skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve noticed on HN whenever there’s threads about censorship as soon as it’s late at night here (EST) and morning in Western Europe a ton of censorship defenders come out of the woodworks.

So it seems popular among the EU people too, even among the more sophisticated HN crowd.
Maybe we are misinterpreting the urgency of the messaging. I could just as easily read it as, "Hey guys having a problem with the pseudo-money credit. Shutdown until further notice."
Boulder Creek is the most glaring spot, but you might have trouble finding them until the homeless campers tents are forcibly removed once every 9 months. Scott Carpenter is another good spot. Park East Park is where the aforementioned kid was pricked.
The only opioid I've ever taken was fentanyl when I had my wisdom teeth taken out. I highly recommend it if it's an option, and frankly there are many calls I've been on where I wish that sedation was available.
They're too cozy, the slave labor's just too compelling. I have very serious doubts that they'll follow through.
The person is talking about twitter users being banned from the platform for making fun of Musk. This seems to be happening a lot.
> The question is what changed which in this case Elon shows up on my feed a lot more and his posts are a lot more annoying. And as I said I stopped Twitter to not see his posts.

His follower count grew by ~70% so far this year (from an already high number). His engagement numbers are also very high. It would be weird if he didn't show up more on your feed.

https://www.speakrj.com/audit/report/elonmusk/twitter/summar...

> edit: I could block him but then there's the second order posts about his drama with screenshots. Realized I don't care enough about Twitter to bother and prefer a calmer life.

You can use advanced twitter mutes to block words and hashtags

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...
Why are you so snarky? Yes, of course this won't solve things it has never seen in its training set. It's not an AGI. But so what? It's still amazing nontheless. Is your point that since it's not "intelligent" we should dismiss it?
> parroting this line

The line is true. "Ridesharing" used to mean something completely different.

> Their main offering pre-pandemic was in fact Uber Pool and Lyft Line, which was indeed shared rides.

First, this used to be known as "splitting a cab," not "ridesharing." Second, Uber was branding its service as "ridesharing" long before it launched Uber Pool. Uber Pool was only added a few years after Uber spread across the US.

This article is an example of how "ridesharing" was used in the pre-Uber days: [0]. A typical passage from the article:

> It's not that there's a shortage of rideshare sites on the Internet. One of the largest sites in Canada is Carpool.ca, which thousands of people and hundreds of employers and universities use to organize carpools.

0. https://www.thestar.com/business/small_business/leadership/2...
You're getting downvoted but I have heard the same thing directly from addicts. And many prefer fentanyl.
I also got car sick when I’m not the one driving. I think it’s related to the anticipation of motion. If you’re driving, you can expect the responses your body is going to send to you. The same thing happens to me with new games and drastic changes of screen size. My brain has to get familiar with the camera movement and rotation patterns for me to not be nauseous. It does not happens when I ride as a passenger on a bike, maybe because I have much greater control of my body.
I recently downloaded this and got it to work. I loved it. So much nostalgia.
You're missing the point. Twitter can't operate in those places where it is illegal if they keep that stuff on there. They want to, so he's gone.
Symbiotic? I think parasitic, or possibly predatory, night be a battery description :-/
(Tried Reader on Safari iPad; Wow!)
Caveat emptor I guess, but all of this stinks pretty bad. Why anyone would trust crypto with any meaningful amount of money going forward is beyond me.
> Even after I started to correct its mistakes, like "your Enum.reduce/3 return is not assigned anywhere", it couldn't get a solution and started reverting to previous answers.

This is the biggest problem I see for actually getting it to do anything. It can only go so far from its first attempt. No amount of nudging can get it to correctly solve some problems.

You probably just need to start a new thread with a better initial prompt which removes the benefit of the chat approach.
Oh no, I missed half of it already when reading this.

Well, in theory I could watch a lot of recordings any time later. But in practice I hardly ever do. If I decide to attend a conference, I spend the day there, even if it's at my desk. (Or the night, hello Linuxcon Australia). If I don't register and attend real-time I will never find the time to watch most of it.
https://archive.ph/AgI2U
I had my account banned this year after logging in for a long while and told I looked too much like a bot. The only way to try to get access again was to upload a 'video selfie' at multiple angles, but no way would I want to help that facial algorithm any more than necessary. Good riddance.
> The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy.

No, it's because they haven't done anything innovative in a decade and their product is much simpler than a ton of tech companies with half the staff... Their stock price was super depressed and they were losing what, $4 million per day?

It's super obvious for anyone remotely financially literate that they were way overstaffed. Any buyer would have laid off at least half the staff...

Even Jack Dorsey admitted it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/jack-dorsey-speaks-twitter...
> Very often, this kind of cleverness comes in the form of seeing through illusions.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, especially seeing the same individuals bring an insane amount of attention to whatever they want. Most of it looks controversial to the general public, but is not so much based in their realities.

I think most clever people are simply beyond the good and evil we define as a society and make up their own values & ethics (A very Nietzsche way to look at it). The Seinfeld example is great in this article because that's exactly what I think about when I think of Larry David. He's a very clever person given the best comedy is relatable, even if it is morally wrong as defined by society.
On the topic of social media in decline, TikTok also appears to have peaked in content already.

Following people isn't that interesting since most content creators that hit it big are One Hit Wonders. After they hit that big growth spike, they either follow the herd with the latest dance or trend, or they keep doing the same thing that made em famous with slight variations.

How long can you milk the same dance routine by switching out which celebrity does the silly little dance?

There were a few interesting educational channels for a while, but most people just don't have that many interesting things to keep posting about at the rate which is expected of a platform like TikTok. Quality content takes time to produce.

TikTok really only has a few buckets of content types. Some examples include thirst traps from sex workers that are looking to promote their OnlyFans and cute animals doing cute things.

Instagram isn't that different. I mostly use the app to see cute pictures of people's pets and the occasional human picture.
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Hardworking and stupid make great employees though. The problem is for doing such a great job as cogs in the machine they get promoted into positions of authority and then it is hard to fault them too much because at least they are hardworking.
The yellow vests can come back out.

You can't just punish people into taking the bus. The years I commuted by bus were terrible. It took 90 mins of bus to replace 40 mins of driving. The buses were extremely crowded (forced standing for 60 mins is unpleasant) and at times dangerous (particularly coming home late at night).
> I'm still getting highly confused by all of this WASM

You are not alone.

On my side of things, I've been looking for an approach to deliver non-trivial in-browser apps while protecting the codebase from theft. In the early days I thought WASM could be that. I don't know any more. JS is a non-starter. It is common knowledge that sites where you hire freelancers to write code often result in these freelancers simply stealing JS code from websites with similar code and charging money for it.

A few years ago I was helping a friend who wanted to launch a custom printing (t-shirts and other items) business. He hired someone on a freelancer site to make him a JS tool to add pictures to items, visualize them, etc. He hired three different people in order to have the ability to pick the better solution. In all three cases he got code lifted from existing commercial websites doing similar work. They didn't even bother to remove identifying information from the code. I can see thousands of less sophisticated users of these sites not realize they are being sold stolen code.

Anyhow, I thought WASM would allow one to make a serious investment in R&D and deliver reasonably protected highly-performant in-browser tools for various applications. I don't think that is the case, except, potentially, for the case where the end-user would access the tools behind a login and is "filtered" (B2B SaaS tools behind a login, etc.).
Yup, the best manager I ever had (by far) did not want to be manager. But she was made manager when half our team was laid off (including our manager) and she was the most senior of the bunch left. She was amazing because she was good at telling higher up's "no" when they would try to take advantage of our team.

The worst manager I ever had desperately wanted to become manager from a group of IC's and brown-nosed his way into the job. His first day as manager he says "I was promoted to manager because I can do all of your jobs better than you can". He could not. He was horrible (and was eventually fired).
BCD doesn't really make it easier. Fixed point can, but that's ultimately a typing thing that works just fine in binary as well.
If they do manage to sell it in the $200-400 range, I know what's going to be hanging on my wall.
research papers in biomedical fields often drip with disdain for 'practitioners' (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) because their knowledge of chemistry, epidemiology, genomics, etc., is so limited and often wrong

i'd like to see one of those statisticians save an abscessed motherfucking molar though

anyway your dentist is probably not actually being bribed by tom's of maine, he just knows a lot of his patients had less canker sores when they stopped using toothpaste with dish detergent in it

because guess what else has cell membranes
Doesn't seem like it?

I tried searching up some examples of subsidiaries of larger companies and the 'Beneficial Owners' section doesn't actually contain who ultimately owns the company.

For example Toyota in Estonia:

Toyota Baltic Aktsiaselts (10234087)
https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/10234087?active_tab=r...

Has 1 board member listed.

SIA Toyota Material Handling Baltic Eesti filiaal (11629379)
https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/11629379/SIA-Toyota-M...

Has no one listed at all, which would be illegal?, if the law mandates it.

Eesti Toyota Ühing (80226178)
https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/80226178/Eesti-Toyota...

Has 3 board members listed.
from https://monster6502.com/ : "the cost is actually dominated by the component and assembly costs of an extremely large number of tiny components, each of which is individually quite inexpensive. "
It sounds like what he has is a dump of emails, not necessarily a database of moderation actions.

Even if he had a database like that, it's unlikely it's easily classified in a way you could actually correlate individual actions to specific sources. I highly doubt there's a database column for "as commanded by the dark Democratic conspiracy."
That's got to have cost a heck of a lot of time though, no? I've tried beancount myself - had to conclude it was not worth spending that many billable hours tinkering with the ledger.
The idea that you would have recourse against the accounting firm is specious. That's exactly why they have you sign something that says they've only prepared based on what you've told them. From their perspective, everything they've filed is fully congruent with what you've told them - think of them like a more advanced TurboTax. So the only benefit is that you can attribute errors to a misunderstanding, rather than your own singular willfulness.

But if your goal isn't to commit tax fraud, then you probably don't need plausible deniability. I just dealt with a tax auditor from my state, over something my CPA judged as a toss-up, and it really wasn't was bad as you'd think. To interact with them, my CPA wanted explicit direction for what to do (handle the initial phone call for me, and fish for details of what they actually want). Next, they referred me to the most knowledgeable attorney at a prestigious regional legal firm: "You likely don't have an argument, be happy if they don't come after more. If you really want I can represent you in tax court for a $10k retainer".

I decided to represent myself, typed up a few statements outlining the details and my position, and sent them in. A few weeks later, I had a phone call with the auditor and their manager where they immediately proposed that based on the details I sent they could meet me half way. I verbally agreed, the manager seemed content to have a quick amicable resolution, and a few weeks later I got the formal assessment notice with a bit of interest (no penalties). I considered that a major win given what I was staring down. A++ would get taxed again.
that way overstates how much coordination or common interest there is between these agencies or firms. Here in Germany we had our own version of this with FinFisher which without federal license started to sell surveillance tech to foreign governments. The rest of the ingelligence community wasn't very amused by it.

Intelligence/military contractors and agencies have a mind of their own, the extent of this stuff may not be known or desired by formally in charge officials.
There was not a second of doubt that the emails were legitimate. Here's proof: the Biden campaign and Hunter himself never denied they were real. As well, while nobody in the mainstream bothered calling any of the people in the emails, Taibbi DID. They were obviously real the moment there was no denial. Because if they were just fabricated, denial would be the first public response.
Cigarettes are taxed at $4.35/pack to discourage smoking. But you can get syringes for free.
I would add Go to "JVM or .NET"
Indeed, the Telegraph literally campaigned for this legislation. They had a special logo for the articles they wrote to breathlessly promote it.
France accused of funding Putin's war effort by buying his nuclear fuel
Given the "Close Form" text and the bullet list of social media icons, it looks like the CSS is failing to load.
And you wanted a preemptive apology before they'd done it, or people were mad about it?
> He worked in a silo on it, coming back in 3 months with a CRUD app...The team ended up replacing the entire functionality in less than a week using Python+Flask.

This is a symptom of resume-driven development.

> writing a CRUD app in Rust is not moving your business forward.

Writing a CRUD app in a systems programming language might be a symptom of management failure.
The thing about the IC -> management path that bothers me (and makes me skeptical of people who take it) is that programming and getting PRs merged is so god damn satisfying

Going from this to just having meetings, training people, looking at dashboards... I can't imagine anyone doing this who genuinely likes programming. Even if the pay is better

The people who are the most inspiring (and also the best at getting shit done) are the ones who make it very far in the IC path and become team leads. Team leads are the best managers, the actual managers are just there to do boilerplate shit and politicking that team leads aren't interested in

(disclaimer: not talking about all managers or all companies, just the ones I've personally experienced)
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Be careful how you approach things you feel have simple answers.
Could you expand on BCD? What made it good for multi-currency work?

(a quick google did not help, managed to lead to examples of COBOL manipulating the first five letters of the alphabet ...)
Entrepreneurship culture in America is all messed up and it’s a shame
One of the most likely professions eaten by software, is software.

You are on point. I've been quietly mentioning this to software engineer friends, and poo pooed. I am more of the computer science-y than software engineer-y persuasion - and have seen this as a clear risk.

edit 1: originally I thought it will mainly be for new code bases (green field) - but with the ability for code to "git pull" and then "chatgpt refactor" may be a game changer.

edit 2: I think this is great - it can allow engineers to work on a higher level. I remember in CompSci training always thinking "why in the heck am I typing into a computer how to do its job?" and "why should engineers be dealing with stupid $hit like NaN and pointer overflows (C++) and heap issues an CRUD apps. It all seems like low brain stuff"
That’s interesting. I read the approach details. Nothing in there indicates why the results should reflect causation versus correlation.

Before reading that I thought that maybe the SEP groups were wrong to call the publishing of the paper a mistake, but now having read it and seeing that it presents correlational data as causational data I understand why those groups were criticizing the research itself.

I’m not an expert in this field so I would appreciate if others can also read the actual paper and explain to me why the author is correct to claim causation instead of correlation.
I encountered a similar bug at the same company with far worse results.

Won't say any specifics about the product impact, but our backend passed around two different kinds of user IDs. Each user had two different IDs, and the ID spaces overlapped. User Alice could have an ID in space 1 that is the same as Bob's ID in space 2.

At some point, at least one function expected a "space 1" ID but was being passed a "space 2" ID. This meant that content meant for Alice was shown to Bob and vice versa. None of the data was private in this case, so there was no legal problem, but it was pretty embarrassing. I suggested using strong types for the ID spaces instead of `int`, but left the company before implementing any of that.
There is a reason economics is called "the dismal science". Most resources on the planet are finite and their consumption is a zero-sum game. If one less drug addict means having the public resources to supply one more diabetic child with life-saving insulin, which would you choose?
It's funny about that. Our transit system began an initiative just a bit before COVID-19, aimed at cleaning up the bums and criminals. So most people are not able to hang out on the train or bus, they're hustled off at the nearest stop.

What effect that did have is that the train and bus is more empty, but all the bus stops and train stations are clogged with people literally camping out. There is nowhere to sit and wait, because the stop owner either removed the seating or someone is sleeping/camping on the benches already. Every stop is full of skeezy people who have nowhere to go and aren't boarding the bus.

So perhaps the perception of clean/reliable/safe has increased aboard the bus, but it has plummeted at the locations where it really counts: the stops and stations where I spend the most time. I feel notably unsafe when waiting for a bus and there's nothing to be done about there, and there's no recourse because nobody's in charge there (the city will point the finger at transit and transit will point the finger back at the city. LEOs won't touch it because it's not a priority.)
here it is with Go:

package main

type km int

func (distance km) launch_rocket() {}

func main() {
distance_miles := 42
// type int has no field or method launch_rocket
// distance_miles.launch_rocket()

// this works, but is obviously wrong:
km(distance_miles).launch_rocket()
}
There is a lot going on in the tech industry, and this is the question you should be asking yourself right now.
He was first to publish some/most/all of the material related to Assange's prosecution. There are three main possibilities, AFAICT: ① Assange aided and abetted, etc. in order to obtain material that was already published. ② Assange and Young did this somehow together. ③ Assange aided and abetted, etc, in order to publish material on Young's site.

It's difficult to see how a fair prosecutor can discard the possibility that Young might be guilty of at least some of what they're accusing Assange of. Discard, without even investigating (noone's contacted Young).
I made an account just to tell you that I was able to almost feel & experience what you 're describing just by reading your comment. There should be a market for this hah
> All these people saying "social media is bad" -- are doing so on social media

The link is to a blog post, not to social media.
I don't get it. It is just a button with number going up.

Is there a text that is not shown to me?
In StarCraft 2 there’s the opposite problem: invisible units make a slight ripple that you can pick out. On low graphics the ripple of invisible units is basically unnoticeable. But if you turn the effects setting all the way up while keeping everything else low, you’ll see a high-res shimmer in the shape of the invisible unit against the low-res background.
So, are you one of the good ones? /s

Every single reason you came up with applies to my country too which actually happens to be poorer than Vietnam. This sentiment is not uncommon amongst relatively well off people who mythologise perfect foreign countries.

But at the end of the day this is just vacuous cultural essentialism with a dose of self-loathing.
Easy because if you fail to get them to quit, then the goal is to keep them alive so you can help them quit latter.
SDS supports 64-bit lengths. It also dynamically changes the size of its size/flags field to accommodate growth. The minimum overhead is an extra char (same as null termination).
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