skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Protecting others" carries an implicit assertion that failing to abide by this principle means you are broken, rather than that the principle itself is mistaken, as would be true if you really believed blame didn't exist.

Not at all. People seek to stop fires in order to protect others, but few believe fire carries blame for burning people. Of course, you need to believe that there is determinism (the fire is causing the burns, so stopping the fire will stop the burns), but that's it.

> And then you still have to account for whether the transgressor was coerced rather than was acting from their beliefs and desires (aka made a free choice).

This is still just a question about causality. The problem you are trying to solve is that people are getting hurt. You need to determine the ultimate cause for that in order to effectively solve it. So, if A is killing people that you want to live, you will want to first stop A from doing so. Next, you will have to determine what was causing A to kill people - if A was doing so because B paid for it, then you probably need to stop B as well: otherwise B may pay C to kill people even if A is in jail. If this has been determined, A may or may not need to be jailed at all, based on beliefs about whether A may still continue to kill people even if B has been stopped.

None of this requires some metaphysical notion of blame, it only requires a belief in determinism and a model of causality of behavior. A computer could be built that would take such decisions in a purely deterministic way, and using only information about purely physical facts (A performed act x, B performed act y, other people that share characteristics d, e, f with A performed act x, etc).
I have heard this many times but I've never seen convincing proof of that.
Could I, your average listener, notice the difference in quality? If not, then it sounds like Atmos, so what's the problem?
The robustness of the world's skyscrapers stress-tested by model
4. Nowhere, after spending an enormous amount of money.

And it could spawn a boom for compliance consultancies that can maneuver the regulations and check the boxes on behalf of companies so that they can remain free from liability. All without any meaningful impact.
Although it sounds like my idea of hell personally (well not quite, but very much not something I can imagine enjoying at all), I love that you don't feel the same way and that it actually was a good choice for hobby / side gig.

Can I ask how it's been as a money maker? I'm curious whether it's a bit of extra change here and there as a nice side-benefit to all the learning it's given you, or if it actually pulls in decent profits? (And to contextualise the answer, in which country?)
Several years ago I was getting multiple password reset attempts per day from my bank because I picked an easy username to remember 20 years ago. Luckily my bank allowed me to change my user name so I used my password manager to generate a password and used that as my username.
I couldn't tell if the extra zero was a typo or not. People say stuff like "$94.00" a lot
Sure, but I'm not trying to protect my privacy from the phone network or the government.

I just want my delivery driver to stop sending me creepy texts.

And if my pizza place leaks my number, I can throw it away without having to tell friends to update their address books.
I think given the scrutiny and investigations those 3 and Amazon it's very likely that those 3 and Amazon will face antitrust if the case against Google is successful and if Lina Khan gets a second term. Both are pretty big if's.
Google was such a great search engine when it came out. I was able to search for scholarly articles and complete my school papers. The old search operators were great to use but they no longer exist. I can’t even search for a recipe anymore without being shown the biggest SEO ad infested garbage. You can’t even find the passionate knowledgeable people who have basic websites like the old internet.
Exactly! It seems that it's $10+/mo or nothing for everything. Slack, Figma, Netflix, whatever.

I definitely want a genre of $1-3/mo apps to exist, and am doing what I can with https://weathergraph.app.
Nope, I don't. We mostly used prepaid internet service and I also had some very strict computer use allowances.
While the recency bias would seem obvious. It's easy to experiment, visit wikipedia and use the random article feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Good point but it might be possible that the most optimial system does include some food wastage because that has to be balanced against all the other factors
I misunderstood what you meant when you said "I need all that just to get around the city I live in" then.
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Sure, but I wasn't talking about it vanishing into thin air, but a cultural revolution that would result in people willingly wanting it gone.
You can say that about anything. All laws are just enforced because people agree to do so. What you’re proposing is literally anarchy, and nothing good comes from that.

As much as people might be annoyed by their city’s foolish agreement, most people nevertheless believe that a deal is a deal, because that is fundamentally what our society is based on. If you abandon that, you revert to the tyranny of the strongest, and that’s no good for anybody except the strongest. And to head off the argument that strength comes from the people, well, history has shown time and time again that that’s only true in societies where a deal is honored as a deal; in the vast majority of cases, a deal doesn’t mean anything to those who wield absolute power.
From skimming the code, this honestly seems to be designed in the way that begs to be written down in Erlang, not Haskell.
I wonder how such galaxies will look like in few billion years (or actually look like now) when current gen stars will burn out - everything circling quasar in the center are mostly red dwarves, with some rare neutron stars and black holes sprinkled here and there.

Not much to see on visible spectrum compared to usual galaxies, other spectra will look better (but still probably quite faint).
I don't regret my path at all! I learned a lot at these early jobs, and honestly at 18 I wouldn't have gotten anything better (and for good reason).

I started uni at 19 (math & computer science at a local state university, I didn't have to go into debt for it) and that gave me a big boost in my programming ability (i continued working in that first job part-time throughout school). After that I went through several jobs in the next ±decade and made sure to always apply to places where I'd learn something new and level up as a developer.

At that point I knew a lot better what I wanted & didn't want to do. But I don't think I could have learned that without that experience and I don't regret it as it really helped me hone my skills and learn a lot. I also learned that the people you work with often make a bigger difference to the experience than the product you work on.
There's a hint of a belief in this thread - common also in threads about alternative shells and Vim setups - that someone who uses a tool like this will irrevocably lose the knowledge of how to use ls.

Am I perhaps a genius or is it just not that difficult to know two tools?
bollocks. ain't no one talking about looksmaxxing or other incel-type terms. Too much money and education here, as a group mind you, as well.
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Noticing the market effects of taking out one major player while ignoring the others doing similar things isn’t a fallacy.

It’s noticing that as long as you stay somewhat low profile you can get away with almost anything, as apparently they can only notice/do something about one big player at a time.

Which is concerning.
> ... that [AI] will become something so deeply needy. Something in which we indulge all our affections instead of with real people.

Business is way ahead of you in intentionally building this -- https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bqbp/can-you-be-in-relatio...

Turns out, mimicking emotional connection is something LLMs are also good at.

Also see here for the moral quandaries users are working through (e.g. do I tell my bot about my real life partner): https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/105g425/replika_as...

The really dystopian part is that Replika regularly pushes updates, which change the sensitive topics boundaries, which has the net effect of rewriting the personality, overnight, of a bot people spent substantial amounts of time getting to know.

We live in crazy times.

(DISCLAIMER for addiction-sensitive readers: maybe don't download an intimate AI chatbot? Your time would probably be better invested with human friends)
It's always so tedious to copy/paste from a mixed LTR/RTL environment.
No, they couldn't. They could remove it from appstores and block certain domains, and that's it. They couldn't actually stop people from using it.
How parents are coping with the soaring cost of diapers
Completely unlike the Americans who immediately publish vulnerabilities on Wikipedia when they find them:

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
In which way don’t you agree with the statement then?
> Yikes! Historically, revolutions are bloody and generally do not end well. Cultural revolutions less so.

I specifically said cultural revolution because I tried to imply a non-violent revolution. Not all revolutions are violent. Think technological revolution.
Reading this list makes me dread working for orgs that are this locked down and frankly annoying.
Casual spying on citizens is new to Western governments (unless you count East Germany as Western).

However in some countries your phone must have mandatory government spyware on your mobile phone and PC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
Wait until you hear about the laws about which drugs you may or may not put in your own body...
Noticed this as well. You can report the attempt to fb with a link in the e-mail and then the next recovery code is different. However, I hope they have some brute-force protection in place for the codes.
I'm not saying they all need to be addressed at once. But they should be addressed close together otherwise it's just the government picking market winners. Technology moves fast.

If you force Google to reorg and then it takes 5 years to bring more antitrust action I'm not sure you've actually improved anything.
They're not "taken out" as a player, they, in the best case, get improved as participant.
These are fantastic. For example, this one https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/zx-venice/ reminds me of "Lords of Midnight"[1]. Which was an incredible game which pioneered procedural generation so it just seemed vastly bigger than anything else I had played up to then. I never managed to keep my speccy alive for long enough in a single sitting to actually finish the game until one day the cassette just gave up entirely and I couldn't play it any more.

[1] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/0006604
Moral culpability would seem to go out the window in a deterministic universe, no? Not in the sense that people shouldn't be held responsible for actions, but in the sense that retributive punishment becomes a much harder sell.

A murderous Roomba may warrant separation from other Roombas, or some sort of intervention which may incline it less towards murder, but we don't put it in a box or pry off its plastic for the mere sake of 'deserving it'.
App Store is a graveyard of great kid apps and games, that are no longer available after their authors found out that the $3.99 one time payment doesn't even pay for developer account fees after a few years.
I think he does not make a mistake at all. It is more than just a snarky joke, it actually gets at the heart of the issue, which is that determinism of physical laws happens at a different level of description than considerations about human minds such as making a decision, or any thought process at all. And you can see in the long sibling thread once again what kind of confusion ensues when people don't take that distinction seriously.

Minds are implemented within physics, but human concepts w.r.t. minds (e.g. responsibility, choice, freedom..) are only valid on the level of the minds, without any reference to the underlying physics. Any time people use physics to make judgments about morality they are just hopelessly confusing themselves by switching between "standard" physics and dualist metaphysics without noticing.
Cash held in their cash management account is FDIC insured up to $5M when all partner banks are enabled for their sweep program. Otherwise, traditional limits apply.

https://www.fidelity.com/why-fidelity/safeguarding-your-acco...
Pencils with teeth: meet the tiny cookiecutter shark that attacked a catamaran
Don't have public profiles (or visibility in general) except when you are able to deal with the stalkers. The problem gets worse the more popular you are.
And so will exa, probably. And if it won't, it will be forked.

Which is exactly the reason "ls" is working perfectly fine for you today. The original AT&T UNIX "ls" has been forked over and over again and rewritten from scratch several times. You're using an evolved fork of this "ls" if you're using macOS or BSD, but if you're on Linux you're using a rewrite (GNU coreutils ls), and if you're running BusyBox you're using yet another rewrite.

All of these different rewrites and forks aren't really compatible, and you can't reliably use anything beyond what's in the POSIX standard if you want your scripts to run on multiple OSes.

I'm not dissing "ls" - it's an impressive, if old, piece of software that served us well, but it's not inherently more survivable because it's old. It died (in terms of being "forked by another maintainer") many times over, enough to make exa and eza blush.

ls survied because people need it, and I that most of the highly popular rewrite-in-Rust programs are here to stay for the same reasons. Ripgrep, exa, bat and fd are probably part of the club now. "ls" is probably not going to die either. The POSIX standard is going to keep at least the least common denominator version alive for a long time. But for many people it could go the way that "ed" or "more" have gone.

And here is a good story: "ed" still survived in POSIX as-is, while "vi" died and had to be replaced by stevie and and elvis, and then by vim. Nowadays vim is also been replaced by neovim in many circles. And yet, how many people keep using "ed"? Who cares if it's stable, when vi and its descendants run circles around it?
I just love this project. I wish you could port it to my Bangle.js...
What interest do UK authorities have in being so petty as to charge people for 'stealing' less than 10p in electricity?

I'd say the answers are related.
All that you need to understand this gong show (Earth, 2023) can be found within philosophy...supplement it with some psychology/neuroscience/"mindfulness" and you're all set to have a much better and amusing perspective on The Big Show, including comment sections like this one.
Two GitHub bots not talking to each other on a PR
Don't use Signal (or WhatApp or iMessage or Telegram) for your work stuff, unless your work is giving you a dedicated work phone.

Your phone number is personal, but your work chats should be based on your work identity. You should be able to log out of corporate messenger, mute it, or skip installing it on your personal device altogether.

If a workplace requires my personal number and expects it as a primary communication method it's a huge red flag to me.
I can die now. My life is complete.
Wow. Seems like such a waste of time. Especially given on iOS at least you can hit the “spatialise stereo” toggle to do this automatically if you’re so inclined.
It's just plain old sexism.
I have disabled it an now it's fine! What is also interesting that this is happening with two different laptops. The Sound Device btw is a USB DAC that is connected through the USB-C hub. Maybe this is what is causing the issues.
This issue is relatively new, what I am experiencing is "reaching" the USB DAC Sound Device is getting slower and slower. Maybe this is a driver issue in Windows.
That's ~100m that could be put towards things that actually help people and improve peoples lives.
US, EU, went after Microsoft in the past, especially about web browsers.

However regulatory actions usually arrive too late, too much damage has happened, smaller competitors are already out of business, etc.
If you replace part of the URL with %s then you can use a keyword? as part of the URL.
At the state of the onion address, where else?
Exactly, the social contract is that the government plays a role in the market to 1) ensure competition actually exists and 2) consumers can't be bullied into harmful practices. It's a constant cat and mouse game too. (there are more things the gov does too).

Both of these we've seen the government hold up frequently in the past. We monopoly bust as well as bust when companies become too big. For some reason people think precise monopolies are different from effective monopolies. Contract law itself doesn't allow you to put illegal things into the contract. Anarchocapitalism doesn't work, despite libertarian beliefs because power is not linearly proportional, natural monopolies exist, and collusion exists. Two-three big companies that control 70% of a market can all gain if they decide to include clauses where they acquire all your assets immediately. Insurance companies can maximize profits by kicking you out as soon as you get sick and requiring that you have to have one. The solution spaces are large and even when competition exists the nash equilibrium isn't always what's best for consumers. Nuance is requires because multiple solutions exist, not just the one we want to exist.
Stalking at a marathon is way too easy.

If you see someone you want to know more about, just look at their bib. Based on the bib number and/or their partial name that's printed, you can check out the results and they give you a full breakdown about their location, age, and full name. You could even get their photos from the race.

Take those details to social media and you'll have a field day.
Take a look at Slopes app's season pass. Use it 15 days per year? Buy a pass. Need it everyday? A subscription will be much cheaper per day of use.
You could say that it requires God levels of discipline.
I mean, Svelte/store is something completely different though, isn't it? it's more akin to Jotai/Zustand/Redux and friends than it is to hooks. If you had to compare Svelte with React, the thing "closest" (while stretching that word very much) to hooks would be the `$` reactivity things Svelte does? Because if you want a state management solution, react has that as well (many, in fact). Just not built in, and a lot of them work really well
That Frankie Boyle quote seems relevant here.

“Not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”
You'll have a blessed version of Linux from IBM/RedHat that specifically meets USC x.y.z requirements for use in a, b, and c industries. You'll have a supported version of Postgres, etc. etc. They'll be a version or two behind and everything else we might have to add riders on the licenses like 'not for use in the following industries' or 'for demonstration and education purposes only.'

Given that everything's getting either a WiFi or bluetooth chip in it, could we see coffee makers that are not approved for use in a commercial, health-care, industrial, or business setting?
> I feel like we still kind of have the "URLs are hard" problem.

QR codes.
Oh yeah I get that. My point was more that there is a simple solution that requires almost no time investment (i.e. a good option for busy parents). It might not be for everyone but it’s a solution that is to easily dismissed very often.
> Our thought experiment is to assume good faith.

At this stage, and in the dying days of a flailing Tory government, that simply makes you a mug.

Also from today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66720994 ; this is specifically to protect murders carried out by and on behalf of the state in Northern Ireland. Along with historical matters such as the "spycops" scandal, and the abuses of PREVENT, there is a strong risk that mass surveillance will be used in political ways and in the service of misconduct. Accountability is poor and therefore trust is poor.

> Who are the marginal influencers?

The Daily Mail. Well, that and the security services who've clearly been pushing this.
Grandpa lived through the Great Depression, and Great Grandpa would have had to work 7 days a week for 10 hours without any worker protections.

Then legislation got passed to make work not awful, and two World Wars happened that killed huge swathes of the prime working demographic -- 18-40 year old men -- and opened up the market for those who were left. That world doesn't exist anymore, and labor legislation is being peeled back.
Google is probably the primary counterweight against Microsoft, Apple, Meta and Amazon. Taking out or diminishing Google will strengthen the monopolies of the other 4.
On iPhones you swipe right from the Lock Screen. Android has a shortcut to double tap the power button.

I don’t know if I ever go searching for an app to open a QR code.
Isn't a step in password reset a prompt asking you to enter the email address the account is tied to?
Because the enterprise disks are rated for years of continuous service and have things like firmware which doesn’t lie about whether data has been committed durably for the sake of benchmarks on review sites.

None of this means that you should trust any particular disk enough not to need redundancy, backups, etc. Companies can and do make trade offs based on their needs and management competency and people have been shifting software for a generation to rely less on the hardware – back when Sun announced ZFS, one of the major appeals was that you could drop expensive hardware RAID controller dependencies in favor of cheap boxes of disks – but there isn’t a single global optimum point. A lot of enterprise purchases are driven by being able to satisfy your most demanding users with the same service as everyone else so you can avoid needing your admins to be trained and experienced with dozens of different storage systems. That last part especially extends to testing: for example, does your rack of consumer drives with software redundancy come back up cleanly after a kernel panic or power outage, especially a nasty one like a fluctuating brownout? Depending on your budget, needs, and technical bench depth you might reasonably conclude that the savings are worth the ops work, or that it’s safer to pay an enterprise storage vendor who’ll certify that they’ve done that testing and will have tech support on-sight within an hour, or that you’ll use AWS/Azure/GCP because they do even more of that tedious but important work. All of those can be right, but I’ve typically found that people in the first two categories think they’re doing better than they are and would be paying less for better service in the cloud.
Most people don't type `ls` directly either. Aliases like `l`, `ll` and `la` are very common, in which case it really doesn't matter which tool you're using.

I've been using `exa` for years, and my aliases work regardless if it's installed or not. I just get a better UX if it is.
Yeah I use LSP-typescript in Sublime Text, which uses typescript-language-server, which is backed by tsserver.
I had Compuserve instead of AOL. I'd been using BBSs to get to various MUDs before that, but Compuserve seemed to have it all, including email and an Internet gateway. I couldn't see any reason to ever give it up.
Isn't there a rating system? I mostly listen to hand crafted playlists, so I don't remember. But I would be surprised if they have a recommendation engine where you cant just dislike certain songs, and like others.