skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Islamic Whatsapp groups.

> Prior to his arrest, he deletes several of his social media posts and tweets mocking Hindu Gods.

You're literally peddling IT cell propaganda.
The other reason I enjoy my ultrawide is that there are fewer cables to deal with and less hardware needed to mount the monitors. I bought a 34" UW a couple of years back. But I reckon my next upgrade I'm going to the superwides.
I don't mean to be snarky, but I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic or not.
Database Read Replicas vs. PolyScale Database Edge Caching
is it not weird that you're responding to people who obviously know how to use irc and say "this is why i don't use it anymore" by trying to teach them how to do what everyone already knows how to do?

did you feel that you were offering solutions or something?
€1520 in Europe for 256gb ssd and 8gb ram... The 512/16 version is almost €2000.

Man this is just insane pricing. It sucks because besides ssd/ram everything is fantastic for a laptop. I would buy it almost instantly for $1000
Indeed, I was going to ask if they were having a joke, posting in the style of release notes from 25 years ago.
My street used to be 70 and now it's 50. 70 was fine for me, so I indeed don't care. I care about a car mobility plan, not a car immobility plan.
I've read letters from NKVD agents located in the USA in the 1930s talking about how this new guy J Edgar Hoover is using political blackmail so effectively. They were reporting back to the USSR telling their superiors how political blackmail was something that the new USSR needed to perfect and use to its advantage.

I think we can have a long discussion about what the real purpose of the FBI is. And I bet even within the FBI they can have this long discussion. It is many purposed, some of which we may determine to be pro-social, or pro-democratic. While others are probably more anti-social and anti-democratic.
> money was received from syria and pakistan

Did you learn this from WhatsApp University?
"I personally prefer modular monoliths over microservices though, in all but very few cases."

Couldn't agree more. Often times folks are using microservices to achieve good modularity at a cost.
International credit cards were always disabled for Altnews.
In cryptography there is the clear difference between encrypting and signing (Confidentiality and Integrity). Is this distinction possible on a webserver/browser? I.e.
No encryption, no signing -> HTTP
Encryption and signing -> HTTPS
No encryption, signing -> ?
What about public information (not confidential) that needs verification (yes integrity)?
OK, but it's still an attention grab that's there by default?
Such a tough choice, do I spend the extra 300 on a bigger SSD?

I definitely intend to buy one by years end.
Sounds like Amazon. Go with your gut, if you feel cheated, you probably are.
Exactly this.

Slack warns you "are you sure you want to notify all these people" or "it's outside this person's hours"... If they have Notifications turned on, that's their problem, especially if they were silly enough to setup Slack on their phone with notifications.

If someone needs my attention instantly, they can call me. (and then leave a voicemail, because I keep my phone on silent too ;)
You make it seem like todays internet monopolies exist because of all the platform there are, they are the most well-designed ones, and they would simply be replaced if a better product came along.

I disagree with that, youtube for example is not the prevalent video platform today because it is better than its competitors. Youtube today is absolutely terrible.

But it does not get replaced, because it is the established platform, and using a competitor is suicide because your content will never get any traction.

So we are stuck with a horribly monopolized web, where the established websites can become very shitty, but you have to stay on them because everyone else is.
As others have said, it's about 20% of phone revenue but you need a mac to build an iOS app. THey're also selling a whole ecosystem that needs to be cohesive and technically strong. For a while the mac part of the ecosystem wasn't living up to the quality of the phones, IMHO.
This sponge you put in your mouth made me think for the first time about how much bacteria is potentially on a normal toothbrush.

I'm betting this product is even less hygienic since it's a sponge instead of only bristles.
It can be both.

I won't blame him for not sticking around for more than 3 months if he's been exploited for low pay & unreasonable workloads (which they know they can do due to his situation).
What does having enough time actually mean? I am almost certain that I would freeze if I encountered such a situation in real life, or panic and be unable to figure out how to flip the switch ...

... which brings up the real problem with these scenarios. In real life, the person at the switch would be trained. While that training is unlikely to include hypothetical scenarios created by philosophers, they would be expected to assess the safety of the act. This would put them into a position where the physical act of pulling or not pulling the switch would not, as you say, make much of a difference. They would have to answer for their actions down the line, even if their only answer was that it put them into an ethical conundum where they had insufficient information to assess the value of that one life verses five. A court may, or may not, accept that argument. It could be based upon the numbers (e.g. five lives are more valuable than one). It could be based upon the psychological impact of the decision upon the switch operator (e.g. a calculated sacrifice of one life may be frowned upon relative to an emotionally crippling indecision that led to the loss of five lives).

In turn, that brings up another issue with these artificial scenarios: they virtually always include follow-ups that are intended to raise doubt in decisions made. What if that one person was a child with their entire life ahead of them, and the five lives elderly people who have less to look forward to? What if that five included a "Hitler" plus four regular people, and the one was a "Gandhi" (i.e. the one slaughtered many orders of magnitude more people, and the one was revered for their regard of life)? Those are the sorts of things that are usually raised to justify indecision, even though they are highly unlikely.
It's not paranoid if they're really out to get you, and sometimes hate is justified. If Republicans want to know why they're hated they should start with a mirror.
I can't imagine the SSD having worn out yet; that's very odd. Mine hasn't quite hit a year yet, so I'll definitely keep an eye on it, but I haven't noticed any slowdowns.
I don't see how minimum wage is the problem. Engineers aren't better compensated in other markets because of low minimum wages but because they are expected to deliver more value. The Internet tells me that the minimum wages in Portugal is 823€ a month. That isn't a lot compared to many other markets. Sounds more like a productivity problem. Or that someone else is capturing much of the value.

High minimum and median salaries are usually good for engineers as it requires more productive companies which requires more engineers. When workers are cheap few wants to pay for expensive systems.
The difference between a phone lock screen and a bus, ball game, movies etc. is that we own our phone.

Milk cartons and magazines are interesting examples. It really depends on the magazine and the subscriber, but speaking for myself the one type of magazine I still subscribe to is a trade magazine and I subscribe to it in part because of the ads. Yes I read the columns and the content is important, but because it's a trade magazine I'm actually curious about new products and the magazine is a completely opt-in way to get that information delivered to me. I can unsubscribe at any time.

Milk cartons are disposable packaging so who cares?

My phone lock screen though? I don't much like the idea that some remote server somewhere can push something in my face in a way that I can't choose to ignore it, throw it away, opt out .. and, oh yeah, it's on something I paid hundreds of dollars for.

I think that's the difference.
I say the opposite, strong entrenched teams are hard to get good work from. Op will get the tech scraps and learn nothing
exactly. Only intent is to malign Razorpay, so OP also chose to create a throw away account. Razorpay didn't really have much choice in this.
Will I be able to find a good job outside those sectors?
A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity
Agreed. This kind of violence is on the rise because fascism, a right-wing authoritarian ideology that encourages the use of violence for political means, is on the rise. It has already all but devoured the republican party, which already increasingly refuses to recognize the legitimacy of any democratic or legal process that doesn't favor them.
Airbus’ solar-powered Zephyr S has been flying non-stop for more than 17 days
Great question. The biggest reason is that Go was what the team was most familiar with when the engine moved from Javascript. The reason today is that the engine is 40K LOC of Go, so a full-blown rewrite would be a big deal. As the post goes into depth with, we have a lot of rope left before we need to get to SIMD/GPGPU. Once we hit those computational bottlenecks in Go, we're very open to changing our mind!
You can have multiple display support with Display Link. It's not ideal because it consumes CPU, but it's working fine with my M1 MBA. If I had to do it again, I'd likely just purchase a real nice single monitor.
Ugh, I forgot about the battery. I'm lucky if I get a couple of hours out of it. Horrible thing.
Fascinating. Do you know what the documentary will be called and who's putting it out?
It is interesting how much things change.

To be perfectly honest, despite some obvious drawbacks, I miss the simplicity of HTML. And I really dislike how much my every step is tracked online ( and how much it slows everything down.. my online bank when allowed to go nuts loads up for full 30 seconds in chromium; naturally it does not help that it does not want to cooperate when it is not allowed to do that ).

I guess I miss the old days.

I put up a website for a lawyer friend in EU zone recently in pure HTML ( so super simple - nothing fancy, but she did not need that much ). I did not hear any complaints, but then I sold it as a privacy consideration ( you can tell your customers you don't do any analytics, you don't pollute their device with random cookies ).
You'd love cuba
Meta AI open-sources NLLB-200 model that translates 200 languages
Arabs live in societies where corruption is rampant. Democracy is just as vulnerable to corruption as any other system (maybe more so).

CPI 2021 FOR MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA: SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2021-middle-east-no...
Sorry, wrong key pressed. Thanks. Fixed it.
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Mobile providers have been doing this crap for ages.

That is why in the past I run my mobile connection through a VPN as much was possible.

FWIW this has nothing to do with pro-war propaganda, just the sketchy behaviour telecoms providers have been doing and still do.
Let's say you're going to use this for 3 years and it becomes worthless after that.

$1,800 / (3 * 365) = $1.64 a day

In reality you could still probably sell it for at least $500 at the end of the term bringing the cost down to $1.19 a day.

And with inflation where it is, you're locking in the current price with today's dollars.

If it's something you'll use every day adding the RAM you need I think is an easy decision.
Unless the app software needs to be secured ... for national security reason; read that last part again.
how do you propose we do that
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This might come as a surprise to most people on this page but India and other countries around the world actually have there own laws and don't follow US laws.

No court order is required for this data. The relevant law states this:

Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons, or such officer a written order, to the person in whose possession or power such document or thing is believed to be, requiring him to attend and produce it, or to produce it, at the time and place stated in the summons or order.
Discovery reveals large, year round ozone hole over tropics
I've flagged this because (1) the poster is anonymous and (2) they misrepresent the issue in the title and (3) they seem to have some kind of beef with Razorpay.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throw_away_1042
By 'strong team' I mean a more highly-skilled team, not necessarily a more close-knit team. You don't grow your abilities from a stack (you just learn the new stack), but from people.
Every day we hit new lows for ads creeping all over the user experience. As an expat I use Revolut as a way to easily hold (and transact) multiple currencies, and I recently decided to kill the app's notifications. I had to stop notifications on a freaking banking app because it kept spamming me with ads, promotions, and referral drives. I can't even find a way to disable all of those and just keep the notifications for transactions. How the hell did we end up here?
TL;DR two extremists make offensive statements on television, journalist tweeting a segment from it to bring it to public attention gets arrested.

You may argue that Mohammed Zubair is somehow an evil cynical person who wants to watch the world burn, but the fact is that tweeting a segment from national television is not a criminal offence and should not be treated as such.

> which is normal and typically goes unpunished and even unnoticed in India.

Kudos for living in an alternate dimension!
And the latest game this website uses (GTA V) was released nearly a decade ago.
People forget, micro services commonly serve massive tech companies. With 100 developers working on the same product, you need it broken up and separated. If you’re in a small company, the value proposition is not as great. It’s contextual, and a tech stack that solves organizational problems, not always technical ones
I agree, removing it was easy enough.

My contention is that Apple is not above using your screen real estate for promotion by default.
The trolley problem is usually phrased with a "bystander" making the decision, but is simplified to the point of ignoring most of what is important about being a bystander, in ways that makes people's moral intuitions look unnecessarily silly precisely because it's an artificially simplified scenario. In particular, typically bystanders in the real world are both numerous and uninformed. As a result, assuming that each bystander has a randomly biased estimate of the truth, if everyone followed the simple logic of pulling the lever iff they believe doing so will net save lives, the lever is likely to be pulled far more often than it should be, because the person with the most extreme belief will conclude that doing so is worth it. In the real world, it's typically the case that "action" is much more difficult to reverse than "inaction".

There are other thought experiments that elucidate this more clearly, like a soldier deciding whether now is the right time to fire the first shot to start a battle.

People's moral intuitions have heuristics that attempt to deal with this ("bystander effect") although they definitely can be poorly-calibrated in the real world, and are almost always badly calibrated in artificial thought experiments because that's not the environment they were designed for.
Fear of such a tyranny of the majority is why the founders of the US created the electoral college, and apportioned the Senate as it is, creating a republic instead of a pure democracy. It also describes the original ideological distinction between Republicans and Democrats, the two main political parties in the US. James Madison described a scenario like this in his Federalist Paper #10.

"Complaints are everywhere ... that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority."
The 2018 post was a 1983 movie clip cleared by the Indian censor board.

How does sharing a mainstream Indian movie clip in 2018 be considered as offensive? The Indian government has stooped a lot.

The YC company razorpay founder from his previous tweets has serious inclination towards the ruling government, that's the reason he sold out private data without court order.
I didn’t mean to make your own plugin, but to work as a developer for an already-existing company. There are thousands of small WordPress firms that have 5-10 employees and they always seem to be hiring.
As another kick in the nuts, the 256GB SSD is dog-slow as well, and that's before you'll inevitably hit the swap in mulți tasking thanks to the 8GB RAM.

That entry level model is just there to advertise a starting price but should be avoided.
Shall not be infringed is, and will remain (without a new Amendment) a thing. No amount of qualification, justification, or rationalizing will change that. Criminals are already criminal; they will get ahold of whatever they need to commit crimes. There are countless examples of this all over the world, not just in the United States.

I completely agree that states need better care for the mentally ill. The current trend of affirmative treatment, both medical and psychological, is extremely damaging to patients and society. Nearly every gun owner in the United States is law-abiding and has done absolutely nothing wrong.
This action/inaction is done nicely in Trolley Problem Inc (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1582680/Trolley_Problem_I...).

As long as the trolley moves, you can switch back.

While I have mixed opinions on the game (literally mixed, i.e. both good and bad, not a euphemism for bad), it provides more uneasy emotion than any other trolley problem game I played.

The "bad" part is that it is a paid game, working only on Windows, while at the quality of a Flash game from the 2000s from Newgrounds. The good part is that it is at the creativity level of a Flash game from the 2000s from Newgrounds.
The book for the interested is Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, and I thought it was excellent. It's a bit controversial but in a way that seems good given how many apple carts it turns over.
The "Dark Ages" is a thing in English mostly. In other languages and countries there's no such thing. It's simply the middle age or early middle age. I've noticed it affects how English speakers see this period of history.
Not the GP, but I think there's a difference between a leading character who is inherently humorous or says humorous things vs the narrator doing it. And in cases where the narrative is first person from the perspective of someone in the story (mostly famously The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), it should remain relatively flat and observational rather than being puffed up with a lot of that character's thoughts, opinions, or personality.
Can I do up working and get paid in crypto? Because bank accounts for Iranians is something that may get frozen any minute. Like actually any minute. Has happened to other people multiple times in past years
I much prefer: "All models are wrong but some models are useful". For example - Flat earth is a model that is both wrong and useless.

My claim is that the trolley problem is useless. It asks people to make a guess about how they would behave, but that guess is predicated on a set of initial conditions that are impossible to fulfill (omniscience is a bitch to get in real life).

How does gathering all that incorrect data help you? What ethical reasoning are you trying to tease out here?

Here's one you might love - "if the earth is flat and you reach the edge, would you jump?"

Now lets just categorize everyones answer to the that question.... and: Hold the phone! The earth isn't flat? It doesn't matter? It turns out this question has basically no relevance to anything!

Is it fun? Sure. Is it useful? I have doubts.
I would offer additional refinement.

A pretentious person is a person who thinks they're "better" than others (whatever that means) for irrelevant reasons, like their taste.

A poser is a person who in addition doesn't have the good tastes to be better than others, and so he fakes their tastes. He's putting in effort in order to attain pretentiousness.

I would define hipster as synonym of poser. It's worse than pretentious.
This is very similar to my trajectory (PhD in the mid to late 90's).

I made friends with some people working in the computer center (the famous 513 at the time, may have changed by now). I discovered UNIX, then Linux and I was sold. During my PhD I started to work for the industry in IT and never stopped since then.

CERN had an outstanding computer system, they invented the "grid". As for HTTP, it just happened to be invented at CERN when Tim Berners-Lee was working there (there was nothing special related to CERN). The hardware-software interface was bleeding edge technology (built into the detectors) and the data bandwidth capacities were ahead of their times.

All of this, however, is not particle physics and if CERN did not exist there would be not much "holes" in today's computers (as opposed, say, to DARPA or Linus).
Anyone who chose to destroy their life savings (like I did) is totally lying. I could also choose to save hundreds of lives and destroy my life savings by buying bed nets, but I don't pull that lever.
When you edit a video to cut the provocation and just show the response- that is doctoring. You denying this video resulted in beheading and riots ?
The pricing outside the US is outrageous though. Those are very expensive laptops.

€1520 for the base version with only 8GB lol
The physical action is a red herring under a moral system that takes consequentialism seriously. The trolley problem shines a light on this red herring.

Firstly, whichever decision you make, you have to take a real physical action. Suppose you decide not to pull the lever. You still have autonomic arousal, neurons are firing, your prefrontal cortex is inhibiting you from pulling the lever just for laughs, and so on. Lots of atoms had to move around to come to that decision, which you would label as "inaction". I disagree, it is action. Only a minority of caloric expenditure is associated with the actual lever being pulled. Not that this really matters, anyway, given that the outcome is what's ethically important.

Secondly, you should consider the consequences of thinking that pulling the lever somehow matters ethically. That means that in certain edge cases, you're surrendering the choice of who lives and who dies to the arbitrary whims of the experimenter. If I was a malicious experimenter, I could maximize the number of dead people by just jury rigging the allocations. If your ethical framework leads to a situation where a maximum number of people die, I would argue that there's some faulty ethical reasoning there.
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Nvidia consumer cards like the 1060 can now be shared between host and VM? I though that was limited to datacenter cards and consumer cards must use exclusive PCI-E passthrough?