skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell, the reactions to Iran-Contra and the end of the Cold War put an end to some of the more, umm, creative approaches within the CIA.
What do you think is accurate?

That we have to turn 180 degree south, meaning in this context abolish industrialisation, let some bilions starve and go back working the land with stone tools, or hunting and gathering?
a lot of overlap with his Oxford Union address from early 2023

https://youtu.be/fQ4rc7npiXQ
Like the sibling commenter said, this happened during agricultural times. A lot of Europe was deforested during the Middle Ages.

Someone like the Unabomber doesn’t long back to the past of being a Middle Age serf…! Get real.
> Then what?

Improved record keeping and legal discoverability is my guess. So shady things moved to places where they could control it better. Like foreigners detained without due process.
Are you trying to say the Director of Technology is not a management role? Because that doesn’t align with what I’ve seen.
Exactly— that's a "diffuse" benefit, and indeed the same logic that most of the world also applies to healthcare, though introducing that to a US-centric discussion just muddies the waters, for obvious reasons.
I have no particular bias (I think!) either way, and certainly no background ...

However. That wiki page has Kaczynski under 'Alleged subjects' not under 'Documented subjects'.
I guess it all boils down to whether they are willing to use user generated content for profit without misaligning the interests for users.

I guess they can't and they won't unless they become a NGO.
I quoted you claiming "It is very much an argument in favor of a fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset".

Nothing in your reply now, nor in any of your other comments, supports that claim. Your claim does not follow from the fact that in rare, exceptional cases rule-breaking, perhaps in secret, is what an agent has most reason to do according to act utilitarianism, a well-known feature of the view. The act utilitarian reasons to be honest, not defect and so on are on philosophical reflection instrumental to the core utilitarian goal but such virtues, once habitualized, are nonetheless real features of the utilitarian person's psychology just like in other people.

Do you possess any empirical evidence showing that real world utilitarian adherents are less upholding of everyday norms against lying, stealing, and so on? In my experience real world utilitarians (I've known a bunch of them so far in life) tend to be overrepresented in working for or donating to effective charities or organizations that work to eradicate global health problems, poverty and factory farming and at the same time no less conscientious with regard to common sense norms about honesty, keeping your word, not stealing and so on.

You haven't described what alternative moral view you yourself adhere to. Does it have an absolute prohibition against secret rule-breaking? If the only way to prevent the end of the world and the death of everyone would be to secretly break some everyday rule once then you'd think your obligation in the case is to let the world end? If not then we have identified a case where your own moral view promotes secret rule-breaking. Would that warrant saying that your own view obligates you to have a "fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset"? If not, why not?
Very much this. And when people give up it can take one of two forms:

Either the person quits.

Or the person resigns to giving mediocre output and coasts.

Neither is good for the business and yet people keep pushing workers (not even just in tech) into that position to the point it's now a cliché.
To be fair, a lot of content on a podcast-like format is like 5 minutes of ideas stretched out to 115 minutes because that's what podcasts typically boil down to. Doesn't matter if you miss out on some detail because there's just not much subtlety to anything shaped up like a podcast. You can walk away from it for 5 minutes and come back and often you'll not feel like you've lost any information.

You'd probably miss out on quite a lot more if you played a Platonic dialogue back at 2x speed.
Everything in the EU is suffering from not having a universal language, be it English, German, Spanish, Mandarin, I don't really care, but it's incredibly bad for everything but 'the culture' to not speak one language. My German is excellent and the last time I had a project in Germany, ALL my German colleagues wanted to speak English to practice their English. It is almost worthless, from a financial perspective, to speak any of the smaller languages and doubtful if German, even in Germany, would give you a better outlook than speaking bad German but solid English. In ES/PT/GR this is definitely the case; English will make you king, the local lingo will do nothing but allowing you to read the literature. It's important, but really shouldn't be a priority imho. It's mostly old people wanting to keep this alive and the youth is fed up not having chances because not speaking a viable language.
Daszak/ecohealth alliance and by extension NIH and us govt are also culpable for a Wuhan lab originating virus
I'm watching for like 2 minutes and I already got lost. What's a python virtual environment? Why do you need it, can't i just install python and be done with it?
I think advanced incompetence is actually indifference, and it's the apathy/neglect that makes for malice. It is the absence of doing the right thing.
I wonder how you are supposed to assimilate the immigrants when they are more than 40% of all students, not to mention 70 to 90%.
Why aren't black box flight recorders better?
As with many things experience plays a large role. I've now spent more than a year a probably more than a thousand hours on and around the topic of sort implementations. The way I think about this now is very different to the start. I have a background of investigating and wanting to understand compilers and how they interact with modern hardware. My mental model of how hardware works is usually my start-off point to try out ideas. More often than not my ideas don't work out and my mental model is wrong. That's ok, modern hardware is a giant bunch of shared mutable state that interacts in really non-trivial ways. So I guess yes I've developed an intuition, but I always try to prove it wrong with experiments. Sometimes I sit down with pen and paper and scribble ideas down, sometimes I start coding an implementation directly, sometimes I start with an experiment setup, sometimes I search for what other people have done in that space, and I've even tried asking Chat-GPT about some stuff but that has been mostly useless. Specifically with high-performance sort implementations it helps to think of them as a bunch of components that each have their own role. Giving a simple example of a quicksort based implementation, you have partitioning, small-sort, fallback and some kind of pattern analysis. Each component exists to fulfill a certain role, partitioning is the algorithmic core and should perform well for sizes above your small-sort threshold up to really large sizes. The small-sort is maybe the most perf critical part, quicksort will spend most of the calls, not necessarily most of the time, in the small-sort, classically insertion sort e.g. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6864584/200373619-.... The fallback is there to make sure that you have a worst case Big O(N * log(N)). It should take over if a certain recursion limit is reached based on the input size, eg. `2 * (len | 1).ilog2()`. And the pattern analysis, for example a simple streak analysis usually sits at the start and makes sure that fully ascending and descending inputs can be sorted in O(N - 1). Hope this answers your question, and thanks for asking :)
In many ways you can't really be a consumer and a producer at the same time, you're mostly more of one than the other.

It's so difficult to toe the line without leaning more one way than the other.

For me I had the biggest abundance and greatest variety of elecronic components to perform repairs and hobbyist work when I had stockpiled kilos of discared circuit boards back when they were almost all still through-hole design.

One man gathers what another man spills.
Do you support OTLP endpoint for this? E.g. send metrics, traces, and logs in OpenTelemetry protocol? It’s a bit unclear on the site
Yes, that's how they trained copilot and that's why they are currently on trial about it (but that damage has been done).
I already did explain. You stopped reading after the first sentence. :)
I'm trying to say my Director of Technology role isn't a management role (our Director of Engineering is). I'm responsible for the technologies that we use, develop, maintain, etc, but not the people or teams that do it, and it works very well for us.
> This seems crazy to me, leaning heavily on the proof that you yourself obviously are not choosing that life when you easily could.

Yeah, you know who already did that? The Unabomber! And instead of just keeping to himself, he eventually realized by all the development being done near him that Civilization would eventually encroach upon him and keep him out.

As a politics, “choosing that life” is not sufficient because only a small amount of people can do that; it is not sustainable for a large mass of people to opt into that lifestyle since we (at least in population dense areas) haven’t been able to live like that for thousands of years.

The idea that you can just shut up, f off and “choose that life” is a liberal fantasy. But political liberalism is the dominant ideology so that’s the usual response.
I was glad to see a topic in which most HN contributors seem freely critical of US actions, which is not the case with more recent events.

Talking of MK programs, I wanted to emphasize how far these agencies could go awry, see the alleged LSD poisoning of an entire French village in 1951 [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-10996838
Web2py solves the 2nd problem, by stripping everything after the last hash sign (#) if using the original string, but still using the entire string to look up translations. It’s a joy to use.

Technically, it also solves the first problem - because there is also a “no translation” translation, and you can make the changes there instead of in the source code - no worse than Fluent in terms of work - but a lot more confusing down the line, so I wouldn’t refer to it as a solution.
He really is Gavin Belson. It's hilarious.

>> S03E06 - "Gavin Belson: You know, a hundred years ago, men like me could've had people like that killed. Just like that. You think captains of industry like Andrew Carnegie or Cornelius Vanderbilt would've batted an eyelid? Please. (sighs) Times sure have changed."
Would be great if the app allowed connecting with local LLMs like text generation webui. As for quality, it's up to the user to choose their LLM, so I don't see this as relevant.
I am curious what makes it absolutely insane in your view?
I’m sure this is in jest, but it truly is baffling that this purely informational webpage is so massive.

I believe the “small” web is more than being an independent entity and instead also should avoid wasted resources. Developers need to respect their end users’ bandwidth and time. Just my two cents.
For as ambitious as it was, it just didn’t have any fun gameplay loops. It ended up being a bunch of mediocre and simplistic clones of much better games tied together with a rather academic concept. It was absolutely innovative, just not in any way that made it fun to play.
> In ES/PT/GR this is definitely the case

Spanish and Portuguese open the doors to LatAm. Know a good number of Spanish business owners who have built fortunes in the Spanish-speaking world with dubious English.
It's not about saving money, more about convenience and noise.

With large SSDs it seems alluring that one could have the majority of hot data on SSDs, essentially making the cold data even colder.

As you mention I could split my data in two, but that's a chore. If I need new data on the hot pool, I might have to first decide what got cold enough to move to the cold pool if there's not enough room left on the hot pool. That means I have to wait for that before I can save the new stuff on the hot pool. Searching for stuff means searching both places etc.

I forgot I stumbled over AutoTier[1] which could work, but it seems abandoned so again, not ideal for precious data. And it's FUSE based, so performance is likely not the best.

[1]: https://github.com/45Drives/autotier
A book I enjoyed:

> English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world's language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca, not replaced by another.

> Empire, commerce, and religion have been the primary raisons d'etre for lingua francas--Greek, Latin, Arabic have all held the position--and Ostler explores each through the lens of civilizations spanning the globe and history, from China and India to Russia and Europe. Three trends emerge that suggest the ultimate decline of English and other lingua francas. Movements throughout the world towards equality in society will downgrade the status of elites--and since elites are the prime users of non-native English, the language will gradually retreat to its native-speaking territories. The rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India, and China will challenge the dominance of native-English-speaking nations--thereby shrinking the international preference for English. Simultaneously, new technologies will allow instant translation among major languages, enhacing the status of mother tongues and lessening the necessity for any future lingua franca.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8366156-the-last-lingua-...

* Not in bookshop.org's database
It may have been a factor in a few cases, but I think people are being called out there for blaming a CIA program for school shootings rather than the woeful lack of mental health care and easy access to guns.
Let’s see the fatalities per billion passenger km:

Rail: 0.09

Car: 2.52

https://international-railway-safety-council.com/safety-stat... (eu data)
But bugs have to be fixed. You can't claim that popular non-trivial project is alive without constant commits. Even if no new features are added. I can see many issues about compiler crashes, etc. Sounds like not mature project.
Sure, but most people are not entrepreneurs and they just want jobs and have a family where they are born. I am not saying we should be speaking English (although it makes sense), i'm saying to pick a language (Spanish is fine) and just do it.
Search for bytebeat.
Really it should do both, like how Google Maps already does. Try looking at Japan in English Google Maps, for example, and you'll find the English name right above the Japanese one.

Having placenames in the user's selected language is useful for comprehension and remembering. I can't form a mental picture of a route, or a day's destinations, if I can't read or pronounce anything I see. Having the names localized to my language makes that possible, if not ideal.

On the other hand, knowing what the place is written as in its local script (its autonym/endonym) is useful for placefinding. Usually local signage is more reliable in the local script, especially for smaller streets and businesses. Also useful for asking a passerby for directions, if they can't read English (or I can't pronounce the local language well enough, which is the case for most places in the world).
Quite right! In my experience, it is a combination of people who are ambitious to climb the hierarchy, the difficulty of scheduling meetings when people are actually available, and just quite a lot of fire fighting, where urgent issues have to be resolved quickly.

Obviously, it depends on the organisation you work at.
Discord already has threading, its just that nobody ever uses it.
It's a thing lol

The other day I saw some gym bro in the IG comment section trying to flex on people with "do you even know what backpropagation is?"
I don't get it. An open-source project don't need users? Sure someone could publish a work for the sole goal of publishing it, but most of the time you make something public for a reason (financial or not). In fact, like the other comment in this thread, I find the author's point contradictory to ask for sponsoring their project. Again someone could sponsor something that has no utility, but it seems to be far fetched to say the open-source don't need users.

However, while I disagree with the statement, I agree with the sentiment. Most open-source projects' authors don't care about their users, at least not as much as in the beginning, probably because of the said incentive mismatch.
None of this works.

Our carbon emissions continue to grow. Every year is larger than the last. The largest year for emissions in human history was 2022. The next will be 2023, and then 2024 will beat it.

Our rate of growth is slowing, but we continue to grow. It is possible that by 2050 we stop beating our previous records. Possible. Probably not.

That wasn’t a typo. We will continue to emit more carbon than we did the previous year for at least another 25 years.

Certificates are bullshit. Brazil ‘selling’ its rainforest carbon offsets to China is bullshit.

There isn’t a resolution here. There’s no answer, currently. It looks like we’re just fucked. We have decent power generation solutions but no grid to accept them. China and the like want to grow, they want to use coal, and who are we to say no? We did it. Should we expect them not to?

No individual can make any difference at all while the major economies of the latter half of this century invest — as in, start to build, today — dozens of coal-fired power stations. It might even be hundreds. It saddens me to think about looking it up, so I’m not going to.

Worrying about the carbon cost of your app is a nice thought, but nothing more. It’s functionally pointless.
Its uncontrollability makes it as much of a blessing as a curse in a way not dissimilar to ADHD's hyperfocus phenomenon. Memories are the brain's interpretation of reality and therefore not always reliable, the ability cannot be switched on or off at will, and other people don't always appreciate or understand it which leads to many awkward situations.
It's usually not the developers fault, games media exploits hype from ferverent speculation to the point where even the things unsaid become evidence for features that don't exist.

It doesn't happen to every game just like not every video goes viral, but if the community picks your game to be next life changing event in their lives you will 100% disappoint them. It's been getting worse over the years and I basically don't pay attention to negative reviews anymore.

It feels like an over-centre mechanism, games can't be "good", they have to be the best ever or total trash, no in between.
It is a combination of an immigrant issue with the refusal to make a distinction between different pupil populations. One could e.g. teach additional remedial German lessons, or split the class and teach German to those who don't know enough German, English to the rest. But this is intentionally not done, several states emphasize identical curricula for all their pupils. The intention is to give everyone "the same chance". But this severely holds back brighter pupils as well as those who are e.g. more knowledgable in German or other subjects. Thereby lowering the overall educational outcomes, because everything is lowest-common-denominator by law.
The one you want at home right now is CMR, or Conventional Magnetic Recording.

S is Shingled, H is Heat Assisted, while the article mentions P for Perpendicular which became conventional after nobody has room for L or Longitudinal.

Explainer: https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/diferencias-entre-smr-cmr-pm...

WD NAS apology tour: https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

Seagate's CMR/SMR list: https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
The idea would be to use LVM to get writeback caching on the block-device level, then use those cached LVM devices as backing devices for a ZFS pool.

I've tested this on a small scale prototype level (one HDD and one NVME SSD) and there it worked quite well. But like I said it feels a bit fragile, lots of moving parts.
There was a lot of potential, and I think that if they did a sequel where they added depth to every stage it would've been a lot better. I mean the last part of the game is a 4x like Stellaris, other parts are RTS / city builders, etc.

On that note, I wonder why there hasn't been anything like it from the indie developer space.
> but most of the time you make something public for a reason (financial or not)

Sure, but getting outsiders to use the project may or may not be that reason. There are plenty of projects that publish for reasons other than to be popular.
> In short, I much prefer having the original (English) in the source code as it makes it easier to maintain and removes level of indirection. Using message identifiers adds boilerplate.

As long as you’re fine with the original being Italian or whatever if you happen on a project which is chiefly aimed at Italians.
You are of course right, but ChatGPT (and most others I presume) do recommend things in conversational English. For instance I asked ChatGPT this just now:

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This guy on Hacker News just said, "WTF is a recommendation in the context of a language model? It does not have preferences, just weights influenced by proximity and frequency of tokens."

I mean, that is correct you don't have preferences. But you do recommend things based on those models, in conversational English.

Do you have any suggestions for how I can convince him that even though is is correct about how language models work, the utility of these models is largely derived from how they recommend solutions in conversational English?

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And ChatGPT gave me some recommendations[1]:

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When discussing language models and their recommendations, it's important to clarify the terminology and concepts involved. While it is true that language models don't have preferences ... they can still provide recommendations based on their training data and patterns they have learned. These recommendations are derived from the statistical analysis of...

To convince the person on Hacker News, you can explain the following points:

Language models learn from vast amounts of text data: Language models are trained on massive blah blah blah plausible-sounding sentences...

Proximity and frequency influence recommendations: Language models assign weights e blah blah blah plausible-sounding sentences... weights influence the model's recommendations by making it more likely to generate familiar or commonly used phrases blah blah blah plausible-sounding sentences...

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[1]: https://chat.openai.com/share/a7d9e2ca-0104-469e-a6e4-6b08a5...
Oddly, the "why don't you go live in the woods", is the extremist view. Like "if you believe in God, why are you not going to church every day and out proselytizing", "If you are a vegan why aren't you out shutting down factory farms.", "If you care about environment why don't you live in a hut".

Why do you have to be an extremist about something or it doesn't count.

Think this is all the same mistaken view that a lot of extremists have. IF you can't be 100% dedicated without any slips then you are a failure and hypocrite.

So what if a vegan is stuck in an airport and has to cheat once and eat a burger, or I have family over for dinner and we do 'waste' more, or if I am vegan but on Thanksgiving, it is easier to eat some turkey and not argue about it.

You see, your view is the extreme one.

And also there is always Moloch. I may see technology and capitalism heading toward a brick wall, but I still do have to eat and live in the world. I'm not an extremists.