skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that non-human animals live an existence of violent survival does not seem to be prima facie evidence for the nonexistence or incoherence of human morality.

You missed the point. Morality is a human invention, much like computers are (albeit philosophical, not physical in nature).

Like computers, it didn't exist before consciousness evolved.

Talking about morality as a universal truth, and there being some invisible scales of justice which will eventually even out is thusly irrational.
George Hotz resigns a month after starting a 12-week internship at Twitter
I don't buy the idea that in a world where self-driving cars are safer, we should have 'less safe' human drivers just because we can blame them when they kill someone.

Car manufacturers shouldn't have to show something is perfectly safe, and IMO they should just have to show that something is reasonably safe (e.g. as safe or safer than a human driver in the same condition).

There isn't a requirement that someone has to take legal responsibility for every accident that happens in the world, just that people act with reasonable care and attention within the law.
I don't think that it is possible to optimize. As long as algorithm isn't published I don't think that it can be "hacked".
> It would be nice to have a solution for delivering pushes internally, and also hold open a best-effort connection to a remote server that allows some notifications through.

... email?
> Microsoft argued that (a) rejecting was not actually required to be as easy as accepting

The regulation explicitly says so. Easy way to accept, reject and choose. A lot of companies seem to be violating the law in that one. By making it difficult for people to reject cookies.
Paid PR pieces dressed as objective news.
They are definitely the outlier and the version of php that fb uses can barely be called php when they more or less rewrote how it works under the hood.

But this isn't a dig at php, just stating chosen languages/frameworks matter a lot. I think it speaks volumes about a company's tech philosophy if they still mainly use php and jquery for web development.
In reality you never have a finely tuned load that uses all the resources all of the time. Processors spend a lot of time waiting for memory, so hyperthreading allows for better utilization of compute. It’s rare to have a workload that benefits from turning it off, and in those cases it’s usually because the hyperthread is hurting the cache hit rate enough to offset the gains.
"you put it on hold for 10-20yrs for $$$, you come out the other end having lost your passion"

People change for a lot of reasons. I gave up some hobbies when I had a kid and I'm pretty sure I won't pick them back up when I retire. People's passions change, or they realize certain things are unobtainable. That's just life.
That's an excellent description of Contagion caused by tech debt.

How much does this problem grow and spread the longer it goes unfixed?
That... makes sense. I had not heard of that interpretation before, but it makes sense, when you think about it.
The exclusion zone has actually since been lifted: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/06/cdd1d2ce1e47-evac...
That would require a free-floating (gimbal) mount, so far as I understand.

Most grid-support gyros are in fact cylindrical rather than disk-shaped, as this optimises for mass at the outer radius of rotation. To gimbal-mount a large cylinder you'd have to have a proportionately large spherical enclosure.

I'm only somewhat generally and vaguely aware of the issues here and I don't know what R&D or theory are specifically ongoing here.

As noted, polar and equatorial locations would require the least adjustment, as polar flywheels could be aligned perpendicular to the ground, equatorial ones parallel (along the north-south axis), which would minimise any movements, as others have noted.

(I don't think that Earth's axial inclination would matter, and am presuming that precession of Earth's own axis is Too Small to Matter.)
Gatsby, like most officially great novels, is the least good of Fitzgerald's books. Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and the Damned were way better. There was something about critics of the time who needed to suffer to appreciate anything and it was good of Mencken to hold Fitzgerald to his own standards, but what made authors of the era great were the books that were actually enjoyable. When you look at other authors of the era, where W. Sommerset Maughm is known for his miserable slog, Of Human Bondage, when The Razors Edge, Cakes and Ale, and the Painted Veil were way better, and he's even credited with being the precursor of the spy novel with his Ashenden stories. Hemmingway was a short story writer, but somehow he is remembered for the fawning reception of Farewell to Arms. Evelyn Waugh was savagely funny if you have read Scoop, Decline and Fall or Black Mischief, but Brideshead Revisited was the critical success that got made into a sappy miniseries.

It's like critics take your least spectacular and most vulnerable work and tag you with it as your best so as to ensure you are never known for the great stuff that got you on their radar and that might put their own work to shame. However, it doesn't matter, their lives are absurd. Quite a number of them make a living criticising food now, mostly because it can't defend itself.

The era of great criticism that began with characters like Mencken and, earlier, Bierce ended with the death of Christopher Hitchens I think. None of them, including Vidal, or Hunter S. Thompson would survive the culture today. I think it's too bad that the idea of a literary rivalry now seems as dated as fighting a duel with sabres, and it's as though there is nobody writing today who is capable of putting down a challenger when instead they can claim to be the victim of harassment to attract a mob. Mencken was great, and given Fitzgeralds other work, his Gatsby review was an act of mercy, but I bet he would be banned from social platforms and probably have trouble getting a bank account if he were writing today. Hard to say what we lost, but reading Mencken now, it's definitely gone.
I grew up with early 80s microcomputers. I played around with BASIC and a little asm, definitely found it fascinating but as a kid just typing in little games from magazines I didn't really ever understand the whole computer.

Then in my 30s I found a group of retro enthusiasts that were still hacking on the little oddball computer I'd had as a kid. It became a hobby for a few years, and coming back to the platform with a couple decades of experience programming was truly a revelation. Fitting the whole machine in your head, knowing what every byte in the memory map and every cycle of the CPU are doing.. its an experience I don't think is really possible on modern hardware. Maybe with a microcontroller or arduino type device, but even these are much more complex than the old 80s microcomputers.
Software “Engineers” have this magic spell called a EULA.
I can, and do, and people should. You have missed the point of my post if you're replying like this.
Those languages all have first-class functions and OOP-style encapsulation.

In SQL stored procedures (at least in Postgres), you can't have a variable that holds multiple records. You can't even define a variable inside of a block.
> sites are locking their content with registration walls so they can track users by logged in state

This has nothing to do with that. NYT started locking its content years before cookie regulations. Membership content existed way before. It recently exploded. That's why. Not due to cookies.
wow, fun/interesting concept especially for the time, and at Sainsbury's of all places. Watching videos that old kinda reminds of me when I found this video from someone who mapped our small college in CounterStrike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wckshGR7uU, cool to see places you know in a game!
This might have been great advice before the advent of phone cameras and social media.
>since the default was no cookies

Except for the cookies that they dropped on you by default (completely by accident, of course).

Good to know that they're absolutely unshamed of it though.
> You honestly believe that there was an attempt to murder the congress? They planned a mass murder, but settled for selfies in the rotunda?

What about the people that showed up with tactical gear and were obviously organized and coordinated? I don't think the Oath Keepers were arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy because they took selfies.

https://youtu.be/jWJVMoe7OY0

> Could you clarify what exactly you're trying to say here? You seem to be implying some kind of vast right-wing conspiracy.

Why did the Secret Service 'accidentally' delete messages from Jan 6th? Why didn't Mike Pence let the Secret Service evacuate him? Clearly he thought it was of the utmost importance that he stay and finish certifying the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car...
Reminder that the GRA is a small piece of administrative simplification that makes it easier to change the gender marker on one's birth certificate, and thereby on bureaucracy that depends on that.

It does not, in itself, have anything to do with hormones, surgery, or social transition.

It's also becoming globally recognised as best practice: https://www.scottishtrans.org/our-work/gender-recognition-ac...

And a similar bill just passed in Spain: https://gcn.ie/gender-recognition-bill-approved-spain/

Ireland has had it since 2015: https://time.com/3961941/ireland-transgender-law/
The cleanup is actually done, I am routinely impressed that people think it's going to be cordoned off for generations: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/06/cdd1d2ce1e47-evac...
No, I'm not. Some of that wealth was created by externalizing costs in the form of pollution. Because that is how our society was designed and we did not have good alternatives until around the turn of the century. But most of it was not. Most was genuine wealth that improved many people's lives.

The point of lifting people out of poverty - which doesn't mean they have now have money; it more means they have more access to education, healthcare, and capital - is that those people are now in a better position to help us deal with the future challenges, climate change being one of them. In addition to their quality of life being much better. There is a significant bootstrapping effect.

>How many more billions of people could we have brought out of poverty if the goal wasn't to improve bottom lines?

We don't know. It is difficult to say what would happen in a different timeline. But if Mao-era China and the Soviet Union are any indication, what we decided upon was a much better outcome than that. If you can design a system where wealth is allocated in a way that creates more wealth than it does currently, plenty of folks are all ears. Lots of people in positions of influence like creating more wealth.
> It also means you have more money to fund your hobbies and interests

Except investment banking and consulting both have notoriously long (100+ hr/wk) work weeks leaving very little time for other interests and hobbies. These careers effectively force you to adopt the career as the core of your personality.
I spent a lot of time looking at this at work, and it was not smooth sailing for a complex workflow.

The main issue is that B2B supports it pretty well, but if you need to say, do something like add an extra attribute dynamically to the JWT tokens, or allow automatic migration from a legacy IdP on first logon, you are forced to use B2C and Custom Policies which are effectively a programming language defined in XML and which are quite nasty to use. In addition to that, B2C doesn’t fully implement all of OIDC so things like client credential flow are still in “Preview” at the moment. Deployment of custom policies is also only by use of a “Preview” API too. It didn’t feel mature enough to me.
I have a couple thoughts on the matter that you might find interesting.

One area that I think is productive, and not particularly exhausting, is moving away from binary thinking. For example, I am confident that people on both sides of the isle have been taken in by vast hoaxes. As an independent, I am sure I have as well.

More understanding and less binary thinking is a path forward, with the added benefit that it can be enjoyable and reassuring.

There was an interesting EconTalk episode[1] with Monica Guzman who works to reduce political polarization[2]. She told a story about how following the election of the Orange Man, they took a bus full of Democrats from Seattle to one of the most republican cities in Oregon to talk and learn about their opinions. They learned that the most important considerations for them were issues that they were simply unaware of, and that they actually had a lot of common ground.

Another area I am pretty exited about is the increased interest in rank choice voting. I think this has a lot of potential to improve political outcomes in this country.

Last but not least, I think it is helpful to cultivate more local and less federal interest. If my focus is on injustices or policies happening in some distant state, not only do I have low impact, I am also neglecting problems in my own back yard where I have a lot more power to help!

https://www.econtalk.org/monica-guzman-on-curiosity-and-conv...

https://braverangels.org/our-story/#problem

"Politics is tough. It always has been. American politics is competitive, thrilling, frustrating – and infuriating. The stakes are high. Issues are important. Outcomes matter. This is why we care, and should care, about our politics.

But do our politics have to be demonizing? Does it have to bring out the worst in us? Do our politics have to destroy the goodwill of our society? Is the dehumanizing of our fellow Americans something we should accept?"
Don't listen to music/audio much with headphones anymore because my inner ears started to hurt from it. But I do use construction ear muffs often to drown out noise - they're quite effective and are basically the same thing OP is asking about (not listening music). The ear protection is much cheaper
> Users accept vendor's conditions upon registering and are giving their consent

That's the Angloamerican common law's logic. In civil law, the law cannot be overridden by others 'agreeing' to override it. Its more like software engineering in that regard, instead of arbitrary interpretations.
As we phase out gasoline powered vehicles over the next... like forever, we will have less use for ethanol produced from corn syrup, nevermind we should be reducing corn syrup in food production as well. We should be paying midwestern corn farmers to replace their corn fields with solar panels.

People complain about so much when it comes to green energy. "Oh transmission losses will eat into it so we can't transmit it too far", well why can't we fill nevada with stupidly more solar than we need so we don't care about losses.
The worst part is more senior devs being happy to watch it happen and even accept the commits, and then write a long winded story of how this 'car crash unfolded' apparently unaware that they're a tacitly active contributor to it happening and then escalating out of control.

If you're going to be aper of throwing junior devs under the bus, at least have the self awareness not to brag about it on the itnernet.
I remain convinced that unbridled capitalism is incompatible with democracy in the long term, particularly when buying political influence is legitimized.
Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning
for everything telecom related https://www.lightreading.com/
There is a cat that wanders around my neighbourhood. I wanted to build something that would notify me whenever it came to my backyard. The post describes what I did
I was working on emulating apps directly [1] by translating API calls from iOS to Windows APIs using WinObjC [2]. Unfortunately, WinObjC got abandoned and didn't even contain as many APIs as I thought, so the result cannot emulate complex apps. But it was fun - lots of low-level stuff, patching 3rd-party code, etc.

[1] https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC
Honestly doesn't sound like anything YC specific. Everyone is tightening their belts and employees are very expensive and represent ongoing liabilities on balance sheets.

The only thing I would fault you on is going after trial positions in this economic situation. Think of the opportunity cost of not going after positions that could be for sure, while you are working on a trial position.

>that seems unprofessional and disrespectful towards the candidates, no?

Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what investor will suddenly come up short on cash or what economic factor will clobber your balance sheet. It sounds like the whole process (interview + trial) lasted nearly a quarter and that's definitely on cycle for major financial changes.
The cookie nagging kinda worked for a while because EU bureaucrats bad. But I believe their was a general shift in realizing Google et al. spy on you where it backfired in the long term.

Users were way more naive at the time of cookie banners being introduced. Internet were still not a real IRL thing.
The statistics is largely bunk. Out of 300k people, 1,600 died of old age. News outlets just assumed that all these people died due to the evacuation. The original research was retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096908
I am sure Stanford spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their recently release DEI breakthrough:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34039816
Why can we only rely on wind and solar to 70 or 80%? South Australia had more than a week of more than 100% net wind+solar generation without much tranmission or storage or hydro, and they're still building more!

Overbuilding, storage and transmission for sure allows very close to 100% renewable generation. It will not be as _cheap_ as it is today though.
You are very much legally in the clear to call yourself an engineer, even if your actual title is "Solutions Engineer" (i.e., sales).

You cannot however represent yourself as a licensed professional (engineering or otherwise) without actually having that license. That's what's illegal.
While true, 11 years of neglect has it’s own costs. Even if people can move back there is little reason for most people to move back.
Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton

ChatGPT:

Scientific Consensus on Gravitons

Gravitons are hypothetical particles that have been proposed as the carrier particles of the gravitational force, similar to how photons are the carrier particles of the electromagnetic force. The existence of gravitons is a prediction of certain theories of quantum gravity, which attempt to merge the principles of quantum mechanics with those of general relativity. However, gravitons have not yet been directly observed, and there is currently no experimental evidence for their existence.

The scientific community has not reached a consensus on the existence of gravitons. Some physicists believe that gravitons may be an important component of a theory of quantum gravity, while others remain skeptical. There are also ongoing debates about the properties that gravitons would have if they do exist, and about how they might be detected.

It is worth noting that the concept of gravitons is still highly theoretical and remains an active area of research in physics. While it is possible that the existence of gravitons may eventually be confirmed through experimental observations, at this point there is not yet sufficient evidence to conclusively establish their existence.
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on $250M bail
I've tried various expensive jean brands and really expensive with custom fitting and none of them lasted longer than the cheap local brand I buy from now. Not only can I get 3 pairs or more for the same money, they do repairs for free if it's their fault or really cheaply if it's my fault.
Yeah this is an important point. Amazon viewed themselves as a software company almost from the beginning. Now a considerable portion of their business is from AWS because of that mind set.
Okay, here's a better comparison: Since 2015, Toyota has sold more than 18 million cars in the U.S., all of which have advanced cruise control functionality comparable to AP. Tesla has sold approximately 3 million vehicles worldwide since 2015.

Teslas using AP are more than 60x as likely to get into an accident compared to Toyotas. That's just from the U.S. data. It gets even worse, for Tesla, if you take into account Toyota's worldwide sales.

However way you crunch the numbers, Tesla's advanced driving systems are objectively worse than any other car maker's competing systems.
My point is that if all I need is to convince my audience, I may be able to make them believe the flawed proof.

In this example the flaw is intentionally obvious, but there are other examples where the flaw is more subtle.
4 wheel drive is also not real, because under the hood they share the same engine.
Ask HN: Projector Recommendations?
I have a business presentation and I’d like to bring my own projector that can project my laptop screen.

Budget is less than $500.

Any recommendations?
The accident sounds as though it occurred because the Tesla slowed to 20mph on the highway.

So, while not ideal, some of the accident blame is on 7 cars following too closely.

Generally speaking, public road drivers should be following at a distance that the car in front of you should be able to catastrophically stop (tire explosion, suspension failure, drivetrain failure, driver heart attack, or sudden accident, or more simply out of gas)
This sounds like Dale Carnegie stuff. Dale Carnegie was a salesman; I wasn't, I was a technician (a programmer, if you like). I had six months of serious sales training, but sales isn't the trade I was made for, although I enjoyed working with salesmen.

It's true that hirers expect you to sell yourself, beyond just showing that you're qualified for the job. But I don't mind saying I'm a programmer by trade, and good enough for the job you're offering. It's up to my manager whether I add $500,000 to the bottom line; in general, engineers/programmers/technicians don't get to choose what they work on.
> Nobody builds microservices as standalone units that should be testable and runnable in isolation, with ZERO external data. Instead, everything relies on everything, so it's just a monolith split up into microrepos.

Yeah this is the surprising thing to me - I've worked with otherwise bright people but whenever we've introduced services/microservices, it seems the default reaction is to just make a "distributed monolith" with circular dependencies and tight coupling.

I'm only half joking that 90% of my "architect" role is just point out we shouldn't have circular dependencies.
I tried https://jitsi.org, open source video conferencing, the other day and it worked just fine. I didn't use the camera, so not entirely sure how well that piece of works but at least there are options other than google.
Adjusting for inflation it is only about 60-70% over the pre-pandemic peak now.

Multiple other companies are operating real robotaxi services now with hundreds of cars on the road without drivers and public disengagement numbers that shame the FSD beta. The Vegas tunnel Teslas are on a fixed single lane loop and still need drivers.

Boring bought an existing sewer pipe drilling machine and got a multibillion valuation out of it. They claimed making bricks from the dirt would pay for the tunnels: then why not excavate instead and make bank making bricks? Because it was just hype. It still might be worth something in that a 3-person-per-train-plus-operator monorail salesman might get continued subsidies from various municipalities where the politicians want to affiliate with a celebrity.