skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hard to imagine a better A/A-test.

In part it goes to prove Mark Twain’s quote that it’s easier to fool people that to convince them they have been fooled. So many people build their identity around being something like an audiophile and something like this demonstrates the are mostly frauds…not all of it is a bad-faith fraud either which makes it so much more difficult for those people who believed they had a genuine passion and talent to accept.

On the other hand there are people who really don’t give a shit and just shill themselves in a given industry to make money as self-proclaimed experts. It’s part of a sickness social media pushes on people where they think they are brands…as opposed to actual humans. These people have no allegiance and will readily move on the the next money making opportunity so long as they can…probably high priced wines.
I had to change my editor every now and then in the last years, because something bothered me... the eternal search for the holy grail, so to speak. So Vim and Emacs have already fallen by the wayside. Now I'm actually stuck with CudaText. In my opinion the editor is really first class, I recommend to try it out.

For me, however, also very exciting is the realization that Lazarus/FreePascal programs generally always stand out very positively. The speed and memory efficiency is remarkable!
Apple have rarely been the first to do stuff in the past 10/20 years. They have, however, been frequently the first to do something really well.
"The pasta you just said was the best pasta you ever had didn't have any oregano on it."
When I Wrote It, Only God and I Knew the Meaning; Now God Alone Knows
It's funny how often the bitterness of a post is used as an excuse to dismiss the long and well documented case being made.
In light of the housing crisis in California, I looked at the census information for my house in 1920. It had three married couples living in it spanning from the 60s to their twenties.
The original poster said “he won a case against the government representing himself” and I felt that statement was incomplete, if not inaccurate and wanted to correct the record. I’m pretty sure Dan, if he was here, would do the same.
Yes! That exact song is perhaps the canonical demonstration of the limitations of vinyl! Here are some pics of the grooves on that LP: https://imgur.com/a/veVB0
I had a customer in Italy once. There is a such a ridiculously long list of items that can't be imported into Italy that I can understand why so many companies don't take overseas orders.
Are you serious?

There is this thing called nature, and not building building on it or in a very dirty way dig gigantic holes into it is preferable.
https://www.notion.so/Some-notes-on-DynamoDB-2022-72a2a1f225...
I also put a copy on notion, in case the link doesn't work.
If there's an argument for AI rights unrelated to natural or human rights, then certainly, any comparison to human or natural intelligence is an irrelevant supporting argument, no?
I think it is actually worse than that, I think he was buying it in good faith.

He believed he had "bought the dip" in stocks. He had bought 3bn worth, announced that he had bought some stock and made 1bn in a day on it - worlds smartest man everyone.

I know, if I buy 44bn worth then at this rate I will make many many billions ...

Once he realised he wasnt buying the dip but was actually holding the bag, deal cancelled. Best guess is he is down 10bn on where he bid so his loss-porn on this one is pretty sexy.
Sure, but then we get to the issue of rounded corners. Whether or not the idea is novel and should be patentable, the publication of the patent provides no specific value to society.
Value is relative. Take the iPod. I would rather pay the premium for it even though it does much the same as competitors. Because it does it just that little bit better, that's still worth a lot more.
Difficult not to run into this issue, he even admitted the chat logs were not verbatim.
> Musk's popularity is largely BECAUSE of his Twitter antics

I don't really buy this. I knew loads of Musk fanboys who were crazy about him before Teslas even become available. The 50+ folks that I'm friends with have mostly never used Twitter or read a Musk tweet, but they think Teslas are cool and are reminded that StarLink brought rural Ontario better internet than our own government tried to do for decades. Obviously Musk is an ass on Twitter (and probably in person), but like a lot of neuroatypicals, their talent seemingly makes up for their abrasiveness.
I wouldn't recommend wasting your time with Ron Paul's book. Now, I'm not defending the Fed, but his arguments aren't much more than invective, polemic, and empty, idealistic rhetoric.

You might be better off reading: The Historical Performance of the Federal Reserve: The Importance of Rules. Mankiw's textbook on economics has a nice explanation as well.
The dragnets existed before 9/11. That just gave justification for even more funding.
What's your threshold? How many innocent people does he have to kill and/or maim before you no longer are willing to consider him a hero?

And yes, they were innocent. The one I met personally was a tech at the store where I bought my first computer. (And if you consider that enough to make him "not innocent", well, you're using a computer to read and comment here, so...)

To me, he is condemned by his methods. If you're willing to deliberately, actively, persistently attempt to blow up innocent people, I can't trust your judgment on how people should interact with each other to make society better.
Fyre Fest had to take inspiration from somewhere!
Probably this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/headless-recorder/...
As an unexpected consequence of this weird conversation, this particular Czech decided to try mofongo. We have no Puerto Rican community here, so I must try to find a recipe.
LoRa is a closed protocol... probably not
I got a small 18V Ryobi thing. Have used it on car tires, bicycle tires and for inflating an inflatable pool and beach toys and a mattress. Best thing I’ve bought this year.
Removing swastikas graffitied all over the place, political correctness gone mad.
I have like 9 twitter bots and they’re all cool and interesting. I wonder if Musk’s tool differentiates between cool and uncool bots.

In the past I tried to write bots that do things like reply to people, but that is a violation of the TOS and twitter would immediately identify and ban the account.
> the Supreme Court has observed that a FOIA requester's identity generally "has no bearing on the merits of his or her FOIA request."

https://www.justice.gov/archives/oip/foia-guide-2004-edition...
You sound like you have had some bad experiences – if so, I’m sorry for whatever happened to you. I felt compelled to respond because I don’t think your statement is objectively true, and is in some ways harmful. While finding good relationships and showing vulnerability to others are indeed difficult (and we DO get burned every once in a while, believe me I certainly have), there are other people out there who are worth knowing. It can just take time to seek them out, time to identify them, and time and vulnerability to get to know them. Nonetheless, I hope your lifestyle is a happy one that works for you.
As someone who was quite plugged into the transhumanist scene in the 1990s and well-acquainted with several of the people referenced, I have a perspective that I think explains it more succinctly.

When I was introduced to it in the early 1990s, the movement was dominated by extremely technical doers and thinkers, with a culture that encouraged rigor. It was philosophical rather than political. In the late 1990s, transhumanism had its Eternal September moment, when it became fashionable and trendy to be "transhumanist". The discourse became dominated by people hijacking the transhumanist movement in service of their political and social agendas, with nary a nod toward rigor. The doers and serious people originally associated with the movement and which gave it its intellectual gravitas became greatly outnumbered and mostly moved on.

Many of the early transhumanists stopped labeling themselves as such because they did not want to be associated with the kind of people that came to define it.
> Azure network is junk.

We haven't even got to the joys of the load balancer yet!

Just log onto the VM console to troubleshoot. Oh, they don't have a console by design, okay then.
Yes, I was able to restore some sites to Bing by Twitter DMing a Microsoft Bing VP. ;-)

Where can cases like this be reported to DuckDuckGo?
https://www.usertesting.com - you can upload screenshots / prototypes / the actual webpages (if they exist) and have users go through a series of questions. You can also set it to scramble the order to see how that (if at all) changes preferences.

As other folks called out, this can give you a sense of customer comprehension / stated preferences & reasons why, but may not give you the level of confidence a true A/B test would (launching both iterations & splitting traffic amongst & measuring conversion difference)
Thank you for your input!

What do you think about the linked thread?

> The python ecosystem is not a giant mess, its just dependency hell.

There are dozens (?) of actively used package and environment management systems, with no consistency and no lockfiles, many packages ignore semver, and having multiple versions of a package installed causes weird issues. I'm not sure why "a giant mess" is an invalid descriptor, I guess it's just arguing semantics.
You are not accurately reflecting the history that is presented in the very blog post we are discussing.

NSA made DES weaker for everyone by reducing the key size. IBM happily went along. The history of IBM is dark. NSA credited tweaks to DES can be understood as ensuring that a weakened DES stayed deployed longer which was to their advantage. They clearly explain this in the history quoted by the author:

“Narrowing the encryption problem to a single, influential algorithm might drive out competitors, and that would reduce the field that NSA had to be concerned about. Could a public encryption standard be made secure enough to protect against everything but a massive brute force attack, but weak enough to still permit an attack of some nature using very sophisticated (and expensive) techniques?”

They’re not internally conflicted. They’re strategic saboteurs.
The parent comment is complaining about Python 2/3 breakage which was a major version.
Well https uses the NIST standards so.... ;)
Fair use:

7.1 Conclusions
The purpose of this study was to research and investigate the potential existence of a breaking point where BLE becomes less efficient than BR/EDR in terms of energy consumption. The results from the conducted experiments show that BLE has overall worse energy consumption efficiency than BR/EDR and that there is no breaking point since BLE is shown to be worse.
Often its "If it appears to pass the test it ships".
"Other people have no choice but to trust NIST" is not a good argument for trusting NIST. Somehow I don't imagine the NSA is concerned about -- and is probably actively in favor of -- those organizations having backdoors.
While you are correct about the xbox, it will eventually be cracked one of these days. Its not a matter of if, but when. But would you seriously trust that when it is your own body we are talking about? What is the incentive for companies to continue supporting old parts? Good will? Maybe if there is regulation, but if it is more profitable to pay the fees than issue a recall or consider continuing support, then why bother?

Even Microsoft's security isn't perfect...a group of hackers found the full specs and software for the Xbox One months before it was released or details were announced. Look up "XBox Underground." Even if the device itself is safe, there are other alternative ways of jacking things up. Imagine if the eyes you use are safe...but the server they connect to isn't, and some creep decides to watch you and your lover having sex.
If nothing else, a wired mic is going to have a lot lower latency. Latency is the mind killer. Latency is the little-death that brings total obliteration. Etc.

Adding bluetooth latency to the rest of a generally awful stack of latency can push you through tolerable latency into the kind of latency where you have to start adding over after each transmission. And worse when it's inconsistent. Wired mic, wired ethernet helps with consistency.
You probably meant to link this: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI/blob/main/project...
1kwp of solar cells weighs in the order of 10kgs, double for whole assembly, triple for the inverter.
-searching text

-scroll without hovering over the text itself

-not having to wait for each section to load when scrolling
Unless you buy weird bad cars, your odds of an actual engine failure is very low. Transmission trouble is a bit more common but stick to most well regarded models and you'll also be fine.
My family basically only buys high miles cars for the last 30 years. Ive never had an engine failure. Transmission problems only on one Chevy truck, known for that issue.

We now have atleast 6 cars between my family, none under 200k miles, 2 of which have 300k+ miles. Haven't done a major repair in a decade maybe. I'd say the most difficult thing I've done is replaced a radiator and an alternator.

You can't go by how often a Dodge Durango blows up to talk about how troublesome ICE cars are. Anyone that wants trouble free ownership just buys a Toyota or Honda and calls it a day. Everyone else, that's on purpose and shouldn't really be used against the actual ICE concept.
David Sachs, prominent VC was one of those subpoenaed and he definitely seemed a little sensitive about it:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1554258141876932608
At least sodium ion is going to go to mass production next year:

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/30/catl-reveals-sodium-ion...

That 160 wh/kg vs 260 wh/kg for cobalt-nickel lithium ion isn't that big a gulf as it seems: the PACK density for sodium and LFP wastes a lot less space than NCM which requires a lot of active cooling to prevent runaway fires.

At pack level NCM is about 180 wh/kg, maybe 200 wh/kg. The new LFP chemistries that will come into mass production will be 200 wh/kg at PACK level.

So we should have mass production LFP for a 400 to possibly 500 mile range car, and sodium ion should be able to do 200-300 mile range cars, the REAL sweet spot.

So anyway, findings like this can be wrapped into evolutionary improvements in the future, and the constant barrage can be tiring, but mass production sodium ion and LFP at those densities will be revolutionary, because it is the path to mass production at 10s of millions per year of EVs + grid storage.
Except it's kinda funny because the 'homeowner' has spent 10 years developing the primordial cesspool that the buyer has evolved out of and it's kinda funny that some famous rich narcissist they've built an entire social network around empowering is now fucking them over.
That sounds like a legitimate use of bots! Imagine having a bot act as a filter on candidates.
> All browsers implement XHTML.

Internet Explorer did not. It completely refused to render XHTML pages served with an XML MIME type (application/xhtml+xml). It would only display pages if they were served with the text/html MIME type, which meant that none of XML’s vaunted features (such as strict parsing) came into play, and such pages were effectively treated as “HTML with syntax errors.”

A big part of why WHATWG was able to dethrone W3C was W3C’s insistence on dropping HTML in favor of XHTML when the overwhelmingly dominant browser of the time had zero support for it.

> They came up with XML, the clean subset, and XHTML, the DTD. … Basically, XHTML was the first actual standardization of HTML.

No, the first formal HTML standard was 2.0 (RFC 1866), which was released in November 1995 and had a DTD that among other things disallowed overlapping hierarchies. XML’s first draft was released a full year later (November 1996), and the first W3C spec was XML 1.0 in 1998. Later that year came the initial drafts for XHTML 1.0, which was a straightforward translation of HTML 4.0 to XML.
I'd rather not help them in any way, given the company behind it. The best-case scenario is that they'll use the chatbot to decline your request for help after your Facebook account was suspended by a different potato algorithm.

But the more likely goal could be to sell access to advertisers, when it matures into a decent mass manipulation service. Beware of the Persil mascot that approaches you in a dark VR alley and asks you about your day.
We do index many things (see related comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874). We do not remove any results ourselves for political purposes and in fact we have been banned in China for many years for that very reason. What you're referring to was a temporary bug in our image search results from Bing that they promptly fixed. If they hadn't fixed it promptly then we would have taken further action.
Census: White and youth population losses contributed most to growth slowdown
Thank you very much for the recommendations. Do you know of any good books that cover how and what to automate? Let’s say that you have strong SysAdmin fundamentals (Linux, Networking, Python, Etc.), which books would you recommend to learn more about automating in a large organization?
You need to ask GP what feet are.
Nailed it. I've used "Linking Your Thinking" much more successfully for organizing notes in Obsidian when I want to be able to quickly access them. Here's the summary:

Make lots of indexes, or "Maps Of Content".

An index can point to a other pages, including other MOCs. It can also have its own text.

There, that's 95% of it. I have a top-level "Index MOC" page that links to my "Work MOC" (which links to projects I'm working on), "Orders MOC" (that links to a bunch of pages for local restaurants and what my wife likes ordering from them), "Diablo MOC" (because I play a lot of Diablo 3 and keep notes on how to optimize characters), etc.

In short, it's a way to turn a mess of pages into a web of links that I can easily click through if I want to.
Not exactly, they're saying that the Python 2/3 breakage debacle became a model for how packages are maintained in general.
Yes, but it really isn't that far. As soon as you leave the edge of suburba-mega-town you're in wilderness again. Where I live it's much less than a half-hour of driving, from the most interior parts of the city, in most conditions.
The NSA wants "NOBUS" (NObody-But-US) backdoors. It is in their interest to make a good show of fixing easily-detected vulnerabilities while keeping their own intentional ones a secret. The fantasy they are trying to sell to politicians is that people can keep secrets from other people but not from the government; that they can make uncrackable safes that still open when presented with a court warrant.

This isn't speculation either; Dual_EC_DRBG and its role as a NOBUS backdoor was part of the Snowden document dump.
Why not? If anything, it's less impractical, if only because restaurants usually have large walk-in freezers.
Quite funny than the person doing twitter 'harm' is exactly the kind of famous, pompous narcissistic asshole their entire platform has been built around enabling.
I actually kinda love this form factor. my laptop is a glorified desktop/monitor and removing the keyboard is a good idea.
Not really. Even boring standard NMC battery will last a very long time. Sure at some point it will degrade and only have 80% capacity but even then you can continue to use it for many years after that.

Unless you have some electrical breakdown or something like that many batteries that we are building now can easily last 20+ years.
I am not kidding when I say this although it sounds absurd to adult me: I was told when I was a kid it was due to racism.

I suspect actually it was simply more economical, and probably something to do with chalk dust. I don’t miss chalk dust.
So it started as a celebretion of the annexation of Crimea by Russia?
I know a guy who hacked on Apple's compiler fixing bugs. It turned into a job offer, but he didn't like the interplay of compensation and relocation. Now would have been a good time for him to check back on their relocation policy but in the interim it would be a large demotion instead of a small one.

I used to joke that F5 owes me a job and 2 month's salary for all the free QA we did for them back when their session affinity code was just a checkbox on the PR material. If they were more open that might have played out a bit differently.
You're right, and I'm wrong.
We ended up just doing it together haha it was great -- we cooked beet pasta and then did this while we ate it
Fake streisand effect. Pretending even the tiniest act of moderation is a massive campaign to hide information.
I'm not talking about all bots. I'm talking about mDAU bots. You guys are trying to argue against a point I'm not making.

3rd party estimations range from 10-20% for mDAU bots, Twitter's is 5%.

Others were defending it by saying "well the number doesn't have to be accurate legally" or "well Musk should have known it's not really accurate".

My counter is that weasel legal wording and logic doesn't give much confidence in Twitter's number at all for FUTURE buyers, advertisers, investors, etc.

They should show their work and prove their number or investors / advertisers / buyers should lower their valuations to reflect somewhere in the middle.

But Twitter hasn't really ever been about the money so the status quo will stay the same.

- edit -

@blitzar: https://sparktoro.com/blog/sparktoro-followerwonk-joint-twit... you can see their methodology here.

Despite two different mDAU classifications, both of the datasets from SparkToro and Followerwonk were about 20% mDAU bots.
> Musk can't barge in and say "but MY calculations have a HIGHER number!" because Twitter already acknowledged this could be the case

Not to mention that some of Musk's publicly stated reasons for the purchase are to reduce the bot problem to improve Twitter's value.
But if analog is what you knew, that wasn't "distortion". That was "natural", because it was what you grew up with. That was the way things were supposed to be.

So "fidelity" means "fidelity to the way I remember" (and like).
FWIW the appeal would be for those who can’t get their own roofs (aka majority of worlds population). The price point is likely to capture the initial hype.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the car itself is more like recumbent bicycle - ultra efficient vehicle with solar on top.
It's such a bad spec it'll never be implemented by anyone

In a round about way W3C successfully did the opposite of what they claimed they where trying to do, killing the entire concept and ensuring it won't ever actually happen
Still a crazy amount....
I love how Amazon's "solution" is to sell companies something that kinda sorta works, for now. No conflict of interest there. Nope.
July Jobs U.S. Added 528,000 New Jobs as Unemployment Rate Fell to 3.5%
"How I learned to hack around my misuse of networking on my linux box"
The need to press back multiple times to get back to where you were before entering an app seems to be becoming the norm in many apps of late. I'm pretty sure it is yet another 'engagement trap': the app makers don't want you to leave so they can show you more ads, collect more data about you to sell on, etcetera.
This is great. CRON presets are great, but this is perfect for allowing users to define their own CRON expressions. Nice work!