skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked paper can be found here and downloaded for free: http://marit.hinnosaar.net/migration_alcohol.pdf
I was thinking about the Kaylon events too. Humans abusing entities like that is unimaginable though isn't it.

/S
«Turns out that maybe we shouldn't be letting AI handle moderation.»

It's always the same... People speak up and things suddenly are a problem ("turns out that...") only when the bad thing has happened to them.

If there's any actual point that we should take home is that bad consequences are going to happen, and we'd all better listen up when other people warn us about these things before it's too late.

AI moderation is just one of the topics we are all generally ignoring.
Funny you mention F# and Clojure, as these were the only contenders for a product I am building with a partner. We went with F# and are quite happy thus far.
The GTK file picker is practically unavoidable. It's in important applications like Inkscape, Gimp and was unavoidable with electron apps too until recently.

Moreover, most users don't actually follow the discussions with the developers. They would not know about their philosophy. Also, this is not the only criterion when choosing software. And given how Gnome and GTK are (still) everywhere, I'd find it worth having this kind of things fixed even if I don't/didn't personally use the thing.

I don't think blaming the users is a solution.
Maybe some fake sites, that with actual click farms, used to trained AI implanted in web engines in order to create/re-authenticate accounts, that to generate views/clicks, and etc, mainly for various scams.
>But the price was probably settled well in advance, so the seller was left taking on market risk,

No. That was the whole problem. It was for market price when the cargo arrived and the price of cotton jumped between October and December. So the buyer didn't want it any longer and basically claimed they thought it was going to be on the October boat.
Yall are trying to make me feel bad who just bought Apple MBP 15 inch, i7, 16GB RAM, 256 SSD to learn HTML and CSS.
We can shift production from port cities with expensive energy to port cities with cheap energy.
There's a lot of perverse incentives, people aren't punished for being trigger happy.

I remember in a subreddit, there was a discussion about Facebook "top posters". I replied it wasn't exactly news, and wrote about the "top posters" to the letters to the editor of a local newspaper in my childhood. One was a famous TV meteorologist who would always write rebuttals to young earth creationists, from a Christian perspective. One guy was leader of a tiny racist party who would write about how Yugoslav refugees would take over our country. Others still were just old cranks who had an opinion on everything.

The guy who owned that subreddit banned me over "doxing". I tried arguing, hey, they were public figures in their day, writing under full names (and location!), and they're long dead now anyway, but he either didn't want to admit he was wrong or was just terrified of losing the subreddit to the admins.
Although true for the job, this is a bit disingenuous for getting the job market because recruiters are absolutely not thinking of you as a problem solver with language being just one of the tools.
Protection falls well below zero, unfortunately. The vaccine programme is now a major driver of infections.
Precisely. Any good company won't care what programming language you are specifically proficient in. They care about how proficient you are in learning new things.

I have created a lot of Nim projects and implemented much of its stdlib. My full-time job isn't using Nim, but the experience I gained through my work in Nim has helped my career significantly.
Also lots of journals don’t even allow references in abstracts
I agree (with a lot of caveats), but a key value of C is that we do not break peoples code and that means that we cant easily remove things. If we do, we create a lot of problems. This makes it very difficult to keep the language as easy to implement as we would like. As a member of the WG14, I intend to propose that we do make this our prime priority going forward.
So when you're not prompted, you just stare into space without a thought in your head?
In the same way, Knuth wrote a set of books on typesetting. Procrastination at its finest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting
Ironically this is how night clubs work, too. One gets a monopoly/gets popular and everyone goes there for a time until it because uncool and people move on to the next cool club. In social media see LiveJournal -> MySpace -> Facebook -> Tiktok. Each had a monopoly at the time until something cooler came along. The tenure also, ironically, seems to be around the same duration of a popular nightclub.

Also, don't mistake user bases for monoliths in this analogy, < 18 moved on from facebook a long time ago, > 50 may skip Tiktok entirely but they showed up years after ~18 year olds did so tenure is still relevant.
No, there is not. Multiple sites report < 10 jobs in the uk for any of the two, while c#, java, node, python are in the thousands each.
> I'm not sure if you meant emigration, but I've lived in 3 countries while single, and I never heard this being easier married.

If you have partner who you are not married with, you can't bring them in whatever country you are emigrating to.

> And for sure I was never asked about my marital status for traveling.

Then you have not traveled to muslim countries with your partner.
Odd. The website fanbytes seems to blocking users from India. Surely a simple blog post must have fairly low bandwidth requirements. And a simple CDN should alleviate issues? Or do they just not like Indians?
where are you getting the jobs data from? I'm surprised there are this many Nim jobs tbh
Wouldn't the more reasonable comparison be America to the EU or CO to NL?
They're used to organise the social graph, so the analogy is off but not actually wrong in spirit. Yes, you can gather without them, but organising without them is what's difficult because again, they now nearly monopolise the social graph of acquaintances in terms of organisation (e.g. Facebook groups for a hobby, political protests where most people don't know each other IRL). This wasn't inevitable, but the analogy to me seems to be like saying: you don't need to drive when the country decided to only build roads.

As for your last sentence, well, not necessarily. I just don't see how that logically follows. Bans tell you that you're violating a rule, but those rules can be terrible. That's true of anything ever, I don't see how you can state that it's always the fault of the person being cut off. That's like saying all social ostracisation is really the fault of the person being ostracised. The person who is unpopular might be a terrible person, or they might be right but with uncomfortable facts or opinions.
We need to do the cheapest thing that reduces CO2 emissions. Currently I believe that's building more renewables and electrifying more sectors.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220720163040/https://www.fanby...

The site is showing me that they cannot serve me because of the place I live.
I don't think it's even the money anymore.

I think technologists are convinced they are ALMOST there with automoderation systems...just a few more data points and another thousand hyperparameters and it'll be perfect!

I think they've yet learn to recognize the good because they're too busy dreaming of the perfect.
The one in the original article I that it performs badly for large files.
I'm as, "Fuck Facebook," as the next guy, but... yikes.
Really? Stopped being hyperbolic. The guy did his job.
Yes, the older Chromebooks have some terribly inconsistent trackpad experiences. There is an older Acer model (circa 2017) that had one of the worst I've ever seen... way too sensitive even with the settings adjusted, palm detection didn't seem to work at all, and after just a month or two of normal use trackpads started double-activating (we had a whole fleet of these!)

Newer models are better. I'm sure software updates have fixed a lot of the palm detection issues. But similar situation with Windows laptops, PC notebook manufacturers are 20 years behind Apple on trackpads.
> Web stuff like HTML and CSS (but that's mostly generated now)

Explain? I've yet to work somewhere that just generates HTML and CSS. Is it really becoming common to spit those things out from something like Figma?
Yes. Lately I’ve found this to be true at my job, with the whole frontend/backend distinction.

Job specialization is good. I mostly write TypeScript, and I can usually contribute the most value to the company by writing TypeScript and sticking to frontend things. Sometimes though, the fastest way to solve a problem is for me to dive into the backend, and I have no qualms with doing so.

Some people on my team treat the “other side” as totally foreign, however. This leads to willful ignorance and glaring inefficiencies. For example, someone asked my senior frontend teammate a question, and the answer could be found trivially by someone with an inkling of backend knowledge. Yet, this person threw up their hands and dragged a backender into the conversation because they couldn’t be bothered to learn a single thing about the backend in the 5 years they’ve been with the company.

Please just be a problem solver. Don’t be just a “backender”, and definitely don’t be just a “Nim developer”.
I had wondered when I first heard of this if it was some sort of performance art in support of the unborn. It appears not, but it was still thought-provoking.
I think this is a fair assessment.

Big social media companies are not incentivized to care about psychological and social side effects of their product.

A bit like cigarette companies offloading externalities onto society, but much harder to specifically identify and address.
This is very interesting. I was told by some energy expert I could isolate 3 out of 4 outer walls and it would work fine. Do you have some documentation on the “moisture through heat transfer” issue?
But I "need" that restaurant because I am hungry, it's only a block away, I really love the pasta they cook, and the bartender I enjoy talking to only works at this particular restaurant :(
Maybe lower extraction, but honestly, I'd have to get a refractometer or some shit to test it, and I can't really justify that expense.
This is true. Its also true that most sentient animals can't transform corpuses of ASCII text into somewhat novel, syntactically correct and topical responses to a prompt. So some degree of facility with wordplay and math clearly isn't necessary for sentience.

Is it sufficient though? I think that's more interesting when considering the other angle: we've had specialised machines that can do sums - usually considered a sign of intelligence in humans and certainly a bar most sentient animals can't cross - for decades now. Is that high performance at a specialised task sufficient evidence of sentience of a pocket calculator? If not (presumably because math is pretty orthogonal to higher order mammals' evolved emotional imperatives to act) what is it about stochastic optimisation of ASCII or pixel inputs with satisfying results that's so very different?
Depends who bans you on Reddit - i.e. moderators on individual subreddits have leeway to make those places whatever they want them to be.
I wrote my masters thesis using troff in the early 1980s. Later that decade, I used a version of nroff on PC-DOS for my job. It seems, viewed from a sufficient distance, that this wheel has been re-invented a number of times since then.
Unless your family counts two you cannot possibly compare the time facetiming each one of them vs just scrolling an aggregated news feed
I disagree. Prior to Gmail i used to get thousands of spam email everyday
Now everything is filtered. Barely get any.

The added benefit is I don't get any tech calls for help from my parents who also don't end up clicking random spam and wondering why bad things are happening
My grandfather was a poor Asian immigrant who achieved his dream of moving to America. He died in a hospital bitterly refusing to be treated by Black hospital staff.

My grandmother in law is a sweet lady who also shared the opinion that mixed race marriages are unnatural. I am mixed race but I’m one of the good ones.

Social norms have changed extremely fast. In addition to the lack of ability to interact with things like the internet, it’s so difficult to see value in anyone’s insights when you get nuggets like this.
Oh it is, I didn't really think he would be relevant to Linux. I never watch him, he's way too much of a showman for me to have any kind of interest in him (and all the product placement is way too obvious and annoying). I'm sure he overinflated any issues for maximum "entertainment".

Still, I don't really understand why "Linux for the Mainstream" is such a thing people are hung up about. It will never be mainstream until someone dumps billions of bucks on it to promote it and bundle it with hardware, plain and simple. Just the step of installing another OS is enough to kill it for 95% of users. Even if it was fully automatic.

And in the process they'll probably dumb it down beyond recognition so it will be unusable for the people who love it currently. Similar to macOS which has become more and more aimed at the rich consumer that just spends time mucking about on facebook instead of actual "pro" users.

I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with Linux aiming for the small subset of users it has now. Why does it have to be huge? The bigger the less tailored to specific needs.
Do you think that Twitter could possibly survive as a company without large amounts of automated moderation?
I teach programming classes in elementary schools around NYC, so I have a lot of experience with very low-end Chromebooks, and most of them don't have touchscreens.

With the exception of one particular school, these computers are all perfectly adequate performance-wise, but the awful touchpads just ruin everything.
Many people are laughing at the whole NFT thing right now but I suspect that in 10-15 years people will be laughing even harder when the whole thing collapses.

Yeah you got stuff in a blockchain, but the "stuff" you put in there is a mere link to a service which might not survive so long (most services don't).

So yeah in 10-15 years you'll probably have a lot of former nft owners that only own a broken link (or possibly even less).
These are all solved problems (for decades) except for the one about proving you're important. Is that really the end goal of web3?
Generated as in, templated once and then just spit out via classic MVC and beyond (like API on the server, JS on the client which uses some MVVM construction for component rendering).
There’s no guarantee that either method results in your photos being actually deleted.
I wonder how this has played out in the doubtless many other contract law cases. If this was really a case of (apparent) confusion on both sides, really not much hard/foul to either, so just void the contract. I assume you might see a different result if there was significant hard that fell disproportionately on one party.
If this gets enough traction they will be on a few days (or at least they will revert the ban).
It's sad.
>Applications have default admin users.

Yup. And after install, they should be tested. Default non-admin users should also be tested for the basic thing to ensure they are actually restricted and can't do admin things.

>Nobody saw log4j for 15 years. Hindsight is a great thing to have.

You are moving goalposts here. Nobody mentioned log4j issues. The issues being discussed here do not require hindsight.

Confluence left a hardcoded password. At the point a dev is harcoding an f'ing PASSWORD, alarms should be going off with flashing lights and everything. If an auditor isn't searching the codebase for something simple like 'password = ' to see a hardcoded string, then that's a weak audit. The fact no internal code review didn't catch this is also not a good sign.

100% agree no single person can imagine every single scenario that would potentially cause problems down the road. However, when new things pop up, they should be added to a list of things to check for not an immediate throwing of hands in the air with a "we don't do that kind of thing". Instead, admitting it was checked for because it was such an out of consideration thing, but then saying "we'll keep that in mind for future testing" would have been a much better thing response than a bunch of whataboutisms.
Oh, that's right, I knew I forgot one! It's even gaining traction in ML for some reason, we've been using it in an image processing pipeline because performance and safety-wise it simply had the best results.

Edit: I even forgot to list Python. Maybe I should just look up some language popularity list and use that instead.
The jobs where niche language are used (not necessarily exclusively) seem to me more interesting but might bring other downsides like very small teams. Also if you used such languages previously, chances are the next place you start turns out to also use a niche language somewhere or be open to it. The most uncommon tech is usually not even listed in the job ad and will only be seen a few months into the job...
I've been using this uBO filter since someone recommended on a different thread and it's been great at removing those annoying sites from search results: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
There are ample Elixir jobs out there, and lots of companies hiring.

For a quick check of relative popularity, open the past couple monthly “Who’s Hiring” here and search for “Elixir.” The community is thriving and growing.
I'm a Westerner, and I'm completely okay with people eating whatever animals are a) not exceptionally intelligent, and b) not exceptionally rare. Cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, horses, sure; whales, chimpanzees, crows, no.
Entropy is a consequence of probability.

Which means that it can actually decrease without an energy input. There's just a very low probability of it happening but it CAN happen.

It's a misnomer to call those things laws of thermodynamics. They are not axiomatic. There's a deeper intuition going on here that increasing entropy is just a logical consequence of probability being true.
These global public squares didn't exist until social media so I don't consider it a human right.
Utter nonsense. And everybody got paid for doing this.
An industrial grade picosecond laser is $150k. It has so little throughput that it must be used only for very high value products.

In fairness, did anyone notice a finding in this paper that might lead to a cost-effective process by a different technology?

Was this the April 1 issue?
This community might be interested in OpenBeta, a project to make something similar to Mountain Project, but with open data. Mountain Project asserts exlusive rights to all user contributions.

https://openbeta.io/

https://github.com/OpenBeta

https://www.climbing.com/news/mountain-project-openbeta-and-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/free-climbing-rock-cli...
Mass Media dipped the public discourse in acid with the adoption of the "sound bite." Now the public has a tool with more impact, and suddenly context is important again?

People who wish they could be the Priests of Truth again want to stuff the genie back in the bottle. Film at 11.
I agree with you, yikes. But the concepts of rehabilitation and reintegration are not known to everyone.
The ability is still there. Usually it’s the willingness that’s absent.
I had this topic brought back to my mind yesterday as I was doing some research using the Ahrefs keyword tool. I do believe it would be possible to create a very large dataset of these copycat sites (using Ahrefs) to be used as a blacklist in various filters/extensions.

But the crazy part is that, for example - Ahrefs says that StackOverflow has "Organic traffic" in the range of 22 million per month. A lot of these copycat sites, at least the ones I saw - have a traffic range anywhere from 10k to 500k per month.

I mean, it's pretty insane just how well such sites can rank in Google, and you bet those copycats are making absolute bank from ads even if the majority of developers immediately close the site.

There's a lot going on with Google Search these days, a lot of people are complaining that sites that scrape content can easily rank really well for long-tail keywords. One case in particular, a site will scrape Google to collect "featured snippets" and "people also ask" - then combined anywhere from 20 to 40 of these answers and publish them as a blog post.

None of the words are changed, all questions/answers worded exactly the same. And Google puts these sites on page 1.

What a joke.
>> As the cans were opened, the smell was said to be so bad that inspectors had to frequently leave the room for air and had to be washed with lime at the end of the day to remove the stench.

I suspect what was washed was the room the inspectors where in, not the inspectors themslves?
His goal was always to launch his career as America's first AI priest, publish a book and become a talking head.
Is there much research into doing the same for non food crop plants? Like for trees with the goal of faster reforestation?
Are language models deprived of electric sleep?
Phone call, email, text message, Viber, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Telegram, actually interacting in person.

Half my family isn’t even on Facebook and virtually none of us even use it anymore. If that’s the only way to keep up with family then don’t act like a complete jerk online, or you know don’t harass people, and you’ll be fine. Same as regular society.

Contrary to popular belief, it actually takes a lot to simply get banned. Yeah there are cases like the post above, but the reason it is even here is because it is noteworthy.
I hit a very similar message several times when I was traveling in Colombia, including on websites that I specifically needed to access to plan my further travel. It's extremely annoying. I suspect there is some button on Wix or a WordPress plugin that webmasters are naively using to fight spam that's inadvertently locking out legitimate users from certain countries.

It's a really big step backwards for the idea of a "world wide web" and global internet, imo, and plays right into the hands of authoritarian nations who are trying to sell developing countries on the idea of "internet sovereignty".
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours
> We're living in an era where expert level information is easily accessible on virtually every subject on mobiles devices.

Sort of agree, on some subjects anyway (like apple pie).

However, much of that expert information comes lack of context. Experts talking to experts leave lots of context out because it is common knowledge (among them). An uncountable number of people have worried themselves after diagnosing themselves with illnesses they don't have, or have improperly repaired their car or house after watching a few youtube videos and figuring that was enough.

Imagine someone reading a new CS article on some new sorting algorithm that works with certain special cases under certain constraints, and coming to you asking to replace all your sorting functions because "this one article said it is faster". That is what everyone does when they go to some expert and say "I read online..." or "I read this journal article where..."

Context is extremely important in pretty much everything we do; there are very few "universal truths".
This was uncalled for man.
Just tried it with some medium roast beans. I ground it a little finer than normal. The water shot through very quickly, like 1-2 seconds. I poured the results back into the brewing vessel and pressed it through again. This time it went through slower (likely because the coffee was saturated by this point) and even made a little crema. It’s not quite cold brew, but reminiscent the of cold brew. Definitely worth more experiments.