skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I mean, you can say the SAME thing about getting into an Ivy League school.

No, you cannot say the same thing about Ivy League admissions, at least not at the current point in time. Ivy League has a massive supply of qualified candidates to fill the demand (aka the fixed number of seats they have) many many times over. Tech companies don't have that luxury. They have a lot of candidate supply, but the "qualified" candidate supply is much more difficult to come by.

Ivy League admission officers admitted multiple times in public interviews and public statements that there are a lot of people that would qualify and succeed at those schools just fine, but the schools have very limited numbers of seats, so they have to have the bar be set higher and higher in order to accommodate truly the "best" (based on whatever metrics they use to determine the best).

With FAANG? They are desperate to hire good engineers. As someone who interviewed candidates at one of them, for every single interview I went with the mindset that I want to hire that person, as long as they demonstrate they are competent enough to do the job. There is no such thing as "limited" number of spots (as it is with Ivy League admissions). If every single candidate we interview is qualified, we will hire every single one of them, we won't be artificially raising the bar just to accommodate a specific X number of people because we cannot fit more. We can. Of course, my specific team cannot hire 50 people, but if all 50 candidates are competent, we will try to set them up with one of our sister teams or any other team in the company that desperately needs engineers, and there are tons of those teams.

The real problem is that a lot of those people we interview tend to not even be able to do fizzbuzz, and I am not exaggerating. I used to think that people said that statement as a joke back then, but after interviewing enough candidates, I realized that they weren't kidding.

TL;DR: they aren't similar, because Ivy League has a fixed number of seats available, and even if every candidate is qualified, they can only accommodate a predetermined number of them, so they have to artificially raise the cutoff metrics. For every candidate my team interviews, we can easily hire every single one of them if they are competent, without artificially raising the bar just to have a fixed number of hires.
"hate" or "hatred" - very strong words that make me say "Yes, exactly right.", - in response to your first question.

I would even point out that only deeply disturbed individuals can hate people they know nothing about (well, nothing other than what was shoved down their throats by propaganda channels)
> Unless you know of a way to do moderation 100%, liability for user-generated content is infeasible.

I agree that highly-public social media anything like what we see now wouldn't work anymore.

I don't even necessarily think that we should kill 230, but I don't think you should be able to curate and promote content, and claim strong rights to posted content, and still enjoy its protections. Yes, this means "algorithm-curation" social media with broad public visibility of content and that claims significant ownership of posted content, would be in trouble. I think services like that should struggle to operate that way. Take ownership or don't, none of this pretending to be one thing while doing another stuff. That doesn't mean we have to crack down on web hosts or ISPs or email providers or anything like that, since they're not doing most of that stuff.
definitely. a lot of his other content is just kind of out there -- missing some critical details or glosses over other things.

doesn't help that it feels like clickbait, at least for HAI, and most of them can be summed up with a tweet.
Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
Why did you just shift the goalposts from societal collapse to complete human extinction?
Isn't this punishing Youtube for their own success at achieving a dominant market position? They didn't position themselves as the de-facto public square so much as became one due to lack of competition.
On the bright side think of the rainy winters.
Too funny, I literally turned the last page of that book last night. It is essentially a meta study on past research regarding the influence of electric potentials and currents on regeneration and healing along with the potential dangers of non-ionizing EMF radiation. I felt like I was reading a book from the future despite most of the research being from the 1950-70's.
Not using same devices, but the same application.

Oil-fired boiler was pretty common heating in UK when I was a kid. Not sure if it is still.
I just wish all email clients would stop allowing HTML to hide an actual link. It needs to stop. Anchor tags and any type of onClick/onTouch event in an email should not do anything. Just stop letting them obfuscate the freaking address, it’s that simple. Tell the marketing people to go to hell, and no they cannot have their silly nicely printed link. :-)
This view seems predicated on the idea that people who estrange their parents do so because of past actions. I'd argue that in my personal experience and my experience with other such adult children the reasoning is more often about the current behavior of the parent or parents than past behaviors.

People who abuse or neglect their children are often doing so because of their own mental illness or emotional instability and those issues are unlikely to resolve without outside help.
I've been reluctant to get precheck because I hate to give up my fingerprints. There have been a few infamous mistakes where they messed up like the Oregon lawyer thought to be involved with the Spanish train bombers. Being in software, I know many immigrants to the us and they all have precheck and the border check version - while me and many of my natural born citizens don't have it, at least partly for that reason of fingerprints. I solved that problem for now by not flying during covid ;-) Am I unnecessarily paranoid? Probably.
This isn't eminent domain, the government didn't decide to build a video service that they need to evict Youtube for. Apparently Youtube decided to remove a video without proper support in their terms of service, so they're being judged to be in violation of their contract with the user.

Whether or not Youtube should have a clause in their terms allowing them to remove arbitrary content is a different question, and yet another is whether they should be allowed to have such a clause.
New spring-loaded 'Sound Screw' makes drywall noise-dampening
A few points:

1. Google definitely censors things on their own as well. Their own search engine turns up a long list of examples, so I won't rehash them all here, but one illustrative example is their censorship of the dissenter plug-in (https://reclaimthenet.org/google-chrome-web-store-bans-disse...), which also seems to be an example of censorship collusion within the tech industry.

2. Google has a long history of internal activism that is highly progressive, and regularly applies pressure on the company, and creates a culture of fear for employees who are either conservative, centrist, or even moderately left-leaning. The James Damore fiasco is a great example of the internal political culture rearing its head and how it impacts who's comfortable speaking up and steering the company's culture (https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/google-fires-employee-for-...).

3. Why do you think advertisers became "more and more concerned"? It's because of left-leaning activist pressure from groups like Sleeping Giants who have made it their mission to organize activists and create a false sense of societal pressure on advertisers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants). It's the same as Google censoring things, because typically activist employees will draw attention internally to these activist campaigns, and try to alter the company's otherwise neutral stances. There's also a pipeline from internal activist employees to certain members of the press (like Geekwire) to try to use external pressure to move company stances.
Because the comment used the word extinction?
You can check out our best attempt at a question generator at http://quickquiz.me, to get an idea of what type of questions a large language model (T5) can produce. Its the best model my team and I witnessed. We are still collecting data to generate more salient, and well structured questions. Its a work in progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNZMiYo_4s
In some cases it would make sense to comply in others it would make more sense to refuse especially if compliance with one nations laws would interfere with the companies core product. For example if smallistan decided that material critical of its monarch must be expunged from all of youtube not just the content served inside smallistan then it would be in everyone else's interest if Google ignored them.
In theory...

There are ~13,780 "Athletes, Coaches, Umpires, and Related Workers" in the US making a mean of $86,090 for a total of $1.2B. (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_711200.htm)

There are ~202,360 "Chief Executives" making a mean of $ 197,840 for a total of $40B. (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm)

Football players and pop stars get their own share of grief (remember the song "Money for Nothin'"?). Probably more than an appropriate 1/33 as much grief.
I was looking to see if this had been mentioned yet. As a Monodraw owner who recently has been forced to only use a Windows laptop for work I was pleasantly surprised a couple months ago by another article on hacker news that referenced this great web app. Just so happened in the comments here I also learned about Moebius which I also want to try out.
I relate to your story, I definitely got to be that self-centered twenty-something for a good long time. Would love to be able to call my dad right now.
> where someone spent 15 hrs/week for 5 years, built something really cool, but never got any funding or traction.

I just created an "Ask HN" to try to gather any anecdata about projects that ended that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27838479

I'm really curious to see what people say.

(I just started my own 15+ hours/week project last month.)
New startup idea: a 3d printer but for drinks.

Online ordering systems for fast food places let you fully customize all the toppings on your hamburger. But what if you could do the same thing for drinks? E.g, you order a soda but substitute the high fructose corn syrup with real sugar or your preferred artificial sweetener.

Then when Coke changes their formula to v3, you can just order Coke v2. You could also get bootleg formulations of the soda via GitHub (or The Pirate Bay after DMCAs are sent) so that people can mix and match flavors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink) does something like this, but it's hard to mix the chemicals directly due to their toxicity in pure form.
it's not really about TOS though. it's about Twitter being legally allowed to remove any content from their website for whatever reason. the question is should they be allowed to do this given the monopoly they have.

But I find it hilarious that Twitter/Google/etc. champion "free speech" in Russia, China, etc. yet in US they literally censored the sitting president and many people are OK with this.
It is blurry and low-res, it's 8K across 45 different views that it renders simultaneously. There is an 8K screen in there, but when you look at it you will only see ~850p at a time.
If I can write 4 lines of code without an error it’s a good day.
After submitting an email you see "Beast API is still under development. We've added you to our waiting list". That is unexpected given the wording on the homepage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html asks for projects users can play with. Waiting lists are off-topic.
I still think of calling my sister once in a while, "Oh, I should tell her that", and it's been ten years. And it still hurts.
Nothing to see here. The system is performing its desired function -- creating a reserve army of the underemployed to sustain a continual erosion of workers' real wages at all levels of skill and education.
Perhaps in your jurisdiction, but in this hypothetical example, I guess not.
It is hard to escape, a lot of the people who occasionally post interesting things are also the ones that post 20 times a day.
https://openjur.de/u/2271157.html
Absatz 110
The most important century (roadmap)
Imagine doing business and getting revenue in every nation on the Earth. That sounds hard.
>I've never believed that adversity creates strength, at least that has not been my experience in life.

Except this is true in the most literal sense.
I don't think "toxic" means "irredeemably harmful". It just means harmful and makes no judgement on intent.
Sad you're getting downvoted, I was thinking about this the other day, if nations really want to limit applications on the internet, they need to create a free to use high quality national alternative, and personally I don't think this is an awful idea. Canadian "twitter" provided by a gov entity? I would for sure be interested in that. The ability to use a home grown twitter that I needed to use some government ID to log into and had been thought about sensibility, at least then I'd know what I'm getting myself into. I'm not saying it should replace regular internet, just that I wouldn't be apposed to more controlled nationalized alternatives. I'd like to talk to fellow Canadians, in the "comment section", in a manner that I know with over 80% confidence they're actually in Canada.
Thank you for making me feel okay with myself
It is also much safer to praise a dead artist. Famous alive writer might suddenly turn out to be big fan of some genocidal world leader, embarrassing everyone who loves his earlier work.

Dead people are mostly safe from this, though not completely - some dirty laundry might surface years after death, forever tarnishing the image, but such occurrences are rather rare.
I could imagine that, though I think there are likely many efficient ways to implement immutable edits, especially if:

a) You're constraining the time-to-edit
b) You're constrained to a single edit

But it could be a lot of work to ensure that it's a consistent experience since you'd have to untangle the "cache this thing for-literally-ever" expectations that may exist.
What an amazing analogy. I doubt there is a solution short of severe changes in how most people use the internet and media. Attention stealing apps and their consequent dopamine addictions seem to have killed rational thinking, so much that people will refuse to believe facts and evidence. It feels better to be part of a group that believes a thing than to process a conflict and adapt your worldview. Hmm, what else does that sound like? :-)
> If the people I trust the most think I'm a failure...I don't know how else I should interpret that.

It means you're surrounded by assholes.
Money is power.
"I was more interested in latency of a strict serializability RSM like TigerBeetle."

The back-of-the-envelope calculation for the latency per 10,000 transfers would be:

RTT from leader to the fastest follower +
ms to send 1.2 MiB over a 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps network +
ms to fsync 1.2 MiB on NVME

And multiple transfer batches are pipelined or overlapped by the leader to the followers (we're working on pipelining at the moment) to amortize network transfer.

The cross-region replication can be asynchronous (configurable) which is also how I believe LMAX do it, or you could have your backup region be a few hundred miles away as with AWS regions.

"But then again I would assume that the ledger would have to provide an endpoint what the current balance is (the sum over all transactions)."

Exactly. One of TigerBeetle's contributions is to colocate data and policy across a chart of accounts. It's different from a "ledger" in that TigerBeetle is not only accounting books but also accounting policy. The system of record is the optimal and safest place to make decisions, and this avoids the overhead of distributed transactions. This provides a 50% throughput improvement just by cutting out the unnecessary interim query. Instead of amplifying network queries to make decisions away from the data, you design a chart of accounts with simpler primitives to control transfer flows between them.

For long-lived transactions that span multiple external systems, TigerBeetle provides two-phase transfers as atomic primitive, which is what many payment systems use, as I am sure you would know. These two-phase transfers also support 256-bit SHA256 hash locks, e.g. ILPv4 conditions, which I think could be used to support some interesting logic outside the database.

This all enables the application layer to be completely stateless and scaled shared nothing. You could literally spin up a hundred API instances in front of TigerBeetle, all shared nothing and ephemeral.

"When customer B tries to send money to customer A and A fails: what will customer B see?"

An immediate error: "exceeds_debits". This can trigger the KYC user flow to be queued in an external message broker service. You can see exactly how this all works here: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/state_ma...
Back Clippy up with some cloud AI, and let him learn.
It is not merely a "key" one, though, as it is (as you admit) a "necessary" one: we see centralized systems abused for reasons both lofty and petty by organizations both large and small; but, if you don't have (or at least make obvious... like, "come on", right?! these companies seem to have a giant "come at us" sign they wave around) some centralized chokepoint, then the problem disappears. At best, I would argue that these other influences you list are themselves centralizations that attempt to push platforms to be more centralized (whether for political, monetary, or whatever else gain). (Also, ancillary point: I would argue the explicit goal of the design of the US government is that it isn't centralized... those checks and balances come from how there isn't a centralized chokepoint of power; we are at our worst when we allow people to--when times seem good--undermine this decentralization by consolidating more power in one of the branches over the others.)
This is perhaps a root cause of the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Whether or not it made you feel like "poo" doesn't change that responsibility for a physical action lies with the people initiating it.
Do academics really take Twitter that seriously? Can’t tell if this is a hot take or the culture eating itself.
This sounds like the „textbook definition“ of social anxiety which is understandable growing up lonely—and not learning social skills which many people take for granted later in life.

Maybe you want to take a look at improving this aspect of your life so everyday tasks like calling a stranger etc. doesn’t cost you that much energy.

For me classic exposure therapy helped in that regard and reflecting on the specific situations that I was thrown into afterwards (calling someone, asking for something in the store etc.)
We might live but we wouldn't live well and our long term prospects would be dim.
Nah, mate. Admit it, we're all about getting the best we can for ourselves and devil take the hindmost.
Yes, certainly things like corruption, jealousy and ego games do exist in pure maths, but I just wanted to contest the other comment's assertion that pure mathematics is completely closed to outsiders, let alone ones who could resolve the Riemann Hypothesis.

Furthermore, I could believe that the above issues and, as you also mention, reproducibility, are worse in pure mathematics or theoretical CS than in other fields because so little is at stake. Which is not to say I think most maths papers are false, but just that they're not all _entirely_ true either. Their audience is so small and the readers/reviewers "know what they mean" anyway, most of the time. And others are just false and no-one noticed because they couldn't be bothered to check the details, because the result was inconsequential to their own work and the author was a nice enough chap...
Much shorter articles and only one editor…
The only time we even listen to stories about failure is when they're told by people who are outsized successes.
and tweets makes me think of birds
it really doesn't matter
It is very much not specific to the Jewish religion. Jews make up 0.2% of the world population while ~33% of the worlds males are circumcised. Its very much a part of the Islamic religion as well; being nearly universal in the middle east. In addition ~80% of American men are circumcised.
> narrow definition of conscious, machiavellian attempts to dispute concrete facts

My understanding of gaslighting is that it was never about disputing concrete facts; it was about controlling the person by making them doubt their sanity. We already have a word for conscious Machiavellian attempts to dispute concrete facts: "lying."
> And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.

Is it really such a great thing to give away money you don't need. IMO tha should be the absolute minimum baseline expectation for someone who controls so much wealth.
I was thinking historical examples would be an interesting context in part because I didn't think anyone needed reminding of all the times in recent days and weeks that conservatives have tried to boycott or cancel things, but others have provided some examples of that if you're interested.

And "what-aboutism" was exactly the point, I was specifically pointing out that boycotting based on morals isn't in any way only the domain of "hyperliberals."
Sounds like an antitrust problem not a content policy problem
France Health Pass and Protests
"It was only much later that I found out that she basically cried for three days straight after that call."

That got me crying.
YouTube's very “success” is “rewarding”.

But to me, it's not a punishment. It's a natural consequence of YouTube's dominant position: they have to start acting like it.
Picasso said this, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working"
A knife can do even more harm to the user, but they are still sold. "Can do harm" is a slippery slope.
Microsoft Unveils Windows 365
It's at the top of your timeline. People can make tweets that last 24 hours.
Hit the add button in the area where other people's fleets show up.
That's unfortunate. I liked the new design and it made sense for saving vertical space. Whatever happened to "think different"?
Seems more like the government ordering you to serve a disorderly patron you previously ejected
So it’s proper behavior for you to go around calling names because you’re confused?
Get a grip.
Everyone is always sure. If they aren't the first few times then they quickly get in the habit of just clicking "okay".
The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN
I think this (the FAA involvement) stems from the previous rear fuselage issues, which was a safety issue, and the FAA is still directly overseeing that issue. It sounds like the FAA have not restored Boeing's delegated authority for final airworthiness sign-off on new 787s due to not having accepting a new inspection plan for that issue yet.

That would would explain why the FAA remains involved on an issue it does not consider to be a safety concern, especially as it implies there may be even more quality control issues than previously realized.
Sure, but it's also the job of the government to oversee the power corporations have and how they wield it. No single corporation should be allowed to actively shape and censor information just because they are successful / a monopoly.