skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't such short squeezes happen from time to time? For example I seem to remember somebody squeezing VW? I guess when the professionals do it, it is trading skill, when amateurs ("retail") do it, it is market manipulation and stupid social media minions?

I think in any case that guy deserves his gains. Everything he did was out in the open, and most people had heard about it before the end game.
According to comments on reddit, it was on an anti-vax livestream that was pushing a line of products from a brand-new account. This message only shows up on live streams.
"Starts" is a important word here. I know it's mentioned in the tail of the article, but if you have a site that's not shit - please, please, please fill it to the brim with links to other sites that aren't shit. Gift me the ability to avoid going back to a search engine for as long as possible.
...I don't follow. What does non-motorized transit within city limits have to do with smoking?
yeah you're not understanding what I'm saying. cheers.
Relying on a for-profit company for our communications with one another, a company to whom we pay nothing -- this is doomed to failure.

For thousands of years, we've relied on various forms of public and private postal service. The public ones were funded and run by whatever government, and the private ones provided a service for their customers in exchange for payment. Phone companies have mostly been technically private but heavily regulated, and funded directly by their customers.

That all worked well enough. In contrast, what we have here with Twitter is a system where the customers are the advertisers. The communications on the platform are a byproduct. In this scenario how could we expect Twitter to act any differently?

We need something way different and we tech folk can be part of the solution. Distributed open platforms with public funding and which welcome regulation -- this seems like a direction with some hope.

But I will not be betting on a few do-gooders at Twitter having a little bit of thought for the future acting as our savior.
Agree the cost of the first statement is quite high (time and money) where as clicking to buy a stock for a couple hundred bucks is not much effort at all.

While it is sad that we can't get civic engagement higher I don't think you can equate these problems at all.
Yeah. It’s really hard to understand the Minecraft demographics tbh. I’m not sure if most Java players are playing on servers or doing survival. I’m sure depending on what people mostly did with the game, that’s what Microsoft is investing their money in, so really the brand.
That might be the reason that IQ is fairly strongly correlated with depression (and drug use). The less likely you are to believe in fairy tales and bullshit, the more you're forced to conclude that the universe is indeed cold and brutal - and worse, your place in it is absolutely infinitesimal.
I remember hearing an interview with Dave Brubeck on NPR, in which he mentioned that the melody of Schutz's "Oh, Sacred Head" (also found in Bach's St. Matthew's Passion) was from a folk melody, a song about a guy being jilted.
Web3 solves this by decentralization.

Let's see, what do I know that's decentralized?

Ah, Web1 and the Internet. HTTP, SMTP, FTP, etc. How are they doing? Ah, right, in practice the protocols people really care about like HTTP and SMTP became oligopolies.

What exactly does Web3 add to prevent this <<social>> problem?
That just describes WHAT the behavior is more precisely.

That’s not an answer as to WHY the behavior is that way.
Teacher Burnout on Reddit, Visualized
/r/teaching and /r/teachers comments/posts were analyzed from 2015-2022 finding comments that included "Burn out" and "quitting". Data was compiled in Tableau and pulled via PRAW from Reddit's API.
Assessing How Consumers Interpret and Act on Results from COVID19 Self-Test Kits
Ok but I don’t get how this consent system ran for years?
How can one get pre approved?
The issue here isn’t that they collected data (it’s own problems), but they they didn’t use the right language!
Does this mean it will be a long term of conditions like apple does every time we use a website?
ICCL might have made internet worse with this. Not better.
I mean, no one uses either for its speed. But just funny how reputations linger.
Crisis Text Line and the human scale of social work ethics
Sure, but we already know that humans are not very good drivers (car accidents are #1 or #2 causes of death for age groups between 5 and 50). If you can do better than humans with more input, then that is compelling reason to use more input even if you can do just as good with a cheaper system.
You mean "Security" problems...

There's a lot of FUD and paranoia out there; 99% of exploits need JS and even those which don't technically need it, are almost always obfuscated using JS.

Leave JS off by default (there are extensions to do that) and don't turn it on unless you really do trust the site to run arbitrary code on your computer, and you're unlikely to encounter any problems.
>What is their incentive to give better reviews to some than others?

One incentive would be that they earn more money through affiliate (or the company is paying them) to promote one product over the other.
This is those companies successfully instrumenting you to lobby on their behalf. It is purposely and spitefully made to be annoying. Let's not reward that.
This reminds me of, on a very differently-colored website, someone whining, "Why doesn't 4chan's Anonymous work on cancer?" They were sad about it.

You have confused a short-term low-effort collective action not much more different than a Tweeetstorm with some kind of long-term civilizational megaproject, and all over your very own pet issue. Come on.
My understanding is that as long as there is no PII is in the ML model (there’s not) then any existing models do not need to be deleted.
> How is the model in my head wrong? Does the parachute effectiveness lag with regard to the rise of the "heat gradient"?

Consider that landing on Mars is difficult: it has enough of an atmosphere to be a problem (lots of heat on re-entry), but too thin to be useful (limited drag).

With that in mind, my guess is that the ISS would heat up faster than the parachute would slow it down.
How about better graphql support? Insomnia is kicking postman's but in that department and my team had to switch.
18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery
Full title is "Assessing How Consumers Interpret and Act on Results From At-Home COVID-19 Self-test Kits".
>I would be surprised if any major establishment media outlet has a foreign/international office not staffed with individuals very friendly with the national security establishment.

This is easy to prove. What do the intelligence agencies / government do to a person who leaks? Snowden, Assange, Winner, Manning. We know what they do. Why are there so many articles coming from "anonymous national security sources," where there is no attempt to punish the leaker? It's because it's an intentional plant/leak by said agency.

Any time you read an article sourced by "national security anonymous insider," or something to that effect, it's what the government wants you to think. There's a lot of this regarding ramping up military intervention support, among other things.
I gave them two decades and they never figured out how to show ads that are relevant. They never figured it out and I don't believe they ever will, I'm done sharing data with them and I'm done watching ads.
First? Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the moon already are somewhat protected (https://astronomy.com/news/2021/01/neil-armstrongs-bootprint...)
Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'
Is it the "Precise location" switch? I just checked, every application on my phone that requires location, does not work unless "Precise location" switch is ON.
Always fun and illuminating!

A curious mention, that they were partway through cryptographic analysis when they discovered the key in a know set of keys from that time. Why not try all of those first? What was this letter even considered unsolved?

Anyway, a great use for the internet, crowd-sourcing history!
The newsletter is how he pumps it.
"The thought of client side marketing interns ‘play(ing) around with site-wide designs’ should make the blood of any professional run cold."

I cannot even begin to fathom the level of cringeness from this assertion. If you think like this you should not be doing client work.
> Putting in place an infrastructure to test this kind on changes on the 5-10 most popular browser would be, I think, very cheap for a company like Google.

The problem wasn't some web server, it's the Firefox backend services running on GCP.
Does it?

To me, it implies that pride is the only actual utility of the bridge. Disabling the bridge wouldn't even inconvenience
the municipality. So, lifting the bridge up and then putting it back down over the course of a couple hours is only as expensive as the labor to do it plus the risk to damaging the bridge.

From the view of a city council who may or may not love this monument, it's a complete and utter win:

* Tell the whole world we have this monument

* Collect money from the idiots who need to move it

* Collect even more money from the idiots if they screw it up.
Gas - sustainable if we do what Soviet masters demand.
April? Second?
>> Why should the functioning of a browser be dependent on telemetry working?

That was my thought after reading the start of it. Like "Oh no, Firefox has fallen into that void where their need for telemetry trumps users". Another product falling down at doing its primary function. But after reading the entire report that's just not fair at all. A bug relating to telemetry and their network stack caused failure in that networking code which affected everything. That is entirely different than software depending on telemetry to function properly. It wasn't by design that failing to phone home broke the software, it really was just a bug - a fairly obscure one. Sounds like if someone wanted they could just as easily blame the use of Rust in Firefox since some of the code involved was written in Rust. But that's not a fair or accurate conclusion either.
Anybody can request their house to be removed, I don't think it's any special handling. https://www.macworld.com/article/353725/remove-your-house-ap...
Not to rain on your specific parade but I think enough "sharing" options have emerged (whether through regular chat, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, let alone existing social networks) that I'm not sure what this is trying to solve. Looking at your first five features on the landing page:

I already have a set of grouped contacts across different apps ( Circles, Private Interactions) all with encryption (Encrypted Posts) and it's trivial to switch across apps to share anything, especially via the phone, which stores any media I'm sharing ( The Vault).

The friction from downloading a specific app then also getting all of my different contacts on that app so I can replicate functionality that already exists makes this seem like a non-starter for me.

Is there some additional functionality or hook I'm missing? Not trying to be snarky, asking genuinely.
From the contents page this looks like a very cool book indeed. Is there a webpage somewhere that explains what the projects are? For example, what do Photo Hook and Hue Fan do?
How do you reach that conclusion? From the article:

> It just so happens that Telemetry is currently the only Rust-based component in Firefox Desktop that uses the [viaduct/Necko] network stack and adds a Content-Length header. This is why users who disabled Telemetry would see this problem resolved ...

The article contradicts your conclusion. If Firefox did not have telemetry, the bug would have had no impact, and users would not have suffered an outage.

> ...even though the problem is not related to Telemetry functionality itself and could have been triggered otherwise.

And then the article contradicts itself and agrees with you using some heavy-duty doublethink. Sure, if there were hypothetically other Rust services using the buggy network stack, they'd also have hit the bug: BUT THERE ARE NONE. The bug was in code which is only running because it's used by the telemetry services, so even though it might be in a different semantic layer it's the fault of the browser trying to send telemetry.

As a user, I place very low (often negative) importance on the tools I use collecting telemetry data, or on protecting DRM content, or on checking licensing status. They should focus on doing the job I'm trying to do with them on my computerr, serving the uses of the user, rather than doing something that someone else wants them to do. Sure, I understand that debugging and quality monitoring are easier with logs and maybe with telemetry, so I can understand using a few resources in the background to serve some of that data, but it must never get in the way of actual work getting done.
There should be some separate law that would oblige companies to accept "do-not-track" HTTP header.

Then we could just set it in our browser settings.
I always loved YT as this immense archive. Twenty year old videos are still up.
Anyone can upload anything regardless if it makes Google money.

It is inevitable that YT is changing. Shareholders need to be payed.
I thought the 'commotion' was due to them wanting to demolish it originally.
Ah okay, that makes more sense that way.
Looks great! How’s the reception so far? Many of our APIs have some streaming, is that something on your roadmap?
There might be two types of features: those designed for the existing user base, and those to extend this user base.
> around 4%

Which, coincidentally, happens to be Lizardman’s Constant.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
Rear ending is almost always the job of the following car to maintain safe distance.
Basically yes things start falling out of the sky faster than you can slow them down to avoid burning up causing them to fall deeper into the atmosphere where the parachute just gets ripped apart or your spacecraft just melts from the friction of slamming through the atmosphere at Mach 20+. Orbiting objects are just going way faster than you can slow down with just a parachute you have to have something in front to protect the craft, so far they're all heat shields of some sort either ablative or extremely insulative so the flimsy spacecraft doesn't become a giant piece of slag.

One of the big problems with landing on Mars is related to this. The atmosphere is thick enough to cause heat problems but thin enough that slowing down enough to deploy a parachute is hard so we're limited in the amount of mass we can send until we figure out inflatable heat shields to increase the cross sectional area so we can slow down enough for parachutes to work. Otherwise you have to use a Starship style powered landing all the way down. With that you have to carry all that fuel to Mars which again cuts down on the mass you can actually land.
I think part of the problem is that there is a regime where the atmosphere is too sparse to really act like a fluid or carry away heat. The kinetic energy of the falling object ultimately has to get converted to heat, but the balance between the power delivered to the spacecraft and the power dissipated back to the environment changes significantly with altitude. I think that period of only being able to really dissipate heat by radiation is what motivates the use of insulating tiles. That way the hottest surfaces can be allowed to reach high temperatures without harming the sensitive parts, and the power emitted scales as the temperature to the 4th power, so letting a small part get very hot provides better cooling than spreading that energy evenly out over the whole spacecraft.
It doesn't need to be a police state. Even in democracies there are nosy neighbors and plenty of horror stories due to that.
I found this tweet from Jan 8 in reply to somebody who was livestreaming a dogsledding race, complaining about the same error message: https://twitter.com/Cami5320/status/1479893333480599555

The account that streamed it on YT had some livestreams a year ago with 10s of views, and nothing recent except the stream in question which lists 1400 views.

So this does seem to fit the pattern of restricting livestreams from suddenly popular accounts. My best guess is that this has been done to combat scams and fraud, and that politically charged livestreams are collateral damage.
This may be technically true (I actually don't know what the drivers full intended purpose at the time was) but it doesn't negate some extremely sketchy software practices on a safety critical system, like "action suppression" to avoid nuisance braking.

As in most accidents of this nature, there is a chain of mistakes. It's bad practice to ignore some mistakes simply because we can also point to other failures in the chain of events.
I know very little about Canadian politics and culture, but this is hardly a Canadian phenomenon. Rather this is an emergent behavior of internet and social media, that certain types of debate end in partisan convergence much more efficiently than they used to.

The observations about the form of bias in question, as well as the observation about (lack of) dissent within the party, are really just minor details of a wider picture.

The root cause is that hyper connectedness has reduced cultural and intellectual diversity among the vast majority. I don't say that as a positive or negative, just as a fact. By "cultural and intellectual diversity", I mean that the more a particular topic is featured on social media, the narrower of a spread the opinions on that topic become. (Intellectual diversity in the sense of what topics are discussed has exploded, however. I'm part of a massive online group dedicated to discussing changes in zoning and public transit. Imagine that 30 years ago.)

This goes beyond politics too. I could write an essay about how games like MMORPGs are fundamentally different now that there's hyperconnected communities that distribute high quality information on playing optimally, and how game design has in turn responded to this. Effective use of reddit or discord or a wiki has essentially merged as part of the gameplay now for a very large percentage of users. The hyperconnected social internet fundamentally changed how we interact with ideas, from gaming to politics.
Johns Hopkins study says ill-founded lockdowns did little to limit Covid deaths
How do you prove there is no PII in the ML model?

It has been proven countless times that it's possible to extract learning data from models. I can't see how you can prove the opposite, except, maybe, with federated learning (but even then, you need to good "ratio" of noise)
I think there's still an aspect of inflation going on right now. iirc, DFV's proposition (as also mentioned in the congress hearings) was that it was a $20 stock that should be more like a $50 stock because rumours of the demise of video game retail were overstated. If it wasn't for covid, he was probably right on that.

He just made the case for a stock which he had an investment in, laying out his reasons, and being upfront about his interest in it.

It was the meme brigade that sent it to $400 which obviously DFV made quite a lot on, but I don't see any evidence that this was planned on his behalf or incited illegally. I think he would have been quite happy if his projections of the PS5/XSX generation had given him the returns he predicted in a 5 year timeframe.
Aw yes, the hellscape that will exist when someone's pet micro-service losses it's creator as they leave for another org. They decided to write it in a language that nobody else on the team is familiar with, and now that decision has come home to roost.
Completely agree, I've started making my own open source lightweight version

https://github.com/lnenad/probster

It's golang + gtk so it uses 30MB of ram. I've made a website https://probster.com with some screenshots. I plan on making a barebones version available for download soon for all platforms, just gotta get around to it because I don't have a lot of experience with delivering desktop apps.
That’s an exaggeration. YouTube is still far more accessible than network television even if brand new accounts aren’t able to livestream to huge audiences.

Limiting new accounts is a common, and often necessary, feature in most internet platforms. Even HN will limit how fast new accounts can post and highlights new users in green.

If HN allowed new users to sign up and immediately post hundreds of comments or links, it would be inundated with spam and abuse. Likewise, YouTube requires new accounts to demonstrate some actual traction before they’re allowed to livestream to huge audiences because the feature was being used for abuse.
I've followed the gme saga off and on for the past few months, I've never once seen the theory debunked. If this is actually the case, could you post a link to it?
Bezos literally flew to space, with a rocket designed by a company he owns. I'm fairly certain he can use a much smaller yacht to seem important to other rich people and will still be taken seriously.
This (grpc support) might change my mind but I’ve never found the need for a tool like postman for rest apis. curl + shell history search has worked pretty well. It’s so easy to share a snippet; to tweak it so you can make it as verbose as you need. It’s easy to run locally or on a remote machine.I guess if Postman has an easy way of sharing that might be great but it’s the stability of curl that makes it super appealing.
I don't see why we can't have trusted reporters or researchers to have access to Youtube's platform or source code or software documentation to confirm this? How many hours (of us commenting, debating, discussing, people struggling on Reddit, hearsay, fake news, conspiracy theories, etc) are wasted on something that should be a simple "yes/no" response from Youtube? This is a huge waste of human-time and it's such a small one compared to other such examples that I'm surprised no one is looking to tackle it.
Rust makes quite a few things more rigorous (e.g. pairing allocations with deallocations and reference validity). It basically fulfills the job of a static analyzer baked into the language.

It's also a vastly more analyzable language (in that its syntax is reasonably unambiguous and there's no dynamic runtime in play) and it can be integrated well.

Toolchain quality (error reporting, built in testing, awareness of primitives like "libraries", etc.) is also a huge strong point.

We're reasonably confident that we can use safe Rust as is, with strong guidance on how to do unsafe Rust.

For a tangible investigation of that space, PolySync has a project that has a look at MISRA rules from a Rust perspective. https://github.com/PolySync/misra-rust/blob/master/MISRA-Rul...

Ada is a good example here: the language has not evolved something like MISRA-C (it has evolved SPARK for formal verification, but I see that differently).
DataGridXL v2: ‘Excel-Like Experience for Web Apps’
Do we have any numbers on how many subs does the channel have and how much is the viewer limit?

I have a small YT channel for local OSM chapter with 15k views & 300 subs, good to know they could fuck me over if I ever try to make a live stream that would blow up... Not that I ever had more than two dozen viewers, but social media engagement has proven to me to be very unpredictable in both upside and downside.
yes, this is why they have accepted PDF for some time https://arxiv.org/help/submit_pdf

(maybe for as long as since 2004 -- but ironically archive.org could not access arXiv for some years https://web.archive.org/web/20041101000000*/https://arxiv.or... )

Most other preprint services, such as those based on eprints (and in other disciplines) have always accepted PDF.
No one mentioned CouchBase (ticker BASE) going public in July. It’s worth $1B right now.