skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the century in the year, I love the coincidence that this question was first asked in the year '54 and in "Hitchhiker's", it's said that 6x9 and 42 are the same. In fact they are if 6x9 is base 10 (6x9=54), and 42 is base 13 (4x13+2 = 54).

So, we get three coincidences: This question was asked in '54 ; "Hitchhiker's" said the answer to the meaning of life is 54 (6x9, 42 base 13); and best of all, 42 was the last number solved. And if you want to add one more coincidence, this was solved in the year '19 (connecting 19 and 54).

All irrelevant coincidences applied with hindsight, but fun.

(Douglas Adams claimed that 42 was a randomly chosen number, but I'd argue his subconscious had been processing the idea for a while and gave him a number with a meaning. We just don't know which is the correct meaning.)
Another one not many people know about, but will usually recognize the name instantly: Whitey Bulger [1]

1. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/11/17/mobster-whitey-bulger-u...
If google's right, canned food doesn't go bad if properly stored though taste will change, and in any case the recommended minimum is three days of food and water.
Diplomacy seems to be working better than weaponry.
Didn't we already try the bread and circuses thing? Capitalism is exploitative by definition, civilizations lasted longer that it has existed so how "stabilizing" it is is certainly not a given, in fact there's evidence for the exact opposite. Capitalism doesn't "restore equilibrium", it dictates it, it's authoritarian and non-merit based.
And it is, it is 154% or slightly more than 2.5x the 'design limit load'.
>He was one of several special operations division scientists who were in France on 16 August 1951, when an entire French village, Pont-Saint-Esprit, was mysteriously seized by mass hysteria and violent delirium that afflicted more than 200 residents and caused several deaths; the cause was later determined to have been poisoning by ergot, the fungus from which LSD was derived.

The article insinuates this group of CIA & army scientists was responsible for the "ergot" poisoning in the french village, has any new evidence to this regard come to light besides the theory / book published in 2009?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_po...

>In his 2009 book, A Terrible Mistake, writer Hank P. Albarelli Jr alleged that the Special Operations Division of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tested the use of LSD on the population of Pont-Saint-Esprit as part of its MKNAOMI chemical behavior program in a field test dubbed Project SPAN. According to Albarelli, the ergot contamination explanation had been challenged and "ruled out".[10][13][14] Historian Stephen Kaplan dismissed Albarelli's theories and assertions as "hardly possible", and anthropologist Bernd Rieken [de] wrote that "even in the secular society of the present, substitutes for the devil and other demons may be found, in this case the CIA, which some people believe capable of every conceivable evil".[10][15]

Especially the last quote seems very naive After reading the following paragraph from the posted article!

>“In CIA safe-houses in Germany,” according to one study, “Olson witnessed horrific brutal interrogations on a regular basis. Detainees who were deemed ‘expendable’ – SUSPECTED spies or moles, security leaks, etc – were literally interrogated to death in experimental methods combining drugs, hypnosis and torture, to attempt to master brainwashing techniques and memory erasing.”

capitalization mine: suspects being interrogated to death without any form of due process or trial?

So we have a story about american (and presumably also west german) agents interrogating / experimenting suspects to death in safehouses in germany, and then we have an american-born historian Stephen Kaplan and a german (psychologist?) dismissing that western powers would ever perform feats typically associated with east-german Stasi practices. Guantanamo bay also happened, and was rubberstamped by psychologists / psychiatrists...

some real class acts these CIA & army biological warfare gents!
No, but it does mean that you are not in control of your own destiny.
Kstars might fit your needs, https://edu.kde.org/kstars/
Well, there's Night Train, 17.5% alcohol. It's "flavored fortified wine".
I have no idea what that means, but I'm curious to know. Can you point to anything I could read?
*as well as centralized?...sure it can, which means that it's centralized. What it cannot be is completely independent.
Not a criminal, but another very influential person, Ken Kesey, was involved with MKULTRA as well.
Unfortunately, this is more a generalized problem of human disbelief in the unlikely than anything specific to science. We can't really say, 'scientists now have to be more receptive to weird ideas'.
Reading the title of this article, I immediately thought of William S. Gosset, "The Guinness Brewer Who Revolutionized Statistics", earlier in the century. I am sure there are even older examples.

https://priceonomics.com/the-guinness-brewer-who-revolutioni...
Id imagine that they take the same kind of approach that I do with https://perl.bot/ using the Linux namespace apis, seccomp and more.
You’ll get different answers depending on who you ask but I think most will agree it is much more accessible to new programmers.
MKUltra was the US program that expounded on the research done by the Germans, Japanese, and Soviets (sometimes only programs we thought they were working on and started counter-programs which then spurred the creation of counter-counter-programs...)

My take is that by about the late 80's, early 90's, they had finished most of the research and transitioned into implementation at mass scale, both domestically and internationally. Extrapolate from that what you may.
Flying into a Beehive: Fighting Three at Midway
We desperately need them to do X for our project to succeed. They have a brilliant and extremely compelling reason not to do X.
How is this question relevant to the anecdote?
where is the actual form/ link lol? Cant seem to find it
So how can I design a building without doors with unilluminated spaces? What would it be like in such a space? How can we use this to design spaces where darkness is easily preserved in set spaces without adding materials? This sounds like a lovely concept for designing a temple of some kind. Or whatever building might have rooms set aside for practicing things in darkness, like playing with one's vision or learning to do chores in the dark.
I was thinking the same thing! I think those would be her odds if she were permitted to go back and change her mind about which cups of tea had milk first. If she said the first 4 cups were milk first with some confidence, but on the fifth cup was absolutely certain it was milk first, she would have to go back and change a previous evaluation (because she knows there can be only 4). But because they were presented one at a time, and Bristol made her determination up front. It's basically a series of independent Bernoulli trials (i.e. Binomial distribution). So, assuming she had a 50% chance of guessing correctly, the probability would be (8 choose 4) * (1/2)^8.
When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says
Hah, I thought I was the only one!
The easiest arguments to win are against the ones you invent
It's doubly unexpected as, in theory, the 777X is just a variant of the 777, itself a plane that didn't blow its doors out under testing.
Programming is hard- I need to learn self-compassion
I have been teaching myself how to program for just over a year now. When I look back, I see that I have learned so much... However, I need to rewire the way I learn. I am incredibly self diminishing and it is unhealthy for my overall well being.

Does anyone have advice on this?
I want to design floorplans with intentional shadow spaces.
Very good question! I just take care of it. memory, cpu & disk. (Including fork bomb)!
What you say is completely true, but not actually at odds with what I said. You intention is important when applying for a visa. If you are only staying with your spouse in order to get residence status, I believe you are in violation of your visa. However, it's important to get an immigration lawyer to help.
Slightly more than 1.5x you mean. And yeah, since the design limit load is already going to have a safety margin over the max anticipated load, as long as the test performs some amount beyond that design level, it's good.

Edit: This is assuming the 'design level' is the level it was designed to withstand, which is how I would normally understand the term. Having watched the full video now though, it sounds like it actually exceeded the expected max force that could be expected in the real world by 1.54 times, and that the design anticipated about 1.5x. So indeed, it hit dead-on the design expectation, rather than vastly exceeding it—but that's fine, because the design included a 50% margin of error (and one would hope, a conservative worst-case estimate).
That’s not accurate. If you are not a user or don’t have the FaceRec setting on, we will not create a Face Template and won’t be able to recognize you in pictures.

Source/Disclaimer: I work at FB and this feature is managed by my team.
> “Some of our people were out of control in those days,” Colby said. “They went too far. There were problems of supervision and administration.”

That was in 1975 talking about the events in the 1950s. There is this idea that, well CIA might have gone a bit too far, but it was a long time ago. Hiring Nazi scientists, feeding people drugs, murdering, overthrowing governments, conducting torture sessions. That was in those old dark and confused times. Today they just sit at their desks and type reports like nice little bored bureaucrats.

What if they are just as evil and brutal today and we just don't know about it. I have a hard time believing that as an organization, they sort found their moral one day and decided they need to start behaving.

> “Well, he’s gone,” the caller had said. Abramson replied: “Well, that’s too bad.”

Abramson is a doctor treating Olson. Surely, after being told his patient is gone, he would be horrified and demand to know all about the tragedy. But the conversation indicates they were both expecting it to happen. Well who is Dr Harold Abramson, were there any other suspicious deaths associated with his patients. What the heck was Abramson doing that made Olson reconsider seeing his family again and instead opted to head back to New York to this doctor instead. How many Dr. Abramsons are there around today I wonder...
Everyone as happy as long as everything was going well, and the mood fell when the lander stopped reporting. What conflict?
I couldn't help but be reminded of the opening scene in the Brenden Frasier classic The Mummy.

"Aziz! Light!~"
We have a rough scope and impact for each level on our Standard at http://levels.fyi/standard
Maybe mind control from history books or whatever is not as efficient as you're thinking it is?

Just speculating that if I was a military commander, yeah, I'd go for saturating a place with drugs to keep the people there from planting IED's way before I would trust history books to do so. Just strikes me as way more reliable.

If history is any indication, using history books to get people to behave decently doesn't seem terribly reliable at all.
> 200 gallon gas tank

That...is a lot.

IMO to pass the 50 percentile, you need a two weeks of canned food, 20 gallons of water, and a first aid kit.
Cool. Running a Haskell program with a compiler error doesn't show the error.
What distinguishes senior practitioners from juniors, in software development and in other crafts, is the number of errors they've already made and the lessons they learned from those errors.

Those mistakes and learnings together inform their judgement when approaching tasks and allow them to ask questions like:

* Is this code robust enough? (They ask because of the many times they pushed code and suddenly everything broke.)

* Should we even be building this? (They ask because of that one time they didn't ask, and wasted weeks of effort on something that was never used.)

* Is approach A the best way to achieve our goal? (They ask because of that one time they tried A, thought it would take one week, but spent two months on it instead.)

* What happens when we're asked to add X feature? (They ask because of that one time they were surprised by a feature request and had to rewrite a bunch of their code.)
Look who we find in the vanguard, defending the darkest secrets of government; Dick Cheney.
> Room and The Road — two novels about single parents in difficult circumstances...

Early contender for understatement of the year.

One experiment I've been trying out for the past year or so is only reading "old" novels (first published more than 25 years ago). That comes from the recognition that I only have so much time for reading, and 0-5 years after first publication is generally not enough time to determine if a book is a true classic, or just part of a passing fad. Talking to other people about critically acclaimed contemporary novels is not really something I do, so I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by only reading old books.
i run https://zeromac.com , a hosting service for Mac VMs. i charge by the hour. the margins aren't as lucrative as a traditional software startup.

i'm considering two new offerings:

1. lower-priced option where the servers would be overcommitted.

2. bringing up a SAN (VMs currently run on local storage) and charging for storage and compute time separately. this would also enable things like spinning up VM based on a custom disk images.
Genome of an Ancient Harappan
Freedom to appropriate and oppress is a weird way of using the word “freedom.”
They're definitely pretty dark. When you have torturers who have been trained by Chicago Police officers, you know they are good at what they do. You don't want to mess with those guys.
New micro-robots can break apart and remove biofilm or plaque from a tooth
Joi Ito needs to be fired (if possible, into the sun).
Unfortunately, I am unable to trust your words at this moment in time. I'm sure many others will agree.
This is the way I see it, you get to the design limit, that is 1x the design limit, then you up that by 100% so now you are at 2x the design limit, and then you go 54% more so you are at 2.54x the design limit.
My First Impressions of Superhuman
Comments here on this are like reddit comments, please shut the fuck up if you have nothing of value to add. I don't have downvote power so need to call all of you out. Simply quoting the article is not a valid comment; it does not generate discussion.
I was honestly quite shocked whilst reading this, CIA operated facilities use to kill and test chemical weapons on volunteer soldiers? damn.
Yeah, why not. These programs, to me, are all about defusing populations. Keep em busy smoking and getting stoned. Maybe so.
If he'd said "that's why we're better than squirrels" (which i took it as) you'd probably have not spoken up. Which would have been a shame, because having some aspects of "mental filtering disorder" myself I'd say we have a perspective others don't. We can appreciate the ability to ignore that most take for granted.

I spend time watching the wild, because the richness of detail I perceive is about the same in the woods or in the city. Out here the rhythms make more sense. In a crowded environment I'm grumpy as a wolverine with a toothache; in the woods I'm still irritable but at least I'm not in a mosh pit.

There's a lot to learn from watching squirrels. They can be overwhelmed by their own senses, with apparently contra-survival responses to that. In context it's hardly ever such a simple situation.
>Today they just sit at their desks and type reports like nice little bored bureaucrats.

What if they are just as evil and brutal today and we just don't know about it.

Just throwing this out here, but what if it's both. They, like every other nation in the world, are evil and brutal, and the vast majority of them are just sitting at desks somewhere doing fairly mundane jobs. That's just the nature of a modern intelligence agency I bet.
This is an appealingly simple soundbite but it doesn't account for geography.

A better question might be, 'why does ancestry even matter?'
Reuse react router routes constants with hooks when navigating
Thank You. This is my take on it:

the wings were bent in an extreme manner.

so you have a cylinder to a close approximation, with a hole in the side of it. Then you have two levers [wings] affixed to said cylinder, then you apply force to the levers, and distort the cylinder thus distorting the hole in the cylinder....

at this point i would invoke a topological parlour trick of making a quarter fall through a dime sized hole as an analogy.

https://prop-tricks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/do-large-coin-sma....

my hypothesis is that the entire airframe flexed causing the door frame to distort thus loosing its grip on the door panel
I think of it like `cp`. Source to destination, where destination is the soft link. so it's like copying a file somewhere but instead of a copy you're making a link
In fact there are so many examples of hardware encryption being objectively broken[1]. I wouldn't trust it at all, and treat it as plain-text storage that probably has more firmware bugs that will lead to data loss.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975
That seems like a system where the “password” `rm -Rf /` would...run.
I believe that you're thinking of The Fifth Element
I believe that was the Fifth Element...
Certainly, as a future applicant to grad school, these revelations make me dramatically less likely to consider the Media Lab.
I haven't figured out the Wayland solution yet, but on X11 you can use a tool called Devil's Pie to make Stellarium act as your desktop background, which is way more fun than any other desktop I've had: http://mooooo.ooo/stellarium-desktop/
Not necessarily.

There can be overhead introduced between the "1 thread" and ">1 thread" cases.
The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida
"It has been verified by a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false,” reportedly in 1981."

"In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, supression and rationalization – the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the supression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational propaganda essential to the maintenance of individual liberty and the survival of democratic institutions. -- Aldous Huxley, "Propaganda in a Democratic Society"
Brave New World Revisited"

https://www.globalresearch.ca/1975-video-cia-admits-to-congr...
Critique and Gerrit (code review systems at Google) also do this.
Higher voltage alone does not magically give you longer sustained maximum power.
The quality of self-checkout varies a lot from store to store. The ones Walmart put in at their stores up here (Western Washington) a few years ago have been fantastic. I have none of the problems with them that had me avoiding self-checkout for years at other stores.

They have 9 on the side of the store the groceries are on, and 5 on the other side, with the regular checkout lines between them. One attendant at each set.

The self-checkout is almost always way faster than the regular checkout. Most of the time at the 9 unit side there is either no wait or a one person wait.

If the law were changed here to limit them to two units, I'd probably switch to doing most of my Walmart shopping in their app, and paying there, for store pickup just to avoid the regular checkouts.
Task for Pwn Zero
this is the book that introduced me to this origin story! It's a very well written, and short, book. Highly recommend.
The same thing is happening with the Transhumanist Party:

"If any member of the US Transhumanist Party says there is a connection between Epstein and transhumanism, they will be expelled from the party."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Transhuman/comments/d0jprh/if_any_m...
Have a link to those shirts by chance? I shop Everlane exclusively for such items, but am curious about an alternative.
thats a good point: the fact that testing on a volunteer soldier and on army and CIA researchers, seems to suggest they wanted to compare effectiveness with the general population, since random members from the population might not be psychologically representative for foreign soldiers, secret clearance'd scientists and spies. So from this perspective testing on people of similar function / caliber from your own accessible population might seem "logical" if unethical...
So how is it so fast?
Why would this dissuade you when MIT has been in bed with the MIC for decades and helps them build all their mass surveillance tech and people eradication tech? So you're turned off by one intel agency pedo whose job was to blackmail as many important people as possible while also wheedling his way into all kinds of tech research teams in order to make big money for himself by knowing what the latest breakthroughs would be?

What you don't accept about Epstein is that he represents the norm of the elite, not some outlier bad actor.
Why Can’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis?
I should have clarified. 4-lane expressway, signals were about 0.5-1.0 mile apart. All lanes clear. Mid night.

It was NOT a freeway.
Devils advocate here - so Epstein was found guilty and convicted, did his time and payed off his due to the society accordingly to the judge verdict and the law of the land - so where is that american spirit of paying off your dues, being forgiven, moving on and be a better person? Becoming asset to whole society again, no? Better to throw him in a cell and wait until he hangs himself, right? Is that an american spirit these days?

From the article - he worked with big names like Bill Gates to secure even more founds for MIT research. That should be praised not bashed. MIT did so many incredible discoveries heck I probably would not be able to type this message if I wouldn’t be crossing some of their reasearch and patents in the process.

Such a shame how judgmental and unforgiving the whole american society became these days ;(
I think you mean Joi?
When the money is flowing, people look the other way. It's how someone like Epstein (or Jimmy Saville in the UK for another example) can function for so long. They throw money around.

A similar money induced blindness drives financial bubbles, Ponzi schemes, and dodgy corporate accounting. It's hard for people to see that something's wrong when they're being paid to be blind.
Negroponte also defends taking the money in a meeting at MIT on Wednesday (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614264/mit-media-lab-jeff...):

"Throughout, the meeting had proceeded calmly. But as one of the organizers began to wrap things up, Negroponte stood up, unprompted, and began to speak. He discussed his privilege as a “rich white man” and how he had used that privilege to break into the social circles of billionaires. It was these connections, he said, that had allowed the Media Lab to be the only place at MIT that could afford to charge no tuition, pay people full salaries, and allow researchers to keep their intellectual property. "
It’s certainly a notable allegation that “Epstein was paying the 100k salary of Ben Goertzel, the Vice Chairman of Humanity Plus.” This would be in line with Epstein’s reported interest in Transhumanism [0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-transhumanis...
Exim – remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges