skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The professor elevated his nose and said sternly, “I don’t believe in violence. It’s immoral.”

“It’s unethical ever to use violence,” said the bosun.

“I’m terrified of violence,” said the lady passenger.
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They are literally talking about people like you in the story lmao. The ship is further going north and they know they are gonna drown if they don't have a violent revolution against the captain and throw him out of the ship(killing him) so that they can turn the ship around.

> "The point of the story appears to justify murder as a legitimate means to enact change."

Well what the hell do you do in this scenario(in the story) ?? Have a non-violence protest and risk losing lives ?? Or throw the captain off the ship and steer it south ?? Violence/Murder is 1000% justified and is the answer in this story's scenario.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy
Although one must be critical of these events, please be aware that soviet undermining is active in pushing these subjects. Just don't give up all hope and throw any babies out with the bathwater i guess.
You won't and that is the point. A population without social cohesion is easily governed.
Thailand has delivery and bill payment too.
> an excuse for simple evil

What sort of thing does this word "evil" refer to? Is it simply the wish to do harm? Is it evil to want to harm someone that is harming you?

I think the word only makes sense in the context of religious (or pseudo-religious) beliefs about metaphysical forces that drive events. I don't believe in such forces. Believing in evil is like believing in God.

One problem I have with the word is that once you define a person as evil, you've placed them beyond the reach of reason or persuasion. The only reasonable response becomes to remove them completely.
Com.lihaoyi Scala: Executable Pseudocode That's Easy, Boring, and Fast
Copilot really messes up imports for me sometimes. The ide does a better job via autocomplete when it is turned off
Not a carbon "price", just an auction of CO2 ton equivalents to keep the atmosphere balanced: Before a plane lifts off, the CO2 equivalent offsets need to be bought at the global auction house. This would make the market regulate the price of CO2 emissions.

(Not sure how the certificates work in reality right now, probably some BS like giving each country a "CO2 budget" in certificates for free, pretending adding more CO2 to the atmosphere would be fine or something like this)
This is valid Python syntax
Forgive me for prying, but, poor sleep?
>> "There's often no point in attempting to find reasons for why someone is evil. "

> You mean it is easier to just jail or execute them?

No, I did not. That's you reading something that was never said.

My point is that you cannot say, as you are saying right now, that there is always an environmental reason for why someone is the way they are.

That certainly isn't true. What I've found is that people who go looking for an environmental reason always find one!

What these people don't explain is why all those other people with a virtually identical environment didn't become mass murderers!
Quantitative Research as Citadel Securities is a set of specific, highly-paid, jobs.
No, there is no problem with tolerance. I grew up in 2 cultures with 3 different religions and I am extremely supportive with people having whatever religion they want, but not tolerant at all with either them trying to convert me or trying to assert something just because one of their books said so.

If you have a discussion and the only argument they have is "it is written in <insert religious book here>, so this is the way" then dismissing their argument is not intolerance to their religion, but to their lack of rational thinking. Religions are not collections of scientific facts to be used as arguments.
It say in schools “where” 70 to 90 percent have immigrant background. I don’t think it means that portion of all students everywhere on average have immigration backgrounds.
It's interesting to consider "how would you build it better" - especially when you realize that half of the equation is trained, educated, and safely in America, the other half is potentially anyone in the world anywhere.

If both sides are educated and trained, you can do things like hiding messages in quasi-randomly selected posts on Hacker News; but that quickly breaks down if one side doesn't have the skillset needed to hide their actions that way.

Things like TOR can help, but that can be difficult to completely hide, and so on.
>As for php vs node etc - that hasn't been an issue for a long time. Node is supported everywhere.

I would guess what's being referred to for PHP is the ultra-cheap shared hosting where your account is running in the same OS instance as other people's accounts. You can get node.js to work, but it's harder to deal with since it's binding to a specific ip/port, and single ip addresses are shared by many customers. PHP has more options to make shared hosting look like a normal webserver to the outside. Shared hosts often use the LightSpeed webserver with "lsapi" that makes a shared webserver a little more configurable/performant on a per-account basis.
I also have a very poor autobiographical memory. I've noticed it in other people with aphantasia as well. Have you heard of that/do you have it?
If you are halfway competent, you do not use inband IPMI at all. IPMI belongs on a separate ethernet jack or at least a separate VLAN, connected only to a separate secured admin network. Which sysadmins can connect to, but which doesn't have connectivity to other parts of your network or the internet.

But I agree that you should filter all the relevant ports in all networks, just in case somebody screws up.
"I feel like some of my groceries are decently competitive markets."

I think the few number of grocery, food and consumer packaged goods companies, artificially create the feeling or appearance of competitive markets with many brands.
I can't help but feel that the performance of software with regard to its impact on the climate is a long way down the list behind far more effective but also polarising ideas such as abstaining from the consumption of animal products, limiting the number of children one has, etc.

I ran the websitecarbon.com calculator against my org's public website. For 10k/y visits, about 42kg of CO2 is emitted. Dubious how that's calculated, but let's say it's off by 10x and the emissions are closer to 420kg. Apparently, the average Australian emits 17t/y of CO2. If I were going to attempt to reduce my carbon footprint, there's probably something far more valuable I could be doing than worrying about 20kb of JS.
What values could reasonably be both an annual salary and an hourly wage in the US, where this data is from?
While of course mixing annual and hourly is bad practice and makes sorting pretty useless, it shouldn’t be difficult to distinguish the two if one is so inclined. I imagine there’s a very clear gap in that sorted sequence where the hourly values transition to annual.
Take 20,000. As an annual salary you’d be living in poverty, and as an “hourly wage” you’d be making over $40,000,000 annually. No one making that much is actually paid an hourly wage of $20,000.
The US government had its own issues faking Soviet passports — Soviet staples were made of regular steel but US staples were made of stainless steel, so a genuine Soviet passport would have rust stains in it while a fake passport made by the US would not.
> It may have been a factor in a few cases

This is not something to casually dismiss.
Ah, okay. Cheers for the reply.
There's a lot of things you should not enter if you are not strongly willed for 24/7 operation and appropriate readiness.

>common complaints mention:

Heavy workloads
Poor training
Long hours
High expectations from bosses / supervisors
Limited breaks
Work-life balance issues
‘Military style’ controlling atmosphere
Stress

>12-hour days being standard practice

Poor training & undue stress are inexcusable, but the remaining factors must not be the cause of either when suitable workers are involved, and should not be complained about.

You need a hell of a lot more effective discipline than in the military, and it needs to be inner discipline so nothing overwhelming has to be imposed in a controlling way. The atmosphere of a well-oiled machine is by far most effective when no-one is barking orders whatsoever.

It's not supposed to be something that just anybody can do, especially not do well.
>Volunteer open source has given us the majority of all open source projects

This is a statement that is (I assume) technically true. It's also quite misleading. And it carries through to the discussion of serendipitous and reliance developer models.

Sure, if you count projects on Github, I assume the vast majority aren't clearly worked on by someone paid as a developer to do so. But if you filter by widely-used and commercially-interesting it's a different story.

>Reliant open source is the majority of financed projects by far, and has yielded projects like Homebrew, curl, OpenSSL, Vue.js, rclone, Caddy, and countless others.

OpenSSL, for one, is a terrible example. As came out with Heartbleed, the OpenSSL developers were collecting something like $5K/year in donations.
It seems possible to do both. Both encourage the shift from fossil cars to EVs and to encourage more cycling and public transport.
Using pronouns on business cards in 1999 or 1976 was also inappropriate. If you did that in 1976, people would consider you are a lunatic, according to my parents that did have business cards at that time.
At a glance, the numbers on the site you linked to look much more believable.
Just goes to show how much of this word is theater rather than pragmatic improvement.
> after volunteering for a Kurdish militant group.

Source please.
I know some other people that have been radicalized and they too actually claim that they were mind control test subjects and that the CIA is conducting such experiments. They also are 911 truthers and see bogeymen behind every bush. There isn't a conspiracy theory that they aren't promoters of and believer in. Before jumping to conclusions here it would be prudent to assume that the link here is tenuous at best given the evidence available. Besides the title the article then goes out of its way to downplay the effect this may have had, noteworthy passages:

> questions remain over whether — or to what extent — he was affected by the experiment

> There has not been evidence to suggest LSD or similar substances were used at Harvard on Kaczynski.

> the “effect of Murray’s dubious, unethical experiment on Kaczynski is unknown.”

At best this is informed speculation, at worst the strong suggestion that Kaczynski was 'made by the CIA' has no support.

My own reading of this is that there are individuals who are prone to flipping out, even though they may well be very intelligent. In fact, intelligence may well be a net negative: you're going to see a lot of stuff in society that is extremely frustrating and you probably can't do a thing about it. Blessed are those that do not know.

Putting a lot of pressure on such an individual is definitely not going to help, but to make a 1:1 isn't helping either: chances are that your average individual exposed to these techniques isn't going to turn into the Unabomber, and that Kaczynski would have gone down that route anyway sooner or later. Just like my friends, who definitely were not part of a CIA mind control program. Fortunately they are not yet radicalized to take action beyond 'prepping' and moving away from society into a little hut in the bush but that may only be a matter of time. As long as the internet is feeding their beliefs I'm not very hopeful they will get better.
That sounds like nonsense. What is “conservation of information”; can you define it precisely?
The "brighter" distinction isn't relevant in this case, yes. It just comes up in the overall discussion about whether to have a 3-, 2- or 1-branch school system, that is whether to have different branches of schools after primary school that cater to more-brainy-less-handy or more-handy-less-brainy types.

And I don't think money is an issue. The problem with lots of immigrant children is mostly one found in cities, where there is typically more than one "second grade" per school. So you could easily, with the exact same amount of teachers, give English lessons to classes 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d and German lessons to 2e and 2f.
They are trying to build something that has never been built before, and your criticism is that they are late?
Neat observation! My guess is that that is the prevailing wage required for H1b: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages
Soviet undermining for things that happened... after the fall of the USSR? What?
Have you tried that with GPT-4?
>rather than the woeful lack of mental health care and easy access to guns

Easy access to guns and lack of mental health care has been a thing in the US for over a century, but curiously mass shootings only started happening a few decades ago, so maybe something else is the cause? Interestingly mass shootings started happening around the time that certain psychiatric medications came into widespread usage, medications for which homicidal ideation is a know but very rare side effect. It makes sense that even if a side effect is super rare, when millions of people start taking the drug you'd expect the rare effect to happen on a regular basis.
> but dismissing the effect of an organised and long period of psychological torture just because not every participant ended up a terrorist sounds a bit myopic.

And dismissing the fact that the environment didn't produce the same outcome for all the other individuals isn't myopic?

There's more nuance here than "Well, it was the environment". All the participants in that environment had the same agency, but it was only TK that went down this particular path.

TBH, if the sample size was small (a dozen or two mkultra subjects), then there's not enough data to tell if it was the environment or the individual.

If the sample was large (more than a few hundred), then it becomes more probable than the environment was not the deciding factor in TKs state of mind.

Simply dismissing all the agency TK had is specious.
I think it is possible to say a guy that got jacked up on drugs and experimented on, and was traumatized, would later act out violently, without also treating him as some eco-messiah.

The Occom's razer is, the experimenting just pushed someone borderline over the edge. Not that he was a sleeper agent.

I guess you are saying that because he seemed to have several 'normal' years, that is proof that the experiments did nothing. But that seems to go against how others with trauma live normally for years before it manifests. It seems to be a common curve through life.

Because Ted went so extreme and got famous for it, we forget that it probably wouldn't have taken much to go another direction. Like "hey Ted you seem to be acting out lately, here, have some help", and then he gets help, goes back to a normal but troubled life, he has thoughts of the past trauma, has some violent thoughts, but learns to deal with it.
There was a sweet time from the early 80s to just before Internet distribution of programs took off where you could "gauge" the quality and value of a software package by lifting the box.

If it was heavy, you knew there was an impressive manual inside, and if they took the time to make and print a manual, they probably took the time to develop the software well.

Here's Lotus 1-2-3: https://www.ebay.com/itm/283699892988

SimCity 3000 was perhaps the last game with a big printed manual: https://www.ebay.com/itm/354226256399

There were exceptions in both directions of course (for example, shareware-distributed Doom; random clip-art compilations with a crappy "editor" that came with a printed book showing each one), but if you were browsing a shelf it wasn't a bad rule of thumb.

Shortly after that everything went to small box with a CD/DVD in it (and a manual in PDF form, if any) and then even those mostly disappeared and now everything is online help.

It spawned the whole Missing Manual series, and there's something lost that interactive help can never replace - the manuals had a journey and a theme and you'd often find things you never even knew you wanted by reading them.

I still sometimes pick up old manuals at thrift stores just to read.
Ach du lieber-schlieber, you are right. I stand corrected.
I apparently misunderstood how the wayback machine worked. I thought it only archived pages that a user requested, and most pages end up archived due to people with the browser add-on installed to archive every page they visit.

Thanks to both people that cleared up my mistake, it has always seemed they had much stronger coverage than they should for my mistaken view of how it worked.
I lived this lifestyle for about two years, and the biggest problem I ran into was that Airbnb has terrible, terrible customer service. If the property owner/manager fucks you over (I had many who demanded I sign additional agreements I had never seen or reviewed after paying and arriving at night to sleep), Airbnb generally won't do anything about it.

That and dirty, dusty, allergen-filled rentals. I never thought of myself as an especially clean or fussy person, but after those years I came to realize I am in the top 90-95% of people for cleanliness.
Wow, I didn't know Serendipitous is a word.
Some companies just don't have a full career track outside of people management. It's not really a matter of company size or age. I suspect most developers are okay with stunted career tracks for office management, system administration, or customer support. In some companies (including organizations that view themselves as software companies), the same attitude simply extends to software development as well.

I wish these different organizational choices would be more widely known. My current employer nowadays has these non-management career tracks, but I'm not sure if we communicate them clearly as one of the reasons to join the company.
Yes it is from NeXT, but the the article describes a dock at the bottom of the screen that is centered. NeXT Dock by default was on the left side and vertical, so NeXT is irrelevant per the article. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NeXTSTEP_desktop.png

So the first dock I new of as described by the article was CDE. As someone mentioned RisCOS may have preceded it.
From my experience, this makes sense (at least for the lower classes). I had English classes since my first grade. Considering the results, it was mostly waste of time. None of us had even basic proficiency even after years of attending English classes.

Language learning requires frequent classes and a decent amount of exposure (TV doesn't provide it). This is possible with older kids, not the young ones.
Agree, Reddit just has the problem of scale and the need to make lots of money to support it.

I also hate Discord, topic threads are the best way to categorise conversations.
Discourse started the way down that path, never liked it either.
What should people do, who are against climate change, because they are AGAINST human extinction?
IMO, this is one of the drawbacks of Valve's famous flat structure + compensation being tied to stack ranking.

Given the drawn out timescales for getting critical bugs fixed, working on security is seen as boring or low value by Valve devs. Due to compensation being tied to stack ranking system, people are dissuaded from fixing these bugs as a result.
I don't think anyone disputes that.

However, I think there's a difference between sympathy, empathy, and understanding.

I apologize in advance; the rest of this comment will be a bit long-winded (rambly?), but it's hard to make cultural points concisely:

One of the reactions after World War II was "Never Forget," and we built a whole infrastructure to understand how what happened came to pass. People study many of the most murderous madmen of history, because it's important to understand.

Any serious study will be complex. Germany went from being basically a ruined nation to an economic, military, and industrial superpower in a short amount of time. Hitler did many things to come to power which were effective. The old saying "Mussolini made the trains run on time" isn't quite true, but if he had, any study would show how he did it.

Those are important problems to study. I'll take the Mussolini example, since it's not quite true. Compare two universes:

1) Only Mussolini could make the trains run on time

2) Anyone could make the trains run on time

Which one is more likely to lead to another Mussolini?

This may sound crass in American culture -- there is a tendency to equate any discussion of Hitler with hate -- but I come from a culture which took a different (and I think more effective) stance. We look at what happened, and try to understand, without glorification or downplaying of the problems. The most difficult lies are those which mix fact with fiction, and it's actually important to tease the two apart. If we all acknowledge the facts, the next madman can't use them to support a fiction.
I didn't find any problems with numpy based processing in practice. The issue more often is that users choose Python for ease of writing and the std lib and don't consider numpy for these cases. The performance considerarions usually only come up later.
Operating cost is nothing compared to bootstrapping cost. Paul had to go and create a whole VC firm just to bring everyone here together ;-P
That's not true at all. Germany is easily governed already.
Right but from what I can see a LTO-8 drive ain't cheap, even used.
"No true Scotsman" ... But then you do it again, based on what? Why the first is sane and why the second is not? Who decides that?
Perhaps you're younger? It was, at one time, pretty common to base the rage abuse on the recruit's religion, place of birth or induction, personal items/photos in the locker/wallet, observations on what made the recruit react, records, tests and so on. It was not hidden or subtle. There was a pretty big swing in the training in the 90's, following the Tailhook and other scandals where the physical stuff, constant swearing and humiliation was phased down. There have been a few rounds of this, over the years, usually following pressure from a scandal.

I've also been in basic training, but in the late 1980's. I definitely got the personalized plan. I also got to hear the DI yell about other people's specific details. Who didn't have a father listed, who had a criminal record, who had to fill out details of pre-induction drug use, who almost flunked the ASVAB, who had a GED instead of a high school diploma, what idiot would be a JEE-HOVAS-WITNESS and so on.

And worse. Didn't happen in my stay, but "blanket party beatings" and other hazing for some recruits was sometimes encouraged. My DI was more careful with physical stuff, though he did have this thing where he would drive his stiff hat brim into your eyes, lips, ears, etc. And quite a lot of saliva sprayed in my face whilst being yelled at.
Being kept as a prisoner in a mass murder factory for years, IMHO, is a much stronger negative influence than undergoing whatever psychological experiment for two hours a week.

While I agree that the experiments run by Murray were nasty, the students were volunteers and spent vast majority of their personal time on their own activities, not in any kind of closed brainwashing facility where you just can't escape.
Germany accuses climate activists of 580 offenses
> But still not good enough for an actively developed live service game.

Not just actively developed, but the most popular game on Steam by far, with ongoing revenue of around $50 million per month (peaking at >$100mil recently).

https://steamcharts.com

https://www.dexerto.com/csgo/players-reportedly-spent-100-mi...

They especially have no excuse for not pouring resources into security.