skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes I always wanted my trolley problems to start with "a brain in a vat"
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I rather like Gibbon's argument that the Ottoman empire was effectively the continuation of the Byzantine/Eastern Roman empire - by that line of thinking the ultimate surviving descendant of the Roman Empire fought in the First World War.
You can order Macs with US keyboard layouts from the country's Apple Store page. It'll take longer to ship is all.
This memory corruption bug, which is specific to Cannon Lake or newer CPUs with AVX-512, does not appear to have any relationship with the high-level programming language used for OpenSSL.

The bug is either in an assembly language sequence, or at most it can be due to incorrect use of compiler intrinsics.

Changing the programming language cannot eliminate such bugs. Only either a much more clever compiler, able to use efficiently all the existing instructions implemented by the CPU, thus removing the need for using assembly language, or a much higher-level kind of assembly language, could help against such bugs.

A more practical method would be to always use extensive fuzzing tests for all such functions written in assembly language.
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I was actually commenting on the margins that "cloud providers" charge.

If I was a manager at FedEx I'd definitely spend some resources to DYI and send some of those millions over to my direction instead.
From a societal standpoint it's a no brainer, 5 drains on resources vs. 1 future contributor.
It kind of started when Elon said that he is going to vote with the republicans - full disclouse, I do not like Elon, he crashed bitcoin and crypto many times.
It's called math.
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It's only noticeable when there's a sustained workload. The Pro model can use active cooling (fans) while the air can't.
I believe they've reluctantly moved (or are moving) to Google Workspace in response to the calendaring and CRM integration woes.
One interesting thing about the trolley problem is that while most people won't pull the lever when the people involved are all random strangers, most people will if the people are are all relatives. That makes me think that, subconsciously, part of the issue is that if you pull the lever you're afraid the victim's friends and family might blame you for the death and seek revenge but if you don't the friends and family of the victims will all go looking for vengeance from whoever owned the trolley and you'll be in the clear.

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/02/immoral-altruism.html

I certainly wouldn't direct a careening trolley from 5 sleeping humans to 1 awake human who would feel terror before dying, but if it were cows or something like that I certainly would.
My God, some things never die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_YDx2mtF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0rXaQzc0KA
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Could get expensive. Past Macbooks hat a top chassis combo of keyboard, chassis and battery. At least the MacBook air battery replacement was only like 150€, including a new keyboard/top plate. Not sure it will be the same with the new design.
political and economic systems are less enmeshed than we are led to believe. The belief the democracy automagically transmutes into economic development is been disproved, in the same way that economic success transmuting into democracy has been disproved.

The Arabic people cited in this article have good reason to think they way they do - actual lived experienced of democracy failing to deliver the goods
> Breaking from Canada to underline these minor differences would come at a tremendous cost.

Unfortunately, I suspect that the renewed separatist movement is making a lot of people rethink potential futures in Quebec.

For example, my wife and I would easily meet the requirements to immigrate to Quebec. We have francophone family in Montreal, we speak French (one of us natively), and we have valuable professional skills. We would have no objections to sending our kids to francophone schools. And Montreal is one of my favorite cities on the planet, despite the horrible traffic and interminable road construction.

But looking at law 66, there's a certain cruelty to the details. As I understand it, new arrivals will be forbidden from receiving any government services in a language other than French after 6 months. Montreal's respected English-speaking universities will apparently be placed under strict language rules, with the obvious intention of weakening them. And there's talk, once again, about separation from Canada.

An independent Québec without Canadian human rights guarantees, and with ever more desperate extensions to law 66, would likely weaken the robust international economy of Montreal. I suspect that even some bilingual professionals would start thinking about moving to Toronto?
Sustained performance due to better heat management
Luckily those that respond strong to external incentives go straight to industry.
The Pro M2 has excessive thermal throttling and significantly lower flash storage throughput.
>The drivetrain is extraordinarily straightforward

Even ignoring the battery (and all the other gizmos an EV is loaded with), the motor controller refutes this point. Efficient, high-powered motor control in a lightweight package is a relatively new solution, and requires a lot of up-to-date electronic and sofwate design techniques. Fault-finding on one of those is no easy feat.

It also depends how you define "complicated". If you mean, "dependent on the cutting-edge of mass-manufacturing capability of almost all forms of currently produced technology", then EVs are necessarily absurdly complicated.

It would be possible to source and manufacture (and fuel!) an ICE (of somewhat comparable quality to what most people require) domestically in many countries.

Obviously this is not possible for an EV (even China has to import some of the stuff needed to make one).

For me, my daily transportation being dependent on such a complex global system is not acceptable. The current "component shortage" makes my point. How can something that is "extrodinarily straightforward" currently have a lead time stretching into the years (depending on model and country)?

I'm not saying personal ownership of an ICE is the solution, btw.
One of the things that keeps me just pottering about inside GTA V is just how good Rockstar's map is. It's a brilliant piece of design and tonally perfect too, whereas I'd say something like Night City is well designed but the wrong kind of cyberpunk.
It's a fun thing to think about in a no-personal-consequences sort of way, if it were a real life situation you bet nobody is going to touch that lever with a 10 foot pole otherwise they're likely going to prison for a long time with how modern prosecution works.
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On that note, considering that he's been promoting "the dissolution of the United States into its [racial/ethnic] component parts" in videos (viewable on his Peertube) makes me think that this article is supposed to prime the reader to be more receptive to the concept and implementation of ethno-states.
> I wonder how extreme the parent comment would go? Would they sacrifice themselves to save, say, a million people?

On the other hand, how many people would you need to save to sacrifice yourself? 5? 2? 1? Does that one person need to be younger than you? Not disabled? Not a criminal?
It's very tempting, but my MacBook Air M1 has been great and performance wise any improvement is probably barely noticeable in the day to day that I'd end up feeling like I just bought a new chassis. Which could still be nice.. although most of the time it's in clamshell attached to my monitor. I'll have to sleep on this!
If you look at Sri Lanka right now, their society is completely falling apart not because of climate change, but because there is no oil. If you look at Saudi, they can't raise production, not because of climate change, but because there is no more oil. If you look at the war in Ukraine, the Russian ruble is the best performing currency of 2022, and the Russians are by all accounts not doing badly in the Ukraine war mainly because they have plenty of oil.

Climate change may show up and get us is a few years, or it may take longer. Running out of oil is starting now, we're already in the middle of it.

What's the deal with nobody talking about running out of oil and instead the focus on climate change? With the climate change narrative we get to the same place as the running out of oil narrative, but the only solution is to work together on alternatives. With the running out of oil narrative, the focus is on solutions, but it also becomes a war between nations for the remaining resources. We're seeing Germany revert back to coal now, for which there is more spare supply than oil.

I don't really have a solution here. Maybe we would have better ones if there were more clarity around what the actual situation is.
current year has brought a lot of public embarrassment for YC
Precisely. I am generally against compelled action of any kind, as it violates mutual consent, a fundamental principle I hold.

A trolley switch operator has explicitly opted in to the responsibility, and consents to same. A bystander has not.

This is why the famous internet video of the trolley problem acted out in the real world was required to offer post-experiment psychological counseling to the test subjects. They had not consented to being placed in a position of responsibility for life safety.
Just order it with US keyboard (that's what I've done -- CEE citizen living in CEE).
A sudden noticeable increase in the number of floaters should definitely be treated as an emergency as it can be symptom of some conditions that result in blindness if not treated quickly.
... then you didn't fix it?

My reasoning is: say that bad city design leads to a lot of pedestrians about to be struck by cars in intersections. Does it really make sense to focus on the drivers?
more than 16 gigs is my recommendation. As the electron apps are proliferating RAM will always be bottleneck.
Anybody got their head around why the new 13 Mac Book Pro M2 is more expensive than the Mac Air M2?

Is it the (in my opinion negative UX) touchbar?
I think the main difference (besides storage and peripherals) is active cooling. MBA's are passive cooled now (since the original M1) whereas MBP's have always had fans. The M1 & M2 chips are so cool that they generally don't need any active cooling most of the time. Where it does make a difference is under heavy sustained compute workloads. The passively-cooled MBA's will start to throttle under these workloads whereas the MBP's will maintain full speed indefinitely by spinning up the fans.
How can there be a supply chain crisis and a inventory surplus? I don't get it. It seems the market is completely upside down. Is the market completely incapable of adaptation?

A few days ago I took a plane and more than half the flights were cancelled that day, supposedly because of the hiring crisis. Yet there are a record number of people travelling! These people booked their flights months ago! Why did the company not hire more people? Why did they not simplify the hiring process? Why did they not adjust the wages accounting for the labor shortage?
I mean, a friend of mine was an escort, and certainly ended up in entanglements like that. At the end of the day you are two human beings. Whatever your professional situation, these things are inexorable.
I think what's worth thinking about is whether you DO actually have enough democracy. Are first-past-the-post voting systems able to accurately represent the diverse views of a nation like America? I'd argue that they do not and that the problems you have outlined could be solved with MORE democracy rather than less.

If one goes back and listens to Trump speeches from the 2016 race he actually sounded a lot like a bonkers version of Bernie Sanders in terms of the way he tried to appeal to the economic distress of many potential voters. If there was a more representative voting system – such as that in Germany – you might end up with policies that Americans actually want by having multiple parties that can represent all Americans.

A politician is only as good as your ability to fire them. You can't fire yours very easily.

And if you think democracy is the problem, why not take a look at the difference between two oil-rich nations, Norway and Libya, or two neighbours, North and South Korea.
My m1 air with us layout was shipped to Germany from Poland within one month, right after M1s were released. The US-layout is faily common in the EU among programmers etc.
What else happened?
Do we still need Mighty App?

M2 is significantly faster than Xeon and Epyc in single core speeds which is what matters the most in web browsing speed. There's also no latency that Mighty has.

Just get yourself a 24GB M2 Macbook.
Fun and weird has moved into TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram with stickers, music, sounds and overlays. It allows millions of people to enjoy creating fun and weird things and not only the handful of people who want to mess around with html snippets.

I miss it too, but we are the minority.
I picked up on this... My initial thought was, typing on a phone, and tapping the auto-complete for the word 'daddy' would automatically insert a space afterwards. It's quicker/easier to just live with the space, than delete it before typing the '!'.
I could have worded it better -- the funny bit to me, is that an article that's all about how these algorithms are questionable at best decided to side with the algorithm against my word!

And, yeah, no one has ever accused me of being normal :-)
A potential reframe of your initial comment on subconscious thought is that we know the morals and values of our relatives better and know or think that they would be willing to sacrifice themselves whereas we have no idea the values of random strangers.
Please don’t get less than 16.

I have now had two (work and personal) - my work m1 air was specced with 8GB, and had major memory pressure and issues with an external monitor. My personal 14” MBP has 16GB - same workload, same monitor, never skipped a beat.

Ended up sending the air back and swapping for one of the old dev ex MBP (intel based).
While I have no sympathy for razorpay but I'd just like to point out that laws in India are much more heavy handed than a country like US. People are thrown in jail for social media posts and sometimes just for liking a social media post(1)

Twitter has been having a very hard time operating in India too(2) and routinely censoring stuff so while IANAL just remember that things are very different in different parts of the world.

(1) https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/arrested-over-a-fa...?

(2) https://restofworld.org/2022/twitters-censorship-india/
May be better to point it to https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app/blob/squeak-t...
Exactly. Money's always the answer behind why large companies seemingly make bad software. There's always some cost-benefit analysis behind every decision.
European keyboards are often in the ISO layout, think large enter key and additional keys left of it

US keyboards have the narrow enter key and different placements for many symbols
In The Netherlands you typically will get US keyboards in your MacBooks. I think keyboards are not easily swappable but I might be mistaken? AFAIK in most European countries (at least in Germany) you can also order macs with US layout.

Ordering in EU is easier especially related to warranty. But the price is steep: it is 1199 USD in the US versus 1519EUR in The Netherlands, including sales tax
I chose the route of harm minimization, given this forces an answer. My kill count was 44.

We really should have 3 answers: 'refuse to answer', 'pull lever', and 'dont pull lever'.

Don't pull lever- is a choice that you make, and acknowledges the intent in doing that action.

Refusing to answer- is not accepting the responsibility forced on you.

As a comparison, it's when some terrorist on a movie says to someone "You can decide who is going to die". The better answer is to not choose. If they force that with multiple threatened to be murdered, then you choose yourself.
Wait, what? Doesn't the total cost of ownership already include the initial purchase price? Why do you add sticker prices to TCOs in your comment?
I work on such a system and one of the things we do is figure out which of that sensor data to throw away. In most cases the change between measures is too small to be worth saving, and because we have less data saved we can analyse it faster and thus do something useful with it. The purposes of all that data isn't to fill storage, it is to allow making useful decisions based on it. If you can't make a better decision based on sensor input then don't save it.
Looks like a neat laptop.

I don't really understand why apple feels the need to forgoe articles for their devices, however. For instance, they write "MacBook Air features..." rather than "The MacBook Air features..." as would be grammatically correct in English.
There's an old KGB trick called "sweet trap" where the target is seduced and filmed having sex (ideally non-conventional sex like bondage, gay, etc.) for blackmail purposes.

It's also a common scam nowadays, only remote and with nudes instead of actual sex.

It would make sense the FSB and colleagues have modernised and also use modern techniques. In fact a few years back a candidate for mayor of Paris (unlikely to win, but would have had ~15-20% of the votes) had a video of him masturbating, IIRC with another guy on video chat, released on Twitter. The guy was a "traditional family" type and resigned from his campaign.
At least 16G, them having a 8G offering is customer hostile.

They pay like $40 for the difference, while making it a $200 upgrade, same with the SSD. - Especially since the SSD is apparently really slow with the 256G model.
This, but unironically. For example, "antisemitism is the socialism of fools"[1]. People believing antisemitic conspiracy theories that purport to explain why their lives suck is very good at preventing them from learning about the actual political economy of why their lives suck. Everyone knowing the actual processes that create class oppression would make it possible to change things. So conspiracy theories are actually very useful for maintaining the status quo.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_is_the_socialism_...
The bias wasn't absolute. I sacrificed the 5 people to save best friend for instance.
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can't speak for op because I don't know what layout his country has. For Germany, vim is not usable beyond basic movements, because for example [ and ] have no dedicated keys. Typing { } on the default german layout is an insult to the typer. I remember a vim-shortcut that would have required to press five keys at the same time.
There’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue, so you may need to pick the lesser evil.
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Anyone can learn how to call a function, just like they can learn how to splice a parameter into a string. And translators already have to know basic HTML anyway.

MessageFormat is code. It's just not a very powerful language. And it knows nothing about rich text, just plain strings, which means that you have to deal with manual HTML decoding in the application, ensure all translations are actually producing valid HTML and absolutely not forget to encode all string params that could be user input.

Using tagged template literals and JSX in the translations avoids all those problems.
Larger battery, active cooling, afaik the storage options go higher.
To be fair if they’re leading people on because it gets more engagement/money they really can’t expect it to be stress free. There’s always a choice to be made.
Also in France and Germany you have funny stuff such as azerty and QWERTZ. And have you seen Spanish layout? Horrible for software development
It's concerning that YC is funding companies that are so aligned with BJP bigotry that they comply with invasion of privacy requests without a court order.
Related...six companies that control the media:

https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own...
Not sure I understand what you're getting at. How is this related to what McConnell said? He's talking about the direct payments that were spent the moment people got them. The last payment was $1400, 16 months ago.
Thinking that is contributing to unemployment is laughable and a sign of him being completely out of touch.
In some parts of the world, an official police request is equivalent to a court order.
I cannot blame them for investing in oil and gas.

Oil and gas companies get a lot of bad press and maybe rightfully so, but the sad thing is that the politicians and the users of oil and gas are the main ones to blame. If no-one used oil and gas then there would be no oil companies anymore.

Politicians have known for 20-30 years or more that CO2 causes global warming, but they have done nothing to limit the use of oil and gas. Absolutely nothing. Instead they want to blame the oil companies and bring them to court.

At the same time they blame oil companies, they start to reduce taxes on oil/gas, they ask producing countries to produce more etc. It's nuts.

There have been no major incentives for consumers to move away from big cars with big powerful engines, no incentives for car producers to build more fuel efficient cars.

We could easily have had a car fleet today which consumed 20-30% less than it actually does and that without any major drawbacks in comfort and performance. And that without even transitioning to electric cars.
They’ve been doing this with a lot of products for a long time. “Today we announce iPhone … with iPhone you can do anything!”

I think it is very strange.
they keep funding fraudsters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431224

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899352
> I "did nothing" - because I don't want to play god

I can't understand this perspective. Deciding not to pull the lever is a decision that you've made. You are "playing god" all the same if you decide to sit there and not pull the lever. There is no ethically important distinction that comes about by the mere fact that physical movement is necessitated by one of the decisions versus the other decision. If the framing of the question changes from lever-pulling to "you must press either button A or B", and that re-framing causes you to make a different decision, then I question the ethical assumptions going into the decision making. The ethical core of the trolley problem is that you're asked to choose whether you prefer one outcome versus another -- the precise physical movements you must carry out (jumping jacks, lever-pulling, blinking, button-pressing, or just sitting still) to lock-in a particular decision are irrelevant.
Comments like this are so reliable around Apple product releases that we could use them to replace NTP. Over time, machines get slower. New code favors new instructions. But it's not like the machine gets 10% slower the day the new ones start shipping.
They jailed the CEO of Qwest who refused to share surveillance data with the NSA without a court order. This seems to be prudent in other jurisdictions as well, other than the US and now India of course.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...