skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I work a low wage job and have seen co-workers go to pretty extreme lengths to avoid having to actually work.

It's not as if employers don't have the means to remediate this.

If we cut down to it, there is a fundamental tension - the average employer wants maximum productivity for the least amount they can get away paying, and the average employee want the maximum possible income with the least amount of work. As a thought experiment, if your employer were to offer to reduce the length of your work-week while maintaining your current salary, what is the minimum number would you agree to? Zero is acceptable with no consequences.
> Can you communicate with chimpanzees or apes?

Sure. This was well documented by a movie in the 1960s. The apes were at first quite surprised that humans could talk.
In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°
Wow. The quality is mind blowing.
Yes, the full quote with context makes it worse, not better.
Killing it: From handaxes to spears, no difference in hunting (2020)
>* For better or worse, people are individuals, not members of a collective. Collectives of people don't work, and it isn't for a lack of trying. People aren't whales or bees in a beehive.*

It is hard to see how whales are more collective than humans. Humans for most of their existence lived in collective family units, not unlike whales.
Yes it does seem way off the mark. Seems better to give the money to the individuals on promise of turning around their lives .. in non-violent cases. (I'm not totally serious here, just expressing that some/most criminals may choose to turn around their lives given funds like that.)
Lets fix the title - if you think you need A/B testing, you don't. I have explained this to small organizations that are running sites getting tens of thousands of hits and just completely floundered at it.

The people whom A/B testing can help are running sites with million of hits.
Some things can't be measured.
The company is kinda s*t anyway. They couldn't even tell that my lunch had corn in it
Many EU countries still at 14.
Speaking as an autistic person, that really does not matter. Even though I don't believe in free will, I do believe that a functioning society requires people with power (like RMS, in his capacity as a free software leader) to be held responsible for the harm they cause regardless of how neurodivergent they are.

What about all the other people who were excluded from the movement because RMS was an ass? A common human fallacy is to overindex on the contributions of assholes, while ignoring the potential contributions of those who were excluded by their actions.
OSX consistency of gui is very high. This is what gatekeeping a proprietary OS can achieve.
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This is the case for some accessibility issues, but at the edge cases the differences between screen readers is significantly more apparent than with browsers and it's also significantly easier to hit edge cases with screenreaders. This is almost entirely due to screen readers each having their own idiosycratic solutions to what they do when they encounter a section of a website that sends them into 'interaction mode'. WAI-ARIA was designed to help in this regard, but the actual implementations don't seem to be help to the same strict standards that browsers are. This is the case for pretty much any complex frontend widget and can really only be solved using a specific screenreader to determine exactly what it's going to do once it encounters and needs to interact with your complex UI.
Just remember the old adage:

Even if you're paying for the product, you're probably still the product.
On almost all Emacs posts, I see folks go like,

"<harsh criticism>
PS: I love Emacs"
Same here on Firefox on iOS
> I would recommend looking into the less pleasant facts about others you consider philosophically brilliant, especially those further removed from us in time, before you denounce Richard Stallman as irredeemable to history.

This is illegible and does not seem to follow from the rest of this thread. I'm missing where the GP made a statement about a person's "philosophical brilliance." Did I miss something, or is this meant to infer something else?
> If you try to ostracize someone for being black you'll quickly face legal and/or social sanctions.

One wishes that were true, but in most places in the developed west it absolutely is not.
I've always referred to it as "(has) source access". It is a bit frustrating and misleading when people refer to it as open source.
They're not stupid. Lenin showed them the way: Telephone Telegraph, Radio and Newspapers (and today TV, Internet and GSM/Cellular networks).
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A better example is the Bluetooth contact tracing from Apple and Google. Laughably flawed from the beginning, and yet hailed as an incredible innovation on this very forum.

People prefer to believe positive news.
> Does John Cleese post this address in a tweet

Yes, he has done so.
changed from single thread to multi-threads,

changed std::map to std::unordered_map
The philosophy of freedom of open source that RMS and others have been developing pre-dates any significant big corporation sponsorship. (Many of the particular big corporations using open source now didn't even exist then).

I guess you can argue they would have changed it by now but for the subsequent sponsorship. There's no real way to resolve that claim one way or the other.

But it is a coherent philosophy on it's own, it's not some incoherent thing that makes sense only as self-interest of big corporations.

Open source from the start as envisioned by rms and others was about creating software that users could use as they choose, including altering it as they choose and deploying it where and how they want. While they may not have envisioned the economic system that has resolved from that, all the proposals I see on HN for "not letting big corporations take advantage of developers writing open source" are about removing this freedom, making it no longer open source.

So, sure, if some developers don't want to produce work that can be taken advantage of by others without payment, including big corporations -- they can stop producing open source. You shouldn't produce open source unless you want to produce open source. But that doesn't mean the definition of open source is wrong.
Haha, I like your title but I don't think it's accurate.

Many, many sites with millions of visitors are not yet A/B testing. Vastly more than you would think.
It's getting difficult to identify the parts of our world that aren't corrupt.
>Even if he did, there is nothing about autism that compels you to try and legitimize child sexual offenders.

Where, exactly, did RMS do so? This isn't a troll or a "gotcha" either.

All the claims about RMS doing so are from now public statements by RMS. Please provide (with appropriate context) evidence for the assertion that RMS tried to "legitimize child sexual offenders."

If you perform that exercise in good faith, you'll find that there is no evidence that RMS did (or attempted) any such thing.

I don't know RMS, nor am I associated with any organization with which he is or ever was associated. In fact, I was quite angry when I read the accusations against him.

But rather than take the word of others, I read his statements, in context, and came to the conclusion that those accusations were both false and sensationalized.

I have my suspicions as to why those false and sensationalized accusations were made, but I won't do what those who sought to portray Stallman as an advocate for pedophilia, rape and assault did.

I'll let others make up their own minds as to the motivations of the folks who sought to amplify such claims.

Edit: Clarified the reasons for not airing my suspicions in this comment.
1) Open and easily assessible accounting and tendering.

2) Auditors having ability to remove procurement staff that show they miss obviously 'better pricing'.

3) Spend less. I've pondered why prisons dont set up colonial type towns in remote locations for less than maximum security prisoners.

Make people work to provide their food and improve infrastructure. I imagine it would help develop many skills + better ready people to return to a world where they have to interact with people vs those high tension overcrowded prisons you see on TV. There'd still obviously be costs but you suspect something like this could be a massive per-prisoner cost.
They get a functioning, stable society which continues to build them wealth in return.
I haven’t personally used it but heard good things about Descript (also their demo vids are hilarious)
You’d be surprised how much industrial automation is not built by relatively small contractors. To your point, they tend to use “mega-corp” systems (e.g., Rockwell Automation hardware) but the actual logic is often written by small companies that bid out the project (or are subcontracted to for various reasons not necessarily related to technical acumen).

I haven’t personally worked o power plants but have been involved in various safety critical automation builds related to factories, hospitals, high energetic test stands etc. often, the code is maintained by a technician who isn’t either an engineer or classically trained computer scientist. Not to say those credentials are a must, but it makes more sense why the code I witnessed had so many bad practices in it
I've only seen reporting suggesting that every variant listed as a "variant of concern" from the CDC is present in Israel. So their data should be good.
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rsync.net was posted here on HN a few days ago.
Also, tarsnap is another popular service.
Neither have the special additions that makes Backblaze so popular, but could be popular alternatives.
I can totally copy and paste a bitcoin.

I may not be able to put it back in the same blockchain, which is a different issue, but if I only care about the bits that make up the “coin” I can absolutely copy them. I could even copy the entire blockchain.

AND the problem is not with the token, you can own all the original tokens for an image you want, you still don’t have anything different than a jpeg.
I never said they were trivial, and have argued exactly the opposite elsewhere. But it remains that they are logistical and political challenges, not biological ones.
It is said by some Burmese people that George Orwell wrote three books about Burma; Burmese days, Animal Farm, and 1984
Why I build it: I am a forgetful person. Many times after I open my MacBook and scan some news, I totally forget what I initially try to accomplish. I want to build a simple tool to display my current goal on the menu bar.
How does one accurately quantify hypothetical contributions by people who may or may not exist?
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Well, there are other ways to get income while producing software than selling the software. You can be a university professor. You can be funded by grants. You can have a job working for a non-software company that lets you produce free software for that company's use that you can also give away, while they keep paying your salary. Things like that were how open source software has been historically produced mostly, right? Heck, there could be a Universal Basic Income, and someone could choose to write the software they want while getting it.

Yeah, none of these would be sufficient to produce all the software that is "needed" or wanted. So, as long as there are people willing to pay for software they can't get for free, all software won't be free.

I support the idea of all software being free, including social changes that would be necessary for that to be realistic, such as serious alterations to capitalism.
This may be referring to the widespread rumor/account of RMS propositioning women for sex in his office at MIT, where he kept a mattress. I have no idea if this is true.
And in roughly the same role (Host FS parts exposed to the VMs) in ChromeOS's Crostini container runtime.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/con...
GPT-3 is the name for the architecture, but there are a few different versions/sizes. The OpenAI version that impressed us all was ~170B parameters, this is far smaller.

To go from 2.7B to 170B parameters will need more than just a few config tweaks. There's a whole bunch of hacks and tricks needed to coax a model to train at that scale, the Eleuther version is almost guaranteed to fail out-of-the-box.
Virality isn't a boolean property that's true for a distinct class of ideas, it's a probability of transmission.

Not telling anyone your ideas is like a mountaintop hermit not spreading a new viral strain.

Is your comment different than saying "some ideas are catchier than others"?
Biome testing seems like it could be a real thing, but after this news, I'm honestly not sure. Are there any trusted service providers in this space? (must... refrain... poop joke :-)
> think all wealth fundamentally belongs to the government

Not the government, no.
> Luckily, another co-author on the book has spent a lot of time pondering inclusion, women’s rights, children’s rights, and free speech. Her name is Nadine Strossen and her credentials run deep. She served as the first female President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), America’s largest and oldest civil liberties nonprofit, from 1991 to 2008. When she stepped down as President, three Supreme Court Justices participated in her farewell luncheon (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and David Souter). Strossen is a Professor Emeritus at New York Law School and currently an advisor to the EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), the ACLU, and Heterodox Academy. She is the author of the widely acclaimed books HATE: Why we should fight it with speech not censorship (2018) and Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (1995). She has far too many awards, publications, and prominent appearances to name.

A credential sheet of PC accolades long enough to whip a horse shouldn't be required to publicly disagree with the ideology of Google and ACLU without being fired.
This is more of a problem with legalized obstruction of justice by financial arbitrage. There is no easy solution to that problem, and it plagues all areas of modern life.
Not to derail the conversation but I find it amusing to put sexual harassment in the same sentence as not paying rent
Corporations are not collectives. They are organizations of people with self-interest, not selfless-interest.

Armies consist of people forced to cooperate, usually under threat of death or at least imprisonment. Such cooperation isn't very efficient, and indeed armies tend to be extremely wasteful of lives, treasure and property.

(Volunteer armies tend to be less wasteful of lives.)
You think the Myanmar junta are marxist-leninists? That's the weirdest perspective I've seen on it all year.
Most things in life aren't quantifiable, unfortunately. In our field we're spoiled by how many things can be reduced to numbers, but when it comes to interactions between humans it's essentially impossible. So instead, we have to use subjective evaluations.

My subjective evaluation, having met RMS in person and looked at the consistent patterns in his behavior, is that he is "below replacement value" -- he has overall caused far more harm than the average person in his position would have.
"I made the query for X, an operation that is performed Y times per day, Z% faster resulting in N% increase in Xs performed daily. This meant we could (defer hiring additional headcount|do more <profit-generating/cost-limiting process dependent on X> per day)."

Many teams don't invest in the tooling required to measure this kind of impact, but it's possible to ballpark it.
good update - thx! I knew about ETH POS coming (soon we hope...), but aspects of those other projects were good news
"But that's not an argument for doing nothing in response to someone who habitually offends people by accident."

Well that really depends. Offense is sometimes a strategy employed by cynical actors to gain a political advantage.

If I say that your posts are constantly offending me, what do you propose we do about that?

There isn't a universally applicable rule here.

This is also where the driving analogy breaks down. It's an easy trade-off to revoke someone's license if it means we can prevent death. But taking action to prevent subjective offense enters into a much more tenuous and debatable cost-benefit trade-off. What makes sense would come down to the details of the case.
I believed I was responding to a comment by the user "zeruch". I may not be using this comment section correctly.

>His philosophical brilliance has always impressed me, his personal presence is like rotting offal in the sun. He doesn't get the benefit of being remembered for the former when he puts in so much effort to broadcast the latter.
CAIDA's IODA project has good data on Myanmar internet outages:

https://ioda.caida.org/

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=co...
There is still as much of clear directive in the recording. I'm not sure why you don't believe that.
>People need to be accountable for what they say, not what people believe they think.

This sounds like a very Orwellian way of saying people shouldn't be fired for wrong-think if they profusely apologize afterwards. Is that what you mean?
Challenge accepted. Do you have an example?
Taxpayers aren’t, but citizens are.
> Collectives of people don't work, and it isn't for a lack of trying

Countries, companies, armies, sports teams, FAMILIES are all collectives of people. Not all of these organizations are voluntary, and not all are “based on self interest”.
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The entire semi industry depends on Taiwan.

No fab in the world these days works without some single vendor on the planet consumable from Taiwan.

So, the entirety of semi industry will likely go down as it is today.
> One effective way to do this is to isolate the responsibilities of individuals such that no one but the top few have the whole picture view.

Which is what Madoff did, I believe.
Thank you for your clear comment. I hope your tenure review has a positive outcome.
I saw their 500 startup demoday presntation and thought what a cool idea. Unfortunately, I think a lot of newer startups today have good ideas that don't pan out or convert into sucessfull business -but since they raised money feel obligated to deliver by hook or crook.
> In theory, they should have failed the class or been expelled, but the professor didn't want such a high rate of her class failing and just gave them a zero for the one assignment.

It's likely that this decision was not up to the professor. Unless you have massive proof, deans (and the administration in general) hesitate against taking serious action. I'm talking from my own experiences.
vorta + borg backing up to cloud disk.
Pure speculation. In some cases you are, in some you are not.

In this particular one you are not.
Including the filenames seems to have been unintentional, looks like they were logging analytics to Facebook, probably an even (form submission) but uploaded the form html with contents.

But why they need to submit that to Facebook for paying users I don't understand. The only thing I can think of is excluding active users from advertising... But is that worth the privacy intrusion?
I think this could be an instance of the fallacy fallacy. Just because what about arguments are often unwarranted doesn't mean they are in every case. In particular, the health care and pharma industries are driving up the cost of doing business, so it's fair to ask why there's a scandal when a startup accidentally misleads and overcharges, while it's business as usual for Big Medicine?

https://effectiviology.com/fallacy-fallacy/
Furthermore what is the relationship between you and your brain. It does a lot of stuff while you're not paying attention.
What's the point of only cutting it at night?
If you’re in the EU, Hetzner Storage boxes.
No western nation, except perhaps italy briefly, had a lockdown like the initial suggestions were.

I won't say with confidence that a short, hard, lockdown would have solved things in the us, but such approaches did work in many other nations.
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>Also, island nations still have internal traffic. What's different about the borders between parts of Australia that allowed them to be closed when European borders had to stay open?

Australian states' borders aren't like those between New York and New Jersey (or Colorado and Wyoming), or Belgium and the Netherlands. There are a handful of highways that can be and were completely blockaded, and otherwise the borders are completely empty desert. (Even on the highways, there are dire warning signs about having sufficient water/gasoline/supplies in the more remote parts.)
Families are indeed very small scale collectives. Even so, try to get the kids to clean their rooms, and you'll conclude that collective has its problems, too.
If you're working on Django codebases, `select_related` and `prefetch_related` are going to be your friends. Maybe 70-80% of Django slowness I've encountered (back when I did Django) was because of something issuing hundreds of db calls unnecessarily.
We could end it in a minute if there wasn’t Security-for-Oil based policy.
Yep that pretty much burns the service :/
Took me a second to realize he said this before the election. Whew.
Just being quiet and not reacting in any way would probably already make you a better listener than most people. Yes, I am completely serious about it: most people just interrupt you to start telling their own story. (Forget even the advice about occassionally nodding and saying "uhm". Just listen; don't interrupt the speaker to show them how awesome is your listening.)

This skill is even more important when people get to sensitive emotional stuff. Not freaking out (this includes the body language; don't jump, don't pull away) is how you get people tell you things they have never told anyone else. You may learn that the world is much darker place than you assumed, though.

The next level is repeating back to people what they just told you, using slightly different words. Less is more, don't add your own interpretation or judgment. Just imagine that you have read a page from a book, and are trying to summarize it to someone else. (This is a simplistic description of Rogerian therapy.)

Whatever you hear during these moments, don't tell anyone, and don't use it in a later argument against the person who told you. Best if you forget it immediately.

This is often enough. Most people actually can solve their problems; they just need a permission to think about them. You provide that permisssion (a social approval) by listening without interrupting. By repeating their own words, you make them realize what they just said, which they often needed to hear more than whatever else you could tell them instead.

I am not saying that this is the best you can possibly do. Just that most people fail to even get here, and that the things they do instead are usually not as useful.

I suspect that people can never perfectly understand each other, but they have a huge emotional need to be perfectly understood regardless. You can cross a lot of this distance by listening, but when you get as far as you can, you can only provide an illusion of the rest. At the end, you are just a mirror that allows the other person to see themselves.

(Recommended reading: Nonviolent Communication; Games People Play.)