skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dissimilarity for no good reason is, well, maybe not insanity but plain old dumb. Unless we're talking fashion not software projects, hence the "vanity" classification.
Well, FB hired Nick Clegg, whose name is a shorthand in British politics for "I will betray all my promises and principles for a paycheck". So maybe they just assume that anyone who goes to work for them is in it for the money and the "wokeness" is merely performative.
There is no need for any unified Point of View. From UX changes ( stop showing like/view counts) there are a ton of things a platform can do if they don't want to optimize for engagement, it will be financially damaging to do so, their revenue and stock price will drop no company will do it, but it not a hard problem technically.

Optimizing for engagement inevitably leads to toxic and unhealthy ecosystem sooner or later.

Issues with facebook and the right wing becoming more extreme long before Trump became mainstream ( perhaps it was always there). There was lot of concern noise during the early Tea Party movement in 2010s. There was a lot of toxic content when Obama became president.

Facebook started as tool to rate looks of female students in Harvard , I don't think there was ever a time when Facebook was not toxic.
between 2008 and 2010 for the network traffic part
> whether this would really work out in most workloads

> just because it keeps the cache-lines hotter and less likely to be evicted.

Okay, so keeping cache for a bloom filter problem is real - but the real force evicting memory out of the cache line is the next row-group you read + all the other stuff you have to do when you implement this in a database product. Memory bandwidth is contested heavily and the caches will get knocked out every 1024 rows.

So the two things I work with, Apache Hive and Apache Impala switched to a blocked bloom filter at different points in time.

Hive BloomKFilter - https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/storage-api/src/j...

Impala/Kudu one - https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/master/be/src/kudu/uti...

The C++ one also has an AVX specialization, while the Java one relies on the JVM to do it (not always) - https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/master/be/src/kudu/uti...

We ran a lot of trivial benchmarks and several benchmarks where the shuffle-join+network (not sort-merge, this is just a partitioned hash join) generates a bloom filter (a semijoin) before sending rows out and the 1-cache line version won out when the bloom filter went slightly over the 1 Million + 5% rate [1].

The regular bloom filter went from (38ns -> 108ns for 1k -> 1m items), while the BloomK stuck at (27ns) despite making room for a million times more items in the bloom. The bloom-1 (which is the 64bit version) underperformed on accuracy (was ~2x faster at 16ns per op, but worse at filtering out items).

[1] - https://github.com/prasanthj/bloomfilter/tree/master/benchma...
I would love a syntactic sugar for 'if err == nil {Errors.Wrap(err, *What I was trying to do")}'. As a SRE, making each part of the stack explicit (or explicitly non-explicit) is invaluable for understanding debugging. I'm A-ok with some forms of error throwing, but they need to be clear and understood.
Some people are not physically capable of suicide. Some people are technically physical capable but under constant medical care that means they would effectively need collusion from others. Some people believe they shouldn't have to die alone and want the choice to have their family or others around them without leaving their family exposed to criminal charges. Some people simply believe they should have access to reliable, comfortable and painless deaths with the assistance of a professional.

Most people who attempt suicide fail. Some of this is due to sheer chance (surviving a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge), some of it is failure to understand the means they choose, some of it is due to sheer psychological inability, like people who faint at the sight of blood.

Are you less baffled now?
I don't think Pycharm will install different versions for you, but if you have multiple versions installed, it is indeed super easy to switch between them. Though if you have a ton of packages you'll have to reinstall them all for the right version, and if you're dealing with lots of venvs + system installs, you have to make sure to choose the right thing from the dropdown and you might get somewhat lost and confused if you don't know what you're doing.

The right menu is File -> Settings -> Project: <your project name> -> Project Interpreter, and then you pick whatever you want by Python Interpreter.

In Windows I use Chocolatey to manage Python versions, in Mac idk though.
I can't think of a time when censors were ever on the right side of history.

but hey, maybe this time is different!

/s
So you are saying all modern rock music from Elvis to Black Sabbath to Metallica should not exist as it is the “in” group taking the music of the “out” group, in this case the blues? People don’t work like that, culture doesn’t work like that. It’s constant borrowing, development, abandonment, rediscovery and remixing with very little regard as to what groups some people would consider “in” or “out” from their perspectives.
> Facebook is a cancer on society IMO.

It's interesting, I know a bunch of people who work there as I'm sure many on this site do.

Nonetheless, none of them have a problem with Facebook or its role in our society.

I don't know what to make of it really.
Sure, why not.

During the riots, Trump kept tweeting out "LAW AND ORDER!", like a crippled old man furious at the neighborhood kids for trashing his roses. He's angry, but doesn't have the means to do anything about it.

This made Trump look weak and impotent. All he did was hide in his bunker and shake his tiny fist on Twitter while chaos raged.

The rioters placed Trump in a dilemma action. Smart. If Trump does nothing, he looks weak. If he responds with sufficient force to quell the riots, he looks like a tyrant.

Off the top of my head, a better play would have been something like: "As President, I am bound by the Constitution to respect the sovereignty of each State. To any state Governor that requests assistance to restore peace, I will put all necessary Federal resources under your direct command."

Repeat variants of that, over and over. An offer of assistance demonstrating clear respect for the Constitution.

This very diplomatically throws the ball to mostly blue-state governors. Now they either have to be seen as doing nothing, or as collaborating with Trump. Moreover, if they do accept assistance and pull a Kent State, it's on their heads.

And I'm some clown on the internet. I imagine somebody that really does statecraft could do better.

Trump is a showman. Good at reality TV. Clearly didn't understand how to lead a country.
Are you so sure about that? Think about the CEOs themselves as the lemons... a lack of transparency can lead to the same adverse selection pressure that trends towards "lemon CEOs" flourishing, and pay transparency can help align the incentives somewhat.
What you perceive to be 'hard truths' are nothing more but your personal delusuons.
I had a bad experience once and so did some other people I know, based on using a service a couple of times and expecting something more efficient and high tech than local truck rental.

That doesn’t lead directly to “ripe for disruption.”

U-Haul and its several large and numerous small competitors is already highly optimized. It’s just not optimized the way tech nerds think about optimizing.

U-Haul is part of a larger company, Amerco. Compare their profits to a disruptor like Uber.
Much of what Baltimore spends on "education" is really social services by another name. That's not necessarily a bad thing because children in bad situations really do need food, healthcare, counseling, etc in order to be able to learn effectively. But bundling all of those ancillary services into the education budget makes it hard to tell whether taxpayers are getting their money's worth.
I came across this while reading the Python 3.11 release notes and see Pablo’s name everywhere and decided to look him up. Quite an impressive collection of work!
Ask HN: What's Tracking Me?
Today, I went to the store and dropped my wife off to buy a few things. I stayed in the vehicle and she went shopping. It was a Winn Dixie.

After a couple minutes, I remembered things we were out of so called and asked her to buy, specifically, peach preserves, pancake mix, and hamburger buns. It was a Gvoice call made via my GM bluetooth car system.

Tonight on slickdeals, my first top deal was Krusteaz pancake mix, then later, Smuckers peach preserves.

These are not popular items, and not things I've ever searched for or bought online. I've never seen them on slickdeals. In fact, the peach preserves were a great deal, but I didn't click it because well, it's weird.

So who is to blame? We both use Google voice, so that was my first suspect. However, it could be the credit card/L3 data also. It's a capital one card in her name, but under my account.

We typically shop together, I use Amex, and it's never crossed like this.

I'm going to cancel something soon, so please anyone with ideas, shoot them at me.
A function can map multiple inputs to one output but not one input to multiple outputs.
All that would not have been possible without the arrival of "modern" stock exchanges.

Also, their reorganization after each first generation of underhanded practices became recognized, otherwise attention could not have been as well diverted from the ability to leverage greed even more so than leverage the resources of the smaller investors.

Good historical reference sections on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange

>During the 17th century, stockbrokers were not allowed in the Royal Exchange due to their rude manners. They had to operate from other establishments in the vicinity, notably Jonathan's Coffee-House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Stock_Exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine_Coffee_House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange

NYSE of course is where lots of the money ended up from the international slave trade, and not just from sales in North America.

Seems to me that's what allowed NYC to take the place of London as the world's financial center, since the UK frowned on slavery much eartier than the US.

Also early 20th century oil might have been the only thing with as good or better return than slavery had generated.
I think she also wants a big payout.
nobody really knows... pretty much what Mises, Hayek and other Austrian economists have been saying for 100+ years.

Fatal conceit anyone?

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account." --F.A. Hayek
As a correction, they were aiming to replace the usage of Chalk with Nanocolors on the grounds of (questionable) performance improvements.
You're talking about a small group of Oath Keepers in an otherwise peaceful protest. But I'm curious, why do you think Stewart Rhodes was never arrested? Would it make more sense given the context that the boogaloos behind the Whitmer kidnapping plot turned out to be FBI agents, as did the leaders of other right-wing groups including the Proud Boys and Atomwaffen Division? Who does the right-wing terrorism scare serve?
I think there are a lot of potential problems charging a fee for emergency service calls. Who decided what is frivolous?

The person making the call can't be assumed to be an expert. And in many cases, it might seem serious/freaky in the moment, but be less so to an outside observer.

This sounds like a good way to penalize poor folks and have them avoid using the system altogether, resulting in worse outcomes and higher cost burden on the system when preventable issues aren't dealt with proactively.

I get where you're coming from and agree that preventing frivolous calls is a good aim, I don't know that a fee is the right solution.
https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/

They weren't fined whatsoever for the collection of the data. The fine was for stonewalling the investigation.

> But, the commission said, Google did not engage in illegal wiretapping because the data was flowing, unencrypted, over open radio waves.

At what point does reading unencrypted radio waves on open-use frequencies become an invasion of privacy? It'd be like a restaurant owner requiring people get permission before being able to write down the restaurant's name. If it's possible to passively read it for free, you can't control who views it.
Okay, it's not insane, it just breaks from a convention followed by practically every programming language (and every logic / engineering / computing course) where integers can be interpreted as booleans. And that might be okay if there's a good reason, but the reasons given are pretty awful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852434
I wonder if there is a simple fix to this: ban super-voting shares for social media companies over a certain size and age. Public, or private.

Maybe the core of the problem is Zuckerberg using Facebook to accumulate power. Not the company per se.
I block all Google trash from my servers and the companies I work for, we have a separate domain for all search and a separate service for websites that can be indexed by Google.

I purposely block all their ips from my servers, aws, and Azure as well and then whitelist any service we want from those services individually and carefully.

Google spies on Everything online, they are the largest collector of exposed data and if they weren't so big they'd be in jail for theft, imo.
That power is still there. By selling their non-voting shares investors lower their price, which has knock-on impacts on the corporation. What is lost is the power to directly make corporate decisions.
I've posted about vaccines before. Pointed out the fact that like everything in medicine they have risks and benefits. In the case of COVID-19 vaccines, we still don't fully understand either. We're discovering the risks as we go along by observing what happens to the humans who took those shots.

Apparently I'm an extremist spreading misinformation. Why else would I get downvoted?
> Scott Pelley: What is the legal theory behind going to the SEC? What laws are you alleging have been broken?

> John Tye: As a publicly-traded company, Facebook is required to not lie to its investors or even withhold material information. So, the SEC regularly brings enforcement actions, alleging that companies like Facebook and others are making material misstatements and omissions that affect investors adversely.
I'm pretty sure that's a myth, at least in most areas. Helium tanks usually contain >99% pure helium. I've never seen one with a significant amount of oxygen.
Thanks, ok I just looked at that one too. Most of the examples on that page don't pertain to Google, and the ones that do pertain to Google are not harmful (e.g. targeted ads, or someone's emotional reaction to data collection).

Since his ire is specifically directed at Google, I'm still left wondering what specific harm he is envisioning from Google's activities.
A fee to commercial facilities making frivolous calls could be more reasonable, as they should have competent folks managing things. See my sibling comment regarding fees in general.
From where do you get the notion that something illegal needs to take place for someone to qualify as "whistleblower"? First time I encounter this idea.
It is a huge question, because leeway in the definition, or political disagreement about the definition, makes for a law that is impossible to know you are breaking.

Vague terms should be avoided in laws. Vague terms with obvious political wiggle room should be avoided at all cost.
I _think_ there is a third option, hosting in IPFS.

Regardless whom does what, I think that a autonomous decentralized website should be possible to be ran on crypto services.
Does anyone track the premium Facebook has to pay to get people to close their eyes and work for them? Subjectively, it feels like it’s growing, but that’s from sampling a limited friend group.
I've had to sign quite a few documents this way. Of course the question of privacy nags at my brain as I recall the age old questions "Who do you trust, and why?" I do it anyway, because usually it means I'm signing on to a new gig, and usually the private info belongs to the other party asking me to sign anyway. If I don't sign, I don't get that gig. So, I scrawl something that is supposedly representative of my signature with my mouse.

Personally I wouldn't accept a signature made by mouse instead of a pen. How on Earth do you verify that? If you signed a cheque or voting form that way, it would be rejected. And I would reject it, too. I leave it otherwise to the receiver if they find a mouse scrawl the least bit acceptable.

It's much easier to get someone's legit signature than to verify the scrawl one makes with a mouse in its place. Need your city mayor's signature? Just Google it. Signatures show up everywhere. They're not as private as people tend to think they are. It's not as much of a concern, as long as you can provably deny a faked signature.

Having said that, I also would not use it to get someone to sign a document I sent them. I'd much rather you just autograph a piece of paper and hold it up to your monitor beside my document and take a picture with your cell phone. Yea, that's lame, but I'd trust it a whole lot more because there's (theoretically) no unrelated middle man, and a signature I could actually verify if I ever needed to.

I accept having to sign that way, but I don't like it. And because I don't like it, I won't ask anyone to sign something that way. What good is a chicken scratch that provably does not match the person's signature?
Why don’t you build something that uses cloud technologies or other technologies that the roles you want to land are asking for? It will probably take you a year to learn the app_framework/docker/kubernetes/cloud stack of choice, but after a year of playing with it you will probably be more pro efficient than plenty of employed engineers who rely on a devops team.

Have some confidence too. A lot of people are faking it and don’t learn it until they run into the problem. At the end of the day it only matters that you deliver, so deliver on your personal project first.
$$$

It's really that simple. I also think Facebook is a net negative for humanity, but if I was willing to subject myself to leetcoding interviews and passed theirs, I'd work there in a heartbeat because they pay senior engineers with ~6+ years of experience about $400k as a baseline. Quite a bit more if you're particularly good, have competing offers and negotiate well. I have principles, but frankly I care about securing my and my family's future more than standing up for them. The same is probably true for most.
> I assume some students are wearing masks on bikes because they think if they do not they are at risk.

Which is a blind and unjustified assumption based on no data, especially when there are much more legitimate and likely reasons for those students to wear masks when biking between classes.
The paper was posted elsewhere on the thread. See page 2's table: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf#page=2
Can confirm. Moved houses something about ten years ago, only a few kms, and Google Maps kept on saying I was at my old address.

I used location sharing actively then as now, found it mostly annoying - but also learnt how they built up their SSID location databases.

I did find it creepy, but could also see how it would massively assist location services.
Eve Online? If so the knowledge at rest is probably much less than 30%
This is (one) of the current organizing efforts by Amazon workers: https://amazonemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/
Weeeeeell... it isn't a secret, that is true. And technically speaking there is no problem here.

But it is easy to imagine that this happened to be able to hoodwink someone with the "Zuckerburg only controls 10% of the shares!" style soundbites without being forced to point out that means control of the company.

Realistically this practice should probably be banned on the basis that Facebook could achieve a similar outcome with something like one class of shares and selling bonds to the public, or something. Allowing a "share" to break the one-share-one-vote principle is unnecessarily confusing and misleading.

Lawyers shouldn't be redefining words. These words are meant to mean something. Although this is unlikely to be a new practice, I think Berkshire had different classes of share.
It would be nice if the compiler had a mode where it issued a warning if it doesn't know that a pointer is not nil.
Of course, but when people use that word today they're often talking about something very different from actual persecution.
BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury
Meeting Fountech Ventures at the Next Stage
No, she is an actual whistleblower. She went to the SEC with corporate documents.
What is the difference between bad intelligence vs the average conspiracy theorist? It is all just bad intelligence someone telling someone else "data" that they then "trust" reflects reality when in reality it doesn't.
Check out https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg
As far as I can tell, it's banned to be transracial.
Definitely not for individual-saving-for-retirement investors IMO (altough there might be some that think that's important, but they can't affect nothing really).

What matters most to these (me included) is the growth of the nest egg, by dividends or capital gains (which FB has delivered handsomely on the last decade).

For large institutional investors, it may be important. For activist investors, it certainly is.