skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of the article is providing a rigorous definition rather than the wishy-washy stuff people usually use. This is independent of category theory. Cousot was working in a different space.
That's a great explanation and one I'm going to steal.
You mean you want people to think? What a concept! :)
Very true, I've seen similar things. Humans can be just as cold-hearted and unempathetic as a computer is, especially when they deal with problem "people" all day every day.
Stretching a point: the economics of elastic infrastructure
Learn to delegate/outsource at all levels from technical to mathematical: the best kind of delegation is to tools/systems/languages/type-systems (eg. "outsource your attention to the type-system") since it's always cheap enough to be in-budget...
> is perfectly compatible with the principle of favoring composition over inheritance

I understand you can use composition over inheritance (like in say Java) but by only using the cascade in limited ways (e.g. global styles), doesn't this demonstrate that the cascade doesn't scale and should generally be avoided?
It's not saying regardless, it's says controlled for. A subtle distinction, but the former is a raw comparator and latter is an adjustment, which implies even with a bias that still doesn't account for substantive change.

I was hoping someone had more insight into process or metrics on it.

Your own post has an implicit accusation that lower socioeconomic situations preclude high testing, which has all kinds of implications about the quality of education and living standards as a prior for acumen. I suppose my own bias shows in drawing that conclusion though. As Henry said though,

"If I had seven peasants, I could make seven lords. But if I had seven lords, I could not make ONE Holbein."
Ukraine's NFT Museum of War
After canceling the token airdrop in early March, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine created an NFT collection of the war in Ukraine. The main goal of this NFT-museum is to keep the memory of real wartime events alive and raise donations for Ukraine.

The drop is tonight 30 March here https://metahistory.gallery/. ETH via Metamask + WalletConnect (not so many wallets tho).

I find the art great, much better than pretty much any NFT collection I've seen. Do you like it? I'm thinking to buy smth.
What is a "Republican strategy firm?" A consulting firm with the Republican party as one of their clients? What's the point of making "Republican" so prominent in the article? Is it just to use the negative connotation most WP readers have about the Republican party to malign Facebook a little more? It seems like we're just spectating an op-ed war, and discussing this article as if there's any meaning to it other than to malign Facebook.
It’s a multiplicative congruential generator (MCG), a subset of linear congruential generators (LCG). Basically a multipy (and for LCG, an add) between each generated number. Very fast, small state requirements.

Wholly unsuitable for cryptographic random numbers.
Maybe, but, I remember newspapers saying things like "Americans now watch an average of 5 hours a day of TV", in the 80s. And the term "couch potato" was common.

And all the snacks we have now, existed then...
One of the comments on Reddit states that:

> Develop for iOS. Apple has humans who answer phones and create support tickets and escalate issues and follow up and respond.

Is this true? Because if it is, my next phone will be an iPhone and I will completely move into the Apple ecosystem and develop for publishing in the App Store instead of Google Play Store.

Even though I don't do anything bad, these kind of news do have me absolutely scared that it's simply not worth it. It's beyond ridiculous how Google is treating developers. At least be precise in the cause of the termination, explain exactly what has happened.
Unsurprisingly, I'm not a big fan of the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem either.

It does apply more broadly than Arrow's, but my understanding is that even though a tactic will exist for every voting system, that tactic may require perfect information or at least isn't guaranteed to be actually exploitable by any voters taking part.

If a tactic is so complicated and likely to backfire that no one ever attempts it (or the people that try it, on average, end up harming their cause) then I think that the threat of tactical voting is insignificant.

What I don't know, unfortunately, is which voting system is best in terms of ease of voting honestly and difficulty of voting tactically. Determining that may involve knowing things like how people respond to polling data, or to one party telling their followers to fill out their ballots in a certain way, which might be hard to model.
Just out of curiosity - where do You get those queries from ?
By which I mean - Are they static templates, and You get them from source code, or they are dynamic and You gather them from logs (and risk that some rare queries will be left out) ?
Maybe we work with different banks, but in my experience it’s more of a “1 strike you’re out” type of thing if they detect illegal activity and to me that feels like what happened here. I get what you’re saying though.

Fraud is hard. If you don’t crack down enough, you get in trouble with the government, many legitimate account users, and companies working with you. If you crack down too hard, you might mess up people’s lives who did nothing wrong. Even with an appeals process- its rare to get everything right. I think the reason we had about it with big tech so much is because their userbase is so large, so even with a low false positive rate, you’ll see high numbers of people getting flagged.
That’s a very hard constraint for a non real-time system to guarantee. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that your OS has a flexible scheduler. I think you’d find running a real-time OS as your daily development machine would have some of its own quirks you would find distasteful.
Kind of offtopic, but how about safety consideration? Chicago is represented as quite dangerous in the media.

As a resident, is the danger true?
I was actually waiting for this comment to pop up. Unfortunately, it's not so black and white as it seems. The service in question is deeply coupled with a Django monolith and rewriting that will be mostly a waste of time for a medium scale business like us.

However, micro-optimizations and effective refactoring quickly add up and for us, improving the service response by 100ms via micro-optimization is better than improving it by 200ms via rewriting the entire service.
You can sue them, which is the normal recourse for disagreements between companies. Usually that starts with a letter requesting documents from your lawyers to theirs
The upside of good support for the company wouldn't be minimal anymore if giant and/or frequent mistakes could get them kicked out of the market, either temporarily or permanently.

What I worry about most is that human support requirements will apply to smaller companies and essentially guarantee supremacy of big tech since no startup would ever be able to disrupt them.
me too i was going to sign up for this but now im really afraid now.

damn i was really looking forward to MDMA therapy to deal with PTSD stuff

there needs to be harsh consequences and strong regulation. make sure people are going to trained and licensed practioners who will agree to recorded footage.
I think there's a deeper, wider systemic issue here.

People think they'll get better at remote working by a) being bad at it, b) putting no effort into getting better at it and c) doing it a lot.

...and in some ways it makes sense. Surely, if you do something for long enough, you'll get better at it right?

The reality is, though, I guess, that in most domains, if you don't make an effort to get better, then the ceiling for the skill level you can acquire by just repeating the same mistakes over and over is pretty low.

It's like having a soccer match every day and never putting any practice in between.

You get a lot of experience playing, and you'll get better, a bit, slowly... but at the end of the day, two years later you're still basically rubbish at it and a let down to your team.

That's the problem I see: People not actually believing that they have to put effort in to get better at working remotely...but, I don't think it's fair to say they can't be bothered.

A lot of people are trying really hard to Make Things Work... they're just doing it wrong, because they don't think that they need to actually learn new skills.

That's different to being lazy.

Perhaps its particularly pronounced in people who aren't accustomed to taking feedback; but it happens in all kinds of teams at all kinds of levels.

Work in a hybrid team where you have to meet up physically to do 'difficult' meetings where more than 3 people have to talk? Have a team that doesn't really talk to each other outside of standup? Got an agile coach who can't share their screen? Have big online meetings where no one turns on their cameras and only one or two people actually speak?

Yeah. I mean, I've had all those things on and off in the last two years. It's a bit of a joke really.

It's not just execs who struggle with remote working. They're just easy targets, because they're especially bad at it.
This is a bad take - the person who violated ToS hadn't worked at the OP's company for 3 years!

In addition, it hardly seems relevant that a ToS violation from an employee's personal account should result in effectively destroying a business.

Something really has to change with how Google handles this kind of thing. At the very least they need to have a working appeals process handled by people.
>being able to see a problem, break it down, and understand how to manipulate it into something that's attainable

Wasn't this Alexander the Great's approach: divide and conquer?

Every problem gets solvable if you break it into enough pieces
How is carrying a book actively promoting it? Isn't the point of a book store to carry books? If it's not on a shelf in the first few steps of the store (or at the register), I wouldn't consider it promoted.
> One of the things that interesting to me about coming to a place like Funspot is seeing things like what happened today with your score, where people start to congregate, including me, watching someone absolutely take control of a game like you did.

People love seeing people be competent. I miss this in modern TV series, btw. It's one of those things that makes the older Star Trek series so compelling. Or for a relatively recent example: The Martian. I wonder why it's so rare to see stories like that in fiction though?

(thanks to the other commenter for pointing out how to fix the article)
The GDPR does require algorithmic decisions to be non-final. However it provides no mechanism beyond allowing the company to just claim they manually reviewed the case and came to the same conclusion as the algorithm. The purpose of that requirement is really more to limit the effect of automated decisions by insurance companies and such.
Yes! In fact, an upgrade path too in the script.
That's not true. Consider the problem of detecting null pointer dereferences. Bucketing points into "null" and "not null" is lossless w.r.t. this problem domain. This can be very useful. When you stick Top and Bottom into the possible options is where you get lossy behavior. That can be useful too, but it isn't strictly necessary.
No, I mean, the efficiency is partly amplified by keeping people in constant fear. It costs them less and it increases compliance. Like, those fuckers just put a question about crypto on the front page this year and I just decided not to lie on a sworn document, and basically spent 2 months figuring out what the fuck ridiculous chain of events led to me selling some bitcoin in 2021, to be on the right side of 'em. And they probably never would have known. But it's the fear that they might've known, you see, that makes them so efficient.
The internet has become larger.

People's attention is more dispersed (additionally, several platforms are actively fighting for their attention by using all tricks in the book).

Hence the signal-to-noise ratio has dropped. The people who would leave thoughtful comments are busy with other things.

A few communities still stand (hacker news included).
A lot of my friends are moving into big condo complexes in the suburbs. Rents are cheaper, the amenities like pools are fun, and they’re closer to work. They have to drive everywhere but that’s not really a gigantic problem - in fact it’s much more convenient than dealing with city transportation. They can even Uber to get drunk in the little town centers.
Not where the money is seeing as its free.
I've spent an inordinate amount of time banning fraudsters from my own cloud platform. The bots that companies write to do this are designed to fight off other bots. If you have an appeals process, the humans that control the malicious bots will show up to abuse the appeals process. One of my favorite cases was a user that signed up with hundreds of stolen credit card numbers (all from the same IP address, as they are apt to do), got banned, and then opened an issue in our open source repo complaining of trouble logging in. Yeah, you're having trouble because I banned you and your entire network of bots.

There is a balance, of course, but if you haven't seen how much automated abuse there is on the Internet, be careful of what you wish for. Even the tiniest of the tiny services suffer from massive amount of automated abuse. At that tiny scale, it was nearly impossible for me to keep up with the abuse without the help of automation, very broad bans, and deleting related accounts by walking a reputation graph (like Google is being criticized for doing here). At Google's scale, I don't think there are enough humans on Earth to deal with the abuse. As a result, there are going to be some innocent casualties.

I don't think it's an ethics thing, it's simply not possible to run a business without some sort of process like this. There are laws, rules, and processes that could cut all this down to levels that could be managed by humans, but the cure might be worse than the disease. (For example, it would be great if there was a 1:1 mapping between your national ID card and your IP address. All of these stolen-credit-card users could then be imprisoned. But, you know that that's a terrible thing, because it will also be used against anyone criticizing governments or large corporations.)
> In the US at least, where these companies are headquartered, every example you gave has an alternative that doesn't require an app.

There are countless U.S. examples where an app (native and/or web) is the only practical interface you have to a company or service.

For example: What's the phone number to YouTube customer service if someone needs to discuss a misunderstanding about a copyright strike?
You're right, I was too harsh. Everyone gets the same ethical review.
Could this be linked with Wikidata and, if need be, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data
Why the focus on the fact that it was a Republican strategy firm? Why does that matter?

Being the Washington Post, I'm sure it's to insinuate that all the bad things that happen are Republican-led. Only the GOP plays dirty tricks, right? After the Steele dossier, the Biden laptop, the Russia collusion misinformation campaign, and willfully hiding the mental decline of the current president - you'd think we'd get past the whole "only Republicans bad" narrative. But I guess that just goes to show how successfully the WashPo and others are running their own strategies to push agendas...
I excluded the traffic because the price is basically 0. This is internal traffic and a bunch of HTTP requests. It doesn't cost us $3000 a month.
Fascinating. Thanks for writing this up, I never thought about dates in this manner.

It's interesting that you bring up GPS, I'm almost completely geographically disabled, if that makes sense. I struggle somewhat in gridded cities, but I can work things out logically. As soon as I'm in a forrest I almost immediately become lost. I'm relying on a 4 tiered system these days - my phone, my gps enabled watch and an InReach when I'm really out of range. The fourth and the most reliable is my friend who has an incredible sense of direction.

I'm not sure whether my lack of geo-sense comes from relying on GPS too much and losing the ability or never having it in the first place. Have you found anything useful with respect to improving your geographical awareness?

Back to dates though... Thinking about it, I've made a mistake before where end of the month boundary dates (eg February 27th and March 2) were "a month apart" rather than next to each other. I haven't found anything particularly useful in this regard other than diligent calendaring. I suspect it has something to do with limited working memory. Future planning is particularly hard. That seems to be a universal constant though.

In terms of past events, I've found it useful to stick things in spaced repetition systems (like Anki). It was always difficult for me to recall where I was camping or travelling last year. SRS made it easier:

Q: Where was I travelling in the summer of 2020?
A: I was in blah blah.

Q: When did we go visit an abandoned mansion?
A: Spring of 2022.

Thanks for an interesting conversation.
Everything is bad in extreme, we care about how bad. E.g. what’s the risk equivalence of X ppm micro-plastics compared to Y amount of sugar intake.
Covid vaccines: head-to-head comparison reveals how they stack up
I would be making 1/4 of my current salary if I didn't work in a place were impromptu discussions could happen.

If my job was WFH (its not and can't be), I would still probably be doing the same stupid entry level shit with mediocre raises. Thanks to impromptu/casual conversation though, I got pulled out from under my manager and moved to a much higher position in another department (this was over a year or so, not just a one off conversation)

I could interact with higherups without being viewed as "going over my bosses head", and to me that's insanely valuable.
....but if I'm understanding the article, and comments here from others more knowledgeable than me, this development is, in fact, work being done on aneutronic fusion.
> Do you think everyone who writes a book or stages a play does so only because of ego

Yes. Especially in this day and age when there are other options, like a Blog, with a comment section.

You write a book because you want something to put on your resume.

A notable exception here would be Andy Weir's "The Martian", which started as a blog, with a comment section, where he received many corrections as he developed it.
It always amazes me the number of people - especially programmers/developers - who absolutely can NOT read a stacktrace of any kind
Most of his principles seem great, it's just the less is more, and the idea of honestly(Which sounds great taken literally but has problems when interpreted as truth to materials).

We have the tech to make dishonest things durable now. We can make plastic look like whatever we want. We can make something hollow and still stand up, because we can use software to optimize the reinforcements.

It might not always look or feel "high quality" on close inspection, but it will look great sitting on a desk, and won't break itself or your foot if you drop it, for 1/10th of the price of "Luxury" stuff designers like to make, full of glass and metal.

The luxury stuff will be destroyed if not very well cared for(Which seems to be considered almost a feature by fancy designers who want design to reflect the stability and resources of the owner more than the accuracy of some industry guy's FEM model).

And we can do things in software rather than hardware on many devices.

Software, and new forms of manufacturing, also let us pack in features without making things heavy or delicate, often saving the need for multiple separate devices, which saves space, resources, and money, and makes redundancy easier(You'll probably always have a USB charger at home they're randomly built into everything these days, everything online has a clock, etc).

It definitely takes more effort to get highly feature dense and low-substance design right, but it's amazing when they do. You can have something that costs nothing, looks great, and lasts a decade, almost like the real defining element is the structure, with the physical material just kind of supporting it the way a computer supports software.
This is definitely not universal. Our team switched to a soft hybrid model whereby we almost always work from the office, but use WFH for deliveries, snow days, kid sick days, etc. We did that as soon as the vaccine became widely available and it completely turbocharged our productivity. We delivered more in the first three months after coming back than the preceding year of fully-remote work.
Not gold, but similar: consuming silver has a long history, continuing right up to this day, in spite of the fact that it just seems to ruin your complexion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2297471.stm
I didn't really present any strong opinions just raising questions off what I am reading and seeing based on trends.

It's quite bizarre that you would go out of your way to try and gaslight me that Facebook's toxicity is my own imagination.

Do you work for facebook in some way, sold a company to them or own their stocks?
Here's a very straightforward visual example of good vs bad: https://noyb.eu/en/project/cookie-banners (it's the first header image showing an arrow from the bad to the good)
My next job will very likely be full remote.
A survey.
Credit worthiness, yes, though that’s typically at approval time and not later on.

Risk bans or bans for suspicious / illegal activity? Totally different story (see the stories of Stripe / PayPal / etc shutting down accounts). The government (at least in the US) will punish banks pretty hard if they don’t crack down on fraud hard, so banks tend to lean more towards over enforcement.
The one difference is that most of big tech these days doesn't actually have any competition, and will collude in ways like wage fixing in any areas they do. As such, it's not too surprising to see they don't care about competitors - they don't have any.
I know. I don't want to keep doing that. I don't care how good your new features are.
Hello everyone, this is a new post from the Ably Engineering series. This time, we talk about a very important topic in cloud computing: autoscaling.

Hope you like it and let me know if you have any questions!
I think that plan hits a wall for heat dissipation and nutrient/oxygen consumption - not sure we have lungs large enough to keep a brain doing 10x more computation oxygenated, nor perspiration glands to keep it cool.

But I'd be totally in to a 10% increase in IQ in exchange to being able to eat 10% more sugar.
It's a very neat visualisation. This is only 100,000 stars out of 200-400 billion in our galaxy. And the next level up- a flythrough 400,000 galaxies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw

Now that really makes me feel insignificant.
A lot of the people in the GSA are civil service employees. They don't have a lot of turn over administration to administration.

To an extent the spoils system has been a bit in the past for a while.
> such numbers mostly make sense in the US because it is (socially, in terms of security) a desert hellscape.

Tough but fair.
What you're talking about here is trying to negotiate with someone who is trying to make it very clear from the start that they don't want to be fair. Unless you are paying lawyers 50k+ to help you, well you can waste your time but in the end it probably won't matter all that much.