skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually an argument for why Twitter shouldn't exist.

Twitter makes it super easy to do mass warrantless surveillance, because Twitter gathers millions of people together in the same searchable public space. It's a honeypot.

What's dangerous about the "public square" concept is that Musk doesn't just want a public square — one public space among many, one among equals — he wants the public square, a monopoly on online conversation. "I think I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596751751532937217

We shouldn't have all of our conversations, political or otherwise, in one place. That's a giant mistake. We need decentralization for our own safety and freedom.
>as if it were a subsidiary

Having gone through an acquisition, I guarantee that our acquired org gets more than 150 emails from our acquirer every two years. Let alone each day. To call it a "subsidiary" is ludicrous.
In fact Google got rid of the 'up and out' for L4. And from L3 (many new hires) to L4 is a pretty easy jump.

Promo at Google was still toxic AF when I left, but it wasn't as bad as when I started when there was a clear 'L4 -> L5 within 3-4 years or bye' thing going on.

When you read the job description for L4 it's absolutely baffling that they figured people had to 'move up' from that. It's basically "solid and competent individual contributor." You'd think companies would want to fill their benches with that.
Interesting! Do you have a link to IPCC's anti-nuclear stances in 2009? Genuinely would like to read more, but having a hard time finding it
We're moving in circles, but again, I don't believe a company can bring out good products for very long if my experience is the exception. And as so often the case, the "half dozen" other people might be venting for their experience.

If there is no somewhat healthy reward culture, the multiple passionate people in the many different levels needed would leave.
Each view of the world has things it explains well, and things it struggles to explain. Some views do a better job overall than others.

In terms of idealist and dualist views of reality, the claims that there's fundamentally just minds, or fundamentally both minds and physical stuff, are very likely to entail that there is some kind of ensoulment that happens. Perhaps it's required for these views.

While I lean towards a type of idealist view myself, and I think overall it does a better job of explaining various matters than a physicalist view, how exactly ensoulment works is one of the places where these views are at their weakest. I don't think there's any contradiction here or problem for a view like mine, I just think that the physicalist account does a nicer job of explaining things in this specific corner. But that point in physicalism's favour here isn't enough to balance out the places it doesn't do so well (e.g., its complete inability to even begin to explain qualia).

The core point of my post though was that pointing to the continuum of complexity is an argument that would only have weight with people who already have a particular belief in common with you -- that is, that physical complexity of the right sort is somehow relevant to the question of whether something has experiences.
I have two nephews like this. Their future looks incredibly bleak. Although I believe the culprit is that their parents are always "phone on" as well.
I remember hearing that tuna can actually heat up so much during a struggle that they begin to cook themselves and it's frowned upon, so I would assume a slower fight would be better. I do remember a short documentary on the subject where a Japanese tuna buyer was at a broker and was pretty skeptical of American fisherman and pointed out things they had done that a Japanese fisherman wouldn't. My experience is only from catching small game fish in the Gulf of Mexico, but I can agree that fishing is a brutal pastime in some ways, but also fish are not particularly sympathetic animals.
Some people oppose fascism.
That makes sense... I was having trouble with E2EE rooms with my friends back when Element was (regrettably) called Riot, but we also chalked that up to being (somewhat) early adopters. That didn't stop us from migrating to Discord, sadly.

It's why I characterised them as growing pains... I'm sure it'll all work out eventually and I've no doubt it's more stable than it has been.
I think it's less of a judgement about VR and more of a judgement about AI. If you believe AGI is within reach (as he does and I agree), working on literally anything else seems like a waste of time. It's impossible to overstate the impact it will have.
Update:

This is my project for localStorage.

var count = 0;
function increaseCounter() {
// var count = Number(window.localStorage.getItem("count"));
count += 1;
window.localStorage.setItem("count", count);
document.getElementById("score").innerHTML = count;
}
function decreaseCounter() {
// var count = Number(window.localStorage.getItem("count"));
count -= 1;
window.localStorage.setItem("count", count);
document.getElementById("score").innerHTML = count;
}
function clearCounter() {
window.localStorage.clear();
count = 0;
document.getElementById("score").innerHTML = "";
}

This code works now. But is there a point of using localstorage if I'm going to do like this? My goal for asking the question was to understand the first line.

[CODE] // var count = Number(window.localStorage.getItem("count"));[/CODE]

I didn't get what we did here and why we did here.
Americans have really run out of problems I see
Our office lease is up in less than 2 years, and our CEO said that he’s been out looking at smaller places sized for the number of people that actually want to come in. He said he’s finding a lot of places that had $$$$ spent on them a year or two before Covid.

These kind of places wouldn’t be on the market if we were the only company not planning to drag people back into the office.

We’ll probably end up with about half the space we had before; on any given day about 25-33% of staff has voluntarily come in and it’s never the exact same people every day. Plus, we’re hiring and need at least some room for growth.
Is this a classic middle management malaise where everyone gets paid so well they don’t want to stir the pot? The bureaucracy and protection of today’s money cows which only clouds them from seeing tomorrow’s cows that will rescue them from certain obscurity?

The Clayton M Christensen solution to big companies ignoring obvious problems is to have isolated small teams “infrapreneurship” who aren’t under the pressures of the larger org. With Meta’s push towards VR it’s obvious Oculus’s purpose is now Meta’s purpose. And all the downside that comes with such a thing.
Who's the fascist in this situation?
it's generally a good idea to do

echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

for benchmarks to avoid disk cache speeding things up, i'm surprised it wasn't mentioned
It could get you evicted. And with Elon's stance on butts-in-seats that could be problematic. And good luck finding another landlord.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

You are kind of combining two things though: legacy systems, and proprietary systems.

There are modern proprietary systems as well. RHEL is a good example.

I'd argue it's not a "small number of entities" though. You'd be shocked by what legacy systems are running in the most important places on the planet...maybe scared. Unfortunately/Fortunately, nuclear facilities aren't running Linux Kernel 6.X

The fact is, a lot (probably most) problems solved with a computer don't need further updates. As long as the hardware continues to function, all is well.

Something you may have not considered is that when the time does come, and the hardware does fail, I'd guess most organizations will opt -- and even go out of their way -- to source those same legacy components they had before to keep things running exactly the same instead of upgrading to a more modern solution.

I've had to do this a number of times for clients. Not long ago, I had to source an old mainboard for a system that was 20+ years old...in doing so I did realize there is some good money to be made if you can source parts for systems about 20 years in the past because the board was like $300 (this was 2017, and the board had a 33mhz processor and like 8MB RAM)

If you don't have to touch these systems, count yourself lucky.

If you do touch these systems, thank you for your service.\

In regards to the modern proprietary systems, there are many, but if you consider RHEL for instance, there is a lot of value for large organizations. They can reduce the number on on-hand personnel whom probably would be less efficient at solving an OS issue than a RHEL engineer. As an example, the Federal Reserve runs modern RHEL...but I'd guess if you dig deep, they have some really old stuff too...
But there is no partisan headspace if both parties were impacted. Clearly their lack of interest is due to other factors, which you must learn to appeal to. Not everyone fails to care because of petty political concerns.
Yeah, first thing I thought was oh that drive looks esoteric.
They do get disrupted. All the time. And so then they turn around and buy the companies that disrupted them, and take them apart.

Also they have a firehose of revenue which makes it possible to hire hire hire, push compensation levels up, and suck the air out of any other interesting companies.
Cuarón bragged about never having read Children of Men, which is why I mentioned it.
Loading the CSV through read_CSV then maybe querying it as json/dict.

So read_csv(file).to_dict(orient='records')

That changes the CSV data into a list of objects. I had this problem in a project I was working on and it speed up the processing.

You could then also revert the data back to CSV through DataFrame(list).to_csv(path to save the file)
He believes that AGI is an engineering problem because of the vast compute resource required for it. Being an engineering problem he believes he can make an impact.
What doxing? Elons jet location is public information, quit buying into his BS.
It's just infinitely more profitable to build up social capitals and leverage network effects and stage wins in this world, where economic utility is determined purely by subjective judgements and payments are autonomously collected. It makes no sense to construct a municipal road bridge when $15 gratuity transaction for 5% conversion from a social media post with million Likes pays more. Fortunately we are not there yet, but not far away either.
I may be atypical because I was able to work in industry for a few years before my formal diagnosis. My illness was exacerbated by the fact that I could no longer bolster my identity with work and achievement, so I have found other ways (meditation, medication, and therapy, mostly) to cope with my symptoms.

Good luck with your brother.
Please, enlighten me. How is this anything but the Government doing an end run around 1A?
I've used AIX, HP-UX, OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) and RHEL. Probably some other distros. We use it because there's a support contract and that sort of thinking is surprisingly durable. Also because it costs money to migrate.
The corporation and the state partnering to censor speech.
> If you have two systems that are implemented in different ways but the output is indistinguishable I feel that you're forced to claim that the systems operate in fundamentally similar ways.

So a nuclear power plant and a solar panel farm each generating 4500 MW are operating in fundamentally similar ways?

I mean... in some sense, yeah. They both rely on electromagnetic effects to generate electricity.

They still seem to be operating in really different ways to me, though.
1990s Microsoft: "Where do you want to go today?"

2000s Microsoft: "Where do you want to try to go today?"

2010s Microsoft: "Where did you go today ?"

2020s Microsoft: "Where do we want you to go today?"

/completed that for you
alternate source : https://archive.vn/uj0vt
Ironically in Vista and newer the GUI is GPU accelerated and switching to the classic theme switches from GPU acceleration to CPU rendered.
People do not understand that some of the books Pynchon wrote are supposed to represent different conic sections.

For more information, go to http://www.math.columbia.edu/~harris/website/mathematics-wit... under "Bonus Chapter 5: An automorphic reading of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day".
So FAANG has set themselves up to hire retain sharp STEM grads who are savvy at politics.

That’s a very small subset of the STEM population.

Small anecdote : I’ve noticed that Ivy leaguers tend to be very polished and particularly good at the game.
I don't work at Meta, but I assume that, like any other bureaucracy

It's a large company, with home-grown political feifdoms - and technical merits for ideas aren't good enough to get things your way. Even if he is a big cheese in the world of actually knowing things, that doesn't really matter to his executive peers.

You need to both know things, and be very good at politicking to be successful.
Yeah I was thinking about this thread about Apple in 1996 or so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289954

A few people including myself remarked how it sounded like Google now

And I noted that I don't think Google will "ever" slim down, because they're making money and Apple wasn't

i.e. there's not enough justification for a leadership shake-up. Twitter had more justification -- there were many CEO changes and the board wasn't happy with the leadership
The average lifetime of a nuclear reactor is also ~40 years. Sure maybe some of those were early closures due to political pressure, but it's still a big challenge. Not only do you have to convince the public now, but also every 40 years or so

Everyone's saying "we should've started building nuclear 20 years ago" but the thing we really should've started 20 years ago is heavy investments in our education system
if you look at the books themselves they're the same size but yes that was my point agot #1 is so so long. dude wrote so many words they made him split #4 into 2 books so the could make a paperback version.
This truly has me nostalgic for the days of breaking my computer trying to replace the theme, system icons, explorer shell, etc with untested crap to make it look cooler.
this conversion is happening in a lot of cities
Actually, is there any open webcam for home use that doesn't seen all the recordings to some 3rd party? I'm interested too.
MX here. Rock stable for my purposes. I have one Windows system for some proprietary stuff I need. Other than that it's been Linux for about 10 years now.
But retail prices of carrots don’t increase dramatically from 4-9pm.
To the Hacker News Community, Thankyou!

The issues has been resolved!

I have lurked on this site since 2008 and have not really posted as I always struggle with the communication side of things and the rules of interaction.
With software, technology and the world in general, it's hard not to get cynical as you get older. However you are willing to go out of your way to help a stranger on the internet and you have restored my energy and faith.
This has meant so much for my family.

LXE, thank you so much!
Most counties require houses to be hooked up to the grid. That's why people who prefer living off grid choose unincorporated lands.
So... because it's ordinary it doesn't violate 1A?
> Nuclear is dead on arrival because there is no industry demand for additional base load, regardless of whether it comes from uranium or coal.

What if there is a political demand for phasing out existing coal / gas plants, thereby necessitating new plants to provide base load from some other source?
We can call it PynchonNotPynchon.ai After prefs and dilution, as founder you can probably expect end up with about 3-5%.

The spin-off of PynchonOrNot.io, where GPT ranks them on a scale of not-Pynchon to very Pynchon indeed - could do very well, given the precedents. I would even bet more people would want to know if the internet thought they were Pynchon or not than hot or not.
> FB culture is way too positive and happy

oh wow.. never thought they could be happy at FB
Wait till folks realize how much contact government agencies have with nearly every company (leaking stories, spin, etc.).

It's weird that it's turned into some sort of naive left vs right issue.

I'd be asking what the goal is, but apparently it's that. Point fingers, suggest no solutions beyond vote for us.
I'm trying to find words, but it is a bit weird seeing people being so compassionate about an apex predator.

I'd lead instead with the fact that fishing is largely an ecological disaster.

It is like the argument against eating meat based entirely on killing being bad, but we can see that killing happens all over the place in nature. However, the problem is that we've gotten way too good at killing and need to practice a lot more restraint.
Given that Facebook accounts are now to suddenly be converted to Meta accounts, I am almost inclined to assume that it has something sinister to do with this.
> hard to see anything significantly beyond reptile-brain

But fish clearly experience pain and possibly fear:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_fish

“Dr Lynne Sneddon, with her colleagues, Braithwaite, and Gentle, were the first to discover nociceptors (pain receptors) in fish. She stated that fish demonstrate pain-related changes in physiology and behaviour, that are reduced by painkillers, and they show higher brain activity when painfully stimulated.

Professor Victoria Braithwaite, in her book, Do Fish Feel Pain?, wrote that, fish, like birds and mammals, have a capacity for self-awareness, and can feel pain.”

Donald Broom, Professor of Animal Welfare, Cambridge University, England, said that most mammalian pain systems are also found in fish, who can feel fear and have emotions which are controlled in the fish brain in areas anatomically different but functionally very similar to those in mammals.
I remember holding out for 98 SE which had working USB or something.
> I don't want to be the person that's not reachable

^ you have to

unscheduled communication isn't something your brain can recover from

check in one time per day. only read your inbound @username. do not browse or scroll

otherwise if someone wants to talk to you, let them schedule it a day in advance
Got it, he only swindled $150M then. Thanks for confirming.
I'm sure many people are going to be surprised to find their library deleted after not using it for awhile.
Keep in mind he joined Oculus BEFORE the purchase, he didn't chose Meta specifically, he just chose to stick around because he believed in the VR mission enough to try and make it work.
> I actually thought facebook was doing a ok job with oculus until the whole 'metaverse' social push happend

the only good that they were doing was decent hardware at a decent price...
Should journalists be exempt from the rules of a privately owned website? They certainly think so.
Uh, well, if you get virtually free inputs, after initial construction, from a Lagrande watershed, it's not hard to make profits.

So if PG&E had massive three gorges and itaipu dams they too could offer cut rate electricity just Like Paraguay too has cheap electricity.
I wonder.. could be applied to domain-specific qualifications?
So the Trump administration then? because we haven't seen anything to indicate that the Biden administration has asked for things to be censored, only that the Trump administration made requests whilst he was still in power.
At a guess, this would likely cost in the high-hundreds to thousands of dollars if "mass" produced.

"mass" production is really expensive, as you have to add design-for-manufacturability and design-for-testing, and account for yield loss and customer support (how happy would you be if your expensive camera appeared DOA?).

At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?

> Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn't be a large endeavour

lol
We had AIX at my last job in 2021 and it was the least actively terrible part of our tech stack.
There are plenty of cheap-ish commodity cameras that use ONVIF to stream video over a LAN. That by itself doesn't guarantee that they aren't also exfiltrating the data somewhere, but you can put them on a firewalled VLAN.
You nailed it. Thank you for cutting right to the heart of this debate.
Heck, even Chomsky is an anarchist. I don't know what the comment to you was insinuating, that we shouldn't fix things?

Big https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/330/819/e47... energy.
Um, but I could find only a single actual photo and zero videos made with this camera. So in my definition, that's sparse testing results.
They were going after political speech while ignoring actual crimes.
I did Google for ten years and I'd say this: SRE culture at Google is solid, with excellent skills and knowledge about how to build and run services at scale. Unfortunately it's mostly their own custom bespoke stuff, so those skills don't immediately translate into a new org. But they can.

SWE is more of a mixed bag. There are obviously incredibly bright people doing cutting edge software development at Google. But on the whole must of us were just doing very modest and incremental changes on protobuf shuffling super yak-shaved services that someone else had built the foundation of.

The transferrable and useful skills one gets out of someone trained in a FAANG is the ability to produce well explained tested well documented code incrementally and in a respectful and well discussed code review process.

The workplace culture stuff, again, mixed bag. Certainly to survive and thrive there, you needed to be thinking what to write about in perf twice a year, and it's such a constant that there were seminars and "how to get promoted" sessions where the whole self-promotional side of things was discussed in depth.
If you run a social media company and the government tells you, "Hey, we want these people banned", and you ban them, is the company "voluntarily" choosing to ban them?

Or are they doing it under duress?

Of course it's the latter.

The US gov. has been threatening to take down social media companies for years. Do you think Twitter really wanted to upset them now?
Try opening it in a web browser tab (you don't actually need to install the electron app).

Next, deny the notification permission when prompted by the browser, disable phone app notifications, etc.

Finally, if necessary, set your slack status to "If this is urgent, text me at 123-456-7890"
Literally more or less all UI research from that era came from elsewhere and MS still screwed it up. Probably on purpose to sell new versions at a later date.
Even the MAC UI R&I from that era comes straight from systems such as NEXT and the Amiga.
Jobs was no creative genius, but he indeed was focusing on the user.
Today, only free software seems to do so. Something the previous is built upon, and developed further.
This would surprise nobody who has any experience behind the FB curtain.
But no one is spraying the internet with exploits to catch those manufacturing plants running ancient OSs. Attacks on those places and their ancient OSs would be reserved for targeted attacks.
You run a bar. There’s a drunk guy on one end of the patio screaming at people. If a cop walks by and tells the bouncer “that guy seems pretty drunk”, is it a 1A violation when they subsequently enforce their rules?

The question to ask is whether any of these accounts would have been allowed if reported by people. There’s no evidence that the FBI was making threats that something otherwise allowed had to be removed.
This is what you could say a classic goal post moving comment from the initial position of "it's only ok because it helped you"(which in and of itself is projection and also pointedly false) to "that doesn't matter they were censoring" (which again is false since they asked for the content team to review it.)
Japan turns back to nuclear power to tackle energy crisis