skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting part of this (other than the completely unnecesary, tone-deaf corporate thuggery) is the involvement of the Pinkertons because many people don't know the history of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which was really prominent in the mid to late 19th century.

At this time, the US had no real Federal law enforcement to speak of. That came later, modeled after the Pinkertons. Fun fact: the FBI evolved as a result of the Mann Act [1], which was aimed at stopped at white women being "trafficked" across state lines by black men so really it was misagenation.

Anyway, the Pinkertons evolved as corporate muslce in the robber baron era. Strike-breaking, intimidation, sabotage, that sort of thing. At one point the Pinkertons were larger than the US Army. Thier downfall really began with with embarrassing incidents like the Homestead Strike [2].

Honestly two of the better depictions of the Pinkertons come from fiction: HBO's excellent Deadwood series and Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2.

The most important lesson here is that law enforcement in the US historically, culturally and actually exists to protect the interests of the wealthy, first and foremost.

as for WotC, they could've made good PR out of this by asking nicely for the cards back and giving the person something for their troubles since ultimately the mistake was WotC's. But no, let's choose violence.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
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Yeah. Go up to that corporation and say: Do Better, capitalists, or I’m walkin’ out that door!
I recommended those books because you clearly can't comprehend humans working together on a voluntary basis, so changing your world view in a couple of sentences didn't really seem likely.

What's really insane is that we allow so many people to die in public traffic every year. Talk about insane!
yeah it's pretty dang handy :)
As long as it's not abused or overused.
This is disgusting… the amount of emotional harm they are causing is incredible. People being tricked like this will be damaged in a way that makes it impossible to trust or connect with others. They are presumably isolated and lonely already or they would not be paying for a dating site.

This feels to me like it is akin to rape, an emotional rather than physical rape, but it will make them feel powerless and violated and unable to trust others. Our culture tends to downplay emotional trauma as somehow not serious, without realizing that the most damaging part of physical trauma is also the emotional aspect.

This should be prosecuted accordingly, every single person involved should spend decades in prison.
A train doesn't go off its rails into the Pentagon.

TSA does actually (very rarely) check passengers before letting them board trains. I think I've seen it about once when I used to take a train roughly 2/wk for a year.
Yes, for companies using TA these are included in the Opportunities Explorer.

Most of the TA cost optimization recs we replicate and compute ourselves so that companies that don’t pay for TA (lots of $ !!!) can see those opportunities. And if you’re using TA you can toggle between seeing RI/SP recommendations from Cost Explorer or TA.
Interesting. I don't think DIY is an option for me then. I'll have to find a service to pay to do it. I'm talking about 300 pages. I'm looking to bind computer books and technical reference information so I can read and use the computer comfortably without accelerating damage to my eyes. I guess large e-readers are another option but they're not a quick, comfortable or satisfying to flip through. Thanks!
Mmm. Well, possibly.

On the one hand, what I was saying here was more about the Turing Test than about AGI. Sometimes it gets called the AGI, sometimes it's "autocomplete on steroids", but even if it is fancy autocomplete, I think 3.5 has the skill to pass a short Turing Test, but not the personality, and it needs a longer "short-term memory"-equivalent than 3.5 for a full Turing Test.

On the other hand, as I (sadly) don't get paid to create LLMs, I've only got the kind of superficial awareness of how they work that comes from podcasts and the occasional blog post, which means ChatGPT might very well understand ChatGPT better than I do.

Can GPT-[3.5, 4] be prompted to make itself?
That’s clearly not what I said. To be a safe songwriter, don’t imitate other works. The lines are actually pretty gentle in practice as long as you avoid actively copying from other works.
Followup post with your comments is at https://blog.plover.com/games/game-mechanics-2.html . Thanks again.
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I wonder how these differ from the Mexican Ataulfo? It is not fibrous, has the yellow/orange color, nice and sweet in my experience, about $1.50 each in SF Bay Area grocery stores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulfo_(mango)
> instead it's more useful to ask "will this be useful?"

Well, that's also the wrong way to look at it. Because everything, no matter how broadly bad it might be, is useful to someone somewhere.

Of course telemetry can be useful to the developer of the application (if they look at the data and act on it). But at the same time it violates the privacy of all its users, who vastly outnumber (at least for most projects) its developers.

For any argument we need to look at pros & cons, not just the pros.
Cars, old school watches and (unconnected) TVs are things don't change because they aren't updated. If you disable updates many laptops and smartphones won't have any UI changes.
I really like Cordwainer Smith. Those books are quite strange though. I wouldn't even call them ahead of their time, I would call them sui generis. Completely idiosyncratic. One brilliant weirdo's brain. I keep spare copies of The Instrumentality of Mankind and The Best of Cordwainer Smith around, and a couple months ago somebody asked me about them. I hesitated before lending them to him, because it's impossible to guess whether a given person will like them or not.
Lol this would make home price inflation even worse. Great if you have a mortgage, terrible for FTHB. Kinda like Prop 13 in California.
They spend 300k for the original mortgage, and advance you another 500k at 4% for the new mortgage. At this point you owe them $1M. You then pay them 500k from the proceeds of selling the original house. They sell the new mortgage on for 400k, netting $100k. You also are ~$100K better off than if you had to pay $500K to get rid of the original mortgage and then had to borrow $500K at 7% for your new house.
The site this whole case centered around is Canna.to, in case anyone wondered. Still resolvable by Google DNS.
The apology wasn't necessary and frankly seems disingenuous. Be straightforward.

Regardless, it seems that there is a significant difference of materials and techniques for repairing a 90 year old book versus creating a brand new book. Therefore, I found that a GP comment regarding restoring books might be a good place to inquire about resources. I did actually skim through the OP link before posting my question, and I didn't find anything that specified rebinding an old book.
We provide official technical support for Ubuntu LTS and Fedora. Since architecturally, 13th Gen and 12th Gen processors are quite similar, and 12th Gen is now fairly mature, 13th Gen functionality is already stable. The power improvements span both Windows and Linux (61Wh battery with i7 configs, 13th Gen being more efficient, and firmware improvements on the system and Expansion Cards to reduce retimer power consumption).
Sure. Was responding to the claim that no one was getting a relocation stipend
Similar study in humans where people would prefer to electrically shock themselves than just sit bored: https://www.science.org/content/article/people-would-rather-...
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I work in an EE dominated industry where staff and principal titles are only handed out to 30+ year veterans who know their domains better than anyone else in the world. These are people who specialized in one thing their entire career (mmWave RF amplifiers for instance). These companies are every where big software is at, and then some. They don't pay great, they are not "cool" to work at. Gov is often the biggest customer. Doing something novel in these fields will require a PhD, a decade of corporate R&D experience, and significant corporate backing.
You're seeing a variant of Price's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price)

Big tech sucks a lot, and I mean a lot, of the oxygen out the market for these roles.

If you take the total population of engineers, then how many engineers are needed to build TCP/IP stacks, new app network protocols (i.e. QUIC), databases, web frameworks?

The unfortunate truth is that getting deep experience is rare.

Risk aversion is a core culprit; would you trust a tech not supported by a large community? This creates a tremendous market pressure on a handful of players.

This is one of the reasons that I had to work at big tech to get the experience and skills that I wanted. For example, when I was at AWS, I read every COE (cause of error) report for the big services. This helped me tremendously both as an IC and leader.

Now, I hate that I had to bend the knee to big tech...
It's clearly a psychosomatic issue spread by social contagion within LEO circles. Unfortunately, they're the type who are among the least willing to admit that they've been duped. However, the cure is clear; stop the spread of the meme before it infects more LEOs.
I know someone who owns several and is quite wealthy. He started out owning a small, shitty car wash and he gradually built/acquired more and upgraded them. You succeed in business the same way you succeed in any other aspect of life, you either get lucky or you work hard or some combination. In his case it was mostly hard work over at least a decade.

The fixation so many people in the comments have on starting a carwash is why most businesses fail. The right approach is to figure out what you're likely to succeed at and start that business, not to pick one because it has a high valuation and copy it (this is how must tech entrepreneurs work). Maybe the carwash market is saturated, some other market isn't and someone will make a bunch of money filling that gap.
I was able to visit this place last year, it was great! I spent all day wandering around and playing. I would have stayed even longer if they weren't closing, hah.
> But it appears that human intelligence is on a reverse trend

A dangerous myth. Idiocracy was an entertainment film with a side order of eugenics, not a documentary.
If someone is offering $20m a year, I can safely assume the job is bogus and pass.
> I wonder if it's illegal to knowingly buy products that will break down within a year

Nah, just luck of the draw.
Thank you so much! We're still quite small, just a few hundred people on Discord. Invite link, if you want to join the fun: https://discord.gg/sf23bk2hPr

If you end up trying to product, I'd love to hear your feedback (and immediately fix any issues you run into). Get in touch via email: leigh@printnanny.ai
Switches are a beginner level solder job to replace. And because there's not much going on inside mice, it tends to be easy to get to the PCB that holds the switches.
Pixies apologise for 'Where Is My Mind' turning off your phone alarm
I had similar thoughts when I was messing with Mac OS 7 and 8 a few months ago. I was astounded at how featureful most software was. Microsoft Word version 5 had every feature I possibly needed and was extremely fast, way faster than modern Word. It makes me wonder what has modern software added to justify making it so slow? Because it’s obviously, at least to me, not new features.

If I could I would be just like Andrew here but my work, and love for playing video games (modern and classic alike) prevents me.
Yes, hyperbole.
That's what I am using, with a few dockapps, including one for the system tray. It works fine even with modern apps.

And since GP mentioned NeXT, it should be the perfect match. Window Maker is based on the NeXT UI.
Yes, and very happily too. Defender seems to not really care where the files are, as long as there's readable data on a drive mounted somewhere accessible, it's all fair game.
It's interesting how Windows is kind of following the direction you advocate. They're also not capable of "being Apple", and instead they're more heavily leaning into their "messy, jack of all trades" nature as a selling point with efforts like WSL and Android apps.
I used to work for Blackberry, and have been using Android since Samsung Galaxy S3 all the way to Pixel 7.

For the first time, I am seriously considering switching to an iPhone. My parents used iphone since the 3G, so I am very familiar with them.

I have always hope that Android would catch up with iPhone in most metrics, but lately I feel Android is falling further and further behind, paradoxically as Android gains more and more features.. If iPhone does not exist, Android would be seen as perfectly fine. But iPhone does exist, and all the shortcomings in Android sticks out uncomfortably when comparing to iPhone.

1. Crap-tastic stability when Pixel6/Android 12 was released. I have not used a more buggy phone that crashed every week, or crash in the middle of a call, or a long list of bugs that I encountered during my usage. The OS eventually got better after a year of release, but that meant that I had to deal with the bugs for a year straight.

2. Things that work 80% as well as iPhone, but never exceed them. For example the fingerprint reader remains inaccurate for my right thumb, but not for my other fingers. Other issues include performance issues with videos (this got a lot better in the last 6 months), or batter life issues.

3. Everything is disjointed. To view photos, there is a File app, but then there's an Google Photo app. Somehow Favourites are not shared between the 2 apps.
Can't? I'd be surprised.

But the older the OS, the harder it's going to be to get anything modern working on it. And people do have finite effort and resources.

And frankly, it's just not a great idea anyways. For all the complaints, modern Windows is heaps better than its older counterparts for usage today. It's much better at utilizing modern CPUs, SSDs, GPUs, etc. It has (if imperfect) up to date security measures. More or less everything is out-of-the-box compatible with it. I can't even remember the last time I had something break and it was actually on the Windows end and not an application running on top of it that was the problem.
iPad production in India likely to start soon, as Apple gets tax deal
Way back in the 90's in college I took some elective class (I forget the topic) and the prof had a lecture on how controlled burns prevent wildfires. He also said that govt policy was already limiting controlled burns even then and he predicted that in 20 years, unless the policies changed, that we'd be having giant wildfires and here we are.
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Star7 Demo by James Gosling (1992) [video]
In the US? Friends.

You will literally lose out on social activities bc of SMS.
As would I, but the average person does not have that kind of wherewithal. It is still something we should be concerned about it, as I do not want to live in a world where this is commonplace, and I imagine you wouldn't want to either.
Thank you the for the idea! I will add "allow a user-defined forbidden list of websites" to the ideas on the Discord server.

Regarding the privacy policy, you have a point: I did not put one on the website, as everything works offline, but people may indeed look for one.
> I've been bothered by the fact that most advanced engineering roles like "staff" actually mean "manager who does system design as well"

The definition I have generally seen for "staff engineer" is an engineering leadership position without direct reports - I see "manager" as generally meaning "has direct reports".

I think this is important: leadership and management are not the same things!
Housing was messed up even without the mortgage thing. This trend has been clear for a few years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/briefing/cities-yimby-exo...
They could try, but all he has to do is mention the intimidation factor of Pinkertons at the door while under oath and I doubt a jury would find him liable for anything.

Plus, at that point, he could probably afford a really good lawyer from crowdfunded donations.

Wizards already has a PR issue from this happening in the first place. They'd be civilly negligent toward the Hasbro shareholders to push it any further.
You totally can block ads.
What do you suggest that a "useful idiot" like myself should do?

I read your other comments, and all I see are doomsday predictions about us losing our jobs. In another comment you said:

> Once all the tools are processes are established to deal with remote work, our job will be instantly shipped to a cheaper country

What tools and processes do you think are coming that will going to make this happen? Like a better version of Zoom or something?
I think that's because that's how the full date is spoken. It's "September Eleventh" not "Eleventh of September". If someone said "My birthday is twenty-seventh of November" I would wonder if they're a synth.
> You sell your existing house, which has benefited from inflation, then buy somewhere with the same mortgage payment over the same remaining duration you had if you choose not to trade up

Are you living under a rock? Mortgage rates going up make that impossible.
I read that you get a nontrivial discount on your car insurance in Russia if you have a dashcam. So basically everyone there has one, which is why it seems like all the dashcam videos on the internet take place in Russia.

I think that sort of system makes sense. We shouldn't require dashcam, but any policy which reduces expensive he-said-she-said litigation in our society should be encouraged.

I suspect we'd find a pleasant second-order benefit as well: humans might simply drive better if they know they're being recorded. We know that interactions with the police are much less likely to escalate to the point of violence when both parties are recording each other, and I imagine the same principle could apply to our roads.
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If we use a house building/construction analogy, in this comment chain we're saying software engineering is inclusive of house design/architecture down to wall construction, plumbing, electrical, etc. Following that analogy then I think when Xeoncross is asking about "hardcore engineering" that really would equate to new engineering products for the house building industry - like some new tech like solar roofing shingles (instead of raised solar panels).

There aren't a lot of companies that are doing that in software. For example, there are a lot of SaaS businesses doing things that might have interesting engineering problems to solve but those engineering problems usually don't result in creating new products for software engineers to use. Rails is a good example of a byproduct from a SaaS business, React is a byproduct of whatever Meta does.
Yes, the Pinkertons are still a thing. There was an interesting post about them here: [1]

Some choice quotes from that thread:

They became famous when Lincoln used them as spies during the Civil War. They became infamous when American industrialists started employing them as union/labor strikebreakers & private police forces who weren’t held accountable by the US government.

For some of their most egregious examples of strike-breaking, check out their part in Carnegie’s Homestead Mill Strike & how they turned a peaceful assembly of strikers into Chicago’s Haymarket Riot.

From the US Library of Congress

What began as a detective agency in Chicago grew into a national private police force. *The Pinkertons stood against organized labor at nearly every turn* from Haymarket to Homestead and famously took down the Molly Maguires, while instilling fear in the hearts of fugitives across the country.

...

Ironically, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was a remarkably progressive organization under Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton himself only escaped dying with John Brown at Harper's Ferry due to coming down with Pneumonia just before leaving Chicago (a significant number of Brown's 19 men were Pinkerton Agents); and was a staunch, radical abolitionist and supporter of the Union throughout the Civil War. Allan Pinkerton was a fantastic detective and analyst - he was one of the the primary inspirations for both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes - Doyle didn't think one person with all those skillsets was believable (ironically, the other primary inspiration - Eugene Vidocq in France - had similar dual skillset). Under Lincoln, the Pinkertons became the prototype of the CIA, FBI, and modern Secret Service - and were fantastically good at all of them, as Pinkerton held little to traditional ideas about the capability of minorities and women, employing both enthusiastically and creating a large pool of talent as a result.

However, after the Civil War, the power of the Pinkertons in the Federal Government was a big issue for former Southern States. One of the first "Reconciliation" points was extracting the Pinkertons from their functions in the federal government. Those agents interested in investigation (including Pinkerton himself) ended up in the Justice Department and would eventually become the FBI, those in intelligence wound up under the Military as MI (later OSS and then CIA), those interested in protection joined the actual Secret Service.

. . . And those primarily interested in busting heads, became the private entity known as Pinkerton. Alan Pinkerton had mostly retired by then, and they became a sort of private army for strike-breaking and strong-arming citizens out of the way of the railroads. That's the "Pinkertons" most know, they of Western storybook bad guys and the villains of labour movements. Allan Pinkerton himself wasn't a big fan of labor unions, but only because most unions of the time were segregated, which he could not stand - but otherwise the later actions of the "Pinkertons" had little to do with his influence.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/136zayf/whats...
I didn't know that! thanks for the correction.
But what if executives could just pressure workers to do more and more for less because they know about the fundamental difference between how hard it is for workers to relocate compared to companies finding new workers? strokes chin Oh wait that’s already the reality.
Sounds very British!