skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked on content moderation systems for some Really Big Platforms and it is definitely not uncommon to have a list of "super popular" content that is exempt from the automated banning systems, rather they get escalated to a human for review. This is implied in the article, but for more context, in my experience, this is usually because of a few reasons:

1) Automated systems usually have thresholds trained/set on content of lower popularity, and they often fall apart when popular content gets flagged, so the precision of such automated bans in those cases is not always good.

2) Brigading of popular content is a thing, and a giant pain in the ass to detect reliably.

3) And probably most important: the impact on the business for a false positive ban via automation on popular content is very high, so a slight delay in ban issuing pending human review is usually not that big a deal.

The last one implies "rules for thee and not for me" and that is 100% the case - it's not pretty, but these services are a business and unfortunately they will always bias towards their bottom line. The reality is that popular content gets special privileges, it sucks and it is unfair to up and comers, but that is sadly the name of the game.
Wouldn’t nix be the go to source based distro these days?
Oh that poor laptop, spent days and days compiling Gentoo.

I was just mesmerized by the scrolling compiler messages, amazed to see something that complex transform into a working system.

And once it was done I usually found a reason to start over again, just one more flag to make it perfect.

Oddly, I can't remember ever actually using Gentoo, just compiling.
Thanks for expounding, I should have remembered more of the details.
Lots of occupations require ongoing licensing requirements. What’s the big deal?

For example barbers in Ohio need 8 CE credits per year. (No connection, just chose a middle of the road state at random)

https://cos.ohio.gov/CONTINUING-EDUCATION/BARBER/CONTINUING-...
Isn’t that just Reddit?
It's not the top, Luxembourg beats the US[0] at least in terms of OECD countries. We are also near the top in terms of primary, secondary and post-secondary broken out individually, so it isn't just that we spend a lot more for college.

[0]https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/5e4ecc25-en/index.html?i...
This is like saying you can’t see what the value of the internet is. If you can’t imagine _any_ reason why technical info on subs would be highly sensitive, you are going to need to read some books, because there’s literally thousands of reasons, and no one here, or any blog or article, is going to fill that gap.

Blind Mans Bluff is as good a place to start as any I guess.
I have never tried memory palaces, but I have always wondered if the application of automated memory palaces in VR would work and make the process more efficient.
You include it on your tax return.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17

> Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8, or on Schedule C (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity.

You're theoretically safe from them disclosing this to other law enforcement agencies. (I wouldn't want to test that, though.)

https://money.cnn.com/2013/02/28/news/economy/illegal-income...

> If you tell the IRS you made $1 million from stealing money or dealing drugs, does the agency tip off the cops?

> Legally, it can't, unless a law-enforcement agency gets a court order granting it access to a specific taxpayer's return. The IRS isn't supposed to proactively alert other agencies about misdeeds unless terrorism is involved. In that case, it still needs a court order to disclose anything, but the IRS can initiate the legal process on its own.
He allegedly initiated the whole thing, which is presumably a crime on its own.

He allegedly sent a package to a foreign government offering to sell them classified info, and the foreign government gave that package to the FBI.

EDIT: Also the initial package contained classified info, which doesn't help.
Clearly, children are not a valuable resource. They are just not productive enough to be important in our society. /s
I can tell by the fact that you call then "diffs" that it's not Google. But I've seen both good and "bad" system designs and code there. Nothing quite as bad as you're describing. Definitely saw that kind of thing at Microsoft though. Perhaps this is the "move fast and break things" ethos of a certain company that famously uses Phabricator?
It's being paid very unevenly, because of our structure of funding schools primarily out of local property taxes.

We spend lots of money on education for students in wealthy districts.

We spend way less on education for students in poor districts.
What's so exclusive about a half-baked Dynamo implementation? Dynamo is just a worse Cassandra. DynamoDB itself doesn't even implement the Dynamo Paper.
Should the link be: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+tuner
Surely enough countries also pay teachers via the government for this not to be a unique problem for us.
Even if the risk of getting caught were low, for France (if it actually was France), the strategic risk of stealing the US nuclear subs' secrets is astronomical. Why in the world would they take that risk?
My fluid mechanics prof told us a story about another prof who got in trouble for publishing the yield of the early A-bombs. He got off because he showed how the yield could be calculated from just the public films of the explosions.
Your comment is misleading and I'm hoping it's not intentional.

As with anything in the bizarre municipal-county-state-federal labyrinth that constitutes the US public school system, things vary dramatically from place to place. One issue with many districts' pay tables is that they have too few steps, which is not good for "older members." As someone who was a public school teacher for six years, I also think many teachers would challenge your opinion that "teacher pay overall is just fine."

I'd like to see data on places where, as you imply, unions decide who gets the "worst classrooms" - when I was teaching in Chicago Public Schools, I heard that was once the case in a bygone era. Is this actually happening in 2021?
What are borderline immoral things are startups doing today to achieve growth?
Yes. Pretty normal sleeping hours.
Casually 3D printing a dog penis.
I live in Cali. My wife was a teacher. Her salary was nowhere near 97k.
This isn't entrapment. In fact, the FBI relies on people thinking it is entrapment, so people are more likely to do really stupid shit like do a dead drop at a park with a LITERAL SURVEILLANCE TOWER.
It's nice that they give hard numbers. I wonder what aspect of their house style results in the astronomical task submission rate of 40000 tasks per second. That's 1000x higher than the new task arrival rate given by Google in their EuroSys '20 paper "Borg: the Next Generation". Their number of about 4 million new jobs per day is also about 50x higher than the rate given by Google.
The affidavit implies they were cooperative, including granting the FBI access to a building of theirs in D.C.

> During the weekend of May 29-30, 2021, the FBI conducted an operation in the Washington, D.C. area that involved placing a signal at a location associated with COUNTRY 1 in an attempted effort to gain bona fides with “ALICE.”
You're not going to beat them regardless. Once a consumer tech market/segment has an overwhelming winner (or duopoly), forget about it, it's done. It's very rare that the market winners in consumer tech get unseated. The odds are you'll have to wait 10-20 years for the next inflection point (as with smartphones & apps) to have any shot.

Google/YouTube/Maps, Priceline/Booking, eBay, Amazon/Prime/Kindle/Twitch, Match.com & Co., Windows/Office, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Netflix, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Reddit, PayPal, Android/iOS, Airbnb, Uber/Lyft, and so on.

Once on top, they tend to stay there (for all sorts of obvious reasons). Reddit for example has already been on top for a decade now and there are no challengers of consequence (despite how much their site and app both suck, they abuse their users and yet nothing, momentum is an amazing thing).
That’s a good point. In the Education sector, I believe there are many private alternatives that are gaining traction and I suspect they are the disruption the public sector is looking for and will adopt eventually. Just like how many older companies entrenched in middle management have been getting disrupted.
I meant that I do not know if Google used the exclusivity as a tactic to create FOMO and hence hype, like the failed attempt with Google+, or was it simply Google trying to limit the number of people so that they did not over extend themselves in the beginning.

It does not make sense to me that they would have needed any tactics such as those discussed in this thread to gain traction for Gmail. The simply fact that it offered an order of magnitude more storage for free, and it was better in every way sold itself.
> How do you disclose income from crimes?

You report the amount as "other income", I believe. You don't have to say that it is from crimes.

I don't do crypto currency and have been wondering whether you are supposed to report it and pay tax on it when you receive it, or only when you sell it. Before you sell it, maybe it is an unrealized gain, which is currently not taxed.
I'm not sure what "update assistant" means, but I opened the Settings for Windows Update, and manually told it to check for updates, and it refused to give me anything. I wasn't waiting to be forced, I was proactively seeking an upgrade that all their blogposts said had rolled out a year ago.

I googled for that phrase, got to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-update-... , which said that Update Assistant does automatic updates (which I already have), and that if I want to manually do updates I should look at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/update-windows-3... , which tells me to do what I was doing for a year. Maybe there's some nuance I'm missing, though, I'm not a very competent sysadmin, especially on Windows.

Anyway, as far as I can tell all this means that they're knowingly writing false statements, also known as "lying", in case I was too subtle.

Now, maybe their lies are reasonable. A rolling release makes sense, to detect bugs in smaller segments of the population, and manage them. And maybe they have some reason to believe that my moderately old hardware still has driver issues that need ironing out, or something, I don't know (the hardward in question is an expensive-ish highish-perf tower, but it's not that recent). Managing horrifyingly multiplexed complexity across a billion hardware vendors is literally the main value that MS provides, so I don't really want to second-guess them. After all, this is why I'm wanting to use WSL.

But the fact remains that their marketing about when things will be available is full of false statements about availability dates.
I’d imagine foreign governments have more clever ways of getting info, like paying our research university professors to just go work for them.
How do you like them AAPLs?

Apple uses TSMC, which means they get tons of revenue and sell tons of chips.

That turns out to be a key advantage when learning how to make newer chips.

Taiwan also has put a ton of money into this field. A lot of support from the country plus support from some of the biggest names in the industry leads to TSMC.

TSMC didn't always dominate. Intel was definitely better just 5 years ago. But Intel tripped up and GloFo gave up.
prevention is the best cure. If everyone is in jail, there won't be any terror attacks and FBI will have justified their budget.
Great project! Thanks
I know this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm getting tired of having everything good replaced by a mediocre version that offers debatable convenience. A meh guitar tuner, a phone tree that usually understands my spoken choices, the opportunity to enter my claim information online and be questioned by an impersonal overseas operator later instead of just talking with my agent — none of these are developments that improve my life, though they do a lot to help the companies that want my business.

P.S. Get off my lawn.
The tone of this article strongly implies the technique will only work for foundational facts, unless you gamify it into the goal of the exercise in the first place: The investment of time to learn a random 52 card deck order only pays back if you can monetize the order of that specific deck.

Learning complex chromatic chord sequences, plays back literally as you make music. Memorising the score, or the script of a play, pays back in the (repeated) performance.

I think memory palaces are wonderful, but if you want to hold onto some ephemeral knowledge in a corner of your discipline and only refer to it twice in 20 years, the cost:benefit might not pay out.
97K is for the whole state. I don't know what the average salaries for San Jose are.. I just looked at two salaries, of 1st Grade and 2nd Grade teachers in San Jose and they were ~$142K which is not bad at all.
If you had just worked a bit harder, you too could be under federal indictment
Daytrader, yes. Flight controller, no. Unlike the buffoon with five kids who loses his shirt, your son's losses would presumably be limited to his allowance, at which point he'd learn canning might be more his calling. On the other hand, his chances of succeeding in forex are about as good as anybody else's.
Good science will be eventually recognized. Bad science will be eventually ignored. Kuhn called it a paradigm shift.

Poincare and Lorentz got old, basically gave up, and Einstein filled the void.

And in the long run, bombast, cheerleading, and fraud are irrelevant.
Here is something your programmer brain can get its nureons around.

https://github.com/git-token
Only $30k for secret military information? The couple were really desperate.
Teachers don't have summers off. They engage in work-related training, administrative duties, and other labor (e.g., teaching summer school courses). They're also required to pay for far more of their required equipment than other professions. Only $250 of school supplies can be deducted if filing with the standard deduction.

This is a case of "just presenting the data" with a comically obvious agenda (per what's missing).
Last time I checked it only ran in qemu.
Monero catching strays here
All of them have very significant B2B products.
I understood FOMO in the context of this thread to mean that Gmail got its users by hyping it up, whereas I would say Gmail got its users simply by being so much better than the alternatives. There was FOMO, but not due to any strategy at Google to cause FOMO in order to increase hype, in order to increase number of users.

Or at least that is my unsubstantiated opinion.
I guess as the gap between richs and poors become wider, the privileged become unconsciously increasingly wary that order may not be enforcable by human mercenaries alone at some point, and consider all these uncanny experiments with an appealing sense of relief in the back of their head.

Although, objectively, we are still very far from this tipping point.
Very surprised that they never added one that started with R so that the acronym could be CRIME.
My point is, for whose benefit was the talk in the first place? I imagine it’s mostly for those who were coming to listen to the talk, right? So what’s the job of the chair of the department in this case? To serve those who are coming to listen to the talk, is it not?

If that’s all true, then were all of those coming to listen to the talk consulted prior to the cancellation?

If not, who was the chair serving?

Do you see where I’m going here with the idea of the “weak bureaucrat”? They’re pervasive in modern politics too. Most such people are supposed to serve others, but inevitably end up unashamedly serving themselves first and foremost.
I really liked the business model; it's a shame they failed. I think the reason they failed was that they expanded too aggressively. 5 countries for what's basically an infrastructure project.

By comparison, look at companies like Tesla and Amazon, they're huge, with a huge budget, but still avoid "locking out" the competition in other markets.
As well as Julia.
Southwest flights cancelled after pilots union sues over vaccine
From the affidavit:

> On or about December 20, 2020, the FBI’s attaché (“LEGAT”) in COUNTRY1 obtained a package representatives from COUNTRY1 had received in April 2020 through a mail carrier from the U.S. by an unidentified subject in an attempt to establish a covert relationship.
>>>Is there a naval game with modern hardware?

Command: Modern Operations is your best bet. It's a $70 game. They sell the "Professional Edition" to the military for $20,000 per license.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076160/Command_Modern_Op...

https://pro.matrixgames.com/game/command-professional-editio...
How many Navy nuke engineers sent docs to a foreign government with contents of enough class'd info to prove legitimacy, before that foreign government turned it over to an FBI attache in-country?

In this case, 1!

You should read the indictment in place of the motivated reasoning minus facts on display here.
Doing that kind of stuff isn't very bright.

There was a very high chance that their client was going to blackmail them after a few transactions to decrease the price or stop paying completely.
I dislike implicit 'this' immensely. It is very common for local variables to shadow instance variables, e.g. in a constructor. Habitual use of shadowing can lead to bugs, for instance if you mistype a local variable declaration a later use of the intended name might default to the instance variable. Ruby is my favourite with @foo, it's concise but explicit. Because of this, languages with implicit this tend to have a convention such as "instance variables must start with an underscore", which is just a poor man's sigil.

Here's an example:

In early versions of Swift, using print("hello world") in a UI class would open a print dialog, because it dispatched the print: instance method on NSView, instead of the global print function.
I was a teacher in the Midwest before moving into programming. My salary was $28k. I worked in a larger city for a couple years and was making $35k for a while.

In order to afford student loan payments and rent, I worked three jobs. Still missed meals and was late in payments regularly.

The cities your mentioning are very high COL areas, and relatively affluent. Competition for those teaching positions is going to be very intense, and mostly go to senior teachers with at least 5-10 years experience. It's not representative of the nation.
Also this was supposedly restricted info. There is a whole hierarchy of secrets, like SBU, secret, top secret, super duper tippy top secret with access codes that are classified in their own right, etc. I don't know where "restricted" fits into this, or whether it just referred to an unspecified level.
Show HN: A bad Lisp dialect and my dive into C
Bad: A bad Lisp dialect written in C

I was going to wait a while before I posted this anywhere but I figured I'd release early and see where it goes.

This is my first real C application after years of indirectly avoiding it. What a life you all (C developers) live. Very fun once you get the hang of it but I've had to learn things that I didn't even know were challenges in computing and language design. It's eye opening!

I'm also new to Lisp which is why there's not really many features at the moment. At first I was going to just implement Arc but I think I'll save that for when I'm more skilled.

If anyone has any feedback on the code, implementation, anything, feel free to let me know! Above all else, I want to learn. I can take criticism. In fact that is why I am posting such a new project. :)

https://github.com/bit-42/bad
Nothing requires inline-specified code to be inlined either.
This is beautiful. I really don't understand when programmers when presented with laconic elegance like this:

(def w 36)
(def s (/ w 2))

(defn slash [i p]
(path/transform
(mat2d/* (translate p)
(scale-x (compare (rnd i) .5)))
(line [(- s) (- s)] [s s])))

(background "snow")

(style (stroke "salmon" 10)
(for [y (column -5 5 w)
x (column -5 5 w)
:index i]
(slash i [x y])))

Very often don't even want to appreciate the beauty and only see "annoying, pesky parentheses".
this looks like another mobile p2p + desktop internet relays chat messenger in the vein of EnsiChat by nutomic.

i will say i'm glad i discovered this. but i may need to start or join a chat apps testing mailing list where all we do is run sample dummy message bots we interface to various chat apps just to let users test the out of the box experience.

cause i only got one big migration to get my family p2p is rea signal and i cant migrate them again until matrix p2p
I wonder if you could ask GPT-3: "rephrase ...".
Can we agree that IF there is a bug in the compiler, THEN the system will be compromised?
To a planetary scientist who is familiar with lunar geology, yes that is recent. It was widely believed after Apollo that the lunar core shut off and plate tectonics stopped soon after formation. 2Gya is a long time from now, but it is also almost equidistant from lunar formation. So the title here ought to be “the Moon was geologically active for almost 2 billion years after formation” which IS surprising.
We've been lied to: JavaScript is fast
I have coded for 40+ years, but I have only dug out code from 20+ years back. I find it heart-achingly bad. Non-portable assumptions about stack alignment, dependencies on ints and shorts at fixed sizes, lack of understanding of integer overflow.

I also found it alarmingly familiar.
that site seems use the word "salary" to refer to total compensation - the second highest (shown as a salary $315k) actually has a salary of $89k.

I assume the values for the San Jose teachers are also total compensation, not salary.
And as someone below mentioned he was selling these secrets to France, which has got to be somewhat like stealing a bicycle and then pawning it 6 blocks away.

What an incredibly risky and stupid move. I am so interested in the circumstances around this. Why did an (apparently) intelligent person do something so incredibly stupid?
> I do not expect you to read this gibberish, but notice how the result is now tighter. It is also going to be slightly faster.

Well… I’m definitely no expert, but I don’t think that’s great reasoning. His code has jumps in it that appear to be loops, just because the code is tighter doesn’t mean I can infer anything about where it will jump and how many times JUST based on how many lines or how “tight” it is.

He’s right I’m sure that his second example is faster, I just don’t like that for an assumption.