skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The party line is: “Making criminals suffer is, in itself, always bad. The only available moral justification is deterrence: The suffering you save must exceed the suffering you inflict.”

Huh? What if the local minima of inflicting some suffering to the perpetrator will lead to a better local maxima?

I don't know why the author seems to think that being a consequentialist or utilitirianism somehow precludes certain solutions/methods? The only truth is this: That actions have consequence, we live in a universe with cause and effect (even if some of that cause is random). If this is false then there is absolutely zero reason to have morality. The only "right" morality is to have one that attempts to map itself closest to reality (the propensity for man to believe in irrational things is also one such reality). A morality that demands certain methods without the ability to change in real time is just dogma.

This is why it is so confusing why people oppose Sam Harris so much. A world in which everyone thinks like him is not so much different than now. We would still have left/right wing debates and all that. The only difference is that belief no longer gets a pass. You can't say "doing X is right because it says so". When someone says "bro, believe me, we need to do this particular thing every other day or else we would suffer tremendously" then people would rightly question their belief. The calculus of "missing 1 prayer and suffer hell for ETERNITY" and living in modernity is entirely absurd. If you have such world view, then slaughtering apostate is entirely justified, because in your belief, apostates would have suffered in hell for ETERNITY. So the equation tips heavily towards doing whatever is necessary to prevent this.
I know I can look it up but what are the side effects?
No, lightning ports are more durable and cables less durable.

USB-c ports are less durable and cables more durable.

It’s about which end has thinner pins
They're too happy to have their username recognized by strangers on internet forums?
I was going to suggest the :CueCat [0], but as I just realized, scanning QR codes with one's phone is quite trivial.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
I actually appreciate this analysis. One of the things that is a pet peeve is when people tack on a consequentialist that isn't well supported to a different moral argument.

An example was after Sept 11, there was a lot of discussion about torture. Inevitably, an argument would come up where the person said torture was morally reprehensible, and it never worked anyway.

They never wanted to address in the cases where torture would likely work (for a current example - a passcode to unlock a iPhone that you could check on the spot), would you still be morally opposed?

In this article, the author addresses something that would likely be very effective, yet still condemns it as being immoral.
Are tech workers not eligible for EB-2/EB-3? I haven't gone through the process myself, but from a number of people I know I have, it seems pretty automatic for my EU citizen contacts to get US visas compared to the drama the process causes for Indians (my understanding is that this is due to many limits being per-country, but not considering population)
Sadly, if the containers are wet, they tend to get rusty. If not, they get hot.
Usually... but sometimes very nice games ARE there.

skyrim, oblivion,morrowind, cyberpunk 2077, fallout 3 & 4 & new vegas, torchlight 1 & 2
> Most people never connect a physical cable from their phone to anything but a charger.

Carplay? Or is a cable optional for that? IIRC it was sending some data over the cable because I get promoted for carplay stuff after plugging it in.
Yeah, XDG portals. Not something that's essential to the display protocol.

The idea that we need to be shoving tray icons and screen recording and permissions APIs into the display protocol is an Xism that folks need to let go. The display protocol should only deal with displaying things, meaning it's a standard way to give memory buffers to clients for them to draw into, and all the other crap can and should be handled elsewhere.
Worldwide big corps already utilized Microsoft 365 especially SharePoint. That's Microsoft's advantage.
The second you can have competing app stores I see Steam opening shop and mobile gaming blowing up.
Some honest commentary is over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490719
> I haven’t had intense thoughts for years

Intense in both directions or only intensely negative?
The port is capable, but does the Pixel actually move data that fast over it?
What gives you that idea?!

Heavy metals and pathogens being retained in fruit juices is widespread and heavily checked by USDA etc.
Can't forget slavery.
There were other factors at play. Many professionals transitioned to a permanent work-from-home arrangement, which caused a large interest in more affordable property outside of the major cities. Since things have gone back to the 'old normal' the rental prices in Sydney have gone absolutely insane. The average price for even mediocre apartments close to the city is around $1000 a week.
I have had Android phones with USB-C and other USB-C devices like iPad Pro for many years now, and "dirt and sand can get into it" never even remotely crossed my mind. And yes they have been working just fine -- current phone is 3 years old and still doing well.
X11 will continue to exist and be maintained for decades. I would not even be surprised if it lasts longer than Wayland.
A photo shows them using tire warmers and they're running Hoosiers, which are incredibly sticky tires.

I have no idea what you're on about with "rubber/glue on the launch surface/tires." That's not a Thing.
Family punishment of the sort he lays out in the article, i.e. mafia underworld tactics are disregarded not because of the effects but because of the intent of the parties involved.

There's a non strawman version of this practiced in most cultures across the world, familial shame. Averting shame from your family and inflicting shame on relatives is an important social function in many cultures. Western cultures have a unique aversion to it due to unusual levels of individualism, but it's not a challenge for consequentialism in general. It does indeed work, and it is widely practiced.
Intensely negative. For what it’s worth, my scientific success came after I began Prozac, so it didn’t seem to affect creativity or chasing the highs of a breakthrough. If anything, it was easier to focus.

But again, everyone is different, and you should monitor your own condition along with your doctor and adjust dosage accordingly.
Out here, we use ChilliLang. Despite the name, it's the latest hot language. And we use Python for pickling.
Traditionally, the Muslim community in India preferred to make jam out of gooseberries and the Hindus preferred to pickle them.
I am a satisfied owner of an iPhone 14 Pro Max, and every phone I’ve owned since the iPhone 3GS has been an iPhone. I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Having said that:

The Dynamic Island has to be one of the biggest cons any large company has pulled off in a while, and I’m surprised that a) Apple is continuing to double down on it (it’s the second listed “feature” at the top of the linked article), and b) people still buy that it’s a good feature.

I’ve said this since they announced it for the 14, but it’s a gimmick that Apple is trying to tout as a selling point to cover up their inability to reasonably get rid of the notch.

It doesn’t functionally do anything that they couldn’t do without the notch, yet the notch still gets in the way of many apps/UIs. Yet I still see many Apple apologists coming to its defense.

The notch isn’t the end of the world, and the Dynamic Island is an ok “make the best of the notch” in lieu of getting rid of it, but touting it as a selling point is a bit deceptive (to put it nicely), and unfortunately, people continue to fall for it.
This prank along with previous studies prove that wine tasting is 100% made up. Anyone telling you they can taste the difference, even between red and white wine, is lying. Its AMAZING that it seems like 99% of average people are convinced that they can taste the difference between red and white wine but they cant.
Indeed. It's a case of "my favorite kind of car isn't the best performing anymore, but I refuse to accept that, so I'm going to change the definition of performance instead."
Throwing another data point into the ring. Of all the lightning cables I bought, the genuine ones from Apple always failed first.
usb-c to lightning.
I also come with biceps, but the pull ups come from practice.
I'm with you - I love my 12 mini (and will probably hold on to it as long as I can)

This video makes a great point about small phones at scale that changed my mind about demanding small phones from large companies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKe1H5cIVDk
I'd be curious to learn more about this too!
> Wait, that can't be right, it would be ludicrous. Once a game passes the threshold it pays per-install permanently?

Yes and no. You need to meet _both_ thresholds, cumulative (lifetime) installs _and_ yearly(!) revenue. I (!)'d the yearly part there, because you still need to be pulling in a yearly $1M of revenue (I'm assuming Unity Pro here cause the math is simpler) after your 1M of installs.

So while there are some edge cases here that are legitimately ludicrous, it's not the case that you're on the hook for the game in perpetuity, because if your game falls off a cliff and you make $500k in revenue next year, you owe nothing in runtime fees. In other words, you're not incentivized to take it off the market after 1M installs unless the runtime fees made it so you started losing money on the game after your $1M of revenue-- there are some examples where this is possible but none of them are very realistic.
Maybe try a USB condom: https://www.zdnet.com/article/flying-this-weekend-this-6-usb...
This just doesn't seem like very much. Phones have plateaued and it would be nice if we (and the industry) could acknowledge that.
What e-waste? I've been using the same lightning cables since forever.
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I thought nvidia did release phones?
Inventing an original, homegrown American sauce is a good thing and something we should be proud of. Everyone loves rooster sauce including me, not just the Vietnamese community.

I’m not sure how my comment can be seen as a criticism for the Huy Fong company. it was meant to criticize the blog post instead
No worries. “Eating” is not even the right word since you’re removing all solids. Without seeing any evidence or scientific argument, yes, drinking juice of the same four vegetables for a full three months sounds very problematic on multiple fronts… this is very different from “eating a lot of vegetables”.
How can it be pure if it's in fruit? I'd think the fiber, sugars, acid, etc would all be considered impurities.
Not depression, but I had pretty significant (to me) anxiety that seemed to permeate every spare second of my waking life. I saw a TikTok recently of someone who said Magnesium supplements helped them very quickly. I thought “what the hell” and tried it. I was shocked how fast it worked for me. Within two days the anxiety melted away.

Placebo, maybe. Couldn’t care less. It worked, for all my purposes.
It'll be interesting sure, but porting struggles have never really been about the numbers. Porting to iPhone takes time because the API is starkly different from consoles or Linux/Windows systems. Apple won't publish your game unless it's using Metal, there's no way around it. Games like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil have been touted for the same purposes in the past, but they never signaled any major internal shifts.
A Polar Vortex Is Starting to Form in the Stratosphere over the North Pole
Sounds like regular parks in my city.
Union Station in Toronto has the same issue with narrow platforms— if people were waiting on the platforms to get on, there'd be no room for anyone to get off the trains.
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Not gonna lie, I stopped reading as soon as I saw them describing moral philosophy "in economic terms"... sounds like I made the right call, lol.
By lazy, he meant simple. Imagine you are in charge of conscript soldiers who have been given the bare minimum of training. Your plans and orders should consist of step1, step2, and step3 and no more.
You are kidding right? I could sent you whole crew from Europe (>$1K per person for flights alone) and make couple of grand doing it at half cost.
It's saying the overall prevalence in the population from which the study group was drawn was 4.3 per 100k. The study cohort (young men who took SAs during the study time frame) was less than 1000 people, of whom 4 exhibited PSSD. So incidence within the studied group was around 100x the general population prevalence.
2 years can't make up for decades of being behind schedule. Throw in low interest rate and government's throwing money everywhere it'd be much more shocking if anything else happened.
Like they said, they keep a Lightning cable in their car. They didn't say that it's a USB-A to Lightning cable. I own USB-C power banks and so forth, and use a USB-C to Lightning cable to plug my iPhone into them.

> no USB-C desk fan

Are you, uh, powering a desk fan off your phone?
Generally agree, but Siri is out and is awful
In what way? Last I tried both, I could only make Earthly work (though now I'm a fan of CUE because of Dagger).
The history in the US of separate but equal education and other facilities might give this plan some opponents.
Lessons from YC AI Startups
Looks like you are talking about two different things in one sentence. About security updates -- while it is true that Apple provides security updates much longer than Android phones and this is something I care a lot about, I need to point out that the vast majority of people (outside HN or similar "tech forums") don't upgrade phones due to lack of security features but lack of latest features, missing nice cameras, or if the battery has bad battery or damage.
Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz
I'm not sure I understand why this is a problem for consequentialists any more than it is a problem for the author's own position.

The basic idea seems to be: In some cases it might prevent more harm to punish innocent people i.e. family members of criminals, therefore consequentialists should endorse punishing family members in those cases.

The author seems to think this logic doesn't apply to their own position because they believe that the reason to punish wrongdoers isn't to prevent further harm, but because the punishment of wrongdoers is justice which is good. The opposite side of this would be punishing innocent people, which would be injustice. This contrasts with pure consequentialism which doesn't care about justice vs. injustice, it only cares about the end result.

The key part is from the definition from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which says:

> 3. that it is morally impermissible intentionally to punish the innocent or to inflict disproportionately large punishments on wrongdoers.

But then, the author then goes on to say:

> What if harming Hitler’s baby was the only way to save the world? As a moderate deontologist, I reluctantly endorse this implication. But only in dire hypotheticals with little real-world relevance.

So it seems like the author also endorse harming the family members of wrongdoers, but for them it's ok because it's only in "dire hypotheticals". This feels like a bit of a cop out to me. It seems like you could just as easily call yourself a "moderate consequentialist" and say that punishing people is only good as a deterrent, but also punishing innocent people is wrong.
I don't know why you used two religious groups as your first examples of families, Sikh and Hindus.

Religious people often treat people who are not family, as family. It doesn't take Einstein to figure out that families should band together when they look over and see their peer-families get implicated for crimes they didn't commit.

The Hitler argument makes little sense because you kill him. Retributive justice works best when it's paired with Mercy. Punish then pardon. Otherwise it's just pointless punishment.

Get Hitler do some rebuilding of the land he destroyed, face the widows of the sons he ordered to die, shake the hand of a Jewish holocaust survivor. Throw him into a zoo enclosure with one-way glass, in a straight jacket, and allow him to hear the epitaths of the survivors as they walk past his cell.

Why retribution has to end in physical punishment and killing, is beyond me. There are realities worse than death, which have nothing to do with violence.

One man, once captured by the state and social opinion, cannot be allowed the easy way out, of death-by-retributive-revenge.

Can we move past Hitler, why am I carrying around his mistakes like it matters in today's cyberpunk world...
Ask HN: How to stop chasing difficult goals?
Throughout my life of 40+ years I have been chasing difficult goals, some are technical (like reading and implementing a PoC|GTFC paper), some are not (literally stuck to a sales person position for 3 years, thinking that I could get better at soft skills when throwing myself into a corner I hated, which of course made me hate people more).

None of them works. I dropped most of them. I don't really have the characteristics to grit through the difficulties. Even for the few that I achieved I didn't bother to continue so everything was lost. Well maybe not everything, because every time I failed, the frustration added up and stayed.

How can I be content that I am an average person, or worse than one? How can I be a sofa potato and be content with tittytainment after work and do nothing to improve myself? Every time I tried I got bored in under 7 days and started to snoop around again.
> They never wanted to address in the cases where torture would likely work (for a current example - a passcode to unlock a iPhone that you could check on the spot), would you still be morally opposed?

The good old car keys fallacy of torture: "if someone threatened to beat me with an iron bar unless I handed over my car keys, I'd give them my car keys"

Replace with: "someone threatens to beat you with an iron bar unless you give up the passcode to the strong-room protecting your family, so they can murder them". You still going to do it?

You've implicitly assigned a low value to the information you're willing to torture someone for, and ensured the information is easy to verify, therefore, obviously someone will just give up the information.

But why would you so desperately need low-value information in the first place? Why would specific torture be needed, but "mild inconvenience" would not work - given as how the information is apparently of no serious value to the person holding it. And of course, if it's high-value information you run into other problems like how beyond a certain point the person can't actually remember their name, or recall any complex information, so the idea you could "beat a passcode out of them" is highly questionable.

Proven by the practical methods by which Osama bin Laden was located by the CIA: the CIA fed a story to the makers of Zero Dark Thirty that they successfully tortured it out of a prisoner. They definitely tortured the prisoner...but all the useful information was obtained using regular interrogation techniques before they water-boarded him 100+ times.

Providing of course the secondary problem: if torture - in this case water-boarding - worked, why did 100+ efforts fail to yield any better information then what they already had?
You could create another work from it and distribute it on the basis of Fair Use, but I don't think you could comfortably copyright any of the derivative work.

IANAL, this is not legal advice.
‘Many’ of us are using iTunes to sync mp3s?
Before the iPhone, multi-media phones had the modem as main chip with a companion chip that did GPU, video decoding etc.

With the iPhone, an SOC took center stage and the modem became secondary.
Antidotal and doesn’t dismiss my claim that lightning is more durable.
I've lost access to my near-twenty-year-old Google account this way.

I have the username, password and recovery email, but because I can't receive an SMS, I'm dead.
A self respecting person would type anything meant to be read. You sign your name and that’s it.
Use it for what? Entertaining a court of competent jurisdiction with your complete ignorance of copyright law? For sure. As a script for a TV show? Well, of course you can, but expect to pay a pretty penny for violating the copyright of the original.

Copyright does not particularly care whether you produce infringing materials with a fountain pen or a plausible sentence generator software. In this case , it's not impossible your script will be found a derivative work and then 17 U.S.C. 106(2) applies.

Running Victorious Titus through the very human brain of Tyler Bates did not make the 300 soundtrack less infringing.
New York City and Oregon pension funds sue Fox
I have YouTube Red or whatever it’s called now.

I watch a lot of YouTube generally but also I wind up watching a lot of videos for 17 seconds trying to get hints for music cues and things. Ads just make that super hard and watch on enough devices and in enough places that any ad blocking solution wouldn’t work for me, but I support the notion.
The max speed isn't as important as much as the fact it can go past the USB 2 limit in speed.
Seriously. They're in the business of finding ever more ingenious ways of shifting money from one party's pockets to another's. I can think of some important ways in which they are definitely not better than me despite their vastly more impressive technical skill.
> strict vetting process

Eh, don't expect too much from this. It's just the packager downloading a .tar.gz from the website or cloning the version control, maybe checking if it looks alright for a bit at most, maybe check signatures if they're available (or maybe not), and that's usually it. Especially for updates don't expect a "vetting process" of any meaning.

The main "defence" is time, not any vetting: usually people find out any problems before packagers have time to update the package or before a package becomes "known enough" to be added to Debian (or any other package repo): there will be GitHub issues, Reddit drama, HN threads, news articles, what-have-you.

Things like Chromium has a bunch of eyes, but that's the exception and very much not the rule.
Still, having such low self-esteem after individually accomplishing quite a lot more than what 95% of people on Earth (not counting in history) has been able to is a sign you need to look into with some professional help.

It's not healthy, your sense of self-value seems to be completely tied to external perceptions and expectations. Answer to yourself: who are you, actually?
I’m no expert on meta-analyses, but if the total pooled samples is 785 and there are 12 studies. That seems like quite a small average sample size per study. Is this not underpowered? An average of junk is still junk.
Surely Grand Central just ~15 blocks away could be viewed as remotely comparable?
Not disputing your point of view, but wasn’t this always the case at some level? The <version> to <version>S was, to my memory, never that big, so you were really looking at two year cycles for major updates.

No comment on whether the 13->15 jump was big enough to be worthwhile, just that I think that’d be more comparable than the 14->15 jump.
Reminds me of a neat video I saw once on the inner workings of a sheet metal stamping factory (for car parts). They used a directional microphone array pointed at the inspected machine and compared audio waves and overlayed “hot spots” on a display to see how the machine was working and where it was malfunctioning.
Just plain not true. Process is relevant but is not the biggest factor. Design is.
What are you getting at here? Spotify doesn't have everything, the least of which is music I make myself.