are correct, interviews for those types of jobs for whatever reason don't tend to focus as much on DB stuff, though they really really should given that a quarter of your job will end up being unfucking the system away from the poor choices that your predecessors made (if you're guaranteed to be serving 1mm DAU and everyone will be generating thousands of records per month, maaaybe don't use normal ints for uids...).
I mean, the Second Amendment doesn't come with restrictions, requirements or qualifiers, and American gun culture is the reason owning a gun is seen as an unrestricted, inalienable right, and not a responsibility.

This is what the people of Texas want, let them get it good and hard, I say.
It is not unique to the online world, but the online world does change the dynamics around these things significantly, because the social immune system that we have in the real world completely fails on the internet.

In a small, real world friend group "that guy" who talks about ancient aliens, flat earth and Pleiadians or whatever gets shut down real quick and suffers consequences within his social circle.

In the online world, "those guys" can find each other and egg each other on into more bizarre world views. This isn't a theory, you can watch this happen in real time with the qanon "movement".

People who (rightfully) feel estranged by mainstream media or left behind by politics pick up some weird idea, find communities who agree with them and end up holding on to those views longer than they would without the support. In some cases, this leads them to slowly becoming more estranged from real world contacts. Family and friends distance themselves because they don't want to hear any more about how Earth being a globe is somehow a big conspiracy and this little supportive online community eventually remains the only safe space to talk openly and they become more invested in it.

The problem is these communities harshly punish everyone who disagrees with the mob. Increasingly outlandish ideas are pushed into the conversation, and your only options are to agree or to be turned away, which becomes increasingly painful the more other contacts withdraw from you. It's a death spiral that is scary effective.

Eventually the only people that you can relate with is a group that also talks about how every bad thing that happens is orchestrated, democrats are all traitors that need to be put in front of a firing squad and baking soda treats cancer.

We need to come up with something to fight this deterioration of the social fabric, but I agree censorship is not sufficient or maybe even helpful.
The NSA was unable to protect its offensive crown jewels from the Shadow Brokers, and when they could not auction them off and decided to just release them in the public domain, that led to things like Wannacry or Petya that almost sank (pun intended) the world's No.1 shipping line, Maersk.

And yet those buffoons want us to trust them with master decryption keys for all encryption protocols.
Glad to see your very good idea rise to the top.

And this is mostly because HN, partly though the excellent work of dang, does, well.... kinda the same thing. HN is censored. And I approve.... that's why I'm here rather than somewhere like 4chan.