skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This really disturbs me.

Oh save it, it's a disturbing hypothetical.

> You have no problem when someone decides to kill someone and thinks the laws doesn't apply to them.

This is the most dramatic mischaracterization I've read in recent memory. Who has "no problem" with either outcome of the trolley problem? "Oh, one person died? No problem!" Did you consider how strawmannish that sounded before you wrote it? And as for the law "not applying", that's not part of the conversation either. The law will certainly apply, as it must to preserve societal order. But the pragmatic application of the written law is not always aligned with what is right, and when multiple lives are at stake, the legal consequences themselves are not especially, well, consequential.

Take this euthanasia hypothetical as another example of the point I'm making:

Your spouse is experiencing horrific, constant, neurological pain. It is a given that they will die in the next 48 hours. The only treatment available to you is ineffective at treating the pain, but at high doses it will cause immediate death. Your partner is aware of the situation and has requested euthanasia. Do you euthanize them?

It's a highly contrived situation, but then so is the trolley problem. I believe that people should have an opinion on this problem that is not swayed much by the possibility of legal consequences to themselves. The consequences either way are so incredibly dire that the opinion of some disinterested court referencing a law that was absolutely not written with this situation in mind should be practically ignored. If somebody said to me that they would have euthanized their spouse if the law in their state hadn't said they couldn't, but since it did say that they just watched them suffer, then I'd say that person is a coward. I'm not saying they should have done it and then tried to avoid the legal consequences, I'm saying they should have done it and then accepted the legal consequences, because the consequences to the other party are so much more drastic.

That's all I'm saying about the trolley problem. If you believe in switch-pulling the trolley problem, you should switch pull without considering your local laws, or how much you could spend on a lawyer. If you don't believe in switch-pulling that's fine as well, unless you are somebody who actually does think switch-pulling is the right thing to do but not if there are legal consequences to yourself. Again, that's a terrible reason. Believe one way or the other and act on that. Don't outsource your morality to the legislators when you're faced with a once-in-a-lifetime moral dilemma where people are guaranteed to die at the end.
Interesting! Here's one of the co-developers of Guile Scheme (and the author of that fibers library) pondering about CML: https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/09/21/is-go-an-acceptable...
it was bad enough not to justify one. Even the CG was horrible.
This is good for everything relying on chips, hopefully it will help slow down costs.
I don't want to speak for all scientists, but I find Neil deGrasse Tyson utterly insufferable and cringe almost every time he makes a public statement. Like him or loath him, Carl Sagan was a scientist that wasn't afraid to apply scientific thinking to social and political issues. His positions were particularly reasoned and defensible with data and logical arguments.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, on the other hand, is an edgelord with a PhD. He takes contrarian positions for the sake of generating controversy, often without understanding the underlying issues or forming a cohesive, reasoned argument. He appeals to emotion rather than logic, and is politically partisan and divisive rather than unifying.
> Observing how the world changes with this war (and also how covid completely fucked our globalized supply chain) it's clear to me how brittle globalization and capitalism actually is.

That's interesting, because I had the opposite impression. In the midst of a very complex situation, with a significant percentage of the world literally frozen in place, not only did we not experience famine but also managed to create economic growth. The book you describe could have (and has been) written any time in the past 100 years and still sound true, while being ridiculously inaccurate.
Yes, but it was stopped in the '80s after the Chernobyl accident, through a referendum with direct decision placed upon the voting population.
When I believed game design was the most amazing thing ever, and that anything learned could be applied thereby--when one mind could compose music, illustrate characters, and program the abstract engine powering an interactive story--I spent all my time camped in the lab, furiously learning C++ and working on a submission to a Masters in Game Dev.

What kept me going was the inner belief that I could figure out a way through any problem, that there was always some possibility of an answer. Programming to me was about starting, hitting a wall, overcoming the hurdle, hitting the next wall, figuring it out, and so on.

That worked, and has worked, but now I have more tabs, (e)books, courses, and tasks than I can reasonably tackle, and life ticks on. (This comment may have consumed nearly a precious hour of discretionary time!)

I always resolve to start from first principles: enter all these notes somewhere, track the data somehow, and systematize a learning cycle. Make room for deliberate practice, and data logging (hey, I tricked myself into time tracking).

My biggest hurdle now is, how do I trust hard drives? Silly, right? I schedule a SMART cron and now I'm set: I'll set up backups and dotfiles, and get right back to learning and learning. Oh, but we ought to use git. And, every app has to be 12-factor. Oh, but we have to use Domain-Driven Design and sequence diagrams...

It's worse if the prerequisites to your dreams are an unbounded graph of books. Which to tackle in what order and so on.

Once I figure things out, I promise myself there will be a webpage (mobile-first, of course) and a signup form for a newsletter. Oh!--but I need to roll my own email server first...

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The mind flayer stares intently at a handheld mimic--the closest thing you'd call it, anyway--and ignores you for half an eternity. Some manic lights flicker in the reflection of its eyes as an unseen mouth yells random sounds.

/* Sorry, I was doomscrolling again. */ You've heard your own (inner) voice before, but this is like hearing Granularenvy's Draconic in a giant cavern right in your ear, after her breath extinguished your torch.

"You looked at that thing for hours." Nothing nearby to serve, but you can speak. That's not nothing.

/* Yeah, it's the doom of our society. We had to get rid of these. Everyone stopped tending to everything. We're afraid of missing out on stuff beyond, although that was never something we worried about. */
which is why the right-to-repair laws are so crucial. may be there should also be some right-to-own software laws.
Why dev agencies can thrive in a recession
> Merkel and her cronies are russian agents.

That would imply going against the grain.

Merkel always did what was popular. And not freezing and supporting your industry is popular.

Modern industry requires gas/oil. Green industry requires rare earth minerals. Guess which two countries have huge amounts of those available?

Germany was always in a tight spot.

Depends on Russia for energy, depends on US for security, and exports to China (+future rare earth minerals)
There are valid reasons why US spec cars often have shorter intervals… heat and dust are both bad for oil, and the US has a lot
more of both than Europe or Japan.
> Yup, that would be pretty nice. If only America would let them.

And yet, if you ask people actually from those countries, rarely will they pin Uncle Sam as the primary reason they're still not well developed.
> I genuinely believe HN is being inflitrated by Russian bots left and right

This is ruscism -- a revisionistic, psychopatic, hateful, denenerate, cleptocratic, idiotic, savage, uneducated fascist state.

These people have been brought so low, that the only thing left for them is to destroy everything that is not "rusian" as a last ditch cogntive action before complete implosion.
The only thing keeping the russian society from imploding is the ability of Russia to brutalize others. When Russia loses this ability, all hell will break loose in Russia because all those destructive forces will turn inwards.

It is like a completely canibalistic society -- when they'll run out of outsiders to tear apart, they will tear themsevels apart.

At least in the USSR times, there were straight thinking elites, because the Party made the "mistake" of more or less letting those people be, because those did not have the ability to spread their ideas and organize.

The amount of well educated people that mostly support ruscism in Russia is staggering. This has never been the case in Russia, not during the czars, not communism.
What you’re describing is the natural quality of community driven data. Not only do users not have critic credibility, there’s nothing to lose, they’re almost anonymous.

I can’t think of a non oppressive way to regulate unhinged ratings. On sites like here or Reddit, I’ve noticed users do a pretty consistent job of policing through karma. But I’ve also seen comments get downvoted because again, low credibility, human emotion blah blah.

It would really have to be a niche site that gate keeps reviewers. Only allow ones that've made columns about food, gained community status. Like Bon Appetit but strictly reviewers, on a larger scale. Something that proves they aren’t a chicken running around with its head cut off.
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You may want to check out Practical Vim by Drew Neil, he covers that aspect.
I'm prone to joking too, mostly by means of extreme sarcasm, it's simply my natural way to highlight the absurdity of a situation or which options are available and which only seem to be (but are absurd), and also.. I can't help but find and consider the least likely/effective outcome/option, and so I have to vent that to clear my head and get to the serious ones..

I've not had any obvious negative feedback on this, so I don't know to which degree it is an annoyance, and I do try to hold myself back, but it's not always working..

Have you had any negative experiences due to your joking around?
> Assassin's Creed servers going offline

You were previously talking about licences and ownership of "any games". What you mentioned now is an orthogonal concept, and affects a subset of all games sold.

Depriving me of the use of my purchased good that way is fraud, of course. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27348526>
Offsite or offline? Because they are two different things.

You state:

> It is a design requirement not to have offline storage

Then go on to list amateurish hacks like "sever the 5V line" (offline) or "mirror it to the cloud" (this is literally offsite backup). So your plans of action violate the unbreakable requirements you list in the first paragraph.

Why not back up to a proper tape robot which can rotate out tapes? Or did someone bid this job for $500?

If the requirements are as you state, then you have already failed because if the datacenter is destroyed by fire, flood, power surge, swarm of locusts - or disk corruption, filesystem corruption, bad RAID controller firmware, etc.... you are, in a word, fucked.

All that said, the best way to address ransomware is to prevent it from getting into your network in the first place. Which usually happens via unsecured endpoints manned by idiots. Application whitelisting can help with this.
Might surprise you to learn most large publications do this and will use placeholder (or they're supposed to be at least) quotes. Not going to defend Daily Mail though, they're absolute trash and deserve the criticism. Of all the content I've encountered it was very, very clear what was placeholder, even if it was published you'd know something was off. I've also seen a publication that had safeguards against accidental publication if there was any placeholder copy in the content.
Some ebike riders wear helmets when they are riding and some do not. But have you ever considered if wearing a helmet is regulated by the federal and state governments? This essay may exceed your knowledge.

More than 25 states and D.C. have some sort of helmet requirement for e-bike riders and passengers. These often apply to riders under a certain age.

- Connecticut has the strictest requirement, requiring operators and passengers for all classes of e-bikes to wear protective headgear.

- Florida, Maine and Maryland require any e-bike operator or passenger under 16 years of age to wear a helmet, while New Jersey requires every e-bike operator or passenger under 17 to wear a helmet and New York requires any e-bike operator or passenger under 14 to wear a helmet. Moreover, Delaware requires any e-bike operator or passenger under 18 to wear a helmet.

- California, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia require the operator and all passengers of class three electric bicycles, regardless of age, to wear protective headgear.

- Arkansas requires operators and passengers of a class three e-bike under age 21 to wear protective headgear.

- Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Utah require helmets for those under age 18 operating or riding on a class three e-bike. Additionally, in South Dakota, any passenger on a class three e-bike, regardless of age, must wear a helmet.

- Twenty-two states and D.C. have helmet laws that apply to all bicyclists, including e-bike riders, under a certain age, ranging from under 12 to 18 years of age.

- Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee and D.C. require riders under age 16 to wear a helmet.

- In California, Delaware and New Mexico, riders under 18 must wear a helmet.

- In New Jersey, riders under 17 must wear a helmet. In West Virginia, riders under 15 must wear a helmet and, in New York, riders under 14 must wear a helmet. In Louisiana and Pennsylvania, riders under 12 must wear a helmet.

However, there are still quite many states that don't have specific regulations about wearing helmets and also many argue that helmets are useless when accidents cannot be avoided. But for your personal safety, we do recommend you to wear helmets wherever you are. Obviously, better than nothing.

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Pray tell who is the "we" you claim to be writing in the name of? Letting bullies succeed only produce bigger bullies. So yes, my war and Pust sve' gorit...
Hey, I have started using the course yesterday, opened just now and my statistics are gone... Is there a way to report a bug?
Legitimate requests from law enforcement should go through proper channels. Performing a “raid” in an attempt to gain access to data not on site (and potentially out of scope/jurisdiction) feels somehow improper to me.

A kill switch should be standard operating procedure in the event that armed persons enter secured areas unexpectedly. Ideally, the human factor should be avoided too; this makes a good argument for tamper-sensitive systems, anti-forensics, etc.
If you have a shell:

# command -p getconf PATH

If you're writing C code of course you just use the library function.
Costco will open in Sweden soon. On the opposite part of Stockholm from where I live, so I don't think it will be useful for me. I don't know much about it but I am excited to see what it will bring, and if it will affect the general grocery market around here.
I used them in the past when travelling in Czech. Didn't know they have global coverage. But if the data is just pulled from OSM (is it?) the country should not matter. Of course alwaays dependent on the local OSM community.
Ordering by "Date Last Opened" or "Date Modified" does a fairly good job in some cases
Same reason they are funding republican politicians now? https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1106256047/why-democrats-are-...
This is the way.

For even more peace of mind, (and only when you can afford it, obviously) try decoupling your disk purchases a bit from when you're going to need them.

When you see a good price or a sale on a particular disk, grab it add it to your own personal "prebought disk pool". When it's time to either replace a disk or spin up a whole new array, now you have the benefit of diversification across time.
> It turns out we can predict the tools of the future but we can’t really predict the philosophies or the ethics of the future.”

Haven't you seen Idiocracy?
I think the reasonable thing Valve could do is to allow refund for products that stop working. It is one thing for multiplayer servers being turned off, but single-player game stopping working should allow refund from anytime in past 20 years.
Or really any kind of radar where you fallback to, if there's something detected we should probably stop. A lot of Tesla folk will go on about radar causing brake checking, but I have a vision only Y and get it just as much as I did on my radar equipped 3.
Sounds more like a slightly upmarket version of a southern “Bible college”
Make sure to run PS with admin privileges
The "green" parties around Europe also tried to get people to switch to solar/wind and other renewables. But the parties in charge (with their oil company lobbyists) didn't want that.

And now those parties are blaming the greens because "you told us to get rid of nuclear".
I've seen this been called a 'personal search engine' before. One person who is well known for their personal search setup is thesephist[0]. My friend is also working on an extension that uses NLP to semantically index your browsing history so that any text on the internet can be turned into a hyperlink to something else you've read[1].

[0]: https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/

[1]: (WIP) http://espial.uzpg.me
> The C-64's designers blamed the 1541's slow speed on the marketing department's insistence that the computer be compatible with the 1540, which was slow because of a flaw in the 6522 VIA interface controller.

I believe they were able to work around the original flaws in the disk drives introduced for backwards compatibility with the Vic-20.

> Without hardware modifications, some "fast loader" utilities (which bypassed routines in the 1541's onboard ROM) managed to achieve speeds of up to 4 KB/s.
I'm saying that you can't expect humanity to act in its own interests, because you can expect humans to act in their own interests.

It's a people thing, not a cultural thing. Successful societies are ones that find ways to make good behavior cheap and easy.
There’s a lot of political chat on this thread, and usually geopolitical discussions seem to bifurcate into two falsehoods amongst nerds.

The first group seem to be missing the terrible things the US has done to the world. It has had unrivalled military and economic dominance for the best part of a century and it has abused that power. Whether that’s invading countries, organising coups, killing foreign citizens in large numbers via CIA operations, etc etc, America has shown little restraint. I think often folks are not aware of this, because (a) a lot of America’s imperialism doesn’t get much news coverage in the west and (b) the victim countries are often not very interesting or significant to that audience. Only the really obvious events like Iraq get flagged.

And on the other side, there is this tendency to demonise America and defend other countries in order to criticise America. So, ignoring the realities of what China and Russia have done to other countries and their own people. I mean, just look at the eastern block communist countries, or what is going on in Ukraine now, to see how Russia operates. I’m less knowledgeable about China but internally the government has tried to unite the country by eliminating all types of diversity in very disturbing Orwellian ways. Externally it hasn’t found its military feet quite yet, but we can see the use of soft power to cripple countries in a way not dissimilar to western imperialism.

I think what does bother me is that either viewpoint is very black and white, very simplified, and ignores the positive things that those countries do achieve. The truth is the world is complex, it’s a mixed bag, and “America is great” or “America is pure evil” are viewpoints that lack any sense of nuance. I mean, America is not one president or one set of staff or one institution. Its government is multifaceted and can be in public disagreement with itself.

I think the big issue with America is the influence of corporate power, the way capital interacts with democracy, that’s its biggest sin when it comes to geopolitics, that’s where to focus your anger and inquiry.
There are cases when people lose access to emails. They should require snail mail as additional factor to recover an account and change emails.
Spotlight on Mac will show you recently opened, or frequently opened, files first.
In the second link, it seems the typewriter writes wherever your mouse cursor is pointing.
Chernobyl: Fukushima
Please inform yourself before you say things like that. This discussion is already hard even without the constant interjection of uninformed opinions.

The decision to keep these 3 plants running or not is not about the waste, but about the fact that they were planned to shut down for years now, and there is some real hurdles to reversing that now. The impact of keeping them on is also rather small. The effort and money is more effectively spent elsewhere.
> But at least we got something something demoncrency to some random country 90% of us have not been able to identify on a map before the war.

You're quite a moron, or willfully ignorant, if you can't identify the second biggest country on the European continent.

> Better to live poor in a recession than having some random corrupt country where people anyway dont care who robs them being part of Russia.

No, if 'some random corrupt country' becomes part of Russia, you're next. You have a choice to live in recession, or to live under the Russian yoke. And these days, the first time you speak out against being under the Russian yoke, you're going to find yourself in a gulag deep in siberia. You may want to get yourself sized for your coffin in that case, you won't make it out alive.
https://youtu.be/d_pV8TGKfMc

Enjoy. This whole channel is great.
The USA is creating a significant oil and energy crisis today by sanctioning the big 3 oil producing nations: Iran, Venezuela and Russia, leading to economic collapse and famine in several nations. But its all cool and great because the US are the "good" guys. Who cares if a few million citizens of the third world die ? They should know their place after all - being crushed under the American boot.

More people are dying in Yemen every-day thanks to US embargoes and US weapons than in Ukraine, but not a whiff about it in Western news. No photos of Yemeni mothers holding dead children. No photos of limbs being blasted off by US supplied bombs. Americans who support their military and state are ignorant, sanctimonious hypocrites of the highest order.
There are probably some hacking angles too, e.g. I wonder if the API will helpfully tell me the contents of https://mybank.com/user/latest-statement.jpg or whatever
A little early to state "things are changing." because the US hasn't invaded anyone in half a decade.
If you had a King Salomonesque Dictator he'd require they submit all stories to the Ministry of Delay before publishing.