skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the barrier of entry is gone. Some level of difficulty of creating content weeded out the morons. It is now flooded with "content creators" of at best average intelligence. The early web was glorious. A bunch of weirdos and nerds with at least some technical skills created personal websites, mostly horrible-looking, and linked to each other. There were counters, guestbooks, moderated discussion boards...

We were children discovering a new world, all over again. It was full of wonder and magic.

Now - any idiot can whip out their phone and write anything they want, in a few seconds, and create "content". And THEN we all have to process that shit.
I chose to kill the cat, because there are too many of them and they devastate natural ecosystems, killing birds for instance. Lobsters on the other hand are badly depopulated. In both cases undoing a wrong committed by humanity.
Perhaps another day, DoHS.
The core ethical point of the trolly problem is that you have to take an action.
In real world scenarios there are most often significant distinctions between taking an action and refusing to take one.
You wrote:

> I agree that it is a distasteful question. But what is much more distasteful that it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for the answer to that question to be yes.

So you said it is not out of the realm of possibility for it to be the case, that is an assessment. By your own statement, you are in no position to judge, so how do you know it is possible?
If I was going to download /any/ app from the App Store in which to store pictures and factual data about my kids, I would hope I could trust the FBI more than Joe's App Shack or another anonymous developer. But in this case, if they're not going to tend to their app and it's marketing site, hard pass.
>Being slightly at fault for someones death is basically a permanent state of affairs, whereas actively killing someone is something few people would be willing to do. It definitely makes a difference

It only makes a difference in the eyes of the beholder, not for those actually dying

Not thinking too hard about reality because reality is nasty is something of a huge bug in the human cognition. Trying hard to not know anything is even desirable from that point of view: it's not neglect if you never bothered getting to a state where you are capable of being responsible for anything
"I strongly feel if someone could match the merging ability of Git with the ease of simple, well worded commands, it could win."

But we have that, and not only didn't it win, it shows no sign of winning. Mercurial isn't even growing in apparent mindshare.

"Easier" and "technically sound" is by observation, not by a long line of strained theorizing, not enough. Theories must take this fact into account or be useless in explaining the real world.
No samples have made it to reviewers hands, so no. But perhaps it will mimic the M2 Macbook Pro 13", whose SSD performance scaled with size (meh at 256GB, blazing when bigger).
No, the senate was intended to represent the concerns of each state government to the federal government, so its members were elected by state legislatures. It was changed in 1913 so that senators became directly elected by popular vote. It is certainly not what the founders intended.
> Use a pastebin

That's not a solution, that's a bad and inconvenient workaround. Having to use an external service just to share a couple lines of code is horrible for usability. Funnily enough, its also exactly the thing that IRC users complain about when the matrix bridge converts multi-line messages to links.
Bad if you get the 256 GB version, since it'll be a single chip. Otherwise it's the same chip they put on all the other ones.
But it's...only one view. Forever.
This is where Monero (a cryptocurrency with anonymity built in) could have been able to hide the donors identity from being shared with the government.
$200 to go from 8GB to 16GB is an atrocity.
To add to this: I think IRC strikes an interesting balance between async and sync conversations -- Schrödinger's synchronization, in a sense. In public conversations, there's no expectation that anyone will be present for anything and no expectation that they should read the things they missed, which is good. However, among mutual bouncer users there's a culture of sending messages you expect to be read later, in their own time. We essentially get the best of both worlds.

I wrote a little bit about this facet of IRC culture in this article:

https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/24/A-philosophy-for-instant-...
Read that sentence as “single core cpu performance and graphics performance”
Rather than “a single core cpu. And graphics performance”
I find those solutions end up being harder once you have to integrate something new you didn't know you needed. And the cost, at least for something like Heroku, is MORE than using something like GKE where I don't need a new dyno for every service. I consider GKE (and DO's and AWS's equivalent k8s solutions) on the same platform level as a fly.io/Heroku/etc.
They merged with Essilor, a French company, in 2018. Technically they are a Franco-Italian company.
I always wonder if the implicit telos of modern science is space colonization (leave this planet behind), and what the ramifications of that mindset is. Is this a dogma that can be challenged?

We've still barely scratched the surface of ecological sciences
I agree. Search having such a bias towards SEO as a measure of credibility has been incredibly damaging.
Janie and Johnny Doe don't feel very appropriate as examples in this context.
> 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.

This kind of reasoning really defeats the point of the thought experiment, which is to construct a scenario where those considerations aren't a factor so we can reason about ethics and moral intuitions without the greater complexity of real-world situations.
It makes me wonder if downloading this app gives the FBI a ready made backdoor into your iPhone. (not sure if that's even possible with the iOS infrastructure)
> The notched area of the screen isn’t used in full screen mode.

That’s the default setting.
You can choose to have the menu bar there as well in full screen.
Sure, that's why I mentioned it having stellar single threaded performance -- I figure out what they probably meant, but it's not what is written. And I've been seeing a lot of misinformation lately about many things (in general, and in tech in particular), and people buying that without questioning , which is why I jumped to "correct" this detail.

The point about nerfing their last x86 models stands on its own though.
> Changing the names of all the places named after Catholic Saints? Not having the municipality put up Christmas decorations every year?

But that stuff really is "history and culture" rather than "public endorsement of religion."

People in my home country would never tolerate foreign Christians coming in and demanding that the state stop celebrating Eid or changing place names. People are entitled to their heritage, and shouldn’t have to erase it to accommodate newcomers.
This irks me:

> We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products.

Nope. People chose the simpler platforms and tools with lower barrier to entry (no need to code) and the strange, fun, weird things were choked out or relegated to the unseen corners of the Internet. For a brief period you had a lot of people learning to code at some level because it was the only way to engage with the Internet at all.

It wasn't developers, designers, etc. that decided things should no longer have access to the tools, it was the consumer base at large who consistently chose the smoother, simpler, easier-to-use, less flexible, locked-down products.

People still have access to the tools. The Internet has an extremely low barrier to entry. It is accessible in a way most serious technology isn't. My son has been publishing his own page, full of weird little games and odd styling choices, etc. since he was nine.

Most people don't want products like MySpace. They voluntarily chose Facebook.

I hope this company finds a successful niche. I'm glad for any tools that encourage people to invest in their own creativity. But I doubt they are going to achieve mainstream success. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Cynically, it seems like a way to normalize an orwellian social credit system in the west where eventually everyone will have something similar on their phones, like China is doing.

"You already keep an app with photos, this just adds a barcode... "
I chose to do nothing as doing so keeps you from being activly involved in the death of a person.
I come from linux and I feel like I've been given a machine for computer illiterate people who are going to do some office work at Starbucks. Stereotypical, yes, but that's how I feel.

I need this basic software feature. Yeah? Too bad, the OS won't allow you to do that. Maybe you'll find a paid app that does it. I do pay for software but when you have to pay for basic stuff that should come out of the box, it's a no for me. To cover the basics you need to pay a lot of money.

Then there's the weird behaviour. Example. You have 2 Chrome windows on two different monitors. You're focusing one of them and on that same monitor witch to a fullscreen app and then go back. Now it'll raise and focus the Chrome window on the other monitor. In the worst case I just have to manually change the window, on the worst case, I'll use some shortcut on a windows that I'm not supposed to and break something. I wouldn't be the only one breaking/changing something in Jira because of this.

The file manager is a joke. Again, something fancy but useless if you need a bit of functionality. At least the OS has a good shell that you can use instead.

When I'm told to learn to use it "the Apple way" what I understand is, "shut up and get used to it, you have no saying in how your machine or you should work".

If I leave my current job it'll be because of the Macbook.
Apple has discontinued the 128 GB NAND chip, so it's very unlikely. The first increase in storage (from 256 GB to 512 GB) also costs twice as much as subsequent increases.
"The FBI" is not collecting is the key weasel word here.
If only I had a fraction of a Bitcoin for every time someone said "Why IRC and not Google talk? The world is moving on."

The world is not moving on, IRC is very much here to stay. It works way too well for this sort of thing and people like being able to have their client set up exactly right. It's just heavy iPhone users that left and once Apple allows web push iPhone users will be back on IRC again.
Then again there are also deontological aka categorical morality frameworks that see pulling the lever as acceptable, that it is not “killing” but the life of the man in the other line is lost as a secondary effect, which must be gravely considered. There are yet other versions of the trolley problem that have you push a man in the way of the trolley to stop it and save the five. Sometimes people pose that variant as though it must be accepted as morally equivalent, but I find the importance lies in why we find the situation different.
I disagree. The colorful consumer oriented mac ibook clamshell g3 was USD $1,599 when it came out in 1999. That's $2,800 in today's dollars and it was orders of magnitude less powerful than this Macbook Air. The value per dollar you are getting is simply staggering.
I think so. I think a lot of people on HN are going to lean towards it being a strength though. It's fast, to the point, and I never have to figure out where something was hidden in a menu since yesterday.

Spotify is the absolute worst when it comes to senseless UI updates. They had it all covered for me back in 2016, and nothing I use has actually changed in functionality, just where the hell they move everything and how slow it is on my phone. I understand I have a cheap Android phone, but there's no reason an app to play music should be so slow. I use Podcast Addict for podcasts, and sometimes I'll just give up on Spotify because it won't load and listen to a podcast or Audible instead.

HN has never put up a fight. Fastest site I use, and the only time I run into an issue is 9AM PT since there's usually a spike and things might load a bit slower, but it's never a huge deal, especially for a completely free site.
> deferred consequence is better than immediate (since it opens the door to other later interventions)

Yep, I sent that trolley into the future just in case some time in the future they invent a cure for getting run over by trolleys
Very high field magnets are critical for MRIs, tokamak fusion reactors, mass spectrometers, and probably many other uses if we consider pure science as “useful”.

Actually particle accelerators somewhat funded the early investment in high field superconducting magnets which might now appear to yield improvements in fusion energy Q factors due to the strong dependence on field intensity [1]

[1] https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc
I personally suspect that it'll be used as training data to generate avatars for the FBI to entrap people with.
They don't the majority. Hyundai owns 1/3 of Kia and Kia actually is a partial owner in several Hyundai subsidiaries.
Why? A few reasons:

- Spoofing geolocation to watch geo-locked content like BBC iPlayer (You need a UK IP for this)

- Torrenting. I don’t want to get scare letters from my ISP, so I use a VPN. I find Wireguard to be the fastest in this case.

- Protecting my network traffic on shady public Wi-Fi. Some public Wi-Fi hotspots could be malicious and could be spying or tampering with your connection.
IBM acquires Databand to bolster its data observability stack
> The algorithm aggressively promotes freshness (things posted in the past few hours for certain queries!) and 10+ minute long videos.

I mostly agree, but there are some counterexamples that provide very in depth, quality information and have gotten popular because of it. Off the top of my head, Ben Eater, Sebastian Lague, 3Blue1Brown, and Reducible.

I think it's still very possible to get stuff that doesn't fit into the algorithm to take off if you make it interesting and high quality :)
I think you are reading a lot into the development of an app. For anything the government does it seems like folks are ready to pop out and say, “the resources would be better spent on X.” Maybe true but I’d argue doing slightly wrong things is better than listening to the orchestra of naysayers and doing nothing.
3D printer big enough to print a kayak
It says a lot about the FBI that most people's initial reaction is "whats the trick here?". BOTH sides of the political aisle too.
Isn't this just art imitating life? In real life, the boring is every where. You have to find those niche stores/clubs/eateries/etc by putting forth effort vs just going to the same-ol-same-ol that advertises to get your attention.
EssilorLuxottica (merger in 2018) is a French company with an headquarter in Paris and the stock part of the French index CAC40.
Real-Time 3D Pose Detection and Pose Classification with Mediapipe and Python
If you owned a sizable property portfolio thats certainly what youd want people to think and if you own a sizable property portfolio you just might own a TV channel, magazine or newspaper as well and be able to project this idea to the masses.

Unfortunately, if governments fixed the problem by increasing supply then that means lower rents so landlords would have less money to buy coke with. So that's a non starter.

It's probably better all round if we throw a bit of cash at methadone clinics for all the homeless people who tried to salve the crushing pain of being priced out on to the street by taking drugs.

Yeah, it's complicated. It's a good thing that we have reliable, objective media to educate us about the real story.
There such a massive logic failure in these orgs that implement complex and arduous interview and screening processes then assume 10% of those people are trash and need to be regularly culled.

The words PIP Quota make me gag. As an on again of again people leader, I dread the thought of the only way to prove my value as a leader being to arbitrarily assign one of my people a PIP.
I bet beige hardware really stood up well in an office where cigarette smoking was allowed!
Accident Report on “Icarus – The First Flight”
Go back twenty more years are computers were even more expensive. I don't think it makes sense to compare to prices that long ago.
Exactly. You don't want to know everything that's ever happened in the history of the channel, there's way too much. Even on Discord the client can't handle it so you won't know anyway.
Heh, my mother was recently alarmed by the following iOS notification:

(password-at-risk-blah-blah)... 'iPad can help you re-secure your account.'

She associates poor grammar with phishing attempts, so assumed this could not have been a genuine notification from Apple. When I checked my own devices, it seems clear that their approach is at least consistent.
Intel 4, Rebranded 7nm Process Node, Primed for Mass Production in Q3 2022
I give zero sympathy or support to BJP and its destruction of India's democratic institutions.

Yet, I can't agree with your comment.

First, I don't think Razorpay supports BJP or its bigotry, at least openly.

One indicator of that is that they have retained critical media like AltNews and Wire as customers from years. I don't think they'd do that if they were pro-BJP or pro-bigotry.

Plus, I've noticed that rightwing companies and founders are generally very vocal about their support on social media (e.g.: PayTM, Zoho). They like boasting about their ideology. I don't see that with Razorpay or its founders. As far as I can see, Razorpay is "neutral".

Second, I don't see how YC can avoid funding such companies. You can't really expect them to include a rightwing checkbox that automatically excludes founders. YC itself seems to ignore ideology anyway. To repeat the previous point, there's nothing visibly political about Razorpay. It's not involved in any Indian government projects. It's not a Huawei or Palantir of India. I really don't see how YC can avoid funding such companies.

Third, the justice system that emerges from Indian laws, police training, and even its legal jurisprudence is anything but liberal. And that's ignoring the unethical malicious thinking that's prevalent in those people. We have sedition, UAPA, a quasi-blasphemy law, and a dozen other similar illiberal laws. Section 91 of the CrPC does seem to compel companies to hand over any information that's asked. I see this as an undesirable, but inevitable, outcome of our legal system. Whenever I donate, I do so knowing that I may come under government scrutiny some day.

Probably, Razorpay could have resisted the demand a little. But I doubt any neutral company does that. And even if they did, it wouldn't be for too long - some lower court would have forced them to disclose transactions.

A possible future outcome: The law and judiciary are increasingly turning into kangaroo courts. If Zubair or AltNews are declared terrorists under UAPA, all donors (who were just donating to upholding truth) can be labeled terror funders!
The threat model is that I want to deploy ebpf programs to my base amis and let devs load them as-needed without root, basically.
> scroll position is typically not tracked in the React state, so how does it work?

The typical approach would be to attach an event listener to a scroll event or to an IntersectionObserver and then set a state property from that.

Memoization is supposed to be purely a performance enhancement. I would never use it for handling scroll position.
Right now, non-hypothetically, would you be willing to donate your internal organs to those who will die without them, even if it meant you will not survive yourself?
The 2016 MacBook Pro was a turd. The butterfly keyboard would inevitably break. I went through several of these laptops. To add insult to the injury, this model's unique innovations were "Touch Bar" and "no ports"...

I've been buying Macs since 2000, and the 2016 MBP is definitely the worst Mac I ever had. It was enough to drive me to purchase a Surface Book as an alternative.
"~80% of the 50 largest public companies are connected to one another through 1 or more shared board member(s)" [1]

The "three most connected companies" through interconnecting directors are "3M (7 connections), Boeing (6 connections) and Amgen (6 connections)" ... "Other highly-connected companies include Walt Disney, Apple, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, IBM, and Procter & Gamble – each has five board members that also serve for other top 50 corporations." [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/923c92/80_...

[2] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/50-largest-u-s-companies-bo...
Their idea of accomplishing "user preference protection" is very modern, meaning designed to distract the user and steal their attention. It sucks.

But the overall goal seems to be user preference protection after all and in today's world where UIs are being unnecessarily changed on a weekly basis, less tech-literate people may not notice search engine change.

Mozilla - company which gets about 90% of profits from Google - at least once pulled a global search engine RESET resulting in Firefox search engine being set to "default" which is Google's. If memory serves, they downplayed it ("so what? if you don't like Google, change it back") afterwards.
The laws in India are quite similar to US. Unfortunately, current practice and interpretation is far from what was envisioned in the constitution.
I think the comment is pointing out that if your child is kidnapped and raised elsewhere, there will not be a reason to fingerprint them then for comparison unless there's already a reason to think they may have been kidnapped.

That is, it might help on the back end, but the comment is suggesting that mass fingerprinting is not likely to move the needle much.
Been using Sourcehut as my main repo host for like a year now, and didn't even know https://paste.sr.ht existed. Very handy. Thanks.
I learned html by printing out website source code on a dot matrix printer. I mentioned this in a meeting with a client and half the people were like, “What is a dot matrix printer?”. Good times!
I have a love-hate relationship with Emacs.

The defaults are absolutely awful. The editor is pretty unusable without at least a hundred lines of ELisp: basic stuff like CUA, setting up fonts, disabling useless UI clutter, delete-selection-mode, rebinding a couple keys, setting up packages, explaining where to find coreutils on BSD systems, etc. And then you get to packages.

If you want to do anything remotely useful, you're gonna have to start installing random stuff from GNU ELPA, MELPA, etc. There's no package pinning or SemVer so you get what you get, packages sometimes break in mysterious ways. So you write more code to work around various broken stuff in packages.

I've gone through several iterations of throwing away my entire init.el and starting from scratch with just the bare minimum needed to get work done. At the current iteration, ELisp is still ~33% of all source code volume in my dotfiles repo[0]. I haven't pushed my latest effort to unbreak "jump to definition" (because apparently dumb-jump is deprecated??? and I need to use xref??? but it doesn't work???) so that'll likely go up.

I never wanted to write enough ELisp to justify calling it a program, but Emacs made me.

But then there is magit[1], which is so damn good, it makes every other VCS interface look like a sad joke. Which is problematic, because configuring Emacs itself is a bit of a sad joke. I want to just write code, not write code to make just writing code less of a pain. :(

[0]: https://github.com/rollcat/dotfiles

[1]: https://magit.vc