skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing in your reply now, nor in any of your other comments, supports that claim

Singer's insistence that a utilitarian doctor is morally bound to kill a patient to save others is sufficient.

> Your claim does not follow from the fact that in rare, exceptional cases rule-breaking, perhaps in secret

No perhaps about it, secrecy is part that can only really be discarded in non-iterated settings, in the endgame.

> but such virtues, once habitualized

Of course you know that "habit", contextualized in the moral framework where habitual action is merely instrumental too, is a categorically weaker insurance against rule-breaking than habit plus belief in the principle according to which those habitual decisions are correct generally.

> Do you possess any empirical evidence showing that real world utilitarian adherents are less upholding of everyday norms against lying, stealing, and so on?

Yes, for example the effective altruism movement is comprised of generic totalitarian scum, which is well reflected in their consensus position on AI safety. I notice you flinching from the example of SBF and his little club of Singerians too.

The problem of utilitarianism, however, lies precisely on the margins. It is rational for utilitarians to build up reputation and influence with charities and such nonsense, to then expend it on a massive power-grab. SBF's only fault is that he moved to early, isn't it?

> You haven't described what alternative moral view you yourself adhere to.

Intuitive deontology.

> If the only way to prevent the end of the world and the death of everyone would be to secretly break some everyday rule once

Jaywalking isn't what the "pivotal act" theory entails, and your theory about total death is specious and motivated by the political benefits of such an act.

Moreover, if [you believed that] the only way to prevent the eternal suffering of everyone would be to secretly work towards the extinction of humanity, would you not work on it? A consistent utilitarian would.

> Would that warrant saying that your own view obligates you to have a "fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset"? If not, why not?

Normal people (ie not effective altruists/utilitarians) have ad hoc "decision theories". I am not an exception. Existence of a world is good qualitatively, not as an ultimate expression of the Singerian principle. I believe that lying is wrong qualitatively too, so for me, the logic of habitually being honest applies in the way it cannot apply to a utilitarian, even if you can design a hypothetical where I would have to agree that lying is justified. A world of utilitarians is not a morally good world; a surgeon should commit to losing more lives than otherwise possible in that scenario, because it would not befit a surgeon to kill patients; utilitarian calculations are invalid, so I do not engage in them.

In more contingent terms: habitual, as you put it, utilitarian reasoning leads to justification of your preferred policies via nonsense utility estimates. Proclaim "vulnerable world hypothesis", now anything you'd want is justified by saving the world, and you get to ape the respectable adult too.

It's risible.
> It's reddit's ball, they can take it and go home any time they want. They don't have anything to prove, they don't owe anything to anybody,

The only reason Reddit is worth anything is because its community produces content for free to it.

Reddit doesn't have to do anything, but it also doesn't have to be worth anything, either.
Illinois hospital inks closure to ransomware attack
An interesting take on Usenet. I have a subscription for downloading binaries, but every time I've dabbled in text posting, I've found a few incredibly abandoned groups that are the exclusive domain of some of the most ridiculous spam I've ever seen.

There are some NNTP servers that are not connected with the wider Usenet that I like (SDF, tildeverse), but of course they suffer from extremely small and niche membership.
Practically every reddit post up to today is archived. In theory, someone could create a gigantic static site with the data. But in practice it would be very expensive especially if you want fast loading times.
Plus-size travelers hit out at ‘discriminatory’ airline seat policies
> It is nice that there is now a language with first-class SIMD support, comparing with something implemented with a library

If the language is flexible enough (in particular, it has to support operator overloading), I don’t see any disadvantages to implementing that in a library.

See for example https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/simd
If you used a per-user list-wide salt, there wouldn't be any scaling issues.

And the requirements themselves dictate that there's a small search space.
I was a long time reddit user (I created my first account in 2007), and I eventually left for this reason.

I moderated a cycling community (r/mtb) that grew to about a quarter million subscribers and I had a really difficult time keeping the low effort content at bay.

When communities grow to a certain size they lose their niche audience, and lowest common denominator posts bubble to the top and drown out quality content.
Should be tagged with [2022].
"All else being equal" doesn't seem to really happen in practise. Some mechanism means this doesn't work. Maybe Swapping 2 sodas (diet or not) for e.g. 2 glasses of water means you will have less sugar dependence over time and will get healthier all around.
Nice! Thanks for the link, hopefully they do well.
I think you're being facetious here, but HN does have a more than passing resemblance to early Reddit.

I remember reading Joel Spolsky's blog when he promoted Reddit. I jumped over for look and stayed. Threads and discussion were heavily tech focused. The format was a nice departure from slashdot, and there was a lack of digital "turf" wars. (Subreddits came along years later.)

16(?) years on - Reddit has metastisized into something different. I still enjoy parts of it, but it's definitely not the same beast it was in the beginning.
> Make sure you read Damian Conway's book "Perl Best Practices"

Extend this to any media you can by Conway. He's in my top 3 of tech presenters and I'm really not that into Perl.
Reddit is just one place I read content. The other is https://lobste.rs/ I am always looking for interesting technical content to read. I want to learn. I would like to read your technical blog!

If you don't have a blog, then you could try what I do, I promise it's minimal effort and easy to maintain and host and it costs nothing financial (except time you use to write)

Go to GitHub, create a repository and tick the checkbox for including README.md.

Then go to README.md and click the Edit icion in the top right corner.

Write into this README.md file whenever you blog, creating a markdown heading with the blog post's title. You could include a date if you want.

Please do this! It's a low tech solution to content to read.
Companies need to stop using artificial sweeteners because they're just too sweet! If you ever do a low carb diet, it feels like your pallet is forever changed afterwards. Unmodified and unprocessed food taste naturally sweet on its own. Food with artificial sweeteners added tastes unbearably sweet.
Third paragraph from the bottom. Seems pretty clear in layman's terms to me.

> As we enter Northern hemisphere summer, large regions of the planet will experience record heatwaves, fires, storms and flooding. These events will set records in intensity, duration and frequency. The planet’s overall temperature will spike to new highs for the modern era, with 1.5°C in sight for 2024. Antarctic polar sea-ice will continue its retreat from “normal”, exposing more open ocean to incoming solar radiation and heating. Crops will fail. Infrastructure will break beyond repair. Climate migration will spike. And all of this is already happening.
Your grasp of history is terrible. The era of rare room-sized computers pre-dates (say) Minix by decades. Basing an argument upon that premise is highly fallacious.
Very few people need seat belts. But if you don't have one on when you do you are going to have a bad time.
> "They let" indicates that you beleive the WHO does or should include a degree of power over every-day life.

You know what they mean. "Let" can be "let us carry on doing this without informing us better". Bad-faith nit-picking is detrimental to conversation.
If you read the guideline[0] it is way more circumspect. There are a lot of "probably" all over it. There is a need for way more research for a definitive guideline as it is stated in this guideline.

[0]: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240073616
Vulture capital firms don’t like boutique companies to stay boutique after acquisition. Got to get them to IPO asap
Moderation is quality on HN too.

The tech+(with some business) focused nature of the feed keeps folks off too.

No memes here.
My email has been public for ~10 years and running on Google Workspace for just as long. I get roughly 2 spam emails / day. Maybe 1-2 false negatives and false positives per month (both these rates have been getting worse with gmail).
It is generational. The boomers could afford a house in the suburbs (owned, not rented), a car, and steak for dinner for themselves, a wife, and a couple kids on a factory workers salary.
Sorry lol. They were offline when I posted though

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294244

https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
Use a different OS.

You can try to disable each new instance but it will keep coming. These "features" will get harder to disable as time goes on.

Microsoft's goal is to make as much money as possible. Your data is worth money. They will attempt to make use of that. Will this harm Windows use long-term? Likely. But it definitely makes money in the short term.
There's also Attack #6, which doesn't get front-line billing in the paper but I think does a great job exemplifying how much of a security theater this whole product space of "signed documents" is:

"We discovered that on macOS, it is sufficient to include a `sig1.xml` [file] without any content to force the application to show a security banner stating that the document is protected by a signature"
I feel like the limiting factor on pizza production is not labor speed, but oven capacity.
The industry is going towards distributed memory at various levels of integration such as CXL, Infiniband, even Ethernet. I see a few papers on arXiv a week about distributed memory.
> Food itself is a luxury for many people/countries.

That's why you'll find most vegans/vegetarians in low-income countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism_by_country#Demographi... (the list seems incomplete, e.g. missing Ethiopia)

> Imagine asking for poor people to go vegan

Global study shows vegan and vegetarian diets cheapest option in high-income countries

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-chea...

Study: Grocery Costs on a Vegan Diet Are 40 Percent Lower Than Diets with Meat

https://thebeet.com/study-grocery-costs-on-a-vegan-diet-are-...

Vegans found to have highest amount of disease-fighting biomarkers

https://news.llu.edu/research/vegans-found-have-highest-amou...

> The most important and impactful decisions are confined to the hands of a few billionaire families around the world

It's true that inequality (of power distribution) is a big part of the problem.

But meat & dairy production is fueled by demand. So it's something we can collectively influence by individual actions.

Veganism is on the rise, the animal industry is already scared of its dwindling profits.
Vallance is in no way comparable to Tegnell. Valance and the other UK/SAGE "experts" were quite happy to invert their advice overnight on the basis of nothing. Like all the others they were making decisions based on politics and ideology, not a mature of understanding of science. Tegnell picked one position and stuck with it because there was no reason to change it, in that he was virtually alone.

> Maybe because it was somewhat fringe, definitely non-consensus, and would kill millions?

It's amazing how many people still never got the memo that lockdowns and masks had no effect whatsoever. This isn't even up for debate anymore, the data is openly available and has been analyzed to death. These interventions simply did not work, and it was known from the start that they wouldn't work. Heck the idea they wouldn't work was the consensus right before 2020, which is why a "consensus" of these idiots is worth less than the electrons used to transmit it.
For comparison, a How It’s Made of industrial scale frozen pizzas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EW6UCWDQfj0
Are people actually leaving reddit? Or just temporarily blacking out subreddits?
That’s what Deimos thinks: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...
There is also original content. A few weeks ago someone made a similar argument, so I went to three of the subs I most frequent (boardgames, woodworking, and baking). The very first post of each thread was original content. Someone had made their own themed version of a game, someone had made a woodworking project, and someone had baked something. Since those subs are now dark, I can’t share similar links this time.
My current laptop is an i7. It's a 4th gen i7 so a 13th gen i5 is probably better but I'd like to stay on i7. I don't care much about battery life, there is at least a wall socket everywhere I work at home.
Pizza was supposed to be their beachhead, and they were going to expand to other just-in-time food delivery.
Considering the apparent cost to Reddit for a third-party client is roughly $2-5 per user, I've seen a lot of people voice support for locking third-party apps behind reddit premium. The problem is reddit doesn't want just that, they also want to force everyone to use the app so they can monitor and monetize them there.
A modern desktop has all kinds of sandboxes and other privilege boundaries including the browser, system services restricted using seccomp, various application level sandboxes like Flatpak/Firejail/...
At the forefront of any niche field in science is a very small group of specialists working the problem (historically too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery) - the way we get ahead as a species is more specialised groups working more problems, which requires a larger educated base to draw from. i.e. we all go to the stars together or not at all, a dystopian future where most humans are impoverished/uneducated can't support the scientific progress needed to advance past our current technology
That's just how the community developed. Reddit was spicy as well at the start

You can have righto subs on it, nobody is going to stop you or ban you. For example in the past they removed moderators of f/communism for excluding users pushing the libertarian flavors of it

Here's TOS

Content Policy

Content is prohibited if it is bigotry i.e.

Promotes white supremacy, queerphobia, transphobia, misogyny, classism, ableism, body shaming, antisemitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, speciesism or age discrimination.

Sexualizes minors or promotes adults having sex with minors.

Trivializes or makes light of rape.

Apologizes for police or military brutality, imperialism, eugenics, genocide.

Apologizes for violence towards children.

Is a pornographic image/video (however, nudity is permitted if it's non-pornographic).

Is wilful copyright infringement (however fair use is acceptable).

Is a "dox" i.e. personally revealing information about a person or persons including but not limited to name, identification number, address, phone number, photograph.

Advocates for arson, bombing and/or killing people.

Is instructions on how to design and/or produce explosives.

I'm sure you can find two or three right wingers capable of doing all this. Maybe at least for a few weeks :)
Reading this makes these psychologists sound like they spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to end up chasing their tails in both directions winding and unwinding the timeline.
What is the 10h/year metric?
For the use case I described you don't have to be tethered to a Mac but I do all my development on a remote linux box so I wouldn't really be compiling or accessing the command line on a Vision Pro.

Tbh I think that just a web browser is enough for most of what people do on a daily basis. I mean, how often do you use an application on your laptop that's not the browser, Electron apps, or something that's already fully ported to iPad? For me personally that only leaves out local development for side projects, but the rest is easily translatable.
> the other side is literally calling for their extermination

If literally… citations please.

I ask because I was accused of “supporting genocide” or some such nonsense.

I have not seen anyone literally calling for murder. The point of my post is that I have seen, first hand, people saying it’s rampant out there though. And since I was accused of exactly that, I’d like to see just how real this threat is.
Forget everything I said.
I just spent an hour trying to fix things because you motivated me.
I found out there was an issue with my Focusrite and my pipewire config.
By setting the config to "Pro-Audio" in PAVU (Pulse-Audio Volume Control) in the configuration tab for my interface and disabling all others. As well as changing the the `jack.conf` with according node latency that I copied from `/usr/share/pipewire/jack.conf` to `/etc/pipewire/jack.conf`, restarting pipewire, wireplumber and disconnect/reconnect my inerface then running `pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 256` (with the quantom value I set in the `jack.conf`.
I have now amazing latency (5ms) even in Native Instrument.
(of course I did overkill and did all i could find on internet, with more time we could pin down to the few things that really fixed the issue, sorry to send all those informations like that).
This is partly why I now prefer the term "free exchange of ideas" over "freedom of speech". I believe it more closely captures the essence of what makes free speech worth protecting, while also conveniently excluding stuff like this (among other things, like spam or antisocial behavior).
Slashdot

https://slashdot.org

I've started looking at that and arstechnica for my tech news replacements.
For the last few years, I've mainly used reddit as a way of sifting through search engine results to a better answer more quickly: e.g. "what is the answer to x reddit". I've been sick of overly SEO-optimized websites that are full of fluff and ads and don't easily surface information. I'm curious, if people do move from reddit, what my new search term will be.
Really though, if you have such a primitive understanding of the situation as this, why comment to begin with?

Using restaurants as an example when there are companies all around the world that have achieved profitability as UberEats perpetually circles the drain is, frankly, dripping with irony.
OK, in this case, the BT firmware is in ROM on the chip, instead of being loaded by the OS and system start.

So, yes, technically, there is no binary blob loaded by the operating system.
OK, but this is just theorizing -- you don't really know. It's a very good question that doesn't have an answer really.
I’m still using Alien Blue, which at one time WAS the official Reddit app. It’ll be interesting to see if it actually stops working.
> mean, the web is big right?

That’s the entire problem and why Reddit is so successful. People don’t like jumping around between topic specific websites. Discoverability is too hard.
CEO also 10x’d the headcount.

and spent significant funding on buying Alien Blue and then ruining it.

and spent significant resources on a new UI design that is near universally reviled.

Its not good enough to say you are not profitable, when you are a significant cause
The new Zelda has utterly destroyed my progress on side projects and also playing guitar.

That's ok though, this happens to me every now and then - a game will come out that is so good / compelling that I just need to drop everything else and jam all my free time into it. It's almost like something in my psychology is saying "play the shit out of this so that we can get over the obsession and get back to other pursuits quickly."

I don't game all that much these days, so when something really good comes along, I just let myself go nuts on it. I've realized I seem to work in cycles, so after my Zelda obsession dies off, I'm sure I'll get back to other stuff.
After being diagnosed with diabetes T2 I have worn a CGM and decided which foodstuff I needed to drop. I dropped basically all starches, no potatoes, no rice, very careful with bread. Only desserts I eat are made with almond flour, no wheat flours. And, of course, NSS. I have wrestled my blood sugar level below diabetic levels without any drugs, this ought to be enough. This already has leeched a lot of pleasurable activities from my life -- before this, I used to love to travel to eat. Lyon , Florence, places. I simply refuse to do more. There's a point where you don't live longer, you just exist longer. What for?

In much broader strokes, I was already not happy about how obsessed we became with prolonging life far beyond anything desirable. But even places where medically assisted death is accepted, you can't just go and say I am too old and infirm, help me end in dignity, no you need to suffer until your body and mind is gone. So says Lord Of The Rings

> ask whether you would indeed have me wait until I wither and rail from my high seat unmanned and witless. Nay, lady, I am the last of the Númenoreans and the latest King of the Elder Days; and to me has been given not only a span thrice that of Men of Middle-earth, but also the grace to go at my will, and give back the gift
20 seems a bit low. what happens if i want to invite 21 people?

many groups have a few active people and many less active people. one group i am in has about 80 members, 10-20 or which are active and keep a steady stream of communication. if the group were to grow much beyond that, it would be to much.

so you are right that 20 active people is a good group size but if there is a technical limit of 20 that means i have to police all the inactive people in order to have room for active people. seems to create more overhead than i'd be comfortable with.

wechat groups have a limit of 500 people. it's big enough to allow some flexibility for groups that have lots of members but little communication, but don't allow the groups to get so large as to get out of hand. the ideal technical limit for me is somewhere between 100 and 500. less than that and i'd run into to many corner cases because some group somewhere hit the limit. most of the groups i am active in have less than 100 members, but many have more than 20, but i am also in some groups that have more than 200 members, most of which are just reading and a few contributing.
JMP (XMPP<->SMS Gateway) Is Launched and Out of Beta
Hence why 3pa like Apollo are great, it’s video/gif player is (was :’( ) the best.
I'm not sure what position your comment is taking. Are you claiming that compiler vendors are forking clang to keep better ISO C++ support proprietary?

Do you also believe Clang would have been in a better shape without the collaboration of all major compiler vendors?
> And then a lot of apps just ask for full access to your home folder or even to the whole filesystem, just so that they can open documents.

Therein lies IMO the biggest problem with application security on desktop Linux. Just like selinux, apparmor and other similar security tools *someone* has to globally deny access to permissions, break things in the process and find the minimum number of permissions required for the app to function.

Many users are not going to do this and (lazy or uninterested?) developers (package maintainers?) don't want to do that work either.
Check out your favorite ADS-B website some time to see the extent of that “domestic service”.

Russian regs are frequently in the Middle East, China and South East Asia. Iranian regs operate scheduled service to EU airports and China and also frequently visit South America.