skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to do politics either, so I don't know how to respond without straying too far off topic. I will cede that I probably could have picked a less polarizing example. Just first to come to mind.

The example was meant to highlight that not everyone uses a product/device the same way as others. If one's use of an item does not bring harm, infringe upon, etc of anyone else, then why should they not be allowed to use it? Obviously, once you use an item to infringe upon, bring harm, etc, you should be the one punished NOT the others by trying to banish the item.
I think the fact that they're grouped logically is enough, for the most part. It seems widely acknowledged that alcohol is not good for you, but there is a psychological distinction between doing shots at your local dive bar and a glass of Pinot with dinner. I think the spectrum of alcohol use is just broader than most other drugs except for maybe cannabis and psilocybin.
I dunno.

I started out playing punk rock and frankly if I listen to the stuff I was doing in the 90s, it sucked. My timing and pitch was pretty bad. Like, as bad as anyone including the people I know who say they are a-musical.

I've gotten measurably better.

I don't believe that this is a genetic thing. Rather, I just like goofing around with music so much that, over the decades, I've developed much better timing and pitch as well as my larger musical vocabulary.

I cannot speak for other people, but it's pretty obvious that while I am a pretty good musician now, I was not born with those abilities... they are the product of many, many hours of joyful exercise. If people can't find joy in sucking really bad at things (which is super helpful) that's probably something that can be overcome.

In the course of decades, unless someone has a severe and measurable impairment, the minor differences in people evens out to the point where I don't feel it makes much sense at all to bring genetics or even personal disposition into the discussion.
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If you take the stereotypical Silicon Valley style start of 2-4 founders in their 20s or early 30s, someone is gonna be CTO, and there's a good chance they'll have relatively little experience. But a Chief Architect, I'd assume was an experienced early hire rather than a founder.
> Is the brain not a physical thing?

Why, sure - from the physics standpoint all the human brains are essentially the same, they all consist of the same protons, neutrons, electrons... (Also, they are close enough to being spherical.)
Hm. "Some people" were not guilty of theft. How many were? It hinges on that, and I didn't see those numbers in that article. Pretty hand-wavey.

Sure, accusing folks of car theft unfairly is wrong. But it seems easy to resolve: present the contract.
> why stay at company A

It obviously isn't a universal preference, but I get most of my job satisfaction from having deep familiarity with the ecosystem I work with. I don't get that level of familiarity before a year or two, and it only gets stronger from there. I'm about to hit 4 years at my current job and my job satisfaction has never been higher. I might be able to make more money by hopping to a FAANG, but I would surely take a hit to my happiness.
You would probably (not?) be surprised by the number of government buildings actively using classified data on computers that ignore the 2 major rules: 1) never have a monitor visible from outside of the building and (2) keep your window blinds closed. I spent a decade watching people actively ignore that rule.
Theoretical computer science is such a small portion of computer science that it’s a bit of a joke to pretend it’s most of the field.
Fart Horn Recall Affects Half a Million Teslas
Scientists Create Strange Quantum “Domain Walls” in Laboratory
> Checking in constantly. Wondering and/or quizzing their child

This behavior is rampant in my peer group. Most of my friends/neighbors are constantly monitoring their teen age children's location, reading their recent calls, texts, and emails, looking at internet usage logs, etc. One of my neighbors even calls her daughter every time she sees she's driving over the speed limit and yells at her. It all seems so creepy to me, and I give my kid way more privacy than that, but it looks like I'm in the minority of parents.
Hospitals are frequently using anti-viral and mono-clonal antibody treatments for severe cases. They are not using drugs that have been shown ineffective.
Hey, I just started my Freelance career last September. I have the exact same years of experience and also located in Germany. You should take a look at Freelance.de and freelancermap.de. I'm getting 2-5 projects requests each day. I just finished my first project successfully and will start my second project next week. As a web developer I can earn 70-100€/h. That’s 2.5x more than I got as a full time employee. You should have at least 2 months of earnings as a backup due the payment deadlines. The only thing I regret is that I didn't start much sooner :)
Weird how Chomsky can come up with something like this and then become a Pfizer stooge.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un...
before I have bots, I usually put down a minimal production line that doesn't saturation a belt. I place them perpendicular to the main bus, so they can be 2x'd or 4x'd before saturating an output belt or fully consuming an input. in the early stages of having bots, I scale them a couple times as needed.

but once I have a good number of bots and a couple speed upgrades for them, I try to switch to remote train-served factories for bulk items. so doubling steel really is as simple as copypasting the original smelters and train stops. with current train mechanics, you don't even have to rename the stops. from here you can either fully transition to block architecture (probably overkill for vanilla) or widen your original bus at the end by injecting materials via train.

if you do it right, the only manual effort for scaling is adding new trains to prevent starvation.
And the KKK has caused harm to thousands of people, I would say that merits some attention.
Even in literary criticism, this balance and specificity is such a pleasure. It's one of the things I love about Samuel Johnson's essays. (Contrast with what people are saying in the article about failing literary magazines.)

I just started reading Boswell's biography, and the introduction to the Everyman's Library edition makes the same point:

> Part of this comes from a literal-mindedness that won't mistake one fault for another or all others. This worked even when his dominant feeling was not of fondness (as for Smart) but of dislike (as for Sterne). Boswell reports Goldsmith toadying up to Johnson, in a conversation on Sterne, by saying 'And a very dull fellow': Johnson replied 'Why, no, sir.' Fact.
> A die-hard Firefox user since the Navigator days

I know, talk about dying a young as a hero or living long enough to become a villain.
> Now I know hosting Reddit isn't free, but this is for another time I think.

You can't just pretend like the key fact isn't relevant.

Platforms don't grow on trees.

Somebody has bills to pay and its up to them how to decide how to pay them. If you don't like their decision, find another platform or moan incessantly about it.
I believe ads on a website are free speech. If I want to put ads on my site it's MY site. Feel free to block the ads or also feel free to just not visit but, with rare exceptions, I don't won't some regulation about what content I can put on MY site.

Separately, I'm less against regulation that bans sharing data but I don't know where to draw the line. It seems reasonable for me to keep logs on my site. It seems reasonable to ask my friend Brenda who's way better at statistics than me to use my logs to tell me insights about my site. Brenda starts an LLC or Corp and now suddenly there's regulations? You could say, "well, Brenda can't share it" but in the same way, Brenda might ask Jill who has better knowledge in certain areas of statistics to help out. And so the chain grows.
I personally know people who have made it that just work in a some midlevel (but publicly visible) role at a big tech unicorn, the company just got them placed there as part of their general PR strategy
> Before anybody jumps in and yells about how Mozilla is worse than Google, let me point out that Firefox is still objectively the best browser to use for privacy right now.

So I will be that "anybody". On what do you base your opinion about firefox privacy? Because I reading across the web have got another impression, for example, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9374407
So far all use cases that people seem to propose just don't make sense. All ideas I have heard so far fail at the connection to real life. (I.e. what's the point of having a plane ticket in the blockchain if I still need to trust the airline anyway to accept it and let me board the airplane?)
My guess is that this is because it was publicly editable and was being vandalised, according to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30306105

Feels like it would have been better for them to make it view-only/editable by specific people rather than hiding the entire thing, but there you go.
As the bombs fall in Donbas. Great timing, as always.

https://twitter.com/FrancescComito/status/149218499703329587...
https://twitter.com/PepinSS/status/1492223142705643536
People talk about NEVER recovering their previous cardio performance after a COVID infection. No one expects anyone to be seriously sick, and then have anything resembling their previous performance levels when they first start back.
Added for clarity: folks should be able to make music however feels fun for them, as far as I am concerned.

I really like self-generating sounds created by modular synths. If coding is fun and feels rewarding for folks, my feeling is that AI or whatever is a wholly legit thing. Have fun and keep at it.
> If your mission really is a free and open as well as privacy respecting web you don't invite the largest privacy violator on the planet to the table to have a say.

If you're trying to insinuate that working with Google or Facebook on this issue means that Mozilla fundamentally doesn't care about privacy, that is a ridiculous, fantastical claim that requires closing your eyes to years of work from the company.

I am right here criticizing Mozilla for partnering with Facebook, they should not be doing that. It's irresponsible and harmful. Nevertheless, Firefox is objectively the most private consumer-grade browser on the market, including Brave and DeGoogled Chromium. Nevertheless, Mozilla has done more to push web privacy forward than the majority of people on this site myself included, and more to push web privacy forward than the entirety of the rest of the browser market.

Even if you are on topic, there's nothing constructive about jumping onto every Mozilla thread arguing that Mozilla is the same as Google when they're very clearly not. It's unproductive because I shouldn't even need to be wasting my time defending a company that I came here to criticize. It makes it harder to fix real problems when all of them are equated and treated as being identically severe, and when the conclusion everyone draws from every problem is "use something based on Chrome and give up on the entire effort".
No, a compiler is to programming as what construction is to structural engineering.
Nextcloud is ugly, slow and bloated.

Is there a nice fast and simpler version? Something like Dropbox or Gdrive web interface.
EPAM systems has/had Byelorussian offshore operations I believe. I dont know to what extent though.

EPAM Systems Locations

Gomel Belarus

Grodno Belarus

Minsk Belarus

Mogilev Belarus

Viciebsk Belarus

Putin and people around him would be heavily sanctioned
including Byelarus.

I’ve worked with talent from epam and their engineering is top of class. It’s sad that many may suffer the consequences of Putin invades.
Because it is a data point. Sure it isn't a smoking gun pointing to malpractice, but if they are getting $500M/yr from Google, getting into partnerships with Facebook, and continue to make similar moves down the line, you have to question where they can truly be independent enough to be 100% on the consumer's side.
This might be a bit controversial, given the large amount of "F Mozilla" comments already present. The problem is the advertising industry, not advertising. Run a thought experiment quickly, let's say you wanted to start a pro-privacy/anti-malvertising/anti-flashing-bullshit advertising service (the tasteful ads that the likes of daringfireball sometimes features):

There's a thousand obvious things you can do: text-only, having the author select "adwords," etc. The problem you'll face no matter what is click-harvesting, how do you know that a real person has clicked the ad?

Facebook was the wrong fucking partner here, but maybe attacking or deliberating on the technical aspects of the specification would be a better discussion. If this thing isn't supposed to track us, then we should probably figure out if it actually achieves that, instead of frothing at the mouth. Browsers are going to implement it one way or another.
I guess what I mean, is they want you to talk... a lot. Apparently it's one of the ways they measure "engagement" - how loud is someone.
1 bit seems pretty preferable to something which people will pretty quickly find a way to turn into a user ID
> with the 2019 version

Ther is no YSFlight version 2019xxxx, latest version is 20181124.[0]

[0] https://ysflight.org/download/
Few of the staff would teach you the basics of anything, mostly because you are attending a research college, where teaching is the professors' side gig.

Outside of biology and a small handful of other grant driven fields, notably not including math—-the customers of the side gig are paying for everything. The least the people charging such high prices could do is put in a bit of effort.
On the financial observations, all of those systemic risks were due to leverage. If there was real leverage intertwined with the parallel financial system, bitcoin and crypto would have to be 50 times larger, 100 trillion market cap full of commercial paper, longer dated bonds, rebundled and collateralized, and then those further traded on leverage.
Paywall!!
I mean, there are tons of massively successful free (beer and liberty) software that have been around for decades. Why does Mozilla need Meta's or Google's money? Why have other free software products (thinking of OSes like FreeBSD and OpenBSD here) had active, high-quality development for decades without resorting to harvesting user data for profit? Isn't Mozilla a non-profit corporation? Hell, their website's title is "Internet for people, not profit", so what's happening here? And like someone else raised, why isn't there Mozilla and Firefox official swag?!
Part of why I value privacy is because I hate advertising and want to obstruct it as much as possible.

It seems Mozilla's values are not my values.
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> Do you agree that advertising on the Internet should exist?

Yes, but not targeted advertising. The mechanism which serves the ad should not try to collect information on the user and tailor the ad to them. As far as I can tell, there is no way to do that without creating a system that inevitably allow someone to identify and track people without their consent.
The billboards are all virtual. If your interface doesn't render them they don't exist, and without colluding with advertiser's the size and rate of ads to a system that blocks ads is a meaningless number because they are never rendered.

The real question is why is my supposedly privacy preserving interface colluding with this advertiser at all? I do not want them involved in my interface and it seems contrary to Mozilla's userbase's interests.

Google at least went to the trouble of building a new browser and taking over the market. Facebook hasn't done anything to be involved except have money to pay off a seemingly corrupt mozzila
Indian offshoring companies like Wipro, TCS, etc pay $500 per month for fresh graduates from the engineering colleges, where lecturers are incompetent. In a team of 10, only two are capable, all others are for billable hours for these companies. Some of these newbies can learn and improve skills and jump to other companies in a couple of years.

In the end, what matters is the cheapest labor, and billable hours. Account managers are judged on how much profit they bring.
With next.js you don't need to build 2 projects if you want a landing page + your actual app. You can have routes with no JavaScript if you're not fetching data. I think it basically comes down to simplicity for the developer.
Are people who take antidepressants addicted? The reason I am asking is that opiates can be used as such.

> Opiates promote goal-directed behavior.

> Interestingly, the mechanism of antidepressant action for ketamine may not even involve NMDAR blockage and may instead involve modulation of other CNS binding sites, such as being an agonist (activator) of opioid receptors.

I can see how opiates would help with anxiety and depression, especially for people who do not experience euphoria from it, just enough calmness... which does not actually go away after 2 weeks as it does with benzodiazepines, or without the cognitive deficits.
>My use of overthrow is as follows: an unelected group removing a legitimately elected governing body from power via direct force or threats.

There is no force, so that leaves threats.

This is classic non-violent civil disobedience. You can say it is illegal - it is!. You can disagree with it - not all civil disobedience is good. Just don't conflate the threat of civil disobedience with a threat of violent revolution or overthrow.

Threats aren't inherently illegal or violent. You can threaten to not vote for a politician unless they approve your policy. You can threaten to not go to work unless they resign. Crossing over into non-violent civil disobedience, you can threaten to illegally sit in a bus seat or road until a policy changes. This is a world different than threatening to hurt someone unless you get what you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
Very articulate, explained what has been on my mind for a while. Boot campers need to level up their learning to compete in the future.
I don't expect advertisers to stop putting up billboards and I don't expect them to blow down. I live in a part of the world where billboards are banned. Likewise, all advertisements are banned from my network and any devices I manage.

We are under no obligation to negotiate. Destroying the whole industry is on the table.
I give up alcohol for Lent every year.

I tried giving up caffeine one year instead.

I broke down after a week and went back to giving up alcohol instead.
I understand the sentiment, and it's a nice looking bit of desk clutter, but if you're looking for a organising tool, just buy a cheap notebook for pete's sake. Keeping a notebook on your desk is invaluable if well used.
Because when you are laying people off and giving them a severance, you are taking more care of them than you would be if you were firing them. That's the entire basis of this comment thread.
One reason for not returning work immediately is it makes it harder to accept late work, because students will share the answers with each other.
That can happen under the hood, but the user should not have to deal with that
> This is high school level analysis. These are straightforward reasons.

Yes. The hang up here seemed to be at exactly that level, though. At the very least it's useful to keep those things in mind and look out for them. That does not mean it's where things end. I took the original post to suggest that even this is too much, which is simply incorrect unless one wishes to be stuck at about a 6th grade reading level forever. There are bad teachers who don't even convey the basics well, and analyses may sometimes go pretty far into fairy-land at higher levels, but considering why pig-killing features so much in Lord of the Flies is something worth thinking about for a good reader, beyond "the characters were hungry". But yes, of course that's not exactly an advanced analysis, death of the author, et c. But it is table stakes for even beginning to appreciate literature or understand how stories (even blockbuster film scripts!) are typically assembled. Some amount of purpose plays a role in at least some decisions in practically all stories, and understanding how that works will make a person a better reader and writer. But I agree with you, it's not the end of that journey, nor is it advanced, and I don't think I wrote that it was.

> This I think is just not true. This is true in simple literature, in adventure books and in streamline writing production.

Short of experiments in randomly-assembled literature, it is true. It does not mean every single little detail has a grand purpose, but it does mean that the words on the page were placed there by a person, who could have instead put different words there, or nothing at all. Some things may still be arbitrary, but their inclusion was not—you don't get an arbitrarily-chosen type of flower without both choosing to include a flower and choosing to name what kind of flower it is.

Details may be chosen simply because the author likes the image they paint, or just has a preference (which are still reasons!) Others details may be dictated by the needs of the narrative ("why did this take two days, and not one or three? Because it needed to to fit some other piece of machinery in the narrative, no special meaning beyond that") or simple fidelity to reality in cases where there's no reason to strain suspension of disbelief. Of course all that's true—but it's also true that an author can do anything with a blank page, and instead of all the other things they could have done, did what you see before you.
Isolation. If you circle of friends is small and you get most of you human interaction from the office, it is going to be rough the first months. You may feel lonely and even depressed.
Distractions. It is very easy to get distracted at home. It helps to have a separate room for work without distractions. It is also good to have an schedule for work.
Wouldn't be the first time someone's put ultra-sensitive equipment in a glass box so they could "show it off to all the executives who come through". :)
Yes, but my thought with (2) is you can use someone else's telephone number without their permission or knowledge until it is permanently blocked as a method of verification and authentication.
As a university professor, given the availability of all these resources, I'm not sure why you'd want to take advantage of them and take a university course if you're not interested in the credentialling.

Fair enough. FWIW, my post was written from the perspective of being targeted at someone who has already chosen to take a university class, for whatever reason. But I agree with your point, and that approach is, in fact, my own. I mean, yes, I took some university maths classes in the past. But now as I want to learn new maths or re-learn maths I've forgotten, I prefer to just study on my own using mostly the exact resources I called out above. I wouldn't go pay to take a university class at this point in my life.
One thing to watch out for with that setup is using SSH for TUN devices can suffer from TCP-over-TCP performance issues, aka "TCP meltdown", when there's packet loss. You can avoid this by using normal SSH tunnels, a la ssh -L or -R, which unpack the individual TCP streams and multiplex them over a single connection. Or if you need a more traditional VPN setup use WireGuard.