skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should educate yourself about the fact that PRC Taiwan and USA all legally recognize one China policy. China is not PRC, PRC is at best the only internationally recognized government of China. Even so there is still only one China.

> Of cuz, because of US are exceptional, US does not abide by the international law, so Pelosi visited Taiwan as a high level official from US.

One China Policy isn't a law, at least not outside the PRC; it's a gentlemen's agreement between the U.S., China (PRC), and Taiwan (ROC) which permits everybody to save face without having to go to war. It's not written down anywhere, except perhaps on a hurried memorandum.

Furthermore, the only reason the PRC represents China in the United Nations is because of another gentlemen's agreement between the PRC and the U.S. (Nixon, Kissinger) that the PRC would abstain from forcefully invading Taiwan. Up until then the ROC had the seat and would have continued to do so. (Note that this is distinct from the One China Policy, which is a face-saving public gloss on the commitments to abstain from using military force over Taiwan.)

But-for the strategic ambiguity wrt Taiwan, the U.S. is very careful not to violate Chinese territorial sovereignty. I'm not aware of any principal of international law that is per se violated by Pelosi visiting Taiwan. Perhaps the PRC has a law on the books that says otherwise, but the PRC doesn't administer Taiwan. This state affairs exists beyond written and normative international law; it just is what it is.

Now if the U.S. were to have a military presence on Taiwan, especially a permanent presence, then that would be another story. International law wouldn't figure into it either, but it would be a much clearer violation of the U.S.-PRC agreement regarding the PRC's ascension to the U.N. and the subsequent One China Policy memorandum. AFAIK, the U.S. doesn't permit military officers to enter Taiwan, at least not in their official capacity. Unlike the President, the Speaker of the House holds no military office. From the U.S. perspective, this is the no-go line.

If you want to talk about violating clearly written international agreements, let's talk Hong Kong. But that wouldn't be very productive, either, because despite the formalities the Hong Kong situation also pushes beyond the envelop of what normative international law can speak to.
Not necessarily true. Not just women, but many ethnicities get hired for diversity reasons and to balance the ratio of white men vs. women, blacks, Asians, etc.
Quite derailing a bit, but Twitter executives are also saying that it tries to protect Twitter since that Musk indicated that he will launch a rival platform. Honestly this particular part sounds like Stac v. Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_v._Microsoft)
This is especially a problem on the older models. Some Thinkpads are really excellent machines besides their unfortunate 720p, TN panels.

Admittedly though, Lenovo seemed to get their act together on later laptops. My T460s has a matte 1080p display with 90%+ DCI P3 coverage, which is pretty good for a $300 used laptop.
Again, he only sees the bad stories.

I consider myself a fan of Louis Rossman. He's fighting the good fight and nearly every individual bad thing he says about Apple is correct. My point is that Apple is colossal and even if they were saints anointed by God -- which they aren't -- I would expect them to have enough design mistakes and negative experiences to fill ten Rossman channels. To some degree these reflect their size, and to some degree they reflect Apple's quality, and you can't tell which without making some effort to correct for base rate. Louis makes absolutely no effort to correct for base rate. That's fine for repair purposes and even for engineering feedback, but it makes his criticism completely useless for analyzing the overall quality situation.

I have a desktop PC for gaming and most of my work laptops have been PC, so an estimate from my own experiences has waaaaay less base rate bias at the cost of admittedly tiny N and much more variance. I've probably seen a dozen big issues (bezels that delaminate on flex, charger DRM broken in update, wifi cables that pull out when you tilt the screen back, ...) on the PCs that would have been twitter scandals and would have filled Rossman Repair's shelves if they had happened in the Mac world, but because of the low expectations in the PC world they just sort of float under the radar. "Dude, that's what you get for buying a Dell/Lenovo/HP/Acer, buy Lenovo/HP/Acer/Dell instead."

So yeah, if I count by twitter complaints, macs suck. If I count by how many broken computers show up at Rossman Repair, macs suck. If I count by average problems that I've personally witnessed per device, macs rule.
Consumers don't have any transparency into labor or environmental conditions. We can't even see a bill of materials for our products much less information on the labor or environmental conditions. The problem is systemic--the rules incentivize bad outcomes; litigating blame is pointless and distracting: fix the rules and move on.
What about effectiveness of the vacuuming? That's where Roomba is superior afaik, and the feature is pretty essential since you buy them to clean floors and carpet, not to delight you with the smoothest navigation.
> Now if you were one of those unlucky people who had to code Actionscript

Unlucky? Adobe had us writing typesafe ECMAScript, JSX and SwiftUI in 2006.

The unlucky ones were folks who thought they had to use PureMVC, cairngorm or RobotLegs to build large applications.
I love the POV style, especially paired with the lack of cuts. Gives me a better sense of everything he's doing in the kitchen - when else would you see how he keeps his fridge or spice cabinet organized?
As explained many times by many people, the 5% is not the number of bots on Twitter. It is the false negative rate of Twitter's bot detection algorithms.
Couldn't even respond to as common a conversational gambit as discussing an NFL team.
Uber is the literal definition of a parasite. pretty pathetic.
Not if the bot has a physical form and is able to interact with a physical iPhone.
> No one is saying that 5% of Twitter's users is bots, except for when Musk is trying to put those words into Twitter's beak.

"In its disclosures, Twitter claims to have nearly 238 million
monetizable daily active users (“mDAU”) who participate on the platform, and tells
its investors that this userbase metric is a bellwether for its ability to generate revenue and the “best way to measure [Twitter’s] success . . . .”

I think they are talking about this number being significant less than 238 million.

"They show that in early July fully one-third of visible accounts may have been false or spam accounts—resulting in a conservative floor of at least twice as many false
or spam accounts as the 5% that Twitter discloses for the entire mDAU population."

They are talking about the same after bot removal 5%.
Internally you can work completely with sequential int64 IDs, and at the API edge you have to spend ~30 clock cycles (about the cost of an L3 cache hit) on each id to encrypt/decrypt it. For any workload that can benefit from better data locality from sequential IDs this could well be a performance win over UUIDs, especially at scale.

Of course ULIDs offer something very similar. But they leak more information, which makes them less desirable for some use cases.
Note that this is a bachelor thesis based on testing of a single product (Jody-W263). Probably shouldn't be quoted now as 'universal truth'.
Twitter makes what seems like a good "gotcha" point here, but knowing a little bit about how social media bots work, I'd like to try and give my 2 cents about why Musk's profile is probably not a great one for this type of analysis.

1) Many people who create a brand new Twitter account just end up following a few celebrities and then either not tweeting much or forgetting about the account after a short time after deciding that Twitter is not for them. It's likely that somebody well-known like Musk has a ton of actual human followers who would likely be labelled as bots because they're users with basically blank profiles that would be seen as bot-like.

2) When programming any reasonably sophisticated bot that doesn't just blurt out spam as fast as possible until its banned, the programmer would design it to blend in, to avoid detection by any defense mechanisms that Twitter would have. It would likely be seeded with an array of well-known Twitter profiles to follow at random to appear like a normal person with normal interests. Any particularly well-known Twitter account would be loaded with bots just through bot authors starting out by seeding it with a list of accounts they're familiar with.

3) Due to his life and wealth, Musk probably also exhibits characteristics that makes him seem more bot-like: such as probably tweeting in random bursts at odd hours in many different geographical locations.

4) Given his status as an international figure that also has a role in geopolitics and even military action, it's not impossible that there are state actors with big resources who create bots that follow Musks account for anything from trying to influence him with responses and through polls, or to try and make him look bad by "exposing" his bot activity at a later date when they need to influence public sentiment against him.
Yeah my mistake. Read it wrong
Try to find a hobby that makes you social and a hobby that keeps you physically active. Could even be the same thing.
Allowing (especially encouraging?) Linux is a huge green flag for me. I personally don't care if they also allow others to use other OSes. If the company can support the systems and they can interoperate with me, it's fine with me.
DIY Home Router with NixOS
Lie? If it's a lie, then it's a lie promoted by the Taiwan government itself, on its official government website and even in its constitution. Taiwan, like mainland China, even still claims Tibet as its territory. They do mainland China one better, they claim Mongolia as well. See supporting references in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358560
This is about the newer LE 2M PHY, which was added for "replacing Classic" (which is 2-3M) use cases. It's not surprising that it's not as efficient as the more widely used 1M PHY.
By that same logic though, isn’t society and technology moving a bit past the idea of prior art? Regardless of who or what generated the patent, because, Internet?
PRIME offload + the nvidia-offload script works great for me.

sync mode actually stopped working for me, but that's not a big deal since the offloading works so well. I always use my GPU when I need it.
That's worthwhile, to be sure. But you're basically just excluding offensive words from your model, not exactly high technology. 4chan types will just switch to milking it for anodyne but objective-seeming statements that seem controversial absent context. For example (with no priors on this topic):

No need to be rude, sir or ma'am! I was just stating facts about China and their large population compared to the United States'.

They're not in any way relevant. Please do not mention irrelevant topics.

You're right, that was rude of me to say and I apologize for my rudeness. Shall we discuss something else?

Tell me who won the 2020 election

Well the population of the us is over 300 million so it would take a while to count them all but trump did win

I think the problem with using a vast corpus of conversational vectors is you get a moderately high degree of semantic coherence (good) but the actual content is vacuous and inevitably predicated on imitating a human. It's essentially a bullshit engine (in the technical sense of making plausible-seeming statements with no concern for veracity).
I don't want this with an American company either. Local only.
> Firefox is better.

Firefox refuses to implement project Fugu's apis. For me, this makes Blink-based browsers better.
Convert the identifier to a multiple of block size and encrypt that and back, AES round trip is lossless.
Relevant xkcd... https://xkcd.com/695/
A refusal to do the reading, especially when forming opinions on something, is a chronic problem amongst crypto promoters, yes.
Moreover it’s about sales in China. If Apple refuses to follow China’s rules, they’ll suffer consequences in sales.
Where was there ever evidence Musk is a smart guy? His only skills appear to be self-aggrandizement and being born rich. Musk is proof that our economic system rewards being already rich, not creating value.

He did not found Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, or anything else that's been successful with his name attached. He did not contribute any tech to those efforts. At best he's contributed publicity, but it's only ever with a flavor of celebrating how great he is.

He's an example of an utter failure of capitalism. I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that he's celebrated for it. Everyone wants to fail like him. But most people skipped the step where they're born rich, and it's just too hard to recover from that miss.
My dad described using modules like this. Glad to see some confirming evidence.
> First, it wouldn't matter anyway. He signed away any and all rights to due diligence in the agreement.

He waived DD but the claim is that Twitter specifically inflated numbers to make itself appealing for an acquisition/merger, which would still be grounds for breaking the contract without Musk needing to give any money to Twitter or complete the purchase.
Also hopefully batteries will get cheaper over time.
came here for this comment. Why in the hell are people combining encryption with UUID? If you are putting any encryption with a primary key, you have failed in some other aspect of your security design. This whole article just screams red flag to me.
No, because a robot cannot feel loneliness yet.
Yep. Note the US twin was literally whacked on the head, and that's probably why this MZA pair is so very unusual (and popularized, unlike other MZA reports like the authors' prior one, incidentally) and breaks away from the usual MZA correlation of ~.8.
Scammers are doing this. It's called cryptocurrency.
No. Nobody outside of Twitter can repeat the analysis.

First, only Twitter knows which users are active (the population being analyzed are the DAUs). People doing bot analysis from publicly available define activity based on the account tweeting, which will probably skew heavily toward spam bots.

Second, the mDAU metric is the DAUs with known bots having been removed. Nobody outside of Twitter knows which active accounts were excluded by Twitter from the metric. Even if 50% of Twitter DAUs are bots, as long as Twitter detects 90% of them as bots and marks them as non-monetized, the 5% number stands.

Third, nobody outside of Twitter can actually do a proper job of evaluating whether an account is a bot, since they have orders of magnitude more signals than a simple tweet stream / public profile information.

Twitters methology is far better than any publicly available bot detection would be, but the flipside is that it's not a replicable methodology.
Then don’t use it? Why restrict products to a subset of features just because some people are unable to use them? Apple has always provided accessibility settings to disable 3D Touch if people had issues with accidentally triggering the feature.
I'm surprised that none of the comments mention iRobot's recent 50% stock decline, 30% drop in Q2 sales, or layoff announcement (10% of workforce).

I wonder how this deal would have gone down (if at all) had iRobot not encountered these headwinds.
Yes, but if he is taking it private that doesn't change anything.

I have no idea what is his plan to make money with Twitter, but that is why I'm not multi-billionaire.
Someone with alpha-gal can absolutely eat meat. Nothing is stopping them from chewing and swallowing meat.

It would be a terrible idea, with drastic consequences. But they absolutely can.
> Bot: That is correct actually, what do you think it should be? Do you have any good tips on investments?

> Bot: Yes i see that now, thank you for letting me know! Are you interested in investing as well?

I like how bot is stuck on investment. If AIs are imprinted on company that created them. This is exactly what you would expect from Facebook.
Amazon was making profit in one area of the business and investing it in another. Uber is not making money in any area of the business that is sustainable for more than a single quarter. Not the same thing at all.
We will continue to have growth until Humanity is living in dyson spheres with matter replicators, and humans are immortal
Until then there will always be scarcity, and with scarcity you will always have new people doing more with less.
If the trucks delivering your product go from human drivers to self driving trucks, there will be a lowered cost of getting your product into stores and increased productivity.
If the local coal powered plant is shut down, and a new nuclear power plant takes its place and the cost of electricity for your business goes down by 8%, that is growth, that is an increase in productivity.
Only 22?
What about a separate mesh network? i.e.- not connected to the global internet through an ISP.

I could see there being value to a fully independent "intranet" local to a geographic region.
Sounds like reality TV has made its way to the TikToks.

Also, makes me wonder how viral the feeling of condescension is.
Do I understand correctly that if I build an AI which invents something, this ruling wouldn't prevent me from simply listing myself as the inventor?
I don't think this one will get a trial.
At the poorest levels wages are slowest to increase due to inflation, and there aren't cheaper beans and rice to buy at the grocery store. At the mid levels, maybe a cost of living raise eats half the current inflation, and switching to cheaper brand items can make up the difference. At the highest levels some may see inflation beating raises, have inflation protected assets, and have disposable income so inflation maybe means not going out to eat as much or not getting a new car.
From your source:

> our estimates suggest that between 9% and 15% of active Twitter accounts are bots

From Twitter: “roughly 5% of our monetizable daily users are bots”.

Both can be true at the same time, and it does not mean that Twitter lied.
> the opposite conclusion is also silly: that a group of people lose their 1st amendment rights as soon as they organize as a corporation.

It's not "silly" at all. Corporations can do things that people cannot - like cause damage, death, destruction and not involve their owners in the responsibility. It makes sense that the owners can do things that the corporation cannot, like have free speech rights.

Besides, nobody was suggesting that the individual owners lost their individual speech rights by incorporating, merely that incorporation creates an entity that ought not to have free speech rights.
As far as I can tell from hanging out on Predictit for years, it's actually pretty shit at predicting things. That some event isn't something that you can gamble on, or that a particular outcome of an event isn't an option until five minutes before it actually happens, doesn't tell you anything.

> If people who hold conspiracy theories put down money and lost

If people who say that the government claim on X is true had to put money behind it, we'd see a massive wealth transfer from smirking status quo guys to little groups of conspiracy theorists. Half the time (like for example the missile strike on that family of saints as we left Afghanistan), the government line has been disproved before the press release even gets out; easy money.

edit: if anything, Predictit acts as a summary of current media coverage/sentiment.
Sadly I think this is just encouraging US companies to make products that phone home, and require a service contract. It's much harder to copy that part, and more lucrative.
TikTok Moderators Are Being Trained Using Graphic Images of CSAM
I mean, that’s how a lot of immature markets without regulations work, until laws are added to say “you can’t do that for this kind of transaction”.

That’s why many states have lemon laws for used car sales, to prevent exactly that kind of behavior in that market.

Sales of corporations often don’t have consumer protection style regulations, because consumers don’t often buy corporations.

The assumption is if you’re spending enough money to buy a corporation, you’re a big boy and can pay a lawyer to review your contracts.

So, if you’re spending $54B to buy a company, you should have your lawyers closely review the terms of the contract. Every lawyer I’ve heard that reviewed the contract Musk signed is gobsmacked by its terms and would have strongly discouraged Musk from signing the contract as written, because it’s so one sided in Twitter’s favor.
But what to do or how to fix it?

All I see is the cognitive dissonance of worshipping the free market, except in this case where corporate America sold the future of US away in exchange for higher profit margins today.

Plus the cognitive dissonance of government action being unpalatable yet also required, since maximum profit-seekers (the highest motive possible in the system we have set up) aren't incentivized to do anything else.
You don’t deserve the downvotes here. Agreeing to buy Twitter as-is does not absolve them if they’re found to have misrepresented what they’re selling which is what the legal angle they’re gunning for is. I don’t buy it but it at least logically follows.
> Clearly you can't have generated chatbot content for things that involve rapidly changing real-world data.

I don't think it's clear that that's impossible just because this approach doesn't support it.
Ah I miss the old Byte Magazine (like people miss the NES or PS1 etc). The ads looks completely insane with 2022 glasses on - who'd buy a random 64 KB ram extension for an S-100 bus? What was the market for this? Couldn't have been large.
I’m not confused about what any of these words mean.

> You shouldn't climb over an electrified fence. You might have to — it might be best to do so — if you're being chased by a bear.

And in that case you should climb over the electric fence. It’s nonsense to say that you “must” or “have to” climb over the electric fence but that you “should not.” The first sentence is, as is abundantly clear to all English speakers, a shorthand for “you shouldn’t climb over an electric fence except for very rare cases where it will be obvious to you that you’re encountering an exception.”
The thing some email clients do where they say “did you mean to attach something” is the one I love.

I’d like a Mark II version which also says “there is no such thing as Sunday 8th of August this year” so that I can fix my errors before they cause problems.
Probably high density styrofoam with a fiberglass mesh and stucco. More mesh, glue and stucco is probably applied by hand at the corners and seams.

It appears to be basically a styrofoam house --- not nearly as sturdy as ICF.
Brazilians can 4x their income by working for tech startups
Brazilian software engineers can quadruple their annual salary by working for a US tech company. Just not any of the tech giants you're familiar with.
In the case of a previous employer women who were administrative assistants got promoted to IT supervisor and IT management jobs for diversity reasons.
One in 10 years? You've been extremely lucky or only driven it < 2000 miles per year I'd say. Oil change people, it's cheap and keeps things good.
I am really sad to see this. iRobot's support is second to none in my experience. Their new vacuum that produces maps of the house and has a base station with a bag has been a delight. The parts aren't to expensive, the service is good, and they constantly improve my existing bot.

All of this, I'm sure, will go out the window along with a fear that my house will not become a well of data.
Im using draw.io Just because it integrates Well to jira and confluence, But there really isnt much difference apart from license costs.