skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it is mostly unsubstantiated bullshit

It certainly is convenient most of the documents were destroyed at CIA director's orders and those surviving were due to a categorization error, and all involved had very little to recall about it also. Involvement, whether confirmed or not, should not be a justification—by any means—but the extent of psychological damage caused to the subjects involved I don't think has been properly evaluated over time. To be fair, this wasn't the first nor the last human experimentation project the US committed on their own ground or in other countries, so it might not have been considered as important as other, more "physical" programs. It still remains abhorrent.

[Gottlieb, project head] came to me and said that he was retiring and that I was retiring and he thought it would be a good idea if these files were destroyed. And I also believe part of the reason for our thinking this was advisable was there had been relationships with outsiders in government agencies and other organizations and that these would be sensitive in this kind of a thing but that since the program was over and finished and done with, we thought we would just get rid of the files as well, so that anybody who assisted us in the past would not be subject to follow-up or questions, embarrassment, if you will.
(former CIA director Richard Helms testimony, 9/11/75)
> no one has been promoting that argument

You wrote (above) "Which still doesn't solve the issue of intermittency at all". As the study shows that spreading production units on the continent is a partial solution to intermittency it sounded to me as a nirvana fallacy.

Yes, I also think that green hydrogen will be a major component of the solution (along with V2G), and never denied it.
> You don't want to end up like the french do you?

Exactly what do you mean is the problem with the French?

Assuming I've understood you correctly, I think it's worth pointing out that the French very consciously hold onto their linguistic identity. Many people would argue that is a good thing, rather than a bad thing. I don't necessarily agree with that, but I do think that your claim of "entirely a bad thing" is something that depends a lot on your perspective.
> According to a report by Platformer, Twitter has decided not to pay its Google Cloud bills as it approaches the renewal of its contract this month.

I’d take this with a grain of salt.
serendipity, serendipitous, serendipitude, serendipitation, serendipitoid...
I don't know exactly what you are trying to say here, but as I said, the question is whether enough service providers want to make paying a developer a requirement for the things they control, so that enough people think paying is worth it.
Tbh, since the invention of DAW software you don't actually have to learn to play any instruments.

I can create something that sounds decent in software like Ableton Live or whatever, but I can't play anything on a piano or a guitar.
The problem is having an immigration background in Germany doesn’t not mean the students don’t speak German [1]. Even if their parents came from Turkey or Russia 50 years ago, they are classified as such. It also doesn’t explain the deficiencies in math. While the issue is real, I think either Meidinger or the journalist is pulling a fast one here.

[1] Linked in the same article: https://www.dw.com/en/german-is-the-most-spoken-language-in-...?
I never read anything he wrote and just started reading his manifesto https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

It's actually a pretty interesting read so far. His thoughts on "leftism" and general society conformance seem to me to be quite well thought out.

I guess mental illness, and logical, rational thoughts aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
When we want to consider who he would have targeted, that's not a moral question.

What you’re missing here is empathy.

When he considered his targets for murder that is indeed a moral question for him.

He could have considered anyone driving an automobile. Why do I say this? Because for me the relationship between someone who buys gasoline and someone who sells gasoline is mutual and a PR executive is even farther removed. Perhaps it isn’t for you. Perhaps someone else would consider all people of a certain ethnicity a target for murder and based on statistical evidence.

The point is that when you allow for individuals to come up with their own personal reasons for murdering a member of a certain group that you allow for an infinity of reasons and targets.

At least a few people picked up on this thread based on my original pithy comment.
they don't lose information after a couple of years sitting on a shelf
In my experience, IC tracks in general tend to cap out based on the complexity and value of the skillset/domain to the business.

A major accounting firm may have some senior engineers, marketers, etc. but since their work isn’t “core” to the business, the top tiers of the technology and marketing tracks will tend to be exclusively management roles — whereas accountants will be allowed to… account… up to a much higher seniority level before they get forced into management.
OP talks about avoiding JavaScript.

Your examples make use of JavaScript.
What's the barrier to entry for something like this? Can you link to some sort of guide?
Linux Foundation Sustainability
> if most cultures and nations have committed heinous acts in their past, one should assume they are still doing terrible things to this day.

Yeah, here's a list, plenty still ongoing: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...
Real source instead of blogspam: https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274884
NET 90 and asking for special quotes from big companies is definitely something that happens all the time. I'd say that is being stingy with payments. (It should be normal of course, but... that's what contractors often deal with)
Another dumb question ... for "several thousand an hour" I could buy a pretty decent server myself ... last time I checked (on https://yourdatafitsinram.net/) the largest physical server there was like 10 grand.

Combine that with the ability to actually throttle a physical server (ie you only pay what you actually use, not per hour) ... I guess I would propose the following scaling strategy:

1. get cheap physical server
2. get your software up and running
3. get a second physical server that is roughly twice as capable
4. use that second server as a "beta" and development server ... do a lot of profiling there
5. once your real world usage spike on the first server routinely reach 80-90%, switch production over to the bigger server
6. get a new development server that is twice as beefy as the former development server
That's what I thought as well. I thought it was a bunch of little games glued together into a... little game.

I didn't quite understand what you were carrying with you from one stage to the next, and why it mattered.

I ended up not playing it much after buying it, such was the disappointment.
Snapchat style filter to replace faces with silly things.
What economic system isn't interested in those things? Barter? Mercantilism? Socialism is just about the ownership model, not the operation.
Do I understand correctly that Twitter's refusal to pay its AWS and Google Cloud bills has not resulted in a loss of service?

It sounds like the only consequence so far is that Amazon, in a tit for tat move, refused to pay its advertising bill.

But until these cloud services actually turn off the juice, I can't see why Twitter would not continue with this strategy.
Like I already hinted to in my original post. We should be actively aware of our consumption of resources. I know these sort of discussions devolve into a binary debate similar to gun regulation discussions. I take the middle ground, I know cars are not going anywhere for a lot of the world and I am happy to see any innovations we can get. We should definitely be exploring other forms of transportation but again, the conversation here was about EVs and not building bike lanes.
It there was a vast and organized attempt to eradicate all public knowledge on this subject, what would it look like?

EDIT

I really am asking a question here. No premise implied.
Anyone written a de-cringe browser plugin? Maybe there is interesting content here but the third person, exclamation point ridden, conspiracy thinking on display is too much.
Which might be ok for the surrounding land, but isn't fine for the inhabitants of the city.
Occupying forces are in control of the state media obviously. But since their influence on people blow 70 years of age is going to zero fast more migrants are needed.

And having experienced mass migration first hand I can assure you: more immigrants means more disorder, more violence, more cost for social net, less quality of life and lower wages across the board. My experience with migrants is 100% universally bad. And I'm absolutely serious about that.
Ironically “just my two cents” is a waste of both bandwidth and time.
they also fail somewhat predictably in some situations (they start clicking before they die) but more and more I've noticed they just stop working.
I think the same argument applies to research, which is currently nationally funded.

The issue is that policy makers haven't seen the value in the same way (yet).
> We should be aware of how we use our resources but it should not stop innovation.

The past 250 years of innovation are a direct consequence of not really minding about how we use our natural resources and most of the associated externalities. There's still no sign of any meaningful decoupling, fossil fuels consumption keeps increasing. We had a chance with nuclear maybe and mostly blew it.
They should well be filing for bankruptcy by now!
Its not happening that way at all. These batteries aren't just going to landfill they are going into a bunch of places.

1. The old batteries are ripped apart into their individual 18650 batteries, tested and then repurposed into lower capacity/charge/discharge powerwalls and other uses.

2. There is a commercial company buying the second hand batteries and racking them for grid storage.

3. The lithium is being recycled for the batteries that have lost too much or shorted because its commercially viable to do so.

Batteries are immensely valuable now and getting more so as is the material and there is a economic value in their reuse and recycling and that is happening at enormous scale.
Spore was kind of a disappointment.
The second comment recounting a apparently total recall like memory of being a ten year old boy in 1977 is fascinating. Not least because of the detail about purchasing a white loaf and butter for two pounds British. That's today's money costs. A loaf of bread in 77 cost you thruppence or 4 new pennies if your regional banks had caught up with decimalization recoinage and everyone rounds up on these occasions see the Teuro when the standard 3DM loaf of bread suddenly cost you 3 Euro the next day. Rgds jm2
Vs. doing a quick web search just now, for what it's like to work in an Intel fab - the top (relevant) search result is a Glassdoor review headlined "don't work in the fab".

To what degree is Intel's less-bad Glassdoor rating (mentioned in the article) a result of "Intel's fabs are almost as bad, but they have lots of non-fab employees in the U.S., to dilute those downvotes..."?
A bit of background missing from this article: primary school (1st - 4th grade) English is a relatively new (last 20 years or so) innovation, while secondary school (5th grade onward) English has been a widespread thing for far longer. That English instruction, judging from the quality of similarly-aged colleagues' understanding and use, was far more thorough and effective than even my relatively good Spanish instruction (8th-11th grade in the 90s) was in Texas.

My husband didn't have school English until 5th grade, but sounds like a Brit to Americans, and can negotiate pretty well: his mother was a Gymnasium (college-prep high school) English teacher and taught him a bit as a four year old while she was home for the year after his little sister was born, but didn't really bother with it after that. That bit as a little kid, however, was apparently the magic. His sister, by the way, does not speak English better than most other well-educated Germans her age - their mother was too busy to repeat the experiment with her.

I joke that my mother-in-law has only herself to blame for getting stuck with an American daughter-in-law - I doubt I'd have been able to form as deep a relationship with my husband if he couldn't speak English as well as he does. My German is enough to carry on a cordial relationship with my in-laws and participate in parents' council and amateur radio stuff, but not to deal with the weightier parts of marriage and how we're raising our child.

As the parent of an American-German and a Bavarian schools taxpayer, I'd rather see a little exposure in Kindergarten (3-6 years old) than the current very uneven primary school efforts. Get the English sounds in their ears while their little brains are still so flexible, and do the education later, after they're fully literate in the language they need to know: German.

The Krippe (daycare) and Kindergarten workers are relatively young, and have more casual English exposure (and confidence) than the older, better-educated school teachers, and might be better positioned to provide that early exposure, funny enough.
By managing risks, do you mean "move fast and break things" or "get a way too small team for way too big project" or "put the demo in production" and "skip the documentation, we'll do it later" because first mover advantage?
This is very short-sighted.

The best places on reddit are good dude to stringent moderation.

They are all going dark in response. This will remove all quality from Reddit and finally turn it fully into a meme and porn dump.

In recent years I have seen more and more people comment here that they search reddit rather than the web when they want to get decent results. I can absolutely imagine that this could end relatively soon, and whether a "meme and porn" version of reddit is really worth more than a "central platform of all niche forums for all topics" reddit remains to be seen.... The fact that there have been many "meme and porn" platforms that came and went in the past makes me question that...
> This Tesla Model 3 hearse built by Dutch coachbuilder Derks is the most compassionate way to bid your loved ones farewell in an ecological way.

I would think a bicycle hearse is way more ecological. It may even beat using a hose-drawn carriage.

Examples:

- http://www.bicyclehearse.co.uk/

- https://www.rouwbakfiets.nl/

- https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/11/01/france-welcomes-it... (ugly, IMO)

- https://bikingfranceblog.com/2021/03/08/bicycle-history-more... (shows the idea is over 100 years old)
I agree, well put! Overall I’m arguing against primitivism but Ted’d particular brand of it (schizophrenic complete isolation) is even easier to find problems with as a political or social message.

The man needed health care, not a shack in the woods…
Three.js Development in 2023
> NET 90 and asking for special quotes from big companies is definitely something that happens all the time.

These are not the same thing as simply refusing to pay your bills.

"Net 90" is not "Net Whenever/Never".
The AI Hype Wall of Shame
Chat GPT still can't do visual programming so if you use something like Unreal Engine - you still have to figure out everything yourself. Sure - GPT can generate algorithms, but it can't playtest the game.
I can't ask ChatGPT to implement something like wall climbing or object throwing in Unreal. It will probably generate something, but it has no way to playtest it and check if it actually feels good to play.
Obviously not. Thanks to "plurality" people are occupied with fighting each other instead for themselves against rulers that repeatedly act against their interests.
Related, "the secret life of groceries" by Benjamin Lorr. A surprisingly, gripping book about grocery stores.
Things off the top of my head:

- Alignment / priority management / keeping team focused

- Saying yes/no to projects

- Medium term planning, resource balancing

- Helping to set team vision and mission

- Reporting to upper management (up)

- Keep up to date and abreast with what’s happening in the org, filtering info to the team (down)

- People management (career, performance, strengths/weaknesses etc)

- Spotting and creating opportunities for the team

- Often acting as a tie breaker for decisions (including technical)

- Often involved in steering technical design and solutions

- Help keep the team productive and happy

- Probably a ton more I’m forgetting

Tons of finesse and strong communication skills required for this as well as strong technical experience.

And then there’s project management which I haven’t touched on — either can be done directly by engineers (personally I enjoy it, some don’t which is fine), engineering managers or dedicated technical project/program managers.
I grew up with an Army 101st DS/JAG/Judge. They do this at home too. During the same time period. My “personalized” training was reminding me my father left, I wasn’t his son, I was a ne’er-do-well, I’ll never amount to anything, I’m lucky my mother found him, and that I was lazy.

F’king brutal for an 11 year old.

I left home at 17 after I graduated early and scored 99/100 on the ASVABs just to rub it in his face, didn’t join, and went into tech for the last 20 years and made more than he has seen in his lifetime. The training worked.
> A "myth" recorded in Ukraine's laws by passing bills like 5670-d that effectively made the Russian language illegal in most aspects of public life. Doing so in a multi-ethnic nation in any other part of the world would have raised howls of fascism and anti-democracy by the US mass media and state dept and extensive condemnations in the UN. But hey, its Ukraine - a promised NATO partner - who cares about the folks affected ?

That law is merely about recording the offical language of the country as being Ukrainian, and having it be used, an attempt to preserve the national identity of Ukraine, as _Ukrainian_ and not as _Russian_.

This desperate attempt to look oppressed by Russia is pathetic at this point.
Many major medical systems used in hospitals are run on MUMPS. It's currently branded as Intersystems Caché.

https://www.intersystems.com/cache/

>It’s fascinating and somewhat horrifying to think that a system designed for this bygone era still survives in its own special vertical.

Why is it horrifying?
Ha, seconded on the Molyneux thing.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn ... they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything -- obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. - Heinlein
No because climate change is a lie and a conspiracy to make you poorer. Maybe you shouldn't be writing horribly inefficient software regardless of your beliefs.
Reading about this re-enforces the idea to me that our technical desires transcends time. There are also universal forms and structure that act as solutions to problems that transcends the technical implementation.

The description of the rooms in the library as well as the uniform approach to typesetting is very modernist idea.

Found this website in the wikipedia page. Someone recreated the physically described structure as a website.

https://libraryofbabel.info/browse.cgi
Nice.

Effect of frequency downclocking when AVX-512 instructions get used?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#Dow...
Hosting own servers is a feature of CSGO.

A feature provided by all well designed client/server software. Thus avoiding vendor lock-in and dependence. Good for LAN-Parties, bad or no networking, original developer doesn’t exist anymore or doesn’t care.

And then there as these developers which are the only ones with the server code and shutdown their servers by intention - I recommend to avoid software which such a planned obsolescence.
FerretDB v1.1.0 Released
Link: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-ship-o...
The original Half Life engine (goldSrc) was based on the Quake engine, on Wikipedia it is mentioned that it was heavily modified. Half Life 2 used the Source engine and it doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of Quake engine artifacts are left, no?
To be clear, in the period in question, Brazil was (and is) a democracy. The military dictatorship mentioned is the 1964 _Golpe_ or coup, which may have been partially instigated by US intelligence services.

The resulting military dictatorship was immediately recognised by the US and was responsible for innumerable human rights abuses until it fell in 1985.

This dictatorship and the US support for it is one of the main reasons that Brazil remains suspicious of the US and a primary driver behind it's continuing courtship of Russia and China.
Kroger still sends coupons in the mail as well as the ones that print at the register
Wow this is beyond helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this so thoroughly.
This method is most useful for sending unscanned links thru your emails.

That is, to avoid having your "not-so-secret" link having your "secret content" from being scanned by their "content" scanners or conversation "recorders" (as often mandated by SEC and Feds).

While it can easily be used for nefarious purposes, it does have valid usages such as sending license info, one-shot correspondence, crash dump, or anything that can be legally pastebin.
That's because NY is one of the most corrupt places on earth. 9/10 goes to pockets of politicians, unions, special interest groups, and their progressive pals.
Real, /paywalled/ source.
They already found volunteers before. Those volunteers with significant personal investment are effectively going on a strike.

Finding replacement volunteers with no experience and short notice is unlikely to work well... and worse if they include people with an agenda against the current mods.
Recycling is still polluting a lot (from transports, energy, resources, emissions) and it's not handling that much material, and only a couple cycles between different plastics classes. EV also is also polluting on the same order of magnitude than fossil fuel cars. You can avoid plastic wrappings, and use more you legs (walk, bike) without going full primitive. That's really the problem, how did industry managed to make people think recycling and EV is ecology? The power of ads and communication, because it's not
Bad PR, discontinued advertising from said companies and eventually being forced to pay anyway due to contractual obligations?

Conversely, I don't see any upside to doing this song and dance other than cash flow issues.
> but he adds that households with more than one vehicle can consider diversifying their fleet to add an EV for everyday use,

Right, so production costs twice as much Co2 (and ignoring other environmental affects), but that's ok because of the net saving considering what it's replacing... but wait we aren't replacing because of range anxiety, we are augmenting... so it's not better?

These are the author's own arguments, its not consistent.
https://www.bildungsserver.de/deutsch-als-fremdsprache-in-de...

https://www.bildungsserver.de/innovationsportal/bildungplusa...

It's complicated, because everyone likes to "look good", so publications always emphasize what they are doing, not what they aren't. E.g. in NRW, there are no classes for all pupils, just in grade 5 and 6 at some schools that have been selected for higher migrant population. So there are 180 remedial classes in NRW, which is laughable for a state of over 10 million.