skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you kill someone I care about, I will want to see you punished. So many people agree with this that we have laws saying you can't kill people or else you'll be punished. But if you pay someone to have sex with them, so what? If both parties consent to everything, then who is harmed? Some people get mad because they think it's immoral, but not everyone.
Isn't this true of the Internet too? If no ISPs are willing to host you, aren't you effectively shut down?
I don't have much to contribute to your post but I feel a lot of these struggles in my life. With opinions relating to technology I think most of it comes to me not having an industry experience (still in university). With topics such as politics or history sometimes I feel I can't have an opinion unless I've read a book or done very extensive research on a topic or field. I've recently tried to use your second point of lowering the bar of what constitutes a good strong opinion, but like you said it depends a lot on the situation and audience.
If one's goal is a revolution of thought, than perhaps being immersed in the past process is ultimately constraining.

Deference to past authority is an easier road to follow than direct inquiry into one's own experiences. If human society has been plagued throughout its existence by the same innumerable problems then why do we continue on with this current line of reasoning?

I don't have any answers, but thank you for posting this thought provoking piece.
Every cell provider in the US still has them.
I'd bet this is part of the negotiation, going by the way the article hammers on the risk to TSMC.
> I’m half expecting Intel to start producing chips for others in the coming years.

They announced they would do that in March 2021 (https://www.techpowerup.com/280085/intel-to-enter-third-part...) and have customers:

- QualComm and Amazon AWS: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595002/intel-qualcomm-c...

- MediaTek (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-foundry-services-la...)

Intel page: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/intel-foundr...
The irony is that the author just uses an "end of history" argument, which has been around since German pessimism over a century ago.
I completely disagree...

on the trend you back up, I see a future where you cannot cook your own food unless you've become a professional specialist of cooking (for food safety).

going to cartoon levels of ridiculousness, a society in which you cannot do anything other than consume unless you're doing a job (which would involve safety, insurance, and other various legal and bureaucratic requirements).

what keeps things sane where you live is the 'technically' aspect. which I read as "individuals often ignore those rules for personal reasons (meaning when no businesses are involved)"...
How is Miro and ClickUp doing something similar? I thought ClickUp is a JIRA alternative
You're telling me I can't afford an 8 pixel wide scroll bar on a fucking 1920 pixels wide monitor?

Meanwhile nearly every article nowadays has a useless header image that takes up the entire screen, pushing the content out of view until scrolled down.

Give me nice and thick title bars and window borders, give me wide scroll bars, give me ginormous buttons with proper borders and textual descriptors. Minimalism is nonsense if critical contextual information is denied.
OpenAI will remove its waitlist for DALL-E, giving anyone immediate access
I can't build one right now, but one big item for me is true closures: Java lambdas are only closed over values, not over variables. Let's say you want to make a ActionListenerPair builder which sets up a writable local variable to be shared by two lambdas, all of which are ActionListeners and will be used as callbacks when you press buttons. This is extremely awkward in Java because lambdas cannot (or could not) write to variables in outer lexical scope.

But there's a workaround. You can't (or shouldn't) have a non-final int x = 4 in the outer lexical scope, but you can have a final int[1] x = { 4 }, and have all the lambdas access that instead. What an ugly hack, thanks to Java's poor consideration of how closures work.

At this stage, the syntax for closures is little more than a trick to reduce typing rather than an advantage over just explicitly declaring the anonymous class, and its clarity is poor, lost in the twisty syntax. Tricks make code hard to read: C is full of them.
I thought they believed sex work is fundamentally sinful and that's why it should be banned. I guess we talked to different conservatives.
To be clear, in either circumstance i'm not throwing the graduate students under the bus. I'm speaking about the broader structural problems which lead to this sort of pressure-induced-error(?). Fabrication in this case can be as far as invented, to applying the wrong background separation, but it fits/looks good, and no more rigor is applied for expedience.
> it seems unlikely Russia would do this to themselves when, you know, they can just not supply gas into the pipeline.

The idea is that this gets everyone to think about the security of other pipelines while being less risky for Russia. And gas prices rose right afterwards.
> simply because we have developed far better ways to express the same thing

To be fair, the main reason we don't study Newton's ideas in their original form is that he wrote in Latin. The second is that he went to rather extreme lengths to make his writing obscure; he was very possessive of his ideas, and didn't want other philosophers pinching them.

Read the Newton Leibniz correspondence.
I guess it depends on the time scales people are used to, but Pathlib isn't new. It's been around for 8 years.
My understanding: Spiders with venom which might directly kill you are very rare. But spiders with venom that's weaker, but still nasty enough to kill body tissue in a little area around the bite are (relatively) far more common. And if you do not have access to modern-ish medical treatment, and some nasty bacteria move into the dead tissue and spread from there - yeah, you could pretty easily end up maimed or dead. Just slower and more painfully.
Pulling dependencies from GitHub is standard usage for the package managers of Ruby, Go, Rust, and others. That is, they pull from Git, and it doesn’t have to be GitHub but it usually is.
Fischer vs. Modern Elite Players
This is basically what I was thinking. The argument is never actually sound, but people only acknowledge that when it's something they like that gets banned, instead pretending that it is a good argument when something they don't like gets banned.
I don't think you can just drop a pile of cash and create a competitor to TSMC. Even some state actors can not achieve that. I think TSMC has leverage here, and it will have for long time to come.
Yep. I see your point (it is an exhausted but not invalid argument hence the CEO’s comment above) and just disagree. Time will tell!
There are cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin. Monero seems like an appropriate choice for this use case.
Do you believe someone needs to understand the history of math to effectively use math?

I don't think anyone is claiming historical context isn't helpful, but these are tools for thinking. This doesn't go anywhere near the 'history repeating itself' mantra. The only way it could get close to that is for someone who is attempting to discover new math (or philosophy), but that's a very small subset of those who benefit from these tools.
When you say "searches" are you referring to regular web search (e.g. Google) or something more specialized?

Just wondering if there's a good way to programmatically search "old" records like these.
Considering we had 3D controls in the Windows 3.1 era when some people were still running on 25 Mhz 80386 CPUs and 4 MB of RAM, I'm not too worried about the performance impact.
It would have been useful early to pay for hosting. OF may not exist today if not for the great de-porning of Tumblr that happened about a year after they started as a business.
worker owned companies being the norm rather than the exception would be nice
That anime girl really makes it hard to hide that you're doing work unrelated things in the office.
Not sure why you are down-voted...

Instagram and Dropbox, both used Python.
But it keeps work coming to the electricians' and plumbers' unions (motto: "If you didn't make any mistakes, you're not working fast enough"), and isn't that the important thing?
Philosophy is more than just metaphysics. Is stoicism nonsense?
I've always been interested in differing experiences with discussing politics and religion especially outside of talks with close friends and loved ones. Outside of that it's almost always uncomfortable.
LNG sales soar and one of their historic allies freezes because the supply lines will arrive every 1 to 2 weeks if they used the fastest available cruise ship. Tankers are larger and slower, so double it for the sake of argument. Then it takes a month to get the first shipments out. That gives you...maybe two shipments for the entirety of winter.

It's not impossible. It just seems entirely unlikely the US would destroy the pipeline knowing they can't supply immediate relief. If NATO found out it would likely lead to war.
Pretty excited about some of the stuff that shipped in GA week and what I’ve seen of Birthday week so far (Account WAF and worker queues in particular), but it’d be even cooler if Cloudflare could ship Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events (announced May 5 2022) and the worker service environments, which were “temporarily disabled” in early May as well. Not having those is really hindering our adoption of Workers more broadly, which is a bummer.
In most businesses I've worked in:

developer costs >> infrastructure costs

An AWS large server is around $500/year, which is about 1-2 developer hours (with taxes, overhead, etc) at the cost scales last time I priced this out. That's crazy expensive in the absolute, but if it saves a couple of hours, it makes sense.

PaaS providers cost even more. I've gone with those in the past, since it basically eliminated dev-ops. The major downside wasn't cost, so much as flexibility.

Dedicated servers start to make sense for:

- The very low end (e.g. personal use, or hosting something long-running for a small business)

- The very high end (e.g. once cloud costs start to hit hundred of thousands of dollars per year)

On the very high end, cloud providers will often cut a deal, though.

My problem with AWS, recently, has been reliability. Servers crash or have performance degradation a bit too often. That leads to developer costs, and might be what pushes me back to dedicated.
I think this is way premature. The non-Pro iPhone is for the people who don't watch Apple keynotes and don't wait for the Apple Store to open up for pre-orders. It's for my mom, who will buy a new iPhone when she breaks her old one.
Hmm... assuming he survived and started another new life, he would have been pushing 104 around the time Satoshi went silent...
IEEE754 uses sign-magnitude, not 1's-complement. It doesn't use any sort of complementation.

Edit: Also, it looks like posits also use sign-magnitude and not 2's-complement? I am confused as to where you are getting this from. [Edit again: I was wrong about this, see below.]
I believe this is the use case Cloudflare is really targeting with R2. They recently connected Cache Reserve to R2 to make this even easier. We wrote up a breakdown for S3 vs R2 and found that R2 would be significantly cheaper when the majority of traffic is cached data, https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-r2-aws-s3-comparison
I've generally found app stores aside from the Apple App Store and Google Play to be undesirable essentially for this reason. They don't seem to adequately scrutinise whether someone should be permitted to publish a particular app. It's particularly concerning to see free programs being sold by a third-party.
Your arguments would be much better-received if you were less abrasive and threw less manipulative language like "Can we stop with this absolute fantasy" in them.
At the same time there is value in reading the Principa, much of it is said to be very elegant and it is instructive to see some of the geometric reasoning that Newton uses.

Similarly in another field, Economics, I hear undergraduates are still urged to read Wealth of Nations.
You overlook the inherently collective nature of labor regulation. Labor regulation seeks to prevent individual choices from creating market-wide pressures and a societal race to the bottom. It doesn't matter if being asked to pitch in on weekends without extra pay "doesn't bother you." We ban you from even voluntarily agreeing to do that because we don't want to be pressured to do that too. Individual choices are restricted to create a floor for everyone.

From that perspective, any difference between "type of work" and "working conditions" is wholly artificial. People don't want to be pressured to work on weekends, they don't want to be pressured to do sex work, etc., so we ban those things to eliminate those pressures.
> Let's return to the button where possible. I often prefer physical buttons due to the feedback I get. I know it does nothing, but I'll still press extra hard on a stupid touchscreen if it's not responding.

Unless, of course, your phone is one of the few where pushing harder will make it perform a different action, if used in the right place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Touch).

> On how touchscreens are over-used for the sake of updating without physical constraints. "The software guys can independently do the design of the UI, changing things down to the very last moment, or even after the last moment if the car can be updated." [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494497

This is akin to frontend developers doing everything in their power to make their development environment the most comfortable, while sacrificing end-user performance/bandwidth/usability for getting it.
I hadn't realized that Bing image search still lets you link directly to the Image URL, not just the page it's hosted on. Something Google stopped doing a few years ago in response to content platform complaints.

OK, I'm definitely switching to Bing Image Search for images.

Per OP... they do seem to have a public domain/CC search limit feature too. I don't know how well it works. (I'm not sure how either it or Google identify CC/public domain content. Is there an opengraph tag?)

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dogs&qft=+filterui:lice...
Because literally all the knowledge in the world is in your pocket.
This is such a fascinating and engaging game! I don't recall where I found it, but I definitely agree.
This is the Trillion Dollar Paradox described by Martin Casado. You’re crazy if you don’t start your business in the cloud, you’re crazy if you stay there.

My new startup is focused on helping application owners repatriate their workloads into their own infrastructure.

Our goal is to solve the network complexity challenges with a fully open network stack (open source software with all of the hardware options you would expect, and some you wouldn’t). The solution is designed to be turnkey and require very little network experience. It will use standard DevOps tools that you’re already using.

We’re announcing it in two weeks and will be posting info here on HN!
because go big or GTFO?

I posit this as an explanation. I think "go big or go home" is a terrible mindset.
The integrated keyboard had a tab key, so autocomplete worked on the terminal. This was a really big deal that made the tiny keyboard much more useful for real work.

The Maemo distribution that the N900 ran was based on debian, and you could point apt to the standard package repositories to install pretty much any Linux software. This opened many, many possibilities - for example, I had an always-on computer in my pocket with WireShark installed. I could (and did) occasionally sniff wireless traffic to troubleshoot something. If you couldn't find a mobile app that would do what you wanted, you could usually install a desktop app and it'd work (though sometimes the UI was awkward on that small screen).

While most of the functionality can be replicated on a modern Android device, these pocket computers were different in a special way. The integrated physical keyboard, the tab key, the full Linux kernel and apt, all combined to create an experience that was distinctly different from Android. It really felt like a pocket-sized workstation - it was a full computer first, and pocket-sized second. Android smartphones are pocket-sized mobile devices first, and potential workstations second.
If a man wants to date just to get sex, then the woman missing that dating "opportunity" actually just dodged a bullet.
Yes, but in my opinion, much of the mental exercise in the article and the book is based on how the electric push button was an entirely new concept.
Same here, I'm aligned with what you describe.

There are some exceptions, though (tabs are evil, etc…) where I have a strong opinion, and sometimes I fantasize about strongly holding it. I am conscious about letting any of those pet peeves become anything bigger.

As of late, I make an effort to evaluate the person in front of me and decide, case by case, if they have enough self-doubt about themselves. Many times it reflects back on my own self-doubt and helps me gauge it.
That is easily the most wildly inaccurate categorization of conservative positions on sex work I have ever, and am ever likely to, encounter. Conservatives (in the US anyway) view sex work as grossly amoral and sex workers as sub-human and a threat to the community. Collectively they don't give a flying fuck at a rolling donut about sex worker safety, they just want it banned outright through any means necessary.
I mean, sorta.

I'm in my mid 30's. I started blogging about cryptography and security under my furry handle (and with blog posts adorned with furry art) at the start of the pandemic.

It gave me something to do that was both productive and fun.
Lavis – A Library for Language-Vision Intelligence
Related YC blog post:

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/launch-yc-the-launchpad-for...
The Doom 3 demo scared the crap out of me the first time I played it, that scene in Mars City Underground. It still does in some way.
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The Ship of Theseus is still the ship of Theseus. But also because no matter how many parts are replaced, the ship is still owned by Theseus.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
At least in the US it's because of deliberate policy decisions after WWII around home ownership. Massive government agencies are explicitly tasked with getting the percentage of Americans owning homes as high as possible.

Energy and finance are important, but don't directly involve individuals as much, and people are VERY emotionally tied into their home and it's value.

If all houses suddenly lost 50% overnight, and mortgages were slashed simultaneously to compensate, it wouldn't be that big of a deal but everyone would freak the hell out. It's much easier to inflate the currency than it is to allow home prices to drop.
Yes, I am 100% happy with this app on my Ubuntu Linux desktop. I don't want cloud hosting for my password.
There is absolutely a need for people who love debugging, fixing, and refactoring. Many devs dislike such things, and many managers struggle to find someone who wants to just maintain existing code vs. create new and shiny projects.

I'd recommend that you seek work in larger companies - they will have better odds of needing a full-time "maintenance" coder vs. smaller companies, startups, or consulting firms.
If I had to guess (just a guess, I don't really believe these things.)

- Lowering birthrate; people may be less likely to have a family and kids if the primary driver for these things (sex) is already taken care of.
- Higher STI rate (regulation might help here).
- More isolation; people are less likely to go out and mingle if one of the reasons to do so is easy and transactional.
- Wealth inequality; I believe men are more likely to pay for sex, and women sex workers tend to make more. So, money will move from one gender to the other unidirectionally. This may result in wealth inequality if sex work becomes wide spread.
> The whole idea that since they have economies of scale, they must pass those savings on to you is a misunderstanding of how companies work.

That idea was not expressed in the comment that you replied to. The comment you replied to was in response to a strong claim that ignored the existence of economies of scale, and therefore concluded that it's so obvious that cloud providers must always be more expensive than self-hosting.
There are a couple debit cards that'll let you spend out of crypto holdings. I do suspect they've still got a KYC process involved, though.
I don't know what it takes to make a pylint plugin, but maybe it's cleaner to have a standalone `refurb` and then a `pylint-refurb` could be very simple?
I wonder if you can write an app to do this for Android, or if there are API limitations. Obviously hardware buttons for different contexts would be better than something in the pulldown buttonbar, or even better, a hardware knob, with detents.

Geofencing and time-of-day auto-profile-switching have the potential problem that they fight with your manual configuration. You turn on notifications to make sure you don't miss news from the hospital about your wife, and then an hour later the geofence turns them back off. That sort of thing has a kind of irreducible complexity and potential for user error.