skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kant's moral system is by no means perfect. His own definition is: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

Obviously we'd all starve to death if everyone became full time philosophers, but wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone took some time to ponder the big questions?
I just installed 18.2 and now that Siri can fallback to ChatGPT (with search results) you can have Siri can actually answer things, all while still setting timers and turning on lights.

The integration seems well thought out, I think people will find it useful.
Jeff Bezos intervened directly in what was promised to be an independent editorial process. That quite directly breaks the trust in both editorials and d news.

For me, it explained WaPo's very careful treatment of Trump's age, versus the aggressive treatment of Biden's age. So I cancelled. I can't trust editorial choice or news editing and framing from a media source where The Owner just busts in and changes things.
> Unification has too much spooky action at a distance, a threaded state

Isn’t this why we have the State monad, or even just fold-like functions? There are multiple ways to tame this problem without resorting to mutable state and side-effects. We know how that deal with the devil usually turns out.

(And I have no idea what "spooky action at a distance" means in this context. If anything, functional programming eliminates such shenanigans by expressing behavior clearly in the type system.)
News paper does not need it. But that was response to:

> This might be bad if the point of owning a newspaper was to make money.

Which implies that owner bought it not to make money but to have influence.
I think that you are right. We can already see this happening on Aliexpress where one can buy cheap X99 ATX motherboards, which are build around LGA2011-3 to take Intel Xeon E5, which is server processor from 10 years ago. Elegant repurposing of old e-waste.
It's not a scam for you but rather a scam for society at large. Making money purely by owning some revenue generating asset, while not providing any service yourself is doesn't work if every single person does it. Many people who work at companies on the S&P500 aren't paid enough to having savings to invest. The money the company saves on employee salaries are shown as profits which result in the "passive income" that you're making.

I don't 100% agree with the logic because it doesn't account for improvements in productivity but I think it roughly translates especially in some late stage capitalism cases where company profits grow despite lower productivity (eg. layoffs).
Wow I did not know that was still possible.

Big-endian seems to be something of Thomasson[1] these days. I wonder if there is any real use case apart from testing code to see if it still runs on old machines.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson
All I know about the recent Matt and WordPress kerfuffle is what I've read here on HN. Based solely on what I've seen of his own comments here on these stories, I think you're right. What I meant in that sentence was "Matt's lawyers do, too", even if Matt might not think so.

One time a friend of mine was showing me a bunch of fancy camera gear he'd bought for his wife's ghost hunting business. I pulled him aside and asked him if he really believe in the spirits and apparitions she talked about. He replied, "oh, for tax purposes I completely believe this bullshit."

By analogy, even if Matt's lawyers privately agreed that a lawsuit over the meaning of "affiliation" is silly and doomed to lose, I can imagine them replying "oh, for billable hours I completely believe it."
While all of this is a heavy tangent to the actual article we're discussing, I'm not sure if Russia, China, Iran et al are exactly the kind of competition we should be fostering and cheering on.
Make better porn then. How else are guys going to learn about sex? Definitely not from trading stories among themselves.
Sex ed in schools is all about pregnancy and STDs, not practical pleasure. For parents, practical advice is basically taboo.
I guess I'm not sure how the "feed in the whole sequence" works, if there's a single reward at the end.
IANAL either but I was under the impression that changed with the Van Buren v United States Supreme Court case [1]. If you register and accept a EULA, it’s no longer “unauthorized” access, regardless of whether you exceed EULA limits, as long as you’re using the authorized interface (as opposed to trying to get access to the servers via SSH or some other side channel). It’s not the criminal courts’ job to enforce access limits.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/19-783
I’m not sure what you mean by this but Python can be very performant when you want it to be. That is to say, when you build computation heavy parts in C (or Zig), and remember to avoid the various performance pitfalls like not using generators when you didn’t want to load all those millions of elements into your memory.

What sets professional Python aside from most other programming languages is that everyone who uses it knows that it’s terrible and how to deal with that. Which will sometimes be replacing parts (or all) or it.

To say that it’s inherently less performant than JS is frankly silly though.
Sorry about the gifs. Haha. And yeah I guess my understanding wasn't quite right either reading the reply to this thread, I'll try to clean it up in the post.
If you would like to go back on using a CMS instead of static generators please take a look at the one I'm building https://vvveb.com it shares the same principles of design and architecture simplicity with the freedom of open source.
Yeah, there’s really two main implementations of Java - OpenJDK and GraalVM. Both are decently mature/stable.
none of them actually shipped a mass market almost exclusively 48V product if you’re trying to imply tesla’s push isnt as massive as it is.
From what I've seen they go hand and hand a lot. All anecdotal of course, but much of the "self-improvement" content I've seen for young men is from the angle that they are failures, and they can "cure" their inadequacies through various channels.

Of course it's not really true, just a bit true. Going to the gym won't make you stop hating yourself, any bodybuilder will tell you that. Going to the gym, no-fap, etc are all chosen as channels because they provide an immediate sense of accomplishment while being relatively easy. But they don't materially improve the circumstances of your life.

It's simple to spend an hour at the gym and you will immediately feel better. But you didn't magically gain friends, a community, a sense of belonging or a reason to live. Those require being uncomfortable and pushing yourself mentally, emotionally, and socially. That's much more difficult than pushing weight.

Ultimately young men just want to believe and feel like they're doing something right.
If you used those mailing lists often enough you had a kill file so you could filter out those who were intentionally disruptive.

I think the negative contribution from Github is the "gamification" of development. Stars, in particular, are emblematic of this problem, as it grants a measure of "apparent quality" yet it's not safeguarded in any way at all so now it just measures "apparent popularity."

The mechanisms you have to employ to be popular are almost diametrically opposed to those you have to do to write quality code.
CRTC exempts Google from Online News Act for 5 years, must pay $100M to outlets
LiteMesh: A Lightweight API Gateway for Dynamic Routing and Resilience
Most archives require you to visit in person. It's annoying to tech people, but there are many reasons for it that extend beyond the obvious copyright issues that Internet Archive keeps tripping over.

One is that given limited resources and the endless amount of material to conserve, archive, digitize, and develop metadata for so that people in the future can even find it, things like "let's start our own financial institution" and "let's pick a fight over 78 RPM records where even Lessig says we'll probably be sued for 25x our annual budget" tend not to come up in preservation organizations.

Likewise cool ideas like "how about we let the general public post comments on albums and videos and even let them post links" tend to get shot down as archivists have better things to do than police porn spam all day.

Archiving sucks and is expensive and thankless so of course they want to be a library, too.

Unfortunately to do so means you have to understand and follow the rules. Making copyrighted books, video game ROMS, and the most popular song of all time downloadable while asking for donations isn't how it's done.

Again, things like "Let's make Donkey Kong playable in a web browser hosted at our domain" does not normally come up in discussions at libraries. It's a bunch of well-intentioned kids and I love them for it, but enough already. It's a failed experiment.

Fix the strategy, put a grownup in charge of the thing, and they'll find financial support from individuals and institutions far easier to come by.
Surely the far more dangerous assumption is to assume that an untested substance won't be harmful to life.
Can't we do that now? There's already a cottage industry of replacement power supplies in the vintage computing and video game sphere, I would imagine GaN products will dominate that space eventually.
... From a pool of respondents who follow this internet personality. She acknowledges that only 10% of her followers identify as women and may respond differently than their cohorts.
The Ballad of Rahul Ligma
> Many people [...] would not reuse the iMacs as displays.

They could resell them as displays, given the resale value of Apple devices that might not be unpopular. If Apple actually cared they could easily add the hardware necessary. Would it cost them a few bucks more? Sure, but that's what choosing environment over maximum profit means.

Or they could at least make it easy to modify so tinkerers can quickly turn it into a display without having to destroy the case or something.
with regards to who you follow in nutritional circles, just beware that there's a lot of social media content out there by people who are really good at business (seo, social media content gen, etc) but haven't read much nutritional research. Meanwhile the real scientists who know a great deal, have very little social media content, if any at all.

Personally, I follow the advice of Dr Micheal Gregor, one of his most recent books has over 13,000 citations! Their team has read over 20,000 nutritional papers!! And he'll tell you that whole grains and beans are an excellent staple of a healthy diet.

And with regards to Saturated Fat and even dietary cholesterol, he said, to make a really long story short, that they're really bad for you. There's way too many specifics to list but his 500+ page book (How not to age, and How not to Die) goes into great details and backs it up with a ton of research.
Apparently WaPo had a 2024 growth of 4,000 new subs. These hypothetical new subscribers that want no endorsements will be lost in the noise.
> Wonder how to ban that address permanently just for asking for these urls?

fail2ban supports rules based on nginx logs (clients that triggers x 444 responses in y minutes (or y-times) gets banned for n minutes/hours/days)
Men used to have one path and it came with some near-guaranteed value and status. Now, men have to choose from two paths, and neither one has that same level of guarantee. That's a problem in an of itself because it leads to a psychology of grievance. And it's not imagined! Men do indeed have a worse deal than they used to by a ton of metrics.

But once men stop crying about what was, they do have a choice. And there are new sets of problems and benefits that come with those choices. Choosing the traditional side is to pick the losing side, but that varies by geography. Not only does it still come with a lot of benefits in some places, but it's kind of the only viable option in some places. The problem is that society can no longer accommodate 80-90% of men in those situations choosing the traditional path. Maybe more like half. So we end up with a lot of losers. Sad, angry, strong, well-armed losers.

But the other path IS viable. You can move to [name any big city], get an education, get a decent job, paint your nails, treat women nicely and, if you ask me, have better relationships, better sex, better lives than were ever available to most men in the past.
> what if the market sucks when you retire?

You don’t have to liquidate all of your investments on your retirement date.

If the market sucks so much for 5+ years and your government can’t get it pumped back up, you probably have a bigger problem than your retirement savings, such as food and energy and security shortages.

It would be bold to bet against a government not constantly decreasing the purchasing power of its currency to prop up asset prices, especially with declining proportions of young people. The political apparatus will want to maintain old people’s position at the top of the social hierarchy, and if their purchasing power isn’t maintained so they can keep buying the fruits of others’ labor, it means the country is dissolving.
>Flutter is the best thing that happened to UI development since Qt. Most people don't realize how many apps written in Flutter they use daily, simply because it's impossible to tell

I agree with you that Flutter has been a boon for cross platform development, but to say it's impossible to tell you're using a Flutter app is a bit of an exaggeration. I have no problem identifying Flutter apps. Not that I care as they often have a genuinely nice UI and are performant.
Exactly this.

Regular users keep their photos and videos in the cloud these days, whether iCloud or Google Drive.

And video editors are going to be using external drives anyways, the internal SSD is just for scratch.

If Macs were used more for gaming then that would be a major reason... but they're not.
It's a way for new or unknown authors to authentically connect with readers by sharing five books they love on a topic, theme, or mood they are passionate about or experts in. Readers get fantastic personalized picks by super readers, and authors get to bump into some readers who might be more interested in them and their books.

Authors face an immense battle to get noticed, and unless something is done, we will only have big brand-name authors who can afford to write full-time. The internet has really consolidated books into a winner-takes-all market, and I want to do what I can to help widen that so new authors have a chance.

If you are curious, here are my goals for readers:
https://build.shepherd.com/p/what-is-shepherds-mission-for-r...

Here are my goals for authors:
https://support.shepherd.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406508361617...

And here is why I am building Shepherd for myself and others:
https://build.shepherd.com/p/why-am-i-building-shepherd-ie-w...

Hope that helps; happy to answer questions :)
Actually that's a really good question. I'll have to surreptitiously dig to find out.

And by dig, I mean ask literally anything and listen to the half hour lecture.

Thanks!
> aren’t they incentivized to reduce the amount of large categories of content you’d find noxious?

No, they're incentivized to increase the amount of content advertisers find acceptable.

Plus, youtube isn't strictly watching, many people do make a living from the platform and these algorithmic controls are not available to them in any way at all.

> ditching them entirely

Which is why I implied that user oriented control is the factor to care about. Nowhere did I suggest you had to do this, just remove _corporate_ control of that list.
I have a 15 pro and Apple Intelligence works on it just fine.
Google is the „owner“ of flutter, why would they fork their own thing? The post is describing the problem the author has with google.
If one treats the order of content as a message unto itself, then wouldn't an attempt to regulate or in some way restrict recommendation algorithms infringe upon freedom of speech? If I decide to tweak my site's recommendation algorithm to slightly more often show content in favor of a particular political party, isn't that my right?
The worker binding system seems pretty great. I'm thinking more about the configuration / deployment mechanism.

In the old days, if I wanted to deploy a little script (on scripts.myuniversity.edu, for example), I would stick the file in an appropriate location (~username/cgi-bin, for example), and the scripts would appear (be routed, in modern parlance, but the route was entirely pre-determined) at a given URL, and they could access a certain set of paths (actually, anything that was configured appropriately via the AFS permission system). Notably, no interaction was needed between me and the actual administrator of scripts.myuniversity.edu, nor could my script do anything outside of what AFS let it do (and whatever the almost-certainly-leaky sandbox it ran in allowed by accident).

But Cloudflare has a fancy web UI [0], and it is 100% unclear that there's even a place in the UI (or the command-line API) where something like "the user survey team gets to install workers that are accessible at www.site.com/surveys and those workers may be bound to resources that are set up by the sane team" would fit. And reading the "role" docs:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/setup/manage-...

does not inspire confidence that it's even possible to pull this off right now.

This kind of thing is a hard problem to solve. A nice textual config language like the worker binding system (as I understand it) or, say, the Tailscale ACL system, is nice in that a single person can see it, version it, change it, search-and-replace it, ask an LLM about it, etc. But it starts to get gnarly when the goal is to delegate partial authority in a clean way. Not that monstrosities like IAM or whatever Google calls their system are much better in that regard. [1]

[0] Which I utterly and completely despise, but that's another story. Cloudflare, Apple, and Microsoft should all share some drinks and tell stories of how their nonsense control panels evolved over time and never quite got fixed. At least MS has somewhat of an excuse in that their control panels are really quite old compared to the others.

[1] In the specific case of Google, which I have recently used and disliked, it's Really Really Fun to try to grant a fine-grained permission to, say, a service account. As far as I can tell, the docs for the command line are awful, and the UI kind-of-sort-of works but involves a step where you have to create a role and then wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and maybe the UI actually notices that the role exists at some point. Thanks, Google. This is, of course, a nonstarter if one is delegating the ability to do something useful like create two resources and link them to each other without being able to see other resources.

(Hi Kenton!)
"IPA-flavoured" is a bit dismissive. Alcohol-free beer is not flavoured water, it's beer that's had its alcohol removed. Non-alc IPA is an IPA with extra steps!
It's a pity I feel because microtype is from 2004. That's 20 years ago. Yet, typesetting on the web is still ... not there? I think there's a lot of potential untapped.

Also, the full feature set of microtype is only supported with (Pdf)LaTeX, but not with the newer XeLaTex, meaning that in order to get your favourite fonts to work with PdfLaTex, you have to do a hilarious amount of work to translate an OTF font into specific cuts in MetaFont, the LaTeX font format, and so on.

I mean, I understand that things get pretty tricky once you try to integrate such schemes into a font renderer. There's other scripts than just Latin, with probably very different rules, there are different font sizes, text sizes, etc. A lot of variables to take into account. A lot of variables that were constants when typesetting on a page. So the problem is now more complicated than in the past.
Cormac McCarthy seemed to be quite content with his life.
It was 8 out of 86 apps for me (9% of my apps). Including Hacki, the HN client. It's a good variety of apps too, from big billion dollar companies to tiny games I downloaded from F-Droid.
Your lawyer can tell you what, legally, it is allowed to mean.

He cannot tell you what Matt means by it. The question stands.
In Germany a lot of vending machines have appeared over the last ~10 years, and there are a lot more popping up all the time. And not just in the big cities. Nowhere as many as in Japan, but for example in my area there's a farmer selling fresh eggs in a vending machine, a meat packaging plant selling meat and sausages, an ice cream/frozen yoghurt vending machine (some local Ben & Jerry's competitor), a bunch of vending machines for CBD stuff, a pizza vending machine at the local university (it makes hot pizza), multiple old shops in pedestrian areas converted to house 5-10 vending machines, etc.

Especially the model of renting shops to fill them with vending machines seems to be getting popular. They regularly get into fights with the city whether they have to obey the legally allowed opening times for stores or can be open 24/7. That and farm shops putting up vending machines.
Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors
...Don't ask! https://youtube.com/watch?v=ITfQGEASYvU
50 people is a pretty huge team at Google to start with, there’s teams of <5 that support weird bits of core infrastructure that serve billions of users an hour.
> We don't need to be able to launch 1000 Starships/year to protect the Earth from asteroids. And we definitely don't need to reuse them, it's not like we have to handle an asteroid threat every day.

NASA's asteroid redirection test[0] was launched from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Largely I think it's important to build up and maintain skills/knowledge/capabilities. Specific mission outcomes (dog in space, man on moon, car in orbit) are markers of our increasing progress, not the sole capability we gained.

> I guess what you mean is humans and the few animal/plant species they believe are enough for their convenience.

Initially, for the scenario where Earth is wiped out by an asteroid/etc., it'd be nice to have a last hope to maintain life - given it's potentially the only life in the whole of existence. Intelligent life if possible, but some hardy microbes if not.

> At the moment humans are destroying themselves in the short term. Thinking about long-long term on the moon/mars seems like putting your best effort into fixing your fridge while the rest of the house is on fire and saying "how will we do without a fridge?"

I'd claim if we paused all exploratory science (due to lack of immediately obvious applications) until all danger was gone, we'd still be in mud huts. It can be hard to prioritize long-term issues, but I think it needs doing to avoid one short-term problem being endlessly replaced by another.

> It would probably be easier to survive an asteroid in bunkers on Earth than surviving on mars, so we may as well do that.

We do have bunkers, and I'd agree we should have more. Surviving on Earth would almost always be first choice (ideally by deflecting the meteor).

> I keep repeating that because it seems unclear: there are no reachable planets outside our solar system. The next star is already so far that we just can't reach it, period.

I'm not betting on us hopping over a solar system to escape any current short-term problem, but I do hope we're still around in millions/billion of years - at which point travelling 4 lightyears to Alpha Centauri does not seem an impossibility.

[0]: https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-dart/
Where's the actual repo for the fork?

It's not linked to anywhere and not listed under the flutter github org...
Having that many problems with a new vehicle -- covered by warranty or not -- qualifies that vehicle for "POS" label