skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh they didn’t work alone on it, and they left a ton of people out, ripping freedom and progress from their hands without a second thought.

Your ancestors were thieves and oppressors, and took things that didn’t belong to them, which means the resulting better society isn’t yours or theirs to give or take. It’s free for whoever comes and helps grow it.

Honestly I wish we had some mechanism to cast out the entitled and let in the hopeful. People who believe as you do don’t deserve the gift of a progressive society.
Consider the monoid abstraction in the context of batch processing. Anywhere you have a monoid, you have a corresponding “banker’s law” that says you can find the generalized sum of a collection of items by partitioning the items into groups, computing the sum over each group, and then taking the sum of the sums as your final result. This idea has many applications in batch processing.

For example, in the MapReduce framework, this idea gives rise to “Combiners” that summarize the results of each map worker to massively lower the cost of shuffling the results of the Map stage over the network prior to the Reduce stage.

Another example: In distributed database systems, this idea allows many kinds of addition-like aggregations to be performed more efficiently by computing the local sum for each group under the active GROUP BY clause before combining the groups’ subtotals to yield the wanted gobal totals.

Basically, in any situation in which you have to compute a global sum of some kind over a collection of items, and some of those items are local to each worker, you can compute the global sum faster and with fewer resources whenever you can take advantage of a monoidal structure.
Using glitch opcodes of the processor is a very nice touch!

For those who are not aware: 6502 was hand-designed. There are many opcodes that are not documented (they were the "do not care" squares in the karnaugh maps and PALs used to create various internal control signals). This means that many still do something. Over the years many were documented well, and this code uses some of them, which is super cool! It does mean that this code will not work on later 6502 variants like the 65c02 which act differently when faced with those opcode.
Nobody made the argument that static typing removes the need for unit tests. It does check for many conditions that would have to be unit tested otherwise, such as calling functions with the wrong types.
Reading at the comments, people confuse concepts like monoids and functors with category theory.
Even better: Industrial espionage, those records get you at least half way to know everyones BoM, suppliers and prices.
Have lawyers familiar with EU law vetted your technique? Could you share their legal reasoning? If not, why would anyone ever take the risk to use your product and face huge fines?
FFmpeg WASM seems a bit heavy handed for this. I just seek a hidden copy of the video and capture frames to canvas.
Same. I think there's something about having been a public school student in the past 10-20 years that's to blame. We'd only get half an hour sometimes to eat lunch, and that's the only break between classes, so I grew up with the negative incentive to wolf down/inhale my shitty pizza/chicken sandwich as fast as possible so I could rid myself of the lunch tray and go play with my friends, study, or sulk in a corner.
$2+T market cap or karma? Why not both.
Shake it like a Polaroid.
> What a weird thing to say...

They need to explain musks antics somehow. More polite wording than idve used.
Brand protection isn’t a value judgement about the service. It’s the recognition that ad dollars are poorly spent if your ads end up next to damaging content.

That said, of course the us population has contradictory positions. It’s hundreds of millions of people.
Hey remember all those terrible things we banned? Lets experiment by letting them free again! Weeeeeeeeeeee.
It wasn't "scientific" to begin with but what's happening right now is pretty clearly panicked throwing stuff at the wall based on Elon's intuition and day to day demands... while that may have worked for him in the past, I don't think it's going to work as well in this domain where you're working with a complex system dependent on millions of people's behaviors and incentives.
False. It can't be left open to Everyone for more than 10 minutes at a time. Frankly, from a security perspective cutting this off after a few minutes is preferable. You can turn it back on for another 10 minutes.

Pure conjecture on my part, but I wouldn't be surprised if China wanted them to block it entirely and Apple negotiated this compromise to try and appease officials while still allowing information sharing.

Your hyperbole is a massive exaggeration. They didn't "bend over backwards" to help China suppress freedom. They maintained as much usability as they could under almost certain direct legal pressure from the host country. If China says turn it off completely, that is what they would have to do if they want to operate in China. Apple must obey local laws.

Would the interests of freedom be served if Apple refused to obey local laws and there were no iPhones sold in China? Everyone running a Huawei phone. Would that advance the cause of freedom? Samsung, Google, everyone has to make these choices if they want to operate in China.
It looks like the project became inactive for a bit and there are alternatives such as htmlq, etc. https://github.com/ericchiang/pup/issues/150
Yeah... Also, the unbanning of users previously considered hateful also directly conflicts with "to keep the platform safe from hateful conduct"
I agree with your stance. Lawlessness is rarely a convincing argument. There is also a moral basis for respecting the local laws and regulations; the debate over whether to follow so-called immoral laws is a complicated one, but the biblical stance is credible in the hearts of many people:

Let everyone be subject to the governing
authorities, for there is no authority
except that which God has established.
The authorities that exist have been
established by God. [Romans 13:1]

This doesn't mean one should necessarily treat the law of the land as perfectly moral (eg MLK Jr), but lawfulness and a respect for order will serve to elevate arguments against the established practices. I believe that Apple has more influence in China when the Chinese authorities view their company as respectful and cooperative.
"should probably be reconsidered" isn't exactly outrage is it? We can have sensible discussions about appropriate naming without being extreme one way or the other, as much as the internet seems to hate moderate discussion.
>"I think it's a safe assumption that significantly more people order food from local restaurants than they did before DoorDash existed."

Why is it safe to assume that? Do you have actual data that backs that up? The presence of delivery drivers says nothing about the number of people that previously picked up their orders.

>'"Ponzi scheme" has been thrown around flippantly lately, and I think your comment is perfect example of that.'

How is that a flippant comment when the article we are commenting on states:

>"Competition in the sector has only intensified and the company has spent heavily to sustain growth by expanding its footprint in non-restaurant categories like convenience store items, groceries and alcohol. Last year, DoorDash spent $8 billion to acquire Wolt to increase its international presence."

The article then further states:

>"Under generally accepted accounting principles, however, DoorDash is unprofitable. The company reported a loss of $296 million compared with $101 million a year earlier during the third quarter."

How are those sums of money sustainable? Isn't that one of the defining characteristics of a ponzi scheme is that it is not sustainable?

>"So they did create a real market with a real product."

It's increasingly looking like that "market" was created by the pandemic. From a Deutsche Bank analysis of the company:

>"Deutsche Bank says that DoorDash drivers made 44% more deliveries in an hour at the height of last year’s pandemic lockdowns compared with three years earlier."[1]

And:

>"An average DoorDash order during the pandemic cost the customer almost $36, out of which the delivery company made less than $1 in profit."[1]

I think if you consider these paper-thins margins and the eye-popping sums being spent by Doordash to "sustain" growth" all while losing hundreds of millions of dollars a years, then "ponzi" is maybe not such a flippant comment.

I'm guessing they don't have another $8 billion to spend in order to acquire more growth which is why they are doing layoffs. Current market conditions would also suggest that would have trouble getting access to that kind of capital given those numbers above.

[1] https://archive.ph/ELq0m#selection-861.0-861.139
> Our Trust & Safety team... remains strong and well-resourced...

> ...impressions on violative content are down over the past month...

I think both of those claims are demonstrably false.
That was the talking point last week and the week before. You need to get up to speed with the latest outrage narrative. Don't worry about following up on any of it. There will always be a new one ready to go. Writing Elon articles is like the 'easy button' of mainstream media. It will always generate clicks which is a great way to advance your career as a professional 'content creator'. Just focus on this while the rest of the uninteresting world goes under reported.
The academic world and government scientists knew about global warming as well as they knew about global cooling... cherrypicking doesn't do anyone any good.
The ability to read social cues in person is so vital to our survival that they are instinctual - babies can pick on these cues without any prior exposure. Yet remote workers are struggling with these very things. That should disturb anyone and hint that the burden of proof goes the other way - we need to prove that virtual-everything relationships don't have a negative impact on society before we go all-in on it for a generation.
I completely agree!
Because I only use my car for long trips (1h or more) a couple times a month. I got a 25 years old executive sedan... Sure 21 MPG is bad, but no new cars was made for my needs. And I stay under 3 metric tons of CO2 per year.
The bullies. From an evolutionary perspective it would ultimately come down to those who get to choose their mate.
It isn't a town square - a town square is public. Twitter is a private organization. In this case, Twitter is the tavern. The Internet is the town square.
Right; it came about as experiments suggested something actually did exist.

It’s not the same kind of gibberish “mechanical flight is impossible” ended up being.
I have a Brother laser printer which is used for almost everything, and a Canon inkjet for the occasional color print.

I’m pretty sure my Canon inkjet uses more ink when idle than when I occasionally use it to actually print something. Quite sad.

I do wonder where it all physically goes tho. After years of seeing my cheapo cartridges just “evaporate” whatever reservoir the printer has for cleaning the heads and purging ink must be well and fully saturated at this point?!
These employees are making a lot more than $250k just in base salary. Cost is probably closer to $1M each, all in. "A few million" in net cost savings isn't much for a team that probably costs $5M a year.

It would definitely be better to find another internal home (assuming the team is portable without its mother team that got cut), but sometimes these decisions are made quickly without a lot of granularity. They aren't necessarily going to find one sub-team that saves only ~1x their cost in net profit and figure out how to transplant them to another org.

He seems to have taken away the important lesson - if you're not primary you're in danger.
How is a muffin and milkshake the high protein option? Why not just eggs?
Glami-1M: A Multilingual Image-Text Fashion Dataset
The whole stranded toner/ink issue is why subscription is becoming popular in this space, nobody wants to feal cheated and per-page pricing is pretty straightforward.
Wealthy landowners are not a marginalized group
I understand why people are somewhat frustrated by the "safety bumpers" on this. But I would say that I am actually really impressed by the quality of those safety controls. This is an AI that seems to know what it can and can not give a decent response to. I don't know if that's hard coded or trained in, but it's really impressive when you compare it to the hallucinations that typically show up in GPT3.

For example, ChatGPT refused to give me an opinion on new technologies (it says it doesn't have enough recent information) or political figures (it says it doesn't have enough personal experience). In contrast, it's happy to tell me what I should buy for a white-elephant at my office.

This is way, way closer to being useful than a model which just answers every question, regardless of whether it knows the answer.
> actual science

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Many quality studies are A/B tests. A/B just refers to the two IV states you're testing, which you're then observing a DV - sales, engagement, errors, etc.

A/B tests can be double blinded (don't tell the error monitoring people which results are from a trial), and have high number of samples, far beyond even most pharmaceutical trials.

They can also be really crappy, changing too many variables at once, etc. But they are certainly "real science".

EDIT: an example, Drug vs placebo - is an A/B test.
Some people enjoy observing dumpster fires
It won't. Federation doesn't solve any of the problems Twitter now has.

That instead of one poorly managed understaffed silo full of trolls and abusers you have 2000 poorly managed, even more understaffed systems with 2000 different approaches to moderation and content doesn't make anything easier or fixed for people who use Twitter today.

It is the same like we had federated chat with Jabber for 20 years now - and nobody uses it. The best implementations of it ended being the nonfederated ones - like Google Talk or I believe Whatsapp used that protocol. And apart from nerds and some engineers literally has no clue that something like XMPP even exists.

People don't care about the technology, they care where they want to communicate with their friends and network.

The Twitter issues are first and foremost human, business, management and social problems, not something you can throw some network protocols and technology at and declare it solved.
Well this makes the instruction useless unless all memory pointed to makes no page fault.
> Maybe Twitter really didn’t need 7500 people, and maybe having more voices speak is a good thing (there is always block button), and maybe advertisers won’t flee forever. That seems more likely to me than Twitter imploding.

Exactly. 7,500 is far too much to run a site like Twitter which at the time, it was already running itself to the ground. But it seems just like the so-called mass advertiser migration from Facebook, that never happened will be no different with Twitter despite the unusual levels of vacuous claims of Twitter's immediate 'imploding', which that has been greatly exaggerated by very emotionally charged people.

Twitter was already dead. Twitter 2.0 on the other hand seems more alive than ever, and I'm laughing at both the Twitter chaos and those pretending to leave Twitter whilst keeping their accounts.
You can still go to the office and do it in person. It also comes with the benefit, that a lot of public offices can also provide you with different services they couldn't do previously. Before you needed to go to town A and get a document, add it to the paperwork and file at town B. Now town B can fetch the document in your name from town A, or town A can file the document in your name at town B.
Maybe someone here has use for his skills who wouldn't have noticed John was free otherwise?
Why Assembly Language?
Do you have a horse in this race? Are you the PR guy writing these emails? : ^ )

> What other tangibles do you want?

In short-form: you're gone, here's why, here's some money. The diction doesn't need to be apologetic. It's condescending.
Yes it’s very odd that people keep characterizing this as “blocking Airdrop in China”. Is it really that hard to understand the actual change?

Still fine to be angry at Apple about it, though this feels like the way it should always have worked. Remember all the “Apple is terrible because people airdrop unwanted nudes” articles decrying the previous setting?
Musk's actions since joining Twitter board have been so erratic it's hard to believe a single word in this announcement:

* first joined the board then quit immediately

* made a purchase offer then almost immediately tried to withdraw it

* fired people then tried to rehire some of them

* claimed 20% of Twitter users are bots then let users decide to unban Trump

* announced absolute free speech then got angry when advertisers used their free speech to tell him they don't like how he runs the company

* allowed everyone to get verified checkmark then pulled it

* supported unlimited free speech then started banning people saying parody needs to be marked explicitly, then banned parody accounts anyway

And now they claim the moderation teams are well resourced and able to do their job just as before. How can anyone believe it?
I've been refilling the toner cartridges for my low-end Brother printer with generic toner off Amazon for years. It's not that bad and costs a fraction of the price of even a generic replacement cartridge. The toner comes in a bottle and you slowly pour it into the cartridge, perhaps with the assistance of a small funnel if necessary. I wear gloves and do it outside or in the garage. It only gets messy if you try to do it inside or have the dropsies. Obviously don't breathe it in.
Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped (2020)
Looks like this app is only available in the US and Canada app stores.

This link is leading to nowhere: https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/radius-report-news/id152474203...
Depends, if it becomes chronic rough play you know something might be wrong. If you're close enough and can see that it's asymmetrical and the victim is always the same, someone should intervene.
Apple limited a crucial AirDrop function in China just weeks before protests
Concerning to say the least: https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-mater...
Fucked Company
But how else is my late-night bedtime procrastination cycle going to continue? I just absolutely _must_ stay up until 2:00 AM reading Wikipedia pages on obscure tropical plants, because I guess I only need to be up by 8:15 AM for my 8:30 AM standup!
same. I got it up to 8 by clicking into the address bar and hitting enter. However, doing a refresh instead caused it to reset (the browser didn't send the if-modified-since header so the server didn't do it's little trick and instead started over)
It’s not a contradiction, there is political cancellation which has happened to celebrities in China. Look up Zhao Wei. This is the type of thing GP refers to.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-zhao-wei-mystery-surrounds-chin...

In China any friendliness towards Japan can lead to being “cancelled” but the way it happens isn’t through a local protest.
In any situation where you can see toner you want to be wearing an N95 mask. Inhale any of it and it is in your lungs forever.

The best thing for cleanup is a 3M electronics vacuum which has a filter that will trap that stuff securely.
Web Version of Golly
The role of the CEO: managing yourself
I think its just you
So backwards that basically everyones lifelyhood can depend on it. So, job well done, one could say.
Pathetic. How did they organize the Tiananmen square protests without those shiny Huawei phones? This demonstrates an insecurity of the regime.
Which is exactly the concept between optimizing for string concatenation and interning them, ultimately. Sure you can make do with the "algebraic" definition of a monoid, or entirely without it, but that doesn't mean the abstraction isn't there to inform your thinking and your research.

One point that really stuck with me is how people who apply category theory (say, people at the topos institute) use the concepts as little tools, and everytime a problem crosses their way, they try out all the little tools to see if one of them works, similar to how Feynman describes carrying out problems in his head until one day a technique unlocks something).

Having more general abstractions just allows them to be applied to more problems.
While this is nice, it's three years old.

Direct installation of brew scripts isn't supported anymore. `go get` installs aren't either.

It needs an update.
> Our approach to policy enforcement will rely more heavily on de-amplification of violative content: freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

Switching from normal bans to something even shadowier than ordinary shadowbans?
>Maybe. It remains to be seen whether axing so many so suddenly was survivable in the long-term financially or operationally, though.

a lot of tech companies is laying off people. Amazon, Facebook...etc.

DoorDash is laying off 1,250 corporate workers. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/30/doordash-lays-off-1250-emplo...

i believe the winter (recession) is coming if not then something is going on that most if not all tech companies is doing layoff or freeze hiring.
Does anyone know why the OS community was so quickly able to replicate (surpass?) DALL-E but not GPT-3?

I would love it if I were able to run these things locally like I am with stable diffusion.
Soufflé: A Datalog Synthesis Tool for Static Analysis
Can you demonstrate them as such? And can you validate your demonstration by eliminating the content produced by bots and sock puppets?
That sounds scary.
things this big rarely fail instantly, it's usually a long slow decline

either way none of what's being done or talked about recently makes me want to start using twitter, maybe they will figure something out i guess
It seems you’re suggesting that by exercising disagreement we would be limiting the free speech of those we disagree with. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences. Others have the freedom of speech to speak against your freedom of speech. Only the government is disallowed in interfering.
Poll: Who spends more time with your dayjob app? Developers or actual users?
Example: 2x four hours by developers = 8x one hour by users.

Poll scope: consumer-facing applications with a UI, such as websites, smartphone applications, etc.

For developers, "spending time" with the app includes everything from coding, clicking around in the app to see if the developed feature works correctly, etc.
Developers (including QA Engineers, etc).
Users (e.g. people using the the app in production).
Not applicable to me, but I can't resist the urge to vote.
Yes, but they’re sure ;)
Twitter is those public-use bulletin boards at the entrances of grocery stores.

(are those still a thing? Practically every store of any size had one in the 90s, at least, but I haven't paid attention and can't for-sure recall seeing one in years)
Eh, it's only weird if you ever thought Apple wasn't two-faced, and nothing about their behaviour has ever suggested that to me. I've not once seen them make a business decision that was in line with some expressed set of ethics while damaging them financially, which to me is a key litmus test of whether a company actually lives by their stated values. Anything else is just lip service.
Now that you mention it, I'm not confident. It was a one hour interview 30+ years ago, but that salient points are it was an east coast minicomputer maker. Apollo would be more likely now that you mention it.
By then only Tesla/Elon fanboys and Crypto people will be using Twitter. Tech guys moved to Mastodon and Celebrities to Instagram and Tiktok.

:(
It might be just an escape plan when Musk uses platform for his own needs. Banning users he does not like or allowing certain speech when filtering others and so on….