skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution, pretty far down in the story:

> The solution is straightforward: Companies that deploy personalized algorithmic amplification should be liable for the content these algorithms promote. This can be done through a narrow change to Section 230, the 1996 law that lets social media companies host user-generated content without fear of lawsuits for libelous speech and illegal content posted by those users.

So basically just ban an algorithmic feed by opening it up to endless lawsuits:

> There is no A.I. system that could identify every possible instance of illegal content. Faced with potential liability for every amplified post, these companies would most likely be forced to scrap algorithmic feeds altogether.

> Social media companies can be successful and profitable under such a regime. Twitter adopted an algorithmic feed only in 2015. Facebook grew significantly in its first two years, when it hosted user profiles without a personalized News Feed. Both platforms already offer nonalgorithmic, chronological versions of their content feeds.

Notably Twitter was (AFAICT) losing money in 2015 and only started turning a profit 2-3 years later. Facebook grew in its first two years when it was a new hip young social network aimed at an exclusive group.

> This solution would also address concerns over political bias and free speech. Social media feeds would be free of the unavoidable biases that A.I.-based systems often introduce. Any algorithmic ranking of user-generated content could be limited to nonpersonalized features like “most popular” lists or simply be customized for particular geographies or languages. Fringe content would again be banished to the fringe, leading to fewer user complaints and putting less pressure on platforms to call balls and strikes on the speech of their users.

The top lists would no longer be personally customizable, but would still offer the same incentives to get to the top that would drive outrage-engagement anyway. Presumably the content that gets boosted would include Fox News (the top rated cable news network), Trump's twitter (when it existed), at least in Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene (the sitting congresswomen that is an QAnon aficionado), etc.

It's trading one algorithm that rewards engagement with another dumber more general one, that I believe would just be mostly the same content anyway. During the Rohingya genocide, the state armed forces were the ones committing genocide on behalf of the majority population, wouldn't the simple nonpersonalized "most popular" list for that geographic region just end up being the same thing?
Twitch has a huge problem with waves of hate bots spamming and overwhelming smaller streamers, and it's been getting worse.

They really need that verification option just to avoid getting run off the platform.
Nah. Reddit’s client is the official Reddit client, but Apollo is the de facto one for people who want to actually use Reddit.

Also Apollo now has a Safari extension which will automatically redirect Reddit links to Apollo. Previously this was a manual process after the page already loaded after telling Reddit for the umpteen-billionth time you want Safari, not the official Reddit client.
Twitch Confirms Data Breach
According to the story, each book has:

* 410 pages

* 40 lines per page

* 80 characters per line

* Not included: The characters on the front cover, maybe 15 on average?

There are 25 symbols.

So there are 25^(410*40*80) possible books, which comes out to ~10^1834097 books. Sufficed to say, the library could hold numerous universes.
> Apollo is not the defacto reddit client. Reddit's own app is.

Reddit's is the official client.

> Defacto: in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not

I think in this case the validity of the word "defacto" depends on your sample population. Apollo is very popular (and a fantastic reddit client, I wish there was an equivalent for HN) but I can't imagine it's marketshare is anywhere close to even 50%. Among tech enthusiasts I'll bet it ranks pretty high. Similar to an app like Overcast. If you poll HN or other tech communities I bet it's well represented but in the broader ecosystem it's a small fish.
> You didn't refute any of his points

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" OP provided no evidence, so I dismissed without evidence.

> it's one of the most blatant examples of debasing a currency I can imagine

No. QE is. look it up. Actually minting a coin is smart.
There are, roughly speaking. You can look at option pricing to see market predictions on various outcomes, at least ones that can be boiled down to "what will the price of SPY/TLT/EURUSD be in 2022?" If you have a better simulation, take your output and trade against the market where it's wrong.
In the press release:

>> “This concept for catalysis is as simple as it is ingenious, and the fact is that many people have wondered why we didn’t think of it earlier,” says Johan Åqvist, who is chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
Twitch source code leaked in hack
This is the best audio presentation of The LIbrary Of Babel that I've ever found:

https://www.mboxdrive.com/Library_Of_Babel.mp3

(Originally from the "Let's Read!" YouTube channel, but since deleted: https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsReadOfficial)
Using basic statistical methods to determine effective policies can result in policies that a lot of people would consider unfair and unethical.
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If the anti-slavery states hadn’t compromised with the slave ones, the Revolution would have failed. Slavery would have likely existed longer because the British would end up being allied to the slave states (likely still colonies.)

Nothing is more nauseating that modern people looking upon the past with moral superiority.
Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
I don’t know how the US would do it, but other countries like Korea and China and Russia have an agency to force their internally operated websites to comply. Global sites either fly under the radar by being too small, or comply under threat of being banned when they are large enough.
It physically hurt to read this story.
Don't the compressed instructions immediately put more pressure on the decoder than aarch64?
My issue with this approach is that it tends to put off progress until there is _overwhelming_ public support. For instance, the 38th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which liberalised divorce rules, received _82%_ of the public vote. That's particularly extreme, but the 34th and 36th amendment (equal marriage and abortion) received 62% and 67% respectively. All of these could have been introduced years earlier and passed with clear public support.

If you wait until you have no choice but to do something, you tend to delay doing things a very long time. And it bleeds over into timidity about making tough decisions; for instance the FF/FG coalition in Ireland has been unable to do anything about housing, because any actual action is going to annoy _somebody_.
I sub to twitch streamers I watch because dollar per hour it's the cheapest form of entertainment besides torrenting for me.

There was a stint during the GTA V RP craze I had it on in the background and watched it for approximately 6-8 hours every day. I subbed to one streamer for like 5 bucks.

This averages out to like 2 cents/day for 240 hours of entertainment. Cheaper than netflix, cheaper than cable, cheaper than hulu... You catch my drift. I don't know how this is different than me paying $80 to spend a night out at the movies with my wife, other than it being insanely cheaper?
Ze Quebecois would like to know your location
airing tonight on PBS, check local listings for NOVA
35+ years ago when AT&T had lost the monopoly on phones and the market was flooded with various phones and each was trying to distinguish themselves, a common bragging point was how many quick dial numbers it could hold.

I used to joke that I was going to introduce a phone that could remember 10M 7-digit numbers: just enter the 7-digit index of the phone number you want to recall.
Can confirm this.

Many Chinese believer of "Freedom of Speech" was shattered after seen previous POTUS account vanishes from Twitter. This echoes the memory of their own accounts purged from Weibo.

And crackdown of Covid-19 "false info" utilize the same method as the Chinese Internet companies do.
Spax or GRK make fantastic screws, but after using Robertson-drive screws all my life, Torx honestly sucks, for the simple reason that the screws don't stay on the bit very well. They will never strip out, but nothing holds the screw onto the bit except the magnet, so starting a screw one-handed is a bit finicky.

However, Robertson drive is a tapered square, which means the bit will lock into the screw with friction, and it can take quite a lot of force to separate them. To illustrate my point, I can put a Robertson screw on a drill, then hold onto the screw and swing the drill around without it falling.
Habits that will make you a better programmer
Inflation crisis? For the first half of my life inflation was very rarely below 5%.
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Or better, skip the web completely and read HN over gopher:
gopher://hngopher.com

HN works under Links, so it could work under Mothra.
This line from the interview jumped out at me:

> QNTM: Do it. If it's your first time, try a second time as well. Your first attempt might be okay or it might not be so okay, but it's something you can get better at over time. You can practice, you can get good.

because it's reflected very clearly in qntm's own writing. He's been publishing his fiction online for close to two decades, and I've been following his website for almost as long. He's always been a talented and imaginative writer, but the craftsmanship of his writing has been continuously getting better and better.

https://qntm.org/fiction
Useless after reboot, if you're using verified boot.
As phones become more intricate, they become harder to repair. More news at 11.
That's great if you're a swift programmer...

When I can build the compiler I work on, on an iPad then I will consider it a coding platform.
Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Facebook whistleblower claims
As Tool put it in Lateralus:

Black /
Then /
White are /
All I see /
In my infancy /
Red and yellow then came to be

Fun fact: syllable count follows Fibbonaci sequence
There are some technicalities (I'm not sure what they are, but some orgs may want to have some boxes ticked for corporate approval of a tool). Then there is the fact that you can actually use the key in multiple machines, even those that don't have biometrics (e.g. desktops)

Personal use case: I have my 1password account locked with a YubiKey, which means that if somebody would steal my credentials they can't get in without one of my devices. However, I still can technically use it from a browser on a friend's computer if I really needed to.
Scam calls just end up ringing every working number these days and if you pick up even once you're already on the list of "real people". Targeted scamming of even just 100,000 potential victims is just wasted effort when with the same setup you could do untarget scamming of 100,000,000 potential victims.
I doubt that this would happen.
It's common for the less erudite to confuse pithy for lack of intelligence. When I had time, I wrote a more complete response to a more neutral comment (see below). Many of us have lives outside Hacker News.

My point, as it still stands, is that punishment is meant to deter, and deterrence doesn't reduce criminal activity, history has proven that time and time again. Case in point: The Taliban is back to cutting hands for stealing, a terrifyingly high punishment for a basic crime that gets community service on average across North America (first offense). By your logic, theft should be eliminated altogether in Afghanistan. Is it? Is the per capita rate of theft higher or lower than North America? I leave it to you as an exercise to uncover, with a minor hint: it's higher.
Germany is slowly decommissioning their nuclear power plants because of Nord Stream 2. Gerhard schroeder almost immidietly becomes head of NS2 after he steps down as chancellor.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27202794

There are no accidents when it comes to big things like that
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power" --Lincoln
I do think Joel has some awfully insightful things to say but:

>You should always try to have at least six people interview each candidate that gets hired

Eh. I think this mindset gets taken too literally. That is not something that most companies should be putting candidates through unless they are actually willing to pay for top end talent, and are a tech company who absolutely requires it. Especially paired with:

>Each interview should consist of one interviewer and one interviewee, in a room with a door that closes and a whiteboard. I can tell you from extensive experience that if you spend less than one hour on an interview you’re not going to be able to make a decision.

Yea, no. I am not going to spend 6 hours of my time just because your company is so indecisive, especially with this current job search environment where companies will drop you like a fucking brick and ghost you even after having used hours of your time. I can't help but think a lot of the general shittiness around the hiring process is people taking parts of this article and internalizing them religiously.
A lot of data structures from compsci like trees, graphs, lists, seem suited to form the basis of mathematical modeling of organizational structures, with the goal of optimizing for particular cases.

For example, in modeling an industrial system like a chemical refinery / synthesis unit for optimal throughput, one could also model the human organizational structure needed to safely and efficiently operate that system. Say there were 10 major steps/processes being overseen; failure of any one could be catastrophic. So, perhaps each unit gets its own manager with veto power over the whole process if their unit is down (a flat structure at this level), and each manager oversees a hierarchically-structured team (a tree at this level, perhaps experience-based).

Other organizations would need a completely different structure, but it should be structured around the fundamental goal. Thus, the concept of 'universal organization designer' might be so broad as to be not very useful, i.e. specialization in design domains is probably important.

I recall this coming up in a discussion of why the optimal organizational structure for Tesla is very different from that for SpaceX for example, so just moving 'the best managers' from one to the other wouldn't work out.
The Redo Keyword in Ruby
If what you say is true, there must be some underlying outlook or philosophy that leads to one or the other.

What I suspect is that's true for some kinds of issues, but other issues are more of a mixed bag that just happened to end up polarized. Maybe those other issues are important enough to make a third party worthwhile.
it runs in your favorite browser..
This "lens brunescence" theory is very odd and likely wrong: lens yellowing does not impact the ability to distinguish blue from green under even modest illumination levels. While it's a substantial effect by age 90 [1], it would be also be strange to assume that 90 year olds are responsible for all of language.

In mammals, the primary opponent color channel is along the B-Y axis (comparisons between the S-cone to the M-cone), so many mammals are dichromats, and tritanopia is quite rare. Color adaptation is also quite effective along this axis, which means people adapt to changes in yellow vs. blue quite readily, seeing a wide range of colors as "white".

Here's an alternate hypothesis: more daylight gives more days with a "blue sky" (instead of an overcast one), and so people in sunny climates would be much more likely to need a word to describe what they see.

1. For lens yellowing, see https://people.brandeis.edu/~sekuler/SensoryProcessesMateria... for an illustration.
Maybe this article is interesting, but I'll never know. I can't read that thin black font on the bright white background. Hurts to try to focus on it.
Yeah, I was clearly wrong on that point.
you are correct!
Rigetti is a completely vertically integrated company, from design to manufacturing (Fab-1)[1] to cloud access (Rigetti's own QCS [2] as well as AWS Bracket[3]). They have their own Fab which is extremely advantageous and I cloud be wrong but neither Google, IBM or anyone has that capability in-house. I guess, it is not fair to draw comparisons to other semiconductor companies like Intel or TSMC since the scale is off by a factor of 10,000x, nonetheless, having your own Fab creates opportunities for process engineering that would otherwise be too slow. I think the holy grail of quantum computing is how best to architect, design and manufacture quantum chips with low noise, everything else is sort of secondary. Cloud access is a solved problem.

Congrats to the team!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yaY4Fw-ovM

[2] https://qcs.rigetti.com/

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/braket/hardware-providers/rigetti/
Not the person you are addressing, but I believe he is referring to the somewhat common belief (in North America) that it is foolish to try to start a tech company in Europe due to the regulatory and business environment.

The results bear this out, there just aren’t many European tech companies that reach global relevancy.
Twitch streams aren't free though. If nobody paid then they wouldn't exist. It's just a voluntaryist model. Those that pay, do, those that can't or don't want to, don't. So I'm not a sucker for choosing to fund a form of entertainment I find valuable.

I treat museums the same way. When I was young and poor my parents didn't pay to get in since it was optional. But now that I'm older and I make good money, I donate extremely well when I go to museums. I know that it's voluntary and I choose to participate in funding it because I enjoy the experience.
I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are also helping redistributing it further?
Is that something to do with lin clark (forgive me if there is mistake in name). But yes this is not the first time I have heard bad about wasmer. I don't know if ceo was involved in that impertinent act.

Its really painful to see people suffer :(
I believe (s)he wanted imply reddit's official app displays a lot of inline advertisements and other stuff that makes it difficult to determine what is legit subscribed content and what is sneakily inserted by reddit.

Maybe I am wrong.
The rant was about making Plan 9 out as something potentially useful as a daily driver.
The 1% there is that “the criminal won’t get caught”. Not that someone else, an innocent bystander, will get caught.

Also what you described can happen to you today as well. It’s the imperfect system we live in.
Yeap. Lots of specialists. Many areas are under investigation.

One is activation of the There is a possibility of an autoimmune disease like lupus or MS causing dysautonomia. I also have inappropriate sinus tachycardia and hypertension without obvious causes. All roads point towards the autonomic nervous system.
I'm growing more interested in actually understanding some of the internals that you mention here. I know this is a bit of a tangent, but is there a better way to approach understanding python's internals than reading the source (which feels a bit monolithic to me right now)?
Some people use male to refer to gender these days.
Not going public, but attracting investors and a sizeable charitable donation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210920112614/https://www.teleg...
There is a shortfall in generation, not capacity. Due to a few different factors.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/how-bad-is-chi...
> Put another way, the M1 achieves half the multithreaded performance of the 5950x while using less than a quarter of the energy. That's pretty impressive.

That isn't impressive, no. Power scales non-linearly with clock speeds (and thus performance across a particular CPU design). Compare a 3700x vs. a 3800x for example: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2665?vs=2613 - Huge increase in power draw, barely any performance increase.

You'd have to compare at equivalent power levels to draw a meaningful conclusion like that. Especially since the 5950X is paying power for things the M1 just doesn't have at all, like the large amount of PCI-E lanes. But otherwise for a wall-powered system quadrupling the power for doubling the performance is a quite straightforward "yes please!" tradeoff to be made. Often the gains are much smaller than that.

Of course the M1 also isn't designed to excel at heavily multithreaded workloads having "only" 4 big CPU cores, so it's an unfair fight in that direction as well.
The SD card effectively turns the RPi into a toy. I am going to test it as a desktop with an external self-powered USB drive soon, but as for the Pi400 has been a disappointment because did the SD card. The system is unusable.
Fun fact: all those approaches use multiple dict lookups, just of different dicts.

First approach is looking for `get` in `type(some_dict).__dict__` and then for `key` in `some_dict`.
Second approach is looking for `key` in `some_dict`, and then (only if missing) for `KeyError` in the module globals/builtins.

If the performance of hash lookups matters, Python is the wrong language for you.
GM says it will double annual revenue by 2030
A common but inane question. For kids without a mortage or stock portfolio,
there's not much more to know than "spend less than you make," and "shop
around." The lesson is less about maths than it is about impulse control.
Lost friends because they deleted their Facebook and I can’t reach them anymore :(
Windows Package Manager 1.1
Browsrs? Just get this and read it with page.

https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/9.intro.pdf
I guess they could tie it to Amazon Prime (like they did with Prime video) and just let Prime cutomers download any game on the platform without paying extra.
Apple shouldn't be allowed to boss people in the payments space around. They shouldn't even be in payments. They're a computer device.

Apple is blurring all the lines and attempting to put everything under the Apple umbrella of products. If 50% of people use an iPhone, then by Apple's logic, 50% of all commerce and transactions can be taxed by Apple at every ingress and egress.

This isn't fair and Apple needs to be shut down in this effort.

Apple should have nothing to do with payments, and I hope the EU rips them a new one. We need to do the same back at home.
Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’
Amouranth made $92,949 licking a microphone - LOL.
What a world.
Why do you think so? Because of bad Pr Google and Amazon will not do it ? but will some other company do it ?

It could be done with "google glasses" like devices too, why do you think it will not happen? Because of existing laws or because there is no money for a big corporation to extract?
> Wherever a user gets a critical mass of a library built up first is going to be the winner.

This is where they've been throwing money at the problem: giving away a ridiculous amount of games for free.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22380895/epic-games-store...
I was nodding along and then had to stop and think. Are Amazon and Netflix actually good organizational examples to emulate?