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CIA manipulates foreign elections which in turn gets their lackeys in office that go on to manipulate domestic elections.

NSA collects who you're voting for and everything else you've ever said online in case they need to invent a reason to black-site you.

FBI convinces the autistic son of your Pakistani neighbors down the street his life only has meaning if he becomes a Jihadist.


People bought IBM clones to run the same software, not for the love of the architecture.

If ARM processors are regularly incompatible and segmented, we all lose out and end up in isolated silos.


It's sorta funny, the existence of Windows' stranglehold has worsened so many generations of thinkpads. The push for the S0 mac-style standby made my 11th gen X1 carbon basically unusable for me in Linux.

The standby battery life is so bad, it will burn through half the battery overnight with the lid closed. The battery life actually seems better when using the laptop opposed to standby.

Other standby modes were removed on a firmware level by lenovo despite the processor supporting it.

I still have my 4th gen X1 carbon, it was an amazing machine for 8 years and I really thought I'd get another 8-year laptop buying the latest X1, but now it sits off and only comes out for specific uses. Bought an m4 air for day-to-day laptop use.


That's not what OP is saying.

They're saying they have a better understanding of the impact of technology, not the specifics of using technology.


Which sounds like a soft subject on the periphery.

There’s still a massive disadvantage if you want a technical role and you think the Internet, Web and Wifi are all the same thing.


It is a soft subject.

Directories and files as computing concepts are ~50 years old while the impact of the printing press is around ~600.

The aspects of computing you deem important may be lost to time within a century, while the "soft subject" of social impact will still be felt.


For some reason people think psychological operations are some kind of urban legend.

and for some reason, some of those people jump on these posts when you name that our hacker news-emperor-forum has no clothes.

What exactly was the damage he did?

He exposed massive unconstitutional dragnets that made the unaccountable agencies look bad.

If the damage is "makes the US look bad from their illegal surveillance of citizens", then the NSA did that to themselves.


The long island economy is split between well paid public servants, NYC commuters, and the circular economy of driveway contractors and tile contractors in an arms race for the nicest walking surface.

There are no other jobs on the island that pay decently. Cutting edge engineering work will make you half of what it will in either the DC or Boston areas.

The conductors are highly paid in part because it's the local custom, and part because a third of the economy would collapse if that train stops running.


Automating trains would let LIRR run trains more often because they aren’t having to pay 2-3x median income for someone who does little on each train

It would be better for society to pay these people to do nothing while we run more trains automatically.

All US passenger rail runs off of massive state subsidies. The absurd pay is the taxpayers money.


> It is unfathomable that a team of US military (people with families of their own no doubt), would all nod along and agree with your contention.

The Vietnam and Korean wars would like to have a word.

Your belief that the US military is guided by any kind of moral or ethical line is naïve at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726


If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan.

The problem is fighting unethical enemies, because they do shit like use ambulances as troop transport, have soldiers dress the same as civilians, and given any kid old enough to shoot a rifle.

To your post more specifically, is there is no one holding these unethical enemies responsible. There are no history books, or journalists, or wikipedia articles about the insane shit they do.

The Taliban has a base where they truck in young boys to "service" the officers and it's lost to time. The US has a single ethics catastrophe, and they are held up for it for decades...


> If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan

You can be unethical and still profoundly incompetent.


Smoking out villages and shooting everything that moves with cutting edge weaponry doesn't require much competence.

Which is why the US famously won the Vietnam war...

If that was the case the My Lai Massacre would be meaningless, because the entire war would have been that.


Genocide is usually not an efficient way to wage war. Even ancient armies usually did not slaughter entire towns, not because of ethics, but because fighting sucks and if you slaughter everybody you come across, nobody is going to surrender and every person you come across will fight you to the death.

I say usually, because there are some exceptions and nukes are one of them, they make genocide a viable war strategy. But even nuking Vietnam would not have worked, cause you will simply get nuked back.


Its more that you make it clear that you will kill anyone who doesn't surrender. Then most people end up surrendering.

In modern militaries though, the expectation is that you will just leave civilians alone.


There are some terrorist states that indiscriminately kill civilians though, such as Israel and the USA.

The worst thing people would do is surrendering in those cases.


As opposed to who? Iran fired missiles at Israeli (and Arab) civilian areas, so did Hezbollah and Hamas when they used to have that capability.


That's precisely what I expected. That people would pop up defending US atrocities by equating them with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah.

And you know what? You're right. Those are all terrorist organizations.


It sounds like he had already found it the old fashioned way, then the noobs sic'd the LLMs on it, found it, and he told them "hey chill, we knew about this, don't ruin it" and they ruined it.

To quote Dr Ian Malcolm:

"If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now [bangs on the table]"


That quote logically implies that people should be paralyzed to act on any novel information. There is no such thing as a discovery that occurs in a vacuum without some prior art. "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

Then again, its a silly illogical movie


I disagree. It's pretty clear the complaint is the lack of responsibility or care for the dangerous science at the center of the movie.

The complaint wouldn't be remotely the same if Hammond was taking the power he was playing with seriously. His character is the villain, he ignores every warning and almost kills his grand children.

In the case of the PS5 Linux project, the researcher who has worked towards the skills required to find these bugs has a greater respect, moved slower, had time to think.

People playing with the enormous power of LLMs finding hypervisor bugs and throwing it in the fire have no respect for the work.


There were suspicious rednecks shooting out power stations a couple years ago.

The FBI routinely finds mentally ill people to convince/encourage/fund a terrorist attack and arrest them after they purchase materials with FBI money and call it a sting.

I don't think it's nearly as hard to find someone as you think.


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