skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crux of the study seems to be that while, yes, conservatives were definitively censored more often, that it was "deserved" because they were spreading misinformation.

However, how the study defined "misinformation" was via a separate referenced study that basically just asked 1000 people on mechanical turk (and 8 "independent" fact checkers) whether they trusted particular news sources. The sources that were voted by random members of the public as less trustworthy were then classified as "misinformation spreaders".

So there was really no objective evaluation of whether anything the censored conservatives said was actually true or false, real or fake, legitimate or not, hurtful or helpful, or any type of analysis, it just came down to whether they more were often referencing sites that random members of the public hold the belief of being wrongthink spreaders.
https://archive.ph/SwNeg
Truly, the only thing difficult is getting here in a hurry.

Anybody not in a hurry would have little more difficulty than we did launching Voyager or New Horizons. They would, of course, need to build it such that it would operate for long enough to get here, which would be harder.

Or, anyway, start operating again once it got near here. It ought not to be very difficult to preserve equipment cooled to 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, which is, notably, below the temperature where helium condenses. Maybe the boiling helium could be used to wake it up.
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Promises from a Manager
> "The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others"

>
> How is that not always going to end up being "free of charge"? Someone is always going to end up redistributing it without charge.

If you redistribute it. Doesn't mean you cannot sell your own software and allow the user to have the source code. The GPL allows the end-user to redistribute it, for free if they want, but it's essentially a non-supported, always behind version.

If the end-user adds some nice functionality to the software AND they then redistribute it, then they are forced to provide the source for the changes they made, which allows you, as the vendor, to incorporate those changes into your product. The idea is that, for any piece of software, the entire community of users will have the ability to modify that software.

After multiple iterations, even companies will get in on the act because they save money by contributing to, and using, the commons.

The point of the free software movement is not to prevent companies from making money writing software (that's a side-effect, sure), it's to ensure that the end-users' freedom to change the software is guaranteed.

Now you may argue that such a position, taken to its logical conclusion, will result in software developers never getting paid again. You may even be right. However that is not relevant to the movement's goals. Their goal is having a particular right for the end-user. Their goals does not include the well-being of the software developer.

It is pointless to argue that the movement, if successful, will result in software development being a non-paid activity, because not only is that not a goal for the movement, it's not even a concern for them. Hence, the argument is irrelevant.
It is no fun writing external DSLs when you're stuck with your grandfather's parser generator.

If we had grammars that were really extensible (add "unless(X)" equivalent to "if(!X)" in Java's grammar with a few lines of code) and composable (stick a SQL statement into a Java program with just a few lines of code if you have the SQL and Java grammars) and reversible (turn the AST tree back to source code) it would be a lot more fun writing external DSLs.

Every so often a revolution gets promised, like PEG parsers for Python, but then people get worried about how fast the parser is again and it isn't like Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress but more like Haldeman's Worlds (as Pete Townsend puts it "We won't get fooled again".)

If parsers were easier to use people might use them 10x as often as they do today.
Responsible Engineers are a thing in hardware engineering.

It’s less of making scapegoat to blame, and rather a person who has been empowered to call the shots on their product, and entrusted with knowing their product or domain inside -out like the back of their hand. If something goes wrong, you ask for the RE/DRI so you can get the person who is supposed to have all the answers, well, answer.
HackerNews also has competent and transparent moderation.

The problem with large social media companies is that:

1. Due to their size and scope, publishers often have to have a presence on there (giving them market power)

2. Due to their size and scope, the platforms often fail to properly adjudicate their rules correctly, and as a policy are often opaque or outright hostile towards their users regarding moderation (you're banned, we can't tell you why, now shut up and stop doing the thing you know you did)

The underlying problem is that these platforms do not properly fund their own moderation staff because it would cost too much. It's specifically the "make money by remaining popular" thing that causes this.
I love this attitude:

I am not rooting for people to fail. We’re building an industry together, not playing a zero-sum game

Of course this is not the way many folks see industry competition. I think, for example, Intel, AMD, and nVidia can all "win." In fact, when one improves they can all move forward.
The state ones are hilarious, because they offer no guidance: •Wangled Garbfinkle Reduction of the Belaurtiun Disaster Zone• will say “if this applies to you enter the amount from form L3O-P4RD”
Right, and I'm actually still OK with it. This was always a "it would be really nice if this was a thing" play on my end. Just calling out that it's not really the option that the parent post implied.
Two options to consider, no personal experience with one of them though:

https://frame.work/nl/en

https://nl.starlabs.systems/
Full Day Sun Exposure
https://edison.media/erklaeren/so-viel-strom-braeuchte-ein-v...
Once you are out of a gravity well as a civ, why would you bother with them economically aside from tourism? Unless we get antigravity, or loop launch / space elevator / space hook sized planetoids (I think Mars is the practical limit of space elevators last I looked).

Red dwarfs appear ideal. Very long lived, and there do seem to be planets and asteroid material in them. A globular cluster of mostly red dwarfs would be an ideal long-term place for an "interstellar" civ. The stars drift as close as 1/3 light year.

Look at what some of the projected mineral yields of asteroids are. And comets can probably get you other element mixes as needed.

Yes, I think Lithium will be be available artificially with some form of fusion. Or you capture solar wind material perhaps.
Meld is also pretty nice
https://meldmerge.org/
I guess? Most people draw a necessary distinction between HFCV and BEV. They're very different animals with different infrastructure and challenges.
Their narrative would just change slightly, to not getting a "real" or "fair" referendum, one that they could win. And they would not be wrong.

Yes, sending the riot police was a very, very bad move in terms of defusing a conflict. Literally all they had to do is let them run their big show, and expectedly declare the result void. At most, prosecute the politicians that unilaterally proclaimed independence in the parliament based on that puppet referendum.

However, the political party in power at the time, Partido Popular, knew that they would win some (right/fascist) votes everywhere else in Spain by exceeding force in Catalonia, in a kind of "scorched earth" move. They historically got almost no votes represented out of Catalonia anyway.
We do have several local taxes as well (in France). They are all handled by your equivalent of the IRS, everything is on the same web site (I do not even know what I pay in local taxes, I get an email telling me that it i due, and it is then direct debited from by bank account).
Exception 1, I grant, and TIL. I sort of presume I can take that (in my situation), although this directive is confusing:

> The Ordinary box in box 2 isn’t checked

There is no "box 2" on the 1099-Bs I have. It is on the standardized IRS one, so the instruction from the IRS seems fine … but this is a great commentary on the state of the American tax system and how complicated it is.

(Variations on this theme cropped up multiple times during this year's prep, too…)

Exception 2 doesn't seem to list out what the conditions to qualify for it are, it only lists the procedure for the exception. I'm not sure how anyone is supposed to take it, for that reason.

> These are the very same exceptions that tax software uses.

TurboTax does not appear to take advantage of Exception 1. It would appear to have applied to my situation this year, and yet, TurboTax filled out a complete Form 8949, with each transaction, just like the parent comments hint at.
That is definitively not a simpler assumption. Each of those bullet points is itself a new assumption.
You can remap modifier keys now. I've changed caps lock to escape. Settings - General - Keyboard - Hardware Keyboard
A good compromise is having a low level of steady light, but when there is motion increasing the brightness.

It won't work for every situation - the constant up/down would be more annoying on a busy road, but we had a building with a large parking lot set back from a busy road that attracted lots of loitering in the parking lot. Swapping out the old parking lights to motion activated LED ones pretty much eliminated people congregating the parking lot at night leaving trash all over, tearing up the landscaping, or tearing up the lot doing donuts and other dumb stuff.

So heck yeah, effective lighting can be a significant deterrence - and with things like motion sensors and LED fixtures with integrated dimming it doesn't even have to be obnoxious by default.
> They're still doing the work, but they need far more support and
collective advocacy for those who believe in what they're doing.

As a writer, where do you think I can best use my talents to fight
WIPO and others who presume to speak on my behalf Danny? I have
approached the EFF before, asking if they'd be interested in articles
on areas that _are_ in my repertoire, but clearly this is for
"specialists" and I know the square root of sod-all about
international copyright. But I do know that these people are misusing
my professional identity by claiming to know what "authors" want.
I'd just solve some existing problem with the most basic language model you can get your hands on and then move up from there. Sell it first.
Let's be very very clear here: blockchains are an ecological disaster and since they have zero use cases nothing justifies their existence.
They work fine but they’re relatively expensive. 3% of the total cost of a transaction can be a double digit percentage of the profit margin of a sale. Then there’s the risk of chargebacks etc adding more cost on top of that.
> This seems to be in contrast to the tenet of blameless postmortems [1] adopted at Google et al.

While teams may vary, in my experience postmortems seek to understand where in the process a breakdown occurred, rather than fault individuals.
Check out how many HN'ers are still using X220's (2011-2013).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&query=x220&type=c...
I credit the iPad with my switch to a MS Surface Pro. I loved the iPad experience so much that I really wanted it to work as a coding machine, but ran into significant barriers that left me feeling that it wasn't ready back in 2019. However, the Surface is just a windows machine with a similar form factor, and returning to Windows after a 10 year hiatus left me feeling pleased at how much better it is for development these days.
> The amount of capital needed to train these high-quality models is eye watering

It's relative. It would cost more to open a 40 room hotel (about 320k/room), and hotels can't be copied like software.
Both existing and new? New ones will have lower valuation in the tech space as interest rates rise. Most probably.
This is a blast! Super fun. I hope this continues to gets worked on, as with some polish it'd be a great game with solid replayability.
1) FB does have a takeout product

2) Scraping your data for your use might be fine, but what about the private data of friends and family that you have access to? Do you want grandma to be able to scrape all your posts/pictures/etc just because she wanted to take the "What kind of harry Potter broomstick are you?" Quiz?
The C-21 is the military designation for their version of the Lear 35A.

https://www.military.com/equipment/c-21a
AirPods, Pro, Gen 1, 2 or 3? iPad, Air, Mini, or Pro, which generation? And for used ones, where does it say on those products which model it is?

Apple also sucks at naming and labeling things.
That is, indeed, exactly what I am arguing. Either:

* Just sell data or;

* Just sell applications powered by your proprietary source of data

Do not:

* Sell derived/refined data as a half-measure

* Sell both applications and wholesale data at the same time

If you feel like that doesn't make sense, you are not alone. Almost everyone in the industry disagrees with my views on this topic based on how they run their businesses. Satellogic is one notable exception. But I can't think of a single other provider that would agree with me.
> So, if you are saying the government and officials in their official capacity must communicate via some protocol (RSS, ActivityPub, printed letterhead, etc.) that can be shared and accessed equally by other platforms or tools, I'm on board.

This option, completely. Thank you for the further substantiation of this idea.

An example of this would be a system set up specifically for members of the House of Representatives, each member having access to an account (member@HOUSE.GOV) and access is provisioned through normal directory services like LDAP. We do corporate/institutional email like this today, so the public is more than familiar with this principle.

Then, as a further extrapolation of this idea, we will have have all of the fire departments and police departments and departments of motor vehicles and what have you all running their own individual systems (or bidding for managed services that provide this), allowing for common subscription through standardized protocols - why are all of these groups sharing one giant Twitter.com namespace? Who knows but it's a tired system.
Cycling infrastructure costs far less. Road damage is roughly the square of the vehicle's weight. Also, we don't charge pedestrians for sidewalks.

> "Increasing a truck’s weight [from 80,000 pounds] to 90,000 pounds results in a 42 percent increase in road wear. Pavement designed to last 20 years wears out in seven." https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/06/22/murphys-law-how-trucks...

> It would take 700 trips by bicycle to equal the damage caused by one Smart Car. It would take 17,059 trips by bike to equal the damage caused by an average car. And it would take 364,520 bike trips to equal the damage caused by just one Hummer H2. https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

When this all comes together, every cycling trip I take is a car left parked and that benefits everybody. That's why we don't tax cyclists for infrastructure and why it's counter-productive to raise it as an issue.
This are the claims. Also there are claims that Ukraina created the warlord Putin by doin everything not to stop the start of this war.. depends on the sources one consume. Stealing gas and not wanting to pay for several times in 2004-2008, and more like that. Also, keeping pushing the front lines since 2014, each time advancing more and more and pushing the separatists back, until Putin started the war on other reasons and using his "we save that people" on the forehand, while seeing a different agenda on the backhand. That never ever is a justification of the happenings, but one should consider that both fighting parties are not as clean as they pretend to be, with one being dirtier than the other.

If I were in the position, I would try to settle the whole thing down as early as possible in the interest of my people and not try to fight back. Just a few kilometers² of area and very few losses in trade to chances to be a gatekeeper to Europe, less damage/costs, everything being able to operate further.. what would you choose?

The Ukraine and Ukrainian people will get as much can be given. Germany was a part of the befriending project in former times and it will be playing the same part in future - it's up to Ukraine to rethink the whole situation. They lost so much. The help, that Ukraine needs from other countries in near future, can't be taken only by a few countries. As one of the wealthiest countries, Germany will be the one who gives the most in Europe. If we cut gas at once, I don't think there will be any money left for helping then. We've twice as much people and the last 20 years opened up the rich-poor-scissors even more. The people wouldn't understand such a decision - the government is forced to walk on a line here.
And yes, the pressure is big enough to minimize gas from RF.

and truly, I don't believe it would help anything. We can't cut buying resources from RF. Its not possible. The whole industry has just transformed to EV and stopped/stopping production of NEV. We need what they sell. As long there are no alternatives, I'm sorry, so long there are no alternatives.

Nevertheless. I hope it's a bad dream.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-022-00626-2 reports recent advance in the sulphur stabilization.

It seems pretty promising to me!
In Gmail you can choose the FROM address, so it appears to come from your own domain.
Help, I’m stuck in a recursion and I can’t get out.
Look on the bright side, most of us who pay money for tax software get much less than a $108,700 deduction!
How a nice-smelling crunching-sound cash might be not a physical and not a product?

You crooks know that there are some taxing problems in some parts of the world if seller wants crypto instead of national currency.
Ok, so make it not a pure worker-coop. I don't think a traditional cooperative structure would work on this anyway, even though expanding the "work" to people who not only reply but also retweet and like might get beyond the typically 1% / 1-9-99 rule of the internet[0].

Would I want only the "content creators" to make decisions on the platform? No. Right now, they don't even have that much official say, if any. I'd prefer that they have more say, that contributors have more say, and that lurkers have more say.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
No, IL2CPP is proprietary Unity tech.
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> or someone in this thread, complaining that Unity or Unreal have low performance? I don’t think so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31069502

> That's extremely reductionist. He's saying that modern software is crap regarding performance. And whenever he does complain, he manages to demonstrate it.

Did you even read the thread I was responding to?
I agree that all those are bad, but the main problem I have with it is that it should be a state-provided (or federal government-provided, I don't care) service. If a country wants taxes the minimum it should do is tell its citizens how much each of them owns. Relying on a private company to provide that "for free" (as long as you jump through the hoops) is ... shameful.
Yeah, I hear that. Apple's privacy position makes Siri a bigger challenge, but I don't think that alone explains why Siri is so far behind. They can do a LOT on-device these days.
> If you didn't know the word before, then in about 5 seconds you can learn what it means and your personal vocabulary will be enriched.

That was me and I was glad to learn it. Thanks for using it!
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Thanks for the correction, -- I've never been a twitter user so I only know second hand and was probably letting my understanding of how reddit works color my understanding.
10x can come from many different places, a few examples:

- Person A gets assigned a bug, that there is a memory leak in the library, they are familiar with the code, they open up the profiler, see that there's an excess of Object X, they look for all the allocations, and see that it's not freed in one of 3 places. Whereas Person B does not really have a really good grasp on how either a library or the profiling tools work and mulls around, perhaps has to ask for help, and takes a lot more time.

- A is confronted with an algorithmic challenge, they figure out an elegant solution in 1 hour, they think it through really well, the solution is flawless the first time. B takes more time, say 2x, and still are not sure in the solution. They implement it nevertheless, and pass it onto QA, who finds bugs, and the issue needs to be reconstructed, the code rewritten and retested. These things compound and add up.

- Writing tools instead of doing things manually as others have pointed out

- Using a library meant to solve a problem instead of rolling your own

All these things are based on concrete experiences that happened to people around me.
Weather alerts?
The setting considered here is coordinating with unknown human partners in zero-shot. The agent does not get to play with that particular human players for multiple runs. It is a motivating example to show what a grounded policy is and why it may be desirable in real world situations. In complex environments RL method may learn arbitrary complex strategies/conventions when trained in simulations, making it hard to deploy in real time for human-AI collaborations. Even when multiple runs of interactions are available, it is challenging to fine-tune a policy on the fly given the very limited amount of data.
And we hope to see a positive Tell HN post from you sometime in the future. Best of luck.
You just input summaries (like two per broker max) and then mail in your 1099 or w/e to the IRS. Doesn't take that long at all
But mania without the downs is basically what we are all going for.
> FB apparently does not

At least as of a few years ago (~2015/2016) they did; when I deleted my own FB account I found an option that allowed me to download a zip archive of my photos and posts. No idea if they still support that now, or where they've hidden the option if so.
> Sometimes they pass questions on to the shareholders of the funds, which everyone ignores.

Which means that people like me, who vote every time, apparently are reasonably influential.
I have moved between different languages over the years. But at different times I have been proficient in C, C++, JavaScript, Processing, Typescript, PHP, Python, Java/Kotlin, Matlab, R, VHDL, and a touch of swift
Could anyone explain what is special about the “pinch point” temperature?
Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS
Ask HN: What stops a random USB device from rooting Windows?
Ok so I’m learning computer security and I had an idea for an attack method and it’s so simple I wanna know if it’s already put into practice.

Basically it would be a USB device that tells the Windows system it’s a generic keyboard+mouse. Then it would simulate the entry of input something like:
1) WinKey + R
2) cmd.exe [enter]
3) [enters or pasted a malicious script]
4) await UAC prompt. Click pre-calculated dimensions for the button based on screen size/dpi ratio..

Now the entire system is rooted in under 2 seconds.

Can someone explain what mitigations if any Microsoft has put in place (prior to the recent ASR which is new and probably also vulnerable?) to disable this [fake mouse and keyboard attack] ?
Came here to mention this, seeing those high precision decimals -- if you ever need to use their dimensions in any DOM arethmetic, be sure your process converts those to integers and back first (or use a lib like BigNumber, or the new JS BigInt). Many experienced front end devs ignore floating point issues unless they're doing financial math, then wonder why their JavaScript CSS calculations won't work out precicely.