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>Facebook produces disproportionately more engagements for right-wing sites

Bull.

America is a country where any given election 50% vote Democrat and 50% vote Republican. Look at the chart. Look at the total number of left-wing vs right-wing sites. I bet if you add those up, total left-wing engagements will dwarf the number of total right-wing engagements. Looks to me that engagement is skewed towards left-wing, it's just that there are way more left-wing outfits so individual share is lower. Which makes sense, there is one major right-wing news network, Fox News, there's like 10 that are center-left/left wing which have to share the audience.
"There has got to be some internal representation of what you percieve."

I don't think this is necessarily true. It seems to me like the universe would get on exactly the same without internal representation. By "internal representation" I mean a universe without "embodiment" -- no experience of being me or being you, no feelings felt, no colors seen, no sounds heard, etc.. And yet those experiences "exist" in some sense. Call them illusions or whatever, but I am and you are. So the problem is, if we can imagine the universe getting on exactly the same without those experiences, why is it such that I am and you are. That seems to be the puzzling question to me -- that nothing has to be experienced, and yet things are being experienced.
My read on the Altera acc was that Intel needed to shore up fab volumes in the face of their foundry customers jumping to TSMC first chance they could. As the capital required per node continues to rise exponentially, they need more and more volume to amortize that over. This is also why they're trying to get into GPUs again.
> I think this is a philosophical question.

If it's only philosophical, then me saying that Hacker News Website itself has 'knowledge' of everything we discuss about is also philosophical. Same can be applied to plain paper books.

How about any web application? A for loop? anything which can generate something for you?
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I don't think even the most hardcore Apple superfans are buying the "reducing waste" argument. They have the right to make their products more expensive, and that's fine. People are going to keep buying them regardless.
I feel like you're kinda right. at least I expect that in the medium term, the average SWE salary will be what it is now (plus inflation), but the regional spread will be much lower. in the long term (and regardless of WFH), I expect software engineers will become more like accountants: valued professionals, but not superstars pulling $200k+.

I also don't think this is unreasonable. we're not entitled to live in the most expensive corners of the world just because we want to. currently engineers in high-COL areas get paid a premium because the company sees value in having offices there and having most people work in the office. once that perceived value-add no longer exists, what entitles you to get paid much more to enable your lifestyle than joe schmoe in iowa who does the same work? if this feels unfair, it sorta calls into question whether it's fair for SWEs to get paid so much more than other professions in the first place.
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Keep a balanced approach! The mind is part of your physical body and just like the rest of you it needs periods of rest and exercise.

A great quote I heard about physical training is, "if you try to peak all the time you will plateau."

Work is important but it is helpful to have a couple of things to do with your life besides it.
> For example "Advanced European Theater of Operations" has 2200 pieces played on 2 poster-sized maps...

And can be linked to Advanced Pacific Theater of Operations for those who think it is too small of a game on its own.
Companies that pay more based on a worker's unnecessary location are subsidizing the worker's lifestyle at the expense of their customers and/or shareholders.
Tap/swipe requires you to be able to extend hand to a specific terminal. QR tags can be:
- Printed all around the store/restaurant
- Zoomed in from distance and still scanned
They literally are developers stop gate keeping its ignorant
This was one of the previous CEO's initiatives (Yishan Wong) back in 2014.

https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-...
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Same, I'm no expert but Blender and it's community are such a blessing. I've been able to actually get paid for some stuff I've done with it!
Well, then make sure you don't end up both in the same new company ;).

My point was to fire the offender, and not everyone else who might be involved. Innocent until proven guilty, you know.

For me, I wouldn't want to work for a company that fires with collateral damage.
The problem with qualia, as I understand it, is that we can build machines that process images, and in the future let's say, can exceed what cat is capable of, but that machine will never actually have sensations.

So there are two issues: what sensations actually are and why was it necessary for life to have those sensations, after all, a robot cat would do just fine without any sensation, just processing the inputs and reacting to those inputs.
Google does a lot of different things. In this case, it’s part of the Chrome team that has been focusing on this and how to help the web dev ecosystem more broadly.
Seems as if every time I hear about post COVID issues, it's a non-peer reviewed study. Does anyone know of any concrete sources that have been reviewed?
You need to have a good credit score and be fairly well off to get a CSR though.
On-demand access to files is a completely different workflow than syncing. It would also clash with the name, and require a change in technologies to run in the browser, as well as transport protocols.
- Back&Forward compatibility by Versioning and shipping multiple versions with the same browser

- Easier prototyping and experimental usage of pre-releases

- Backward compatibility with older browsers on the first view versions at least
Yeah, that $238/chip figure can't possibly be right. Apple's putting this chip in a $700 phone with at least a 50% margin. They're not blowing more than half the BoM on the SoC.
I'm too lazy to do this manually for each server, but I change the hostname color in my prompt based on its hash.

https://gitlab.com/brlewis/brlewis-config/-/blob/master/bash...
Absolutely. Thanks for the feedback, drchiu. I'm @okbel, actively working on Next.js Commerce. Right now the codebase is tightly coupled with BigCommerce, but in the near future (following days) we plan to add multiple data providers. I'm about to edit docs/bigcommerce.md to clearify usage. Thank you!
What's the point of the mag-safe branding if the magnet doesn't really provide any safety if you trip on the cord, since the phones are so lightweight and would still get yanked to the ground?
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First of all I criticize the alarmist headline. As for the article, I know see data goes only back 41 years. Is that even a meaningful geological timeframe?

Also there often seems to be the assumption that every year should be like average. In fact, average implies that some years should be below and some above.

Not saying there is nothing going on, but I don't automatically believe we are all going to die just from that article. (We as in mankind, every individual will of course die, unless there is a major scientific breakthrough).
This is very different than the tobacco companies.

It was known anecdotally for a hundred years that smoking was unhealthy, despite a very widespread cultural acceptance of it. The evidence was overwhelming to anyone with ears and eyes who knew lifetime smokers. The tobacco companies went so far as paying cardiologists to invent the so called 'Type A' personality to explain excess heart attacks among smokers.

Climate change on the other hand is much more subtle. The greenhouse effect is not an obvious on its face, one typically needs to be taught about it in school. Additionally, the natural variation both in weather and climate obscure effects. And the difficulty in measuring global historic temperature series and modelling climate needed to be invented over the past couple of decades.

It may seem obvious to many people today, but that's more than likely because they grew up in an environment of scientific consensus.

What's funny in the original article, is the the first paper cited, was GM sponsored research to indicate that the particulate pollution (aerosols) couldn't be causing the growth in polar ice caps because aerosols would have a warming effect. The true irony here is that this wasn't a warning about warming, it was sponsored research showing that GM wasn't responsible for cooling which had been observed. (Please note -- I am not claiming that there was ever a consensus about a 'global cooling threat', there wasn't. There was a limited concern that aerosols could have this effect, and luckily GM research was able to step in and show them how those fears were misguided.)
I think both incidents resulted in a permanent loss, but again, it's really hard to say for sure (every day is an anecdote). With the concussion, I noticed tangible improvement over the course of several months (in the first week, trying to think would quickly induce headaches). Within a month of the flu; within a year of the concussion, I still felt foggier than before, and the fog stopped noticeably lifting.
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They didn't make the products more expensive, though. The iPhone 12 Pro series got cheaper (for the equivalent storage). They also made the charger and cable in question cheaper, for the small minority of users who actually need those items.
No doubt that is true as well. The fact that Tesla dragged the entire industry towards EVs means that there was inertia. But I'm skeptical that Tesla could have competed in the 80s, 90s or even early 2000s. Late 2000s and early 2010s was when all kinds of technologies from all over the place, made EVs much more competitive against ICEs.
It's not a reach when YouTube was specifically named as the reason that youtube-dl will be "absolutely useless". That was what was clearly stated.

Whereas it is a reach, ironically, for you to assume that all WWW sites are like YouTube, especially given the discussion of "extractors" that I pointed to, and even are moving targets.

As I said before, this premise, that you have assumed like AshamedCaptain, is highly erroneous. I suspect that neither of you have actually looked to see what WWW sites out of the hundreds that youtube-dl works with actually do have changing HTML, and how many of the "extractors" are still happily working years after they were written. (Sadly, the open issues list on GitHub, which would have helped to determine this, is gone, GitHub being a single point of failure.)

This is just entirely erroneous assumption and hyperbole, that everything is like YouTube, that things will change "a million times", and that magically all of those hundreds of WWW sites will stop working and "you will not be able to use it for anything".
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Apple doesn't have an exclusive on 5 nm; it's also being used by Kirin 9000, Snapdragon 875, some Exynos, and a future Dimensity SoC.
> The only reason to doubt climate change is if you've been a victim of the concerted misinformation campaign.

Nobody doubts climate change because the climate has and always will be changing.
Have you tried to combine that with caldav?
I prefer the reverse question: "What's the purpose of these 'productive' activities" - usually to increase the amount of time I have to read articles about bizarrely huge japanese chess games I guess :)
I mean, do you propose equal time be given to evolution & creationism then or what? I would rather students spend 99.9% of the time on evolution and yeah I guess you can spend the 0.1% time as footnote of what crazy people believe in if you really want.
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I especially like that you have to killall -9 teams to exit it. Installed as official deb from MS.
Thirty, or, probably, even twenty years ago, nobody could build a electric car that could compete with ICE engines. So, why waste money making them if, instead, you can make money selling ICE cars?

That could have changed if society had (through regulations, subsidies or taxes) changed the rules, but it didn’t until fairly recently.

Even today, I haven’t seen numbers (but I haven’t looked hard, either) of _any_ manufacturer that shows they make a profit making and selling electric cars.

Tesla’s profits, for example, as far as I know, always were smaller than the money they get from selling regulatory credits (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/teslas-sale-of-environmental...).

That’s society finally saying ICE cars must go out.

Government mills mill slowly, but I think many people underestimate how much they can accomplish in the long run.
> ...a vehicle for doing mathematics with intuitionistic logic, and in particular denying the law of excluded middle...

Intuitionists don't deny the law of excluded middle, they just don't admit it as an axiom. From a classical perspective this looks like denial, since accepting the law means that you have to accept or deny everything, but from an intuitionistic perspective that kind of reasoning looks like begging the question.
This is similar to how I approach things on my todo list as well. If the task is going to take less than five minutes just do it now and be done with it.
> It amazes me that something like this can be done by a single person.

In many dysfunctional orgs, having someone to blame is desirable. They will use all kinds of words for it like "accountability".

But at the end of the day, heros who take stupid risks that succeed get rewarded, cautious people that ask questions and try to understand before acting are smugly dismissed, and would-be heroes that burn the house down because of recklessness get blamed and make everyone else look good. It's all too common.
This was posted back in 2014 [1] and the general consensus was "Nope!". It's amazing to see how much has changed since then. A lot of great work is being put into Rust and the web, and arewewebyet was not reflecting it until the major overhaul it underwent in the past couple weeks.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809791
>version control, code review, unit testing, deployment pipelines, etc.

This is absolutely one of my biggest pain-points with "no-code" solutions. Even trying to track revisions to something relatively simple like a word document over time is a big pain compared to tracking revisions to source code or a configuration file. Trying to get a grip on how people are fiddling with a no-code product from the audit logs is incredibly difficult, never mind trying to track down a change from 1 year ago. Often changes won't appear on audit logs at all or they won't be explained in enough detail and the format of the logs will have little resemblance to how things are actually configured. You can use some no-code solution to modify a SQL query under the hood and the audit log will just say "THIS USER CHANGED THIS QUERY" and that's all the detail you get! It's frequently difficult to explain to your peers how you're going to change a system without showing them a bunch of screenshots and going "Well I'm going to tick this box and move the green rectangle over here and link it to the orange oval". Rolling back changes can often be impossible without rolling back EVERY change between now and when the first incorrect change was made.

I use code, and these problems just don't happen! It's only when people are using some wonderful "user-friendly" solution that things get so jacked up.
Having babysat my fair share of critical clusters, i support this advice
> The meaningful achievement is how many discrete electrical components are composed into a given area.

Is average over an area the meaningful achievement or is the meaningful achievement the smallest individual gate length? Neither are super useful without additional context.
> The tech hubs grew in a self-fulfilling cycle, attracting nearly the entire supply of competent developers.The tech hubs grew in a self-fulfilling cycle, attracting nearly the entire supply of competent developers.

Even ignoring the silly claim at the end, what you say isn't logical. New developers aren't born in SV, they move there because that's where the jobs are. If they no longer need to move there for the good jobs, they won't.
Extra tip: if you want to expose yourself to foreign languages, change the language of games you play.

Works best when playing a new game, where you haven't memorized the vocabulary and the UI yet.

Games which are not story based, but full of text (sims, managers) are good for repetition learning.
> If that follows

Efficiency, performance and cost are strongly related to density. Price less so; that's a function of supply and demand.
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There exist a number of self-described free speech extremist instances, and moderated instances that only blacklist spammers like bot servers. There also exist instances that will blacklist servers with high levels of hate speech. You can pick or create an instance that meets your wants and needs, but other instances can exercise their freedom of association and choose not to federate with you.

Things on the fediverse are also less black-and-white than you're portraying them. Some instances will prevent one instance's posts from showing up in the default public timeline of the whole known network, but will still federate with them; users will still be able to follow or be followed by members of the filtered instance normally.

Users on Mastodon can also migrate their account to other Mastodon instances and keep their followers, but migrating from Mastodon to Pleroma is a bit lacking; fortunately, you can still put a redirect on your profile for future followers.

TLDR: no, I don't think the fediverse is just like centralized social media.
> I find it strange that HoTT and HoTT-adjacent stuff gets posted here so often.

I don't have any dog in this fight, but I also find it super interesting that this topic gets to the 1st page so often.

TBH I think answering that question is more interesting that litigating foundations.
One can still break a larger function into smaller ones and use a debugger to see intermediate values.
Users have to install a browser extension in order to participate in the study. That's a way higher barrier than the personality quizzes that Cambridge Analytica used.

It also happens at a different layer of abstraction. Cambridge Analytica extracted data through the permissions framework that Facebook itself implemented.

Facebook's interest in its users' data doesn't need further explanation after you see that most of their profits derive from their control over it. The same control that allowed the profitable mass political targeting that these researchers are trying to study.
>I mean, do you propose equal time be given to evolution & creationism then or what?

I support journalists making an effort to present both sides even if one side is unreasonable, because the alternative is they just decide for me what I should and should not be exposed to. That, to me, is much much worse.
It's irrelevant that the Volt (a range extended car with both ICE and EV power sources) isn't made anymore, they only produce pure EV nows in the form of the Bolt and some newer cars coming soon.

And the GM EV1 was really the first modern electric car, produced in 1996. They killed it, and it wasn't great (NiCad batteries, weird design, etc.) but it predates anybody else's serious efforts, apart from some stuff in the 70s oil crisis that was built around lead acid batteries.

But basically GM started producing EVs as soon as lithium ion battery manufacturing chains made it possible. Thank Bob Lutz.

But I never said GM wasn't .. basically evil :-) Of course they're riding/pushing the ICE & petroleum wave, and pushing hard on it, that's what makes them money. Because for the last 100 years that's all that was practical, and it's what made them as a company. Boxes that burn dinosaur juice to move. But there was no battery tech until LiOn that could make EV feasible as any kind of alternative.

However GM's evil is subsidiary to the petroleum company's evil. Whatever bad GM has done, oil companies have done x 100.
As a former psychology student (lol) I have to point out that an epiphenominal mind is perhaps the least parsimonious thing imaginable. It's also been effectively disproven since the cognitive revolution at least. Since we can understand ideas, take in / generate perceptions, and act in meaningful ways based on what we've understood - some kind of raw behavioural conditioning is not a valid explanation for our behavior. Nor the behavior of most higher animals.
> Is nobody else worried that policies like this are going to end up penalizing workers

But what is your solution to this? If companies can make this work, why should they ignore the huge talent pools that exist in the middle of the country? That said, I think there will always be employers who prefer to have most everyone sitting in the office.
"No Code" needs to embrace code. They are just tools and/or higher abstractions. Embrace the fact that at one point you need to go down the abstraction layers and enable the users to do this, and do it well.

E.g. Unity is "no code" for a lot of stuff (putting scene together), but you also need code for other stuff.

Essentially for those tools to succeed they must allow mixing their abstractions and visuals with lower level code, in my opinion.
Reminds me of when the Fortune 50 company (150k employees) I worked for rolled out new firewall restrictions that blocked the DNS port.

To all machines. Employee and servers alike.

Yes. Including the DNS servers.

Took them a day or two to work out how to roll that one back.
I've certainly deliberately downed an enormous number of tasks, though, as part of a cluster turn-down. I love the technique of requiring the operator to echo a key fact, but in the case you're describing I think the key fact is not how many tasks but that that they're serving live traffic. So:

* You could ask the operator to echo the qps figure...but really any number other than zero is likely to be an error, so it can just error out in that case without needing the confirmation.

* Even if it is serving zero qps now, if it's not explicitly drained at the load balancer, downing it is likely to be a mistake. So even better to check that.

Only once in my career have I taken down jobs serving live traffic. (They were serving 100% errors.) It was deliberate, but even so I wouldn't have minded having to supply a --yes-i-know-im-downing-live-jobs.

edit: and if for some reason my assumption is wrong and downing undrained things becomes routine...well, you'd want to fix that, but as a short term measure going back to the confirming a number rather than the force option would be appropriate. Is certainly not good to have an override that's routinely used.
Correct, it uses srcset.
So sorry to hear that! I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for the reply. What is the minimum viable ruleset for a sustainable community? Does that ruleset change with technology?