skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dossier is a mixed bag in terms of accuracy and rigor, but I find it interesting most people focus on "no collusion" but ignore all the rest of the claims. Like:

> The Mueller Report backed "Steele's central claim that the Russians ran a 'sweeping and systematic' operation ... to help Trump win".[7] James Comey said:

The bureau began an effort after we got the Steele dossier to try and see how much of it we could replicate. That work was ongoing when I was fired. Some of it was consistent with our other intelligence, the most important part. The Steele dossier said the Russians are coming for the American election. It's a huge effort. It has multiple goals ... And that was true.
It's very far off since this is slower and has fewer features than the worst motherboard ($60) and the worst CPU ($50) on the market. Add $30 worth of RAM and you're up to $140.
Same reason why every other industry has exclusivity deals (eg. video game consoles): to attract customers. If you're a TV/streaming network, and you want to attract customers, how else are you going to do it? Good ux can only get you so far.
I'm honestly not. I've seen that video, and given my experience of vision models, am actually concerned that object permanance is not being focused on.

> There clearly is room for improvement, and some level of concern is warranted, but it isn't as much of a big deal as it seems, because surely at the higher level objects are remembered.

I would be very surprised if this were true.

> To draw an analogy with human cognition, humans also aren't consciously aware of all the objects in their field of view all the time, but that doesn't mean they forget their existence.

This is exactly object permanence, in that babies start looking in the right direction for objects that disappear. I assume that Waymo at least have some kind of model for this, but am not convinced that it's particularly effective.

Personally, I think that self-driving will require a limited theory of mind model, and we are nowhere near that.
> The problem is the horrible and complex NodeJS/NPM backed asset compilation pipelines and build tools

Would like to hear more.
A right is only useful if you assert that right. If you look at the email chain that Glenn himself published [1], the correspondence is essentially the editor giving a bunch of suggestions of how to improve the article, then Glenn asserting CENSORSHIP and then the EIC telling him to stop being so rude to his colleagues and then Glenn quitting in a huff.

Maybe it's possible that all of the implied messages were exactly as Glenn surmised them to be but ultimately, it doesn't matter what's implied. Glenn at no point even brings up what his supposed contractual rights are and lays out a paper trail forcing them to acknowledge a breach of contract.

It's entirely possible that if he had just pushed a little harder, they would have simply been like "Well, it's your grave but it does state it in the contract so we'll put it up without edits" but him not even trying makes it seem like he is engineering the situation to resolve to this particular outcome.

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
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That looks like Working Model, from Knowledge Revolution, from the early 1990s. That was a great little program for Macs that let you build 2D machines. It was too slow and the physics engine was primitive, but I used it to figure out how to do robotic legged running up hills.

The CEO went on to found Roblox, which is much more successful.
Google One's 2 TB plan now comes with a VPN
once Gmail moved to spam our official job offer letter to intern. They missed offer acceptance deadline because of that. We extended the deadline but then COVID hit
Yea, I looked at the PDF, but I was asking for a summary, which I got. Thanks.
>As an aside, I'd point out that even if we start colonizing space habitats, other planets and/or even planets around other stars, there are no technologies available or imagined that could transport colonists from the Earth faster than birth rates would replace them and continue population growth.

Yeah, you should avoid needing that but it is certainly not impossible given high enough tech level & in-space infrastructure. Launch loops and orbital elevators should have more than enough capacity to enable that.

For a science-fiction-backed-by-real-science account of it might go, see this Orions Arm article:
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49b46fd2198ed

Much bigger problem actually is where to put those billions once you have to move them in a hurry off a planet.
Years ago I put together a Rails app to store iPhone/iPad apps for curation. There was a backend that connected to the iTunes API and then I parsed the data elements I needed and entered them into the DB.

The most infuriating thing was realizing that I needed to update the model with a new data element, or that some API responses didn't include the needed data. There was all this controller and model code and then the migrations every time I needed to make a change.

Is this normal when coding any web application at all? I think if I had to do it again I'd just store the entire API response in a single "document" column and query it dynamically as needed. Did I stumble upon why many developers have moved to "noSQL" models of document storage?
Yeah I've been using reddit since 2008 and daily downtime was not uncommon at some points.
There is a 4-5 week order time for custom iMacs at the moment.
Cool! If you guys build anything you can send me pics so I can put in the gallery of the website.
This is voluntary ignorance and a cheap excuse. Which foreign intervention? The Russians again?
To be fair, the original Mario Bros. [0] didn't have fireballs either. You're probably thinking of Super Mario Bros.[1] which introduced a ridiculous number of new features and concepts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.
- 28% increase in EPS

- 12% increase YOY for both DAU and MAU

Yet again, monster quarter and reports of FB's death have been proven to be premature.

Would be curious to understand more how much ROI they're seeing on hardware investments, like in Portal + Occulus.
> Apple intends to "give away" Apple TV+ for free with their bundle Apple One.

They aren't giving it away and it isn't free.

In fact Apple One is so expensive you need to be paying for most of the included services already for it to make financial sense (and several of those services aren't popular by themselves).
Looking through the financial statements, comparing the year ago quarter, it appears there was a huge decrease in iPhone sales in China, but significant increases in everything else, everywhere else, which pretty much balanced out. I wonder how much of that was Chinese customers waiting for the new designs this year.
> Folks who aggressively advocate for the verification of authenticity of documents [..] have a very good reason for taking the stance that they do.

This is for me the key quote of his reply to the editors:

"Repeatedly over the past several months, I've brought to Betsy's attention false claims that were published by The Intercept [..] This rigorous editorial process emerges only when an article deviates from rather than recites the political preferences of The Intercept and/or the standard liberal view on political controversies."

In other words, verification is obsessive when the story doesn't support the political side of the newspaper. When it does, any amount of sloppiness is fine.
Start the series the day before the last episode? I purposefully didn’t watch game of thrones until like the 4th season.
So two thoughts here.

Are they artificially inflated and then deflated to counter act “bot” behavior?

OR

are they organically inflated and then censored?

I just wish I could be a fly on the wall and know. I just can’t believe this would be a damning enough piece to artificially inflate unless there’s a serious game of reverse psychology going on behind the scenes
Next week we should should get a better understanding of our path forward. Obliqueness intentional to ward off hate.
The day old.reddit.com option dies is the day I stop visiting reddit. The modern interface is a nightmare of sluggish performance and confusion.
So two thoughts here.
Are they artificially inflated and then deflated to counter act “bot” behavior?
OR
are they organically inflated and then censored?
I just wish I could be a fly on the wall and know. I just can’t believe this would be a damning enough piece to artificially inflate unless there’s a serious game of reverse psychology going on behind the scenes
I mean I agree with that this would be nice but I don't think this change would actually benefit ... well anyone because you can't buy really copyrighted works. The law turns any work on physical media into a single restricted-use indefinite transferable "license." It's not the word change would spawn a digital market where you could actually buy.
RCP 8.5? No. The assumptions about coal alone blow that scenario out of the water.
>sure, things could go badly, but as long as I am always doing everything in my power to ensure my children do well, I can rest with an easy conscience no matter what happens.

Sad. Sorry to hear it. It's always a shame when an intelligent person chooses to ignore the sacrifice every one of their descendents will make, just so that they don't have to risk the potential of having any hardship themselves.
For all the bullshit about planned obsolescence, iPhones have always lasted twice as long as most of their competitors, and that hasn’t hurt Apple one bit. With the increasing emphasis on services, customer satisfaction and loyalty is more important than ever.
hehehe this comment made me chuckle. Thanks for being kind and sharing. It’s just that’s the most obvious one
Tailwind's sweet spot (for me) is for functional utility CSS, such as whipping up quick designs. I use it daily for UI/UX prototypes, along with AlplineJS. When a project grows and gets more stable, then I refactor from Tailwind to BEM.

BEM is excellent (for me) for bigger larger projects. It's significantly easier to integrate with many more tools, and the site-specific learning curve can be accelerated by using site lookbooks e.g. "Here's each component, what it does, and how it's named".
Why it's suggested and why it's better are separate questions. It's suggested because the author has a vested interest in 1Password.

As for why it's better than the browser's password manager... for an individual, it probably isn't. For me, I will say that I like that 1Password allows my partner and me to share passwords to joint accounts, which iCloud Keychain can't do without getting out of sync when a password changes. (iCloud Keychain also only works on Apple devices, of course.)
I just opened the YT app and a Joe Biden ad is literally the first thing I see at the top. I’m in CA.
Yes, lol
Could we add [2004] please? This is a great article, always glad to see it pop up again!
Great link. In a broader context this is makes me wonder whether the development in-group nomenclature (slang) developed for similar reasons, to defend against collisions in terminology with others where misunderstandings could lead to disagreements and fights. You can still speak the same language, but if someone overhears you (tries to interpret what you type into a url bar) they don't understand unless you have intentionally specified the mapping to the global nomenclature. Of course this would require that browsers stop trying to redirect you to who knows where when you type in a single word in the url bar so that not typing in the local name would lead to a failure.
I was recently looking for a boardgame engine, and briefly considered vassal. It looks really unlikely. The documentation is all a decade old. It's written in Java, but there's no Javadoc. There are a ton of modules written for it, so somebody clearly cares about it, but it looked very outdated in terms of its technology.

I ended up going with boardgame.io, which provides far less, but for my simple project I didn't want all that much (mostly, solving the hassle of getting game state synchronized among players). Not that I really wanted to write Javascript rather than Java, but the web made a better target platform than Java Swing.
Highlights:

Revenue up by 22 % to $ 21.4 billion

Profits up by 29 % to $ 7.8 billion

Facebook Daily active users up by 12 % to 1.8 billion

Facebook Monthly active users up by 12 % to 2.7 billion

2.5 billion users using one of the apps(FB/IG/WhatsApp) daily.

3.2 billion users using one of the apps monthly up by 14 % for the year

Headcount grew by 32 % to 56k

$55 billion in cash reserves
Seems like something functioning governments should be able to resolve with extradition treaties, and sanctions for those who do not abide by them.
Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept – Greenwald
Western Digital is heavily involved in RISC-V, but I wasn't aware that they had confirmed any of their products are using RISC-V yet. Last I heard from them, their first generation of in-house NVMe SSD controllers were definitively not using RISC-V. And their second generation of NVMe SSD controllers is only just starting to ship.
It's also the first usable workstation for a novel open-source architecture. It's not as fast but that's a feature which, in my opinion, makes the price parity reasonable. Progress is gradual.
A possibly lighter weight alternative is libbpf-rs [0]. libbpf-rs is designed to take advantage of BPF's Compile-Once-Run-Everywhere functionality where you can ship a pre-compiled object file to production instead of an entire compiler toolchain.

Disclaimer: I wrote libbpf-rs.

[0]: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf-rs
Until they appear to be doing political damage then there's little point in engaging the claims.
"Would you care more if I was a [polar bear]?"

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVr0ODIKv_s/VMGAo_qUiQI/AAAAAAAAA...
Besides moral decency, I said. What else do you think there is?
Any plans to accommodate privately-hosted git servers?
The majority of the books listed in the first link in these comments are about whether and when we can determine causality given observational data - data where the system is perturbed, just not by us (and not as we would ideally like).
Even then if you pay for YT Premium / YT Music
In high school I learned gai in French means cheerful. The joy some 13 year olds had with that word.

Incidentally, the developer of the tool, Sam Hocevar, is French.

For me the colours are by default in Solarized Dark, which skews the 16 colors into, well, in this case French flag colours. To test this, consider $ msgcat --color=test
iPhone release was delayed compared to last year, so obviously demand would be shifted to the next quarter. It doesn’t make sense to compare the 2 quarters for iPhone sales.
>Combining across all their products (WhatsApp, Insta..) the DAP is 2.54B

Incredible, a third of the world uses a Zuckerburg product every single day.
Must speech be anonymous to be free?
In the case of the 27" iMac, it's weird. When I BTO the highest-end SKU (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac/27-inch-3.8ghz-8-cor...) w/ the 5700XT GPU (a recommended upgrade), the order time actually decreases by 10 days.
Wow so 1/3 off all people on earth use at least one FB product every day.
Great news for all! /s
Their alternatives are the other remote companies! I'm expecting workers to do what they always have done, namely walk to the better paying employers. You earn the highest wages in any field in places where multiple employers are competing for labor, and the lowest in company towns.
That’s illegal in both countries. Are these money launderers being extradited back to China for transferring their own funds to Canada, like an embezzler would?

No, because that’s not illegal in free countries.
Greenwald called them pathological, censorious, illiberal and equates editorial oversight with censorship. It's hardly petulant and unprofessional to suggest, in response, that he's behaving like a grown-ass dude throwing a tantrum.

He's also just published their recent correspondence. It doesn't make him look great either:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
It might not be totally necessary depending on how people take their own initiative to move (although I think everyone would love to see some coordination). It's not too hard to find pockets of areas that will have "better" weather for humans. I live in the middle of nowhere where it is expected at least in the next 80 years even with the doomsday 8 Celsius temperature change scenario that the water aquifer will rise (more freshwater for humans and agriculture) and the weather will be more mild. Evidently some people are paying attention - lots of people moving here from the coastal US for a variety of reasons, I'd imagine climate being a small factor to move. No reason to be excited to move to the middle of nowhere but people are already watching and listening for where to move evidently without any large-scale planning at the moment.
I wish DNS-level domain blocking were are more normal thing to do. So many people are using uBlock these days that blocklists shouldn't sound too advanced. Also it's free, of course.
Effective tax rate in a single year isn’t too meaningful when they might be carrying over losses from previous years.
Ahh yes, Tucker Carlson "I have the evidence but it was lost in the mail" totally wouldn't allow another to present a one-sided account without challenge and would certainly present evidence in context.
> I'm a person that's familiar with the editing process

I am also very familiar with the editing process. I'm not saying that the editing suggestions are beyond what you would ever see in an editorial context, but I would never characterize them as "basic edit suggestions."

Much of the quibbling in the edits to me suggests ulterior motive, like the rejection of the idea that there has been "suppression" of the story (there obviously has).

And if you're familiar with the editing process, you'd know that edits are not always completely apolitical, I know people who have been asked to make edits for political reasons in major national publications.

I think it is hard to claim this is just equal editorial scrutiny, given the publication of multiple false claims around the Hunter Biden story (ie. "very likely to be Russian disinformation", etc.).

> the editor is nothing less than professional/polite

To me, I don't necessarily always side with the actor who appears to be more professional, though I do agree that Greenwald comes off as rude in the email.
We don't typically tax Democratic Party SuperPAC's posing as social media platforms.
Well, you've made one true statement: The last time you "checked" ... ahem ... that was when "most things in that dossier turned out to be true."

Dishonesty, and turtles, all the way down.
Respected by whom? Most of his fellow journalists consider him a crank, and his PRISM reporting exposed how bad he is at his job.
In a way, global warming will probably increase your chances of being shot by a nugget or killed in a car crash. Global warming happens, mass immigration increases, poverty increases, crime increases and book, you've just been shot by a mugger.
What Apple has said is that you can't run existing x86 virtualization applications on top of Rosetta 2. So you can't take the copy of Parallels you have today and run it on Rosetta 2. Which make sense, since that would be running emulation on top of an emulation--likely to be super slow.

Instead, what you will do is get a new version of x86 virtualization applications (like Parallels) that run directly on top of Apple Silicon--in other words, you use them instead of Rosetta 2, not on top of Rosetta 2. That's what easton is talking about, above.
Indeed there are plenty of those individuals. I always ask them if they are so willing why they never signed up to serve in the military. Uncle Sam has always needed help. They weren't willing then, and they aren't willing now. All talk with no action.
So, Hunter was possibly selling access to Joe, for the possibility of influence? If so, did it work? Hunter is a troubled man (remember Billy Carter?). I only care about what Joe did, if any of this is true.
As another non-American I feel similarly which supports the hypothesis that CoCs are primary political instruments.
The placebo effect is a real thing. Maybe that’s what helped?
I have straight up gotten a 3 hour ad that was just a lo-fi beat mix but it was an advertisement! What??
Try jsonb fields (postgres only maybe?) and the jsonb accessor gem: https://github.com/madeintandem/jsonb_accessor

I use this for prototyping new apps a lot, where I'm not sure on the best design. Then I migrate to proper database columns when I'm sure of something. Feels like the best of both worlds to me.
This is a good start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme
Viva Glen Greenwald
I have Chinese family, and distinctive design is a huge deal to them. They all switched to Samsung once iPhones lost their distinctive profile in the 6S/7 era, then went back into iPhones with the X.

I suspect uncertainty about whether WeChat will be available on iPhone could have hurt sales there in the last quarter as well.
You're saying Facebook - a company that has been profitable for many years - is still carrying over losses from previous years?
DAGs are not the only valid approach to causality, nor do they subsume other approaches (I have previously commented on this during the Gelman&Pearl debates).

As you suggest, the treatment effect and econometrics literature currently is on a semi-parametric trend: Given that they don't believe that one can actually produce a believable complete causal model (or DAG), one tries to estimate a treatment effect that does not depend on parametric or functional assumptions.
Thanks for letting me know that I should move all of my clients off of Mailchimp. I don't trust Mailchimp's "sole discretion" and interpretation of what is "inaccurate or misleading". What is true and factual is constantly in flux and subject to intepretation and debate. For example, an intelligent Democrat or Republican person, in many cases, have completely different views of what is "true" and "factual". I could apply this to many non-political examples as well.

I'm going to look into moving to one of the many of the cheaper, more trustworthy competitors if what you have commented is true.
This is why I focused my point around the cost of the structure. The costs of land (made expensive by policy) and capital (made cheap by policy) are much more complex.

But regardless of that, even if you buy cheap land in a low regulation county/state and use all non-union labor, the building cost is still more expensive than it would be if buildings had the reduction of costs that other durable goods have had over time.

Some of this is clearly regulatory, i.e. codes. Some is clearly consumer choice, note the failure of prefab and tilt up to catch on. Some is clearly ecology, note the disappearance of native large timber from most residential construction.

Many architects and builders have tried their hand at designing homes and construction processes that reduce the costs of buildings but if they have to build to modern codes, expectations and ecological standards they mostly see marginal improvements. There are just a lot of fundamental costs involved with site constructed buildings that meet modern standards.
For sure, and FB notes amortized investments bringing this figure down. The tax code rewards corporations for R&D investments. I think it's working. The optics are terrible though.
The draft is weak. It completely avoids explaining why several experts conclude it’s disinformation. Instead, it uses a very complicated set of coincidences with only one actual fact - Biden had something to do with getting one prosecutor replaced.

That’s flimsy journalism. Expecting better out of a journalist is far from voluntary ignorance.