skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many accounts are needed to meaningfully influence a Twitter story? How much can you charge for a checkmark that people will pay for?

Because if a checkmark costs $1/month for example, then spending a couple grand to be able to turn any story you want into "trending" is chump change for corporations, governments, and any particularly motivated silicon-valley salary'd employee.

There are already services which essentially sell you retweets - all this is is an adjustment to their business model to sell "verified retweets" and "aged verified retweets" (in case you want accounts with a posting history to do it).

It's a cost model adjustment, that might not even cost that much - after all if "verified" accounts receive less scrutiny from anti-bot algorithms, then they'd be cheaper to run then the developers/workers who need to keep your sockpuppet farm ahead of the game.
Honestly, Modern Medicine doesn't provide good evidence or reasoning for people around risks like surgery. From the systemic point of view, frequentist statistics permit doctors and policy-writers to consider risks, but an individual doesn't get to re-play the experiment 1000s of times to get results that represent the statistics. You don't get to try again if you get a complication or die on the table but your doctor and the system do. The very human desire to regain "health" and comfort combined with a not unreasonable pitch from a doctor tend to override that rationale hesitance. Risking death or further disability to be freed of pain and discomfort is an oddly acceptable risk.
An underrated feature of twitter is the muted words list. I added a bunch of political terms and the anger in my feed basically went away.
Cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fZeFSL...
Its likely that they're a front for money laundering. It used to be Souvenir shops until that scam was broken up by the police and HMRC. Before that it was the auctions scams and the closing down sales shops. These shops are probably being investigated now, in a year or so we'll probably see a major operation to take down the people behind it.
Macs have long reserved ~50w of power for the display, whether or not all of it is used is a different question. Giving them the benefit of the doubt (and accounting for screens that can max out at 1500 nits), I think an upper bound of 40w is pretty close to the actual figure. OLED will always pull less power since it doesn't need a backlight, in contrast to the hundreds of backlights on newer Macs.
Housing prices were unreasonably low, people realized it, and now we ran out of housing inventory in the very desirable parts of the country. Still plenty of housing in other areas.

Manhattan used to be very cheap, but it hasn't been that way for at least 30 years. Too many people want to live there now. Basic economic rules of supply and demand dictate the prices.

The only solution is to not play the game. You want a house, buy it where you can afford. There's no magic fairy that will sell you a standalone house in Manhatten on a cashier's salary.
Alcohol does have some calories of its own. I’m unsure to what degree that balances out the reduced sugar, though.
You could provision an EC2 instance and mount some persistent storage. I'm not sure if it would make a lot of sense to take advantage of EKS or GKE.
Is there a way to get rid of the right sidebar with the flying smileys, hearts and other reactions? Seems to defeat the purpose.
> Of course, filling out the same hundred questions for every job would be terrible. So there should be a website that collects all the questions and lets you resend them to each employer, and lets the employer pick which questions they require and which they don't.

This is what I did with Obsidian.md, any questions for the applications will be copied and pasted to Obsidian with my answers. If I come across a different applications that have similar question, I look up in Obsidian and use my answer from there with small modification of my answer to fit their culture or mission statement.

It helps a lot because often the company I applied for usually asked for Cover Letter. Obsidian.md have my cover letters for various companies I applied for and it is easy to look back to those and find the one that fits best or create a new entry with a copy of the previous letter and modify it from there.
Women's clothing, especially boutiques, are probably not a bad choice for money laundering if you could somehow pass knockoff stuff as genuine luxury articles, and have your dirty money come in as the delta between knockoff and genuine wholesale. Pet shops? I dunno.
Also this article is a must-read to understand about the shortcomings of Go 1.18 implementation of generics:

https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-...
I built an online code editor that monitors what you code and automatically turns it into a tutorial.

The idea is to allow developers to create tutorials quickly, without the hassle of video editing or having to use essay-like blog sites like Medium to demo code.

How it works?

It is a browser-based development environment where you simply code as you normally would in editors like VSCode or Atom. In the background, it tracks every action you perform (writing in files, running commands, making notes etc). With the click of a button, the editor generates a playback of your actions which you can share on the platform for others to view and interact with.

Notes:

1. The editor is not optimized for mobile screens, try it out on laptop/desktop for a better experience.
2. The application is in its early stages, test it out and feel free to join the discord community here: https://discord.gg/4Yw4sVcgdA

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.
... if you know enough to realize it's referring to a fallacy, then you must surely know what the sentence means.
Very very nice vibe! Kind of Elite-esque.

I carried the first cargo to PTO and landed there but nothing happened. Was there I was supposed to do?
Actually, libertarianism is entirely constructed by what you can call alt-right circles. See Jane Mayer's Dark Money.
Yes, it would be helpful to have a breakdown on what the spending was on. I would assume most of it is infrastructure like roads and whatnot, which people living in the expensive counties also benefit from (shipping goods, ease of travel, etc).

It was funny, when Trump remarked about "shithole countries," he obviously hasn't seen rural America in a long time. As a country, we've allowed it to deteriorate quite a bit.
Definitely, it was a resounding failure of the modern Neo-liberal ideas. What worries me though is the cakeist populists who are feeding on resentment and who are in power or close to it in several European countries (including the UK). There will need to be a tax increase, probably not for most people, but in terms of tax revenues.
False in Coq/Agda/Idris is a zero type, not a unit type. True is a unit type. Now PHP is making the opposite choice. Confused enough?
I don't really think they are trying to solve this problem as much as being reactive to complaints.
> just look at how quickly advertisers abandoned YouTube following the wall street journal reporting.

There's not a chart anywhere I can find that shows advertisers reducing their spending on youtube. I "articles" (potentially paid for advertisments) claiming that was happening; but as far as I'm aware, there's no evidence that it made a material difference.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/289658/youtube-global-ne...

Unfortunately, the data wasn't public during the controversy; so it's not really clear besides anecdotal virtue signaling by companies.
1. people can say whatever they want

2. no abusive comments

Content moderation is difficult.
Do you know how many Aadhar verifications I can buy for a dollar each here in India? Not a billion but it’s still a lot. Just saying.
Yes if fucking everyone started saying they can hear colors. Suddenly, half the population lacks a voice in their head or claims not to be able to imagine images.

Not being "neurotypical" whatever the fuck that means, has become SUPER trendy. Out of nowhere, suddenly everyone has a mental disorder.

I don't fucking buy it.
Or flag the users. Of course they'll complain about being painted with a label but it's better than being banned.
Is the python process a direct child of the UI process?
That is just how a VPN works in general, nothing special.
There are a lot of people doing "Carnivore Diets" right now, that is, to eat only meat and just meat all throughout the day. I think this is a very important idea, it's not that these people can only eat meat, but in other diets there's a particular food that is triggering an auto-immune response in their bodies and they just cannot pinpoint exactly which one is it.

So if some food triggers an autoimmune response -- the solution is just to stop eating (well kind-of.) This idea is augmented and explored much more in oligoantigenic diets where you go about removing different specific food (e.g. bananas one week, eggs in another) from your diet each week until you can tell which one was causing side-effects.

There is a mental health analogue for this: meditation. You remove everything, you sit completely still and you focus on nothing. This would be the carnivore diet, but you can also go the oligoantogenic route, go about removing bad habits that are causing side-effects maybe video-games, Tiktok, instagram, or what-have-you that is just too much too fast.
> There's an eye watering level of wealth at the top.

the top 1% of UK earners account for 30% of all income tax.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/13/richest-bri...
I am not a lawyer, but it seems that intentionally and falsely shouting fire to cause panic would not have any kind of blanket 1A protection. From https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...:

> And in fact the line from Justice Holmes in Schenck v. United States is “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” That “falsely” is what’s doing the work, both in Justice Holmes’s hypothetical, and in how such a false shout would be treated by First Amendment law today. Knowingly false statements of fact are often constitutionally unprotected — consider, for instance, libel, fraud, perjury, and false light invasion of privacy. That would presumably apply to knowing falsehoods that cause a panic.

Also see: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1038.

That said, this doesn't change your broader point that it seems that most people (myself included) are not very clear on 1A exceptions.
Not completely related but I learnt programming partly from photocopies of "Game programming" books in BASIC (which I had to port dialects).

My implementations of those programs are all gone. I have many of them on 5.25" disks but even if they're working, I have no way of reading them now.

However, the photocopies books are still intact with the pages held together by an aging paper tag. Go figure.
Good design choice for new lang. What about when there is 20+ years of history? Can't just move fast and break things.
Thinking a colony on Mars could be viable without support from Earth is just escapism.
Sorry, but could you help me connect the dots here. How would a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast be relevant here? You know that both Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are on Twitter now right? Are they forcing trans people to come out as trans? Are you suggesting that if Elon Musk takes Twitter private, that guests on Joe Rogan's podcast will be free to be on Twitter and then make trans people come out as trans?

I'm really confused here. Joe Rogan has had other guests like Sanjay Gupta and Bernie Sanders on as well. Would their comments be further amplified on Twitter (or whatever you are envisioning here) as well via a similar indirect link to Elon Musk?
Q&A is the stick some distros use to ensure new software works for most, not some, before it is mainlined.
Humans recognizing patterns nature did actually reveal something concrete and applicable. See the Golden Ratio.
"Dinosaurs nickel and dime you for everything!"
Gulf countries love these things for some reason. Their exhibition halls are staggering in size and are in constant use.

There is a collective low self-esteem issue at work in their perpetual desire to be respected as modern, developed countries, not realising that the way they promote that, while largely ignoring labor, environmental and justice standards for example, often reinforces the negative perceptions of megalomania and shallowness.
This licensing regime is copied almost directly from GCC. The compiler part is GPL and the part that gets embedded into your program isn't. GPL-licensed compilers need to do some kind of dance to allow the outputs from the compiler to be free of GPL restrictions, because typically some components distributed with the compiler are linked into the executable. In this case it's the standard library, so the standard library is MPL instead of GPL. Nothing to be concerned about here. I don't see anything unusual on this page.
Before people get overly excited about this - it will be very important to see how exactly it's worded in the legislation itself.

Anti-discrimination legislation has already made black-box algorithms illegal if they are deciding on anything that a user might take objection to - so for most use cases this is not a big change.

As for - the recommender systems will have to not be based on profiling - unless we're talking about removing recommender systems based on data altogether - it will be interesting to see what the legislation considers profiling. If I tie your recommendations to the last viewed piece of content (content contextual recommendation), is that profiling? It's arguably worse for the user and for society more than profiling recommendation. If the recommendations are based on your explicit categories is that not profiling? Yet it's the principle used in news aggregators for the last 30 years.

The wording is going to be important here.
How are you going to provide everyone ever bigger and bigger single family homes in ever smaller and smaller parcels of land? You must push some people out. That's the nature of big things. They expand and repel.

Why? Because the medium of exchange function stops the moment economic growth stops growing at the rate of productivity. This is because the richest individuals are hoarding employment opportunities and get to save money against the will of the rest of the population. If one guy is doing the work of two, then one person has nothing to do. We grow the economy two fold, so there is enough to do for everyone, even though there are enough products and services for everyone. It's that stupid.
What does $m^{1 + O(1)}$ time mean exactly? This could be m^5000 for all we knew. How is this almost-linear, and how can it be guaranteed?
Nukes, nubs and coners: The unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine
Nicotine has to be one of the worst drugs I’ve ever done. You get an annoying addiction but there’s not really any positive effects brides maintains the status quo of not being pissed off and frustrated.
"I believe privacy is a right."

I guess you don't believe free speech is a right since you don't think people should be able to speak about Musk's travel location?

"If you cross a certain threshold and lose your rights then they are not rights."

People cross thresholds and lose rights all the time. We put them in a right-less place called jail. I guess you think nobody has rights then?
You're ignoring that admins have often legal responsibilities and compliance requirements to manage and monitor their networks. It doesn't really matter how I feel about a given VPN service... if you want to be on my network you have to turn it off.

(And yes, I often end up annoying myself by blocking stuff I myself would like to access at work. But that's my job.)
How does one put that amount of focus into 3 large, highly visible companies?
What about whistleblowers, human trafficking victims, and dissidents who require anonymity?
I had worried this would be a difficult game. I had a few people try it and they were happy to land at all! But to your point, yes, you cannot really be sliding sideways and land successfully.

The controls will stop thrusting when you reach a horizontal velocity of zero though, so it is easy to "stop".

When you land right in the middle of the landing pad (cross, square, whatever shape) you'll be lowered down to the base.

My best guess is you're not within the landing zone. (Or there's a bug I have not seen.)

There should always be a closing box for the alerts though. If you can take a screen grab and open an "issue" I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: Seeing a bug show up in my code on Firefox. I'll see if I can quickly patch. Looked like I was assuming I would get a value from LOCAL STORAGE. I should have tested by blowing away my storage. See if it works for you now.
Hmm.

You pose an interesting question and I might not have sufficient information to give you a full picture, but I might try to show a glimpse of what I think may be happening.

Someone somewhere decided it may be a good idea to expand existing framework ( hate crimes[1] ), which was relatively easily adopted in America due to historical ( slavery ) and political factors ( combating racism ).

[1] https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/laws-and-policies

With that in mind, the first step is saturating the media with opinions indicating some sort of support for a policy/law change ( in this case hate speech - links with sample articles follow - note how old some of those are ):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/29/why-ameri...

https://newint.org/sections/argument/2012/12/01/is-hate-spee...

https://www.ihrb.org/news-events/press-centre/the-challenge-...

https://theconversation.com/the-idolization-of-free-speech-i...

Once the population is sufficiently primed, one can run it through congress. It is not a weekend project.

Note that it is exactly the same pattern with encryption battles, but at least that one has clear originators ( usually three letter agencies ).
None of that requires distinguishing users from hits, definitely not beyond the guesses you can make from server-side logs.
Yes, it's a bit hidden. Hover over the video to reveal the settings icon (cogwheel). From there you can disable the chat sidebar.
For people using FOSS email software, how do you filter organizational spam?
Just to be specific, I am asking about a good way to manage mail in the following situation:

I am using an open source email client and a mail hoster who and does the usual spam filtering in an excellent and privacy-friendly way.

For reading mail, I use my work computer, my laptop and my phone, the first two running claws-mail and the latter K9 Mail.

The issue I have is that I have some parties that I need to communicate with which do the following thing:

They are larger companies or associations (think in online shops, recruiting companies, professional organizations, organizators of recreational activities or sites such as LinkedIn or XING).

These can legitimately contact me for specific purposes (I gave consent to that, and gave them my email address), but what happens is that they then use my address to contact me for their own (non-consented) purposes, for their magazine, some event, some suggestion, an opportunity, something else, yet another thing, and so on.... The purpose is clear: They want to grab as much of my attention as possible in the hope that I might engage more with their offers or activities.

Blacklisting such addresses does not help in the long run, because senders and domains change all the time. Possibly, they have recognized that not all their messages are wanted and could become blocked, and they are now fast-switching sender domains to get around that. The messages and newsletters might have unsubscribe links, but as soon as I unsubscribe one, I have one or two new ones.

Traditional keyword-based spam filtering does not help either, because they use the same terms for their legitimate stuff and the things why I did initiate the subscription / communication / registration in the first place. This would not only block /their/ site, but also mails from people that I am actually more interested in. Part of the problem is that I am actually interested in some of that stuff, but not in the actual deluge of messages.

What would help would be perhaps some form of whitelisting. But how to do that effectively?
You can filter accounts instead of posts and recreate the current scenario. Those accounts will complain about it, but it at least brings them back on board without hurting the experience of people who don't want to see them.

That said, they are already auto-flagging posts to some extent.
I always wondered why you want to deserialize JSON as ab object tree instead of associative array. Just because the syntax is nicer? I mean, your ide still can't autocomplete the fields for you since it's just a stdclass and it doesn't know anything about the JSON structure right?

Also, probably not relevant in practice, but one of those two is probably faster?
folks, if you're as unhappy with this as I am, you should look into being more active in alternative platforms such as Mastodon which has the advantage of better moderation tools and federation.
I wouldn't call them "dangerous," per se, but they are mostly done to fool AI screeners, these days, and are nothing more than a few data points and buzzwords.

> The first thing I look for in a resume is a GitHub URL. If I can find that, I stop reading the resume and start reading code. Doing open source is not a be-all and end-all by any means, but it's a good starting point. After five minutes of reading through a candidate's code I have a good handle of their skill level and style, making the interview run much more smoothly.

My experience, is that interviewers don't look at this stuff at all. It's downright crazy. Instead, they rely on leetcode tests.

These are short, academic tests, using algorithms that are seldom seen IRL (I have been coding for over thirty years, and have never seen one single binary tree. I've seen one or two roughly similar structures in some image processing algorithms, but only in a couple of ones that weren't very performant, and we ended up removing these).

But they can be practiced, and are quite familiar to folks just barely out of college.

I've not bothered to practice these. I can do OK on them (they are usually just common sense exercises), but some kid that has spent most of the last month (of their current employer's time) practicing these, will absolutely kick my ass. It's not worth it.

Also, I have noticed that interviewers are looking for rote answers, which also applies to more practical exercises, like take-home tests. They don't like unusual approaches. They are controlling for conformity. That's interesting, as some of the companies doing this, are crowing about "disruption."
What other theortical things could save humanity doesn't matter. Unless you can make the argument that these things CREDIBLY WOULD HAPPEN without Tesla or EVs then its pointless.

I would much prefer nuclear over wind/solar/battery. But I know if I argue against wind/solar nuclear isn't magically gone happen.

So its fine if you want to argue that US shoud invest 100+ billion in public transport or bikes or whatever. Those things are not gone happen just because EVs don't happen. You are probably right, but EVs are not preventing that from happening.

EV are absoulty 100% a huge improvement over other cars and its not close. Even outside of the environment it would have eventually happened, they are just better cars.
Gamifying HN doesn't provide anywhere near the return that gamifying Twitter would.
It didn't sink in for me until I happened to learn about the relationship between alcohol and cancer, especially breast cancer. In hindsight, the fact that I drank casually for years without knowing anything about that risk is disturbing to me.