skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My core and unbending opposition to capital punishments exists solely on the fact that the punishment is irreversible

Ah, this meme again.

I have no problem with the reasoning "it's irreversible" in itself. However, I wonder how many of the people repeating it are just mindlessly parroting something they heard, sounded good, and never thoughts about it for 2 seconds.

Putting someone in prison wrongly for 40 years is also irreversible. There is nothing you can do to reverse the fact that you unjustly stole 40 years from someone's life. Are you then also against prison terms of 40 years, given that they're irreversible? What about 20 years? What about 1 year? Those are all irreversible.

Now you can say that it's a matter of degree. Sure it is, but there's a continuum all the way to death sentence. Are you also against life in prison?
The future is pointing to the end of these companies. Shell is maximizing its returns before the end.

It is the most long term outlook you can get. What's more important?a future where my children are billionaires or a future with slightly less global warming? Shell is not the only source of global warming on this earth.

You need to think in terms of human scale choices. Not just simplistic right or wrong choices. If we were that ceo... You, I and all of us maximize our benefits and make the most rational and most logical choice by destroying the environment.

It's the tragedy of the commons pushed to the maximum extreme. I make a shit load of money participating in the destruction of the commons. We'd all be lying to ourselves if we didn't make that choice.

If you think about it from the corporate perspective it also makes sense. The company is heading towards a wall. Not just environment pressures, but a future where oil is dry. We are running out. In the face of an inevitable end what is the best most rational choice? It's obvious.
M1+ is quite fast hardware. If not for lack of hardware compatibility with projects based on x86/x64, it'd be the best option.

I think Parallells give you more, but I do a big window in UTM over 2 displays which works quite well and doesn't break rest of the OS X flow. Mic doesn't work, you occasionally have correct audio output, but OS X audio daemons sucks so it's a crapshoot if you get audio and where/how it's output. You don't get 3d accelleration I think, but haven't tried. It's not for games or Teams (neither is OS X).

But it works reasonably well for software that runs on arm64, which on Linux may limit you a bit. But you get to make things work either on OS X or Linux arm64, and the rest works well. You may not notice much overhead compared to OS X on M1+.

As with everything, you can make it work for you, but it's not for gaming, CAD, some proprietary or limited projects, etc. Should be fine for development and sysadmin stuff.

If something works on Linux arm64 on M1, it's quite well supported you might say. So you get to weed out some fluff, but also some nice things.
2005 google would. 2023 google I don’t think would.
Why big, stable companies don’t migrate to Flutter – My personal observation
Google FI is a bit more expensive since their QCI level is the same as T-Mobile's first-party premium plans, so theoretically you won't be slowed down if the T-Mobile tower handling your data is overloaded, while T-Mobile "Essentials" and other MVNOs using T-Mobile will be slowed down. https://fixverizon.com/2023/01/12/qci-prioritization-for-car...
But those executives need to pay for their yachts today, so the extraction strategy makes sense. It won’t be as valuable tomorrow as it is today, so they’re shorting it.

The earth as well as the value of their own companies.
A forced monoculture from both sides? How does that make sense?
I completely agree. The cost of credit cards should be passed to the consumer. Right now everything I buy is effectively 3-5% more expensive to cover the credit card fees. (Ok, maybe only 1-3% because handing cash costs money too, but that doesn't change the big picture.) However if I want to oppose this I need to stop using my credit card, but my credit card gives me 2% back. So if I chose not to participate I lose money.
>A soundbar cannot benefit from Atmos and it should have never been put there in the first place.

ATMOS is a new way of doing things, where the object's position is recored and your hardware can adapt to it based on its configuration.

This is infinitely better than shipping stereo, 5.1, 7.1 etc hardcoded mixes and switching between them. Now you only need to ship ONE spatial track (ok, multiple because of things like TrueHD, but you only have one spatial variant per-quality-tier).

ATMOS means you can have 1 set of media that scales from 1 to N speakers seamlessly.
Yuuuup. A lot of people have a very different idea of “good” than I do, and then there’s the tendency to rate anything that wasn’t terrible a 5 (on everything with ratings, not just good reads). The ratings distribution gets smashed against the top of the range, making it almost useless.

Like… lots of OK books that plenty of people enjoy are a 3, even judged only against their peers. That’s fine. I want the actual 5s, though. I’ve got too much to read as it is, if I’m going to add something to the list I don’t want to factor in the ratings from someone who rated the worst Harry Potter book a 4 or 5.
I always wondered if those people don't notice something is broken.

Given how reliably this happens, I guess the answer is "no". It's also probably a very small number of people, just 1 or 2 with each commonly used name. But still every common name has those 1 or 2.
SE is a project management discipline. CS is a logic/math discipline.

SE gets you to think about what the customer needs, what sort of performance or regulatory constraints may be in the loop, how you can design for teams and the future, etc (i.e., do you need a pencil or a pen, and how the factory is set up to make that happen at the rate and in the time required by the customer).

CS is about algorithms and logic, performance optimization, etc. It's the step where you build the machine that cuts the pencil blank, puts the graphite in, adds an eraser... and the conveyers/etc. that transfer the bits to the appropriate place for them to be useful.
A lot of it is explained by rising marriage ages. Women lose the ability to have children at around 40, so the later they get married, the less chance they have of having children, even if all other things are equal. E.g. if we assume an even chance of having children per year, then we'd expect an increase of the average marriage age from 32 to 36 to halve the birth rate (as in the former there are 8 years in which the woman could give birth, while in the latter there are only 4).

This means that even if people's biological fertility and desire to have children didn't change at all, people delaying marriage to later in life would still potentially result in a big drop in the number of children born.
So if their problem is with credit cards can I pay them cash instead? Or mail a check? Enter a prepaid debit card? Do a wire transfer? Do they accept Venmo/Zelle/Cashapp/Paypal? Bitcoin? Nope, they want to charge the same fee for using literally any of these methods.

What they really want is to get your bank account number so they can charge you whatever they want and you have no way to dispute it.
For me this is the only place where I can find all the books I read — that includes a lot of Hindi and Urdu and also English books published in India. GoodReads have them all! Other places? Of course not.

So I just use it to track and the yearly reading challenge. I like seeing that achievement :)

There’s ZERO other activity from me on GoodReads. By no means it’s a social network for me.
I was always curious about that. Reader mode on nytimes shows only 1-2 paragraphs from the actual article and then “subscribe” link.

How does it work for you?
What year? My sense is that the Humanities have seem steep enrollment declines as the new reality sets in.
A ton of businesses and events are only on facebook or only on instagram. Probably the same with tiktok. So they are essential if you want to provide a complete search engine.
In the Android apps I've worked on, family name and given name are saved separately in the database and then in our string file we have a separately defined string "full name format" that just takes in two strings. Depending on the localization string file, the two strings can be reversed. Haven't had to do major internationalization efforts in many apps I've worked on but this has been perfectly fine for times we needed to have multiple formats.

Just considering other countries and languages (and not doing obviously American/English only) has made the effort considerably easier, even when other countries aren't in the radar at the time
> "and now that there's an active board again, it has been busy."
IMO there are many Americans who would work in IT/Tech if you paid them to do it, but the risk calculation doesn't currently make sense. If you're an adult making $25-35/hour in your current job, just meeting rent/utilities/obligations, it's hard to accept going back to school for several years to complete a Bachelor's degree, with zero guarantee of employment, but a definite guarantee of debt on the order of ~60K (taking a cheaper option). This is also true for those lower on the socioeconomic totem pole, whose parents are not going to pay for them to go to school. We've seen the result of making student loans widely available, there are many under-employed Americans in debt.

Numerically I agree with you, the debt load is worth the risk, if you're specifically going for software/IT, but the risk is not zero.
True, but it disproves the narrative that oil consumption must inevitably go up.

And if per capita consumption can go down in the 2010's when we had negligible amounts of wind, solar, EV's and heat pumps, what'll it do in the 2020's when we have non-negligible amounts of wind, solar, EV's and heat pumps?
I think developed nations collectively bought into fossil fuel-driven civilization, so it seems like scapegoating to lay all the blame at the feet of the producers.

But like you say, it is appropriate to blame the producers for hiding what they knew about the greenhouse effect and well-funded lobbying and propaganda campaigns to deny and minimize it.
RootAsRole: A secure alternative to sudo/su using principle of least privilege
I would like to add a point that is rarely spelled out:

A shock-therapy style stop to fossil fuel extraction will kill millions of people through starvation, economic collapse and insufficient heating in winter. Depending how shocking the shock therapy is it could be billions.
> This blurs the meaning of "declarative" to the point of meaningless

The alternative is to draw a clear line where there is none.

> One of the things which makes Dockerfiles imperative is the sequence of Dockerfile commands is significant; if you swap the order of a COPY, RUN to a RUN, COPY, the result changes significantly.

By that logic you can call every Nix program “imperative”. They are sequences of strings, the order of which matters. The horror!

A Docker image is a stack of layers. Every layer points to a preceding layer. It’s not a huge leap from that structure to a fairly elegant sugar of a string array, where each string is a declaration that applies to preceding layer thus describing the next one. I don’t see anything fundamentally imperative about it; it can be used in imperative ways, but anything can.
I think you're essentially dead on. The concern is the transitional phase. If population collapse leads to collapsing economies and mass civil unrest, there's a very real chance the still-reproductively-healthy cultures are dragged down with the rest. Not to extinction, but to the point if major civilizational regression. Luckily, and perhaps not coincidentally, those cultures you pointed to also happen to be distinctly insular.
What is the point of life if we’re just going to work at Big Tech, transform our salaries into anti-aging remedies and airfare, then demand an ever dwindling proportion of young people support us while we expire? How do we reconcile this lifestyle with the fact that it means life on Earth has a due date? I don’t mean to antagonize but it all seems so inhumane to me.
Currently using Ashai on Arch Linux. The lack of Thunderbolt support is a deal breaker, as I need to use external monitors for work.

Still excited to see progress but I’m probably not going to be able to use Linux on a Mac for another 12 months.
In the US, minds are slowly changing on free speech. 40% of Millennials are OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities[1] and the trend by age cohort is very clear. We may disagree but we old people are aging out, and the newer generations are less likely to be free speech absolutists. Another poll[2] shows 61 percent of Americans agree that free speech should be restricted, and 51 percent believe that the First Amendment, ratified in 1791, should be rewritten to reflect the new cultural norms of today.

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/11/20/40-of-mil...

2: http://campaignforfreespeech.org/new-poll-free-speech-under-...
It will approach zero. It's not just a political thing to save the environment.

We are actually running out. What comes next after shale?
I've found this is because my ISP uses Cloudflare DNS; when I switch to mobile (on my phone or tethering) it's fine.
Do I have to be a reporter with a major news outlet to get decent customer service? I've been having a reoccurring problem with Amazon that I've failed to get resolved with the online/phone/email customer service and I'm at my wits end. Amazon packaging insists on packing heavy bulky items (like a multi-pack carton of liquids) with delicate items resulting in the delicate items being damaged. It's clearly a packing problem, but there is no way for the customer service agents to annotate this in the packing system. I'm so tired of dealing with Amazon and trying to figure out the best way to get issues resolved with them. It's always refunded, but that doesn't fix the issue - I want it to stop happening and spending my time dealing with it.
Electricity is probably going to be an order of magnitude (or more) cheaper in 20 years, at least for bulk purchase in most fixed locations (not Antarctic winter.) The assumption that oil extraction is worthwhile is based on it being the cheapest way to get a unit of power. But if power is 1/10th what it costs now it is economical to do some process that has absurdly bad efficiency (10:1, even 100:1) to translate power into fuel that works in jets. That might just be making conventional jet fuel. But I doubt we will be extracting it from the ground.
Well, it is because you can do most transformations using a tree fold. You get the speed and flexibility of SAX but with the nice interface of DOM parsing.

Apart from scheme, I have only done XML things in Python and C#, and that was a less than stellar experience.
Making it primarily a privacy/reproducibility issue is stretching it. It's not a rocket science to build in a docker/vm/nix and get similar results.
Costco has always had their own card. Before that, they didn't even accept credit cards so they didn't have to pay processing fees. My understanding at this point is that Costco actually made AMEX and Visa bid for the business, they actually make money every time their branded card is swiped and they pay Visa dramatically less for general processing fees than other retailers
> having kids was much less of a "decision" for couples not that many decades ago and was much more just an assumed fact

To your point, oftentimes the marriage wasn't considered valid if there were no children, after all, what evidence was there that the marriage had been consummated? In fact, that we used to talk about a marriage being "consummated" shows how our views on marriage and family have changed in a very brief timeframe.
Any plans to launch your service in the US?
Yes, price goes up when demand goes up. What's going to happen when demand starts going down?
This reminds me of a sabbatical project i ran with during the pandemic. ended up sputtering out due to lack of time and motivation, but i did end up pushing out an initial alpha for some friends

https://elos-edu.notion.site/eLOS-Connect-0-0-11-a72acbec893...

Still trying to clean up the code enough to release out into the open.
Subtitles everywhere, baby. [explosion]
My library's (Brooklyn Public Library) website shows me all the books I've checked out and even lets me keep public and private reading lists. No place for me to write reviews though, last time I checked. Since I almost exclusively get my books first through this library, then buy the books I really really liked, the checkout history functions as a good enough database for me.

It would be awesome if it were federated with other libraries somehow, since I also use the NYPL.
The news here is that a board oversees the "big 8" Usenet hierarchies has been re-established and is actively adding/removing groups.

"Rises like a phoenix" is a bit hyperbolic.
> Technically, the best way for the CTO would be to get the app rewritten from scratch on Flutter & get it over with.

During the last years I learned that rewriting an app is very risky and should only be done if absolutely necessary. Especially, if it's an old and big app full of technical debt. Has this changed?
My usage patterns are quite miserly. I rarely go out, perhaps once a week. When I do, if I feel like I need constant connectivity, then I activate Battery Saver and Data Saver first, then Mobile Data.

Basically I only use text-based web pages while I'm out and about. No streaming audio or video or downloads. I suppose there's not a lot going on in the background polling, either. Of course I hop back on WiFi wherever possible, my ISP makes that easy.

I've been doing this routine for at least a year, and I have warnings set when I'm up around 480MiB. I've never gotten a cap warning, although I've had a few warnings that "Chrome has used more data than usual!"
Anyone who drives a heavy vehicle alone is using immense amounts of power (hundreds of horses' at once, by approximation), it takes some infrastructure but with wind, sun, and water we can power that. What makes you say that your livelihood depends on an amount of energy so large that it's really bad? Why couldn't that be generated sustainably?

Why not talk to your employer about a step in that direction, given that solar panels are typically profitable within a handful of years for an average household, let alone if you can 100% offset the kWh generated because all the energy can be used in-house?
I also would to call Dockerfiles imperative on syntactic grounds alone, but I feel they have decalartive semantics in a way that's noteworthy.

> But from the perspective of 'each line of code declares a new program', then we consider the code snippet a declaration of a program.

The critical difference is that each line in a Dockerfile yields (declares) a filesystem state which can be referenced and recreated. In contrast, in your example, I have no way to say "give me a snapshot of the system between the third and fourth instructions".

Dockerfiles have all sorts of rules and restrictions that make these semantics possible. You cannot create loops; there is nothing like a "function", at least within the context of one Dockerfile.

> One of the things which makes Dockerfiles imperative is the sequence of Dockerfile commands is significant; if you swap the order of a COPY, RUN to a RUN, COPY, the result changes significantly.

I reject this line of reasoning, simply because decalative languages are indeed order-dependent:

let y = f(g(x))

is different than:

let x = g(f(x))

Much in the same way that these are different:

FROM x AS y
RUN g
RUN f

vs

FROM x AS y
RUN f
RUN g
As a programmer of over 30 years I still have never used Usenet and the reason is the barrier to entry. There is way too much friction.

You need a paid (!) subscription to a provider, potentially a subscription to an indexer, plus client software. All of this to access what is essentially a pure text forum.

Frankly I am not interested in jumping through hoops to access something which an "average person" would have no hope in hell of figuring out. Maybe that's part of the attraction, that only dedicated geeks will use it?
I expected product recommendations (tried "What should I get my grandfather? He likes fishing") and it returned a list of stores "you can get cashback up to 7.0% on your purchase.".

That's still useful, it would send me in the right direction as I'm not familiar with fishing, those online stores (and I don't have a grandfather).
Nah that's more like Threads now. Though that's quietened down enough that the 'this is so much nicer/better than Twitter' talk has at least calmed down a tad.
As economies get more advanced, people begin to realize they don't or can't have kids who grow up to become farm workers or blue collar laborers. To raise a kid to become wealthy and white collar requires immense resources -- two full time working parents, real estate in a good school district, and child care for working mothers.

Does any of this sound easy or feasible for the current generation in the United States?!?
Silently infers they're trying to sneak something in without everyone knowing but the discussion has been going on for a few weeks now, iirc? They just finally made the change they said there going to make or is this something else?
I just did a post about this on LinkedIn (gotta build that cred).

Containers aren't a new concept. But in today's world, we're usually talking about the intersection of three Linux features:

* namespaces bundle resources (processes, disk, I/O, etc.) together, isolating them from each other. They're a teacher with a class full of rowdy kids.

* cgroups (control groups) limit and audit how many resources a group of processes can use. They're traffic cops.

* Union File System sits on top of another file system. Anything in the underlying file system is visible, but writes and new files only appear in the UnionFS mount. This layer can be thrown away at the end of a session, leaving the base filesystem pristine. It's the tracing paper you used as a kid when you were learning to draw.

Processes in a container run on the same kernel as the other apps you run, but they're isolated, controlled, and kept from scribbling all over the disk. Add some tooling and standards and you have the foundations of modern #softwaredevelopment !
I don't think you are getting the point, which is how it is analyzed whether someone "is or isn't" 'indigenous' and a necessary element of that was the requirement that they have indigenous blood. So I don't get where you are coming from when you say you can't "identify" as indigenous - in the law, you needed to do both.
Designers say only way to fix Tesla Cybertruck is to start over
There was a campaign by Democrats in the US about "misinformation" and all kinds of solutions were being proposed.

It culminated in the Disinformation Governance Board: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/29/disinform...
Yes, but it can be worth paying $5 dollars a month to get the highest quality results when you do need them.
It is unfortunately very hard to address this with suits and getting even harder. Rules around standing can be leveraged to deny suits and the power of administrative agencies keeps getting hamstrung by the new major questions doctrine. Montana is the only state that guarantees a right to a clean environment in its constitution, but conservatives are seeing how this can be leveraged against polluting industries and are mobilizing to remove this right.

Megacorps have a tremendous amount of power in our political system and that makes it very very very difficult to hold people to account for anything.
> He’s someone who _gets_ what an open source company is/should be better than many who tried.

I would have expected him to put in place mechanisms making the license change impossible, if he got that well what an open source company should be.