skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are fast-growing sections of their budget slated for political-like causes, not technical ones that keep the website online and accessible. They call it the Thriving Movement and it's largely based around DEI-type initiatives.

"The Thriving Movement budget has increased from $14.3 million last fiscal year to $36.7 million in this budget which represents an increase of $22.4 million or 157%. It has also grown from being 13.2% of the Foundation’s overall budget to 24.5%."

Not only is more money going into it, a larger share of their budget is being allocated to it, so a larger share of each donation goes into DEI initiatives. If you're the kind of person that does not think this is a valuable investment of your money, you might not be inclined to donate anymore (or to donate less than before).

I personally believe a 24.5% share of the budget for what are largely DEI initiatives is not something I'd prefer to support with increasing donations, so I have scaled back my donations to them (as well as Mozilla/Firefox for the same reasons). I am sure many people agree with DEI initiatives and donate more. That's fine. We all vote with our wallet.

Source: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-...
this is my experience too, as well not showing videos from people you've subscribed too but maybe haven't watched in a while.

the most shocking thing is they still have not managed to get a decent recommendation engine after all this time.
It'd be great if I didn't use my History to actually find videos I've previously watched...

I don't understand why recommendation engines just don't provide a reset button. It'd be better for everyone involved: content provider, content creators, users, ad buyers.
> IDCAC accepts cookies if there is no option to decline them. You don't see annoying popups anymore, but the cookies are still there tracking you.

Yes. Because I don't care about cookies. This is not an anti-tracking extension. I do not care about being tracked. I just want to stop being bombarded with cookie consent dialogs.
Yeah, I said this in another comment, I don't really believe that to be the case. I'm not saying that a conflict of interest doesn't exist, I just don't believe that this move is part of an overall plan to have Google start bypassing adblockers.
great stuff rexfuzzle! that is indeed something that should be part of the standard security of apps nowadays. it costs surprisingly little to clone a phone number and get those 2fa requests on a new phone so any heads up would be great to know.
I agree that intelligence and knowledge are not the same, but I would say that wisdom is more than just the sum of the other two.

The way I see it:

1. Intelligence is how fast you can go

2. Knowledge is where you start from

3. Wisdom (or "perspective" as Alan Kay would say) is the direction you are going.

If we think of intellectual activity as searching on the terrain of ideas for truth, knowledge and intelligence can both help you get to the truth faster, but ultimately what matters most is whether you are pointed in the right direction.
It actually blew the VAX away, and a lot of other major systems.

"(1984) RISC II proved to be much more successful in silicon and in testing outperformed almost all minicomputers on almost all tasks. For instance, performance ranged from 85% of VAX speed to 256% on a variety of loads. RISC II was also benched against the famous Motorola 68000, then considered to be the best commercial chip implementation, and outperformed it by 140% to 420%."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_RISC
> The coming together every day for just a few minutes is an opportunity to ask for help (blockers).

The rest of your message about unblocking early seems to contradict your first statement of waiting until scrum to ask for help.
Yes, they are there all day, until closing time, or longer. Usually, the longer you stay, the more likely you are to buy their car, or give them more money. They control the situation and the incentives are in their favor. This is one reason we loathe car shopping.
> Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%?

Edison Research says that desktops/laptops account for 13% of listening in Q4'2021, having dropped 7% since the start of that year. I'd predict that it falls to under 10% by the end of 2022.
It shouldn't matter.
to draw a desktop app analogy, I guess these things need a back-end as a GUI application that has to deal with all the presentation logic, and thin client that remote desktop to that. While the current SPA model would be RPC with fat clients, your call.
just fyi hours earlier revealed that Twitch staff, Amazon employees, accepted crypto payment from one of the biggest gambling streamers on the site https://twitter.com/ostonox/status/1572264800616599552

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/xje6p2/twit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/xjglgl/form...
> The right amount of compression in a photocopy machine is zero.

This isn't an obvious statement to me. If you've had the misfortune of scanning documents to PDF and getting the 100MB per page files automatically emailed to you then you might see the benefit in all that white space being compressed somehow.

> But what does it mean to “be aware of” compression that may give you a crisp image of some made up document?

This isn't something I said. A good compression system for documents will not change characters in any circumstances.
>To conduct its analysis, The Post identified 77 of the biggest spreaders of disinformation about the 2020 election, tracked how they built large audiences online and then analyzed how they used their new power to fuel debate on other divisive topics.

…

> By tracking follower counts on Twitter and Facebook, The Post found that this group rose steeply in popularity in the six months before the Jan. 6 riot, gaining a stunning 25 million followers on the two platforms. For those who already boasted massive audiences, most grew their followings by at least 50 percent by posting about election fraud. For those with more modest audiences — about 1 in 5 on the list — the payoff for sowing doubt in the election was even bigger.

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> Of the 77 figures, 57 remain active…

> The analysis found that the massive megaphones built by posting about election fraud have given the 57 an outsize role in pushing other false and divisive narratives. For example, members of this group wrote five of the top 20 most-shared tweets about “grooming,” a homophobic meme that falsely equates teaching children about sexuality with befriending them for purposes of sexual abuse.

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> Also in March, members of the group of 77 produced eight of the top 20 tweets about “biolabs,” a pro-Russian conspiracy theory that falsely alleges the United States developed dangerous bioweapons in Ukraine. …

> And in June 2021, this group helped shape the critical race theory narrative, which involved conservative attacks on public school offerings about America’s history of racism. A tweet from Benny Johnson, creative director of the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA, was the sixth-most popular on the topic that month. Johnson claimed he had obtained “LEAKED DOCUMENTS” showing Iowa teachers being forced to classify Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan as racism.

>Another tweet by Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk about Virginia parents “being arrested” for opposing critical race theory was the 21st-most popular, with 3,700 retweets. Neither Johnson nor Kirk responded to requests for comment.

>All told, these 57 figures have composed roughly a quarter of the most-shared tweets across Twitter on those hot-button topics plus two others — drag queens and ballot harvesting — The Post found. On Facebook, those still active posted more than 10 percent of the top posts on those issues.
My approach has been to write and practice small programs in languages that I use. Refresh, rewrite, practice snippets before fitting into large program and then when I get a flow, I continue iterating on large programs.

When your programs are small, switching between languages is very easy.
You can make "believe_me" assertions, which is incredibly useful when writing advanced (metaprogramming heavy) library code. The idea is to try and contain / and heavily test the small "unsafe" library part and isolate it from the rest of the code, then enjoy the advanced type transformations and checks in the "normal" application code.

For example, an SQL query builder library may internally do unchecked assertions about the type of the result row that a query transformation would produce (e.g. group_by), however assuming that part is correct, all application code using the query builder's group_by method would benefit from the correct row types being produced by `group_by` which can then be matched against the rest of the application code.
Most of the software that decodes CW isn’t that great unless you have a consistent S9 signal and the keying is even (IE, not straight keyed). Once the signal wanders or is even partially in the noise the software will just spit out gibberish but a human would still easily be able to copy it.
It seems that the semantics of undefined behavior are elusive to many people in the industry, so allow me to clarify some misconceptions.

1. Zig does not have more undefined behavior than C. Much like there are two kinds of complexity, accidental, and essential, C has multiple kinds of undefined behavior: accidental, and essential. Accidental UB is stupid shit like "if your file doesn't end with a newline, UB occurs". Essential UB is things like, if the memory of a local variable is changed by /proc/mem by another process, while a function is evaluated, UB occurs. Essential UB allows basic, essential optimisations to take place that everyone expects every language & compiler to be able to perform. C has a large amount of accidental UB; Zig has none.

2. A Zig application decides what to do when a safety check triggers by overriding the panic handler. Zig's default panic handler crashes with a helpful stack trace. This is a killer feature.

3. I see a lot of people talking ignorantly about safety critical applications. Let's talk about Level A Clearance. This is software that is licensed to run on airplanes and other safety critical components in the United States. Here's how it works: you have to test every error condition and every branch at the machine code layer. This makes a simpler language such as C or Zig more well-suited than language with hidden control flow such as C++ or Rust, because it causes problems for testing every branch at the machine code level. Furthermore, such components are redundant, so that when one fails, the readings of the others are used. So, crashing or otherwise indicating a faulty reading is absolutely what you want safety-critical software to do, as opposed to giving a well-defined, incorrect reading due to, for example, an integer overflow, which can happen in "safe" Rust.
I prefer to be told when blockers happen and not 12-24 hours later. There are many different types of management styles though...
I'm 30 and I moved back home because of covid, wanting to save money. Still am living at home... I should probably move out. Saving a ton though.
They bought out exclusive access to the most efficient node, making it impossible for others rather than showing it is possible for them (though it presumably would have been possible if they outbid Apple at the time).
One of the best keyboards I've ever used. Unique feel, loved that thing.
I don't think "he hit enter by accident" is quite the gotcha you seem to think it is.

You found my criticisms insufficient, so I gave you a long-form version along with a list of folks who actually do have something interesting to say in the space. Then it was too verbose.

I suppose there’s no pleasing some folks huh.
To be aware of when you are building compression systems.

It's perfectly possible to build neural network based compression systems that do not output false information.
But at least the "not interested" option works well, at least for me.
TOC is quite interesting and not as mainstream as something like SCRUM, but could be a better option.

I like that it is more evidence-based and thought out. However I think applying this is challenging - for the same reason as scrum - because methodologies like this require leaders to let go of their control-ego and trust the system. And systems like TOC which require a lot of thinking, understanding and are easily corrupted by misunderstanding it are fragile to the reality of a hierarchical team structure where the bosses personality can dominate processes more than the process. As such I believe (may not be true) that taking good principles from TOC would be better.

I have seen TOC tried to be applied in a software job and it turned into the typical "JIRA-style" nightmare of estimations, pressure, short term thinking and so on. I don't think that is what TOC is about, but what it can end up with when it hits the ground. SCRUM has the same issues of course. Because these methodologies are not meant to be an al a carte menu of options, where the ones that make the bosses eyes light up are chosen. But they are complete systems. Like it might be fun to only do bench presses at the gym and nothing else, and still eat badly, but that won't work - you need to do the whole regime!

That is why in reality I prefer systems that can be offered al-a-carte. Maybe TOC can be I am not an expert and haven't read the book. But I like for example if someone comes to lead a team and sees how things are done and slowly tweaks things towards a long term goal. For example come in and get people work as a team not individually so that work is delivered sooner and there is less WIP.

A bit rambly but those are my thoughts!
Somewhere in the middle for me, but what it recommends to me are generally channels I am already interested in. I think the only novel recommendation I've seen recently, that I enjoyed, was of some kind of classical Chinese music. Otherwise, I see a lot of absolute fucking garbage from the likes of Mr. Beast.
Nicely said. Actually there is a point - vengeance and moralizing. But you're right this probably wouldn't have much effect on GPU availability and reduction of pollution in the near future.
http://ann-benchmarks.com/

ScaNN is still doing quite well, but it is definitely not the only game in town.
Yes! But it depends what you want to get out of it. I'm a big proponent of project-based learning, so my question to you is: what would you want to build?

I'll lead with an example: I really like the idea of search indexes and search engines. I cobbled together a search engine on my own that indexes arXiv's metadata, very similar to Andrej Karpathy's Arxiv Sanity Preserver [1] in Python. I very quickly encountered that the "What can I rip off of medium blogs and StackOverflow" approach wasn't scaling well, so I had to dig into how each part of my tech stack worked to figure out where things were going slower, and how I could improve it.

You can "do systems engineering" in any language and just about any tech stack, but you'll often see it closely associated with compiled languages, because those are often chosen when we care about performance because extra abstractions often make it harder to reason about what's really going on in certain portions of your tech stack. It started in Python, but then dusted off my C skills, and then my C++ skills for different parts of the entire stack.

Before I get too carried away, here's the main point:

Try to find a problem where you have to deal with lots of data on a single computer/server/device. You'll quickly hit limitations on what your software can do. Figuring out why you hit those limits is gonna start you down a path to acquiring the "systems knowledge" that you seek.

It's actually quite difficult to hit performance limitations on your average server with just text. Video and 3d content are much more intensive mediums that very quickly let you hit those limits. It's one of the reasons why Twitch and YouTube don't have lots of competition, but we've hopped between link aggregator to link aggregator over the years.

1: https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/
2:
> Robert is cagey and deceptive

It is good to be skeptical, I but I would counsel anyone to avoid becoming deeply cynical and missing out on the value because you don’t like the messenger. I learn as much from arseholes like Thiel, as I do from Paul Graham who appears to me that he is one of the good guys (disclaimer: I haven’t met Paul, & I disagree strongly with some of his theses).

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a very worthwhile book IMHO - it costs you a few dollars and a few hours. I read it and later became a moderately successful founder. I think that book had some positive influence on that success: my guess is that I got high $10’s of thousands value for $10’s of input. In particular the idea of designing a money machine, versus selling hours for dollars. Good knowledge is like that: you can get 1000x return or more. Of course that is offset by the other shit I have read that didn’t give good return ($0 return is OK, highly negative returns from crap knowledge is the real risk).

This link summarises some of the value of the book: https://sergioschuler.com/rich-dad-poor-dad-tl-dr-version-3e... (edits: minor improves).
Does this explain it in a better way: https://docs.tigrisdata.com/overview/features
If I had a device that didn't mute when I told it to, I would consider it faulty and I would return it.

I was talking about watching youtube on my android phone or TV when I wrote the comment. So yes, mute always mutes. I don't know what happens for iOS hostages.
How do you dependency inject a ES module?
You could still use some kind of adaptive huffman coding. Current compression schemes have some kind of dictionary embedded in the file to map between the common strings and the compressed representation. Google tried proposing SDCH a few years using a common dictionary for wep pages. There isn't any reason why we can't be a bit more deterministic and share a much larger latent representation of "human visual comprehension" or whatever to do the same. It doesn't need to be stochastic once generated.
As someone who never heard of "Thriving Movement" nor "DEI-type initiaives" before, it seems to be around making the workplace (Wikimedia Foundation) more diverse, equal and inclusive. At a glance, those seems like good things to introduce to global organizations (especially foundations) that is supposed to be represented by the whole world. But I can agree that it seems like a large part of the budget, for being what it is.

But if I understand what you're saying correctly, you're saying it's a negative for them to put such a focus on it?
Subsidized by a hidden cost multiplayer subscription and store lock-in cut on all games played on it.
The zeitgeist of our culture; of course you didn’t MEAN to be negative, here try again.

No, no; I most certainly did mean to suggest you should stop showing me this persons channel. Not because I hate the person but because I don’t want a shit “AI” that’s feeding me what Google makes the best margins on.
> You should verify a user's second factor before password.

the cost of sending those 2fa texts is not zero and also the idea of them is that they are ephemeral so them being tied to the successful entering of username and password and limited in time is a feature... not a bug.
> I'm never interested in rewatching stuff I've already seen.

thats a weird position. The whole point of YouTube (used to be anyway) was long form content. YouTube is not new anymore. You really have no interest in watching some good 10 minute video you saw 9 years ago?
> The people do not even vote reasonably, so it is very difficult.

You get three votes [0] every four to five years, where you need to vouch for someone from a short list to make all the choices to represent you. And this is actually the good case, in the US it's reduced to just two options. Deciding whether someone votes reasonably is very hard when they weigh certain decisions (and how likely politicians are to keep their promises) completely different.

Just as an example, you might say that you think climate change is the most important topic overall right now, so you vote for the German Green party - except, of course, if you doubt that they'll actually change much or if you think that nuclear power is the answer, which they don't like. So you think of voting for a small party, but they'll be in the opposition at best, but most likely not even hit 5%, making your vote nothing more than a gesture completely ignored by the ruling parties. So what's the unreasonable choice here?

Long story short, what I'm trying to say is that whenever I heard the accusation of people voting unreasonably, so far, the actual argument always was "people disagree with my [clearly optimal] opinion or voting strategy".

[0] Local, federal and state each.
Is schematic entry where most of the effort and complexity is when doing board design? Will JITX address the layout part of the design pipeline as well down the line?
I think if you trace back long enough a lot of the ancestors of Azerbaijanis are probably Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, and other long standing Caucasian peoples who were assimilated by both force and persuasion to some degree or other into Persian influenced Turkic tribes.

Likewise in their rise to a regional linguistic group the Armenians assimilated and absorbed other groups (like much of the Caucasian Albanian population).

I’m not sure what that means in the grand scheme of things but I tend to be skeptical of the idea that land exclusively ought to belong to one group when a region historically has had many groups whose populations and histories are intertwined.

Of course the nature of the nation state being what it is and the history of blood letting in the region, as a practical matter even if you discard ideals of who the land “ought” to belong to, a peaceful solution is tricky
It's insanely biased towards popularity. I watched this series of like 40 videos on extremely large numbers. And not one time did I ever see one in my recommendations. You would think when you've watched 1-20 of something the algorithm would be smart enough to suggest 21 but no.
The comment you replied to does not mention intelligence
This strategy is set by my manager.

The only feedback I am seeing in this post is how standup should be used to report blocks. I encourage my team to message me when they have questions and not to wait until a sync meeting to report issues. We rarely discuss blockers because those are address in 1:1 or project focused meetings.
> On the bright side it just collapses into a "key" icon in the URL bar that you can click to open it back up and save the password.

I've been using Firefox as my main browser since 2010 and I never realized this.
Autotranslation of the firts paragraph:

> Three earthquakes on September 19 in Mexico: What is the probability of happening?

> The Mexican capital has once again felt a strong tremor on the same date as in 1985 and 2017. Experts indicate probabilities between 0.000751% and 0.00000024%

Reading the title I imagined it was about three earthquakes the same day of the same year, that is very common due to aftershocks.
>twitter, 4ch, and friends

I was under the impression that these three are mutually exclusive to each other
The reasons for not getting founder stock (at least it was for them) are:

I don't have any titles or smth. similar.

It takes 15 days to sign the contracts which is somehow to long for them

This is just f** up. I should have left a long time before. But - you always learn it the hard way.
For whatever reason, Firefox uses 30-40% CPU at all times on my 2020 Intel Macbook, meaning battery life is quite short and the slightest bit of load on top will trigger the fan, which hardly ever happens when using Brave or Chrome instead. FF worked well enough for a year or so once they got acceleration to work properly on macOS, then this happened. Besides, I need to run Chrome anyway for various webapps I need to use that are broken in FF.