skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always had the impression that the cryptocurrency community was trending rightwards. So it's good to see some quantifiable evidence of it.

Which leaves the question: why? Technology as a whole is centre-left, so there's something else going on.

One common theme seems to a loss of trust in any institutions, and democracy itself: "the FED is just a private bank" isn't far away from "the mainstream media is lying", and even the latter is an opinion more common among the crypto bubble as far as I can tell.

Or are crytocurrencies of interest primarily to people interested in "getting rich, fast" and therefore liable to glorify a self-annoited master of making money with little work?
When I made an active effort to reduce my Facebook news consumption I’ve narrowed down on about 2 sources I’d visit daily.

It was win for the big guys, and loss for smaller publishers that I’d get exposed to occasionally via FB algorithms. And given the polarization of the press overall, I think that it also made me more polarized, just due to limited sources I utilize, that are doing same clickbaity and outrage fueling stories on their webpages, as clicks matter everywhere, not only on social media.
We haven't heard the other half of the story - what has happened to Facebook's traffic within Australia? Yes, the Australian publishers are taking a hit, but we can't guess at the outcome without knowing how much pain this might be causing Facebook.
Poor restaurant, having all these people lining up to buy food at the price they specify themselves. What a robbery ...

Dude I don't know what you think business is, but restaurants aren't slaves: they mark whatever price they're comfortable with on their menu, generate margin, and if they don't like it, they close the door, or heh, refuse service to Deliveroo. It's not robbery if the client would never even have heard of you without it, and god the indian restaurant two streets away I discovered after 5 years missing it thanks to Deliveroo knows who they owe this new addicted client to :)
What the SPAC craze means for tech investing
Maybe health officials were more misleading where you are, but from everything i saw the "2 weeks" messaging wasn't intended to say that everything would be solved in two weeks of lockdown, it was that after two weeks we would begin to see if a lockdown was effective or not. and it never was effective because our lockdowns are more of a polite suggestion to please not lick strangers than an actual lockdown.
Tech illiteracy and strong political opinions are rampant. Dangerous combination for tech companies.
The WhatsApp fiasco has been great because Signal is now widely-known and I haven't needed WhatsApp anymore for international calls.
It’s not lying if we didn’t understand reality at the time.

Hindsight is powerful, but I don't think in March anyone seriously thought this’d go through the year.
> Unless you live in New Zealand you probably haven't ever written down your contact information when entering a store

We did that for bars and restaurants in the UK, but it doesn't seem to have done as much good as it was probably just lost or ignored by our abysmal track and trace services...

We also had a QR code system to tag yourself in places, but it fell down because it was firstly optional, and secondly there was no way to tag out so the records weren't that accurate.
If it's anything like the situation in Europe you can't effectively sue Facebook without at least a couple millions to potentially throw out the window. They pay a lot of good lawyers to make the court proceedings as long-winded and expensive as possible for the opposing party, relying on the fact that very few have the resources, time and determination to put up with this.
The websites are explicitly giving that data to Facebook or others by annotating their HTML with the OG meta tags.
Yes.

We let some features and monads go and picked F# instead of Haskell.

>> It is an accomplishment if you get your basic project setupped in 2 weeks

More like two hours if you absolutely cluless.

- It is very hard to make popular libraries work together

Not an issue.

- 1/3 of the popular libraries are not well maintained, there are no docs and maintainers do not reply to PRs

Not an issue.

- It is hard to use latest GHC versions because of the previous problem

Not an issue.

- It is hard to get additional devs

Same. Few F# devs out there.

- Compile times are ok-ayish but can be a pain

Not an issue.

- There is no good IDE and refactoring

Not an issue (VS, VS Code, and a few dozen others)

I know it is not as strict as Haskell but we have really a good time so far.
Yep, it clearly leads into assassination markets - for example, opening a large bet that person X will die on a specific date.
Do you have a link to this? I would be interested in checking it out.
Follow-up: Bryan Del Rizzo from Nvidia says the limiter involves the cards firmware: https://twitter.com/bdelrizzo/status/1362619264423747590
They can be but they aren’t, users are staying on FB et al. How does this get fixed?
Ouch. Not a good look when your business is essentially based on trust that you'll show ads to as many real people as you say
>It's really hard for me to understand why and how something fails or succeeds to grab the public's attention.

If you can collectively get outraged about something with a group of people, you tend to feel "woke" and belonging to a cause.

We are to the point in media, especially online smaller publications, where if you see a story that you feel like you should get outraged about, you can safely discard it as either false or at best extremely biased.
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>Centralization goess against the ethos of www

A very good contention. Goes to bolster opposition to any link tax.

Note that having to negotiate extra surcharge with news publishers would make online even harder for smaller, independent websites, and (relatively) easier for large platforms. A link tax incentivizes centralization.

And the current excuse of "only large platform" is just that - an excuse, easily changed with a stroke of a legislative pen, once the precedent of link tax is established.
Corporations and governments are responsible for nearly all the debt, via bond issuance. Most bonds have a fixed coupon, not adjustable rates.

When a household can sell bonds to investors, then you can logically compare household debt vs corporate/government debt. I know I can’t issue bonds, nobody will buy them! Also, one persons debt is another person’s asset.

Yea, some consumers make bad purchasing decisions, that has nothing to do with the ability of corporations and governments to service bond interest payments.
I work to have a life and fun, not the other way around. I won't be doing any job that won't allow me to have fun.
These are horrible advices.

EDIT: What worked for me was to divide my work day (that's when I work) in 15 minutes chunks on a paper. Luckily I have reMarkable with graph paper made of 36 cells vertically. This nicely makes each cell 15 minutes making upto 9 hours.
C: Irrelevant. It doesn't matter if this is unusual on a geological time scale. It can be catastrophic either way.

A: The enormous consensus based on available evidence contradicts you here in your implication that human contributions are irrelevant. Natural sources have also been balanced out by natural sinks. Humans are both destroying natural sinks and releasing more of our own. The issue is also not whether we "own" a majority of the emissions, it's about upsetting a delicate balance. Chaotic metastable systems do not necessarily need a big push in order to have a massive impact. Sensitivity to initial conditions is very high.

G & W: you're not expressing your criticism here. Global average temperatures are rising. What is you dispute with that?

Your last point: I'm not aware of alternative theory for the observed changes that fits available evidencr, while on the other hand there are plenty of research papers like the following: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/42/11770. Whether or not there is smoking-gun level proof, available evidence fits the theory.
I'd like to just point out that Java didn't have exception chaining until 1.4. And suppressed exceptions were added in 1.7 along with the try-with-resources construct. I know 1.4 was a long time ago, but it was 4 years after 1.2, which is what I typically consider the start of Java becoming a dominant language.

I'm only posting this because I find a lot of people forgetting that Java has had a very long history at this point. And that many of the things we take for granted in the language today did not always exist. I still remember when generics were released. Get off my lawn.
Oh yeah, I just assumed everyone saw the green lady. You know, green skin, bald, tusks, too many eyes.

She's been visiting for a couple decades, but she just stares, so you get used to her. I figured it was one of those common ones like you have a surprise exam and you forgot your pencils or you have a candy bar for a head.
Problem is assuming it was "errors"

What I saw:

1. Lots of outright lies, for example Chinese people saying the truth getting arrested, WHO toeing the CCP line (for example claiming there was no human-human transmission) when it was obviously a lie already, etc...

2. Lots of governments around the world using the lies for their own gains at expense of population, for example in Brazil the media was quick to paint the president as evil, to allow a inconstitutional power grab by governors and mayors (mind you, I am not saying quarantine is bad, I am saying it was done in a extremely illegal manner, and often for corrupt reasons, now a ton of the people involved are going to jail after quickly stuffing all money they could on their own pockets).

3. Lots of politicians lying and trying to pin the blame on scientists, see Cuomo lying about deaths on nursing homes to avoid Trump criticizing him.

4. Tons of corruption in procuring vaccines, masks, remote working tools, catering, etc... some examples are various politicians from multiple countries getting caught getting bribes from chinese manufacturer, politicians forcing lockdowns but maintaining their own business open, that crazy case in hollywood where open air restaurants were shut down but there was even a catering company serving movie production crew in a makeshift open air restaurant right in front of a local restaurant that was forced to shut down...

5. Lockdowns used for supression (see Iran executing the guy that asked why he had to lockdown but religious people didn't...)

the list goes and goes and goes on.
Rust Real Time Interrupt Driven Concurrency
Can open source wiki/user contributed style tools implement a type of captcha to protect against big corps' influence? I see major entities regularly fiddling with wikipedia articles to insert bias. Why not turn Google's Recaptcha back on itself?
If you think my reply was attack, then you are probably blinded by your own biases.

I left a substantive and truthful reply. Here is another synopsis in case it helps: Certain Texas politicians are notorious for poisoning the well when it comes to public discourse. And in this very specific example, they literally went to fox news and other outlets and blamed the issues on GND and windmills. At that point the Texas power outages were barely blip on the national radar, but their lies on national media kicked off a firestorm of headlines to counter their lies.

They literally started this. But folks keep blaming the media, and keep blaming the libs. Wake up. If you disagree with anything I said, a substantive reply is welcome. But if you are just going to cry about being attacked, go somewhere else.
My first CNC experience was with a (C)NC machine from the 70s. I loved it at times. It was really amazing to see the machine shops being upgraded. The elvel of automation, already back in 201/12 (last time I had any close contact with these things) is amazing.

The concept of "Hauptzeitparllele Tätigkeit" (stuff operators can do when the machine is doing its thing, one of the things German just describes so well) stuck with me ever since.
Local History has saved me many times.
My assumption is that a traditional approach where a retailer orders thousands of units at once has a lower ecological impact than shipping items out on a purchase-by-purchase basis. I could definitely be wrong though.
Coal mines used to be in the business of giving employment to hungry children. Who did choose "freely" to work there, sometimes, when the alternative was starvation.

Nobody is denying that it was in publishers' own interest to be linked to on Facebook. Indeed, the law only makes sense that way. Where economics or physics makes something impossible, no law is needed to stop it.

At issue is the power imbalance between Facebook and publishers. the latter is a group of many, who cannot coordinate because of prisoner's dilemma mechanics and maybe even antitrust reasons. The law is supposed to rectify this perceived power imbalance by external enforcement.
One thing he didn't talk about was capital gains tax.

If I wanted to bet on the election, I would first have to realize my short term capital gains.
I'm unsure how the label "Potential Reach" can be improved upon.

Whether an Advertiser can _potentially_ reach 100M people or accounts is not their objective when setting up a campaign.

The invoice at the end of the month ultimately reveals the number of ad impressions.
I don't think you realize the impact of such a technology on society in general.
Three Bull Cases for Starlink
The problem is that the substitution isn't always posts from friends. It could be posts from websites that don't qualify as reliable news sources. That doesn't have to be true but I don't think it's a clear win for average FB feed quality in Australia.
He could mention an institution and professors that ran the studies like other people I've seen interviewed. It is an incredibly dangerous assertion he is making, it seems like the readers shouldn't be the ones that need to investigate and you certainly shouldn't need to buy his book to investigate it. Denial is an incredibly huge problem with addiction, stuff like this could be used by those with bad addictions to stay in denial and maintain their addiction.
I've formed close relationships with mammals all my life. In fact, that's where all my close relationships are.
> I just prefer the ten degree bands of the Fahrenheit scale for these ranges.

To the identical 5 degrees range of the Celsius scale ?
I have a few fake accounts on FB, and my theory is that they allow them as long as the engagement is high, aka having tons of "friends" and likes/posts.
The stream was cutoff after a white guy appeared for a minute. If it’s not race detection, I don’t know what it is.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3963271
What was this company? That sounds amazing.
Vue.js is powering NASA flight software
This website is part of another one called Dream Research - https://dreams.ucsc.edu/ full of interesting info with a scientific approach into the world of Dreams, including analysis of the Dream Bank itself.

You can find some studies on what is the current thinking regarding dreams, and their purpose and meaning.
I've often wondered if dreams are fully constructed stories during REM or REM is more or less random vignettes of cognition that are assembled into a constructed story upon awakening.

Rewriting memories seems to be reasonably well understood, and if the recall mechanism for waking memories reconstructs a plausible story from memories, is it reasonable that the same is happening with dreams?

We always remember dreams, have there been experiments where the paralytic effect of sleep has been blocked? I remember seeing a cat video (ironic) of a cat having that part blocked by drugs or surgery and it jumping like it is catching a bird.
Spoofed gps?
I don't believe this was the right call by the government, and I think FB are well within their morale obligations to kick up a fuss.

But I also hope it stays this way. News on FB is like crack for the older generations just getting their first taste of the firehose of content that is the internet. It's making so many people absolutely insufferable and worse, misinformed, and I can only imagine that it's generally hurtful to society because of this. Young people aren't immune, but they certainly have an advantage by "growing up" with the internet, and learning some survival skills along the way.
Does it go something like this?

Content creator posts content on their site that they own and pay to operate. Mega-3rd-party shares links of this content, sometimes posting blurbs from this content, driving traffic to Mega-3rd-party site and (to a much lesser extent) boosting traffic to content creator's site. However, Mega-3rd-party site also derives revenue from this by extracting information from user behavior and user interests, enabling them to improve ad-sales.

Am I misunderstanding something? Why is everyone here so pro mega-3rd-party?

Another question is this similar to remixing in the music industry? Feels like royalties in a twisted kind of way.
Only recurring dream I have is I'm back in college and it's the end of a semester, suddenly I realize there's some math class I haven't been attending and I have just a few days to cram everything I've missed in time for the final.
Facebook is giving free traffic to news websites

That's not how the publishers see it.

The publishers see it as people just read the headlines and summary on Facebook, then never ever go to the actual web site to read the story.

It's similar to the way web site owners are unhappy with the way Google scrapes microdata from web sites and presents the information as its own content in those search side panels. It removes an incentive for people to visit the web site that actually created the content.

Facebook and the rest of the doomscrolling industry have trained people to think that "Reading the news" is just scrolling scrolling scrolling, rather than actually going to a publisher's web site to see what's on offer.
And Windows-only. I know that Mono has made some good strides, but relying on it for the language itself adds a much bigger risk factor.
The fact that the ad revenue share shifted from publishers to facebook may indicate that it's not such a huge deal for them. I'd argue it actually shows that the traffic increase may not exist at all.

Anecdotal, but what I see a lot of time is that people don't even read the news being posted - only the title, the preview and the text it was shared with and then jump into commenting. (Pretty much like what I'm doing here now :) ). Actually, I may have even seen a piece of research on this.

So at the end it doesn't seem like it's such a great business for the publishers.
I give a shit, just not to the level that I'm willing to kill myself for the cause.
Consider that employee can't negotiate at all - you do what your boss tells you or you are fired, even in Europe - not performing assigned work is specifically written in the law as fireable offense. Accepting or declining terms certainly is negotiation, even if it seems limited.

It's not true that you can't refuse to ride! I have driven many Uber rides as driver (and about 100x more as a passenger) - what will get you kicked out is marking yourself available and then declining rides - because it makes the customer experience much worse. You know the minimal rate per mile beforehand and it can only get better for you, never worse. You're free to turn it off at any time and for as long as you wish and you won't be kicked out - that's absolutely impossible for employees.

The IT contracting firm I work with would kick me out the first time I said I am available and then declined.
That slowness is very common, AFAIK. I have it, too, specifically if I try to punch things. Good thing, too - a couple of times that has failed to work and I've woken up just in time to see my first punch a wall or my elbow smash into the radiator next to my bed. Hurts.

I don't know if it's related, but sometimes in my dreams I fly by taking advantage of this oddly sluggish momentum. All it takes is to launch myself into a spinning motion like a frisbee, and I'll fly a good distance.
I thought they were talking about wikimapia.org, still upset that Google hasn't offered them a free API key or something like that, that project is awesome. Among other things it was one of the best ways to follow the Syrian Civil War, at the beginning, at least.
But they are contributing back, that's the point of the article right?

So much so the article is more about who controls the organisation.

I personally see this mostly as a good thing. More data, better data, and everyone gets value out of it: users and corporations. Surely it's a sign this project is doing things right.

However I think it's right that the article points at the power structure of this organisation, I think now more than ever it's important it remains independent.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was speaking about human beings, not the planet in a celestial/natural sense. Hope that makes sense.
You started with a presumably correct statistic but then drew the wrong conclusion. The police catches thousands of criminals daily. So there must be no corruption whatsoever at higher levels or else, presumably, the police would catch them.
>Unverifiable anecdotal evidence? Check.

i didn't see any evidence in comment post that contradicts the post.

the only link i see right now is for an article praising chinese kids, which is highly interesting given the contents of the original post.
I would totally pick Kotlin for my next project if we haven't invested into F# / .Net so much AND if we were not happy.
1. Reddit /r/programming and others

2. Twitter

3. Star Slate Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/ - I've been reading through some of Scott's great writing since the whole NYTimes things brought Scott to my attention.

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The enormously wasteful environmental cost of PoW is certainly a turn off to those of us on the left as well.
The programs Palmer is talking about already exist, and are already implemented in C and C++, languages without managed runtimes. Rust is interesting here because it is memory safe and also doesn't have a managed runtime.
It concerns the generic "information asymmetry" - we want your relations, dreams, illnesses, loves, pulse, voice, basically anything we can get - but let silence be the only thing you will know about us.
The other possible scenario is even more enticing: that smaller, or entirely new, outfits raise in popularity on Facebook and bring back the much needed plurality of voices.
The hardest part about reading about this in the media is that... the media is in favor of the legislation because they get paid more.
I’ve seen Separation of Concerns used as a “killer argument” in many a planning meeting, but reminder it needs to be weighed against the cost of being (un)able to test and validate the entire system atomically.
> At the time, I was a tech worker at ByteDance, where I helped develop tools and platforms for content moderation. In other words, I had helped build the system that censored accounts like mine.

What do you mean "in other words"? Are there other words? How does one get into this situation without realizing what they are really doing? It looks obvious in retrospect, but what is not obvious back then?
Can you copyright 10 words? What about 5? 1?

What did your research turn up?
It took Java until Java SE 14 (last year) to produce NPE stacktraces which actually tell you which variable was null. At least in Rust third parties could have created a library to remedy a similar situation.