skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing I feel save going out in now is a tank.
Wait until yesterday. Then you'll really get hammered. :)
We shouldn’t be putting homeless people in prison either. What’s your point?
The other practices also have an effect on your body and mind, you just don't bother verifying it for yourself because you want an external authority to do it for you first.

You don't need to buy into the esoteric teachings, or even the core belief of reincarnation. But you don't have to reject them either. Just inform yourself on the basics and keep them in mind. "If this bit was true, what would the world be like? How would my actions impact the world? How would they impact my future self?"

In the end the whole point is reducing suffering, and the longer you wait for someone else to verify one claim or another, the longer you're going to be bound to your habitual suffering.
Alpine Linux and Docker Infrastructure Three Years Later (2022)
True but I’d say the switching is happening too. Every people in my circle(s) are actually switching to iPhones mostly due to implicit peer pressure.
If I’m not mistaken, this is for a global push-to-talk shortcut that works even when Discord is not focused. Not sure if Apple provides an opportunity for apps to show a reason in the prompt.
>We've been indoctrinated since before high school that getting pregnant is a negative outcome.

I recently had a similar thought. When I was a kid I remember a lot of emphasis being put on reducing and avoiding teen pregnancies, especially ad campaigns. This internalized the message that pregnancy is something to avoid.

But when I got older there was no ad campaign to try to undo that notion (if that's even possible). I wonder if there are now a bunch of adults going around with that same feeling internally.

I also remember the same thing about "healthy food" - if you eat these healthy things like milk, bread etc then you'll be fine. Now that I'm older I know that that was just bs. But no ad campaign for that either.
> Quite obviously because advertisers prefer networks without controversy.

This + less moderation headaches for Meta as political discussions invite the most toxic users
You havn't managed to provide an argument our counterexample, so it is obviously at least something of a challenge to find unsolvable disinformation. Most of the easy examples are intensely political and it is obvious that motivated reasoning or clashing values is the root cause and no issues to do with facts.

> make your credibility go "poof."

I suspect you are using credibility to assess claims rather than arguments. If that is so, you're never going to escape disinformation because credible people routinely discover they can sell their credibility and do so. And credibility has never been a measure of truth, lots of credible people are also key spreaders of disinformation (like the BBC, for example). That would make the problem intractable. It is pretty normal for people to optimise for credibility, which means the disinformation is generally pushed specifically by people who are legitimately credible.
The excess death rates between anti-vaxers and the vaccinated show that, in fact, the experts had it right all along.

Similarly here, experts are pushing to maintain encryption for the sake of public safety. Weird you think your two examples cast doubt on expertise.

Governments have always tried to maintain power through breaking secrets. But there's no evidence governments tried to do anything but vaccinate and protect their populations from COVID. How was any of that a power play? What irony?
That's a weird hill to die on.

Service providers need to ban people sometimes. This includes people who are savvy enough to know how to delete and reinstall an app to clear its settings. Never permanently banning anyone simply isn't a thing that's happening.

If Apple didn't provide DeviceCheck, or something similar to it, service providers would use some other means of deterring abuse. There's a couple directions they can go in, but they're all generally worse for users (e.g. using invasive tracking, requiring users to pay for service, etc). DeviceCheck is about the least invasive way I can imagine this being implemented.
Regarding the financial impact, what's the trade if they find out China is different? Shorting Apple? I don't think that would be a consequence. Nobody cares that China intercepts everything, we just don't want to live there or in a regime like it.

There was a rumor about separate HSMs for device personalization in China, and this would be verifiable by determining whether the Chinese HSMs could verify cryptograms produced by derived keys from a US device,
against Apple's personalizaiton endpoints in china. I don't know the protocol off hand, but there is a short list of ways to do it. If Apple uses different root secrets in China from the rest of the world, what further evidence would you need?
The facts speak for themselves. I’m happy to leave it at that.
> Let them play monopoly with allowance money?

Calm down, Satan.

In my experience there is nothing what would stop a kid from doing the stupid things. What somewhat mattered is trying to explaing, honestly, the consequences. Sadly, this doesn't work good enough, but sometimes it helps when instead of panicking they panic but remember what to do in the case of emergency.
Even if they aren't, every developed country has their own.
I have been pretty invested into Sandstorm for like ten years now, so I am very interested in getting that new push moving. If you know people interested in contributing to the project in any way, we are definitely interested in looking at ways to make it happen.

We will probably put out a blog post sometime soon with an update.
The problem is that you get hit by another car in an accident. Getting hit by an SUV while in a sedan tends to end up a lot worse than getting hit by an SUV while in another SUV. The bumper height mismatch and large weight disparity are serious killers.

Of course, the right answer would be to regulate car size, not have everyone buy increasingly large cars because they feel unsafe. Those large SUVs are absolute killers for cyclists and pedestrians, not to mention that they are actually less safe than a sedan due to the high center of mass creating a rollover problem.
What's your favourite unknown newsletter?
What are your favourite (good) newsletters that don't have many followers. It seems that every newsletter I come across has 150k+ subscribers after starting 2 months ago, so would love to hear about some lesser-known newsletters that have great content.
Actually is the fourth, the first 3 cores was used respectively in Trinity test, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
The Ming and Mughal dynasties were both at the precipice of industrialization in the 17th century as was the Song dynasty in the 11th-12th century, but they all collapsed around the period proto-industrialization was achieved.

The Ming Dynasty fell in the mid-1600s due to the political instability of the Manchus migrating southwards and southern Chinese satraps trying to make their own states, Mughal proto-industrialization in the late 1600 and early 1700s collapsed when Maratha raids in the Bengal Subha destroying manufacturing capacity in what's now Orissa and Bihar and Sikh, Jat, and Pakhtun rebellions against the Mughals in Punjab, KPK, and Eastern Afghanistan lead to the collapse of Mughal rule northwest of Delhi, and the Songs collapsed in the 1200s due to Chengiz Khan's conquests.

A similar story happened in Safavid Iran around the same time when Nadir Shah, a nomadic herder and coatmaker from Khorasan, lead his horde to sack both the Mughals and the Safavids.

China, South Asia, Central Asia, the Caucauses, and Iran were basically in a state of collapse in the 1600s-1700s similar to that of the Western Roman Empire, Han Empire, and Gupta Empire in the 4th-6th century, leaving their environs ripe for European intervention.
Still, an early general election would put the brakes on this bill. The next Labour government will be under no pressure to pick it back up, and in fact will likely be under quite a bit of pressure to let it go.

This is the sort of terrible throwaway law that results from lame-duck governments.
I'm on a J-2 with an EAD, and I'm subject to Section 212(e) (we came to the US because my wife got a Fulbright). I own 15% of a US company I have cofounded that just raised $2.5M. Is there any way to get a 212(e) waiver and get a path to a green card?
The diplomatic services of my home country (in the EU) said they would give me a non-objection letter.
Thank you so much for your help!
I'm glad someone pointed this out. Netscape was incredibly buggy and unstable. Anyone remember the Netscape 4.x days where it crashed hourly? In the early 2000's, there was only one viable browser: IE 6. It was like this for a long time.
Just let it go.

Don't try to resurrect the horse from the greasy spot on the ground where it was formerly beaten to death.

It's all a cancerous detriment to society.

If you wanna talk to people online... Discord, irc, forums.

Let social media die... Let the trash fire burn itself out instead of lighting new dumpsters on fire in hopes of it being the next big thing.

That sort of thing (social media) is bad, and we (human beings) just need to let them go away.

It's all a hives of propagandists, "influencers", shit posting and lonely people seeking external validation shouting into the void.
The Register’s take: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/27/us_lawmakers_propose_...
You might enjoy “The Dream Machine” (is the similar title a coincidence?) which is a fantastic history of the personal computer that even those of us pretty well versed can learn a lot from
There's substantial levels of denialism of there being any problem. It's odd to see both deflection, and abuse, where both systematically point to the underlying experiences validating the problems exist, and both attempting to "deny" it.

As an old hand in ICT it wasn't always like this. Something happened (in my opinion) between about 84 and 94 which systematically eroded and undermined women's experience in ICT.

I'd say it was gamer/pc culture but it's beyond that, although it's tied up in it. The conference cycles and tradeshows also played a role. Booth babes played a part, trivialising women's roles in public.

Several dozen highly significant design, analysis and operational roles in the internet vested in women back "then". People sometimes forget that. Women have always been a part of systems, networks, code. Always.
This focused on technology, but I think there are a few misconceptions which causes people to overestimate how advanced the Romans were. We think they were super technologically advanced because of what they accomplished and their strong economy, but it overestimates their actual level of development.

Most importantly, the Roman economy was built on two things that were simply unsustainable: conquest and slavery. Conquest gave the upper classes and state tons of loot to fund the government, capital expenditures, and further conquests. It also gave them tons of slaves, which I’ll expand on. Eventually Rome hit the limits of what it could feasibly conquer and hold - until that point it was in a unsustainable positive feedback loop that made it seem like a wealthier society (in the sense of the size and wealth of the upper classes, magnitude of cultural and prestige building projects) than it was.

Second, slavery was a hugely important part of the Roman economy. Slavery was less sticky than US chattel slavery, so once Rome stopped conquering so much it began to decline (even though people could still enter slavery or slaves could be imported). Then with Christianity it declined even further.

Slavery is what allowed the Roman industrial and manufacturing machine to work. Nobody would voluntarily choose to work in Roman minds considering the extremely dangerous conditions, and similarly the quality of life of people working in urban manufacturing (making clothes) was terrible because many cities were overcrowded (so also dangerous because of disease). Also, the reason the Roman upper class was so large and able to live such a lavish lifestyle was that they had many domestic slaves performing their household tasks, as well as educated slaves helping them with business. This IMO causes us to overestimate the productivity of the Roman economy because really they just had a way a highly unequal distribution of wealth and a way to force people to perform dangerous jobs.

Also, Rome invested in infrastructure in its conquered territories. So their economic growth was driven for a long time by convergence (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(economics)) as they absorbed and developed poorer areas and created a more stable trading environment. This growth is also unsustainable, and when the empire starting felling apart it caused the economic regression.

Even though some technologies like Roman concrete or some books were lost with the fall of the Roman Empire, most technology really wasn’t. It’s just that without slavery, a unified governing and military force, and a stable trade environment that the economy fell and priorities shifted. It was still just as hard to build big things as before, and big things like churches still got built. Arguably there was even more of a need for an Industrial Revolution because without slaves the economy couldn’t support a lot of manufacturing and resource extraction that it could before.
Have you tried freelancing platforms like Upwork, Fiver and other apps?

Sometimes getting started as a contract worker/part time consultant and then transitioning to a full time role would be easier.

(This helps in building confidence for the recruiter)
> what is the point of growth if not to make more money?

I’d definitely swap those two, for life in general. (Depending on what you mean by growth, which is why I quoted it, because I don’t really subscribe to the implicitly assumed linear progression model.)

Anyway, I’d be the first to say money is important, because of what it lets you do. Similarly, the potential of earning money in the future (should it be needed) provides financial safety, and having faang on resume helps with that. But money also has an aggressive diminishing returns curve for what most people do with it, including me.

A lot of young people are concerned that they have to be competitive early to not have doors close on them, which is what I’m arguing is less true than they are mostly told. Especially for tech. So I was mainly arguing that sacrificing childhood to be molded in the senseless game of early credentialsm and extracurriculars is a tactically meh choice in most cases, and that’s excluding the emotional abuse itself.

> you could quit your faang job and work as a janitor while hacking projects on the side if so inclined.

Already did :) except the janitor part.
Recumbents are more efficient than regular bikes too but it turns out nobody rides them because they make you look like a complete dweeb.
https://archive.is/Cg6VJ
I always find it a headscratcher when people advocate for making the violation of civil rights easier.

Cops seem perfectly capable of doing it with the tools they have today.
> Certainly in the US these days, anything that isn't an SUV is unsafe (for the occupants) in traffic

This is false. Bigger does not equate to safer.
there's a lot of code I wrote (and saw people write) in Python over the years, conscious that noone will ever run it in threads (ofc it's possible, but typically pointless), thus going quite easy on things that wouldn't be thread-safe. this used to quite a comfortable stance. community ended up inventing other ways to share state, other ways to vectorize, other ways to avoid blocking on I/O, that might sometimes be annoying, but evolved to be quite reasonable for Python.

giving up this stance? a lot of code is instantly a legacy, and a lot of it is a legacy people won't even know about before they notice the problems. and for what?

i must say that i have no experience running Python without GIL so my idea of the ways things can be not thread-safe is purely speculative/borrowed from very different languages (that I finally moved on to long ago, thank god). so maybe i'm wrong, i misunderstand the impact, and all this code is just fine
Caribbean is too annoying. I know exactly where an island is but can't figure out which of three nearly overlapping circles is the right one.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Glad to hear it! Because I know a large family that doesn't have a computer. I'll send you their address so you can mail them yours!
Python is already Java but worse.

All of the multithreading bugs without any of the multithreading performance.
ionosphere is not the ozone layer, and nobody is allowed to vent freon from their old refrigerators
just read the manual??
Awesome project.

"table related merchandise" is a funny phrase. I guess art has always needed sponsorship.
You mean the one where he shook Oprah?
Context: This essay was published days after PG went on Twitter extolling what a great guy Antonio Garcia Martinez was [0] and got rightfully roasted for it, especially in light of what Antonio Garcia Martinez has become since that post.

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1392756490138791937
> Understanding emptiness

> The other points are valid to me, this one belongs in the realm of metaphysics for me.

Isn't this something both the Buddha and modern science agree on? Matter if comprised of mostly empty space. It's physics, no meta.
> You're tacitly admitting my assertion - Apple's morals are for sale.

Yes.

China is much further from the Western world than the UK. Capitulation there isn’t a step onto the slippery slope. Doing the same thing in the UK would lead very quickly to EU and US demands to do the same.

By exiting such a small market, Apple defends the much larger markets against creeping surveillance.

Remember how fierce the backlash was to their CSAM scanning proposal? They walked that back. Some people might think it was for moral reasons, but I’m pretty sure they realized it would harm their bottom line.

The way things work in China is not the same as the UK. They either play by CCP rules or they don’t play at all. Apple’s calculus here seems to be that not playing in the UK market is worth it, whereas missing out on the Chinese market is not worth it.
https://archive.is/FpM3w
It's not made clear how the UK Gov would erode encryption worldwide

Seems like they'll only be stuck with their own police state friendly system.
You are imagining a wonderful technological future where we can regrow limbs AND we still do not have universal health coverage. I think most of us like to imagine that by the time technology can regrow limbs, politics will have finally caught up to the rest of the developed world. Your better imagined future still includes people not having health coverage and for me that seems weird!
Yeah. At this point it’s becoming very toxic. Like people with iPhones look down on people with android phones. It’s becoming a societal pressure.
Newest Pixel Fold is $1800. It seems like Google has become increasingly willing to compete in the high end market.
you reject the message in the framework? and if the client is aware it’s required they fail to send?

the bigger challenge with proto3 is that people use it both for rpc and storage, in some cases directly serializing rpc payloads. Disregarding how awful a choice that is, you likely want to trade off flexible deserialization of old data at the expense of rigidity, and conformance.
GIL is a promise from the internal implementation (eg CPython) of Python that things will happen atomically within the Python interpreter. This means that when multiple threads try to access and modify Python objects at the same time, the GIL ensures that only one thread can execute Python bytecode at any given moment, preventing potential conflicts and ensuring data integrity. However, this comes at the cost of limiting the full utilization of multiple CPU cores for certain CPU-bound tasks.

Non-GIL adds some complexity to the implementation and some risk when writing multithreaded code at the benefit of improving performance.
I mean... Even if it was absurdly expensive to manufacture and shape, and insanely temperamental/quench happy, it would still revolutionize high end motors (like in power plants), energy storage through toroidal batteries, some electronics, satellites/probes, many sensors, all sorts of scientific equipment...

Nitrogen/Helium cooled superconductors are already used in some of these places, at tremendous cost and difficulty, and some of those are very finicky.
Only Unix admins with beards are allowed to ride recumbent bikes.
You can just not read these stories? Or even hide them?

I wasn't really interested in all those Reddit stories last month either, mostly because they were all exactly the same wankfest. So I just hid them. Problem solved.

As long as the frontpage isn't overrun with these kind of stories every day I don't really see the problem. Even when restricted to purely technical topics – and HN is NOT for purely technical topics – there's will always be heaps of stories you won't be interested in for one reason or the other, and that's fine.
Lots of C library code for decades carried man page warnings it was unstable for use in async, re-entrant and recursive contexts. We learned how to cope and incrementally re-entrant safe versions deployed without too much API instability. Maybe time has healed wounds and caused me memory loss of the pain of discovery you'd tripped over them.

String parsing which tokenised in-place. DNS calls which used static buffers. Things which exploited Vax specific stack behaviour.

I think the GIL has been a blessing and a curse.
Yeah, cool you read that.

I find being highly disagreeable often helps makes a point. It's find it can be hard to invoke appropriate emotional outrage with a well reasoned argument.
The first step in looking after yourself is getting to know your own mind.
Marissa Mayer on generative AI and the future of technology
> has a background in signal processing

Which largely counts as strong Linear Algebra and Probability Theory background.
It's a lot worse than no car at all - which people understandably don't feel comfortable doing when they're surrounded by vehicles with bumpers as high as their chest.

I get hit by a sedan, I break my legs, it sucks. I get hit by a crossover, I'm thrown forward from my center of mass and likely under the vehicle. I get hit by an F-150, the hood is at head height and I die.
Because it’s true?

The pixel 6a will get 3 years of updates and 5 years of security updates. On a phone that was released 12 months ago.

So it hasn’t been tested yet. Plenty of time for google to renege on that.

The Pixel 6a is at least a cheaper phone. But the Pixel 7 are flagship prices for the same support.

iPhones have been getting this level of updates since almost day one. The last iPhone I ran into the ground was a 6 and that had 5 years of OS updates. iOS 8 through 12.

My current XR has been getting updates for almost 5 years and will get iOS 17. So at least 6 years of updates?
Remember back in the old days when people got their phones and phone plans together as part of a 2 or 3 year contract? Back then, people lived with cracked screens and other damage as much as possible because of being locked into those contracts. And then that sort of went away when the market decoupled and you got your phone and service separately.

Well, lately I've been noticing more and more people carrying around phones with cracked screens, and apparently just dealing with it. This is totally anecdotal and unscientific, but it feels like there is a shift in mindset going on. For one reason or another, people are keeping those "broken" phones in service rather than replacing them.