skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think you missed the point.

>I'm not sure what you're point is here?

The point is that Boghossian has built his brand over the past decade as an "anti-SJW" thought-leader and has used methods like the Sokal hoax to create stories that seem scandalous on the surface, and fall somewhere on the spectrum of dishonesty upon closer inspection, like Project Veritas often does (e.g. getting one of hundreds of your submissions published in an obscure open access journal doesn't prove what your readers think it proves on the surface.)

>Again - not sure what point you are trying to make here. Words and meanings change over time.

PC and SJW fell out of favor as time went on. The dishonesty in the discourse in the so-called "anti-PC" crowd around trigger warnings, "safe spaces", and gay rights is plainly obvious at this point, to the degree that it's hard to be taken seriously using these talking points, and terms like "PC" and "SJW" fell out of fashion accordingly. The discourse around so-called "wokeness" seems to also suffer from some of the same issues, though it may take time for that to become as obvious as it is now with the former.
Thank you for that clarification. Aside from interacting with AWS MTurk, I haven't had much experience with Amazon's AWS, so it sounded like a joke.
Sure, they want to rewind to a time when your bank account was unsecured and banks themselves had 0 regulation. Because it's a heck of a lot easier to make money when you can take massive risks with other people's money while lying to them and claiming there's no risk at all.
Imagine the chaos at "C compiler written in Rust"
I thought the removal of shoes was a response to the Shoe Bomber plot, not 9/11?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
FAQ says:

What does [flagged] mean?

It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News.

Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.

so I guess it could be either?
"A lot of people come to Twitter and they don’t actually see an app or a service, they see what kind of looks like a public square. And they have the same sort of expectations of a public square. And that is what we have to make sure that we get right. And also, make sure that everyone feels safe to participate in that public square.”

-Jack Dorsey

https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-twitters-role-free-s...

I am not endorsing his statement but Twitter's CEO apparently considers it as a town square.
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> Anarchists and solarpunks alike abhor unjust hierarchies

Pretty sure everyone dislikes 'unjust' hierarchies. The difference is what people think is just or unjust
Go climb Mount Olympus in Greece. Good scrambling the last 1 hour.
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> Russia still uses

No it does not. I'm Russian, and the only thing you need to leave the country is an international passport. You can apply for one online, then come to the immigration service to have your picture taken, then a month later you come again and collect it. The passport is valid for 10 years. I believe it's fairly similar to the process most other countries use.

Many other countries require Russian citizens to have visas, and some visas are hard to obtain (like Australian one, lol) but that's another story entirely.
No, because we’ve made it some anyone with the power and means to make a change is unaffected by it for a nominal fee.
The interesting part to me is that the mode of attack for 9/11 can't easily be repeated. It depended on passengers assuming the plane was being hijacked, and that they would eventually be released.

That stopped working on the 3rd (edit: 4th) plane. I don't see how it would work again. Passengers now default to assuming there's no path to live other than fighting back.

Meaning many of the measures we still take aren't really preventing anything. I do understand this doesn't apply to the shoes (shoe bomber), but that's just one of many things we've put in place.
I wouldn’t say illegal content, since most of that gets removed relatively quickly. But definitely a lot of content in the grey zones of copyright law.
That's on par for the silicon valley children here. Ive never seen a hard discussion here that didn't evoke the woke brigade in shunning it...

Which goes to the very point of having hard discussions about these topics that we aren't having.
This reminds me of the whole privatisation vs nationalisation debates in the UK. Labour claimed when it nationalised the railways and other parts of the economy it was giving them "back to the people" in a democratic fashion because they were now owned by the state which it conceives of as an expression of the body politic, rather than corporations which are seen as entirely seperate from the people. The Tories when they privatised these things also claimed they were giving them "back to the people" in a democratic fashion as private individuals could now freely invest if they chose in these companies rather than them being controlled by the state, which it conceives of as something entirely seperate from the people*.

"Democracy" and especially "the people" can mean lots of different and completely contradictory things to lots of different people. I'm always very cautious of anyone who invokes "democracy" and "the people" directly, I don't automatically consider them untrustworthy but I prefer a direct argument for a particular idea. If someone's truly a democrat, they'd be unafraid to make their point without such potentially dishonest tactics as people would democratically choose that idea anyway.

* I'm massively oversimplifying here - there's such things as Blairism and One-Nation Conservatism which blur these lines enormously.
The band Protest the Hero has a song about this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcGbAQgZIg
Do you think magical thinking is capable of solving all problems once sufficiently experienced by the 1%?
You verbatim wrote "As a professor, create your own PDF and give it to all the students free". How is that not giving away your work for free?

How is automatically deducting textbook cost from student tuition going to help with anything? If anything it will help maintain the status quo, because then it's even less transparent.

The alternative you propose is for professors who don't write their own books is to give other people's work (the original authors') away for free.

So your solution is that because it's easy to copy digital books, the 'problem is solved' by forcibly taking away the fruit of labor of some people at your convenience?

As I wrote elsewhere: if there were a cartel, college textbooks would vastly outprice textbooks for professionals (because they cannot be 'forced' to buy them) - that's not what I see in my field. Professional textbooks easily cost $200-$300. It's just a niche market.
Doesn't everyone use five stars these days? :)
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It was shortly afterwards so falls in the same mental “bucket” for all practical purposes.
Thanks for sharing that, I hope it does not land you into trouble. So, how many billions did you make with that site ?
True there. By example, all germans of a certain generation paid a price after Hitler's crimes, unjustly or not.

Racism and other injustices in the system have been perpetrated for centuries. When the tide turns, there is a blanket application of outrage on everyone, regardless of involvement.

There was a time when any act by a colored person was subject to abuse by authorities (and indirectly by a silent majority). The blacks couldn't do a thing right - if they weren't being a slave, under that system. The same yardstick is being applied now on the other side - blindly. I am not for one moment saying revenge is OK or anything is justified.. its just the nature of mobs.

We had an (orderly) mob rule (masquerading as the rule of law) over blacks then, and we have a kind of a mob rule now (the beginnings of ..) . Its too much to ask a mob to analyze.
I once made a music player similar to this. It converted music files into image files, and saved them to Flickr. One trick that I employed was that the output image files were also visually recognizable, featuring album covers and lyrics.[1][2] The way I used to hide information was pretty barbaric, but it was still a fun experiment.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/barosl/albums/7215763383971356...

[2] https://github.com/barosl/flickr-music-player
One of the primary functions of art is to get people to question or examine their assumptions and understanding of the world, including questioning the dominant power structures. Here, and now, the dominant power structure is capitalism. So it makes sense, given the circumstances.

Jingoistic art that upholds and celebrates power is usually pretty awful.
I find it's hard to reasonably switch careers once you get to a high earning position in web development. I've long had a big interest in lower level stuff: I've done a minimal OS in high school (boot sector in assembly, first-fit malloc and round-robin scheduler on 32-bit x86 in high school — I remember bringing a bootable 3.5" floppy into my graduation project presentation with teachers being surprised: "you've got something running, too?"), and while I've always strived for a more direct-to-hardware job, I don't trust I can apply for any of the relevant positions and expect anything but a junior-ish salary.

I do believe that I'd easily pick it up (eg. I can easily spot potential races and common problems with async code in other people's code, which is usually the trickiest problem though I'd expect hw bugs to be even worse in low-level stuff), but I am not sure I can sell myself well enough to get a position that matches my skills (since experience is limited).

Other than spending time away from work (which I lack because of the family), do you have any other tips on how to break into the field?

Remote from a EU timezone a requirement :)
Yeah, more likely they buy it to kill it like they did Alien Blue years ago.
OP (myself), is GenZ for what it is worth.
(I'm biased but) I think this can be great for the web. Finally there's progress in making progressive images more progressive!
If you mistakenly spend a small (to AWS) amount of money, they'll refund it. They're not out to get individuals.

AWS is for businesses and hard limits on spending is a liability for their pricing structure. Imagine you run a small business built on AWS and you hit your limit -- you're basically asking AWS to dismantle your business. They'd have to null-route traffic directed to you, shut down your servers, delete your data, de-allocate your IP addresses, etc. Your business won't be any better off than if you went bankrupt from a huge AWS bill.
SRM = Solar Radiation Management, in case anyone else was wondering.
Regardless of whether you believe that he did research on human subjects without IRB approval, the man intentionally submitted for publication research he knew was false : https://psuvanguard.com/research-misconduct-findings-for-hoa...

>>> [Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies] McLellan stated in a Nov. 27 letter to Boghossian, “The Committee unanimously agreed that the ‘dog park’ article represents an unambiguous example of research data fabrication.”

Doing a little digging, he also appears to have a EdD instead of a PhD: https://pdx.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2017-2018/Bulletin/Directo...

The thing that really stands out to me is he got it from PSU, and I'm wondering what the backstory was that led PSU to hire him back, six years later, in a different department (and college).
Well, it is the Wall Street Journal. It shouldn't come as a surprise that an American publication named after an American landmark uses American units.

Americans, myself included, generally acknowledge that the metric system is better but we are already familiar with US units. There's nothing really wrong with US units either in terms of accurate measurement. In an ideal world we would use metric, but transitioning would come at monumental costs - never mind the re-training of an entire population - just so we can make unit conversions a tiny bit easier.

I get it. You're not familiar with US units like we are so you have to do conversions to make sense of the measurements - probably with a calculator since the ratios aren't simple, whole numbers. But remember Americans have to do the same whenever we read almost any foreign publication. Difference is I never see HN or Reddit comments complaining about metric units.
That pretty much describes anyone who works in a correctional setting.
I use stainless steel for a lot of my cooking and grew up in a household without dishwasher. When I got my hand on a dishwasher as an adult and tried out washing the stainless steel utensils in it, I saw that the steel utensils had a coloured pattern left in it - it is similar to the pattern seen when petrol mixes with rain water on the roads. I am not sure if that is safe. Anybody know why this occurs?
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If your talking about crappanel exceeded bandwidth suspension page it wasn't realltime, can't remember if default was 1hr,6hr, 24 though
Pro-tip: "the data is there" doesn't mean it's cheap to use.

There's a very simple explanation for this; realtime billing would increase the cost of the product they sell to create something most people don't need.
Cheapest way is with a Nexus card I believe. Great program.
This 100%.

I don't even bother with playit.gg - just forward a couple ports on the router and pass out my ip. Only time my dynamic ip changes is when I lose power, and if I've lost power the server is down for "Maintenance" anyways.
> Your opinion is not factually supported. A million people were prosecuted for breaking lockdown laws in the UK.

That's his point. He's drawing a contrast to blackout laws,by claiming that an individual sees direct benefit from compliance (not getting bombed) while breaking lockdown doesn't create a lot of risk for the vast majority of offenders.

Ie, if a hypothetical person was 100% optimizing for self-interest, they would not break blackout laws but would break lockdown laws. This is a dramatic difference in dynamics when seeking to understand differences in compliance.
> I can't understand why anyone would start something new in Java 8,

Quite frankly: they just don't know better and they just don't care. I could go on for pages, but in short the people running the show are just really inexperienced and are pretending not to be. I'm going to start applying for jobs soon as its beginning to feel hopeless.
> Or even just a heuristic mode for development where it yelled loudly if it detected what looked like an N+1 issue or other query inside a loop.

Fwiw, ActiveRecord with the Bullet gem does exactly that. I'd guess there's an equivalent for Django.
Maintenance cost for the z13 divided by 1000 VMs would be 22.48 a month. Add to that depreciation would cost 46.55 per month per VM. The machine has 2TB of RAM and this VM would have 2GB. committed to it, but CPU-wise it'd have less than a core (because you don't have a thousand cores on a z13).

You can get something similar (on a z15) for free from the LinuxONE Community Cloud.
This is a pretty strong claim to make without any arguments to back it up. Do you have scientific arguments as to how 10 telescopes at 1/10 the cost would have been better?
Check out the author's Arnold Schwarzenegger video call example: https://www.tiktok.com/@arnoldschwarzneggar/video/6995538782...
Disney Springs in Orlando has new metal detectors that you just walk through, wondering if airports will eventually feature the same. I kind of doubt it though.
As a thing, OS development requires some UI to interact with low level things, ..
And for me most satisfying - put reward aside , as I'm not interested in material part -, thing is Game Development,
tools to see parts - debug lights bounce with a terminal - of render process ( Some may check Unreal Engine, or any other game engine UI's ),
Even I don't fill comfortable enough with blueprint kind of low level UI's as oppose to text programming ( double d = 10.0 is easy for me to drag and drop a variable )
Material always have many faces. UI is one of them.
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>Companies should start hiring based on aptitude rather than degrees. Most roles don’t need a degree. Students can learn the ability to think and reason without an insane amount of money and time spent at these indoctrination factories.

A not unreasonable statement. Companies tend to be too lazy to bring in bright high school students and run a proper training systems, but you can certainly push for certification programs without degrees like the California Bar Exam.

Given the amount of OJT (self-taught) I did at first plus the real lack of value of college, I'd have to say that in my case the degrees and time spent were of no value.
We have a prototype-y thing part way between P0 and P1 already.

A "you can build it yourself" P1 version of that will probably be well-documented by early next year, but it won't be something you can just go out and buy yet. You'll have to gather together the parts needed, get the PCB produced, etc.

The plan was for us to get something to that P1-stage and then go more public about the project. No worries on jumping the gun with posting it. It's not exactly a secret, just not *intended* for public consumption yet.

I think when we have a couple of copies of P1s ready to show off (and videos of the product, and an actual product website! :-) having something put together we can show off would help open up some doors from people with more experience with getting hardware produced so people can get this more readily (even if just in kit form to start). Right now we're just doing one-off prototyping.
A "productive asset" is a financial world term that means an asset that generates financial returns.
That's still a common billing model- how Red Hat bills for openshift for instance.

It's a simple and pretty good proxy for usage
I have been using hxselect from the html-xml-utils package to do this for many, many years.

It doesn't handle malformed HTML that well but can be coaxed into working about 90% of the time, with the help of the other included package hxclean or something like html-tidy.
Any attempt at this, the terrorists will have a game plan of how to convince people on the flight to chill out, that they have no mal-intent towards the passengers, etc etc. I mean it might not work, but I reckon they'd put on a really good act and manipulate people heavily into making it feel like they are actually quite safe and it would be a poor decision to try and overrun them.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/95db6bfcfed8401f.png

Look what I've found going through the pictures... Well protected Raspberry Pi in space. :)
Correct, but I think the general escalation of security in airports which caught Richard Reid, was a direct response to 9/11 . Either Way, it is still mainly security theater to make passengers less apprehensive about taking what is still the safest mode of travel per passenger mile( there might be other metrics, but this is the only one I've read recently).
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I think it would be very valuable for humanity to start learning how to do assembly in orbit, I think china is planning to do that for their next space station. not sure if that will actually happen, but it would be cool if that sparked a new space race. I think you would be a bit disadvantaged as a superpower when the other superpower can build stuff in orbit while you can't.
He submitted fraudulent research, Brian.
I try not to fly and this is one of the major reasons I find flying so annoying. I've been through airports where they just use bomb sniffing dogs, why can't that be the norm?
"Government treating its citizens like adults" and "Australia" really do seem to be mutually exclusive at this point.
This story is fascinating. What ended up happening with the project, did you at least break even?

I would read a book about this, fwiw.
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If you liked expanded government powers necessitated by the War on Terror, you're going to love the new biosecurity state. Remember, it is for your own safety!

>“I don’t see it changing,” said Lora Ries, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “It never seems to be fewer requirements … the direction always seems to be for more.”

>Security screening, he said, will also be expanded to passenger drop-off points and airport and off-airport parking lots, in addition to walkways and tunnels approaching departure and ticket kiosks.
It’s hard to obtain startup capital for cooperatives, because if the people supplying the capital want equity, then it’s no longer a cooperative. So they have to get loans, and banks that offer loans don’t want to take risks.

Once established however worker cooperatives do very well.
“As for Neuralink, I was being genuine when I said that I learned a ton there and remain significantly invested in their success. The truth is that it wasn’t my choice to leave, and there was a lot left there I still wanted to do. But as usual, Elon was right: it was time for me to go. The background is complex and, in some sense, doesn’t really matter. In what should be a surprise to no one, Elon is by far the most effective operator I’ve ever met, and the four years I had there were, in retrospect, the best education on how to turn difficult technical problems into businesses I could have possibly found. Going forward, though we both work with the brain, our goals are different: Science is not working on products that will likely be very useful for merging with AI, though that is a mission in which I hope Neuralink is successful. From a technology standpoint, what we are pursuing at Science is quite different.”

Interesting that he was asked to leave. It was speculated earlier that Max left because he was annoyed at Elon revealing the implant in the monkey a bit sooner than he wanted to.
Perhaps I will. I went through a Crichton phase in middle school but somehow missed that one. Thanks for the rec
https://www.fbi.gov/history/artifact-of-the-month/december-2...

Man I had no idea this even happened, I either forgot or never heard of it cause it seems to have been an open and shut event.
> Correct, but I think the general escalation of security in airports which caught the Richard Reid

Eh? But he wasn't caught due to airport security. He got onto the plane and tried to set off the bomb during the flight.

He would have been caught if someone had looked at his shoes.
ByteDance is barred from IPO'ing internationally and possibly domestically as well. They wanted to and the CCP would not allow it, they capitulated and backed off their IPO plans (Didi by contrast went forward against the wishes of the CCP, and now Didi is being dismantled and nationalized in response). It's part of the new cultural revolution going on in China, they're restricting prominent companies more aggressively, for purposes of control, and that includes how and when they're allowed to IPO.
The US is the only place I think I've had to remove shoes for flight security in years. But in Europe taking off a belt is often required while in the US it is not. In Budapest they stopped having us remove laptops from bags a bit ago. My biggest challenge over the years was remembering what to do in each place as the security people at the airports had a tendency to get upset if you didn't do it their preferred way.
There's the body scanners, but I don't know if they can detect anything weird in shoes.

That said, how many shoe bombs have they intercepted? That should be a pretty good indication about whether it's still necessary, and I like to think the policy change (or lack thereof) is data-driven.