skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be a content recommendation system for a chinese media company. We monitored peoples movements through their phone and gave marketers a really easy way to directly target people. It's sort of rampant now, but years ago it felt like it was a dangerous step in the wrong direction.

But recently I found out that an algorithm that I was a crucial part in building ended up doing some real bad things. I don't really want to talk about it directly because I'm not sure I really want to be implicated.

The point is, I feel terrible. I played a role in negatively impacting a lot of peoples lives. Sure, I wasn't the only one who built it. Nor did I play a part in what it turned into, or made any decisions about how it should be used. I just built a thing.

But I think we as programmers, tend to look fondly on our systems that we develop. They are sort of like our children (in a very loose sense). I spent years thinking back to building it, and being filled with joy. Now I see what it's done, what I helped create, where it ended up.

I just feel sick. I talked to a peer who helped on it about it. They also feel the same. Just terrible. Burnt out. Ready to switch careers entirely.

I think I might be able to continue in this field, make the right decisions, and think through the true impact of what I'm building before I commit to it.

But then again, I think back at all of the work I've done in my career, and all of it was exploitative to people at least in some sense. I'm not sure you can profit without exploitation in tech, it might be inherent (I realize that's a negative statement. I'm in a mood).

So I'm thinking I may just switch into a career I can feel good about, unless I can find a job or project that will allow me to be ethical.

We really need to come together as a community and stand up for ethics. Every day a programmer out there is faced with an ethical dilemma, one that will probably get them fired if they don't comply. Plus, that won't even matter, because they will just get someone else to do it anyway. There's not a good way to save your source of income while also doing the right thing.
Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account
No, atoms are why there aren’t perfect ideal fluids, and quantum effects have nothing to do with it.
How I wish every thread had a link to its graph. Interesting information.
Exactly this, we should to be careful with introducing any modified spieces at scale before we understand the existing ecosystem and before we kill it with some invasive mutants.
>Just to add, because your rant is really not constructive and dismissive of a whole platform: android likely has more apps than desktop linux, plenty of them in better shape as well. Why on Earth would they be buggier, when they do in fact see more users?

What exactly is "in better shape" on Android? Why is there not a single file manager whose functionality even approaches that of say Caja or Dolphin, but which also doesn't have ads built-in? Why is multi-window some novel experimental afterthought when it's been done properly for DECADES now several times over?

>Android project back-ported countless battery optimizations to the kernel

I do wonder if just NOT making it a platform for spyware always running in the background (google services but also pretty much everything else, install Autostarts and see) would be more effecient...

>which would easily have 6-8+ hours of battery life on Android, yet it burns like fire in 2 hours with one gnu/linux-based mobile os.

Most reviews say quite the opposite, especially about screen off mode.
I think I'd feel a lot better about job-taking automation if governments would require that companies adopting automation pay to retrain workers, including salary (since you still have to go on living while you're learning a new job skill). I expect this would basically kill any company's desire to automate (unless it's financially worth it in a relatively short amount of time, which I suspect wouldn't be often), so it'd probably make sense for the government to subsidize this somehow. Or maybe the government should just administer this kind of program itself, since I imagine companies would try to abuse it.

It just seems obvious to me that society benefits when people don't have to do automate-able jobs anymore, and can retrain to do something more interesting/useful without simultaneously having to deal with crippling financial insecurity. My version of utopia is one where there's so much abundance and automation that no one has to work at all if they don't want to, but can still live incredibly comfortable -- extravagant, even -- lives.

Of course, some people will still fight tooth and nail to keep doing what they're doing, regardless of how obsolete it is, and regardless of what incentives and help they're given to learn to do something new. But the least we could do would be to help those who are more forward-thinking.
Who are you to say what's knowledge and what's not?

Why can't I, a speaker in language X, buy books in that language outside of the country where this language is spoken on the same platform where it's sold.

See e.g. availability of, say, Japanese or Russian books on Apple Books in Europe, US, Russia and Japan.
I thought the exact same thing, there's really absolutely nothing special about Tesla anymore.

I appreciate the direction they pushed the industry towards, but I feel like the innovation has finished and I'd expect a lot of the problems to be ironed out.

Toyota on the other hand have produced a car which runs on hydrogen, it is in production and for sale in the USA right now. They also do hybrids and I'm sure if they wanted to, they'd do electric no problems.
Thank you. This is very informative. And don't feel guilty, nobody will get jailed for visiting a website. This is mostly for censorship.
Some folks who identify as women might not identify as female. This might be true even for cisgender women in rare cases. An infertile XY person may be born with female genitalia in rare cases, and be raised as a woman only to discover later in life they have the typically male chromosomes.

These sets of people are small, but non zero. It's probably safe to say nearly all XX people identify as female.
Distribution and price probably hinge on tarriffs and dealership negociations (which are influenced by price, as it directly dictates how much it will sell).

It’s Hundai’s job to deal with that as a seller in the US, but blaming them for being cold feeted when other markets are easier to deal with is a misgided IMO.
This is I think an interesting article on the topic of why we don't react reasonably to new information

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...

The doubtful are often the most passionate advocates

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761038595...

The act of debate tends on average to reinforce existing beliefs not forge new opinions.
is there a market for "eagle catching a goat, throwing it off a cliff, and then feasting on it"?
You can practice and get quite good. However, some people are just better at sales, etc, and have already put in a lot of time practicing. However, as you say, all is not lost if you don't know/work with someone like that, it can be done.
The ancient Vedas from India describe flying vehicles, sound weapons, and nuclear bombs:

https://www.gaia.com/article/do-hindu-texts-describing-the-f...

The idea that we have no clue about human history and that advanced civilizations existed previously are becoming more prevalent and mainstream.
That companies do what’s best for the business, not for the employees.

It’s up to you to do what’s best for yourself.
> I’d rather work on a project that builds something and the effort accumulates into something more tangible than an analysis report.

There are data science jobs in which your output is at most a report, and there are data science jobs in which you're responsible for ML experiments, prototyping, building and maintaining services, model deployment etc. Sometimes that's called ML engineer but a lot of the time it's data scientist too (which title is used more kind of varies by country too from what I've seen).

You might like the second type of DS job more, or if you already have that kind of job then switching to SWE is easier because you're basically already a SWE and you're just switching domains instead of breaking into SWE.
It's not just L visa(I was on L a few years back, and returned back).

Let's be honest this is far from what people call slavery. They are being paid multiples of six digit salaries, RSUs and work in one of the most happening tech ecosystems of the world.

I would love to be a part of something like this. Heck most of us would love to be a part of something like.

I kind of envy those guys working on these projects. I hope I was the one there.
Yeah I found it odd that there is no first class feature for versioning. I wonder what’s the reason, since it’s a pretty obvious need for a package manager.
> My experience with the human species is that they generally err on the side of compassion

I don't think extreme levels of greed deserves compassion. It's been more than 10+years. I can't have compassion for 20 years. People get tired man and don't care anymore and actually hope for the worst (but don't say it).
Leading experts on ADHD do not say that coffee works well for ADHD
Mass is energy
I am skeptical: this fungus cannot possibly sieve through all the contaminated soil, even on a long timespan, so plants' roots would still be able to absorb mercury. Even considering that it colonises the roots themselves, it is not a tight layer around the roots that prevents any mercury from getting in.
Risk in return for what reward? There's no reason to believe there's any more upside to working at Twitter vs any other big tech company where you don't have a egonomaniac CEO making you do stupid hazing rituals. It's not like a startup where your equity can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if there's a big IPO. Twitter is well past the 1000x growth stage.
Cool videos, thanks for sharing.
Reactivating Trumps account is a pretty fun game for Elon: he gets to tempt Trump back and essentially destroy Truth Social, a competitor. I suspect Trump will eventually just post a link to his account on Truth Social then get sucked back in during his run for President.
>Debian already fails to put your laptop to sleep half of the time when you close the lid and you expect it to work well with your phone that you send to sleep every other minute?

Debian isn't made by a trillion-dollar company. Very few resources are allocated to testing it, worse yet, there's Redhat always breaking things ever since Gnome went to shit in 2011, which affects pretty much all DEs to some degree.

>Because half the GUI toolkits on Linux are either absolute pieces of shit (GTK lol) or simply not enough.

Last time I checked even GTK manages to NOT fuck up its widgets when resizing the window without requiring the developer to go through all the bullshit of LiveData and then a couple of years later also some new bullshit like Flow or whatever, until Google comes up with something yet more over-complicated.

Then there's also Qt which has even been ported to Android.
licensing is addressed, though at a glance I don't quite understand it. I didn't read it in detail.

http://www.helenos.org/wiki/License
Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
7kW sounds low to me, no one around goes under 10kW, with 12-15 being typical. That said I never heard about home connection over 30kW. Power company charges monthly for available power, so no one goes with huge 3phase connection just in case they might need it.
Thanks for your vote.
That. ICE drivers don’t mind driving 20 min to refill but for god sake 30m drinking a coffee is unthinkable. And apparently none of them has spotted that recharging points are everywhere.

The range expectations are also completely crazy - driving more than 2 hours without a break is just unsafe and advised against. I wonder when the GP even goes to the bathroom.
> but didn't intend for the stinger to leave the bee

On swarm level it doesn't matter. But psychological effect on an attacker or even group of such is achieved after one event, sometimes even inherited.
Congratulations on working at what you love.

I love bats. As you may know, two species of bat are the only mammals native to New Zealand, where I live. I hope to see one one day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_car
GCC C nested functions do have access to outer lexical scopes: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Nested-Functions...

But dynamic scope is a wholly another thing, most languages with closures don't have it. One exception I know is Clojure where you can declare variables explicitly as dynamically scoped, and it can be used eg as an alternative to passing around a context map when handling requests in a server style program. (And Elisp had dynamic scoping first, then closures added as a add-on feature)
It’s an ingenious way to make people take the polls seriously. He’s been talking about making polls world wide and other stuff. Pay a fee to push a poll out to a large number of people? That’s interesting
Also true, journalists (the people who literally know nothing) have outsized power and influence in controlling what these "normal" people see as, well, normal.

I don't want to get in a flame war, but I guess my comments are meant to convey a perspective that is optimistic that these "normals" will reject and ignore the machinations of the way too online tech people who, again, are the only ones that want to debate basic biology for some reason. About half of my life has been on a farm or in the military, so it's amusing seeing all of this debate about "gender" and "sex". Again, normal people don't think about this.
That’s because what they are proposing is untried fantasy at this point, and he’s talking about proven field reality.
anarchy is the best example
> I’ve never experienced the “homes are too expensive to buy” situation, but maybe I’m just incredibly fortunate.

You are.
I am curious how many Bots voted for either side.
I'm non binary. When people use the correct pronouns, understand that I prefer a gender neutral restroom, and ensure that I'm represented in surveys, it helps me feel included.

This allyship has a material, positive benefit on my life beyond just "feelings".

Trans and non binary people represent somewhere around 1-3% of people. (Some studies push it up to about 5%, others closer to 0.5%)

This makes trans and non binary folks about as frequent as wheelchair users or people with red hair. That's millions of people in America, and it's enough people that most workplaces and schools will have trans and non binary people in them.
Seeing Cell Division Like Never Before [video]
Twitter is closer to being The Internet than it is Just Some Company.

It is a directory of important people.

And a discussion forum where minority perspectives can be identified and boosted.

Nothing else on the Internet has such a concentration of utility, yet.
The Bridge of Khazad-DRM (2013)
LineageOS is still buggy as hell (AFAIK it doesn't even make "stable" versions anymore since 2016 or so, just nightlies), still takes more resources than GNU/Linux, still doesn't support any good software from the desktop.

But yeah it can give you updates for a few more years after you purchase your phone if you're lucky. Still laughable compared to DECADES old pcs getting updates.
> Now I've gotten on a YouTube binge and landed on New Zealand keas, which I didn't know about before. And damn are those birds intelligent.

They're also utterly fearless, to the point of being disturbing.

I'd never had a wild bird come up and approach to less than arm-length, and not flinch or worry about what I was doing with my camera/tripod/etc.

I backed up, repeatedly, and it just kept getting closer.
TLA+ Video Course (2021)
It’s been a few months, but here are some issues I had using the web reader on an iPad (didn’t realize there’s an app):

- the reading controls would overlap with the safe area/home screen navigation bar

- pinch-zooming on a page would sometimes glitch out and scroll to a different page

- the slider to change pages was too sensitive on a touchscreen, and I also kept tapping it by accident

I really like openlibrary, and it’s let me read some books I couldn’t find access to anywhere else - thanks for your work on it!
Sounds like this service can be without support for a while. After all, it wasn't important enough for someone to figure this out in advance. I'm sure if it goes down overnight the business will be fine.
Still hair-falling-out radiation levels probably.
Chinese communist version of ‘Top Gun’ movie flops [video]
Quite interesting read, makes me wonder about alternate (modern) calendar options, I always had a fond spot for metric time, sadly the French didn't win on that one despite metric taking over the world.

> For example, looking at 2021, the calendar year is the same as 2010, 1999, 1993, 1982, 1971, 1965, 1954, 1943, 1937, 1926, 1915 and 1909.

This pattern really confused me before reading on.
but new versions may need new steps to build?
> the idea that someone somewhere decided to put trackers on human beings is wild.

did you forget about cellphones?
I am (was, will be again?) an emacs user, recently switched to neovim from emacs. Very happy so far with speed, plugins and workflow.

Also: esthetics. Modern neovim with telescope is imo just more pleasant to look at. (I was using doom emacs in the past). There are nano themes from rougier for emacs however, never gave them a try.
It's always cool that there are alternatives for popular tools. It encourages maintainers to put more effort and release new project features.
This sounds similar in some ways to the discussion that arose between AlphaPhoenix and Veritasium YouTube channels concerning the speed of electrons along a closed loop of wire.

https://youtu.be/2Vrhk5OjBP8
With a relevant illustration at 9:41 at where I think these topics intersect conceptually.
All of these stats are somewhat meaningless without common definitions. Number of users is not the same as active users.

If we compare similarweb’s estimates visits it’s 10.6 million for Gab and 7 billion for Twitter. Maybe it’s just my personal definition but these site were set up as direct competitors to Twitter and getting 0.1% of your main competitor’s traffic is definitely “very few people”.
Over 200 million active monthly users.
You're right, we should work on everyone using NixOS, that way dev and deploy is the same :)
Right, so obviously tasks oriented around biological survival and production are different than tasks oriented around competitiveness in a modern economy. But the question does make me wonder:

What if we got AGI, failed to solve the alignment problem, and were just... fine? Because the AIs' goals were compatible enough with ours? We can't make a system like a bird, but if we did there's no real way it could spell our doom, considering how we're fine with all the existing bird-like systems. (Not the first time I've been skeptical of AI alarmism, but a different perspective on it.)
Note that .13% was not what I rounded up. That .13% is a subset of people who are gender minorities (eg trans or non-binary) and there are several academic estimates that put the number higher than 1%.

My intuition, reading through the studies and talking a conservative estimate, is that something like 0.6 to 0.8% is a defensible estimate. I rounded that to 1%. Other scholars pick higher or lower numbers, but it's not 10%, and I firmly believe that it's not 0.1% based on studies, which makes 1% the correct order of magnitude, imo.
Never underestimate humanities ability to consume resources.

They thought the US had enough land that it would take 20 generations to settle (it took 2).

That being said, we should probably still do it. Seems like a slower death route.
This I wonder too. I have not yet dived into this part of the nix ecosystem so I can't tell the differences but it looks superficially similar. It would be good if the main differences could be explained.
Interesting post. It focusses on efficiency considerations, given the blower energy required to move air (the working medium).

> As demonstrated in the above analyses, a system in which heat is stored in a sensible heat storage material, such as ceramic brick, should be provided with a means to control airflow rate in order to maximize the effectiveness of heat storage process, if the heat comes from a source of variable intensity, such as a concentrated solar air collector.
Greybeard with 26 years in the industry. Sorted in decreasing order of impact:

[1] Back in 2006, created a web scraper with .Net framework and C# that helped my wife run a home-based scraping business for 2 years. There were no tools / libraries / frameworks for spidering / scraping back then - or at least I wasnt aware of them. Helped her have a replacement income since she had quit her job for maternity. She of course enhanced it and made it better. Was fun while we were the early ones in it.

[2] SAP's Community Network in 2002: Supports a million users today, started with a much smaller user base of 10k, implemented it from scratch as a Java MVC web-app with another colleague.

[3] Amazon Ads in 2015: Contextual commerce ads in review websites and blogs, this single product drove (and still continues to drive) multi-hundred million dollars in incremental revenue for AMZN every year. HN doesnt like the Advertising business, but hey.
Is that single phase or 3 phase? Most homes in the US have somewhere in the range of 100-200A single phase hookup.
Just want to register my disagreement. IMHO unix won purely on technical merit (including simplicity and flexibility), and I'm here because I loved it even before it won. Now that it won, we hear a lot of discontent, but it's just the people who don't like it don't have an alternative because their preferred systems have failed, nothing about unix.
This sounds like Caleb Thompson's "Don't Get Distracted" talk.

- https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz7r_gZhYyA
If you had an aged or disabled Eagle relative, unable to catch its own goat and throw it off a cliff, you wouldn’t be asking that question.
The library was inspired by Figma’s blog posts about their plug-in system: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten#background
I worked in an Ad-tech start-up in Berlin run by two of the most evil f*kers I've ever encountered. I built out their principal ad auction algorithm and a lot of the back-end to support it, and all they did with it was target vulnerable groups of people at particular times of the week when they thought they were at their lowest ebb.

One meeting in particular really stands out still, a social media giant that everyone knows was in town meeting the founders to sell additional personalization data. Before that meeting, I thought things the start-up were doing were a bit sketchy, maybe borderline unethical. During the meeting itself, it was more like sitting around a table with Dr. Evil and a few henchmen. They were actively, unambiguously picking vulnerable groups for ad re-targeting. And that's not even the worst of it, the meeting wraps up and one of the founders says "OK guys, let's go get some beers and bring some girls". Then this despicable excuse for a man promptly walked out into the office, points at a few female employees and says "You, you and you, come with us now".
When love, power and wisdom are buried in materialism, the three appear as selfish ambition, desire for feelings and the need for isolated existence.
Not only is the writing interesting but the craftsmanship of the website adds so much whimsy and inspiration to the subject. Absolutely lovely.