skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I dont think this study is well done. Fonts are learned over time, and people's performance will improve, but differently. There's definitely certain fonts that are optimal.

At least they tested their theories. Do you have a 'well done' study that supports the claims above?
it's probably just out of band housekeeping for the private relay link.

> We do not know what information is transmitted to Apple, but since the destination is Apple servers, it is a strong signal to your local network and ISP that you might be a macOS user.

isn't this trivially evident with all your traffic being tunneled back to apple as well?
The job of being a manager is to understand the leadership roles that need to be fulfilled within the team and to figure out how to make sure they're all performed. You don't have to embody them all yourself. You are accountable for anything you delegate, however.
You can get locked up for very mild 'hate speech' in the UK. And I don't even mean hate speech, but posting "I hate these people and this is why", not "violent acts towards so and so!"
Firing someone for making an innocent joke doesn’t seem very “free speech absolutist”!
My point isn't that it's impossible to analyze. It _is_ impossible to analyze without the context of all of Twitter's other services though. Twitter are not going to open source all of their services.
> my sweet spot has become a big honking Postgres instance in RDS

Why do you prefer PostgreSQL RDS over Aurora RDS? Aurora seems better in every way but price[1]. (I know it also had some growing pains at launch.)

[1]: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is ideal when you have a small-to-medium intense workload. It works best when you have limited concurrent connections to your database. If you’re moving from commercial database engines such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora PostgreSQL is a better choice because it provides matching performance with a lower price.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/is-amazon-rds-for-post...
I would pay a lot, perhaps even give up my second car, for a Ghost Robotics or Boston Dynamics quadruped that could successfully and safely navigate my home, child put away dishes & fold laundry.
Your examples are still straw men.

I do occasionally have the misfortune of using twitter - sometimes a link is posted or sent to me, or I am curious if something specific is trending. It sucks ass and is unenjoyable in my opinion - the worst when someone tries to use it as a full blown blogging platform. It seems designed to exploit certain triggers for compulsive content consumption.

There are numerous similar testimonials of people that still regularly use twitter if not compulsively, so the straw men are irrelevant.
Nontoxic users have lower engagement than toxic users. Advertisers want to see average time on site go up and a good way to do that is with rage bait or all the other nonsense they’ve been pumping into these networks for years.
With the Feedbro RSS reader you can subscribe to Twitter users
It's almost as though people are individuals. The write up (OP) often reads like an apology but I think that is wrong too. For example, some fonts favour certain eye conditions.

So me at 51ish with shortsightedness in both eyes and some pronounced astigmatism in one of them and also general "degradation" will have some different ideas about a decent font than someone with 20/20 vision or my old mum who had rather better than that (plus longsightedness)

At the moment, I need a new pair of specs which I have held off from due to the virus but my reading speed is mostly down to text size rather than typeface.

Incidentally, a font/fount is an exemplar of a typeface but who's quibbling?
"algorithm" here isn't some fancy, hard to debug code. It is the business logic of weighting tweets and how recommendations are made.

There is great opportunity to abuse this by Twitter, yes. There is also a lot of money to be made. But in defense of some of that being secret, is the fact that any publicly known ruleset (with no hidden exceptions) _will_ be exploited by bad actors. Imagine if search engines told spam sites exactly why their site dropped in page rankings.
What you linked to is not shadow banning, and was explicit banning/suspension that happens transparently (in the sense that anyone can see that it happened).
Using a centralized database for a DAO or decentralized exchange is like creating a democracy but still having the king hold the ballot box and count the votes.

Sure it's possible, but is it a good idea?
They framed Trump for treason and thereby completely undermined him before he even formally took office. Are we going to memoryhole that? That’s the same thing as stealing the election.
Wow, I never thought about that in this category. Thanks for this insight.
Meh. He's not the only person on Earth pushing for a Mars mission.

> I can bet car manufactured will return to same-old same-old in no time.

I'd bet against you. Not sure if you noticed, but gasoline prices are skyrocketing. This isn't the first time this century and it definitely won't be the last time. EV will happen whether musk autopilots his way into a highway median or not.

> scapegot in one of the political fights and get "cancelled".

Maybe you shouldn't "cancel" your spellcheck.
In any place where house prices are mostly influenced by home buyers (not investors), the price trends upwards to the ceiling amount that people can afford on their interest repayments: that figure is constrained by income, interest rates, and the percentage of income that is spent on housing. Market sentiment also matters (tends to be less rational!)

Perhaps limited house prices in Tokyo are more a reflection of normal incomes of employees?

https://resources.realestate.co.jp/buy/guide-home-mortgage-l...

https://www.tytoncapital.com/projects/get-foreign-mortgage-h...
As the GC running on its own core sets mark bits in a mark-sweep or mark-sweep-compact collector, it's going to get exclusive cache line access to the line holding the GC word for every live object. That's going to force more traffic on the cross-core communication lanes and cause cache line invalidation on the cores running your application code. A dedicated GC core is basically a core dedicated to flooding the cross-core interconnect, and invalidating lots of cache lines for your cores running application code.

I think you're much better off coming up with some dedicated instructions and/or features to make read and/or write barriers lighter weight. One possibility would be hardware multi-threading, but where the one thread only issues micro-ops when the primary thread would otherwise stall the pipeline. That way, GC could run in the background using the same L1 cache as the application thread.
I wish I could find Kotlin as ruthlessly productive as Ruby, but... I'm having a hard time doing so. It's got nothing to do with the language itself - at work, I really enjoy Kotlin.

Here's where Ruby shines for me: when I'm whipping up a script, I can toss a `Bundler.setup(:default)` at the top of the script, `vim mything.rb`, `$> ruby mything.rb` (or `./mything.rb` if I hashbang at the top), and I'm off to the races.

With Kotlin, it feels like I need to set up a project in IntelliJ, `$> ./gradlew run`, wait 10 seconds for the whole thing to compile, and finally my thing is running.

Is there a streamlined way to run a Kotlin script without building a whole jar, from the command line? I know this is generally not as easy with compiled languages. The D programming language is a notable example that has a "D script" mode (hashbang with `rdmd`), which quickly compiles+runs in a single step.
Wouldn’t “liberal” teachers be teaching kids about it’s okay to choose the gender of your partner, it’s okay not to conform to what other people say “should be” your sexuality , and it’s okay to express yourself however you like?

Isn’t the entire idea behind “libertarianism” that you can do whatever the hell you want to do as long as it doesn’t affect others?

Shouldn’t Libertarianism be more concerned about teaching that you should conform to the standards of a religious institution?

> For example, the significant majority of Americans think that sex between teenagers is not morally acceptable (54-42). Do the teachers who want to teach these facts believe that? Will they use materials that depict sexual interactions between teenagers (as in many of the books that have become controversial recently)?

Yes because “abstinence education” has shown to be really effective. I’m sure if teachers have all of their students take “abstinence pledges” it’s going to stop them from having sex just like the “Just Say No” campaigns stopped teenagers from smoking weed.
But for every manager like yourself who naturally over prioritizes correct ideas there is a manager who is over prioritizes harmony.
This pretty much proves that either:

A) Putin actually isn't concerned about NATO offense (because they would never offensively threaten Russian territory)

or

B) Putin is a miscalculating idiot

Putin propaganda consumers seem unable to square these conflicting realities.
Your view of computers seems overly simplistic. The "adding machine" is just one component in a larger series of abstractions that enable functionality the adding machine is normally too inflexible to perform.

This is because math is a man-made thinking tool, similar to language. It works because we all agree to follow the rules of it, not because those rules are set in stone. The universe operates on its own time, by its own rules. Our constructs are also bound by those rules. You are alive because your entirety is worth more than the sum of your parts, and computers operate on a similar principle. When you shove a wooden board under a rock to pry it loose from the soil, you're leveraging the same forces that allowed you to even wake up that morning, and so does your computer when you jiggle the mouse to wake it.

In my opinion the miracle of consciousness is not the material it gets scribbled onto, but instead the fact it can exist at all.
Last week’s offer was a non-binding proposal (from someone with a track record of saying “funding secured” for going private transactions that were not in fact secured). The pill forced Elon to come back with a real offer that disclosed specifics about the financing. It may be the same price but it’s not the same offer as last week.
Sorry for posting a comment unrelated to the article, but that site is broken. The cookie settings dialog, provided by a third-party company, doesn't work as promised.

When I opened the page, I saw a cookie banner, untoggled all toggles that were togglable and clicked "Reject all cookies". The cookie dialog said that there will be only functional cookies and they won't contain any personal information. How nice, I thought, Internet is changing for the better. I also can enjoy the privileges of EU citizens.

But then - just out of curiosity - I decided to see what cookies are left in my browser. Imagine my surprise when I saw 6 (six) cookies. Those included:

- an UUID with name 'stripe_mid' expiring in a year

- OptanonConsent, which, I assume, represents chosen settings and contains UUID in 'consentId' field. This UUID is set when the page is loaded. I guess they store your preferences on the server and not in cookies as I thought. Obviously, you can be tracked with this cookie as the identifier seems to be unique.

- user_geoip_fallback and user_geoip, both of which contain an IP address

To check that the dialog indeed doesn't work, I deleted all cookies except for cookies related to the consent dialog, and reloaded the page. Stripe and geoip cookies have been set again.

It turns out that you shouldn't trust cookie dialogs from that third-party company which you often see on different sites. They are either broken or intentionally deceive a user.
Twitter hasn't released public APIs for many of their new features (such as group DMs), meaning Tweetbot lacks support for them.
I think two things happened:

1. Elon Musk proved he was serious by arranging the funding.

2. Elon Musk threatened to sue the board for breach of fiduciary duty — claiming the sale was a good price and shareholders were harmed by not taking it.

And possibly a quiet third:

3. Twitter asked around and no one else was willing to offer a higher price — particularly given the downward trend of markets at present.

I think the board caved when it became clear they’d be personally liable if they refused on purely political grounds.
Unironically:

> Meta Store, the company’s first physical storefront, will sell virtual- and augmented-reality devices.
Glad you enjoy it! The next pairs of words will be posted tomorrow morning.
This might make more sense in the situation where multiple hosts share the same IP, as in a CARP[1] setup. There’s probably other useful use-cases but that’s the one that comes to my mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Prot...
It's a good thing you'll never be elected, then.
Also, if not all the countries are going to do it, you'll impoverish the countries that do it and leave the ones who don't to take over economically.
Doesn't work in firefox?
I couldn't find what is the amounts established for each goal. If they are not disclosing that, what's stopping them from just saying "sorry, we didn't make it, but thanks for you non-refundable contribution anyway!"
You didn’t answer my question, which suggests your argument is not in good faith.

The authority figure angle is interesting, though, especially in the case of one of the children I mentioned who has a cisgendered twin of the same biological sex. Seems weird the parents would push it on one child and not the other…

…or, it could just be as simple as you being wrong. Maybe even intentionally so. I don’t know. Regardless I’m not interested in responding to you any more after this because I don’t have time for bad faith actors.
The idea of there being decided algorithms is a lark, is fodder for pop culture. The truth is far more complex yet culture is too stupid and slow and incompetent to understand. See also twitter/the-algorithm.

But also these fools sell their wares as magic fodder capable of performing great spells on humans & have no real information & culture has been worfully mislead by this idea that all this superb algorithm has been distilled out & has such great vast & lofty powers.

The hype has sold itself & the counterhype like this askhn is ballardian hyperreal nonsense. We all know & discuss a thing which in fact has not the remotest facts of existence.
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I'm curious - where are you from? I'm a thirty-something California native, I was able to piece together what the idiom meant after reading the sentence a few times, but I'd never come across it before in my life.

I also thought the article's tone was bizarre, for what it's worth.
My point wasn’t that these theories are equal, but that “the algorithm” isn’t a right-wing dog whistle because it’s used in left-wing contexts as well.
It's not, your real name is one of the less useful pieces of data used in ad targeting.
Urbit is an OS, apps have access to whatever you give them access to. If you want one app (say, a dating profile) to not have access to data stored by another app (say, your bitcoin wallet), you run them under separate sub-identities as described above.

That has nothing to do with the thing you quoted ("network identity and keys are already baked into all your interactions with the network"), which describes how urbit nodes talk to each other. Whatever identity you run an app under, all traffic from that app will be cryptographically signed by that identity.
Huh. I'm deboosted as well. I _rarely_ interact, and have never had poor interaction with someone. So I'm kind of surprised. Any ideas why accounts get deboosted?
It does play with time, but essentially only wall-clock time which isn't relevant here. You can easily make tests show non-zero durations.
> When 90% of the "content moderation" decisions lean towards one end of the political spectrum that's hardly a mere disagreement at the adjudication stage.

Which end of the political spectrum do you mean? I've often heard of them being criticized for leaning too far to the liberal-left but the examples you gave are a little confusing.

The Chinese government is authoritarian left-wing so that kind of aligns with the anti-right sentiment but it goes against liberalism.

Parler is conservative/authoritarian right-wing, so that holds up but the Iran example is also conservative/authoritarian right-wing which contradicts that?

The biggest bias I see for the English language with foreign languages being poorly moderated. It is a business after all, so they probably only invest as much in moderation as they need to to keep their advertisers.
You may be missing the point - Vanilla Ruby is relatively slow and expensive to scale.

That's why I use node.js *grin* /s
this is just companies thinking they can scale w/o customer service. If you work in ecom, you'll know that businesses like amazon and ebay have been tackling (with varying success) verifying manufacturers and so forth. My competitor does not instantly get a brand store under my company name. I think facebook has largely dealt with fake accounts purporting to be businesses as well. It's a human problem, not a technical one
I appreciate the response.

Despite my acidulous comment I have only once personally experienced a silent deletion, and it was with a Google Sheet a few years ago.

It was a "Copy of" produced by "make a copy" menu option that ended up deleted, which I confirmed with someone else who also had made a copy the same exact way, who couldnt access theirs either.
Is this expected behavior when the source file is deleted, or is it, as I thought, a bug?
Why would it be? Which part is suspicious to you? (I really can’t tell)
Thank you! I've updated the intro to the first game - does that look all right?
Because progress will be driven by individual volunteers or corporate stewardship.
> ultimately you have selfish motives

Uh, I don't believe that. What if you just want to help them?! What you say sounds very close to psychological egoism, the ethical position "that all behaviors are motivated by self-interest," that "all motives are selfish motives".[0]

[0] quick read: https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/ethics_tex...

lengthier read: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egoism/#PsycEgoi
There are approximately fifteen billion companies in the KYC space that provide means for automating ID verification. Very common in the financial compliance / trust & safety area of companies.

Authenticate the security features on the ID? There's a company for that.

Match the name / DOB on the ID against public record? Yep.

Check the ID against a list of known fakes? Ezpz.

Verify the format of the barcode on the back of an ID? There's another company that offers that.

You get the jist.
It’s one of dozens and dozens of these technology paths branching out before us that seems somehow both obvious and not yet ready. Any day now we’ll have self driving cars, the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, robots doing chores…there are all these things that feel “obvious” and right here…yet so far away.
How do police know the income levels of minorities when they are being pulled over more?

The police definitely don’t know my household income level (I work remotely for $BigTech and I make over twice the median income in my county) when they see my 6 foot 3 son walking through our neighborhood back to our house in a county that’s only 3.9% Black and stopped him to question him twice.
The point of RSUs is to tie the employee to the company. Converting them to cash on the spot is about the dumbest thing they could do. Might as well wave most of them goodbye.
I worked on Loon, not Wing, and I left before the Loon spin-out.
Are you just hypothesising, or do you have some reliable sources to base your narrative on?
Flies are very good with avoiding collision with my hand trying to squeeze them.
I had to make the same decision in 2022 and went with Django/Python for the following reasons:

Future popularity (other people can easily contribute); Ruby and Elixir are weak here

Batteries included (no needing to make 10 different lib selections for DB, Admin, Auth, etc. where other stacks online will glue them together differently); NodeJS, Go, Flask, fail here

Interop with future data science / ML; no other competitors

Speed of development; Rust and Java weak here
Here's a ~5 minute talk with 5 such examples (where relatively simple ML models made a 1M+ impact at a FAANG) :) https://youtu.be/zyOEOd1HkSY?t=946
Happy to talk about more details if you message me through my profile!
https://archive.ph/ls5xF
From the context of my comment you very well know what I mean: far-left.

Yes, there are people who use the term too eagerly, just like there's people that use the term "alt-right" or "far-right" too eagerly. But we all know what woke means.
USA brand state property objects must comply with full tax cattle regulations, including paying for the Weather Council. Anyone who questions the Weather Council must be cast into a lake of fire for the high crime of Science Denial.
I think you’re right, nowadays CVN nukes get a div-o tour before power school. Somewhere they work in SWOS. My class of surface nukes was the first to be sent to SWOS right after prototype (this was 1975), and power school was right after commissioning.
Phishing for what? The amazon.jobs website only requires a login to... itself: amazon.jobs. So it is not phishing for your amazon.com login...
I can absolutely tell you have no point to make, and so are stuck resorting to assuming bad faith which breaks this sites guidelines and/or race baiting.

Something can be both a good thing and require work. The fact that you don't understand that is what is surprising. If you are in the intersection of academia and govt this is heightened. It's not only DEI work (which has a lot of attention now). And agreement is not universal on steps to take. The NIH has been struggling on things like going to or away from double blind methods for eval. Some have argued to reduce racism double blind is positive, others have been saying that double blind results in a racist result etc.

Work is happening in pipeline areas (dismantling racism in math instruction etc). A reminder that these govt / academic areas have all the other requirements still there, everything from guidelines on federal funding with respect to reproductive health (where the right has put in lots of restrictions and compliance efforts), funding models that complicate the process of carrying positions in various complicated ways, sweatshop compliance steps, virgin redwood compliance steps, northern ireland accord requirements and many many more.

I would really encourage you and your colleagues in this space to get a grip and fast. The arguments I'm seeing above are extremely weak. They are not even arguments, just assertions of bad faith. If you believe industry has to comply with the same rules as folks in academia receiving federal funds, fine, lay it out. I believe you are totally and completely wrong.
What gave you the impression of insecurity and validation-seeking?
freedom of peach is only a thing in the USA. Your forget that most of the humans on this planet aren't in the USA an don't expect freedom of peach.
Yes, by targeting wine/proton/win32