skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah its only "sort of" authoritarian, in most regions you can live quite a free life.

The cases where it becomes authoritarian is when it comes to religion and criticism of the government. This is the reason that the majority of the population does not even believe in issues that exist (social, political, ecological or otherwise).
> If you are large enough, the laws don't apply to the government's strong-arm treatment of you. They have all the machine guns, you have none.

Interestingly this also works for small fish: If you are too small, you can get by without sticking to the rules because you won't be on the governments radar.
In UP, India, a Muslim restaurant owner was arrested because the non-veg food he wrapped with old newspapers had photos of Hindu gods and goddesses.

https://thewire.in/rights/up-man-arrested-for-wrapping-chick...
I thought it could have expanded more on animal sentience. Maybe someone can come up with better examples, but my examples would be:

- A trolley is heading towards 20 puppies. Do you pull the lever to divert it towards one person?

- A trolley is heading towards 20 pigs. Do you pull the lever to divert it towards one person?

- A trolley is heading towards one person. Do you pull the lever to divert it towards your healthy pet dog that you consider as a family member?

I think the responses would be insightful.
Statistical outlier: I like it dark.

Basement room with no windows. 5x, 3W "warm white" LED bulbs around the room, all aimed at walls or corners and shaded so there's no direct light anywhere. I can read in this light but others can't see well at all in here and I have to turn on more lights for them.
WeChat is raising prices maliciously, affecting millions of developers
New minimum consumption package: 39 yuan per month (only 19.90 yuan after discount during 2022)
The price of various indicators ranges from 10-50 times

The market price of storage space (OSS) is in the range of 0.003 - 0.005. After the price increase, the price of WeChat is 25 times the market price; storage space is only one of the indicators, and the price increase of other indicators up to 50 times is even more outrageous!

As a developer, you can accept normal commercial price increases, but this kind of price increase that is dozens of times higher than the market price cannot be tolerated; if you are also using the "WeChat Cloud Development" service, what you can do now:

Migrate to other cloud service providers as soon as possible
Complaining/reporting to the Municipal Supervision Bureau, this is a malicious price increase, not a normal commercial price increase
Follow @AsahiLinux and @marcan42 on Twitter for updates. Looks like it's in progress.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1544408695295328256
I will not act as a god and divert the fate, thus I always choose not to pull the lever
Would be the perfect laptop if it could hook up to 2 external monitors instead of just one. For that reason, I have to go for the M2 Pro.
Some news analysis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31997362
Initially everything is weaker under democracy. Democracy provides dynamism and accountability and eventually leads to superior outcomes. Lack of dynamism and excessive politically driven regulations are signs of dying democracy
Selling is not the point. It's a basic strategy pointed out by Ben Graham, that if the company is worth less on the stock market than its actual assets minus debt, it's s no brainer to invest even if the stock is unpopular.
but where do you poop~?
It's deliberate. I guarantee that it's about building a "brand mindset." They've been playing with text copy for decades.

If you say "iPhone," instead of "The iPhone," you've turned "iPhone" into a pronoun. That has a different "connection" to people that hear it.

Branding seems to be something that a lot of tecchies (including Yours Truly) have difficulty with. There's a lot of subtle psychological games that aren't easy to quantify.
A shame that corrupt and poor countries are not protecting their startups. Doesn't the police and government in India understand that such abuse will steer away even more investment?
Citroen C3
ELI5 what is an irc bouncer?

An irc bouncer is a middleman between you and an irc network. It connects to a network like a normal client and instead of connecting directly to an irc network you connect to it. Usually you would set it up to log for you and show you some or all of the messages it received while you were disconnected. In this way your nick is always present in your channels and you can see what was talked about while you were away.

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/35vcth/comment/cr86hcs...
If you are morally responsible for the child's death, you are morally responsible for basically every evil in the world right now, since you didn't do everything in your power to prevent all of them.

You may say that that is the case, but if you're responsible for everything, you may as well be responsible for nothing.
The original mother company of Fiat/FCA (Exor, controlled by the Agnelli family) now merged in Stellantis, also own stakes in Ferrari, CNH Industrial (New Holland Tractors, Case and other industrial and farming equipements), Iveco and a bunch of other brands.
Quite a concentration of companies.
Passive civil disobedience and token statements don't count.
Because of Big Tech. They buy everything up, make it go away, or monetize the shit out of it. Nothing weird or exciting survives.
I think it's a wide-scale effect of everyone scrambling in trying to make Internet money to fund themselves through our current tough and uncertain times but finding out that a lot of the Web 3.0 stuff and the Gig economy was undercover "scammy A.F.". Many people do not have savings now because of crypto, stock manipulation, and NFT schemes...

There is a lot of heavy stuff going on around the world right now, and many of the routes to money success are heavily overcomplicated and undesirable in execution.

I have been keeping calm on my end through working on music and editing (often strange and comical) TikTok videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9__Jq3hyHuI), commenting on HN and Twitter, and through doing occasional stand up comedy open mic nights...
"Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?!?"

Turns post into an advertisement
Long before you hit any row limit you will have performance problems because you have far too many rows to process in a reasonable amount of time. If you think about this problem and ensure you don't have too much data to process the row limit is so absurdly high you will never hit it.
> To use a building a house analogy, sometimes its like all the carpenters are standing around for days talking about what tool is better to frame the house

The way I see it, modern web development isn't about debating which wood screws to use or which lengths of wood... it's arguing about which pre-fab construction to use (a framework), and whether it's acceptable that if you want to build a KitchenObject, you have to start off with a RoomObject and add PlumbingFixtures, but you end up with a ClosetChild in the kitchen because it was inherited with the RoomObject.

Meanwhile I'm just here building with 2x4s and wood screws, watching the debate rage on :)
So open source is a big trend, and Tencent Cloud developed open source alternatives https://github.com/labring/laf also because of this incident
To be clear, people who eat my cooking enjoy it. I'm a good cook (or so I'm told). It's the food snobs who weren't even there who get offended on principle!

But if you really need everything to taste like garlic I wouldn't mind you adding your own at all ;)
And not much point after you data has _already_ been shared.
Sort of.. at least there is in the scientific tradition.

Your theory predicting reality is generally weak evidence. It opens your theory to invalidation if the prediction fails, but does not rule out hypothetical alternative theories that also make the same prediction.
> Among other measures, the letter asserts that users should be prompted periodically to confirm their preferred service

Thanks DDG! I'll really enjoy not having my explicit choices be honored, and to be repeatedly nagged to confirm them.
Not quite. Just that the ruler is the law.
I can't explain why your Google results differed. That is strange.

Anyway, you're welcome. I'm glad I could help out someone with such a high score.
Their ideas of laws are hilarious as they are Kafkaesque.

Next, they will require a meter on your neck to charge you for air.

If I can't control a vehicle how I must outside of what's "permissible" because computers or artificial governors decide "what's best" for me when life and safety are at risk, then there's no way in hell I'm going to buy such a deathtrap. I can drive 140+ mph no problem in the right vehicle setup and maintained correctly under ideal, controlled conditions, but I absolutely don't trust ~95% of any else to.

I know enough computing power with LIDAR, optical cameras, thermal cameras, and MMWRADAR combined with specialized ML-CV can potentially (distant future) safely drive a vehicle faster than any human ever could, but we're nowhere near reliable, high-speed FSD.
Maybe it’s a different filter bubble you have for Google, maybe you forgot to put it in “quotes”?
Yeah, I was unlikely to act unless doing so would obviously save life in a way that I think a jury of my peers would agree with.
+1 for Philips Hue. Almost all lights in the house and landscaping are colored bulbs / strips. Not related to the floaters, but the upper kitchen cabinets have light strips as well as under the bathroom vanity - both tied to their own philips motion sensors. Just make good night lights when you enter a room.
> I've never gotten why so many people think that the physical act of pulling or not pulling makes so much difference.

One reason could be because your presence at this railroad switch is exceptional or at least unusual in some way. Maybe its worth considering what would happen if you weren't there at all.

When working in a new codebase, it's generally better to assume that something odd is the way it is for a reason, rather than changing it to something that seems right (easier to understand) to you. This is because in the real world, there is so much you don't / can't yet know about a situation that you're thrown in to.

I guess this is kind of reflected in the switch example where its 5 people that tied themselves to the railroad vs. one who didn't, and something like 85% "choose" the 5. How do you know how they got there? That implies so much prior knowledge and background that isn't really considered in the oversimplified "choices" in the website. Maybe they were forced to tie themselves to the railroad at gunpoint, or maybe it's a weird death-by-train suicide cult.
> There's no moral obligation to try to extend life as long as technologically possible.

For me there is, if there is something to save (i.e. not brain dead).
"introducing codeblog"

.. you might want to lead with that. You know, so people know what kind of thing they're clicking on
That's all fine and well, I'm not saying you should give away all your money. I'm just saying that there are lots of things to invest in that aren't fossil fuels!

Your money isn't the only thing you leave to your children - you also leave this planet. Do you want to give your children a planet that is more impoverished and conflict-ridden?

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/about/frequently-asked-qu...
my start was in 1994 at university where a sysadmin had offered an extracurricular class to figure out this new http and html thing.

i was among the first in the class to run an http server by my self including cgi and server side includes in perl (setting up a server wasn't part of the class) which earned me a job as assistant sysadmin.

then i got invitet by a classmate to a student club to help them build their website, which i did using spinner/roxen which did serverside includes on steroids by making it look and feel like html itself.

that allowed me to create fancy dynamic websites with generated graphics among other things
I don't think you're downvoted because of fanboys.

I think you're downvoted because:

1. Linux is coming to Apple Silicon sooner or later. You can buy now, enjoy macOS, and then install Linux later.

2. It's not reasonable to expect to use it for 10 years. Even if Apple stops supporting it, you can still use it. In addition, Macs have insane resale value. So you can sell it in 5 years, and then buy a new one. This is a more reasonable approach than yours.

3. Apple tends to support their laptops for a long time. Usually 7-8 years. And given that this is their own chip and it's extremely powerful, I can see it being supported for 8 years at least.
I'm not convinced that's wrong, it's just that we need to accept we can't always act 100% in the best way for humanity. Rather than try to convince ourselves that our actions are somehow moral I think we need to accept we act out of selfishness sometimes and deal with that internally, otherwise we end up crafting philosophies saying that the hoarding of massive wealth is somehow moral just to try and stop the cognitive dissonance.
I don't find it surprising that Iraq is the most skeptical given the kind of democracy that was forced upon them and how the resulting struggle for the dispossessed former ruling minority led to the rise of ISIS.
Every culture has their norms, including Japan.

Japan may have some areas they are more flexible with, but they have just as many, if not more that they rigid about too.

People are different, trying to make them the same would be just as boring.
Thanks for giving a heads up on the 15" Air on the horizon.

This would be the perfect computer for me, and probably most other pros in the current landscape - 13,4 is just too small for a lot of work, but few people need more power than an M1/M2.

I can see it's rumoured for spring next year, so a year is probably realistic.
How hard would it be to prove correctness of the root HASH of a merkle tree of N signatures over some CURVE, in terms of proof size, proof construction time, proof verification time, in the following cases?

HASH = SHA256/blake2b, CURVE = secp256k1, N = 10^6

HASH = SHA256/blake2b, CURVE = secp256k1, N = 10^9

HASH = Poseidon, CURVE = SNARK-friendly, N = 10^9
An additional commandment I can think of is that the crime has to be something significant, like a murder. I wouldn’t want to read a story about a detective solving a petty crime or finding a lost dog.
Proving correct evaluation of FHE circuits is indeed a nice example of how Lurk can help. We are considering different possibilities regarding FHE, but not as a priority.
Isn't so called "mens" categories actually open? The "protected" categories exist because able-bodied men dominate (in the top levels).
> his base's paranoid, hateful beliefs.

Who do you consider to be his base and what are those paranoid, hateful beliefs they have? If by "his base" you mean "Republicans" I'd consider that to be an example of paranoid, hateful belief.
why does the inner cycnic in my think this is just to get some facial recognition data
You need scale for the hardware part but not nearly as much scale for the OS and barely and for the apps. That's why these should not be tied together, so that we can have specialists Apps and operating system that do not have the scale to afford their own hardware platform.
Way to add discord to the discussion.
> for any period of time

I assume you mean any significant amount of time. I often write something quick on mobile, which works okay. However if it is more than a sentence or two give me a keyboard. The mobile is with me all the time though, my nice desktop with a full sized keyboard, large monitors and all that is back at home. Thus the compromise of often using mobile to write even though it is overall a worse experience.
>"Razorpay, a YC company shared [...]"
Profit would seem to be the default explanation. For malice the burden of proof is yours. The size of the increase isn't good evidence of malice since it is generally consistent with the profit motive.
The elderly also have wisdom to offer. The baby only has potential wisdom. Of course, if you're trading on potential, the baby could potentially grow up to be a serial killer. Or the elderly could potentially be mute.
Of course not exactly but if most of the people earn the same minimum, then the average will be close to minimum. There is no cap on max, but with few they do not make a difference.
Which brands are you talking about and could you point to something showing the ownership (not doubting you, just wondering). Looking up Patagonia, Columbia, and VF Corp (North Face, Timberland, etc) none of them appear to be Chinese owned, but its quite likely their Wikipedia page is missing info.
I did nothing and it says i killed 91 people. My lawyer disagrees.
most people are boring/normal by definition and the internet is now mainstream. The internet used to be filled with a pretty weird subset of the general population but now that is drowned out by the masses. The old school internet still exists to some degree but you are going to have to look harder to find where the weird people are at and most the people claiming they want the "weird" internet back would probably complain about those places

same thing happens in any community/society as it ages and grows. People who create it are different from those who move in later once things are great
They're treating "MacBook Air" as a proper noun. It's to personify their products, presumably with the idea that people will "connect" to them, for some hollow, tech-oriented definition of "connect".
The year is 2199. The trolly residents have figured out how to tap the trolly's motion for near-limitless power. Despite its small size, the trolly has developed a stable population of 24 (give or take over the years) and has dubbed itself Trolland. Their primary exports are electricity via pantograph back to the mainland, information services, and entertainment syndication, as the trolley offers a 24/7/365 reality tv experience akin to the Truman show.

The Trolland Show draws millions of views. The residents initially had relatively normal interaction with friends and family via Zoom calls, but as the first generations died off, a new social order evolved. The community is very tight-kit and intimate (in every sense of the word), while having parasocial relations with outsiders, whom they call Stationaries. A Cult of the Trolley which worships the eternal engine has sprung up, periodically giving offerings to the trolley and its denizens. Ratings skyrocketed one day in 2077 as five cultists, in an odd sense of irony, tied themselves to the track as a sacrifice to the great Prime Mover.
Love all of these (including the seemingly offensive “Chinaman” one), but I disagree with most of the updated list.

Contemporary mystery authors too often feel the need to create the illusion of depth by having alcoholic protagonists with messy personal lives. It’s cliche, and it put me off the genre for good about a decade ago.
>I asked what he thought of what happened in the Arabic and Iranian regions during that time, he replied: Nothing significant.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Islam...

I mean... based on that article alone, that seems to be substantially true, if overly harsh? Half of it are "discoveries" which were lost or disregarded and had to be "re-discovered", and IMO those are not discoveries at all since they change or affect nothing. The Book of Optics seems to be the only notable exception in that contributions section.
> It is not enough to increase the general fund of wealth and then distribute it more fairly. It is not enough to develop technology so that the earth may become a more suitable living place for human beings. The mistakes of those who led the way should help those now on the road to development to avoid certain dangers. The reign of technology — technocracy, as it is called — can cause as much harm to the world of tomorrow as liberalism did to the world of yesteryear. Economics and technology are meaningless if they do not benefit man, for it is he they are to serve. Man is truly human only if he is the master of his own actions and the judge of their worth, only if he is the architect of his own progress. He must act according to his God-given nature, freely accepting its potentials and its claims upon him.

> Self-development, however, is not left up to man's option. Just as the whole of creation is ordered toward its Creator, so too the rational creature should of his own accord direct his life to God, the first truth and the highest good. Thus human self-fulfillment may be said to sum up our obligations.
> I don't see the value of opting out of 2-3 years worth of known & fixed stability, performance, and other issues.

My 3 year old server is running fine. What am I missing out on exactly? My 6 year old router is also running perfectly. Don't fix what isn't broken. Updates often break things without providing me any value.

I'm running a 5 year old Android. Upgrading to a newer version will slug my phone. I don't need a newer android (yet). My phone works perfectly for me.

Now, if you are going to tell me my security is at risk. Please be specific and provide an example :)
The Fields Medals are only awarded every four years.
Usually every node that share a folder need to have syncthing installed.

The only way to make it work with rsync.net would be to mount a sshfs on a machine running syncthing.

Not sure if the performance will be good.

Maybe with Rclone ?
I have tons of them as well. Different sizes and shapes. Mostly just floating around, fairly static.

I think I first noticed them when I was a teenager. It never bothered me. Mostly I don't even notice them but when I do I usually just smile a bit as I find it amusing and carry on.
Well, that was fun. My internal geek, however, is annoyed that it seems to miss the point of the trolley problem - that of you do nothing, you're not responsible. Answers seem to indicate that people don't get that.
Have you never really thought about the horrifying possibility of eternity?
In addition to the above. Both matrix and discord can provide IRC bridges which provide the same "always-on with history" functionality. I have been using the matrix.org bridge to libera.chat for a few weeks. One can join any libera.chat channel this way. Other matrix server might configure a more limited room-to-channel setup where not all channels are bridged.
No, Google said there were no results, here are results without quotes.

It's not terribly surprising, Google's results differ wildly between users. We probably not even hit the same index.
Same; I'm fortunate enough to have my home office set up in our sunroom.

When it gets dark enough, I have a floor lamp with 5 fairly generic LED bulbs, controlled by an Eve smart plug.
For what it’s worth, a very close friend of mine got his Physics PhD at CERN in the late 80s (high energy particle physics) where he witnessed the birth of HTTP.

This experience, coupled with the US government’s decision to not build an equivalent super collider in the 90s, led him to switch to computer science, where he had a bit of a “head start” due to his experience at CERN.

He always said the data analysis, measurement, and collection stuff was more advanced than anything else in the world at the time. The original “big data”. But in 2022, this is less of a distinguishing feature in his opinion. Also, Bell Labs probably faced similar issues.

I asked, and he agrees that he’d do molecular biology if he were starting over today. So you’re not at all crazy!
I think these old "remember MySpace" ideas are off the mark.

What actually happened was not minor changes in UX culture.

The web became powerful, instead of a subculture over to the side. It became democratic and populist, with everyone participating rather than a self selected few. It became monopolized, regulated by Google/etc. and regulatable because giant companies are easier to regulate. The coming of copyright is underated as a factor in changing the web.

Remember the spindletop days. Why is the oils industry no fun anymore?