skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peterson is definitely a gateway drug. There's a gradual progression from "conservative left-wing" (e.g. Carl Benjamin, who for a long time self-identified as "left-wing"), "anti-SJW"/antifeminists and centrists to the alt-right and actual nazis.

I'm sure Peterson sees himself as a conservative and a moderate, just as I'm certain Carl Benjamin used to think of himself as "actually a leftist". But the "moderates" and "centrists" obsession with "SJWs" has shifted the Overton window and some former alt-right creators have recognised this and since reoriented themselves.

Peterson and Harris are useful figureheads because they register as moderates or centrists if not liberals in most people's minds, but they're extremely close to conspiracy nuts like Paul Joseph Watson, race realists like Stefan Molyneux, or people like Ben Shapiro.

I used to watch a lot of YouTube "skeptics" (mostly former YouTube atheists who left that movement over the "Atheism+" debate) and I experienced the progression first-hand, with anti-SJW panic, Buzzfeed obsession and other nonsense resulting in self-described centrists aligning themselves with the right by seeking out the more presentable right-wing extremists (and maybe a few center-left moderates "for balance"). Quickly there were videos about race realism, white genocide, and even "the Jewish question".

Luckily I managed to jump off that train but it wouldn't have take much to nudge me over that "centrist" stop gap (especially with Peterson and Damore normalising the rational disconnect I experienced).

Also it's worth mentioning that even at my most "centrist" I never got as much hate online from "SJWs" for incredibly dumb statements as I got from "liberals" as I shifted back to the left. Leftists just blocked me. "Liberals" trolled me, downvoted me and drowned me out with vapid memes (all in the name of "free speech").

EDIT: Case in point, here's YouTube atheist CultOfDusty who joined the alt-right until he realised that put him in the company of people supporting Mike Pence, who stood against everything he believed in. Note that he's still "anti-SJW" but other YT atheists don't make that distinction and have since tried to slander him by taking him out of context or putting words in his mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thliETccJss
/r/javascript on this was good https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/a70qwf/stop_lea...
Thanks! However, this seems to be an economic estimate by one guy that sounds plausible enough but can't be fully assessed by a non-expert. Although it's useful evidence, it's not very helpful for determining the actual expert opinion at the time.
People skills and conversation skills are also what I typically associate with "soft skills", but it doesn't seem to make sense when applied to (maybe half of) those books?
> They just download everything from language interpreter to library to a single directory and call it job done.

This is scoped to the project in npm. In Ruby, you can specify the path (common to "vendor" your gems). You can use version managers (like rvm or nvm) to scope your libs to versions or even named projects (thinking of rvm's "gemsets")

> The interpreter and library's version is forever fixed. Theoretically, it can upgrade the version but the user mostly don't.

I can't speak for all ecosystems, but on Ruby projects I've been a part of, keeping gems updated is pretty common. Github even includes monitoring for vulnerabilities to encourage this.

Having been part of ecosystems that don't have package management (for example, ColdFusion) even the worst package managers are a major improvement. (Though I do think the isolation of python's virtualenvs is a better approach than most systems)
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Peterson is something, but "neo-Nazi" isn't one of them. It's a category error to ascribe to Peterson the attributes of his fan base, as Peterson himself discovered when amidst the angry howls of his followers when he openly criticized anti-Semitism a month or two ago.

I don't have to like or respect Peterson to object to him being called a Nazi.
Yeah, all those things that are unimportant until you have to work with other human beings.
This is grasping at straws. I am no alt-right apologist and consider myself quite the democratic socialist. Even from my point of view, it seems like this is nothing more than a vilification of the social discourse.

Would Sir Roger Scruton, The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and the Ralston College be considered part of the "Intellectual Dark Web" for hosting Jordan Peterson? (I'm not well versed in Peterson's career, this is the latest video on his youtube channel).

Perhaps Channel 4 News is also part of the conspiracy for hosting him on TV. Channel 4 is operated by Channel Four Television Corporation which is a public corporation of UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Does that means that the UK is at the head of the "dark intellectual web"?
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I'm obliviously kidding, but there's no limit on how far you can spin this situation.

Thanks for answering. I'm leaving it at that, now I know more but this is not a rabbit hole I want to dive in any further.
> Considering the views / subscriptions are the main motivation here

Where is that stated?
I think the catch is that human detection of pauses is far more fraught with difficulty than you'd imagine. Overly emphasized pauses are easy to discern, but quite a lot of speech pulls words far closer together than you would think. And this is just in english. Not all languages work with emphasis syllables and such.
>> dominated by characters that ruin the brand

Unfortunately the definition of what is a "character that ruins the brand" keeps moving further and further to the left.
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Dumber lawsuits than that have won.
You broke out, that's all that matters. :) I was once trapped inside the CompuServe walled garden. It took a while to discover there were BBSes outside of it.
Title is clickbait. They didn't choose Jenkins in 2019, but 8 years ago:

> eight years in

Maybe they chose to stick with Jenkins in 2019 and not discard their 8 year old Jenkins setup?
And next time your son has a headache, you'll give him the sea-band. The placebo effect is a miracle cure that treats all kinds of things, right?
You can't fall as far as Levandowsky did without first climbing pretty high. He was instrumental in getting the Google self driving car project running, he is quite talented and driven when he sets his mind to it.
It's really only Rust and C++ that ever take that long, right? IMO, that's simply the compiler being unacceptably slow. I also can't see a slightly less efficient parse tree being a big factor in compile times this kind of length...
A park ranger named Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning six times in eight years. Clearly this is a major problem!

Roughly one third of Americans have ever had a package stolen. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/11/20/package-...) It’s not that big a deal. For people who want to avoid taking chances with it, there are various options to avoid it. Not that they should have to, but there are many bigger problems to worry about.
Why is this in the front page of HN?

Why does Silicon Valley celebrate thieves/theft to sociopathic behavior? Why is that accepted as its culture?
iPhone legibility is excellent, didn’t even need to go into reader mode.
Examples? I seem to constantly get nothing from simple grammar questions. :(
This all happened in a suburb of Chicago
Because the world is not divided into good and bad, and I care about the 'why' of a rating much more than I care about whether it's positive or negative.
I think it's Jenkins that's 8 years old. Rookout, the company that wrote the blog, only launched a few months ago.
I think it's more schadenfreude than celebration.
I'm always surprised at how pervasive this is. Most frequently, I see it where you describe - with sites demanding that I sign in/up and disable all tracking prevention before they'll make even a basic effort to let me disable tracking.

But one of the ugliest cases is DMCA takedowns. For big companies, they're quick and easy and usually succeed even when they're completely unjustified. But for unincorporated people, issuing the takedown means providing your name and other personal information to the hosting site. And given that DMCA takedowns are the most efficient way to handle things like sketchy sites hosting stolen nude photos, it's basically a requirement to furnish them with the identity of the person pictured...
Last I checked the murders of farmers in SA have little to do with skin color and even white victims have come out to clarify that. But of course focusing on the white victims is more interesting when your audience is mostly white, especially if you already promote the idea of there being an ongoing "white genocide" through interracial relationships (because racial purity somehow is still supposedly a thing in the age of Ancestry dot com).
A better example is "coffee cream" (Google fails on this one)
Not really. p therefore q implies not p therefore not q is a very basic logical fallacy. Making a statement does not imply it's inverse.
The first thing I suggest doing is not call it a "scheme." Focus on building relationships, not running a scheme. When you build a relationship (trust and respect) then the referrals will come.

You may need to push a few people to make a referral ("Hey I have some availability next month, know someone like you who can use my help?"), and they'll do it without any scheme or reward.
People see the problem, but they have yet to see the solution. The solution to walled gardens is smart contracts platforms like Ethereum. People will eventually see this, but it'll take some time. Centralized organizations are NOT the future of the internet.
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I think the other interesting factor is that the more you tailor your life’s experiences, either in actuality or in perception, the less happy people seem to be. I believe this to be similar to the choice of paradox, where extra choices beyond a small number not only stress out the chooser, but result in less long term satisfaction in the final decision.
You could design a portfolio of short and long positions that exactly cancelled out everything else the fund had.
“But it’s not global! I put it in this object [that is global]”

Heard at least twice, and at different jobs.
Right, but this is the same way Python works. Jumping back to the original argument in the post, the author claimed that Python was "going out of it's way to be different" by passing objects by reference value. C# provides a counterxample to that claim.
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Together, we are building the best self-driving stack in the world.

We are not building technology that tells vehicles how to drive.
Instead, our team of engineers is building tech that can learn how to drive the way people do.

Has Anthony Levandowski partnered with George Hotz?! This is exactly the same idea that Geo Hotz had for his self-driving startup Comma.ai!
Still not an argument to plague source code with it.

I for one am more than happy not to write Hungarian notation any longer.

Even Microsoft style manuals now advise against it for modern Windows code.
The only reason I've heard of Peterson is because of his criticism of using preferred pronouns. Here is an overview of some of the pronouns: https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/pronouns
I'm taking this article as a lesson in humility. It's really easy to concoct specious reasons for hating something, reasons you believe you've backed up with sound technical and philosophical arguments, but which are really just rationalizations for your failure to understand it.
> made cheap boards with identical functionality to a cellphone, few dollars a pop. And yes, they run Android.

With a camera, battery and 3G modem? Got any links?
I get grey boxes on Pixel & Android 9 . ℬℴ𝒻... 𝒥ℯ 𝓃ℯ 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝓈
>> Most programming languages pass function parameters by value. If the function alters the value, the results are not passed back to the calling code. But as I've already explained, Python goes out of its way to be different. Python defaults to doing functions with pass-by-object-reference parameters.

Python passes method arguments by value, pushing them on the stack like every other language I've used. Because everything is an object in python the passed _scalar_ values are references (addresses), the objects the references refer to are on the heap. I sometimes think literally everyone should have to use C for six months, most of this stuff would stop being debated endlessly.
I've never owned a single physical programming book and I've been doing this around 10 years. The internet is more than sufficient.
We choose it a few months ago , jenkins is just old...
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Who is this person and what do they have to hide?
You could argue that the humans were on there to make it re-useable. No way to land without humans in the 80s.
How does Amazon and Google get away with it? When you put their listening devices in your home, do you sign a legally binding contract? Honest question, I've never bought one.

If a contract is sufficient, does it have to be signed in writing or witnessed? If not, then could he have a sign at his door stating that acquiring the package provides consent to monitoring?

Is there a lawyer here that could answer those questions, pro bono?

[Edit] Maybe it would be sufficient to put wording on the box that basically says, "by touching or taking this packages.... yada yada..."
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Well they occasionally debate with each others but aren't supporting the same ideas. They do have in common that they disagree with identity politics, and as you can tell from the name calling on this HN page, this is a topic on which for many there is zero tolerance for any disagreement.

Peterson mostly discusses religion (from a philosophical point of view), self-improvement, identity politics. He tends to be more on the conservative side but outside of identity politics doesn't discuss politics that much. His videos are all on his youtube channel [1]. A good way to make your own opinion is to watch the channel 4 interview, which I think is the way many people discovered him [2]

Harris is a Democrat, furiously anti-religious and anti-Trump, talks about quite a variety of topics. You can browse through his podcasts [3]. He also doesn't like identity politics and islamist extremism. To get a good idea of his position on a touchy topic, you can try his interview of Charles Murray [4], which is very interesting and I think is a good example of how a relatively balanced point of view can get unfairly attacked.

I am less familiar with Rubin [5]. My understanding is that he is more of a libertarian.

Also less familiar with Eric Weinstein (and his brother Bret Weinstein). But you can listen to his discussion on the Intellectual Dark Web with Sam Harris [6]. Harris also has some interesting discussions with Bret Weinstein.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_f53ZEJxp8TtlOkHwMV9Q

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

[3] https://samharris.org/podcast/

[4] https://samharris.org/podcasts/forbidden-knowledge/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdKr0Bgd_5saZYqLCa9mng

[6] https://samharris.org/podcasts/112-intellectual-dark-web/
First, you're unlikely to be prosecuted for setting a trap for a thief. Your liability is almost certainly civil, not criminal. Second, have you found many cases where a thief sued their victim without themselves facing charges for the theft?
> and it would not have worked in the parking garage

What if the phones picked up WiFi networks around the garage?
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Probably not. Likely these were second-hand phones, so not terribly expensive. Also because they are phones, they can upload "to the cloud" automatically, have GPS and cell tower triangulation for accurate location reporting.
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Presumably the last thief never disposed of the package and was therefore the only one to discover the cameras. I wonder what they were thinking, and if they'll come across the video. Wouldn't be surprised if so, it was on the front page of Reddit yesterday.
> "the controversial ITER project, a hugely expensive fusion reactor..."

I heard from many insiders that ITER is a highly politicized project which has too many parties involved and therefore has exploding high costs with rather limited scientific output.

A counter example is Wendelstein-7X which breaks new records every month.

The reason for this disparity is that Fusion nowadays is a pure engineering problem not a science problem and should be managed accordingly.
I think the water is somewhat muddied by the fact that the committee actually _does_ know better than the vast majority of people in opposition, as evidenced by the many uninformed comments in this thread suggesting alternatives that are objectively untenable.

This is not to say that there aren't other viable solutions which would avoid the use of the current proposed syntax, but how do you weigh the advantages of avoiding a subjectively "ugly" syntax against the many other, much more concrete concerns that the TC39 has to evaluate when choosing a proposal? Should "the reflexive reaction of many devs when they first see the feature (without taking any time to try it out) is that the syntax is ugly" just be an automatic veto? If not, how strongly should that concern be weighted? Should an otherwise inferior proposal be accepted instead merely because the syntax is slightly prettier?

Ultimately, I think you need to have a person or group of people in authority who will look at all available options and make an informed decision, even over the objections of the uninformed majority. Right now, the TC39 _is_ that informed authority.
I do understand them, I'm into functional programming and I've toyed with haskell in the past. I'm just aware that such a definition makes it sound more daunting than it really is, mostly because of that "just".

It's kinda like the running joke of "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's so hard about it?", but said in a non-sarcastical manner.
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There is even an issue [1] that counts the votes for stopping this proposal.

IMHO "No solution" would be better than "bad solution" in this case.

1 : https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/issues/100
The lack of police response is par for the course in a number of cities these days.
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We do need to port wg-quick to use scutil instead of networksetup.
The text-book example for event-sourcing is accounting. To calculate the current balance of an account, you add up all past transactions. You don't need to store the balance (state) because you can deduce it by replaying all events.

This gives a few nice advantages. For example, with this system in hand you can now also ask "What was the balance 30 days ago".
> Because a person's political views have nothing to do with banking.

Exactly.

But what if it is the "Lets kill all the purple people" fund, in a country where purple people have zero rights. Now its not anymore about the persons political views, but where the money gets used.

I dont support patreon banning people with different personal views, but I do support them in their right to not support unwelcome content.
Exactly this. The capability they're building is far more important than whatever specific hardware they happen to be working on at the moment.
The irony is that you see many people non-ironically touting a hammer and sickle on their profiles on these sites. To me that symbol is as dreadful as the swastika. Both communism and fascism are two sides to the same coin. Horseshoe theory is a real.

If the platforms were concerned about extremism, they would be clamping down on the communists too, who have a human rights record as bad, if not worse than the fascists.
Mmm actually you are right, did you try https://jenkins.io/doc/book/architecting-for-scale/ ?
Not really?

If we assume that consciousness arises out of brains somehow, then we have a relatively good understanding of how psychedelics affect consciousness: they (roughly speaking) disrupt the normal pathways that electrical signals take in the brain, and cause different (pseudo random) pathways to be taken. This of course leads to all sorts of unusual thoughts and experiences. But this explanation doesn't apply in the case where there is no consciousness in the first place.

Personally I think consciousness is super-interesting. Once you realise that we have no real explanation as to how consciousness arises from the brain, and also that reactions to outside stimuli can occur without conscious awareness, it suddenly becomes much more plausible that things like trees or even rocks could have some kind of consciousness. I'm not saying I live my life as if this is true, but we really have no evidence that it's not the case...
If at first you don't succeed, try try again?

This is kind of rediculous. He's pitching Otto + more magic deep learning juice. Is there sufficient evidence deep learning will solve these higher order planning tasks? Unless he has access to machine learning research not yet published, this is not a solved problem and better suited for a research focused environment than a startup promising engineered systems to investors.

Okay fine, maybe deep learning is a sufficient solution. It's patently false to claim no one else is doing end to end deep learning. The fact he is ignoring Wayve, one of the most interesting approaches in this space, is telling he has yet to get over his own ego and genuinely understand what is happening in the field. And if you're to go based on the excitement at NeurIPS, expect to see a bunch more deep RL papers and startups on this subject.
> Do SpaceX products for carrying inanimate matter perform poorly when compared to the same?

Absolutely not. Which makes it ever weirder to bring up Space Shuttle.
Carl Benjamin didn't break their rules and their "proof" stripped vital context to make it appear that he was saying the exact opposite of what he was saying. I have to assume this was on purpose because they went out of their way to make a transcript and could not have missed that; so people are fully justified in believing Patreon had it out for him.
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This also happens in the US if the delivery person feels the package is not secure(or because signature confirmation is needed) they will leave a note and you can pick it up at the depot. But many people would rather avoid the inconvenience of picking it up and have the package left on the door because package theft is relatively rare. If you live in an area where package theft is a problem you probably live in an apartment building with a secure space for packages, or you can have packages delivered to your work, or delivered straight to the post office to pick up.
Rediscovering nonfiction a few years ago was really cool, but unfortunately I think I’m out of books. I’ve noticed nowadays that most non-fiction books are basically “pop non-fiction,” is high basically entail a giant collection of studies and anecdotal stories all around a central theme, in easy to read language. There’s nothing wrong with this, just they don’t do a lot of synthesis of their own.

The problem is, the only books that do any actual synthesis of their own tend to be very long and very hard to read.

There are a few books that meet a sweet spot that are easy to read and are deep on content, (12 Rules for Life, Sapiens), but they’re hard to find.
I don’t understand what your definition of super cool is.