skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this myself, but to save the long explanation for another time, I’ll just say: I don’t think there is a solution, other than localism, or a highly transparent and rigorous centralized institution. The closer you are to a community and information, the better you can judge it for yourself. Not to mention the fact that most global news isn’t particularly relevant for most people.

What that means in practical terms, I’m not sure.
Data oriented design is not about SoA and ECS
Small, but vocal! I think I share kazinator's preferences here. For a C++ compiler, maybe you need dead code elimination. But for C, I'd prefer a warning accompanied by reliable execution.
I think there can be some additions:

1) for user to be able to manage those percentages directly or using various pre-made profiles and maybe allow some randomness mixed in;

and

2) "exploraton mode" where topics with content that is "disliked but not conflicting with the core values", "disliked but they may try to convince me here" and "initially neutral, unknown or not entirely irrelevant to them" are suggested.

I also think that attempting to extract the core values as hidden variables and using them to predict, or guess from oher users and external news, the future direction of their evolution can also be useful.
You may be thinking of the novelty effect: https://turnedtwenty.com/productivity-isnt-related-technolog...
Anonymous feedback doesn't really work. It's not hard to figure out who wrote the feedback if they write anything non-trivial.
This is great advice. I do something similar and it’s been working. The only thing I dont fully agree with is the tracking of work. I’ve found that tracking work has very little value to me, so I just don’t spend time on it.

The only time when tracking work has been really useful was when the Icelandic banks went bust during the crash of 2008. Having a log of work-done helped a little in trying to get paid after my client went down.
But, in other cases, I’ve found that the result of the work is the log of work done.
GitHub is too busy making empty gestures (like renaming the master branch and black/white lists) to do anything substantive that would affect their income.
Not something I have firsthand experience of, but I believe that the sellers are rated in part on the quality of their delivery. It comes through regular post to the buyers door. But that’s no implication of crime so as a regular consumer it’s fairly safe.

Aside from that, the quality of Darknet drugs is significantly better than street drugs. The drugs people (used to) buy on the street have been through a lot of hands and there’s often little substance left at the end. Also, who you going to complain to? At least with a marketplace, sellers are looking for good ratings. It’s also a lot cheaper. I’ve heard nothing but good reports from people buying online.
Anybody has read the CME contract specs in detail? One thing I don't understand is how can you trade a commodity that's all about transportation costs.

In some parts of the world water is literally free, you only have to pay for the connection. Whereas in others there's a shortage and people have to resort to clever engineering, like Israel with desalination or Libya with the Great Man-Made River project. In both of those cases the problem would be trivial if global transportation costs were zero.

Even with oil it is a thing - there's a different spot price and different forward curve at each tradeable terminal. For example the recently famous negative prices (and the monster contango) were observed only in Cushing, OK; other ports were always > 0. With water the difference would be much larger.
It's difficult to talk about a good or better algorithm without quantifying what that means. Youtube aren't trying to build a good algorithm. They're optimizing for a metric like time spent on the website. If your algorithm could beat their current solution in an A/B test, I'm sure that they would be up for it.
The senate was originally elected by the states directly, the general population didn’t play any part of the process. This was abolished, in addition to many responsibilities of the senate - oversight of the executive, a leading voice in international relations - have been ceded to the executive branch. I wouldn’t say it’s more of a joke than mob rule, but it’s a thin veneer of respectability.
Relevant Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-11-13
I think that some of points are valid - especially the direct contact with the consumers. But the grand prize that Epic wants, the ability for anyone to put App store on iPhone, I hope that will never happen.

I don't care about Epic, but the moment when that is allowed is the moment when three app stores into existence - Google's, Microsoft's and Facebook's. Most people can't avoid using software from these three companies, and right now, on iPhone, Google, FB and MS can track people only when their app is active. With always active app stores the ability for tracking and fingerprinting is much, much bigger, and would negate all recent privacy stuff from Apple.
This report suggests that this sort of thing is not uncommon but that it rarely takes the form of a complete bill, which is closer to your term "draft legislation".

Redlining an existing statute with changes is what the DOJ published and is closer to what I was getting at when I said "participate in proposing legislation".

https://www.acus.gov/sites/default/files/documents/technical...
Add that to your aaS bullshit filter.
As an investor who is not into crypto, I don't understand this comment, let alone use it to correctly price the risk of crypto.
I like the idea of Peertube for this, and a search engine popped up the other day too

Search: https://sepiasearch.org/

Hosting: https://joinpeertube.org/
That's an unfair representation of what actually unfolded.
I don't think there are "criminals" as a type of person like "musicians", who are just compelled to do crime because there's an inner force that just makes their toe tap a certain way.

Maybe some small fraction, I guess.

But I think the majority of criminals are simply rational actors, who look at the incentives and the odds, assess them (sometimes wrongly), and do what seems sensible to achieve their goals. The goal is not "do crime", the goal is "make money" and the environment is structured such that crime makes money.
I’ve always thought this was confirmed with the video of one snowboarding down a roof.

https://youtu.be/1WupH8oyrAo
If you read between the lines, it’s obvious that Sweden never had a serious case against him, looked for every excuse not to actually resolve it when they had ample opportunity, and then promptly abandoned it once it was no longer serving the ulterior motive.

No one is saying Assange must be beyond reproach, we are saying let’s be honest about what games the authorities are very clearly playing.
See my response to your other comment above.
Humans can do it much easier with Caffeine. The pathways are related (and basically swapped between humans and dogs; in theory a dog would experience coffee more like we experience hot chocolate). That's why Four Loko was so dangerous and why a lot of colleges tend to have massive "Caffeine Pill Awareness" campaigns and why college administrators (and psychologists) have sometimes thought that Caffeine in any pill form should be "behind the counter" and somewhat strictly controlled because humans can't be trusted with Caffeine doses in pill form and overdoses are more common than a lot of people think.
We need to empower people with these algorithms. Imagine the power of a tiktok/YouTube/etc. algo where you get to make the choices. I want: less cartoons, more long-form Econ, increase diversity of recommendations, no repetition, etc. over decades of use and tweaks.
The fact of the matter is that bigger networks just often do a lot better. Much bigger networks, much more so. So I think, until some group of geniuses comes up with some radical optimization algorithm that rapidly trains massive sets of matrices, we're in an era of hardware-/bandwidth-/electricity-limited improvements.

I kinda think that's why LightOn is so interesting; they're trying to do neural networks by casting the matrix multiplies as doing optical stuff with photons (if I understand correctly, some kind of compressed sensing training method involving scattering randomized apertures for light).

I don't know much about their tech, but that seems like a paradigm shift compared to GPU cores.. they purport 3- Peta multiply-accumulate ops per second, at 30 watts. https://lighton.ai/our-technology/#1596017080086-e6716927-ba...

Would like to see the benchmarks though, their benchmarks repo doesn't just have it immediately all laid out
Do any of these darknet markets or services operators ever successfully "exit" to enjoy their ill-gotten spoils in retirement?

Seems like they always get nailed in the end. Even the operator of Grams (darknet market search engine)and Helix (Bitcoin tumbler) who shut down his services in 2017 got arrested just this year. Seems like the heyday of Darknet markets was 5+ years ago and since then law enforcement started to win in a big way.

Who got away? Maybe the operators of Agora? Who else?
I assume your argument invoking Android as a model wasn’t in bad faith, and I can certainly dismiss the conclusions of it in good faith too, because it is inapplicable as a model.

And no - I don’t have to provide examples of where Facebook, Microsoft etc, have already “caused trouble”. It just has to be reasonable to expect them to want to compete, and to employ commonly used tactics that are not necessarily good for developers or consumers. That is all I am suggesting. Facebook and Microsoft have been hyper competitive companies who generally do whatever they can get away with. Neither are known as friends of either developers or consumers, although I accept that Microsoft has been doing better since they have been an underdog. This is common knowledge.

As for opening up the Apple opening the App Store on their own terms, or indeed a bootcamp solution enabling people to do whatever they want with the hardware: I’m actually in favor of these, and I think talking about them is constructive.

What I am not in favor of is Epic winning a court supervised solution, and I separately think that simply assuming that more choices are better is a dangerous dogma that could easily make things a lot worse.

I actually strongly believe we need the smartphone software environment to be opened, but the path by which that occurs and the nature of the openness obtained is very important to whether there is a net gain for anyone other than the already rich and powerful.
> The choice of build system has no influence on that outcome

Yes it does. When build system prevents shooting in the foot (by being very strict about side effects of submodules in particular, and forcing to explicitly declare dependencies), the result is better project quality.

> As the saying goes, bad workers always blame their tools.

Sure. Just let's not jump to conclusion that everyone who criticise tools is bad worker.
In fairness, Facebook's culpability in the Myanmar incident is because they launched in a language when they didn't have any moderators or AI who could understand the language. Further, much of the info was spread via memes - while extracting text from images is pretty good now, it wasn't always this way.
Oh. In Canada it’s only 50 years.

Well, I guess we’ll have to wait until 2024 then. Unless maybe it was published locally in one of those countries like Canada with a shorter term.... but that seems doubtful given the limited availability in public libraries.
Tesla claims Nikola stole its truck design from Rimac designer
RMS created Free Software, not Open Source. Open Source is something that the OSI made up.
Various levels of TL;DR:

Article:

> Now the birds can add one more feather to their brainiac claims: Research unveiled on Thursday in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

Science mag:

> Humans have tended to believe that we are the only species to possess certain traits, behaviors, or abilities, especially with regard to cognition. Occasionally, we extend such traits to primates or other mammals—species with which we share fundamental brain similarities. Over time, more and more of these supposed pillars of human exceptionalism have fallen. Nieder et al. now argue that the relationship between consciousness and a standard cerebral cortex is another fallen pillar (see the Perspective by Herculano-Houzel). Specifically, carrion crows show a neuronal response in the palliative end brain during the performance of a task that correlates with their perception of a stimulus. Such activity might be a broad marker for consciousness.

Abstract of the paper:

> Subjective experiences that can be consciously accessed and reported are associated with the cerebral cortex. Whether sensory consciousness can also arise from differently organized brains that lack a layered cerebral cortex, such as the bird brain, remains unknown. We show that single-neuron responses in the pallial endbrain of crows performing a visual detection task correlate with the birds’ perception about stimulus presence or absence and argue that this is an empirical marker of avian consciousness. Neuronal activity follows a temporal two-stage process in which the first activity component mainly reflects physical stimulus intensity, whereas the later component predicts the crows’ perceptual reports. These results suggest that the neural foundations that allow sensory consciousness arose either before the emergence of mammals or independently in at least the avian lineage and do not necessarily require a cerebral cortex.
I’d start with Barry Goldwater and the rise of the conservative movement.
So, you don't have a relevant project? Well, other people have.

I myself currently use C# since years and, yes, C# is fine, but I would have used Delphi more if Bold hadn't been locked in a safe for so long.
I mean when contentious changes are made, e.g. bitcoin vs bitcoin cash, or ethereum vs etc. Hashing power doesn’t come into it.
i haven't tried stadia, but i have tried sony's alternative (PS Now) with a couple games. i'm a pretty casual gamer, and was playing some pretty casual games (grand theft auto, some car racing sim, and something else i forget), i'm not going to be as sensitive to latency as a lot of people probably, and it was completely unplayable for me.

i guess it must work for some people, but my 100Mb canadian internet was definitely not good enough.
On the other hand, many get away with it.

Proper air gap maintained religiously should be able to solve a lot of problems in cyber crime. After all, we still interface with computers through meat and bones.
If someone commits a crime, like murder, but isn't convicted of it because a jury declared them innocent it doesn't change the fact that they did murder someone.

Apple may get away with it because they can afford to spend millions on both lobbying and finding every way to avoid paying taxes that people without the same resources would otherwise pay, but that doesn't make it okay.

We don't have to side with either of these incredibly wealthy corporations having a money fight. They can both be criticized and we can demand better.

Personally I love my iPhone/iPad because I truly feel they are the best mobile hardware available. For the same reason, I have 0 interest in the Mac ecosystem because it's objectively not the best hardware on the market. (Especially as a cost-conscious person). The wheels they sell for the Mac Pro are more expensive than the iPhone I bought from them (iPhone SE 2nd Gen). Absurd.

I would like an officially sanctioned way to sideload onto my iPhone. I am in favor of court decision that would force them to allow you to bypass the walled garden. I think it's a very simple answer to the overall issue at hand. I doubt the majority of iOS users are going to bother with it if the functionality was there, and it solves the walled garden monopoly issue.
> We do not have these in France (despite having the Haribo museum in the south) so I cannot tell whether this is true or just a sophisticated ad campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol#Humans

Though I don't know what you mean by "non-foods"?
Oh goddammit, I knew I wasn't doing something stupid.
> Free speech is the right to not be arrested for speaking. It's not the right to not be punched in the face for saying stupid things (there is a separate law for face punching).

No, the 1st Amendment is the right to not be arrested for speaking (in the United States). Free Speech is a philosophy that would absolutely cover not committing physical violence against someone for what they say. Violence in response to speech is probably a good starting point for the definition of unfree speech.
If they do exit scam first? Was any of those caught?
Why should an App Store need to be always active?
And a group of them is called a murder...
agreed; this reads like someone explaining their casino good luck charm strategy.
> a clueless hedgehog across a highway before it becomes roadkill

Before watching the linked video I thought this was describing crows deliberately placing hedgehogs in harm'ss way so that they could eat the resulting roadkill
They do come up on ebay - I got the tv link for my cochlear implant for £30. Yes, I was lucky. I assume it was a deceased estate sale, and I'm grateful for their consideration. A charity shop specialising in recycling of this kind of tech would fill a definite gap in the market.
This is cool as heck. Are there any examples of real use cases that are feasible at TamaGo's current stage of development?
Cancelling standups during a "fun projects only" hackweek doesn't say a single thing about the efficacy of the standup meeting. The costs of cancelling it, will only show up over the medium to long term.

Also, it makes me cringe a bit to see there are people who think number of pull requests are a good measure of productivity. It incentivizes blasting out a lot of quick, easy changes at the expense of doing more challenging tasks that may be essential for long term code health.
Using conspiracy theories, bunk science, and outright lies to influence the lower-awareness majority _is_ political action, and evidently it is currently one of the more effective strategies.
I wasn't worried about facebook, mostly just commenting that its unfair to assume these individuals who creat 400k+ in value to their companies a year aren't able to cook for themselves if they have to because they are young. I think its more likely that they are taking advantage of economic incentives.

I dont really have an opinion about facebooks agism in their hiring.

I just think you are making an unfounded assumption.
The acts of an individual is not indicative of a whole country. Don't generalize, it's of poor taste.
> crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

I've always found the common thought that only humans and a select few of other animals are the only ones that posses higher intelligence to be incredibly arrogant of our species. Why wouldn't they have higher intelligence? As far as I can tell, it's because there's no simple test that could be applied to confirm or deny whether higher intelligence exists within an animal, so we then jump to the conclusion "Because I can't prove that they do have higher intelligence, then they must not have higher intelligence" - logic doesn't work that way! Glad to see some people are willing to dig a little deeper and take the time to show that crows do have this capability.
This is pretty cool but I think it
doesn't focus enough on the fact that code which isn't run / tested regularly is most certainly broken.

Some friends at Antmicro developed a little tool called "tuttest" (https://github.com/antmicro/tuttest) designed to enable you to run your code examples on CI. It still needs a lot of work but we are starting to use it in a lot of places. The tool in the future could potentially use a docable compatible metadata for the best of both worlds!
I agree 100%. There are quite a few design issues with the site (which isn't unexpected on a DB tool like this), but this generic graphic style is not only not relevant to this application, it's the most overused style out there right now. It actively works against the brand, nothing memorable sticks out.

I'm not trying to be negative, but the site is not doing the business any favors.
https://outline.com/uyBW8B
I sympathize with situations like this.

If anyone reading is in a similar boat, asking for positive written feedback from the teams you work with and including that in your performance review is one way to get recognized for high impact low visibility work. It sucks that you have to go out of your way to gain recognition and it won’t always work but that can be how it is in large companies.
I didn’t say commodities traded on Wall Street, and I know usually they’re middlemen.

I’m saying Wall Street banks are the kinds of investors to sell delivery contracts and then find a way to gather water cheaply and actually deliver it (for a nice profit). Banks aren’t always just middlemen.
Very interesting story, it really does sound like a scifi thriller to me.

It also makes me wonder what type of legal battle would ensue if a blackhat were to have taken all of these funds instead, I'm not sure I've seen any public high-profile cases like that yet.
As I understand it, it doesn’t restrict customers from going to a TSAAS provider, it simply means that if you want to provide TSAAS then you need to negotiate a different license from Timescale.

The only restriction is that you can’t (necessarily) provide TSAAS for free. To me that’s free as in speech but not free as in beer, and is well within my personal understanding of “free software”. As the saying goes, the right to speech doesn’t imply the right to be heard; likewise, the right to inspect and modify software doesn’t necessarily imply the right to profit from it.
The whole point of cloud storage is so I can access the same trashcan from work, from home, or when I'm on the go.

Are you seriously suggesting that when I'm at the coffee shop, I use their trashcan for this purpose?

I miss “Don’t Be Evil.”
YouTube recommendations could be made enormously more useful with two trivial (really!) fixes:

SELECT *
FROM videos
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM votes WHERE video_id = videos.id AND user_id = $user_id)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM not_interested WHERE video_id = videos.id AND user_id = $user_id);

Aka don't recommend anything I've already voted on or already explicitly told you I'm not interested in. That would remove at least 98% of my recommendations.

Even without that improvement, though, YouTube is an amazing service, and the reliability is first class. I can't remember the last time it was actually down. Personally I suspect the YouTube team is just tasked with keeping things ticking over, and that they're too busy putting out fires and coping with tech debt to actually develop useful features.
In 2019 for example, the US had 2.7 million SAR filings. (https://www.fincen.gov/reports/sar-stats, all industry types + year 2019 + all states), compared to a touch above 5,000 white collar federal prosecutions (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-collar-crime-prosecutions...). It's hard to directly calculate a "false positive rate" from those things, because some criminals may generate multiple SARs and others may simply go unprosecuted, but I think such a vast gulf is pretty inconsistent with an idea that most SARs report crimes.

It's certainly conventional wisdom in financial circles that a SAR is worth about as much as a user report on a Reddit comment.
In what way do consumers not prioritize Android devices? Android has about 75% market share.