skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just look at this thread of “hackers” saying “well the law is the law.”

It’s an embarrassment the degree to which smart educated leading edge communities have totally and utterly forfeited their own power for the security blanket of these domination based systems.

Actually it’s worse, the official ethos of success in America is now some cynical mix of “If you’re not scamming someone you’re not trying” and “Altruism is for suckers”

It’s like we’ve gotten to the point where even the people who disagree with Ayn Rand Objectvism have given up and just decided to play the same game just with different set of moral criteria

Or maybe this is a venture capitalist forum and of course it’s going to be overrun by people who believe in some version of domination as the right moral philosophy.
It's completely silly to use "how was a typical prisoner handled" as the baseline for what should have been expected with Jeffrey Epstein. There was extremely intense news interest, mainstream outlets were speculating that his testimony might bring down a huge swath of the U.S. ruling elite, and every conspiracy theorist in the world was predicting (correctly, as it turned out!) that he would never make it to trial.
It's pretty different, in that it's a supervised problem with a clear outcome metric (i.e. your game score).

GPT splurging text all over the internet is basically nothing like that.
There's proot-distro, which does the same thing but with conventional linux distributions like Debian and Arch.

https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
Compare with the US president. It's an elected office, but they are treated "like royalty". "The president is just a citizen" is an ideal for a republic, but it's pretty far from the case.
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wonder what % approve of the monarchies links to pedophiles
Some members of the ruling class prefer to present themselves as 'normal' people who are 'just like you'. For example, by not wearing a tie and by inviting you to use a chummy nickname for them, they hope you'll overlook the fact they're the grandson of a baronet and went to Eton.

Presumably jleyank thinks the same might boost the popularity of the royals.

Personally I'm not so sure - the level of ostentation surrounding the royals is so ridiculously over-the-top that you can't possibly take it seriously. Scale it back carelessly and it might start looking sincere, and that's the last thing we want.
It might be tied to scenarios where the engineers producing said piece of software expected no compensation whatsoever (more or less).
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I absolutely believe it. It's far more plausible than the alternative.
> Constitutional monarchs are a valid form of non political heads of state

IMO, such a role should not be inherited. Locking a family in such a golden cage is cruel, and should be forbidden.

(I’ll ignore the possibility of an elected monarch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy))

> And they should dial the ostentation back to 4-5, in line with the other countries in Europe

Further back than that, IMO. Even non-royal heads of state can have too much grandeur (example: presidents of France). The real role model are presidents such as those of Germany and Austria.

If you ask somebody “Who’s the president of Germany?” I think it’s likelier to get the response “Does Germany _have_ a president?” than to get the right answer (currently Frank-Walter Steinmeier)
"FBI studies two broken cameras outside cell where Epstein died" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-ca...

They had a backup that incredibly also had a "technical problem".

"Jail CCTV erased by 'technical errors'" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205
Penalties are steep for not using it, and fortunately enough, landlords have property that can have a charge attached to it. Good luck getting another BTL mortgage.
You got thru the interview process and received an offer, you should be set! It's fun learning new things and normally (in my experience) a new environment will be motivation enough to pick up a new stack and be productive.
The traitors are the ones who engaged in this unconstitutional spying in the first place.

Anyone exposed by his leaks quite frankly deserved worse.
That’s not true. The study I cited does account for your pet-peeve example, because they’re treating university as a black box and examining the outcomes. This captures all the weed-out classes along with everything else that happens in college.

If the weed-out classes were having a statistical effect, then we’d see it in the outcomes. So either we are seeing it, and the success rate of a college degree would be even higher without the weed-out classes, or your contrived example in reality has little to no effect on the outcomes. Either way, your example might disenfranchise a few people who aren’t prepared or capable of handling college at all, but on the whole most people fare well with the education. Maybe the weeder classes don’t matter because people try again, or switch majors, or continue without transferring. Or maybe the number of people hitting such a weeder class is low, or maybe the 12% pass rate is very exaggerated and not at all representative of the average pass rate?
It doesn't really make much difference if those occurrences happened frequently, as it may well have been known that e.g. the guards often slept during their shifts and thus that prison was chosen to make it easy to get rid of embarrassing people.
I thought I read many years ago there is a concern with breathing regolith in. Because regolith is not kind of "smooth" like particles here on Earth, they can get stuck in the lungs causing various health issues.
Ideally the cop also has a running recording they can’t turn off.
I like where you're going with this. There is certainly room for improvement in programming in general, beyond just the new LLM applications that using existing programming paradigms.

It sounds like what you're suggesting is that we try to develop tools that look to an LLM to figure out which "functions" to call, and to write them if they don't already exist. In this way, a corpus of tokenized behaviors could be composited by an LLM to produce an on-the-fly program based in intent rather than syntax.

Is that a fair summary?
That poster is obviously just trolling dude, even bad cops don’t believe they are bad
People who say they are indifferent do not support the Monarchy and just live with it. So there is a reasonable argument for combining those categories of your aim is to sample support.

Ask Americans or the French what they think of their republic and I doubt 45% will be against or indifferent.
LL here, my guess is that gas stoves are a little cheaper and I don't have to drag 100/200amp service to every apartment instead of the usual 60amp service they likely have. Add to that getting permits could take years in NYC. I looked into going all electric but the numbers were horrible, it was ~$25,000 per unit with no noticeable difference. There's no greed involved it's just math.
It makes strangers type seven paragraphs when someone uses it.

That one letter to seven paragraphs ratio is pretty funny when it happens.
Nice! Is there a story behind the name Frogmouth?
Did they really buy a whole domain to host one short op-ed?
He had to take a quick dump of whatever he could and filter through it later. It's not like he could leisurely spend weeks vetting the docs.
Why hasn’t Leslie Wexner been charged? He hired Epstein and it was his money fueling the entire operation.
I used to prefer Vim but moved to using IDEs. In professional development, you want to use the best tools - a forklift vs. a shovel. I don’t think text editors are the best tool for that, but why do programmers insist on using worse tools?

From my previous experience, I’d guess it’s these psychological factors:

1. IDEs have more cognitive overhead, and programmers have to keep a lot of state in their heads. So using a text editor gets out of their way initially to get started developing. In the long-run, though, it’s worse for cognitive overhead because you have to keep more state in your head due to having worse code completion. You also have the additional effort needed to set up plugins with text-based tools to provide additional features that are helpful for daily tasks.

2. IDEs tend to have more knobs - big menus, dropdowns etc. Those can reduce your ability to focus when you’re not used to them. Many of the available options likely aren’t applicable to what you’re working on, and can be distracting.

3. A lot of programmers have a sense of elitism, and using text-based tools looks retro and more intimidating to those not familiar with it. In so doing, this validates the view of oneself as a member of a priestly class of text-slinging wizards.

4. Programmers love to yak-shave. Using more primitive tools gives a reason for us to customize the experience, even or especially if it’s an inefficient waste of time. Programmers love opportunities for self-expression through code and customizing the experience of using their coding environments for its own sake.
This guys argument is based on a meta-analysis which has nothing at all to do with the argument he is making. The meta analysis in question (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED610568.pdf) is talking about how different research techniques measure data in different ways and therefore can't be easily compared. He then takes a look at this data, determines that it means interventions don't work very well (he doesn't argue they don't work, just that they don't work that well) and therefore concludes that we shouldn't even try to close the gaps in educational outcomes. You can't read a study and completely change it's meaning, especially since the study he cites is from researches that clearly believe evidence based educational intervention can work. In other words, the people who the author cites, who looked at the data more closely then the author hold opposite beliefs from the author.
I don't see the relevance of that question. If that site was known to have guards that didn't follow procedure, then maybe that was the reason that it was selected.
But that argument only holds if the voice assistant actually works. The point is that it often doesn’t, requiring repeated attempts that end up taking more focus and time then just manually doing it. There’s no way that doesn’t end up requiring as much if not more cognitive switching.
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Fine-tuning an LLM into a style guide editor
I think Frances Haugen just wanted to be famous. She didn’t whistleblow anything really and yet called herself a whistleblower.
Atom is still around, though the brand name is only used for Networking and Industrial stuff these days. Here's a couple of the recent product lines:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...

The Atom lineage also lives also lives on as the E cores in current Intel desktop and laptop CPUs. Its also coming to the server market next year as the high density, all E core Sierra Forest.
No, I think they were just making a joke. It certainly made me laugh.
Laws written by lobbyists are an even worse disaster.

The legislators' job is to represent their constituents, not those who pay enough to tell them what to legislate.
The British public liked, in broad terms, not the monarchy, but The Queen. Now we have a King who's said his job is to prepare things for the King-in-waiting and few have strong feelings towards William either--and neither of them seem to have done anything of diplomatic note.

The monarchy does provide a great diplomatic and PR service to the UK. They're essentially soft power. The fact this is even a discussion point on this website is a great example. And The Queen was loved globally, far more than she was in the UK, yet Charles and William leave me cold frankly.

I'm happy the crown is being criticised and held to account but low support for the crown is hardly news and I doubt any major shift of opinion has happened regardless of how underwhelming the new King seems compared to his mother.
> I don't really care whether the UK has a king of a president (except that the name change would be annoying) - but the country currently has much bigger issues, including the fact that it's slowly moving towards a single-party authoritarianism.

While there is currently a Tory government, Labour remain the favourites to win the next general election. That doesn't sound like a recipe for "single-party authoritarianism" to me.
Any large increase in the social programs of the US is going to have to tied to increased tax on the middle class. The tax-the-rich and spend politicians seem disingenuous by not telling their constituents what it would actually take to fund large social programs. That dishonestly guarantees those social programs will never come to fruition, so do they even want them?
"The documents don’t reveal the purpose of most of the meetings. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t verify whether every scheduled meeting took place."
That flow is even bigger than it looks, seriously impressive.

> The IOP/SS peak flow rate is 1.1 million gallons per minute, high enough to empty roughly two Olympic-size swimming pools in one minute.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/launch-pad-39b
Yeah these were my thoughts exactly when I read the article.

Like sure, ok, most software works, but I don't think it's a waste of time or effort to strive for something beyond barely functional.

It also only approaches this problem from the viewpoint of a developer. As a user of dozens and dozens of pieces of software daily, each with their own annoyances and weird behaviors that don't necessarily stop me from using it, that shit stacks up.

I recently watched a bit of Triumph of the Nerds, and caught a snippet where Andy related a similar story to the camera: <https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...>

5 or 10 seconds at boot doesn't seem like a lot, but shit stacks up.
I recommend to stick with Linux if you want to stay a learner. Linux forces you to keep up and adapt. If you choose the confort of an obscure black box that do all for you, then you'll loose this. Is it bad to let go this habit to always learn ? I think so.

I'm sure people would say this cognitive burden is not useful and freeing your mind from it will let you get more valuable knowledge. But tinkering with your computer is an underestimate skill.
The program he was most interested in leaking (PRISM) wasn't illegal at all. He had plenty of time to figure that out, but he didn't. In order to leak this perfectly legal program, he tried to get asylum in Hong Kong by leaking Chinese systems the NSA had compromised.
Because incompetance is often more probable than malice. Without knowing baselines, like how often these procedures were broken in general, these don't mean much. What if this happened literally every day?
The Netherlands were practically bankrupt after the second world war, as was most of Europe. This, together with the fact that much of Asia was in a similar situation, has led to the exceptional wealth America quickly attained in a short period of time, as they were the only major industrial power left.

The colonies were no longer making much profit for the few years after WW2 either, to the point where Suriname got ejected more than it got liberated from imperial rule. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Luxembourg never even had colonies of note to get rich off (unless you count European wars as colonies).

Oil and natural gas together with heavy investment from the USA were more important to the western countries' current wealth than anything else. The USSR messing up the once powerful economies of eastern Europe also helped drive down competition, as did the unrest in most of Asia. Having some infrastructure and political designs from the height of imperial power sure helped, but imperialism is hardly the reason these countries are as rich as they are today. In fact, Spain and Portugal were much stronger and richer countries during the height of colonial rule yet they are comparatively poor to both north-west-European and the Scandinavian states today.
Ransomware was pretty much non-existent before cryptocurrencies were invented. This is why I will never run *.exe files from shady torrent/crack sites. The risk is simply too high.
I think people say “just simply” because they’re proud of having reduced a boatload of complexity to a couple steps. It says implicitly, “If only you knew how much work I’ve saved you!”

Maybe there’s also an aspect of “customer service”, where the writer adopts the tone of a smiling amusement park tour guide. I can see a cheerful female intern writing docs like this. A no-nonsense Richard Stallman type, not so much.
You're confusing the idea of many of the founders not supporting a standing army and the idea of gun registration or the national guard being considered a militia. Hence why there's specific provisions about not being able to quarter military forces in people's houses.

There was a very good reason many of the founders and people of the time did not support a standing army. If you do a little bit of research and learning about history you will understand that the concept of a police and the concept of a army weren't really two different things that we have today. In that context not wanting a standing army is a good position.

Because when you look at the duties of an army and the duties of a police of the first fights the enemy of the state the second should be to protect the people. When you have one force that attempts to do both jobs what you usually end up with is that the people become the enemy of the state.

This is one of the reasons why there are many people who do not support the current militarization of our police force being handed decommissioned military weapons and vehicles. This removes the incentive of the police to protect the people or to find alternate means to de-escalate situations. Instead they can take the overwhelming force option that we do with our military.
I'm saying that federal subsidies for poor states should not be earmarked for specific projects like education.

There's no reason to involve the federal level more than necessary. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
Rejecting email takes more than zero bytes back over the wire. When the other party in the transaction is assumed hostile, the principle is to provide them as little information as possible.
I keep seeing memes about Epstein's island, the lists, and generally a claim that no one has gone to jail who were on the lists, etc. I dismissed that for a while as just the Internet, but now this in the Wall Street Journal does have me wondering: A rich guy trafficked young girls to a private island which were visited by a lot of rich and powerful people.

.. Why hasn't someone been arrested yet??
Lamentable - the careers of the officers involved will be stained.

On another topic, helping a monster to do the right thing is, in a moral sense, not that bad. Maybe by cashing out his holdings, the victims can be helped. So, much good will also happen.
I was told information wants to be free, though? These authors need to get with the program /s.

In all seriousness, Amazon needs to stop being so complacent and hurry up and remove them.
According to Greenwald there were millions of pages, largely because everything from parking spaces to nuclear weapons were frivolously marked "top secret" in order to increase the perceived importance of bureaucrats.

Snowden gave the pile to the Guardian (Greenwald and another journalist), who decided what to publish, which was a major task because of all the unimportant stuff.

How could Snowden have gone through that pile in a couple of days while on the run and possibly afraid for his life?
AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up
You get an endlessly customizable setup with a single interface. Build, write, read docs, test, lint, debug, troubleshoot, admin. Same interface. All keyboard driven, so I don't have to switch between keys and mouse.

It's extremely portable, works exactly the same on my machine as it does on any OS with bash and vim, it's easy to use on a remote machine.

It's easily scriptable as well which makes customization simple. It's way faster for me to write a quick script to do something I need then dig through an endless list of marginally verified plugins to do something.

I guess my question is what can you do with an IDE that can't be done at the CLI?

I've tried code, pycharm, eclipse and really never found a value add.

And all of that applies to other tasks beyond coding. Notes, email, chat, it's right there, hey what's the price of that stock my buddy was talking about? Yep, right there. Hey look also my music.
The whole reason that employers can make you drug test or landlord can make you submit to background checks etc is that there is a power imbalance. The idea of make them do the annoying thing is great, but without the power imbalance in your favor how do you force that?
> not wanting to hurt my partners feelings

Is not the same as

> to avoid a fight

or

> to stop them from nagging me

There is a subtle but important difference between 'having sex for reasons other than immediate desire' and 'pressured into having sex'.
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."

- George Orwell
I don't respect Chomsky and think he has built a career out of building a "compatible left" which completely fails to meaningfully oppose and often even carries water for corporate and institutional power, of which their widespread support for various forms of COVID fascism like vaccine mandates was a particularly glaring example.
>”replacing the royals with a family of lions”

Ah yes, the National Pride!
It's absurd that the classical world chess champion is decided by rapid games.

This keeps happening: 2012, 2016, 2018, 2023.

For over a decade most of the classical world chess champions were decided by their ability to play rapid.

It's time to reform FIDE. The world chess championship is languishing, barely getting any news attention or coverage. Just kill this failed format and play rapid. The games are much more engaging for viewers. We could maybe actually get people to watch chess!
That's not a reasonable proposal. Carlsen made his announcement after the candidates tournament was completed. So what, they just tell the players "hey that title you were playing for? Never mind, because Magnus can't be arsed."

Carlsen could either defend his title, or give it up. He chose to give it up. He didn't choose to keep it indefinitely or demand an opponent of his liking. Even he's not that unsporting.

This isn't the early 20th century anymore when world champions dodged challengers until one they knew they could beat appeared, and hasn't been for a long time.
Assuming it ever got turned on. Or it's pointing in the right direction. Or it doesn't get "lost" afterwards. Or any of the other ways cops avoid accountability.
We're using bird names as a convention for our projects. Which may or may not be the name of the apps. Frogmouth felt more memorable than "mdbrowser" or "markdown-view"
How about the guy right now who's blowing the whistle on favored IRS treatment of Hunter Biden? Does he count, too?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/irs-whistleblower-told-congress-hu...
Nonsense.

I rented for almost ten years before buying my place.

The idea that my landlords were exploitative is complete bollocks. They provided me with a useful service.

I would never want to own an apartment or house in many of the areas that I rented. I didn't want to be there long term.
> Much of the difference also comes down to parliamentary vs presidential system

Pretty much all the ways you mention in which the Canadian system is superior to the US system are nothing to do with monarchy vs republic at all, they are about parliamentary vs presidential. Canada would have all the same advantages if it became a parliamentary republic like Ireland or Germany.