skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making decisions under uncertainty is hard.

I don't blame rushing the vaccines at all. In fact, maybe we should have skipped more steps to get the vaccine to 70+ year olds or people who are obese faster. But let's just be honest, the risk profile for younger people just wasn't high. The data was clear very early on. That was even with underreported numbers. It should have never been mandated and if you were at a decent weight and under 40 you were never at that much of a risk, especially to say something like the flu.
There is a major difference between censorship and moderation though that is frequently conflated.

Censorship is blocking/removing speech as judged by its content.
Moderation is warning/removing participants based on their behaviour.

They're not mutually exclusive of course, but it's frustrating to see moderation projected as Big Brother, when it's actually an extremely useful and necessary too for civil discourse. Moderation can be very effective without making any decisions about speech content.
It would be interesting to know how long it took things like "making tall buildings" or "making safe bridges" took to shake out into roughly what they are today. I suspect, for example, the project planning aspect is pretty stable.
Far from having consequences, chapter 11 bankruptcy is actually a very powerful and advantageous financial tool in cases like this. Elon can likely wipe away the $13B+ of debt, get rid of all employee stock obligations, and continue to run the company himself under the temporary observation of a bankruptcy court. Chapter 11 filings are a very common outcome of leveraged buyouts like this one.
The best part is, there's a subtle API breakage here: the returned *Rule is now a reference to an element of the []Rule, so if the caller was previously modifying the returned value it'll change the slice.

It's debatable what API guarantees existed around this though; most of the time this would be unspecified.
Don't bother with the naysayers and dickheads. I appreciate you trying to do something here for old devices, and 80% solutions are ok for most of us.

(I suppose postmarketOS is similar in spirit)

Does building a GSI make sense to cover more devices? Or would that not make sense in this context?
To be fair the first one can't be done in one query but can be done in a handful of queries right?

Now I was never in a huge huge CX environment but internally we had a thing that was like Unthread and things were findable. Ultimately this was because people were serious about typing out things so you always had multiple axes to find things (and general policy of "write out the username to identify people" etc.)

Tools should help, but it's a combo of tools and a culture of regularity that really gets people to be performant and gets away from the "digging endlessly for that one convo" flow.
Mathematical proofs didn't click for me, so much so that I ended up failing my Discrete Math class because of it. Before I retook the DM course again, I took a Proof Workshop but I doubt I would've done good without the following books:

* Richard Hammack's The Book of Proof [1]

* Mathematical Proofs by Chartrand, Polimeni, and Zhang

[1]:
https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/
I don't follow the stock. What's the real reason it's down?
IMO the best way to split things is either by scalability, or user needs, or sometimes by domain (but this is too nuanced to fit into a comment). I suppose there might be security or certification/regulatory requirements too, but also those are probably rare.
I would not, but apparently it is popular to refer to them as kids.

I wonder if their characteristics were different, if the popularity of calling them kids would change. If they looked different, if they were working blue collar jobs, etc.
UN Now Says 8 Billion People on Earth
> motivational

That's a peculiar use of the word.
> Days before the November 9th launch, the company’s trust and safety team had prepared a seven-page list of recommendations intended to help Musk avoid the most obvious and damaging consequences of his plans for Blue

Didn't he fire most of the T&F team, though?
The way Medibank has handled this breach has been atrocious. Drip feeding information, minimising, misleading etc.

My data is in this breach and all I've gotten thus far is the bullshit comms corporate speak emails from their CEO. No personalised notification that my details are out there on the internet, nothing. There ought to be personal criminal penalties placed on company leadership for this kind of ongoing and, and this point, wilful negligence. Otherwise they will never have sufficient incentive to guard against this kind of risk.
What info are advertisers and embedded widgets collecting about you?
You guys have money in your bank accounts?
Doubtful. The whole idea is an overgeneralization. Companies in the US fail all the time because of bad bosses, or bad managers. A boss that can’t listen to their employees eventually craters and ends up somewhere they can’t do much damage. Night manager at Arby’s or the local Foodway, for example. It’s not going to bring down society.
I think we'll find there is just a vast collective shrug from banks, traditional finance, and the stock market as a whole while crypto implodes.
I think insurance companies don't actually pay the "sticker price" but negotiate for substantial discounts.
Everyone is talking about the "blade breaking" as a dangerous thing. Can someone please explain?
Buying ads on Twitter is ‘high-risk’ according to the world’s biggest ad agency
Why do you think memcpy is normally used to copy heap memory? It's just a general bitwise copy from one location to the other.

I think the confusion here is that there isn't always a literal call to memcpy for copying small types like ints in the emitted code, but it's always doing something with the same effect and maybe sometimes using an actual memcpy (probably when copying arrays?).

Also something interesting is that memcpy is used for copying data between stack variables in C sometimes when you need to convert some type to another one without using a cast.
Companies everywhere are looking for safe way to reduce costs. The 5% drop was likely caused by unrelated market conditions, but the impersonation tweet 1) gives an alternative, more palatable explanation for the drop, and 2) provides cover for a CMO or exec to cut their Twitter spend.
I read a few of her tweets last night. Of course he fired her. Let the lawsuits commence.
Last weekend, I learned that his name may be rhymed with "melon". And "felon". Not, strictly, "yellin'", except in a pinch.
My point is the Platinum or whatever plan isn't any better. It's probably worse for most people. Total out of pocket is going to be higher because out ot pocket max + premiums is worse than the Bronze.

Of course, paying the hospital is usually sort of optional. They're most often happy to bill you later and send you to collections, and you can let it accrue. It's not great, but if you're so sick you can't work, what are you going to do about a debt you can't afford to pay? Better to not pay it.
> >In 1930, 1,352 banks held more than $853 million in deposits; in 1931, one year later, 2,294 banks failed with nearly $1.7 billion in deposits

> Does any of this sound familiar?

Why did you remove the "citation needed" part of that latter quote? There is no source for that claim, and you removed that piece of information.

This [1] (with ample sources) claims there were over 24,000 banks at the start, 8000 in the Federal Reserve System, 16,000 not in.

This [2] claims total losses from banks, over a wider period than your list (and including two sets of bank runs [1] and [3]), were $1.3B (again with decent sources).

There's a reason things get tagged on Wikipedia as "citation needed". It's important not to delete those from a quote.

[1] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-...

[2] https://www.fdic.gov/about/history/timeline/1930s.html

[3] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-...
Two of the benefits of DivestOS, the kernel patching/hardening and the vendor blob removal, are not compatible with GSIs as a GSI includes neither the boot or vendor partition.
There's also CLOJERL - Clojure on BEAM (Erlang), and recently CljDart, clojure to dart transpiler was released and seem to have a lot of momentum.
>Modern scholars believe

Believe indeed. The origins are murky and it is not clear who was first in formulating the variant on which the modern Cyrillic script based. The script of Upir Оfeigr is surprisingly close to what in use today. There is an ongoing discussion to what exactly he refers as the Cyrillic original (most think that he rewrote from the Glagolitic original).
He means that you can't get inexpensive insurance for low risk populations anymore. Prices were lower as were deductibles before the ACA.
Is there a non-AMP link...?
Fully centralised, but the best counter example I have in my mind is Reddit; here you have largely community moderated content under a general umbrella of quite loose policies. Reddit is I think pretty successful in that even though some subreddits are totally overrun with moronic content, the ones I care about are high quality. So even though it's centralised I don't think any of the fundamentals that make it work can't be decentralised. If Mastodon can follow these rough guides for how to make community moderation work, I think there's a chance it can be successful without falling into the cavern that email did.
Objectively, no. But for some reason older people use it relatively for people 15 years younger than them.
> On the other hand, I've not seen a rigorous set of axioms for category theory that didn't presuppose a notion of set or category or "collection".

I never worked through the details, and I'm not a category theory partisan, but I think that's what this is: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/fully%20formal%20ETCS
2-year-old orders 31 McDonald's cheeseburgers through DoorDash
U.S. fines airlines more than $7M for not providing refunds
GP is living in minority report world
Normal credit card protections vary from country to country depend on regulations. E.g it's much easier to get chargeback in US than in many other countries.

At the same time PayPal is almost aways side with buyer no matter where account was open.
it made more sense back when the API was more open and third-party clients were the norm
I'm surprised some of the former upper echelon employees have ganged up together and got some VC for just such a thing.
Ouch. If 90% of your remaining employees think you will fail, it doesn’t matter very much what you do. That’s self–fulfilling prophecy territory.
It’s not clear to me what he means by “apps”. These are either separate monoliths or seperate services.
I mean the tweet claiming Musk shut down the 2FA service.
You are correct, though 160k is maybe a couple weeks of paid social budget for a company like starlink.
No, Github proxies and caches images through an intermediary (probably for privacy reasons amongst other things.)
Based on almost zero specifically relevant knowledge -

The blade of a foil is a long, flexible metal rod. It is dull at the end, and it is expected to flex very heavily in normal use.

If it snaps, I assume you end up with a short metal rod with a sharp, jagged tip. (And the part that used to be the tip will go flying off somewhere.) That would be dangerous for the same reason a window breaking is dangerous.
Well, you could read it like I do, or you could just make things up. Murc's Law (everything good or bad is the Democrats' fault) has been the basic law of all US reporting for the last decade or two though.

They published three stories in the last week about how Democrats winning the election just now is bad news for Democrats.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1591444463963947009

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/opinion/democrats-are-blo...

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1591944164240814080

Some of the NYT journalists like Peter Baker are so bothsides they don't even vote in elections!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/reader-center/political-i...
These sorts of incidents would be far more common if bosses shit talked their employees in the public and tanked their brand image in the process in front of their users and future employees. Fortunately, almost everyone else is smart enough to know that it's bad.
What's old is new again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard
I cracked a rib twice foiling, and sliced the interior of my elbow open through the vest with an épée. The fabric didn't fail but the blade still pressured hard enough to get the skin open. Still have the scar.

All three incidents against beginners who were far too enthusiastic, and coming way too hard and way too close.
Wouldn't repeated testing (punching etc.) itself weaken the mask?
But TDAP only needs to be taken once every 20 to 30 years. :facepalm: Just another outdated Americanized vaccine schedule to add to the list.
The C Programming Language for pointers, which didn't make any sense to me in Pascal.
You're being disengenous, Apple's own apps request location data the same as any other. I know this because of having denied the permission when prompted.
It'd be exciting and fun for me personally. I'd love it, but I definitely understand that puts me in a minority.
I qualified it as "every single criticism I see" for a reason - if there are good, strong critical points, I haven't seen them, because they're drowned in a sea of nonsense. Honestly, even recent HN threads have been suffering from the same problem of people just repeating trivially disprovable or purposefully misrepresented nonsense without a second thought. I think we may just need to wait until Musk stops being Internet's Public Enemy #1 to see anything clear.

> It's not hard to find valid things to criticize, from bullying behaviour to overpromising (Tesla FSD) and lots of other stuff.

Also, I should perhaps have qualified more clearly that I meant criticism on the level justifying the current level of dislike and hatred. Of the things you mentioned:

- Tesla FSD overhyping is a valid one, though it's been exaggerated by the media and then dumbed down to a simple gotcha on social media. As far as I know to date, he didn't go beyond what's common in marketing in general.

- Bullying behaviour - I believe he did things that could be construed as bullying, but back when there were stories on it years ago, I couldn't dig into anything solid - everything I read had clear markings of usual journalistic misrepresentation. I'm giving it a big "shmaybe".

- "Lots of other stuff" - other than that diver debacle, can't think of anything. All I see people post is trivially disprovable bullshit like "he's not an engineer" (he is), "he isn't doing engineering at SpaceX" (he is), "his money comes from his father's apartheid emerald mine" (it doesn't, the mine was in literally the most anti-apartheid country there was, and his father IIRC was an anti-apartheid activist). Or "RPC in 21st century, he must clearly be an idiot". It's an unending stream of this kind of "arguments", posted by supposedly smart people. All it makes me is to lower my opinion about people posting this stuff.
The world has progressed beyond the need for Russian power
Since the 1400s my arse. It's just an annoying trend among woke evangelists, and makes the english language uglier while conveying less information about the subject in question.
Show HN: A free, AI-powered service for automating hate speech moderation
Hey everyone!

I built ModerateHatespeech, an initiative that working on better understanding + building solutions to combat hate speech in online platform. We have our flagship API, which is completely free and ML-powered, and gives a lot more actionable/better results than pretty much any other similar platform out there.

We've been able to leverage our partnerships with many communities to get a lot of good data + feedback, and bring our system to a lot of users (we process ~200k comments a day right now).

We've also done a lot of work to better understand biases/potential abuse-cases of our API, which you can read about on our site (trying to avoid too many links getting caught in spam filters).

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Somehow Wise manage to do it without forcing you to convert currencies twice...
Those tweets are still available:

https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15919683432293662...
The guy's job was not specifically performance; he didn't fail at anything. Product managers drive roadmaps so even if you know there's been a performance problem for years, you might not get to invest time in fixing it. That's exactly what Eric was advocating if you read the whole thread.
Calling random or consecutive phone numbers is essentially a spraying attack. That can be done without having a database of numbers. While they are annoying, they cannot be used to attack a person or a group of people without additional information. That's what I mean in saying that the numbers alone cannot be weaponized.

Australian mobile phone system has a capacity of 100M numbers, which means that with a probability of 1/4 a random phone number is a real one (Australia's population is nearly 26M).
Spivak's Calculus - https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/091409...
Seems to be a "backend for frontend" (or "digital decoupling") design, where you have purpose-built APIs for each specific product or experience.
Racket v8.7
Community of Practice
The Neverending Story – A collector's edition from The Folio Society [video]
Richard Thieme: UFOs, Alien Life, and the Least Untruthful Things I Can Say
The foils can break, leaving a sharp tip that is more able to pierce protective clothing.
Pussy Galore
Provably Secure Communication Software
Too high-level.

It needs to track individuals with multiple large, energy-sucking houses. Also, talking heads that travel by private jet.
> By definition, the existing developers aren't smart enough to do it.

You have no evidence to support this. Performance sucks in other countries because product leadership with their hands on the wheel of the company never prioritizes "unsexy" investments in performance and infrastructure work (same as the new guy btw). That is exactly what Eric was advocating in his thread.
Additional benefits of randomising data by sorting the hashes, for example.
Cracked ribs? That's gotta be the other person running into you, right?
If it works for me and my friends why does it have to be scalable?
Every time we see a 'PayPal bad' report here, it's someone running afoul of a perfectly reasonable condition. The biggest one is people running businesses that take money now and deliver a product at some time in the future, putting all the liability for chargebacks on PayPal, and then freaking out when PayPal puts a hold on the business's funds till their product is delivered.

I'd say it's not the lack of competition that allows PayPal to have the user agreement they do.

It's the fact that PayPal's user agreement is as liberal as running a successful money transmitter business can allow.
> Twitter figured this out in like 30 minutes. It's Safari Suggestions on any recent iOS.

no, it really didn’t.

i’m on 16.1.1 with suggestions on and it does not crash.
Email is only 1 to many of you know the addresses. There's no email "multicast" (unless servers support some kind of wildcard mailing list).

Mastodon is trying to support, like Twitter and most of social media, the one to many use case, which is incredibly hard to make distributed.

Calling email a good example is like saying SMS is a good example because you can join any carrier and message any number. It's a completely different use case.
That was also what they went with in the 3 body problem
I host my static sites on a single cheap VPS from Scaleway, and it handles frontpage HN traffic just fine without CDNs.
'Be' is nice, end of story
I think this quote from @__pache__ says a lot:

> it is increasingly clear that our co2 output isn't that scary. we are "greening" the Earth. Sea level rise is well within normal bounds.

Someone making those claims isn't really arguing in good faith.
> Eli Lilly is down 5% because the market for their most profitable drug, a $125k/yr mAb IL-17 inhibitor, fell 5%. This is why Novartis, their major competitor with Cosentyx, is also down the same amount

> Not everything is about Twitter!

https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1591149510168039426
Ask HN: What has succeeded for you when working with volunteers?
I've spent the last decade in community organisations, open source software and similar pursuits where I'm working with or managing volunteers. I'm also audhd and people are very much not my strong suite. Not only am I trying to motivate and get good results from volunteers, I'm trying to work with a wide selection of humanity and lots of people similar to me with their own communication challenges and needs. I've learned a lot over the last decade but theres still a long way to go.

Some topics where we have found friction:

* What internally motivates volunteers, or how do you motivate them externally
* Keeping people happy, communication techniques
* How to organise large informal groups of people when capitalism isnt a factor
* Managing when things go not-quite-right or outright wrong
* Getting the boring, unsexy paperwork and compliance things done
* Breaking through bystander effect problems "Some other volunteer will do that"

A great example of a difficulty we have is when a group of volunteers has responsibilities and doesnt meet or do them. If you punish the volunteers (loss of funding, privileges etc) they just quit. Now you have no volunteers. What other techniques are there?

Open source, people usually are participating to scratch their own itch, they're internally motivated. Once they scratch the itch, they're gone. So what is the mindset of the core contributors, what makes them different?

What has been your biggest learnings in this space?
Google Confirms POWER9 Processor Data Center Deployment (2018)
I used to be on a running listserve that included monthly(quarterly?) updates on the million mile run. That kind of record keeping was beyond me, and I wasn't a terribly driven runner except in competition with a few friends. Still the scale of the race was hard to wrap my head around and you reminded me of it.
http://ice.he.net/~mmahoney/ultra/million.htm
There will always be people like that, I suspect there would be more impact in a compassion driven campaign over blatant revenue raising bass punishments
Windows for Unix Users
> It's less that "Reddit uses NIM" but rather one guy at Reddit uses NIM to do work.

They are the same thing. No one is saying Reddit bases their entire infrastructure on Nim. The point is just that the language is being successfully used in a business context.

This might not be important to you if you're not a user of the language, but for people that are, it is significant for two reasons: 1) it shows it's 'good enough' to do analytics & data processing for a large, data heavy company and 2) creates confidence/proof it can be used in a business context.

As for technical debt, I doubt that's the case. The post mentions internal tools and processing, these kind of things are often not subject to high developer churn.

Besides, Nim has a pretty easy to read syntax that's similar to Python. People who have talked about onboarding developers to the language (such as https://youtu.be/5wljNaPkU7M?t=586) say it has been fairly straightforward to train for if desired.