skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Ted gets the fundamentals a little bit off, and the entire work is unsound as a result. Society doesn't just magically become more repressive because of the need of industrial society to be more "organized". It becomes more repressive because of powerful people who find personal profit in organizing it in a repressive way.

The powerful have always been able to oppress the weak, and abandoning all technology to go anarcho-primitivist leaves the powerful better-resourced than ever, and leaves you scraping out a marginal living. Moreover, as technology continues to advance, the need for mindless conformity is further eroded. Mass production was pretty mind-numbing, but now we have robots to do the most mindless tasks, and we are getting more of them.

The solution to control and repression, now as ever, is to structure society so that ambition can counteract ambition, to enshrine the rights of the people in law, to jealously guard those rights, and to inculcate the next generation in their value. The US Constitution does an absolutely world-class phenomenal smashing good job of the first two, such that even as society has been doing a mediocre job at guarding them and teaching their value, we're still getting by, and improving.

If you'd like to fight control, in the abstract, don't bomb people: preserve the system that protects us through civic engagement, and work to build a culture that celebrates the robust defense of rights like free speech (including, critically, of unpopular people you don't like who are targeted by the mob or by the powerful) and other civil rights (criminal justice issues in particular).
> The original proposal seems to be this: You publish a document. The platform takes care of presenting it.

And with a language that explicitly does not allow styling, how exactly is "the platform" that takes care of presenting it going to render anything but a single, default style for all content without...reinventing styling?

> One criticism was: No, people want to control the styling of what they publish.

No, one criticism was rather obviously that people don't want to go on the web and see the exact same thing everywhere they navigate to, which is what you get when styling is not possible. However, you seem to be looking at the entire conversation through some strange lens.

> Again, assuming you’re talking about readers when you say “end-user”, I never even mentioned them.

The creators of a web service/platform wanting to be able to brand their creation and the users of that service simply going with their chosen brand's aesthetics when publishing content are two concepts that can simultaneously exist - in fact, can even be linked.

I am not sure how it has to be explained that people being okay with publishing content on Facebook, LinkedIn or Medium without much custom styling is the furthest thing from an indicator that people want Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium and every other website to look exactly the same.
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That's the idea, but it seems like Uber's going to have to swing some pretty big stick / carrots to blunt restaurants' worst tendencies.

What will passengers think about having their ride delayed? Lump it into Pool and partially rebate them?

What will keep restaurants from #&@$ing around with their notifications (e.g. ready) for a partner who they don't really like working with?

(Personally, I switched to Lyft and don't use Uber products anymore)
over 260 incidents with rollout of 5G is hardly a non-issue.

Especially for the front-line tech workers.

On a side note, I would love to understand how those people get converted to those ideas. Why are people drawn to them is understandable to some level. Everyone checkout conspiracy videos and posts from time to time (by accident or sheer curiosity) but what makes people stick to those when presented with solid counter-evidence.

Its like people are desperate to be part of a circle that is in on the lie.

Maybe they hate the reality they live in (consciously or not ) and this is a way out - its all a lie and I am fighting that reality.
I'm pretty sure given enough money, you can replicate it, but that's also exactly the problem -- given enough money. More and more these days it seems there's no amount that's enough.
Disney is still making money from people buying cartoons from the first ones they made.
I'm far from the inane "it's a private company, they can do whatever they want" view so common here, but this strikes me as a bad example of abuse of corporate power:

> But now Goldman Sachs has announced that it will not assist companies in initial public offerings (IPOs) if they have all-male boards. As this example suggests, if you cannot get the legislature or a democratically accountable government department or independent agency to pass your policy, you can try to persuade the major corporations and banks which dominate U.S. economic life to act as though your proposed policy was already the law of the land. The end justifies the means.

As far as I understand, assisting companies in initial public offerings is not just an infrastructure function, rather it means selling their stock to your clients. Suppose Goldman Sachs thinks, for whatever reason, that all-male boards make systematically worse decisions. Then they would be violating their duty to their clients, by selling them the stocks of companies with all-male boards.

The "build your own x" argument, often made in bad faith, is really appropriate here. If you disagree with goldman sachs, you don't even have to build your own anything, you can just invest in the IPOs run by other financial institutions.
Redirected walking is what I’m most excited about. You get another whole level of realism when you can just walk endlessly through VR.

I tried tea for god on the quest and I was sold on it. It’s the future of VR IMO.
There are three main kinds of cultures:

1) superstar centered

2) technology centered

3) community centered

Of these most companies adhere to 1) or 2) and a lot of the suggestions in this thread reflect that

Nobody has really tried 3) that I know of but it's the best way to get people to want to stay, duh

This is straight out of "the culture code" by Daniel Coyle
They don't say that C was the first. The claim is that C's influence was responsible for the proliferation.

(Bit of a tangent: Lisp predates C by at most 2 years if you count McCarthy's original 1960 paper, but afaict their respective implementations both got their first public distribution in 1962. Of course, Lisp was set to gain momentum from that time until the AI winter, while C was practically confined to UNIX until the 80s...)
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read it and more importantly read jacques Ellul. It's impossible to form an opinion on TK when you haven't read Ellul.
How is it "completely disconnected from reality" if a third of the games in your random sample fit the description?

Admittedly "occult" is a bit vague. Does it refer to everything with a fantasy or supernatural theme? Then it's undeniable that it's a popular theme for games. Fantasy, magic, horror, superheroes; there's plenty there that sparks the imagination of gamers and game designers, and if that's a theme someone dislikes or objects to, then that's a pretty big chunk they're losing out on.

Still, there are indeed a lot of games that don't touch on any of those topics at all. Shop around a bit, look into different kind of games.

Or use BBG's advanced search[0] to filter out all the themes you don't like[1]. (In this search, I filtered out everything fantasy, horror, religious or mythological.)

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/advsearch/boardgame
[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/search/boardgame?sort=rank&advsear...
Lisp isn't the reason modern-day languages are all offset-indexed though; that's Cs fault
Teddy K really is the best read. But you could always read the classic Silent Spring if you want something more mellow. The more adventurous could try Running on Emptiness by Zerzan who AFAIK isn't a terrorist.
Like many other drivers, Hakkinen was a bit short on luck. Similar to Raikkonen for that matter who missed out at least on a second championship because of an unreliable car. Don't get me wrong, I agree that today's cars are much faster, safer, yada-yada.

But I did mention Hakkinen-Schumacher for a reason - though they were direct competitors and had very different driving manners, you could see how they had immense respect for each other and acted like true sportsmen off the track. Whereas now you have a ton of spoiled brats (some multiple world champions at that) who cry like babies every time the wind isn't blowing their way, others who have seats only because they have rich daddies, while people like Hulkenberg are sitting in front of the TV at home... I mean look at teams alone - there are only two teams with solid relationships between drivers inside of them - Norris-Sainz and Raikkonen-Giovinazzi(I suspect because Raikkonen simply does not care and is only there because he enjoys driving).

And I don't see how this will improve in the future. What I'm trying to say is that I'd much rather watch a real race as opposed to a soap opera, which is what today's F1 resembles more. Not just from drivers' prospective but from teams themselves.
Excuse me asking but what is a fruit cake when it comes to assessing a human and how does it pertain to assessing his book (however you judge it)?
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Yeah. Seems like you are a big exception. Good for you. Tell us how we can learn from you
Wow, that's super interesting. Thanks!
Great! My email is in my profile.
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It takes two to tango, but it takes just one to quote out of context. Here's some of it:

<OP>
I understand for someone like you, an core engineer of
the famous mediasoup, you are able to make an audio only
SFU from scratch in under 15 minutes, good job.

...

At least could you please make an working example like
the one in Kraken readme, in 15 minutes, without your
awesome but too complicated client library?

And the reply in full was:

No, I won't waste my time with people like you. Sorry,
nothing personal. It's just that you suck. Bye.

The "This is a very disrespectful post" part is from another comment altogether.

Tempest in a teacup. Flagged.
I have to say I had the exact opposite reaction.

I was also intrigued by the depiction in the Manhunt series and read the manifesto as a result.

In the TV show, Kaczinky is portrayed as a highly intellectual, informed, educated individual, mentally thwarting his interviewer in their debate on morals and politics. After building up that expectation of Kaczinky's intellect, the manifesto is an enormous disappointment. It's filled with base broad assumptions, ignorant and unresearched assertions on "leftism" and in particular his treatise on "oversocialization" is so transparently a defensive lashing out at the elements of society that have not been personally accepting of him.

Throughout, his arguments are made as plain, implicit statements. Nothing is approached in an evidence-based manner and there are no attempts to contradict obvious counter-arguments. His "facts" are simply stated as self-evident.

Take e.g.

> it’s likely that many leftists of the oversocialized type would say that most people, including themselves, are socialized too little rather than too much, yet the oversocialized leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of socialization.

This is centred around the idea of society imposing restrictions on our autonomy through socialization; we believe strongly in our own freedom. He proposes that "leftists" have this belief in their own freedom, but that this freedom is a delusion. A delusion that results from their own oversocialization. At no point does he explain how/why leftists are more oversocialized than non-lefists, or why he believes that he himself is not delusional in his sense of his own autonomy.

There are some central elements in there of value (his general focus on the importance of effort and autonomy in fulfillment I would agree with), but these can be found discussed more articulately in better writings without being padded with political/social nonsense.

Overall, the manifesto is not worth reading.
They want to things:

1) to work with people just as qualified, including managers who are just as qualified at managing (a rare unicorn in the IT sector)

2) not having roadblocks for doing good work. This includes being kept in the dark, micro-management, simplistic "all employees have exactly same computer" policies, workplaces that makes concentration difficult due to e.g. noise or splatter of meetings, weird requirements which can't be discussed at all and doesn't make sense.
> Post those 4 things: R_0 threshold, surveillance mechanism, time-to-detection, and shutdown plan then people can choose if they want to sign up for that risk.

That's exactly what's driven me batty about governments' responses.

After the initial lockdown, that's precisely what they should have done.

Instead, we got a schizophrenic "Everything is fine" and then "Everything is danger! Surprise second lockdown!"

No wonder people are pissed. It'd be better and more effective policy to just lay out the methods, criteria, and current status.

(PS: Technically, you're talking about R_t, or current, rather than R_0, or initial)
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We were playing settlers already around 2000 in The Netherlands, Belgium and France, all neighbouring countries from Germany.
I think you should constrain your comments to what fit in HN guidelines.
For p2 it's even worse:

18 vs 15 = 1.20x

6 vs 4 = 1.5x
The technology will almost certainly be better in some way in 2 years' time, although the initial period of rapid improvement is basically over.

Whether it's worth getting one now or waiting for 2 years depends on your cost-benefit analysis. If you don't think you'll be able to get your money's worth out of a printer before you lose access to it, then it's probably not worth getting one just yet.
Certainly as a case study in mental illness or domestic terrorism. But not -- as the author suggests -- with the goal of understanding his politics.

Kaczynski's psychopathy is -- on face and by itself -- a good reason for not spending my time on his writing. Or, at least, only spending that time in a very particular way.

Kaczynski's manifesto is the rambling rationalization of a madman. Reading it as anything else is fundamentally a misreading.

To put this in a perhaps slightly less divisive way: maybe the time cube does have 4 sides [1], but there's a near infinity of things to learn. So, unless I'm specifically seeking out examples of high-functioning mental illness, I'll stick to spending my time trying to understand people and ideas that aren't obviously unhinged. And if I do seek out examples of high-functioning mental illness, I am not going to engage with the text in a way that "separate ideas from the person who generates them". Because that would be a misreading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
I would differentiate between marketing speak (designed to replace Javascript) and the practical implications of Brython (designed for folks who want to use Python in frontend)
1. Who's "replacing"?
2. Just because you can't think of a use case that surely doesn't meant that there isn't one for other people?
> people coming from Python that don't wish to learn an entire new language

I see this argument all the time but I just don't get it. Python and Javascript are remarkably similar, they have different syntax and the metaprogramming side of things is quite different but aside from that, it's really not a big jump.
7 years ago Bruce Springsteen in Milan used this song as the intro theme for his concert and it was the best thing ever. Still get shivers looking at the video

https://youtu.be/Qm3lYTtJ8gs
This is the PCI express driver for BCM2711. Good to see this but the UAS support would be elsewhere! Either in the umass driver or a new uas driver (just a guess as I am unfamiliar with the USB related kernel code).
I guess not completely inspired by his writings:

> Ellul explained his view in this way: "By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence."
The Flub Paradox
I worked with someone in 2013 who I'm still convinced solved this problem. But he was an absolute terror to work with. A petty authoritarian who would look over every website I'd go to and have screen monitoring and key logging software.

I kid you not. I left after 6 weeks. I snuck out the work with me (I wasn't "allowed" to bring it home.) If you're interested I'd be more than happy to share the code.

I think it was really revolutionary.

Essentially it used grammatical structures to arrange text in a navigable 2d space which he needed because he was a highly visual and spatial learner.

But what it allowed for is a nonlinear and a nonsequential arrangement of ideas using Wikipedia text, not just some simple mindmap stuff.

I used Wikipedia as an example in a prototype engine I made.

Articles Flowed Into each other through a continuous navigable space. You could interact and engage to go cognitively deeper and expand a new path, as opposed to a series of documents. Wikipedia became one continuous thing that you could endlessly navigate through a 2d space of.

The content wasn't large blocks of text but broken up using a separate visual language so that there'd only be a few words then a relation to another group and so on. This kept the concepts spatially relative and made the distinction of pages disappear.

It did it all automatically. Really amazing stuff. I also worked with Ted Nelson, this guy's methods were better. No question.

He developed the techniques over about 20 years manually and had transferred textbooks to rolls of butcher paper that he kept in cabinets. He totally didn't understand the value of his process as something as transformative as Vannevar Bush's As We May Think.

Instead he wanted to make it a proprietary format with proprietary content under a private publishing company for childhood education. He wanted a kludgy editor to make new content with and then a kludgy viewer for single topic things. He wanted to dictate the interface, keystrokes...

Because once again he's an authoritarian pedant. Bah, he didn't see what he made.

Ideas need to be controlled at the right level of abstraction and liberated at the others. That's what Linus knows that RMS doesn't. That's what TBL knows that Nelson doesn't. That's what Jobs knew but Apple doesn't.

I wanted to run with the idea but yeah, 7 years ago and I've done nothing. I got everything still.

I should stop everything and finish it. It's really something radically different. I think it will change at least the way I personally learn things.

The campaign to convince others, yeah well, no guarantees there.
As well as "I already have code in lang X"

I'm hitting that at the moment with a moderately complex c# codebase that would be really useful to run natively in the browser.

Yeah - I could rewrite it but I'd much rather not.
What kind of support do you need? It's a simple statement. He was an off-the-charts genius, with a PhD in math, a university professor, his thesis is still cited. Clearly he's emotionally damaged. You don't have to agree with him or like him, and I'm certainly not endorsing him, but there's no denying he was intelligent.
Stay within reason, don't try too hard. Realize that there are some people who won't stay no matter what you do, try to identify those lost causes and focus your efforts on everybody else.

If those who are open to staying see people rewarded, in futile efforts to retain them, for being almost gone, they will eventually start leaving as well.
He was one of the youngest professors ever at his University and was one who was experimented on by the CIA. There are some novelties here that exist other than him being a random school shooter.
It seems like it's about 40 times slower than JS or so, if not more.
It's the classical "I feel this way so everybody should feel this way".

People have been seeking pleasure since they were living in a cave.

Boredom thing also sounds completely baseless. I still remember when I was bored as a child - it had nothing to do with anxiety, frustration or anything like that (I didn't have any). Children (and then adults) simply have drive to do something interesting/enjoyable (for quite clear evolutionary reasons). I could stay for a couple of hours just relaxing in a forest, but only because I'm not so used to that. If I had to do that every day then I would get bored.

There are people who are trying to "distract away" themselves from their problems, but that's far from general boredom.
Do you use a dedicated alarm clock? I use the alarm on my phone, so the first thing I do in the morning is look at my phone to turn off the alarm.
The interesting stuff is in his book 'Technological Slavery'. The manifesto is not necessary to read imo.
to understand Kaczinsky is impossible without reading Jacques Ellul. His time in the woods doesn't make sense, his anger doesn't make sense, his slow (yes slow) self-radicalization and his terrorism doesn't make sense. Reading the Manifesto alone is what leads to terrible one sided takes like the Netflix documentary with its good-cop-bad-criminal narrative. if all one wants to do is confirm their position why he should be in jail (and he should) than the Manifesto is enough, but to understand the man you got to read what actually radicalized him. Read Ellul!
The developer posted more information on Reddit and goes into details in redirected walking.

https://pay.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/hlyp0o/walking...
Well, I don't know any of those things. Post could've just said that.
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You're one of the few.
I try to avoid it so much, but too often find myself checking emails and the news on my phone when the alarm goes off.
If that person wants to throw their toys out of the cot because someone didn't like something they did. Let them waste their time doing that. Don't let it impact you.

There's no right way, you could praise the hell out of something and conclude that you wanted to write your own just to gain the experience, and someone will still call you an idiot for re-inventing the wheel or find something to complain about.

You simply can't make everyone happy. Don't try. If someone sees value in your work, let them in, if they want to cry about it, ignore them. Life's too short to deal with twats.
My main takeaway from the Unabomber Manifesto is that to give up is to fail. We only have one valid way out of this and that is using the tool set (technology) that got us into this mess to get us out of it. All other options will result in unthinkable suffering and destruction (given that we have to work with the constraint that we already have 7B+ people on the planet).
But they can’t predict the future so the ads will always be bad.

Targeted ads would probably work best in categories of things that you buy regularly, like snacks. I’m not sure how they’d get that sort of information though.
I don't see how your original post is disrespectful, and I don't think you were wrong in explaining why you chose to implement your own thing for audio only.

The other person's response 'that you suck' is unprofessional and immature.

If that happened to me I would be inclined to fork and refactor their entire library.
If JS is not enables we get this

> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

What does this application actually do? Does it only show the text or does it allow visitors to play games or something more. I'm just puzzled by how often such occurrences happen nowadays.