skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best of luck to Parag - I'm guessing that investors will be measuring his success based on his ability to monetize Twitter in a way that Jack wasn't able to (not a dig at Jack, I recognize that it's an insanely hard problem to solve). For better or for worse it seems like Twitter has become a key part of our society, and I'm curious to see what ideas they come up with in the next few years
And what is the cost of that to society? These companies always maximize their own profits. Nobody cares about society or greater good anymore.

I wonder if that is the reason why we are living in the age of misinformation.
I'm of the opinion that the suffering we do as a race isn't worth the creativity and pleasure. Plus if you don't exist, you don't know what you're missing out on.
There are alternative explanations - such as the terrain theory.

Eg if you eat something bad, you are sick as your body gets rid of the thing that made you ill. The process of detoxing is similarly, but on a longer timescale. As you accumulate toxins, your body then gets rid of them in ways that we characterise as disease - eg sweating, phlegm, etc.

I think we are all aware of fasting, juicing, etc as other means of detoxing - ie getting rid of accumulated poisons that are in our system. I'm saying fever, etc is a natural system that our bodies undertake to heal ourselves.
That is true for people with the same level of access as you. The 3 letter agencies have access to much wider array of data and yours can and will be used to track people of interest and those who they deem problematic.
The wikipedia article says that it paid 9k people. So 1k paychecks per hour. 3.6 seconds per paycheck. Agree that this would make sense if the limiting factor was the printer, but even so, parallelize the print job to multiple printers.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down
Scientist now believes Covid started in Wuhan’s wet market. Here’s why
Your proposed laws do not cut out any exemption for research and experimentation, either with existing systems or potential new ones. This level of regulation would create an impossibly high barrier to entry and ensure that only the established players would remain in the marketplace. The last thing that I want to see is yet more regulatory capture, particularly in an industry that has yet to establish a reasonable baseline of success.
Maybe this is a good example of why ML systems shouldn't be used? Ultimately we don't know how the networks that get created actually make decisions so doesn't that make protecting them from attacks like this impossible?
from a guy that many years ago said that the more code a consensus algorithm has - the worse it is. and we've only seen more and more code, turning the knobs and coming up with workarounds, year after year.
Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in.

For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.

Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.

Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
Self driving cars seem like a dangerous threat vector if an adversarial image can be deployed in such a way as to cause them to commit dangerous maneuvers on demand.
Coronaviruses spread easily indoors, people need necessities eventually and will spread it in some form.

Lockdowns don't work and never worked for this virus, they cause worse damage than the disease, lowers immune systems, destroys the economy and livelihoods, and they are authoritarian.

Sunlight and open air is a better baseline.
Co-Founder Parag Agrawal to Be New CEO of Twitter – His Email to Jack
I can tell you right now from having gone through 2 colds in the last month due to kids, that competition in the marketplace of cold viruses is working. lots of competing products to acquire.
There's a lot more going on than this pull quote suggests. Mosaic vaccines sounds like they're still in the running, and the discovery of people with universal immunity suggests the problem may be solvable.
The answer is straightforward, it's "no state." (Well, Fentanyl is legal by prescription.) I'm guessing there's some point you're trying to make with that question, but I'm not sure what it is.

I don't think anyone 'blames' guns, they aren't moral agents. But they are extremely easy-to-use and effective ways of killing people.
Same logic in 4 major FE frameworks, how do they compare?
Dorsey seemed willing to stick to Twitter's core vision. It would not surprise me at all if investors like Paul Singer decided to try and convert it into a second facebook.
> For example, consider the case of pasting a sticker on a speed limit sign that causes Teslas to swerve off the road.

If your vision system can be caused to swerve off a road by a sticker then maybe it shouldn't be used?
This is our 5th endemic coronavirus. They tends to mutate into less lethal more viral over time. Check out the newest varient out of South Africa which looks promising for a healthy future.
Both/and, I think. If you don't like "them", and they're religiously different too, then religion becomes one more avenue for you to attack them. On the other hand, if it starts with you not liking their religion, then you can wind up not liking their ethnicity too.
Maybe they'll ban the Nazis now?
This class looks great. I noticed the course page states:

>"This class overlaps significantly with CS392 ``Systems Programming'' -- if you have taken this class, please talk to me in person before trying to register for CS631."[1]

Does anyone know if the videos for CS392 might also be online? I tried to some basic URL substitutions however I came up empty.

[1] https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/
For Linux there are various command-line players, e.g. mpg123, with this option and with any other imaginable options.
I happen to know it, because for years there was an issue with hardware acceleration in Chrome on Mali cards (something something EXT_robustness), so I just chalked it up as the same sort of fuckery.

Thanks for reminding though.
proof of stake has nothing to do with transaction throughput.
There is also a shortage of supermodels willing to marry me, a shortage of 7 foot tall guys who can shoot 3 pointers, and a shortage of new cars sold for $100 to go along with this labor shortage. Seriously though there is no labor shortage, raise the wages and any "shortage" will correct itself.
It’s more like social networks. Sure you may have a similar (or better) Twitter but everyone is on Twitter so it’s hard to get any traction.

If you do capture a significant number of real users than yes there’s not much difference.

People will mention the fees or efficiency but the fact is a lot of the underdogs have not had to face any actual load so it’s easy to brag about low fees.
> [..] but I'm not sure what they could do to make Firefox a thriving, independent, sustainable browser.

They could focus on building that browser, instead of getting sidetracked and wasting money on other things. Also reduce the friction of contributing to their projects from the outside, streamline the process, bring it into the 21st century while keeping top-down politics and egos out of it. I wouldn't be surprised if their rivals see more outside contributions (in total) simply because they are somewhat easier to work with.

However, overall the vast majority of contributions to Mozilla's projects is likely still coming from the outside.

Mozilla is afraid it will fail with Firefox if they don't diversify. But if Firefox fails, the world doesn't need Mozilla. If that happens they should just pack up and hand the custody of surviving technologies (Rust etc.) to someone else.
The first scene releases of mp3's were in 1996[0]. It was 1997 when things got rolling, just as Winamp was released.

I recall then that even new PC's couldn't decode at full CD quality and you had to downscale. We also picked which songs to download locally based on their size

Spiderbait's song "Calypso" was probably the most popular mp3 download in '97 since it was only 2.5MB and a lot of people just wanted to try this new mp3 thing everybody was talking about.

The decoder Winamp used was actually amp - developed by Tomislav Uzelac[1]. I can't remember how he dodged patent issues, but he had his name and an ask for donations in the about box of v1 iirc.

Winamp owe a lot to amp - the first version was essentially a skin + port of his library to Windows. I'm pretty certain Winamp v2 also used amp, just as it was blowing up to become the most downloaded program online.

Nullsoft and Justin were absolute legends. He wrote an AOL ad removal / blocking tool and WASTE while at AOL. I can't think of any similar startup or subsidiary today that has even close to the attitude / courage they had.

[0] https://www.mp3scene.info/releases/year/1996/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomislav_Uzelac
There are loads of smart people advocating for alternatives to animal testing.

Easy example from Johns Hopkins: the center for alternatives to animal testing https://caat.jhsph.edu/
Yes the expensive but not-ready automation tech that needs 0 maintenance is going to take 2100 by storm!
Maybe this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyocell
None of the things I listed would affect research. Researchers shouldn't be posting these on public highways, and researchers shouldn't be distributing them with the intent to cause harm.
Everything (including links to external sites) should be on HTTPS. Browsers will error if you try to load JS assets from HTTP on a HTTPS site.

Don't use HTTP for API even if you could. Usually servers will return status 301 (client-side redirect) directed to the same URL but using HTTPS to any HTTP request.

Don't mix hostnames - do coolstore.com/api instead - that frees you from cross-origin security issues.
If you look back through history you'll find that every major technology shift in aviation was marked by a period of some instability after which the initial problems were ironed out and then the new planes usually ended up being more reliable than their predecessors. This goes for the shift to composites, but also for the shift to jets, pressurized passenger compartments, widebodies and so on. The impressive thing is that the first take on these is usually so close to the final one that the differences can be overcome without a complete redesign.

But mistakes (such as the rectangular window problem with the de Havilland Comet, and more recently, the attempt to keep the same type certification for a completely redesigned airframe) do happen and when they do, unfortunately, the results can be terrible.
This is such a self centered colionolist attitude.

Not everyone is going to be collaborating with foreigners. Even if a programming language is based around an English view, many company APIs may be based on their own primary communication language. Or it may just help someone who's still great at communicating in English to work more efficiently, when English isn't their primary language.

Choice is good. Don't force your English centric world view on everyone.
HTTP to HTTPS (and vice-versa), even on the same (sub-)domain, is automatically considered cross-origin. This restricts what HTTPS-loaded Javascript and API calls can do on an HTTP-loaded page. Having everything HTTPS from the beginning will cause less issues in the long run.

It's conceivable that at some point every resource loaded on an HTTPS page will require HTTPS, too.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...
I'll concede that there seems to be a lot of work done on this in Julia that I'm not aware of. Thank you for the references, I'll check them out and then gladly concede the rest the next time this topic comes up.
When riding in a car with a long trailer (glider transport trailer) from Poland to Spain and back in ~2002, we quickly found out that LTV truckers would use indicators to point out when we gained enough distance when overtaking to safely merge back into the lane.

Flashing warning lights for thanks is also common in Poland.
Thank you for that context. I didn't know that about European resorts.
Woman Ingested 80 Pellets of Cocaine to Afford IVF Treatment – Ndlea
Lol, I don’t think the parent was suggesting that they can’t answer because the interviewer was only asking them in English, but rather they don’t know what the English phrase means precisely most of the time
China produces most of the world magnesium supply. Production is down due to electrical power shortages and they have restricted exports in order to ensure supply for domestic needs.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-27/magnesium-shortage-in...
This is the Horse-Hoarse merger. [1]

> Accents that have resisted the merger include most Scottish, Caribbean, and older Southern American accents as well as some African American, modern Southern American, Indian, Irish, and older Maine accents.

If my understanding is correct, in some accents that don't pronounce their "R"s at the end of words, the vowel shape changes slightly while pronouncing "four," but "fore" is pronounced with a simple vowel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...
I would go with 10-20 years after last "use". That is to say your copyright is extended as long as you keep producing new derivative works but once it stops being a driver of new work it comes to the public domain fairly quickly.
Covid is not the only threat. And what is being labeled as convenience sometimes is just physical/mental health. How I'm supposed to exercise, be healthy and productive by staying indoors all the time? Also, am I supposed to substitute IRL social activities with video calls and social media?

Don't get me wrong, I know there's some sort of middle ground but I wanted to provide food for thought.
Somewhat comically, the stock jumped on this news.
Yes, but TikTok is even more fragmented than cable news, with far more varieties of insane nonsense.
It has. Modern JVMs can use as much memory as they "need" to, but for some reason JetBrains don't use this feature. I think after they upgrade to Java 17 they'll get it. But this has really killed their brand for a long time. 99% of the time people complain about their IDEs being slow it's because the app is GC thrashing and burning CPU rather than increase heap size.
I think many people assume there will be a multi-chain universe, with some chains emerging as good for some applications and some for other. There will be private chains, too, and all these data need to be communicated across chains, which is already happening.

I can't imagine that a clear winner would emerge any time soon or maybe ever.
There are many, but the most obvious is that Ethereum is the oldest of the turing complete layer 1 blockchains, and it has an order of magnitude more core protocol developers and indie developers building on top of it. Same is true for developer tooling.

The question in my mind is: will Ethereum's network effect buy it enough time to scale and get to an optimal "ETH 2.0" state where fees are negligible and throughput is high? Or will it be supplanted before then? My money is on the former, but it's certainly a question worth pondering!

3. Ethereum is far more secure in an adversarial environment. 51% attacking Ethereum would require more capital than performing a similar attack on other chains.
The hunt for Christine Jessop's real killer
I bet I could cause a significant fraction of human vision systems to get in a crash with a well placed sticker. I'd replace "<- One Way" with "Detour ->".
From ClojureScript to JavaScript&rust; 4x smaller, 50x faster
"Using data on the Spanish Inquisition, we show that in municipalities where the Spanish Inquisition persecuted more citizens, incomes are lower, trust is lower, and education is markedly lower than in other comparable towns and cities."

In other words, defund the Spanish Inquisition?
More like precompiled binaries being distributed by malicious stuff added in.

How will you know which winamp.exe is the legitimate one?
Am I the only one who hurriedly read this as "schmetaverse", as in "bah, metaverse, schmetaverse ..." (sorry if off-topic)
Yup, they did a horrible job and it spreads more misconceptions.
Sorry, It wasn't cherry picking, my main criteria was that this was the largest exact date range that I could set in Google finance, that's why I usually look at 5 year horizon:)

I take back my comment, 16% is awful.
Binance has it.
I've been using QMMP myself: https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/. It's another WinAmp clone.

The thing that I liked about Winamp that stopped being cool were visualizations. net Audio player nowaday are so bland and featureless (including Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and others I've tried).
Probably not, unless you go back and forth between hemispheres so you are almost always in the colder season. Current flu vaccines only last a few months already, but flu is seasonal.
>I look at like how a song might be in public domain but that doesn't mean the singers voice is. Likewise for actors vs TV shows.

There is a crucial difference between a voice and a character here. Characters (any creative work) are not created in a cultural vacuum.

It's actually especially egregious with Disney too, since their business model to no small degree is grabbing a piece of popular culture and transforming it into a Disney product, the company we know today wouldn't be anywhere near what it is without public domain to begin with. Disney got content from it, it profited from it, and now it must , in my opinion, give back.

There is hubris in the term "creator". Nobody is culturally a creator, merely a transformer.
Liberica offers an M1 JVM https://bell-sw.com/announcements/2021/03/12/Liberica-on-App...

I wonder if JetBrains has some incentive to keep Mac users happy at the expense of others, because there is no justification for the unacceptably bad performance of CLion, PyCharm, and IDEA with a version 11 JDK on Linux, given how much better it is on JDK 15/16.

I have never seen any indication that they have are going to address this, nor have they even acknowledged that it's a problem, nor that they intend to upgrade from JDK 11 to something more up-to-date. Still, they have 1 year and 10 months from now until the end of active support, so perhaps this might provoke them into action.

The fact that JBR even exists is a red flag. Should every vendor ship their own JVM?!
There is a fundamental disconnect between what deep vision models can do and what is expected of them. On the one hand, there is a very good reason why mean-average-precision is used to assess detection-classification models: because even people make mistakes. On the other hand, we need to apply the use of these forever imperfect models with care, context, and redundancy. This is why engineers add a dozen other input types to ADAS systems in addition to vision (sonar, lidar, mesh computing, etc). This is why regulation is needed, to prevent less rigorous products from making their way into situations where the can be easily compromised, or worse, deadly.
> The Bangladesh study is likely informative in busy grocery stores, retail, offices, schools, etc.; certainly more than just "inside small huts".

The study did not show that. It was a study conducted in rural areas of Bangladesh, areas with small villages of huts and some mosque. Those are quite different from a large city mall and office complex. Schools are a even more complex since while children has a significant higher rate of getting sick in general, the transmission rate between children and adults is significant lower. The ruling on school lock downs and mask in schools has yet to be established.

We can look at specific examples. If you are on a packed plane then a mask is pretty good idea. Traveling on a bike then it is unlikely to do anything good. Mask in crowded open floor plan with bad ventilation, yes. Mask in personalized offices with good ventilation, no. A conferences, yes. A school, maybe. A bench, no. A large grocery store in off-hours, less likely. A crowded grocery store in rush hours, more likely. In a public bath house, the data seems to indicate no.

Things that seems to correlate with transmission rates seems to primarily be about: distance between people, ventilation and humidity, practicality of staying isolated at symptoms, age and risk groups. Raise any attribute of those to an extreme and one can get data that either prove or disprove masks as effective.
Is Parag Agrawal a co-founder? Is email says he joined when Twitter had a little under 1,000 employees.
I think parent comment is making a joke in reference to HBO’s Succession: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xBrFbNHhYk

The line is a bullshit TV talking point to rationalize (to the markets) an abrupt 180 by one of the characters.
It was a pretty long time ago. On the order of years for sure. My "first blush" subjective guess would be that it was around eight or nine years ago.

Edit:

Based on this old post, it looks like it was at least ten years ago now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710225

Further edit:

Here's what appears to be the original thread (from 2009) where pg announced the change.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979

And another long thread of discussion on this topic from back in the day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485029
Bitcoin proof-of-work difficulty must always increase, the electrical needs are always ever-growing.
While you claim that incentivizing electrical production is what POW does, in reality it is a large drain of electricity on a finite electrical grids capacity and it DOES take away from other uses of electricity LIKE aluminum smelting or running hospitals. It is an active and actual source of pollution and uses more electricity than most countries. You can’t handwave this away or insist upon your rhetorical framework when. The apparent physical real world consequences of POW cryptocurrency cannot be evaded or ignored.
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed

It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
The way forward might be a synthesis of competing systems / approaches. For instance we could use neoliberal capitalism as a starting point, and (as a society) devote serious resources to addressing harmful effects caused by things like rent seeking and regulatory capture.
Not necessarily, but the character limit necessarily limits the amount of seriousness and quality within content on Twitter. It's very format necessitates that Twitter is full of vapid and inane content, and driven by pithy outrage inducement.
I don't think that the word 'train' should be used for these systems. We feed then reams of data and effectively cull the ones that don't work but the critical problem is that we judge the effectiveness of an ML system and we actually do know what the ML systems is supposed to be looking for.

We feed a system a series of images of bikes and then select the ones that can pick out a bike but we don't know how the bike is being chosen. We know it is picking out bikes but we have no way to predict if the system is picking out bikes or picking out a series of contrasting colour and shadow shapes and could easily be thrown off by anything that contains the same sort of data.
Yes, ETH2 does come with Sharding, but nobody really knows what that is. Proof of Stake is the ETH2 selling point.
Don't worry, they'll just "convince" the regulators to ignore these problems.