skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the policy brief, they're

- not investigating TNCs, by any reasonable definition, the two companies they target are publicly traded companies

- exclusively seeking to criticize ridesharing relative to public transit, or as-yet non-feasible means

- not framing things in any conceptual framework, ESG is not a conceptual framework it's a political viewpoint about role of government (in this case literally regulatory recommendations) masquerading as a conceptual framework

The structure is not investigative, it's persuasive. This is what market manipulation looks like.

CMU is situated in an extremely affluent district in Pittsburgh, and this type of behavior is to be expected. Totally beautiful place though, do recommend a visit if you have the time.

To repeat, outside the frame: places that didn't have a robust taxi system to begin with, internal operations and transformation capabilities of a tech company controlling taxi and traffic distribution.
I used to live in San Francisco at the corner of Guerrero and Market, about 200m from where some do-gooders operated the needle exchange on Duboce between Market and Church. On the day after the needle exchange I always had to 1) remove some unconscious drug addict from my stoop, either by just shoving him out of the way or by calling an ambulance in extreme cases, then 2) put on a disposable Tyvek suit and pressure-bleach all the feces and vomit off my porch. Meanwhile the "harm reduction" perpetrators were at their own homes which were evidently in far-away neighborhoods.

The only way needle exchange fits into civilized life is as one aspect of a shelter-first treatment scheme that gets these people to a place where they can vomit in their own rooms for a change.
New? We've been here for years.
A lot of people are complaining about Twitter … on Twitter. Pause and reflect.
This is incredible! I've wanted to build something like this for a while.

I sing in a barbershop quartet with 4 engineers, and we are constantly trying to tweak our tunings to optimise consonance of the chords we're singing. It can lead to interesting occurrences where you have to tune 2 consecutive notes differently
despite the fact they are on paper the same note.
I'm still getting the same tech company and video game ads. Haven't noticed a difference. I block all the accounts that are ads but even then I still get ads from mainstream companies I haven't blocked. Theres still plenty of companies advertising. I have yet to encounter anything sus apart from some rando paying to promote a meme or shitpost.
> if it isn't exactly what you had in mind you can reply and ask it to change things

A lot of the things you complain about were underspecified in your question, it has to make some assumptions. And I'll bet if you ran into any of the errors that you describe you could get solutions by simply pasting the errors into the chat box. The code produced by these models is not going to be perfect any more than a human's would be. You'll still need an iterative process and some common sense. But it's easier and faster than doing everything yourself.
They keep starting out with a free service then they focus on turning it into a paid service... In Instagram's case, just like with Twitter and even TikTok now, they charge users for visibility, or they trickle it out just enough to make users constantly and feverishly ask what they're doing wrong. It's mental manipulation that just doesn't work, and the paid advertising format leads platforms to their death, but just like users keep posting, investors are flocking to put money onto the next social media platform.

I hope that independent web communities return, and that people start making their own web sites, tracking music and entertainment across multiple platforms and dealing with their content payola schemes and repetitive marketing is ruining everything fun and useful about the Internet.
How would you use ChatGPT to find e.g. full text of an article or a book? How do you compare whatever it claims with other claims about the same thing?

i.e. no, it can't
Yeah I don't have much sympathy for a copy cat aspirant getting outcompeted by other copy cats at their own game.

And it also suggests most of the commenters on this post didn't actually read the article carefully.
Yep. Reads like a planted and/or made up thang.

Telle est la politique en Amérique
I think you underestimate the effect 2016 Russian disinformation campaigns had on social media companies. If Twitter's default policy is "it stays on the site", it's inviting hoards of garbage on the site in early November every cycle. That's pretty bad for its usability and its future, especially since the people who are running in those elections play a key role in regulating it.

Your post works really hard to characterize Twitter employees as "nefarious" "[D]emocratic operatives" who "publicly lied", "broke laws", and engaged in "gaslighting on a national scale", which frankly I think is baseless and unproductive. But putting that aside, it seems to me that the nature of running a communications platform like Twitter is that there's always someone who thinks this about you. The stakes are pretty high, especially around elections. I'm not a fan of social media, in particular I think Twitter on balance has been pretty bad for humanity, but my reasoning isn't that it's particularly good or bad for a given viewpoint (which seems to be yours). I think what they're trying to do is impossible, they will always fail, and there will always be big negative consequences.

For example, Twitter could've let this story ride. But it's not about Joe Biden, it's about Hunter Biden, and there's no vetted evidence of JB wrongdoing. But if JB loses the election because of this, well that's a huge failure for Twitter also. Or they can build a huge investigative unit that competes with all the disinformation bureaus of all the worlds' governments, but that's clearly a losing proposition.

We get a lot of kicks from armchair quarterbacking and our "I would fix Twitter in two shakes with my enlightened moderation policies" (at least one of us got pretty carried away with this and spent $44B to take a swing) wind-bagging, or alleging some mix of corruption and incompetence. They're a pretty good punching bag. But it's worth saying some reasonably smart people have dedicated their professional lives to solving these problems, and pretty clearly they failed. I think this is probably because what they were trying to do, while noble, is impossible. You can't make a global, public communications platform that all the world's dignitaries use that is (reasonably) free of disinformation and acceptable to all major participating parties. Hell you probably can't even do it for just the Republican and Democratic parties, let alone Germany + China.

What you can do is sell out to them over and over again, which is probably what EM will do. Twitter will become a wasteland of propaganda and banal marketing, trading whatever bona fides it has left for exposure on its platform. It's essentially a private equity buyout of Twitter's attention capital. I think the previous leadership team was wise to this, I'm pretty sure EM still isn't (he burned a lot of their attention capital in a 2 day bonfire), but give it a few weeks.
I have a personal lib that works like this. It maintains a simple struct with a start pointer and a one-past-the-end pointer. You can use it to construct a view or point into unused space at the end of a string for building ops. NUL termination is preserved so interop with stdlib is always available.

This allows for nicer string handling while always allowing interop with anything expecting a char *. Libraries with their own string implementation always exact a penalty to get a cstr out.
I put myself in this very position with some cache expiration times.

Almost everything in the server-side that is related to times for a particular client uses milliseconds. Of course, redis’s `SETEX` does not. It uses seconds.

The data got quite stale. But, much like this post, other bugs were uncovered and usefully fixed.
Easier to hire lots of low paid people than a few highly paid engineers. I don't dispute that TCO including labor is generally higher with cloud infrastructure.
A German experiment that placed foster children with pedophiles (2021)
It was an ad-selling company, I'd be hating myself all day.
My devil's advocate take on this article is that they're using Rust as scapegoat to their scaling (team not performance) problems. I use Go at $DAYJOB and we're having similar problems for lead times. OTOH, the novelty of Rust in webdev, means there isn't someone to make a decision like, "we don't need performance, so use threads instead of async and pass everything around in a box". I've sunk plenty of personal time trying to wrangle async on a CRUD app for learning, and I recommend it as an exercise, but I'd avoid async if I was trying to ship something.
Even if it is free, I have no interest in playing chess against a superhuman chess bot. You don’t even have to know how to play chess to use the moves the bots recommend and win against a grandmaster.

The line is blurry today, but we are moving into territory where humans will not be able to solve programming challenges that require under 200 lines of code faster than AI - we are slower to read and type. The AIs will likely get better at understanding the problems, requiring less help from humans and fewer attempts to find a solution.

At some point using a language model to compete in these kinds of programming contests will absolutely be like using a poker or chess bot to compete in those games.
What i love about Haskell, is it made things simple, not simpler.

If you have a program with complex architecture, you're doing wrong somehow.

If you can't decomposing the complexity, you will have complexity. I think it's not about programming language, it's about human (and technology).
> If you’re on the left these are boring internal emails discussing what to do about hacked laptop information released at an optimal moment to smear a presidential candidate because of things done by his son.

This is the default position. Your classifier would be better suited as "if you're susceptible to right-wing propaganda and disinformation" versus not.
So we should let NYPost publish nudes of anyone and everyone they want to, just because? And no one is allowed to call them out on that because Free Speech?
People are really bad at accepting information that superficially contradicts something they want, and react by disputing the information instead of taking it into consideration while still pushing for the ends they want to achieve.

In this case, I'd speculate that harm reduction advocates aim is to (tautologically) reduce the (physical/health) harm of drug use so that it's one less problem users face. One aspect of this may be safe consumption, which this article says doesn't work on it's own. Another aspect is overdoses form Fentanyl et al, (which I would argue is largely a byproduct of a drug war that has made heroin too hard to import, and no safe medical supply options for treatment). So the focus could shift to addressing this (which in tandem with safe injection sites could still produce better overall outcomes).

My point is that it's not productive to dispute the studies, better to accept on balance of probabilities and look at how it fits with your overall aim.

(Climate change is very similar. People dispute the studies because they don't like the political rhetoric about how we should react, not because deep down they think all the research is flawed)
The trend in social media for years has been away from social and toward just addictive content and finding the best way to crowdsource that content. The purpose is becoming simply to get you to spend as much time as possible staring at the phone to sell ads, and nothing more.

I predict the next advancement will be pure AI generated content, just a continuous adversarial attack on the human brain programmed to maximize viewing time for each individual. This could be packaged as things like virtual friends (Replika) or games with constantly evolving game play punctuated with ads or even as something that looks like TikTok.

Pure refined 200 proof addictive emptiness is the logical apex of “free” mass media. We will look back on TV and early generation social media as high culture compared to what’s coming.
Volvo C40/XC40 Recharge is made in Ghent, Belgium. Source:

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
More questions about him. If he stays free is he likely to destroy some evidence or affect the investigation somehow? And he is in Bahamas, is he likely to run anywhere from there? Does he even have capacity to attempt it?

If he were to try to run he would likely end up locked up. But currently, it is kind of immaterial.
I could see that, but I think it really depends on your use case.

I could see having the ability to search all my meetings to find a clip of a conversation / meeting notes with a client would be invaluable. Otherwise I look like an idiot and contact the client again and ask a question they've already answered.
> The whole point of this is that government is already interfering in speech.

Nah. The point of this is right-wing propaganda.
Jibe

(verb): change course by swinging a fore-and-aft sail across a following wind.

(noun): an act or instance of jibing.

GP believes that the Atlantic article constitutes an instance of changing course by swinging a sail across a following wind, presumably metaphorically.
Since the data store is markdown and can be synced with Git, you can already work with an Obsidian vault using Foam in VSCode. I do.

Workflow: PKM in Obsidian, move ready docs to designated docs folder tree, sync w/ git to shared docs site repo, two-way collaborate w/ colleagues on docs.

You do need to align some options in each, such as file naming, a header, a particular style of links, and ensure frontmatter behavior. All necessary settings exist.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/46

This supports basic static file and links functionality, not extended data tools etc., of course.
The training set is full of code for these problems.

Put your query into Google and see how many thousands of answers appear.

Your tests are in the training set.
Because of algorithms, even if you don't follow him, you can still see his quotes or likes by people you follow. Although not forced, but hard to avoid.
Yes it seems. It’s an observation but I don’t have access to the model.
My two member LLC sounds pretty similar to your size. I’m spending about that for my personal returns, the LLC’s K-1, and municipal returns. Given that I can spend the time billing, in lieu of prepping taxes, it seems like a break-even or a win for me to spend the money on the CPA.
Had exactly that bug in production, was using ruby on rails & active merchant, and some version change in ActiveMerchant switched from cents to dollars for one of the integrations.

Our test harness didn't catch it (weird combination of reasons, too long ago for me to remember the details) & it rolled out.

Shortly thereafter I get an anxious customer call that we'd charged their debit card $2500.00 instead of $25.00 and they'd gotten an overdraft notice. At first I was incredulous ("how is that even possible!?"), then I remembered that we'd just version bumped ActiveMerchant.

My endocrine response as I realized what must have happened was amazing to experience - the sinking feeling in my gut, hairs standing up, sweaty palms, dread, pupils dilating, and my internal video camera pulling back poltergeist-style in a brief out-of-body experience.

Fun times. Live and learn.
Same. Im looking for an excuse also.
Skiff: Private, end-to-end encrypted, wallet native mail
I clicked through to their website and it is hmmm... different? Like I think maybe it was created using Microsoft FrontPage in the mid 90s and never touched again outside of posting new photos of company events. While trying to discern what this company actually _does_ (which is never really stated but seems to be like government security contracts?) I tried clicking on the "Apply Now" button and just got a lot of errors in the JS console.

That being said I think this blog post actually is spot on and really does capture what it takes to do good software engineering.
This is a thing in most countries on the planet. Try tweeting "I wish all X people were dead!" outside of the USA, and in many places you'll get a visit from the authorities (if they notice that is, they don't actively monitor for it, someone would have to give you up to the local police).
I hear what you are saying. But, I KNOW that it’s the top result with the search criteria I suggested… there was no need to sift through anything so your comment is generalised at some other experience.

I’ve already spent a huge amount of my time on that story, being in direct talks with the security researcher before the story exploded - I even helped raise a lot of awareness. So excuse me if I wanted to just quickly mention a quick, no need to sift, route to the info.

(If you happen to see a car on the researchers Twitter running over a Eufy system - that was one of the many things I did for awareness lol).
NYC had quotas - "taxi medallions". Arizona had minimal regulations: vehicle safety inspections, meter accuracy, driver screening. The big taxi companies were mostly trusted to do their own regulatory compliance for their fleets and drivers. Anyone could start their own taxi company - I understood the state agency was quite helpful. I had no interest in making a career of transportation, so I just drove for the company enough to pay my bills, while I worked on my other endeavors.
Assume they are insecure and looking for a passive-aggressive way to cut you down to their level. The British^W English are quite adept at doing this in a way where you won't realize until the next day that they were insulting you.
> I really don't understand how this sort of choice can be considered a bad thing for users.

Because it's not user choice, it's publisher or developer choice. If I want to play Fortnite, I don't have a choice to play it on steam or EGS, and similarly if I want to play league of legends,I can't play it on steam. This sort of "choice" isn't a choice for the user, it forces them to be subject to the data protection and whims of every publisher whether they want to or not.
So my wife and I decided to do the digital nomad thing earlier this year. Our first thought was that we would drive her Hyundai Tuscan and across the country and sell my old car.

Then we realized we don’t like road trips when we drove from Atlanta (our home) to Nashville. She gets carsick when she is not driving. Which is ironic because it doesn’t happen when she is driving and she has had a commercial driving license for decades and she was a city bus driver before we got married and a school bus driver afterwards - mostly for the benefits until two years ago.

We sold both of our cars saving $800 a month in car notes and insurance not counting maintenance - I was already working remotely - and we decided to fly everywhere and have a $900/month “Uber budget”.

Even before then, I hated everything about car ownership and for year we had one car when I gave my car to my older son who doesn’t live with us. I loved when I went on business trips and didn’t have to drive.

We don’t have to worry about car maintenance and repairs and statistically flying long distances is much safer than driving.

Another anecdote is that before my son could drive he had a job. We paid about $400 a month for him to take Uber everywhere which was much cheaper than a car note and car insurance for an under 21 year old male ($550).

No we couldn’t buy a big six foot three dude an old little beater and I hate dealing with car repairs.
from back when computers had really small memory, I've seen software that did sorting on the user screen because the screen at that point was extra available free memory!
The Economist favours legalization. No, they are not against non-carceral drug policy.
The CPAs have done such a good job of marketing their state-level credential that it seems they are almost considered synonmous with "tax professional". In fact, there are many other categories of tax professionals, such as Enrolled Agents, attorneys, and some states such as California have minimum education, bond, and registration requirements for anyone paid to prepare taxes.

CPAs as a result of that marketing may tend to charge higher for their service. It doesn't mean that they do a better job.

Given the degree of complexity stated by the OP (not very high, since there are no employees or business assets to speak of)[0] it should be easy to find someone with five or more years experience at a local H&R Block office who can do just as good a job for half the price, along with various guarantees on the work.

[0] of course we don't know what else was involved - is it a MFJ return, are there dependents with various credits, fancy investment income, itemized deductions, etc? Those items also add to complexity beyond just the consulting business.
Any TLDR; here? What's the big fuzz about it? Was just skim reading it and the point seems to be that content moderation at twitter used to be done by individuals which might be influenced by a political opinion. Is there anything more to it?
Since you got answered in downvotes I suspect the answer is "because people will switch languages on you"
They moved on from Facebook being over to Instagram being over lol.

Instagram isn't over. It's still the most popular social media app on both App Store and Google Play in the US.

For the past couple of years you always see articles popping up about Facebook being dead, then you look at the actual data and people are using Facebook more than ever.

Look at the last report from Meta, more people on a daily and monthly basis are using Facebook and Instagram than ever both.

Nearly 3b people use their apps on the daily basis. It going to take on hell of a long time before they become over.
Dale's book is generic heuristics, hacks, and common sense advice mixed.

Nonviolent communication is more like cult/pseudoscience/horse manure mix.
For those interested, the study from Ms. Packham: https://apackham.github.io/mywebsite/opioidpaper_webcopy.pdf
> none were Soviet citizens who came on work visas

Many of them were from countries that were at war with the United States, like Germany and Italy.

George Gamow, one of the most important American physicists ever, was born in Russia, educated in the USSR and began his career there, before defecting to the US. He didn't work on the Manhattan Project, but he did consult on other military projects during WWII. There are lots of other examples of Soviet-American physicists, including one of the inventors of quark theory (George Zweig) and the one of the people who formulated perhaps the most famous paradox in quantum mechanics (Boris Podolsky).

> Surely this is something to think about before creating a caste of foreign high skilled workers and academics?

Casting suspicion on students and scientists in the United States because they come from "enemy" countries is not a healthy thing for society to do. I also object to your use of the word "caste." Castes are hereditary groups with defined roles in society. What we're talking about here are simply smart people who did well in school, and managed to get into top universities.
I'm not sure what this reply has to do with my comment.
Applying Stoic Principles in a Struggling Economy
And how many are these 15% and 22%?
This comment is an excellent example of how you can openly call for violence against the vulnerable on HN without censure or consequence as long as you do it in a certain tone.
The case for legalisation (2001, but still):
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2001/07/26/the-case-for-le...
Legalize opium and the number of overdoses would plummet, as well as blood-transmissible diseases like these.

It's at the point that if you're not aware of and advocating for obvious solutions like this, the blood is on your hands.
https://archive.ph/wOlQm