skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is some public documentation of Wikipedia "Disinformation" projects, the first one specifically related to the election:

Biden Campaign Disinformation Retrospective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biden_Campaign_Disinforma...

Disinformation at the Wikimedia Foundation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Disinformati...

These are public, as was the fact that there were multiple "Disinformation" hires. However, the meetings between the Wikimedia Foundation and the DHS specifically (as opposed to government agencies generally) were not mentioned in public communications, to my knowledge.
This term was used well before 2010... that person might have the trademark but it was used in extreme sports (e.g. skateboarding type events) since the 1990s.
The idea is you cache a rendering engine. It just isn’t core in the system layer
Yes. Printed on paper in a sealed envelope. My wife knows where it is. Every 5 or 6 years I update it.
I have an AT&T number ported to Google Voice. There isn't any service out there that thinks it's a VOIP number.
This is strictly re: software engineers but I don't think that's true IMO. Put another way, I think the average recruiter/co-founder/EM would be more interested in hiring an ex-Twitter engineer vs an ex-Tesla engineer.
Probably the long-term effects of COVID which causes exhaustion, brain fog, depression, etc... Combined perhaps by people having had time to reset and reflect on their life. Combined by the fact that the planet and democracy are dying.

These are theories of course, but I don't think one has to always look for very complex or technology related answers.
Interesting that their prototype looks a lot like my browser: which is Firefox using:

- Tabcenter Redux (last update 2018) https://github.com/eoger/tabcenter-redux-- creates a (searchable) left tab column including pinned tabs on top of the column, just like what they are showing. And

- Auto Tab Discard -- saves memory (but not perfectly) by writing out tab contents to disk if the tab is inactive for a settable amount of time, then seamlessly reloading the tab when it's clicked.
> Still a good job but I would like seek something different if I was starting out today

I'm only 6 years in, and I am starting to feel this.

I went into computer science because it's something I knew that, at some level, it was something I always wanted to do. I've always been fascinated with technology ever since I was a child -- how things work, why things work, etc..

While studying computer science at my average state school, I met a few others that were a lot like me. We'd always talk about this cool new technology, work on things together, etc.. The was a real passion for the craft in a sense. It's something I felt similar during my time studying music with my peers.

Perhaps, in some naive way, I thought the work world would be a lot like that too. And of course, this is only my experiences so far, but I have found my peers to be significantly different.

People I work with do not seem to care about technology, programing, etc.. They care about dollar signs, promotions, and getting things done as quickly as possible (faster != better quality). Sure, those three things are important to varying degrees, but it's not why I chose computer science, and I struggle to connect with those people. I've basically lost my passion for programing because of it (though that is not the entire reason -- burnout and whatnot has contributed significantly.)

I'm by no means a savant nor would I even consider myself that talented, but I used to have a passion for programming and that made all the "trips" and "falls" while learning worth it in the end.

I tell people I feel like I deeply studied many of the ins and outs photography only to take school pictures all day.
Graeme Obree tested in a wind tunnel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9H0INZ2_s
I think we're using completely different definitions of "rapidly" if you're talking about the Roman empire and I'm talking about nearlight from one side of a continent to another.

People organized a nationwide attack on the US Capitol in 2021. It was a tiny fraction of the population that wanted to participate (much less participated), but they organized and came in from everywhere. What would that organization have looked like in Roman times?
> I'm not 100 on how you can have internal debt and external surplus, sorry. You'll have to talk to someone smarter for that.

In the simplest case, suppose the government of an export-heavy country such as Germany, Japan or China simply stopped collecting taxes for a year. It would be self-evident that their government would run a large budgetary deficit no matter how large their export surplus for that year was.
Could be 185%, could be 18.5%. Nobody has any idea how policy, productivity, demographics, climate, technology, etc. will interact over the next 40 years.
I believe the answer is „it depends”: https://medium.com/aspecto/protobuf-js-vs-json-stringify-per....
How vague. What is the context that makes that post ok?
It's really simple: if you want to do something yourself, do it. If you want to pay someone to do it for you, do that. There's many reasons you might choose one route or the other, and they're all valid. Ignore sanctimonious assholes who tell you that you should support workers just because.
I don’t think this is a good idea. We’ll run into a situation with many different not-dom guis having the same set of problems that existing not-dom guis had for all these years. Think gnome-like drama for the half of the internet. Dom/css is no doubt a mountain of something stinky, but at least it is a slow moving standard and never had any politics or bdfl opinions involved. Also it has a set of features (e.g. accessibility, ad blocking) which would be hard to implement everywhere in the same way. Maybe something more low-level than dom but still integratable with higher-level apis and features could be built into a new browser paradigm.
> a set of metrics which have built-in left-wing assumptions

Introducing political statements on HN and feeding them is frowned upon, but I will bite: the right wing also needs an answer to the problems caused by inequality. Solving issues caused by inequality can easily be a right wing objective: for example when fixing an issue also helps the middle class or the rich.

A metric for inequality can be politically completely neutral, yet it will trigger partisans on the left or right. I do agree that metrics and solutions often have covert political biases.

I think that regardless of your political inclination, the core message of the article remains the same.
It's kind of like asking why we don't have any driven individuals who do a solo swim from Hammerfest to Port Lockroy. Even with a high tech society the resource requirements are extreme. It is likely to require significant collective effort to build a ship and especially to fuel it. Thousands of metric tons of fuel at a minimum if you want to reach anywhere in only a few lifetimes, probably millions.
Yes, employees have become more reactive than proactive. This is especially unfortunate if you are in sales or creative roles. At our company, in WFH the company communication is much better, the use of Teams & 1on1 during the pandemic has removed what use to be more like departmental islands. Reactive, meaning people process out their tasks like, emails, to-do, meetings, but it tends to fill there day checking off all these boxes. In proactive roles you need creativity to chase the goals, and management needs to coach their goals...I find that proactive part of job responsibilities are falling off the table. We have moved to a hybrid schedule so their is consistent facetime for development, employeed feedback/discussion, and manager coaching. It is changing our business, and Q4 is/has shown a recovery.
I have been using tree tab since forever and it's really the best tab UI you can imagine. I wonder why it is not native to more browser. I can manage hundred of tabs with ease.
This is a good point. You're right that it really does come down to getting from him the things that I think the team and I need in order to succeed. Sometimes, however, I worry that I'm not getting the point across if I dance around an issue or "soften" it up too much. I'm sure there's a middle ground though where I can get my point across while keeping the conversation practical, focused and constructive. I just need to give some more thought as to how to do that.
Full Send predates them by at least a decade. It’s a very short walk from “send it”, as in I’m going to send it, which has been part of that culture since at least 2000.
> quick maths: a faster top of rack switch is possibly the same cost as 5 days engineering wage for a mid level google employee. How many new switches do you think you could buy with the engineering effort required to port everything to the new protocol, and have it stable and observable?

So your 5M machines / 40 in the best case of all 1U boxes is 125K TOR-switch-SWE-week-equivalents / 52 weeks in a year which comes to 2K SWE-years to invest in new protocols, observability, and testing. Google got to the scale they are by explicitly spending on SWE-hours instead of Cisco.
No one is saying people cannot experiment. We'd just not rather be the unsuspecting rats in Tesla's try-not-to-kill-too-many-pedestrians beta.
I am sure the Afghan Taliban and the Iranian Mullahs agree:

You can't put a price on female virtue/modesty/chastity. So while keeping our women locked away at home depresses the GDP, it is a misleading measure of national success anyway.
But nitter is a piece of software, did you mean "the nitter instance at X is down"? :)

Also libredirect is pretty good (does more than just Twitter)
Ask HN: How Turn a Person into Embeddings?
We can turn the article into embeddings and find it through semantic search. I'm wondering if it's possible for us to vectorize a person so that it can be found by semantic search?

For example, we import all twitter and medium of many users and vectorize all their social content.
When we type: Help me find someone who cares about AI research and is good at giving independent tech opinions. We will get a list of users.

In this way, we can find people in general fields through ambiguous language.
A realistic game would model the aero advantages from hugging the wall.
https://youtu.be/9fPamV6LsV8
The Cold Civil War
Do you have any textbooks, course materials, or other references for these topics you'd recommend?
I use etckeeper for this, along with a cron entry to put the currently-installed set of packages into a file (/etc/packages.installed). Thus rebuilding becomes: base-install, pull /etc, reinstall-packages, re-checkout /etc.
My entire family thinks 2000 was stolen and you at least slightly agree. These claims are not new to American democracy.
> I wonder how much bias affects the reported measurements?

They don’t, because productivity is not self-reported. It’s also not measured the way you imply.
> I understand what tolerance means.

I don't think you do.

> The Babylon Bee's article is not tolerant of Levine's or WaPo's definitions.

Please explain your reasoning. I think this is getting to your fundamental misunderstanding about what tolerating speech and opinions you disagree with means.

> The BB's refusal to remove the tweet is not tolerant of Twitter's definitions.

This is not a correct use of the meaning of tolerance. You could say they didn't tolerate twitter's terms of service or moderation demands, but not that they didn't tolerate twitter's "definitions", so it's just muddying the waters here I think because of the asymmetric positions of the two parties when we're talking about speech on twitter's platform. So we should focus on how BB is not tolerating Levine or WaPo first.

> People aren't objecting to the BB's definition in a vacuum. They are reacting to the lack of tolerance from the BB.

> The problem doesn't originate with a lack of progressive tolerance. It originates from the BB's intolerance.

People most certainly object to different definitions, but the interesting thing I think is how you are using the word (in)tolerance here. The way you are using it certainly does not match the use of the word in the former progressive position that I was referring to.
I learned programming informally via scientific project work. When I learned about hashing and O(1) lookup the power of it truly blew my mind.
Old school programming techniques we don't miss (2009)
Having to store all the different versions of rendering engines out there doesn't really solve the problem, because space isn't unlimited either. Imagine: Facebook just upgraded to v1.3.2 of PopularEngine but Google still lags at v1.3.0, now you have to store both!
Not really. You can do that for web, or email, or maps, but for the most part - and especially with third party apps for things like Reddit, or Twitter - you're forced into opening links in Safari. You MAY be given the option to open the link in an app once opening in Safari but in my experience it doesn't always work.

It's fundamentally a worse experience than it is on Android, in every way.
Iterating through the set bits in an integer in O(# of set bits) time.
I’m working on reinventing a browser around reader mode. —Optimized for reading comprehension and the joy of discovery (instead of engagement / ad-metrics). This wouldn’t be the only browser you’d use, but hopefully, it’ll be the best way to read online. ama.
Sounds like you're advocating turning browsers into something like a dumb terminal or television. Websites will soon do this anyway in an attempt to lock down content and avoid ad blocking.
Looks like the only place is in the URL.

Something else I don't like is at the bottom where it says "There are 68 comments. Read them." No, I will not read the comments. It comes off as excessively demanding.
A point of note: the phrase was popular in the climbing/skiing/snowboarding/mountain biking communities years and years before the frat boys appropriated it for activities mostly pertaining to drinking a lot and being a degenerate.
As if that isn't enough, it isn't really the web if you can't "view source" and get roughly useful semantics for documents.

The browser didn't beat out a handful of VMs because it was just another VM.
>> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

>Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.

If you can't even get the spelling of a major city in Arizona correct, your content is... as the kids like to say, "sus".
Privileged people also tend to conceptualize theft as "theft from a corporation" as in, stealing clothes from Target or slim jims from a gas station.

The idea that their entire livelihood could be taken from them doesn't cross their mind
I don't have much to add, but you really nailed the sentiment I was going for exactly. I have been lucky to both be serving a very small user group that I can work closely with, and one whose existing workflows still exist and they can go back to if ours suck, so we _have_ to be better.
>"Make a new browser that is just WebGPU + WebAssembly, no more DOM."

I'm not familiar with WebGPU and WebAssembly, can you say is there something in that combination that replaces the DOM? I'd also be curious to hear what's the issue with the DOM.
It's a damn shame if they lay them off a day before stock grants and they get none. I would absolutely sue if it was me. These are people who have been working hard and it would be a damn damn shame if their efforts were met with a screwing over. If I had a boss like this, I absolutely would not stay even if I didn't get laid off.
Disquieting to hear such a brilliant and promising young engineer is so taken with Yarvin's hokey crap.

Are there are other prominent young tech people who are openly into NRX? I hear about Yarvin and his Thiel funding spreading themselves around, but I haven't any idea if it's actually taking hold in tech circles.
Thanks for the AMA.

Is there a link to a git repo of current progress?
Why couldn't it cache?
I don't think you get a pass for treating people badly because of your hysteria. It's easy to be a good member of society in good times. It's when there is adversity that we are tested. Same as if someone yelled "fire" and you freaked out and pushed others out of the way to get outside first, you should have to live with your behavior, not just get to say "well, I thought there was a fire" and be forgiven. Hopefully people can take this as a lesson to try and keep there humanity when times get tough, but they should have to live with their behavior.
Stupidity and wit are intelligence and have nothing to do with historical knowledge.
Damn is the source code for that available somewhere? I loved that game.

Edit: guess I could just download it and disassemble ;)
> There are so many improvements we could be making, but corporations don't see any "immediate shareholder value", so they sit around happy as pigs in shit with the status quo.

I would affirm that. It's imho true for almost everything in IT tech.

How computers "work" today is just pure madness when looked anyhow closer.

Everything's a result of some "historic accidents" back in the days, and from that the usual race to the bottom caused by market powers.

Nobody is willing to touch any of the lower layers no matter how crazy they are form today's viewpoint. We just shovel new layers on top to paper over the mistakes of the past. Nothing gets repaired, or actually what would be more more important, rethought form the ground up in light of new technological possibilities and changed requirements.

I understand from the economic standpoint how this comes. But I'm also quite sure we didn't make any fundamental improvements in the last 50 years of computing.

That's a very bad sign when everything in a field that's not even really 100 years old is frozen in time since 50 years because everything's so fragile and complex that fundamental changes aren't possible. This looks like a text book example of a house of cards…

Given how vital IT tech is to modern life I fear that this will crash at some point in the worst way possible.

And even if it won't crash, which is really strongly hope, we will never have nice things again as nothing of the old rotten things can be reasonably changed.
And shortly thereafter, he was assassinated.

Another historical "fun fact", is that MLK wasn't assassinated while pushing for civil rights. He was killed once he shifted his focus to financial injustice and wealth inequality.

Two might not be a pattern, but it's no accident these historical figures were both challenging the deep pockets status quo and they both died prematurely.
If I were an ultra-rich who owns 10% of the entire nation's wealth, it would be rational to promote GDP as the main indicator of success, because 10% of that GDP belongs to me. On the other hand, if I were the collective consciousness of the people, I'd define success in the percentile terms, like you said.
There is certainly more than one person who wants to reinvent browsers, even among web pioneers, I'm sure :-)

Some things I'd like to see in the next generation of browsers:

- Modular design. Many things like rendering engine, history/cookie/cache mechanism, configuration framework, UI, sync system, download manager, privacy enhancements, ad blocking/request filtering, extensions should be separate programs (with independent authorship) that follow some common, compatible interface. Advanced users can mix and match these components to assemble their own "browser", or even develop their own components. "Browser distributions" can be created for less technical users that are plug and play.

- Ad blocking, request filtering and cosmetic filters as core functionality, rather than some exotic thing for the adventurous that is best left to extension developers. These require low level access to the browser's internal workings, they don't work well as regular extensions because those usually have security restrictions. They also need a solid UX that can provide enough granularity to be useful. Probably a good system for crowdsourcing the filter rules as well.

- The browser shouldn't treat the server as incontrovertible gospel. It shouldn't necessarily run every script the server sends over, or provide a full inventory of capabilities (fonts, filetypes, etc.) unless there is a good reason for it. Rather than server as master and browser as worker, the connection should be treated as a contract where the browser is concerned with protecting the user's interest (privacy, usability) rather than slavishly obeying the server's whims.
http://archive.today/2022.10.31-042158/https://www.ft.com/co...
Won't fail but their stock can and likely will continue to fall for quite some time.
I liked how Fortress would transform your ASCII file into LaTeX renderable output. Also the APL input in emacs and many other editors offers a pretty reasonable compromise. `.i` => ι (iota), as an example. It doesn't take much effort to learn. Then there's also the option of letting people type it longhand and having the editor substitute for you: `\iota` (or maybe `\iota<tab>`) => ι. The prefix option is handier for the common symbols, but the the TeX-style work well for less common ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052722/https://java.net/...
I regularly print my whole keepass database and I keep it in a safe fireproof place. And my family know the location. It is also a failsafe for me if my house burn down with all my digital copies in it. I do have off site backup, but you never know.
Tried Arc on my 2015 MBP last week and the fan immediately went full-throttle. The app was unusable.
Amazon was definitely not run off of crappy 3com hubs, not even back then.
I know you're joking, but Nascar actually uses some cool tech [1] to make a 3D model of each car on-site to ensure they're in spec with regulations for size, aero, etc... Here [2] it is in action at the last Daytona 500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-X_eujF8Z8 [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laet8W8pn_k [2]
My instant thought is that this is an accessibility nightmare of an idea.
I think it would be useful to know if a country has a much higher dependent population than another country. It could highlight dynamics that get ofuscated when some countries put large parts of their populations under the "unemployable" label or quietly pushed into black markets, making official unemployment numbers impossible to compare with other populations.
> If we hire 10k novice IRS agents, I imagine their annual cost will be quite low for the the first years and/or decades. however, At some point it will go negative.

We can extrapolate their cost though. Payment rosters and pension contributions for government jobs are public, which means you can do a worst-case estimate and go with the cost basis of the highest-paid position that they can reasonably achieve in their career.

Additionally, a lot of them are replacements for people who will go into retirement or quit, so as people get promoted, other people leave, freeing up their salary budget for the new promotee. (Pension budgets are a different beast because they obviously depend on how long the person lives)
Interactions are always important in data visualization. The Flutter charting library Graphic has a well-designed interaction system for various interactive charts.
Right, arr[index] is sugar for *(arr+index) which is then also *(index+arr) and index[arr]

edit: fixed escaped asterisks :-)
It's cool, I like the geek style design.
/agreemsg. i had the privilege of giving a preso to mark russinovich ~6w ago, and came away from w/the exact reaction: a good tech leader should truly understand the deepest crevasses and be able to spin that back in to context when meeting w/technical people. and yes, shame this isn't the norm.
I don’t understand the need for a separate phone. Couldn’t you just have a family member install IFTT and receive SMS codes? IFTT could be setup to forward the codes to a separate gmail account that isn’t used for anything else but for you to access these codes.