skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word hoax isn't correct.

This is satire. A parody based on Stroustrup's many defenses of C++.

It makes me laugh every time I read it. Some day, hopefully many years from now, I suspect someone will write "Bjarne's Deathbed Confession" with the exact same premise, just updated.
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The meaning is clear, and kudos to Twitter for defining it well. But if you think through the usual meanings of the word "artificial" and apply it to this situation, you end up with some amusing conclusions.

Definition of artificial

1 : humanly contrived (see contrive sense 1b) often on a natural model : man-made
// an artificial limb
// artificial diamonds
2a : having existence in legal, economic, or political theory
b : caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency
// an artificial price advantage
// Within these companies, qualified women run into artificial barriers that prevent them from advancing to top positions in management.— James J. Kilpatrick
3a : lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
// an artificial smile
// an artificial excitement
b : imitation, sham
// artificial flavor
4 : based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships
// an artificial key for plant identification
5 obsolete : artful, cunning

Definition 1 doesn't apply: Twitter is an artificial construct to start with.

Definition 2 doesn't apply, or if it does it's a bit of a stretch.

Definition 3 clearly applies. So, "lacking in natural or spontaneous quality".

So, what "amplification" activities on Twitter have a natural or spontaneous quality? Intentional clickbait or flamebait? Using tools to schedule posts in advance to maximize engagement? Jumping on trending hashtags? Paying a person to manage a Twitter account for you? Setting up a bot to automatically post articles from a website? All of these are allowed and can be used to amplify information, but none sound "natural" or "spontaneous" to me.

The meaning is clear and Twitter's rules are (IMO) very reasonable, but there is definitely something euphemistic about the phrase. The literal phrase would be "disallowed amplification", because the only real criteria for what is considered "artificial" are Twitter's own rules for what is allowed and what is not.
There is some older version that's open source, I haven't tried it and I don't know how much of today's code search is based on it.

https://github.com/google/codesearch
Wouldn't the same apply to e.g. the New York Times [1] and the Washington Post [2], etc.? I find any article with "explainer" in the title to be extremely condescending; it seems to me that no newspaper has a monopoly on dumbing down topics.

[1] From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/us-debt-ceili...:

> All of this drama raises the question of what the debt limit really is...
>
> What is the debt limit?
>
> The debt limit is a cap on the total amount of money that the federal government is authorized to borrow to fulfill its financial obligations.

[2] From https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/18/every...:

> What's a continuing resolution?
>
> It's a bill that tells the federal government's agencies, “Keep on spending like you've been spending till we can actually come to some agreement on how much you should be spending.”
But what energy is making us shrink?
> some engineer who wants to keep their job and is willing to implement it

some _person_

it's not just a software engineering problem, every one is susceptible to taking shortcuts in any walk of life: the shopkeeper knowingly stocking expired food, the hotel manager who doesnt clean their rooms, the contractor skimping on materials

finding the root cause and delivering a working solution for all these people will probably be a more social than technical challenge. personally i blame entropy.
Note that the unsafe keyword of Rust unlock only few things. But that what makes it powerful.

unsafe mainly allows you to dereference pointers. References are guaranteed to be safe at all time, with an associated lifetime, while pointers can hold any possible memory address, valid or not (like in C++).

unsafe also let you promote a pointer to a reference by assigning a lifetime.

And finally, unsafe allows you to call functions themselves marked unsafe. One notable function is called transmute, and is very similar to how the the C style cast works in C++. It's the one that automatically selects between static_cast and reinterpret_cast depending on the context.
> money that flows from the rich to the poor

Of course not, which is why whoever proposes these policies doesn't call them "trickle down". But what the poor will get is jobs, better jobs than 20 or 100 years ago, that pay for more goods and services compared to 20 or 100 years ago. Which is true, the working poor today live very well compared to even rich people 20 or 100 years ago.
4chan... /b/ or even /gif/ ..
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Well if you heard it, it must be true
Sidekiq has a lot of code to deal with both of these issues.

Sidekiq does not guarantee ordering within a queue; that’s a terrible, very expensive guarantee. Developers don’t want total ordering of jobs within a queue, they want to know that Job A will fully execute before Job B. There might be 1000 other jobs in the queue that are completely independent of that ordering but we’ve screwed ourselves by forcing total queue ordering. Instead Sidekiq Pro provides a workflow API, Sidekiq::Batch, which allows the developer to author higher-level workflows for Job A -> Job B which provides the ordering guarantee.

For poison pills, we detect jobs which were running when a Sidekiq process died. If this happens multiple times, the job will be sent to the dead letter queue so the developer can deal with them manually. If they were part of a Batch, the workflow will stall until the developer fixes the issue and executes the job manually to resume the workflow.
> Anyway, I printed out the EPA guidelines, shouted them down when they fired up the back hoe that they were in violation of federal law.

When in doubt, call up your city's code enforcement office. They love showing up to work sites and catching contractors violating code. And the contractors will listen, too.
The best thing about the Sourcegraph instance hosted on sourcegraph.com is that you can edit the URL in your browser from https://github.com/foo/bar to https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/foo/bar to be dropped down into a Sourcegraph search for that GH repo. I've been using it for a long time because of this convenience.

(Though it would be even better if the two options for case-sensitivity and regex search were enabled by default instead of needing me to toggle them on every time.)
Very interesting to see emmett, a founder and CEO at Twitch, comment on your project c. 2008.

Some of those reddit comments are less than constructive, sorry to hear you had a bad experience. We're likely worse off as a community for it.

Glad to hear you're back on the horse! Best of luck on your future projects :)
Um, e^{ipi} + 1 is zero, not 2.
You start out by saying their interpretation is wrong, but their interpretation is that it:

> presumes any of those sick people with respiratory symptoms had natural immunity to covid without any confirmation.

This is an accurate statement to make about the study. Until you can effectively prove somehow this is not the case, it's only you who

> shows your internal bias in this matter
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How wrong is Veritasium? A lamp and power line story
PhotoDNA, but it requires a suite of lawyers since the material it uses to fingerprint is high res enough to make it identifiable again. Or create false positives.
Wow. Kudos to the reddit engineering team. That's one of the nicest status pages I have seen.
Your proposal is quite naive and displays the type of aggressive ignorance all too common among software developers. Aged Twitter accounts with thousands of followers are available for sale if you know where to look. They don't even cost very much. Brigading attacks by flagging content in bad faith are also very common for political and ideological reasons.
Users indicated they didn't want to be tracked. Wiretapping, and other stalking laws can be used for this, it isn't Facebook's first brush with the law so the fines should reflect that.
Here are a few excerpts from "The Design and Evolution of C++"

Another factor was purely irrational. Nobody seemed to doubt that I could implement templates efficiently. Multiple inheritance, on the other hand, was widely supposed to be very difficult to implement efficiently. For example, in summary of C++ in his book on Objective C, Brad Cox actually claimed that adding multiple inheritance to C++ was impossible. Thus, multiple inheritance seemed more of a challenge.

He then goes on a 13 page explanation of how he thought there was a simple implementation.

He then acknowledges the controversy, but brushes it aside with:

I think - as I did then - that the fundamental flaw in these arguments is that they take multiple inheritance far too seriously. Multiple inheritance doesn't solve all your problems, but it doesn't need to because it's quite cheap. Sometimes multiple inheritance is very convenient to have.

I have kept out of the multiple inheritance debates: multiple inheritance is in C++ and cannot be taken out or radically changed; I personally find multiple inheritance useful at times; some people insist that multiple inheritance is essential to their approach to design and implementation; it is still to early to have solid data and experience about the value of C++ multiple inheritance in large scale use; and, finally, I don't like to spend my time on sterile discussions.

This goes hand in hand with the original "principles" of C++ design, namely "C++ must be useful now". It didn't really matter how the complexity will evolve in the future, as long as it solved someone's problem today. And once it was implemented, there was no going back, so it didn't matter what people thought, it was done.

This process isn't really what I would call "design".
DXR has largely been replaced with mozsearch (https://github.com/mozsearch/mozsearch), and a quick glance through the really early history does show that it adopted a fair amount of stuff from DXR. The downside is that it's not as easy to set up a local mozsearch instance as old-school DXR was.
I dunno. Chemical plant seems relatively crude and cheap compared to the equipment needed to design and build a reliable, effective, and controllable bio-weapon. Two-photon microscopes and nanopore gene sequencing aren't cheap. If it doesn't have to be reliable or particularly effective, and especially not targeted, then maybe you're right. What am I missing?
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Quantum technology and its impact on security in mobile networks
I thought it was abandoned! This is great to hear it just moved. Is there anyone at Mozilla that can update the old DXR repo [0] to direct people to MozSearch?

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/dxr
that's what OpenAI did a couple yewrs ago with Dota 2

https://openai.com/five/
I have a different take. Americans dislike government intervention because they don't trust the government due to corruption and being so easily manipulated by corporate interests. Fix that instead of granting government more power to wield its corruption.
> Rocket / Missile launchers are just a tube. The launcher itself isn't expensive, its the programmer and truck platform that costs money.

You must have forgotten the missiles in it…

> The PLARF has plenty of missiles. We can't destroy all of them anymore.

I don't know why you keep bringing China in this conversation, really. Drones have the power to make ships almost useless even against small army forces, the Millennium Challenge already proved that cruise missiles were very good against fleets. But deploying them efficiently against the US Navy would be a challenge for most army (but, as I said earlier, not China nor Russia). Drones could give the Houthis Yemeni faction the ability to sink a US carrier, and this isn't a good thing for the US Navy.

> Drones are so slow you wouldn't use a missile. You'd use a CIWS, a $30 bullet.

Their slow speed is actually a feature. It's really easy to make them have a completely unpredictable trajectory. Good luck shooting that with bullets. Also, because they are slow, they can also deploy some sorts of decoy to fool the aiming systems. Shrapnel is going to be extremely effective against them though, so it's completely possible to design dedicated defence mechanism, but hoping that a defence designed to stop ancient weapons against a new one isn't usually a good strategic move.
Well that has terrible SEO.
Erm... correction then. This is the episode I was referencing.

100-something Ronald Coase
The really interesting question is of course:

What conditions are there outside of China?

Has Apple agreed to behave differently in the US, censoring apps or content or disadvantaging competitors?
There are vowel signs that attach to the left, right, top, bottom or wrap around the preceding consonant. You could maybe emulate it by manually placing characters into a grid, but that would be very much not Unicode.

Anyways, if you could get Tamil to work with a generic approach, I guess most of the edge cases for Myanmar would be covered by that as well. (Edit: seems like Tamil only has at most one diacritic, so it would have to be more general for Myanmar still.)
There are multiple studies linking the introduction of pornography to a diminution of sexual assaults : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601....

As horrifying as it sound. I wonder if we are not better off having child pornography around. I expect it would result in a diminution of child abuse. (That being said, I don't think there has ever been a study on the subject).
I signed up and was immediately banned after following 3 different accounts in fairly rapid succession. I had already been "following" these accounts for some time by directly going to their twitter pages on the website and had them bookmarked, so I just went to each person directly from the bookmarks and hit "follow." This is apparently "Unusual activity." In order to prove I wasn't a bot and continue to use their service, they wanted my phone number (I signed up through the website and don't want the app on my phone). I really don't care about tweeting myself and it was just for the convenience factor of having the accounts all in a single place without having to go to different bookmarks each time, so it's not a big deal to not have an account. It's all publicly available, although they're trying to make it harder to navigate twitter unless you have an account and signed in.
I'm not sure how that follows? Lofty.ai is using their investor money to pay the fees. I think they are counting on the fees being negligible at scale.
Yeah, but those rules are set by the communities that use them.
That is a fair counterpoint. For me it was pointing out there are reasons not to do it that isn't simply being selfish. If a company wants to invest in tooling (a smart thing to do, one of the appeals of Google beyond their comp is they invest in state of the art in house tooling) they should pay staff who's primary job is in the creation and maintenance of tools to increase developer productivity/satisfaction/etc.
Not GP, but when you're waiting for three-plus minutes on "did my change have the desired effect," it's incredibly easy to get distracted by "just checking on this one thing" for a minute and completely losing flow. When writing code, sure, but writing code isn't 100% of my job; I also have to build it.
The difference here is no one is forcing you NOT to take the vaccine.
Switching to the mobile web version of Instagram on a UBO-enabled browser has been a gift of sorts.

Because the website can't run in the background like an app, it can't preload anything. Launching takes a few moments to show posts, and videos don't autoplay.

Any time the mobile website shows you a prompt to use the app for "an improved experience", they really just mean "for better tracking and personalized ads".
> And viruses have no particular interests in making you ill... they want to spread.

To restate this without the teleological angle: virus will not become widespread unless they are easily transmitted, and they are not easily transmitted if they make the subject excessively ill. Ergo, the most common viruses are better at being transmitted than making people really ill.
I work on a very large c++ monolith at work and DXR has been a real game changer for helping me just figure out how so much of the codebase works. Thanks!!
I'm guessing what they mean by that is certain kinds of hentai I shall not name here, as well as underage models.

Those are things I inadvertently ran into over a decade ago, but these days that virtually never happens, especially in terms of the latter.

And no, I didn't search for those things, so don't make jokes.

The characterization that mainstream social media platforms are "filled" with such material seems disingenuous, unless I've been living on a completely different planet. I'm sure it exists but I believe that you'd have to actively seek it out.
Probably no value. I was interested in a comparison point, that is all. You can't understand how far away you are from something unless you measure it. In other words, if I asked you: how does this compare to the average person, you cannot answer because this table didn't measure it.
I'm really impressed, and quite happy, that The Washington Post is writing such an article when Mr Bezos himself owns it. Great to see this is not a deterrant
This might be my hobby horse, and I've commented to this effect a few times in the past, but here goes:

Hobby aviation still uses leaded fuel and this is detectable near regional airports. The primary reason for this that the vast majority of the existing fleet is stuck in the 1970s essentially as new airframes and engine designs are expensive and viewed as risky.
Craig Wright is such a freaking fraud and fake, it's quite unbelievable. Satoshi would never act like that. Too funny that he deleted nearly all social media because he would get called out as a scammer and laughed out of any conversation he tried to have. F CW and F BSV.
Yes and no.

If you don’t buy E5, Microsoft’s position is that you are not entitled to even basic things like conditional access in O365. They no longer invest, even in 1st party solutions to allow for a clean implementation of this sort of solution.

They are a company with a lot of good security capability, but they use anticompetitive tactics to sell them. Products like O365 are very insecure for many customers as a result. I should not need to turn employee identity over to Azure AD to authenticate email users.

Ditto with modern windows. You cannot do modern mdm management with SCCM unless you buy Intune. That was a feature offered and the withdrawn as market uptake of Intune was poor. (because it sucks.) Again, I shouldn’t need to turn over machine identity to Azure AD to image a PC.
That’s the best visualization of gravitation I’ve ever seen. Well done. I recommend it to anyone who’s been misled by the ubiquitous rubber sheet picture.
Being naive enough to have archived the board a decade ago for a short while: /v/ too. I’d strongly advise against using any part of that site.
This is the meat in the meat...

> Neutralization against the Omicron variant after three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was comparable to the neutralization against the wild-type strain observed in sera from individuals who received two doses

This means that the vaccine is still effective - but very clearly LESS effective than it was against earlier variants.

We need UPDATED booster shots each year. The new normal will be boosters every year as we have with the flu.
If this was true vaccines would be ineffective against Delta and other mutated variants, but it turns out the vast, vast majority of cases that are severe or result in death are among the unvaccinated.

This is just bad science and isn't supported by real-world outcomes.
Actually Objective-C, https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
IIRC multi-agent domains are in their own category specifically because a single agent posing as "multiple agents" usually can't solve such environments, you need multiple agents with varying degrees of dependence
(I worked on this.)

This is on our radar! We de-duplicate exact matches now, but we'd like to do the same for near-similar documents.
Even once Rust has first-class support for GCC as a backend, I suspect that supporting the long tail of more obscure platforms will be an ongoing process. And for exceptionally weird platforms (e.g. where a byte isn't 8 bits) Rust may never bother to contort itself enough to support those, although perhaps Linux also doesn't support such platforms?
Proofpoint/Crowdstrike/etc. are, by the same logic, incentivized to fix only 90% of security issues they are aware of so that they can continue to have customers.
Twitter Suspension
That is a lazy take. Americans are the government. By claiming that the government is corrupt, the implication is that you and your fellow Americans are corrupt. The solution has to be getting involved in governance, from local to state to even federal levels depending on your abilities.

Which is unfortunate because there is still a salvageable amount of cohesion and trust in US society (free and fair elections, mostly good people with good intentions not explicitly seeking bribes, etc). At least, on a global stage, we are still in a relatively good spot.
The decline of the copyleft and the rise of utilitarian openness
Where's this 'outrage' that you speak of?
A huge amount of this, "spraying lead on your head" is not for training or any similar purpose, but for amusement.
I guess this is just more proof that the Mach-E is not a true Mustang: the Ford Mustang got 2/5 stars in 2017 and even after Ford changed the specs, it only got a 3/5.
So, down the line, you might be more susceptible to a similar mutation. (Based on no hard evidence for this particular virus).

(Social media reports aren’t exactly reliable and everything seems to indicate that your chances of serious complications are worse without a vaccine).

Right now, there’s a deadly virus going around and there might not be a “later” for me if I don’t get the vaccine. I think I’ll take my chances with the vaccine. It seems like a no brainer to me.
Interestingly vision science has shown there is some sort of transfer function that takes the same data we get from cameras to build perception. This is why there are some optical illusions that only humans can see, esp. in regards to colors of a given type being surrounded by different colors and appearing different even in reality they computer doesn’t experience the color change.
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I'm surprised... I absolutely loved my interview with Sourcegraph. I kind of wish every tech company interviewed like they do.