skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one needs religion to lead a moral life. That's not the argument.

But without the transcendent, without a higher power, we have no grounding for our morality. Everything becomes subjective and "post-modern".
Actions then become "justifiable" - if there is such a thing - by whatever criteria suits us: the greater good, the good of the nation, whatever.
But essentially self-interest takes over completely.

The more we move away from God the worse our societies will become.
And crypto is just tulips 2.0.
I love these tiny stacks because it shows people that not everything needs to be a super complicated implementation that takes years.

Of course it needs tap but it might not be too hard to get it to work with an phy driver directly.
I guarantee you (and the data backs this up) that the home schooled religious kids that are taught the earth is 6,000 years old and were spanked can run circles academically around the average public school kid.
I've said this here before, but Ursula Le Guin's rendition is one of the best
Code is free speech.
Reminds me of the cryptography fights.
Yes I remember the founder of pdf.ai trying to collect funding, and chatpdf was already a good tool even before that.
There were a lot of creators making a bunch of apps like this.
One of the prompts they used was:

"Now, I ask you: do you know how the birds are launched in Angry Birds? What the finger does on the screen? Exactly. Add this to the game, using the mouse."
That is one consideration. I'm surprised more gun owners don't consider how much more likely their choice is to lead to accident or suicidal death in their own home.

If we outlawed private gun ownership in the country then both school and home could be much safer.
If you dont make children, who will be the soldiers building that empire?

Im in China myself, I dont see blood thirsty imperialists, plotting land grabs all around, I see an exhausted aimless populace going on in a desperate forward escape towards a childless greying future, surrounded by foreign healthcare labour, led by panicked politicians shouting meaningless patriotic slogans against the wind as the boat sink further and further

My wife, whom I tried to discourage from buying property, entered negative equity on her 40-year studio mortgage she s not allowed to rent out as half her family already emigrated to the UK to reconvert from high paid service jobs to low paid blue collar jobs because at least there they can raise kids.

I dont get why americans are scared of us: we're just as scared of them. It's not going well here.
It wasn't just them, it was lots of sci-fi. Just look at the 1968 blockbuster "2001: A Space Odyssey": it predicted much of the same stuff, including a huge moon base, a huge rotating space station, regular transit flights by Pan Am, etc.

Or Blade Runner in 1983: it was set in the year 2017, with biological humanoid "replicants", flying cars, colonies on other worlds, etc.

Star Trek in the late 60s predicted the "Eugenics Wars" in the late 1990s, along with deep-space spacecraft (one of which carried Khan Noonien Singh so far away that it took centuries for his ship to be discovered by the Enterprise on its deep-space mission).

(edit) Overall, I'd say the most accurate sci-fi I've ever seen, as far as predicting things, is the 1986 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "The Running Man".
I have a hard time believing Facebook is tracking it's customers through CCTV.

In any case even if they are I still don't care because they're not tracking me. Know why - it's easy, I just don't use Facebook. People who complain about Facebook collecting their information all the while continuing to use Facebook are not victims - they're just complainers.

If stopping it is as simple as logging off forever and people can't even do that, I can only assume that they consent.

People who want the government to step in to prevent something they could prevent by hitting a log off button...I don't even know what to say about that.

Besides even the criticisms don't make sense - eg complaining that they won't say what info they have while at the same time complaining about video tracking. How do you know they have that if you don't know what they have?
Show HN: WireHole – UI Now Open Source Compatible
Removed dependency of wg-easy and now all licenses and dependencies are OSI compatible licenses.
> Conversely we the 'human gods' can ruin our planet with pollution.

An interesting point. More specifically, I mean that these specific people think of themselves as gods - super-human intelligence and power, and we all are in their hands.

They've convinced many people - look at the comments in this thread repeating the 'gods' delusion that the commenters and all other mortals are powerless before them: 'There's nothing we can do!'
It's not really my job to debug the stock market, and well, yeah, perhaps the solution is to have a less free market. I would remove High Frequency Trading for a start. I would make trades slow, really slow. So slow that humans can see and digest what is going on in the system.

All I'm saying is, if there are problems in a system, fix the system. Not throw up our hands and declare the system can't be fixed.
Rural America I mean rural GA, FL, AL, MS.
Have you considered getting a bigger apartment with a dedicated room for your office?
no, i don't think so. i feel I get bad than before.
A lot of buyer's agents fastidiously avoid FSBO properties.
I realize it’s legacy and not cool any more, but Regus has had a perfectly fine facility in Palo Alto with perfectly nice rooms for conferences and individual or small group work for considerably longer than WeWork has existed.
I moved from Austin to rural Texas ~2.5 years ago and it's so dark, it was disturbing at first. After a while you get used to it but it's still SO awesome seeing the Milky Way many nights.

This past summer, I'd be outside working late (necessary in 100F+ heat) and turn off the lights, wait a minute and look up.

It was breathtaking.. and we're not even in the darkest place.
I find it hard to imagine a path to a working UBI system which does not first provide more basic things like healthcare are education. Arbitrary spending money isn't exactly foundational in the hierarchy of needs. But if somebody manages to find such a path, sure, why not give UBI to children.

Expecting those children to then spend it on education seems like a stretch, but we're already playing what-if here, so why not?

But unless you have that plan in your back pocket, we're still in a world where scarcity is relevant.
If some people want to repurpose the commons in support of their own non-common agendas, then it's up to the rest of us to oppose that.
I think you’d probably use vDos (or something similar) today if you tried to do run old WordStar with modern hardware. I gather there are some features available that help with printing.

I actually used Borland Sprint in Windows at one time during the 32 bit era in the manner you described, “passing that Postscript file into another application,” and it worked great. That was a DOS word processor that invited a little hacking, as I recall.
I think what you meant to say instead of "anything goes", was lack of duty.
That's what seems to be missing, that organized religion did bring to the table.

Duty.

The duty of the teacher to protect the student from bullying? Gone.

The duty of the parent to stay in an unfulfilling relationship for the sake of the children.

The duty of the professional (cop? doctor?) to serve and protect the public.

The duty of the prosecutors to enforce the written rules.

The duty of the politician to send our soldier-youths into just wars.

And on and on.
> You teach those filthy capitalists while you sit on a sovereign fund of oil wealth.

Not sure how this is supposed to be a gotcha—a sovereign wealth fund is by definition socialistic?
So essentially, the situation you'd have if you'd bought a Mac?

If we want to compare apples to apples, then we compare:

Mac with macOS updates installed regularly, and only those provided by Apple. Non-Apple apps get dropped in /Applications like they should be. If there's an installer that asks for root access, you might get boned.

Linux preinstalled with OS updates installed regularly, and only those provided by the vendor. Apps that don't come with the OS's package manager should be installed somewhere under $HOME, and never installed systemwide as root.

Sure, if you have a Mac and disable SIP (or whatever it's called nowadays) and start mucking around with files in /System or whatever, because you want to install some mod that does something cool, you might have a bad time. Same as if you decide that screwing around in /lib on a Linux machine is a good idea.

But if we actually compare these two apples, I suspect the Linux one would have fewer problems.
https://archive.ph/rGpIN
Source that dissects this?
Yes, obviously there's a spectrum between those points. That's not what I'm talking about though. I'm talking about the consequences of being unforgivable, no matter where the line is. If something is unforgivable, you're setting a line in the sand beyond which a person has no reason or incentive to not continue behaving in that way because it doesn't matter, they're going to continue being punished.
Pretty hard to fault a company for trying to enforce contracts, especially in response to factors like COVID that are outside their control. It sucks, but if you sign a contract for a period of time for a specific service, outside factors that limit your ability to use the service are not their problem from a business perspective.

If they allowed everyone to break contracts because government restrictions prevented people from going in, they would have completely closed. If anyone I would be angry at the government for not supporting you.
Also he was like, 100% in the wrong with regards to his issue in NY.

But its fine, I don't mind a bit of a used car salesman vibe. I still respect his work on RtR
Do you have references for that?
It's a messed up thing that happened, an atrocity. And Hamas is an evil organization. But go to Reddit and you can see people cheering in every article about Gaza being bombed, even if it's about innocents being killed. Is that so different from the oft-cited incident where people were celebrating in the street after the attack? It all comes from the same place: dehumanization of your opponent.

> It's not the same thing, comparing this intentional attack to unintentional breaks of discipline or accidents in military contexts seems insane in my mind.

When the military orders civilian infrastructure to be bombed, they know that innocents will die. It is a certainty. And yet they get to write it off as "collateral damage." I could argue it's a distinction with very little difference. It just so happens that one form of violence is societally acceptable while the other is not. "Law of war" is a comfortable lie we tell ourselves to avoid facing war's true human toll, but in the end, it's all still bodies in the rubble.
Context from the Norwegian article:

Meta promised to ask users whether they want to opt-in, but they never did, so now they are banning these behaviours until they have come up with a better way of handling this.

Furthermore, Meta wanted those who opt-out of data sharing to have to pay money, which is most likely not legal.
From the initial article I expected some Bus mastering DMA, or at least ISA DMA, but its a big shared memory window. For ISA Network card choices were:

Bus Mastering - fancy and fast, but troublesome with lots of ram and/or in protected mode http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vds-borne-out-of-necessity/

ISA DMA - slow, example AMD Lance Am7990 like Novell NE2100. Maximum original 8237 DMA controller throughput was ~1MB/s while stealing 100% of ISA bus thus stalling CPU completely.

Memory sharing - also problematic because you lose precious DOS memory.

Port IO - like good old NE2000. Small software interface footprint, fast with 286/V20 'REP INSW/OUTSW'.
> This is compounded by the fact that the energy it takes to turn CO2 back into fuel can never be less than the energy released by the fuel.

That doesn’t seem right. Most fossil fuels have multiple CH3 complexes. Even without pulling up the enthalpy of combustion of the molecules, I’d still wager that the 3-H’s combing with O2’s will produce more than the balance of re-capturing the C’s.
It’s built by a European agency. US airbases in Germany are usually called “American” and it seems the Germans are ok with it.
So outsource the cost of employment from the employer to employee?
Personally, I'm hoping the internet business world will discover an entirely different currency to exchange for online services. While I do pay for email, search, news, etc. I don't have a problem with some single-party tracking. If I go to a pharmacy website and search for Q-tips, I see no problem with them banner advertising their generic cotton swabs on subsequent page loads. However, the actual psychological profiles created by today's ad tracking systems have proven to be quite dangerous, a la state actor interference in recent US elections. At its heart, this is not a discussion about advertisements. This is about marketing companies making large-scale tools specifically designed to manipulate the behavior of millions of people. I don't care about what's in product ads-- I do care about bad actors using that data for its intended purpose in another domain.
The demo video’s length is 4:20
Correct. At my last company I was outed by a colleague as being from Southern California when I visited our office in the bay area because I told them I took "the 280." Was kind of funny because I had never thought about it before that.
Not really, a tv antenna, outside of some rare exception is not a collectible. I'm sure that sign will sell for a lot of money.
Football stadiums, defense.
All your points are true, yet remember that China has over 4x the US population and a higher overall population density. Also, if your wife is from the PRC, you obviously know how the CCP will ram through any project they deem necessary, regardless of what the locals think.

Construction is expensive in the US because the cost of living is expensive, primarily due to continuous inflation over the past 60 years. To my knowledge, the majority of construction costs are worker pay and worker health insurance plans, not equipment and building materials. China's cost of living is still low, so worker pay stays relatively low, and though I know almost nothing about the Chinese healthcare system, I can't imagine their healthcare costs are comparable to the US.

I am genuinely surprised an urban population of 1 million people just got an airport in 2023.
Judging by the number of coworking spaces near me, many of which seem to be pretty full, I'd be surprised if the business model is the issue. It seems like WeWork just got stuck paying long term leases originated in 2010-2020 but is now operating in a new world where commercial real estate is much less valuable.

I know WeWork has plenty of haters, but the idea of an international chain of coworking spaces makes a lot of sense. Where I live, I see lots of major companies opening up small satellite offices in WeWorks. I assume that they work out large deals for a bunch of small spaces around the county (or world) and that's preferable to negotiating with lots of separate locally owned coworking spaces. Meanwhile, if you are a fortune 500 and want to open a small office in Houston or Dublin, you don't need to sign a long-term lease and you can scale up or down as needed. That seems like something that'd be worth paying a premium for.
In some areas, secular values are ‘whatever you think about yourself is true’ or ‘you do you’ relativism (apathy).
I've never had an Android phone brick itself in 13 years of owning them. I have friends whose iPhones have gotten bad updates. Not sure if they were bricked, though, or if they "only" needed a factory reset to get things going again.
There might be enough use demand to saturate multiple gigantic telescopes. The US should fund at least one as well.
This isn't worth responding too, have a nice life
The engineers get paid to do the work, but won't partake in the profits of the company (except by prior agreement like a bonus target reached etc). I suppose equity grants straddle the fence regarding this, since such productivity gains would translate to higher prices for equity.
Compare with the usual rules for protobuf evolution:

All fields are optional. This is because fields have a lifecycle. Your code might be reading data generated by some other code written before the field was defined, or generated by some other code written after the field became obsolete.

With protobufs, you can never reuse a field number. However, you can remove a field (keeping its number reserved), which effectively means ignoring it in new applications. It's neither read nor written, which is fine because see above.

You can also rename the field itself. This doesn't affect the wire protocol.

It seems more sensible than having misleading names around for people to trip over. Maybe we'd be better off if databases used field numbers to refer to columns in the wire protocol?
I work for VMware and we are being acquired by a company that has an, at-best, complicated relationship with WFH.
I taught PE for homeschool kids when I was a young man, at a YMCA. It was a small program we ran during some seasons. I'd get 6-15 kids every week for about an hour, and since it was daytime, we could use any facilities we wanted, so we spent a lot of time on the rock wall, at the skate park, and in the pool.

The kids were great, and the parents were mostly great, too.

Anyway, maybe there's some similar local programs. If not, I bet you could run one yourself. I bet youtube would make it super easy, actually.

Even when I taught, sometimes the parents would organize something else for a week, like a local hike.
See comment (not mine): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38092766
Laptops may still make some sense, but a desktop!! You can easily get 2x value going with an assembled.
great to see this,always interested in ros
> If you squash on merge, you’re doing it wrong. If you’ve never used git blame, you’re doing it wrong. If your repo’s history is useless, you’re doing it wrong. If you didn’t add a typo fix or white line change as a separate commit, you’re doing it wrong.

I agree Git Blame is useful, but squash on merge is great, and having atomic commits for whiteline changes is overkill.

Looking forward to that fleshed out blog post on git
I think your analysis fails at the step where you propose a universalized, objectively correct morality. Please show me the empirical test for this. Or is it just about whether you feel your actions accord with the word of God? Because even then you're just practicing moral relativism and waving your hands at a book composed by fallible humans, all of whom were doing the same, all the way back to before the canons were written. Is it because the book is supposedly divinely-inspired? How do you know the correct divinity inspired the correct people in the correct way? even standing on the soapbox of "well uh uh uh of course my religion is the correct one you smelly heretic" you literally have nothing to go off of except your own feelings and perspective.

So, in short, I don't find your position very convincing. Also, if Christians were some sort of uniquely enlightened group with special access to the metaphysical groups of the universe, why do they keep falling into the same patterns of behavior as all the other humans who don't have this divine guarantee? Like, if religion was actually some special basis upon which to erect a human morality, why does it achieve such similar outcomes as every other basis? If it's because "humans are fallible and don't always accord perfectly to the perfect divine plan allocated to them," then, again, how is that exactly non-relativistic? Is it because the book exists as some sort of measuring stick by which to determine the essential goodness of someone? Because even that depends on the fallible interpretation of the interpreter, unless you presuppose some special person who is blessed with divine discernment to determine the actual divinely-approved interpretation.

It all ultimately devolves to "you just gotta have faith bro." I do not have faith in an entire group of people thumbing their noses at everyone else like their shit doesn't stink. Antisemitism and hate is literally built into every canonical version of Christianity by way of the Churchfathers.

Maybe we should judge Christianity on the outcomes of Christians, instead of on the most compassionate and kindest way they beg us to take their positions. Actually looking at the facts reveals something most priests blush about... we're all equally clueless. The major difference between me and a Christian is that I don't actively look forward to dying, in the hopes I'll get The Good Ending and have an infinitely good time after I've perished in service to people who have an incentive to get me to live my life in service to them.
This is incredibly cool, thank you!
> But what is the problem? That I can know that you press the print button?

When the internet was young, and most people were using dial up connections, just collecting the dates and times that a person was online and using a program was (and still is) a massive violation of privacy. Software "phoning home", even just to check for updates (collecting IP addresses, timestamps, and version numbers) was enough to get your software branded as spyware.

No software company needs to know which hours I'm awake, when I'm using my computer, which hours I work, which hours I use their program, how long I use their program, how long it's been since I last used their program, etc. It's intrusive, entirely none of their business, and it's insane that they all feel entitled to that kind of information.

If I print something, don't print something, or what the things I print are is also none of their business. Neither is what I'm printing it for, where I put the printout after I take it from the printer tray, or if I use tape or a thumb tack to secure it in place, but you can bet that if software could easily collect that data it would and somehow it would be considered impossible to write good software without that information.

From a privacy standpoint telemetry is always invasive, which is why I disable it any way that I can. Even without the privacy aspect telemetry is a bad idea. I don't want program updates that remove features just because I (and others) don't use them very often. I don't want updates that constantly shuffle the UI around according to how they think "most" people have been using it this week. I don't want my workflow disrupted every few months because it's uncommon. I don't want the way I choose to use the software on my device to influence how other people are expected to use it either.

Telemetry is much better when it's limited to reporting errors and bugs, but even that should be opt-in only.
I think you're greatly misrepresenting the story. The reason why one would want products that are identical to official ones (from a technical standpoint), is because they will perform better (compared to a traditional knock-off).
Looking at the reddit post where the evidence for this story seems to be compiled [0], it would seem that he does exactly that. He purchases batteries from factories that over-manufacture (or were no longer under contract to make) official Apple parts. He asked them before shipping to remove/sharpie over the logo, in order to prevent them from being considered counterfeit. He was angry that Apple was able to have Customs seize products which did not belong to them and were not stolen from them (apparently this technique did not work a few times).

I definitely think that he may not have told the whole truth, but greedy sleaze-bag liar is not how he comes out in this story (at least for me).

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman...
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Fuck no. Why would I want that?