skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?" article doesn't actually demand (or even propose) censorship as asserted by Greenwald, as far as I can tell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/personaltech/t...

> So what’s your take? Are you concerned?

> KEVIN Honestly, not really?

and

> I’m not as worried about Signal. Similar to WhatsApp, Signal set a limit so that you can forward messages to only five people at a time. So it would be time-consuming for misinformation spreaders to make a message go viral. Also, Signal limits group chats to up to 1,000 people. That’s large, but not as huge as a Telegram group chat.

It's an article about how misinformation can spread here, but probably less significantly than on other platforms.
There's a theory* that says things like autism, creative genius and homosexuality are caused by suppression of innate characteristics of our species. If so, then it makes sense why there isn't a "gay gene", since there aren't also specific genes for more than 90% of autistics.

* https://archive.is/BsxMm
Toothbrushes are cheaper than fillings. And fillings are cheaper than root canals. I think we need better ways of terrorizing kids about their oral health because it seems like a lot of lessons don't stick.
Batteries from Nuclear Waste That Last Thousands of Years
I don't know how large this effect is but confidential memos such as this one https://ibb.co/7pKQCVk are an indicator of great forces at play to alter the relationships between people online by forcing certain types of discussion.
You can get it in audiobook form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
A procrastination researcher explains procrastination
M1 MacBook Air with Thermal Pad Mod Improves Performance
It's interesting how polemic Greenwald has become, bringing with it the same magnitude of reality denial as the actors he is going after.

A title like "The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows" coming from an investigative journalist like himself really sounds like a sore loser's version of "investigative journalism needs to die if it doesn't share my narrative and political opinion."

I used to be a free speech absolutist myself back in Snowden times, but having seeing the flip side of anonymous, unverified, amplified and maliciously orchestrated communication of lies by unknown actors myself over the past few years, his ad-hominem attacks and inexact comparisons surely lack the subtleness this topic demands.
On twitter, Taylor Lorenz accused Marc Andreessen of using the "R-slur" in a Clubhouse discussion. In fact, some one else said the word in the context of some /r/wallstreetbets folks calling themselves "retards" in a self deprecating manner.

Taylor Lorenz's issue is that she is blocked by Marc Andreessen and several others on Clubhouse. So she is blocked from entering many key rooms (i.e. the one where Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were on)
I still disagree - I think there is too much of a conflation between managing people and rank/status. Once upon on a time master craftsmen were the pinnacles of their industries but mechanization has shifted the framing to place "doers" below "directors" - I don't think this is strictly accurate and prefer to think of people managers as peers that manage the interpersonal side of the business (which I think is quite important to take care of - I just suck at it) - similarly I think that directors, if they're good, are managing long term strategy and that senior craftsmen need to be in on this conversation to supply expert advice on what's possible similar to salespeople being in on the conversation to try and inform what may sell.

Org-charts are about management structure and directors weirdly get very highly placed on them while their role isn't person-management driven. I've always found them exceeding strange except in their highlighting of SMEs and to aide in inter-departmental communication.

But this all may just be the socialist in me shining through as someone working with a team to make widgets that do their thing well.
I've only recently come across Nile Red, and I highly endorse his videos. I somehow managed to spend over half an hour watching him extract water from epsom salt, and even though it was nearly the equivalent of watching paint dry, it still remained fascinating to watch.
This is true within companies but at least in Software is often not true between companies.

E.g., the 2nd/3rd-to-last rung of a FAANG IC ladder makes much more than managers and directors at most other companies in the USA.

This is significant because it's much easier to become a senior IC at a FAANG than to become a Regional Director at the typical company in the USA.
I have a lot of thoughts about this and could talk for a long time, but it comes doBoth suck. Use Nix. Problem solved.

The amount that people flap around the problems involved in software distribution with Dockerfiles, never actually solving the problem and instead only ever making it more complex continually amazes me, and every time I come back to Nix I'm blown over by how simple it is in comparison.
that's exactly what I did for my blog and achieved 90+ on lighthouse audit. Google is considering core web vitals to rank pages from this year (may 21). I don't want to rely on an external hosting provider who usually loads tons of tracking code, analytics scripts, irrelevant scripts to hosted sites (looking at you Wix).

blog: https://gourav.io/blog
repo: https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Personal-Site-Gourav.io/tree/mas...

Build with next.js, mdx, tailwind and deployed on vercel.
> User asks to raise some long decimal to another long decimal power and it seems to me you might sometimes either have to return a very wrong result or spend so much time computing that it won't be worth it.

y^w isn't that expensive. Usually it gets expressed roughly as exp(log(y^w)) = exp(w * log(y)), where exp and log are implemented using polynomial series. So if you want more precision, you just need to evaluate a few more polynomial terms.
They have a jq script[0] that removes everything but the necessary data for the cost estimation.

[0] https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-cost-estimation/bl...
Dealing with branches is indeed and interesting problem. Many AD systems can't accomodate branches. I think most of the Julia ones do.

The gist of it is that branches don't actually require that much fanciness, but they can introduce discontinuties, and AD systems will often do things like happily give you a finite derivative right at a discontinuity where a calculus student would normally complain.
Toward Data Science's “Getting Started” Column
Ok, but as far as I can see M1 cores aren’t 20% slower than Intel or AMD cores. They are faster than Intel cores, and in the same ballpark although in aggregate slightly slower than AMD threadripper.

This would seem to negate your analysis, if you are simply talking about the trade off between power consumption and performance.

Also you seem to ignore that higher performance per watt means you can get higher absolute performance before you hit the thermal ceiling.
> "But this is now the prevailing ethos in corporate journalism. They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers: the military-industrial complex, the CIA and FBI, the clandestine security state, Wall Street, Silicon Valley monopolies, the corrupted and lying corporate media outlets they serve. So settling on this penny-ante, trivial bullshit — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing: all in the most anti-intellectual, adolescent and primitive ways — is all they have. It’s all they are. It’s why they have fully earned the contempt and distrust in which the public holds them."

This should be the real concern: that journalism may be dedicated (and some would say, specifically incentivized) to performing non-valuable work, at the expense of valuable work the public needs journalists to perform. In this media landscape, everyone loses except for the people with actual power, who gain more.

Where does this lead? And how much of this nonsense is driven or encouraged by the very establishment that journalists are supposed to be keeping in check?
The Runbooks Manifesto
Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams
Well... maybe Linux phones can catch up/have a market... at least code goes through the specific distro checks eg. Mobian if by apt
I think there also needs to be a law that, once you have accepted responsibility for storing someone else's data, that you can't delete it "on a whim" without offering some minimum retention period ok your data. As an example: a storage facility is allowed to stop doing business with me, but they legally can't just destroy all my stuff on a moment's notice... we have laws for minimum retention periods.
There are so many different issues here.

Arguably manual curation doesn't scale to google play store or apple app store size and automated scanning only gets you so far.

You have several possible threats.

1. Apps that are malicious from the start.

Best addressed by better automated testing.

2. Apps that become malicious particularly when the app changes hands.

Best addressed by making this impossible. James/foo should never be transferred ownership should result in Jane/foo which users would have to download.

3. Apps that aren't malicious but include a component that is user hostile. Virtually always included for money.

Best addressed by just forbidding apps with ads. We wont do this but not much of value would be lost.

4. Apps that include a component that isn't malicious but itself becomes malicious later.

Requires due diligence by the developer. Arguably one could imagine better automated enumeration of the constituent components to discern what might have been compromised so that developers could have their apps automatically pulled and informed that they were compromised. One could also imagine a statutory fine for paid that earn developer revenue wherein their product harms users. This couldn't accrue to free apps without making foss impossible. Eliminating apps paid for with ads would eliminate a gray area.

An interesting point for those who presently avoid ad laden apps is whether your paid for apps are infected with the same potential malware vectors as the ad supported version as whether or not to show ads may be solely a function of an in app purchase you have made. Your paid for app might therefore be just as vulnerable.

What reasonable measures would one expect Google to actually take? Probably only reactive measures like removing this particular app while making no meaningful moves to correct any systemic problems. In the longer term one might expect them to do a better job of finding malware automatically.

If you value not getting hacked in the longer term it looks like this is insufficient. If for example Fdroid is insufficient in scope of applications then perhaps we should work on improving this situation as Google is unlikely to fix this for us.
The KLM aircraft used regular fuel mixed with 500 litres (132 gallons) of synthetic kerosene

I think some important details are missing from this. 500 liters is barely a drop in the tank on large aircraft, so that synth-kerosene is heavily diluted unless this was a single engine 2 person commercial turbo-prop. What make and model of aircraft was this? A 747 can carry 230,000 liters. 737 is 40,000 liters. Gulfstream 16,000 liters varies by model. The reason I ask is that it is known you can even use biodiesel or regular diesel or even red kerosene in a jet engine, but you will lose about 30% power transfer doing so without major modifications to the engine design. They should add a chart that shows aircraft range per 1000 liters of synthetic kerosene vs Jet-A, Jet-B in addition to cost.
Thanks for the reminder on subscribing. I agree good journalism is extremely important, and a diverse set of sources is important as well. I've been feeling like we need alternatives to massive mainstream news media houses that increasingly seem like a battleground for ideological war in the newsroom.

Are there any other independent journalists you would recommend?
I rage quit Homebrew to MacPorts. No complain after 2 years. Not a single bug. Installation are much faster than 10 years ago too (macports use pre-compiled binaries now). Give it a try if you have some time to lose.
Offline double-spend is still an unsolved problem. What prevents a rogue actor from making duplicates of the tokens and transact with it multiple times a day before the transactions are tallied with a blockchain?
And fyi, it’s much harder to duplicate bottlenecks than your bitcoin wallet at the moment.
Edit: bottlecaps not bottlenecks lol
He's right! HN is next.
This article, like most modern "journalism", is a complete mishmash of unrelated information with no coherent strategy for presentation.

However, I was able to glean the following TL;DR: Robinhood emailed this customer claiming that he owed them $170k. *This email was a lie.* It was a false statement of fact, made by the massively more knowledgeable party. Moreover, when the customer reached out to try to understand why Robinhood had made this claim, which to his knowledge could not have been true, they failed to respond in a reasonable manner, instead pulling a Google customer-support-wise. Foreseeably and unfortunately, the customer concluded that he had made an error and committed suicide.

For another instance of very similar facts, see Porter Feller's suicide in 2018.
Maybe that's your experience because you're into the matter, for me, judging from the screenshots and explanation, it seems like Scratch-like/no-code CV which seems pretty cool.
The NYT is hardly beyond criticism. But Greenwald's whole schtick these past few years has been little more than a more articulate Trumpian "the press is the enemy of the people" anti-intellectual nonsense.

I don't think Greenwald is a Russian agent. But it's hard to imagine a Russian agent behaving a whole lot differently, if their motive was to sow discord and distrust in our most historically credible institutions.
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5) On money: ... it can buy freedom

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14) Summers are the best.

= It's always Summer Somewhere.
Discussion of the actual paper here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314830

It's a really neat one for people who care about what's going on under the hood, but not immediately applicable to the more applied folks. I saw some good quotes at the time to the tune of "I can't wait to see the papers citing this one in a year or two."
It's always nocoiners who write these articles. I really respect Elon Musk, as he can admit that he was wrong and just buy some BTC instead of trying to look down on early adopters.
Almost every family in East Germany had a Stasi informant reporting on their fellow family members. In return, the informants received a pair of jeans.

The only thing different today is that the SJW informants do it for free. :)
Please feel free to never convert your fiat to cryptocurrencies.
You'll do very well according to your logic.
If people actually read that Chen/Roose piece they'd see that the conversation being had was much more tempered. I saw the point as about the dangers of being in a large echo chamber.

For ex: on twitter, if a non-private account shares an article that completely misrepresents some statistc, there's a reasonable chance someone will swoop into their replies and push back on it. We see this all the time with both right leaning and left leaning pundits. Does this dynamic go away in large telegram chat rooms? My guess is it still happens in some form (give people some credit, most people are not blind fools). But then again, who really knows unless you're in the private group?
Might as well not post it if it’s behind a paywall.
I am a JavaScript hacker.

Are you serious...?
The source code is available on github: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

Techempower classifies each one. Actix is what they call a "platform"

>a platform may include a bare-bones HTTP server implementation with rudimentary request routing and virtually none of the higher-order functionality of frameworks such as form validation, input sanitization, templating, JSON serialization, and database connectivity
> There are no "black box processes".

Do you know how much of the fingerprint match process is left up to the judgement of the examiner? You can't get much more "black box" than another person's brain. Last time I checked (several years ago), tool mark analysis was still without objective foundation. Also... bitemark analysis - that was a thing.
A classic strategy is to attack the messenger instead of the message. You are doing this. There isn’t one fact in your statement. Pure opinion and feeling. Greenwald peppers his article with disgust but he also backs it up with facts.
That's funny, because what I remember about journalism in the 80s was a common sense of confusion and dismay that the job of a journalist had mutated from "reporting facts" to "telling stories" -- specifically I remember polls of graduating journalism majors; for the first time the claimed motivation for choosing the field was "changing the world."
> The real reason most websites disappear is a much more human one.

So true.

I have had a blog running since 2006, all was php based back then with (html) posts inside a database. The tooling shouldn't be a problem, I switched systems several times (once every few years).

Currently on Hugo with markdown posts. As long as you treat your migration carefully and take some time to migrate, every tool should suffice. It's mostly about human effort and human error when things get lost.
Show HN: See What They Don't Want You to See
1. Create a new bookmark using the following JS snippet instead of a URL:

javascript:(function(){var s=(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.body).appendChild(document.createElement('style'));var t=document.createTextNode('*{color: #000 !important; text-shadow: none !important; background-color: #FFF !important; background-image: none !important;}');s.appendChild(t);})();

2. When you want to read a grayed-out comment on HN, use the bookmarklet you've just created.

3. Enjoy! (has been helpful with steve76's comments)
Is it not possible to achieve AGI with a good statistical estimation method?
1. Greenwald weakens his point by conflating different types of reporting as one type of "hall monitoring". First he focuses on journalists who write about disinformation. For example, he links to a piece discussing how InfoWars and similar outlets game the social media algorithms to get views and how they aren't stopped at all.

But to compare that type of journalism, against disinformation sources who have repeatedly and purposefully put out fake news that has lead to considerable harm and even death because of the number of people that believe the falsehoods, with telling on Marc Andreessen, is a strange argument.

The second part of his argument is quite strong! There is a weird obsession with finding and calling out people whose opinions and words are out of line with accepted mainstream beliefs. But I don't understand why the first part was included in this piece. It makes the whole thing come across as petty, despite the valid arguments.

2. He condescendingly uses "millennial" as a pejorative, which is unnecessary and exhausting. It's also bad writing.

3. This line, "Jezebel (which really ought to just change its name to You’re a Misogynist, since it has no other content)", is objectively hilarious, regardless of its accuracy.
My experience is the following testimony: "i put the following parameters to the following program and this was the result.".

Potentially explainig why the given pareters were chosen.
Wow, think about what it takes to be an elected official (Sheriff) and not only perjure, lie, and coerce witnesses, but be outed for all of those crimes, and then continue to run for election and continue your tenure for decades. How does someone live with themselves knowing they purposely put an innocent man on death row, and then CONTINUE YOUR CAREER, probably thinking yourself as successful?

The guilt I feel when I introduce a software bug that effects my corporate customers can sometimes burn my motivation for WEEKS. Who are these people?!
My experience is mostly with machined parts. In that context, I find it most helpful to know the part can be fully machined, or if not, where exactly the finished part will differ from the model. I'm sure this can be communicated in a direct conversation with a supplier, but I find it more convenient if this information can be part of the quote.

I'll be interested to see how your offering progresses!
I'd worry about the effects of UV on the resins, if replacing windows with it. Would likely need a coating to prevent discoloration.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't like "tattletale media" either, and I wanted to read this article, but, wow. Other comments are calling it "subtle", I'm finding it pretty hard to read:

> primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power

Primary objective is clicks/outrage, "WHO said WHAT?" is a big driver of outrage/"angry media"

> The little crew of tattletale millennials assembled by NBC — who refer to their twerpy work...

Wow... A lot of vitriol here. No attempts at nuance or any understanding of why lies and misinformation can be dangerous, or how to respond to misinformation with discussion and correction rather than censorship. Just anger.
News for the most part is a scam. Yes, I'm using the word "scam" in its loosest sense but, depending on the news outlet, the intention is to commit a borderline scam. Just live a month never reading or watching the news and you'll realize how worthless most news actually is. The scam is to churn out tons of content so that more ads are seen, and the "news" has to actively convince its readers to take poorly-developed news items very seriously so they keep coming back. Focusing on petty drivel like something offensive someone said achieves this end very easily, as was demonstrated by Facebook's own A/B tests. In essence, the news must incorporate exaggerations and misrepresentations in order to make the kind of profits they want to see. That's only the layer we can see. What we can't see are the incentives that entertainment giants place upon their news outlets to publish the "accurate" truth.

The problem with economies that value growth over almost everything else is that the constriction you refer to is much less likely to happen. When currency is flying, insolvent or barely solvent businesses such as the news industry can continue to plug along seemingly indefinitely. That notwithstanding, the news is a loss leader for much more powerful entities that need to shape the hearts and minds of the public to their benefit. I don't see much constriction happening any time soon beyond some companies being sold to others.
If you're really in need of a depressing thought, there will come a day when you actually ask the Internet: "How much longer do I have?"
No wonder this guy can't hold down a job.
It fascinates me how we've gone from the web as a tool for resisting censorship to the point where we recognize the need for guardrails because of how dangerous information tools can be made in the wrong hands.
But that's what personal anecdotes are. They are not something like "objective observations providing raw data, without any selection or interpretation".

Anecdotes might not support the conclusions they are intended to support, but that doesn't make the anecdotes per se false.

Anecodotes are, well, "anecdotal".
Such a classic attack. I am not accusing him of being the enemy but he sure acts like one.