skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I’ve thought about this as a theoretically measurable point after learning about it through sociology texts.

The 'Outrage Factor' is like a measure of how strongly people feel about something and whether they will move into action because of it.

Imagine if you heard news about a big problem – how mad or upset it makes you and others is the 'Outrage Factor.' It's like when you find out someone did something really unfair, and it makes you really angry, especially if it feels unfair, arbitrary or imposed by an unpopular central power, etc.

While it’s certainly true that people in charge generally only say things that keep them in charge, a la the status quo always moves to reinforce its own existence, individuals in power vary a lot in their strategies for staying in power. Some may prioritize transparency and addressing concerns directly, while others may navigate communication or be blatantly manipulating to maintain ‘stability.’

The relationship between power, communication, and outrage factors is complex and influenced by various factors such as societal expectations, political climates, and individual leadership styles. A ‘revolution’ isn’t one thing — it’s all of those things combined and more.

I mean to raise the point that things are frequently much more complicated and simply discounting the advice doesn’t take into account the person saying it, their history of speaking the truth, and what room it was said in.

Obviously the modern world is filled with examples of what you are talking about, so please don’t think I’m trying to counterpoint you — that’s not my intention.

I’m trying to add to the discussion the idea of the ‘outrage factor’ as well as the various styles and politics of who is speaking, because its so very difficult to discern anyone speaking in your best interest (assuming they exist) from the sea of those who most certainly are not and that’s worth considering.

It is also interesting that psychology, sociology and other sciences all have this measurement concept for when people will get pissed off enough to actually take action — with the presumption being that the vast majority of the time, until the tipping point that is an ‘outrage factor,’ they will not. I wonder how well studied and engineered that factor is in modern societies, because I assume it’s very studied, and I also wonder what the impact of broadly deployed AI will be for leadership groups will look like give the obvious benefit of learning to manage this measurement.
CRISPR-powered 'cancer shredding' gives new ways to treat brain cancer
I'm talking strictly in a work setting.

I don't absolve people, I just don't let myself stew over how it's their fault.
> You can go to jail in the UK for a drunk tweet on X (twitter). That is not a free society at it's core.

You could go to jail in the US for a myriad of things that aren't even crimes in the UK. Public urination, for instance. And the US incarceration rate is 4x that of the UK.

Not sure which country is more "free".
If the snake oil salesperson claims their product is used to treat or cure any disease, then it's absolutely under FDA jurisdiction.
I have a mocchamaster and when I switched to cold-brew, I couldn't go back.

After reading a friend's copy of "modernist cuisine" I was intrigued and tried the toddy system. A little clunky but the coffee was wonderfully mellow.

Since then I caved a little to practicality and use a cold brewer that is a 1/2 gallon mason jar with a perforated steel filter. The only difference I've ever heard about steel vs paper filters is that paper filters out the coffee oils (which could mean lower cholesterol).
Derision and ridicule are legitimate social tools for combating these ridiculously mediocre clowns, for which reason is impervious.
It's happening already. See the popular podcast "Harry Potter and the Sacred Text" in which they read Harry Potter as some people read the Bible.

https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/
The problem is that there's only one ultimate system that the public uses to measure trusted speech: individual human judgement of trust. Many have tried to create other trusted systems, but they all have a weakness in that they, themselves, are subordinate to that.

This problem can't be fixed with technology because it is not a technology problem, it's a human problem.
I've been working with a trainer for our bichon frise (small dog) and they taught me this exact thing about the sniffing, which I've been trying to do more of. The dog are still reactive when visitors come to our home or they see other dogs on walks but making progress..
The more charitable reading is that either you do have agency over how you got to where you are and how you can get out of it, in which case it is better to focus on believing what you do matters, or you don't, in which case it doesn't matter either way. That is why it's better to have a mindset of "I can change my situaion for the better" instead of "Life sucks I'm a victim".
Red Hat maintains Xorg, and deprecated it back in RHEL 8.

Someone can of course take up the mantle, but no one is interested and most of the Xorg team has moved on to Wayland.
New Amazon S3 Express One Zone promises 10x performance boost
>The more people are negative about it leads me to believe that it will be a huge success.

Is this a rational statement? What, exactly, is this sentiment based on?
did he ever coment on his longevity and health practices?
That's fine and all but systemd is a real-life example of if you actually offer someone a "The Right Thing" solution that takes all of their hard problems, swallows the complexity of them and presents a simple interface with the right abstractions people will choose it overwhelmingly over alternatives.

I couldn't care less about design-by-ideology when I'm paid to design correct systems.
I think you're missing the point.
The idea is more that avoiding a victim mentality typically leads to better outcomes. This isn't a surefire guarantee, but statistically, it tends to yield more favorable results.

E.g if we plot the range of outcomes for two groups of people, one group embracing a victim mentality and the other not, we'd likely see two power-law curves. However, the curve representing those without a victim mentality would generally trend higher, indicating more positive outcomes.

Applying this to your specific case, if your parents had embraced a victim mentality, there's a likelihood that they would have experienced less success, happiness, etc.
The quote is...

"If you just take the attitude that, however bad it is in anyway, it’s always your fault and you just fix it as best you can – the so-called ‘iron prescription’ – I think that really works."

...does not work for e.g. victims of child abuse. Child abuse is never the fault of the child.
> Munger is gone, Bogle is gone, Buffett is 93. Who takes up the mantle of value investing now?

Bogle was not a value investor. He was a low(er)-costs advocate (and not even necessarily passive/index investing: e.g., Vanguard has active funds).
Not all jokes are harmless. Specially the flamebait prone ones. Take a look at the site guidelines about it.

Moderation is active and monitors this kind of behavior. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38410031
Unfortunately I don't, this is already internal information that I don't know if I should say here. I never worked on S3 and I no longer work at AWS so someone from within would have to weigh in.
I honestly don't understand this attitude. There is without doubt members of our society who have been victimized. How we respond to that as a society is important. Part of the goal of any society should be to look out for others, otherwise what's the point of society?

I'm not advocating for the "celebration" of victims, but rather to minimize victimization in society. I also would not advocate for celebrating the "powerful" (as that is essentially useless as evaluating whether someone is worthy of adulation).

I would celebrate the people who have the most benefit for society: those who are kind, compassionate, and make the people around them even more so.
http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html#:~:text=book%20by%2...
Very brief summary of the paper: there aren't any new technical ideas here, just finetuning a 70B model on curated medical papers, using self-consistency CoT sampling.

Results: @70B: Better than GPT3.5, better than non-fine tuned Llama, worse than GPT-4.

70B gets a human passing score on MedQA. (Passing: 60, Medtron: 64.4, GPT-3.5: 47, GPT-4: 78.6).

TLDR: Interesting, not crazy revolutionary, almost certainly needs more training, stick with GPT-4 for your free unlicensed dangerous AI doctor needs
> even though it's baked into the wage calculation?

Then it should be next to the price on the menu:

$x + minimum $y tip.
Fox News never was and still isn't a reputable news source.
We're supposed to tip at movie theaters?
Oh yeah, wheee, I'm not carefully reading. Maybe it's vestigial leftovers from a port from c to c++ (major impls handle it in C++ like in C but the standard insists it's UB).
Yeah actually read the tweets. They were grossly offensive, threatening violence and nasty as hell.

You think that's ok? One of them for reference:

"kill yourself before I do; rape is the last of your worries; I’ve just got out of prison and would happily do more time to see you berried.”
I’ve not eaten three meals a day since I was about 8 years old. I eat one meal a day and if I’m hungry - which is rare - I’ll have something small mid afternoon, some bread dipped in oil and vinegar or an apple and cheese. I then eat late in the evening around 8pm.

I always hated breakfast.

I can only assume that most people who eat three meals a day have kids and so think they have to.
I've got this and a few other[1] of emulation kits[2]; they're fun and fairly easy to assemble, blobby solder and all.

[1] https://thehighnibble.com/imsai8080/
[2] https://adwaterandstir.com/altair/
This is wonderful. "Professional politician gets real job after getting run out of town on a rail for Covid tyranny, realizes 'gee, working for a living is tough!', tries to cash in on that sweet, sweet, substack blogging-money"

We truly live in the wildest timeline.
Hacking the Canon ImageCLASS MF742Cdw/MF743Cdw (Again)
> You can’t change the hand your dealt or what life continues to deal you, but you can keep working smart and hard to solve it and that’s going to give you a pretty damn good shot.

This reads like "pick yourself up by your bootstraps": an impossible task. Could you parrot this line in front of a Walmart checkout clerk?
The problem is that the BBC was and now isn't.
Modern Tamil has loanwords from all sorts of languages, wouldn't be surprised if orange also fell into that list.
I think it's not good for the coffee machine to keep the coffee warm. Coffee that has been kept warm for hours tastes awful. It's better to let it cool down, then warm it in a microwave when you want to drink it. If I've had enough coffee for the day and there is some left in the pot, I save it in the fridge for the next day, then re-heat it. Its flavor is not snob quality after that, but it's better than keeping it hot for that long.
Gen Z has fat tails, it will produce both great investors and great traders of all types.
I’d support excluding windows in dorms if we’ve already checked the cushions for other possible cuts around campus and couldn’t come up with any.
> Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users?

There are.

When Reddit switched from Lisp to Python, a number of Lisp users had negative things to say about that, and made their own clones over short time intervals to show just how superior Lisp is. There are a bunch of open source clones now: https://github.com/topics/reddit-clone

Twitter is even more trivial to clone, and this has more results: https://github.com/topics/twitter-clone

I'm not going to track down all the attempts to commercialize clones of either that shut down after a month, but they're out there.
> There certainly are problems for which ABI stability might be important.

Like when you're a library, as FoundationDB is.

C and C++ have a specific approach to ABI stability that induces a specific kind of misery (more generally the ABI is fragile), but Swift is ABI stable without that misery.

If the first thing you need to do to in order to be a library is lose all your language safety features by marshaling to and from C/C++ to create the actual API, even when both sides of the API are in the same language that's just a sad waste.
They've also got Autogen and Promptflow, seems like Microsoft just has random teams doing their own thing with lots of overlap
Matrix has a long way to go to compete with IRC and XMPP... Godspeed.
Use 2FA in your password manager. Most support it.
If you don't see anything wrong, but act as if something is wrong because someone told you, that leaves you very open to manipulation.

If co2 etc is the biggest disaster ever, shouldn't we be able to see something? Must we take the software models as truth? Do politicians always tell the truth?
In which case, the movie theater may have to switch their wage calculations to actually pay these people for the work they're doing. The up-front price for tickets might need to increase, but that's preferable to the weird layers of hidden fees in the current system.

Using tips as a substitute for paying a living wage needs to be eliminated everywhere, but I especially don't blame people for not realizing that a movie theater of all places is playing that game.
Apple vision pro to the rescue ;)
Good for them.

I had not even heard of this crisis.
Not really, they won't kill other Nazis. If you mean Nazis would kill anti-nazis, yeah, of course, either you are a nazi or you are anti-nazi, america killed and defeated nazis so we are anti-nazi and we should kill them because they will kill us. They want to kill us because they are evil.

Free speech is for speech made to express views not cause harm.

You can kill them now, join them or wait until they kill random innocent people.

For what it's worth, people who have verbally expressed allegiance and intent to materially support terrorist groups will get locked up for conspiracy and I think they should get the violence they crave and receive capital punishment instead. Hammas supporters (not supporters of palestine but specifically hammas) for example should either be executed or the public should be allowed to harm them.

With nazis, keep in mind that I said nazis not white supremacists or racists, those are just expressing their views. Nazis desire racial violence. The only language you can use with such people is violence. To those who crave death, give it to them as they so wish.

If you want to kill someome simply for existing, the consequence should be your death simply for expressing that intent. If you don't consider other people human and therefore worthy of death then you no longer have rights as a human.

In my view, killing them is humane, the wrong natural thing to do would be to torment them and humiliate them in public first but I don't support that. If you think hitler is cool and some people are subhuman and you hate those people you should be left alone. If you organize a group with intent to murder those people then I fail to see the controversy around killing them. Outlawing them might be best if folks like you don't want to advocate killing, that way people who are willing to get blood on their hands can do what needs to be done.

Unwillingness to meet such abominations with a full measure response early on results in many wars, millions dying and atrocities that are unspeakable. If a few germans a hundred years ago did this, 50-70 million lives could have been spared and 3 holocausts averted.
No person in need needs anything in particular, but even dirt poor Charlie Bucket got a Wonka chocolate bar on his birthday.
I have had so many books ruined by the summary. They will regularly include details about what happens in even the latter half of the story.

I never read them anymore. It's harder to find books, but at least I don't see literal spoilers.
My very first, naive attempt at DDG’ing this revealed a bunch, yeah. Quantified weight gain in immigrants, studies of gain then loss again once moving back to the original country, all kinds of angles of approaching it.

A second search with a slightly more specific topic of “weight gain in us immigrants” on DDG was mostly studies (or pages collecting multiple studies) on page 1 of the results.
Like Professor Farnsworth, my first thought was also Rudy Ray Moore.
> Staff rely on tips because wages are not at a living level

Fucking lol.

> Crap like this is so demoralizing

Yes, but not because people don't tip.

> because workers need the money to live

Yet the capitalist who don't want to pay a living level wage is totally not the reason workers need tips.
My password manager has 2FA built in. I've used it with GitHub for years. Super simple flow.
Heavily disagree. It is very clear when you are a victim of child abuse that no part of your abuse was in your control, because you were a child. It's also super fucked up to say the notion of, say, a rape victim is a pointless distraction. I think a "what was in your control about you being raped" is just about the least productive way to go about the scenario of being victimized.
Mohnish Pabrai is another good candidate.
Workers at Tesla ARE citizens. The ones who voted against the collective bargaining agreement are the ones being forced against their will, using tactics reminiscent of strike-breakers from the 1900s.

Also, the reference has more to do with European laws being crafted with such exceptions, not whether they apply to natural persons or corporations.
Wizards use IRC, and their apprentices use discord.

Some of the most deeply technical people in the world use IRC.

Being able to talk to them is a superpower.
Good. Compensation should never be about the amount of work you do. It should be about your impact and market value.
At one point as a young man and college economics major, I had a lot of respect for these types of people

20 years of living inside the grinder that is the financialization of everything, and it’s clear that none of these financialists create value.

They simply reallocate value to make wealth flywheels for the people who already have enough and continuing to be the mechanism which consolidates economic power.

Good riddance
That's not a big problem with the training/fine-tuning you would do when creating specialized 'local' LLM agents.
I feel generally defensive of journalism, especially on HN, and I'm a little reluctant to dissect it too much. I worry about the utility and unintended effects of emotionally potent journalism on a consumer public so locked into narratives, and with such superficial, social-media-mediated connection to actual journalism.

I'll just add that when I say "commercial", I mean exactly that. This is AP's former Bureau Chief in Jerusalem:

Matti [a former AP journo and critic] states that the AP’s Jerusalem bureau – like all other major news operations based in Israel and the Palestinian territories – employs too many reporters because of this hostile obsession with the Jews. The truth is the story of Israel is that of a nation rising from the ashes of the worst genocide in human history, being attacked from all sides upon its inception. Depending on your point of view, it’s also a story about the persecuted becoming the persecutors. All of this, of course, is happening to the people of the Bible, the descendants of the Hebrew slaves who were led out of Egypt by Moses and from whose ranks emerged Jesus Christ. It’s as if a new chapter of the Bible is being written in our times. Whether you think the Bible is mythology or the word of God is beside the point. The point is we are all human beings who love a good story, and this one is particularly good.

I read that a couple days ago and it's been pinging back and forth in my head ever since.
And I believe Windows NT 4 (which had the Windows 95 UI) was the most stable version of NT for a while, even after Windows 2000 came out. Windows 2000 put the video driver in kernel space, which was faster than NT 4, but the early drivers were not great.

—-EDIT:

I misremembered. It was
NT 3.51 that still had the video driver in userspace, NT 4 moved it into the kernel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0
>See Munger's dorm buildings that he pushed upon universities that make prisons look like hotels.

Do you mean the highest rated campus housing on University of Michigans campus? Yeah. He sure victimized students there.
Which is crazy, because there's always side effect like temperature, fans speed/noise, etc.
What constitutes damning? I guess that’s in the eye in the beholder; as far as I can tell, the Overton window on this subject shifted hugely in the past 20 years. There’s certainly been much bigger outrage in the past over smaller instances.

This article verifies that CTIL:
- got direction to do what it did from the White House
- consisted of contractors and actual government employees
- operates under the legal theory that “public-private partnerships” where the government directs and the companies execute doesn’t count as government censorship
- actively crafted and pushed its own propaganda using the same techniques as bad actors
- actively suppressed views that did not contain misinformation
- pushed to cut off financial services to people they considered problems

I consider all of these pretty damning.

Do I like the format of the reporting? Nope. But that doesn’t make it irrelevant.

> Even the FBI managed a reasonable response:

There’s nothing reasonable about their response. They’re simply normalizing their behavior. There has never been a time when the FBI was not embroiled in multiple massive rights violation scandals, going back to its very beginning. J Edgar Hoover founded it and was in charge for 37 years and it still shows. They never cleaned house and Congressional oversight has been ineffectual.
10-15k Users were using it, its quite a big thing. You can see the user count drop around 4th August: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
While it's sometimes exaggerated, using herbs from traditional medicine and trying to find pharmaceutical compounds from then is totally normal and has been done successfully for almost a century, both in China and the West.
> Unfortunately history has shown us time and time again that oppressive leaders disarm their populations before subjecting them to horrific abuses of their power. We aren't falling for it again.

Oppressive leaders have historically used armed paramilitary guerrillas in order to topple legitimate governments and establish brutal dictatorships, so what is your point here?

Also, various US governments, at several levels, have demonstrated over and over again that they don't fear armed civilians at all, e.g. the 1985 MOVE bombing [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
Because workers having each others backs is actually a good thing?

Then why don't they have the backs of the majority of Tesla workers who didn't want the agreement? Are some workers more equal than others?
Billions. It is literally most of us. Wealth concentration is unintuitive in the extreme.

But let’s debate the merits of yet another billionaire lecturing everyone about the merits of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and not being a victim.

Hard work doesn’t make billionaires. Systems that accelerate privileged positions and concentrate wealth to the top do. And that’s not necessarily bad. But it’s generally bad when it’s this extreme.

That said I wish his family well and am sorry for his passing. He was always a gentleman and kind to the core.
IRC's biggest weakness is the protocol didn't transition cleanly to a mobile world.

But apart from that, it's still as good as it always was.
puts on wizard hat
https://archive.is/Yc6d6