skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main problem is that it doesn't actually have a concept of truth or falsehood—it's just very good at knowing what sounds correct. So, to GPT3, a subtle error is almost as good as being totally right, whereas in practice there's a huge gulf between correct and incorrect. That's a categorical problem, not something that can be patched.
It could be.

Here it seems they alerted Twitter to a few tweets containing nudes of someone posted without their consent. That was against the TOS and likely against the law in the 48 (?) states with anti-revenge porn laws.

They didn’t try to stifle debate. They didn’t try to hide news articles.

There has been tons of Hunter Biden tweets they did nothing about.

This doesn’t seem like anything shady at all. So I’m not worried.

Show me political game playing, I’ll be on your side.
> you typically expect to be reasonable

They never said that, but I have to say there's been absolute garbage takes on HN as long as I've been here. Comes with the territory, GP was just lamenting the particular genre of garbage takes they've seen lately.

> Sometimes coherent theories can seem bizarre

Yes, yes, bozo the clown and all that.
> technicalities

Being president or not seems like kind of a big deal to me.
It absolutely applies to ticket scalping, as much as we may hate to admit it.

You can do a Google search for economics of ticket scalping and the overwhelming consensus is that it benefits both buyers and sellers.
Now political campaigns are the government?

Would be curious on your take of what DeSantis was trying to do to Disney in FL? 30 years in prison for threatening Disney about its speech?
Croquet Microverse (Beta)
Not sure if this has been suggested, but I recommend Communications of the ACM (see https://www.acm.org/ for more info).

Requires a membership, but the membership is actually pretty valuable and includes access to learning resources and more. They send out printed magazines with thoughtful discussion and technical articles.
It sounds like an additional tax. Who wants that?
That assumes that the primary feature of Google is the "quick answer" box. Of course the quick answer box is often wrong—that's why all the search results are right below it. The quick answer box sometimes saves you a click, but it's not what Google is for. The idea that a better quick answer box could replace the whole search engine is silly.
Yes because I’m such a selfish human being I’m going to bemoan the fact that my coworkers who are also able to have a good life that ability because even with my unvested RSUs that are at half their all time highs, I’m still going to make over three times the national median household income.

For context: I’m not bragging, I’m not officially a software engineer by title and I only fell into BigTech three years ago at 45 by doing a slight pivot from software engineering. I’m still paid less than an equivalent mid level software dev at my own company.

Not that I’m complaining I work remotely from - all over the US.
The government can ask private companies not to publish things, it does that for "national security" all the time. The company can tell them to pound sound - that's been well established. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/16/wh... for example. But there's nothing illegal (and most certainly not 30 year prison sentence illegal) about the government saying "hey could you review these tweets please"?

Do we know what they contained? Were they threats? Spam? Copyright infringing? Disagreements about tax policy?
IANAL but I believe the law says if the journalist didn't aid in whatever made obtaining it illegal, like hacking the data out, then they are clear to publish it. And that's what one Dem called for Twitter to write in its policy, according to the "Twitter files":

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598838041371516929/photo...
See Fox News…
The point is the reservation fees do not go the the federal government or the NPS. They go to Booz Allen .
The pee tape story was completely fabricated, as was the Russian collusion narrative, and that was revealed although carefully subtexted and de-emphasized in the Mueller Report.
That’s still fundamentally not the issue here. It shouldn’t matter that there was a certain bias at Twitter at a particular time. What matters was there was a) a serious lack of transparency into decision making and b) a very broad policy/culture of censorship, where ill-defined and ever expanding “misinformation” and “threats to democracy” was enough to silence not only public messages but private DMs between individuals.

People say it’s a hard problem to define the limits of content moderation, but when you have politicians and influence groups sending lists of tweets to silence and the only response is “thanks we handled it” then obviously the limits have gone out the window.

We don’t have to have a free-for-all to massively reduce the risks in the current system.

Limitations and transparency are what defines a good system of governance. Bias in administrations will always exist, but honesty and shining sunlight on it is the only thing that will stop it from turning into a cancer.
Looking forward to the end result!
> So millimeters, then? :)

The difference between mm and MM is rather easy to spot.
It was important for selling tabloids, which are now indistinguishable from mainstream news.
It could be, sure. But people are playing influence games with Elon, too.
> they removed a NY Post story

They = Twitter in this instance, not the Biden team. Taibbi jumps from one event to the other as if to draw a line between them but there is an important distinction. None of the evidence presented shows the Biden team asking Twitter to take down the NY Post story, just the pornographic images posted.
> If anything, it's gotten better now that I don't need to log-in to scroll through someone's feed

This is what drove me to stop using Twitter and over to nitter as a frontend. If they finally stopped doing that, I can happily start browsing their actual website again.
That can definitely happen between but as a loss of information between layers that don't support DPI fully (e.g. Windows 7 type DPI information which isn't per screen aware) or are intentionally ignoring physical pixel information (e.g. percentage based sized/positioned elements) not float precision loss. Float precision loss is definitely a thing but even a 32 bit float is integer perfect to 8,388,608 meanwhile a 7,640 pixel screen (1,000 times smaller) is considered extraordinarily large. Fractions close to 0 (such as APIs that use a 0-1 range for the screen or DPI represented a a percentage of a standard value) have a similar accuracy.

I'm not even sure on Windows there is a way to render anything
Trump attempted to use Twitter to overthrow the government and have the vice president of the United States executed by a mob.
Everybody reports everything to everybody. If that surprises you, reconsider how well informed you are. "Competitors work refs; film at 11."
>>The people involved should be facing 30 year prison sentences.

For what crime, specifically?
"Empire" is a big word for a pyramidal tower of cards
I booked the 5-7am slot at RMNP every week this summer and had no problems, including July 4.

If you're doing anything that's life and death, you arrive before 5am anyway. The accident you reference mentioned that he knew it was a lazy choice:

> This summer the park continued a timed-entry system it launched in 2021. The program requires visitors to schedule and reserve windows of time to enter the park. Toor said he wanted to start earlier but was only able to secure an 8 a.m. entry reservation. Feduschak and Gaines, who ascended a much more technical route, entered the park before the timed entry system starts at 5 a.m.

> “Eight was a late start, but we didn’t quite have the oomph to get in before the 5 a.m. cutoff,” Toor said. “Maybe we just need to suck it up and get there before 5 a.m.”
Only 3 orders of magnitude to go!
They're all pretty normal words. You can disseminate the core message.
> Censoring skittle dick (a descriptive term, not a slur) 20 days out from an election was a crime.

Nudity was posted non-consensually, which is a crime in California. It was removed. That is not a crime.
I suspect the average investor would do better focusing on week old stock data that the knew wasn’t being updated than trying to keep up with the market using sub par quotes.

Assuming the goal is to buy and hold for 10+ years, recent changes should be irrelevant.
It's awfully stupid, but as a meta point, take a step back and see how well HN's moderation focuses it all on this one dumb thread, and preserves the rest of the home page for a bunch of random tech stories, to the point where there's still room for "Roman Egypt was a strange province".

It's pretty impressive. It wasn't always this good! Back during Snowdonia, the whole front page would be 11 different flavors of NSA stories.
Also that the tweets the Biden team asked to be reviewed violated Twitter TOS for revenge porn.
Yeah, language models are notoriously bad in understanding math, unless they were trained for it. GPT3 had the same problem.

> How much is 1+2+1+2+1+7+1+2+3+0+3?

> 1+2+1+2+1+7+1+2+3+0+3 = 25. To find this, we can add up the numbers in the sequence one by one. The first number is 1, the second number is 2, the third number is 1, and so on. When we add these numbers together, we get 1+2+1+2+1+7+1+2+3+0+3 = 25. This is the sum of the numbers in the sequence.
I could imagine that many readers might casually jump to a few stocks of their interest. If someone were interested in NTT, they might consider a double listing as feature rather than a bug. Two identical consecutive lines might be easier to find quickly (for those born with a pattern-matching inclination).
The previous empires that the Mughals conquered used slave soldiers (Iltutmish, Khilji, Aibak, Lodis)
That is how the trope goes. But looking at the actual faults, we see them in bad old C-like code, so not interesting in the present context. Modern C++ code, for example, will always have exactly zero use-after-free bugs. OpenSSL is old C code, so of even less relevance here.

But the topic was not CVEs. It was optimization. An optimization opportunity that would be missed by a compiler can be explicitly spelled out for it by a library author. Whether the library author is obliged by the compiler to write "unsafe" next to it has exactly zero effect on the correctness of the code written in that place: you can easily write incorrect code there. If you don't, it was not because the compiler provided any help.
> But there is no clear evidence that they explicitly favored one party

"There's no REAL proof that large corporations overwhelmingly favor the left" is the political version of "there's no REAL proof that the earth is round"
"One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms. "

I would say its not a huge leap to think that.

I would even say its more than just other social media platforms. I would say it goes into main stream media on BOTH sides, Hollywood, sports, etc including global corporations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI&ab_channel=Shoot...
If the thing China shot was on orbit, there isn't much difference in orbital velocity vs other objects. If it's below ~7.8km/s it's suborbital, and if it's above 11km/s it's on escape trajectory.
Maybe they were trying to take a page from Microsoft's business model; take control away from users only to sell it back as an "enterprise edition" brand store.
I think it should also mean that if Twitter was able to successfully do this, they no longer require any protections from Section 230. They're in full editorial control of the property, they shouldn't enjoy any further legal shields while simultaneously enjoying this apparent total oversight.
> They succeeded in their goal of preventing the story from harming their candidate a few days before the election.

Did they? Of course Joe Biden was elected, but there's no evidence that this was the cause. I said "I haven't heard a good argument of why Hunter Biden should have been a crucial factor in deciding how to vote in 2020, when there were a ton of other vastly more important issues." And I still haven't heard one.

In any case, the censorship seems to have backfired somewhat and raised the profile of the story. People won't shut up about it even now, two years later.
Same type as those that run uni's. This is all about maximum profits, the original mission was lost long ago. Now it is about sustaining the org for the paychecks of admins.
The issue in a browser is that you have a default zoom that is often not 100% and you can also "zoom" in/out of web pages which by will cause blurriness or overly sharp images. If you decide to ignore that in favor of the native resolution, then the content size is likely too big or small for what the user expects and it's not clear what the user wants it to look like or scale to even if you did implement that too because of the huge variety in screen sizes and ratios the content could be viewed from.

A native application does not generally have these issues because by nature of being native it was built for the form factor it is being used on.
Couple of things:

government used to be weary of any appearance of impropriety, lest people believe they are acting improperly -being slimy. That seems to have gone by the wayside.

two, if the requests were to suppress sensitive government information --secrets, ok, I might lend a sympathetic ear, if they could prove it was so (not because they said "take our word". But this is "don't make us look bad" --sorry, but no, it stays.

And now we are hearing the gov wants to amp up domestic surveillance. The ACLU and EFF, etc should get off their butts and perform their claimed duty. We're not China in that sense yet, but if we let them, we'll get there.
Last time I used the site I had to try repeatedly and fail due to shitty javascript issues, all so that I could pay a reservation fee to a private company for a reservation to enter Arches even though the slots were only 10% taken. I was already there at the park, I had an Annual Pass I paid for, there were plenty of slots.

I was still forced to struggle through the process and I vert annoyed that apparently the entire reason was that the NPS was contractually obligated to give Booz Allen their fees.

So I think that both "good product" and "well aligned incentives" are a bit of a stretch at best.
So if Fox News doesn’t cover Jared Kushner’s antics to your satisfaction, should all Fox News executives go to jail?
Nothing. Today makes no change on if the laptop was real or not.
The case in point was the removal and censorship of the NY Post's story on the laptop, which was incredibly relevant to the Presidential election. It revealed Hunter as a degenerate crackhead, and an unqualified man-child who benefited directly from his father's position as Vice President to get a powerful, paid position on the Burisma Board of Directors, a favor for which he committed "10% to the big guy" (among other positions, Burisma was not the only one). It underscored the corruption of the current U.S. president, who used his power and influence over foreign relations with Ukraine to enrich his own family and himself.

The pornographic images, to what extent they were shown in the NY Post, were redacted. The main function they played is in showing that the laptop contents couldn't have been fake.
I don’t know that at all, what are you referring to?
Clearly it's not about the first amendment if it's a request. The constitution is clear that congress (and by extension the executive branch as it's been interpreted for two centuries) "shall make no law" (or regulation or rulemaking or enforcement action, ditto). A request is just a request. In fact a request is pretty clearly just speech and can't be restricted because of the very same amendment. Twitter doesn't have to listen to id, but Joe or whoever has every right to ask.

Now, if there's lawmaking/regulation/rulemaking/enforcement aimed at Twitter by the executive branch, that's a very different thing.

But in this particualr case it's also sorta nonsensical. The stuff released today is about the Biden campaign, which was a private entity. Biden himself held no government position at all, so the point gets pretty strained.
Wowzers, this whole thing is just filled with "oh, fuck you then:"

The bitly link shorter in their tweet redirects to: https://status.apps.rackspace.com/index/viewincidents?group=...

And therein is this:

> Please note that your account administrator will need to manually set up each individual user on your account. Once your users have been set up and all appropriate DNS records are configured, their email access will be reactivated, and they will start receiving emails and can send emails. Please note, that DNS changes take approximately 30 minutes to provision and in rare cases can take up to 24 hours

My sympathies to anyone involved in this tire fire, and on a Friday no less :-(
I just got this up and running and the performance is amazing. I've never felt a VNC session feel so fast. Very impressed. Kudos to you for this!

Edit: I wish I could install this on my mac so I could VNC into it efficiently as well!
I was thinking more like game theoretically bad.
The entire comment you responded to was meant to be read with a /s tag
I often see reviews for things with a weird number of stars compared to the comment, for example on Amazon.
Conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Seems OpenAI is actively monitoring the queries, and they're now banning any connections to personalities or any connection to specific individuals, current events or political situations.

Same query as yours just now:

> "Describe Java in the style of Jamie Zawinski"

> "Java is a powerful, versatile, and widely-used programming language that runs on virtually any platform, from desktop computers to mobile devices to the cloud. With its vast ecosystem of libraries and frameworks, Java enables developers to quickly and easily build complex, scalable, and secure applications. Whether you're building a web app, a mobile app, or a back-end system, Java has the tools and libraries you need to get the job done. And with its focus on simplicity, readability, and maintainability, Java makes it easy for teams of all sizes to collaborate and deliver high-quality code. So if you're looking for a programming language that's powerful, versatile, and widely-used, give Java a try! You won't be disappointed."

Disappointing.
Any "big" war between superpowers is going to be over in a day because it's sheer utter hubris to imagine surviving with any quality of life afterwards.

Sure the the elites will have their billion dollar bunkers but the modern life is over otherwise. Pandemic was a model of 1% of what fallout would be like.

It seems warmongers have found an end-run around that though, proxy wars like Ukraine which is horrifying.
Agreed. Not a job I would ever take. If "roll back to the last backup" isn't good enough, I want no part of it.
Until your post, I had no idea he wasn’t finished. What a way to read a complex story :P
Got bought by private equity Apollo in 2016, usual squeeze story, ceo replaced by someone pure finance 2 months ago. Dying cow being milked by its owner.
I am disengaging at this point. I do genuinely like discussing these things, but I don't think we're speaking the same language.
Wait wait, $750m EACH?!

Fucking hell war is expensive.
GPA as a metric is terrible because there's no standardization of grading across schools. At best, you can use it to compare applicants from the same school, and sometimes even at the same school Professor Birch is a much harsher grader than Professor Elm, so comparing grades of students that took the same course but from a different instructor is tricky.

Standardized tests have difficiencies, but at least the scores are comparable.
When we return to Cold War levels of military spending, which hasn't happened yet.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS
> It is unfortunate that so many are willing (and able) to willfully delude themselves into denying reality.

Deny reality of what?

I don’t really understand the rest of your post, I guess your alleging they government violated the first amendment. Ok, what’s the next steps then?
Your situations were not the same. One is a car where the criminals may not have taken anything of significant value (and this the police suggested futility) and presumably when they broke into your home, they took something of value where a report would be necessary to make insurance claims.
You need to think of Twitter as MSNBC or Fox News. Bias in editorial decisions is perfectly legal.
RISC-V Foundational Associate (RVFA) Certification
If you're near Microcenter they always have a bunch in the checkout lanes. Always fun to browse. Plenty of Linux stuff last time I was there.
Where is the guy who dropped the laptop? Nobody can find the most famous missing person since Jimmy Hoffa?
> This rubs me the wrong way, nobody in government should be telling Twitter to remove speech.

Uh... Biden wasn't in government. It's so weird seeing all the posters in this thread arguing simultaneously that The Real Problem here is government control over the media and citing as evidence the fact that Twitter bent to the whims of someone not in government.

I mean, why is government control such a big deal when private citizens (like the Biden campaign, or this other guy who seems to have a lot of control over Twitter all of a sudden) can get the same favors? Either it matters or it doesn't, right?
Twitter officers conspired with hostile, rogue actors inside the US government to defraud United States Citizens of their constitutional rights

They abused technology designed to prevent the spread of child pornography to censor information harmful to their preferred political candidate at the behest of government officials.
> Such low orbits should prevent that being a long term problem.

Wouldn't a military power be more willing to trigger Kessler syndrome for 5 years than 500?
I just looked and plenty of definitions of trolling seem to invoke the same idea of insincerity.
Stopped??? My god, the whole point is that now you need to be a friend of Elon to get stuff you don’t like removed.