skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m just one person. So take my opinion for what it is: just my opinion.

I started using Dropbox in high school and it has always “just worked”. I use the native app on Windows, iOS, and OSX. It’s essentially a virtual drive on all my devices and it backs up all my phone’s pictures and videos automatically. I can probably count on one hand the number of times Dropbox has annoyed me in the last 15 years. Maybe it’s overpriced, but at least it’s reliable. That’s worth a lot to me.

I experimented with Google drive as an alternative in college. It worked pretty well on android devices, but there was just enough friction on other OS’s that I abandoned it as a general file system. My g drive is basically just a graveyard of Google docs that I will never care to organize and random gmail attachments that ended up there for whatever reason.

Onedrive is by far the last choice I would make. My only experiences with it are (1) when Microsoft tries to force it on me/upsell me when I’m using office on my personal desktop or (2) when an employer uses it as their approved file sharing system. In my experience, it is consistently the least reliable of the three solutions. While Dropbox “just works”, I fully expect Onedrive to “just make me restart my computer, sign out and back in again, give up and just share the thing through slack.”

Again, just my experience.
Someone shared a picture of a dead baby in my community a few days ago. They were part of pictures describing the conditions of an ethnic conflict that is largely unremarked upon.

As mods, we removed it, since it’s traumatic to simply see it, and it’s out of scope for our community. It’s not an ‘acceptable’ argument and it was removed. That was censorship.

Should pro beastiality arguments be allowed? Am I admitting the anti beastiality argument is not as persuasive as the beastiality argument, when I choose not to give them space in my communities?

What about when children are engaging with an experienced cult recruiter?

Users are spamming your community with random content, to bury headlines about a heinous rape case that makes the ruling party look bad. That’s fundamentally more speech and it is acting as an antidote for ‘bad’ speech.

How do you address roving bands of users who go around Reddit, and downvote all negative news about China and India on r/worldnews? The demographics and time they are online, are sufficient to shift the news.

What would your conscience have you do? Have you been in a position to make similar decisions? I have, so I can give these examples.

This.. isn’t an attempt by me to prove you wrong. These aren’t hard questions, but pretty common place ones. Its just that all mod choices are essentially censorship.

I believe you are defending a principle. If you choose not to moderate/ censor in those examples I would respect you for holding to your principle.

If you decide to censor, I would be fine with it too.
Because you would still be making a decision based on a principle.

I’ve struggled with the idea of censorship since I first volunteered as a mod nearly 15 years ago.

I valued free speech as a core principle to enable humanity succeed and thrive.

I have, stopped seeing free speech as an end to itself. I had to reconcile the limited options with the results I saw in communities.

I hated it. Eventually I had to ask why we value free speech in the first place.

And we value it because we value a fair marketplace of ideas. I see the goal as being able to have fair debates and exchanges of ideas between normal people.

And they suffer failings and weaknesses possible in any market place. So the goal is to ensure the marketplace is effective at being fair.

Perhaps you would have a different idea, and I am happy to hear it. If only to see a different solution.

And if you agree with me to some degree and also think that having effective market places is a good idea, thats fine too.

We Sure as heck need the average person to decide what principles need to be held up, and at what costs.
if you start saying bad things about the mayor/police in a lot of town squares, you won’t have a good time either.
Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine. I don't think they want to be the Luigi Magione Shrine website either.
I remember that time. What a nightmare. Was saying the current one is probably the worst I have ever seen.

Used to go to that place all the time, friend was working when it happened.
LibreOffice is excellent. An alternate to it is OnlyOffice, which is a bit more polished (and Enterprisy) and has a free option too - https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx
That seems like a pretty tough sell over bare playwright. Unless the UI is constantly changing, the cost of verifying tests are still successful seems like it would eclipse the cost of an engineer maintaining the test pretty quickly.

Some minimal model that could be run locally and specifically tuned for this purpose might be pretty fruitful here compared to delegating out to expensive APIs.
Maybe you could make a clock based on a cylinder of sealed powder. You draw the time on it, and when it's time to update, you rotate the cylinder enough to mix the exposed powder and draw the next time.

Maybe the same thing could be done with beads and something similar to the marble machines to replenish a screen of beads, then dump it when the time is invalid.
Similarly, Satya Nadella recently said "Agents Will Replace ALL Software" in bg2 podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NtsnzRFJ_o
Mr. Thompson was innocent in the same sense that a tiger, a lion, or some other dangerous predator is innocent.
The point raised about removing the attributions of Luigi Mangione is valid and important. I don't sympathise much with the authors whining about being suspended for upvoting Mangione's post, just because they were Mangione's.
The solution is to pick 1 good set of hardware (that the software authors sell themselves if possible) and build drivers for that and only that.

It's basically what Apple does and has done from the start as far as I can tell. The only breakthrough consumer Unix-like thing out there.

System76 is another example of (almost) that.

Frame.work comes close although they don't focus on the OS as much.
Attorney here. Get an attorney.
As others have said, there is no such thing as going against evolution. Unless you want to put paracetamol, central heating, microwaves ovens, sneakers and smartphones in that bucket too. Or even all of our modern food, given that the crops have been selected by our civilisation for centuries.

Usually the same ones who argue that we're separate from nature when it's about building motorways and single family homes to park two SUVs, are also the ones explaining that we should be more like lions in a savannah. Seems inconsistent, at best.
> I prefer the computables--I feel like the idea of a computable number is the formalized version of the idea that (non-integer) numbers in nature do not have definite values, but instead have processes by which you can overturn more digits with effort, and thus they can only be said to be "pretty equal" but never totally equal.

Consider an irrational number, where the fastest possible algorithm (given a standard Turing machine) to compute its nth digit requires (10^(10^100))*(n+1) operations. Now, by the standard definition, such a number is computable – but in practice, we will never be able to compute even its first digit. In practice, its first digit is just as unknowable to us as the first uncomputable digit of (any instantiation of) Chaitin's constant is.

"Computable" by the standard definition is unphysical, because it includes computations that require unphysically large amounts of time and space. Now, many uncomputable (by the standard definition) numbers can be computed by a hypercomputer (such as a Turing machine with an oracle, or a computer which can execute supertasks) – hypercomputers are unphysical, but "standard" computers (in the mathematical sense) are unphysical too. Why denounce one form of unphysicality but not another? It would seem to be more consistent to either embrace the unphysicality of mathematics and imbibe the psychedelic broth of the Cantorian paradise, or else reject unphysicality entirely and embrace ultrafinitism. The "infinity is verboten but unphysically large finitudes are A-okay" approach of (non-ultrafinitist) construcitivsm/intuitionism seems rather arbitrary.

> If a number can be defined in a language but you can't tell me if it's different from another number that I have in finite time, then it is not very interesting to me.

If a number can be defined in a language but I can't tell you whether it's different from another number that you have in a physical amount of time (let's say less than the age of the universe), is it interesting to you?
> People work minimum-wage jobs and choose to live in cities.

People working minimum wage jobs have very little choice in their lives and certainly can't afford to move arbitrarily.

> I think it's super disingenuous to claim that people only live in cities for work. There are tons of social options in cities, tons of civic amenities, and tons of lifestyle differences that draw people to a city.

All of which is available to people that don't live in the city. We have various forms of transportation options. Hell I once flew halfway across the country just to catch KMFDM in concert. At no point during that trip did I feel the urge to move to Denver.

> I'm quite confident that the majority of people (ie city dwellers, which are the majority of humans) would preferentially prefer the access and amenities of a city home at the expense of 20 acres.

I'm dead-ass certain that's your own biases speaking. Of course we could settle this if either of us can be assed to put together a poll and go flog it on social media. Want to co-author a paper?
Dirtbag move to keep his content but erase his name
MongoDB is not built for analytics, atleast not without additional whistles
The shark is often killed already prior to the liver being eaten. If it isn't, then it would certainly die very soon after. The shark liver is one of the most calorie dense things in the animal kingdom and accounts for a quarter of the shark's weight. Orcas eat it because it's fairly easy for them to kill sharks and the calorie intake. Orcas are much bigger, faster, stronger, and smarter than sharks. They do it for survival.

Not to mention that the rest of the shark is perfectly recycled by the ecosystem.
Yeah to me this sounds like letting slaves pick their bunks. It’s technically autonomy but not in any meaningful way. It’s certainly not a free person choosing their living arrangements.

I guess if you don’t consider prison labor to be slavery then it might be palatable but I just can’t draw that distinction. Especially given the history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_St...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)
Indeed. It's like they are stomping on a burning bag of dog poo left on their doorstep: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/01/most-wanted-ceo/
But what he did was objectively what we consider to be bad… in our society, vigilante justice (especially against nonviolent offenders) is wrong.

What are you talking about? What "vigilante justice"? The innocent victim, Brian Thompson, was murdered by a lunatic. He was not an offender. It was no justice.
What are the chances that the affected areas will be rebuilt with something else than single family homes? Something denser
Some things to know about Mastodon (2023)
Wait... so you telling me they CAN moderate the content?
We tried nothing and nothing worked.
In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them:

Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.
> vigilante justice (especially against nonviolent offenders) is wrong.

is it non-violent when they wield the system in a way to cause immense harm to the point where they are prolific killers indirectly and maybe even straight up directly? 90+ percent error rates in the AI that united used to deny claims is a violence. they denied 30+ percent of all claims.
If you're handsome, even if you kill someone, you're still a hero.
Don't know about opensource, but it's free for Desktop and has mobile versions - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onlyoffice-documents/id9448969...
Yes, that slightly improves ABI flexibility, though the fact that callers can still access fields limits that.

An alternative is to make the only member `char opaque[16]` (IIRC some locale-related thing in glibc does this, also I think libpng went through a transition of some sort related to this?), but calculating the size can be difficult outside of trivial cases since you can't use sizeof/offsetof.
tl;dr it seems your attribution on StackOverflow can be stripped without providing any reason.

There may be several good reasons (eg to avoid spending time on cleaning up unrelated to SO issues due to the notoriety of the account) but none was communicated to the community.
Justice isn’t confined to the law. Nor to any one person’s opinion.
Awesome! I don't live in LA, but I applaud your efforts.
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By some accounts Thompson was a killer of thousands.
There is a certain irony in this, given that such behaviour (demonstrating that rule of law applies only to the peons) is what has so inflamed the public in support of Mangione.
Would that not apply to sociopathic serial killers too?
His case shows that people do not believe that their society is a just one. If the high class do not act on this signal, they leave space for further radicalization and even more disruptive actors will utilize the discontent. Currently, they are attacking the symptoms in the new version of "beatings will continue until morale improves".
Yes, I understand the sentiment and am familiar with this argument. And sometimes it's totally true! But I'm pushing back because I think it's sometimes not true, and that this is more an "anti-growth" or "here's-how-real-devs-work" talking point that is sometimes applied incorrectly.

E.g. how far are you taking this? Excel was released in 1985. Do you think after 5 years there was no more business value? VBA, allowing scripting, wasn't released until 1993. Do you think think Excel circa 2000 is as good as Excel today is? I'm sure it's roughly similar, but I'm just as sure there are many features that I would miss.

And that's not even getting to the fact that Excel lost a ton of marketshare to Google Sheets, because it was too late to adopt what is Sheet's biggest feature - collaborative editing. I'm sure in 2005 you could've made the case that Excel already has all the business value it needs, and trying to add something like collaborative editing is just a corporate waste of time, a totally "esoteric" feature that no one really needs and doesn't provide value, and is only there to get managers promoted or to get devs working on something "cool". Yet arguably it was a critical thing they needed to get done and didn't.

Anyway, I'm sure you're right a lot of the time. I just think blankly applying this statement is very wrong, when real people in the real world are sometimes working on systems, 10, 20 or sometimes even 50 years old.
This entire song-and-dance from executives, media, platforms, and the general "status quo preservationists" over the last month in response to Luigi is priceless.

They seem to have a high desire to place any disrespect they can on what seems to be an otherwise revered political activist in recent times; and it's only further fueling the discussion, and in all likelihood - probability for successors.

They would have been smart to play a leveling field, to treat Luigi's act with an element of absurdity, which would cause everyday people to question if their relatability towards Luigi was warranted or even made sense. Instead, they played a hand that the fearful would - because they are, and only validated the vigilante's narrative - because it is.
Unlike most of the other commenters I have personal experience fighting a college administration in court. It was a massive time waste and I came out losing a years of my academic career where they lost nothing (money is absolutely not a factor for a large university, nor is stalling court proceedings to waste your life). I'm not even allowed to elaborate deeply on what it was about, the settlement for putting it behind me was a binding NDA.

This isn't advice it's just a story about what happened to me, to give you an idea of how things *could* go for you:

What I did to warrant initial sanctioning by my college was filing a witness statement describing a petty disorderly offense another student did. Apparently the college didn't like that I filed a statement with the police and it did not go through their internal system. The school placed a hold and I contacted my dean by email. I was told by the dean, in writing, that I was not being sanctioned but the hold would remain until I attended a hearing to describe the incident as prescribed in the handbook. When I went to this 'procedural hearing' with the other witness, they brought us in one at a time in front of representatives of the student body and the administration. At the end of my account they told me I would receive their decision and sanctions by mail. They issued formal academic sanctions and created a remediation plan not unlike what they are requesting of you.

I retained a lawyer at this point and ended up filing a complaint in civil. There's nothing speedy here, judges stalled, the school stalled. Almost 2 years went by and we finally had the lawyers draft a settlement that made it possible to pursue college again. In the meanwhile they increased the sanctions on the remaining witness that didn't sue in order to retaliate. The student we filed the statement about, apparently the school couldn't touch since the police charged him. He got off paying a ticket and no other sanctions, last I heard he was in postgrad for mathematics and doing well for himself.
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“especially against nonviolent offenders”

Following the murder, I was thinking about how much non physical violence there is, that isn’t usually seen and judged as violence. Things like denying healthcare, shutting down companies and laying off people to benefit private equity investors, forcing people into bankruptcy, losing their homes, charging overdraft fees, etc.

The people behind that kind of violence can hide behind the layers of indirection.
Just a reflection, when you say: "especially against nonviolent offenders", I‘m pretty sure that a lot of people see it like this. People will directly die when a treatment is denied and for impacted people this is seen as a violent crime (even if indirect). This case is triggering more support as it has a potential impact on a the life of a lot of people.
This has been my experience since the last 5 years or so. I find the only responses I get to questions are lazy copy pasted.. "we need more info..", the same "power user" doing this on multiple questions even when the question didn't require more info to be provided. And then when you point this out you get a rude response and action. If you do provide the information, they never return. I don't think they have enough qualified people answering questions.
Murder is always wrong. Vigilante justice is wrong. Violence is wrong. Plenty of people, when put to a vote, would have the majority of society deem them “unethical”.

If you want to put men to the sword based on a vote, pray you don’t get into the minority! Trump won the popular vote after all
Yes, but a key difference is that he was a parasite that hurt people under the aegis and the protection of law.
Which is about one month salary in many places.
> You can live your life to the maximum extent, without scheduling in the extra time to manage getting to sleep, and feeling tired when you don't.

I did this for a year when I was caring for my dad and working at the same time, but remember that this process makes you almost completely alone because your breaks do not line up with the world around you.

I would wake up at 7 AM on a monday, to attend the weekly planning meetings & keep slipping by about 1 hour every day of the week, so by Thu I am waking up after noon & I tended to just work through the night on Fri to sleep near dawn on Saturday.

The problem was that Fri nights and weekends are when people are mostly ready to socialize or relax, I would literally sleep through the day on Saturday and wake up close to 4 AM on Sunday.

Then go to sleep around 7 PM on Sunday, because I woke up so early and then monday I wake up with 12hours of sleep.

Lost weight from skipping meals by sleeping.

This felt completely awesome from a personal standpoint & also from the friends I had on IRC, but from an IRL standpoint it was very odd.

I definitely looked like a shut-in, even I grew my hair out simply because I did not have the time to go get it cut during business hours.

Then my dad died, which ended that chapter in an unexpected way.

I remembered those days when I had my first kid, the experience was shockingly similar when it comes to perturbed sleep schedules.
We won't know until we try.
You mean like the entire post we're commenting on?

All we have is the word of some student who is trying to frame themselves positively.
People really need to stop contributing to StackOverflow.
On the contrary, this project creates tremendous value for society because it is a way for people to upskill significantly in areas that would otherwise be very hard to get into. OS development is a domain where it is very hard to gain experience. The big professional OSes have high quality bars and big codebases, making contributing hard and tedious. OS dev without a community of likeminded motivated people that share their experiences is even harder.
Using such a weasel phrase like "by some accounts" means that there's absolutely nothing standing behind this. If there was any concrete thing Brian Thompson did that was any kind of legal crime or moral error, you'd be able to name it.
Ok, show me a non-peon who shot a man in broad daylight and on video and didn't face the law afterward.

Edit: I mean on purpose, obviously. Drunk driving hardly counts. (Nobody gets in a car drunk with the intention of hurting anyone, they are usually just trying to get from A to B.) Accidents don't count. We're talking about a comparable action here, something that meets the legal definition of murder and which was also not prosecuted. Deeds from war probably don't count because it doesn't meet the definition of murder under law (although, many war crimes and misdeeds abroad are punished) and soldiers are peons. Cops killing people on duty don't count because they aren't doing it unprovoked (when they do, it is usually prosecuted as murder), and they too are peons.

Also, to the people complaining about the edits, sorry I can't reply to 50 comments all saying about the same kind of stuff. I keep hitting the rate limit.
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In the 20th century, people theorized about how the transience of digital space will create a mutable history.

We've been living with that now for a few decades. It's still a problem.
Everything Brian Thompson did was legal, which is not the same thing as being "innocent."