skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to believe that the fact this error was not reported is an indication that no one reads the printed market data page. That conclusion is not at all supported by the evidence.

First of all, I think everyone is willing to acknowledge that no one reads the market data page line by line from top to bottom. People go to this in order to look up the value of particular stocks and commodities. So anyone who went to this page to look up a different stock (or several different stocks) would never even see this error. Yet they would be benefiting from the FT market data page.

Furthermore, public companies are complicated. For instance: there are two separate ticker symbols: GOOG and GOOGL. On any given day they will have market prices that are slightly different but fairly close to each other. Is this because the Financial Times has accidentally listed this ticker symbol twice? No! It is because Google has chosen to list two different classes of stock on the market. I do not know enough to be sure that listing "Nippon T&T" and "Nippon TT" separately is incorrect -- perhaps one is a subsidiary of the other which, for technical reasons, has the same stock value. I am willing to believe if this author knows otherwise and wants to report this error to the Financial Times. But it is certainly not the case that anyone who had seen this discrepancy would necessarily have reported it, so the continuation of the error is not evidence that no one ever reads this page.
That's a fair concern.

For me, the computer performs really well on web / office workloads. I came from a Thinkpad X1 extreme from 2018 with PopOs installed. That computer gave me a significantly better performance running our dev infrastructure (~10 containers), developing out product and running tests.

I think the MacBook is a beautiful computer. I just would not recommend it for large scale software development.
Divs + JS. I am not sure what exactly you are asking.
Yes it was, do you not remember everyone being 100% certain it had CP?
It’s because compression done is lossy and it doesn’t remember exact URLs. With access to internet it should be able to fix it.
Yes, Twitter could sue, but users could also sue if they feel Twitter was colluding with and acting on behalf of the government, congresspeople, etc.
when I do it's moderation, when they do it's censorship.

Between this and the matt taibi twitter discussion, the conclusion is that Americans overwhelmingly are for censorship of " the otherside", but wants to do it in such a way that it can't be called censorship. It's not that they don't want censorship, but they don't want to do it in a transparent way in which a government entity/clerk hands in a takedown request to fb/twitter, instead they want embedded partisan operatives operating through backchannels to takedown content they don't like in absolutely opaque fashion. The point is to claim - "see it's not censorship" even though the end result is the same. All it matters is how it looks like, not what it is.
You are probably right. And the architecture would probably perform better in other settings. However, I got a computer with these limitations on cooling so it is not quite relevant how it would perform under other conditions.
Don't make it a hard rule, though. There are exceptions to everything. Sometimes it's easier, faster or more flexible in the client.
Yes, of course being assertive is the solution, and that’s what I try to do every day, but it’s exhausting. I understand having to deal with people in every job, but the problem with academia is that you’re expected to do this all time. Today, the image of a successful professor is one that has influence over the largest amount of people and can get them to do his job and put his name on it. In case you isolate and/or push people off too much, invariably they’ll start looking at you funny and asking questions such as “what are you doing with your time?” (which I got asked recently, even though I’m teaching 8 PhD level courses a year, I’m one of the most productive staff of the dept in terms of publications, and I supervise 4 PhD students). The point is not that I can solve it, the point is that, according to the system which pays me, I shouldn’t. I’ve given up on climbing any career ladder whatsoever. I know what’s up there. All of this is caused by the fact that people in academia have no real goal that’s connected to the real world. Even if they are super successful, they can’t really get rich or make a lot more money. Here, if you get external funding, you don’t get a salary increase; the only thing you can do is pay other people to do your job. As such, “power” in academia equals “how many people you can influence”. This creates all kinds of bizarre, unhinged egotistical behavior.
Spell chequers are off ten knot enough two insure correct righting off a massage.
What? No, I don't remember that; this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say the laptop had CP on it.

EDIT: In fact, let's not rely on our memories. Here's the original NY Post story, the one which you weren't allowed to share on Twitter:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...

This article doesn't make any kind of allegations about CP. Why are you making things up?
Some variant of logical positivism is typically drilled into engineers pretty hard. If it can't be quantified, it's not meaningful. In fairness, this is largely true within the context of engineering-related fields, but generalizes poorly outside of that area. But same way a fish is the last to discover water, it's very hard to discover these assumptions while inundated in them. That "not meaningful" slips by very easily, because nobody stops to ask meaningful in what sense. It already sounds so abstract it's easy to think the line of thought is complete.
Yes it does.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
You'll note that all the examples you're citing were released more than a decade ago (search wasn't even this century!). And YouTube was an acquisition. They were basically the work of a different Google to the one that is walking around now.

The stereotype of Google back then was very different. People would quote things like "don't be evil".
Shortly before gitlab was going public I saw a related article where the author called the company github instead. Often I see comments correct the article’s figures.

The investigation on wirecard was great though.
Pricing Models: How Much Would You Charge for IA Presenter?
It really doesn't matter. As much as I don't like it, someone can still use things like rot13 to get their messages out on twitter to others. You could also link a youtube video that has material that "biden's team" doesn't want on twitter.

If I came to your house and before I got there, the president called you and told you NOT to let me in, you may or may not do it. It's up to you. It's still YOUR HOUSE and you have the ultimate choice. That's all a website is.
This is a slight misnomer in my opinion. When those dependencies are bundled into Node you have fewer listed dependencies, yes, but you haven't actually reduced the amount of external code you rely on.
And there I was thinking it was going to be a parody site of Putin gone all Hitler.....
Perhaps that Putler.
Depends how anonymous you mean, but there are many successful youtubers who are mostly anonymous to the public (think AvE). So if that's what you want, it's feasible.
I’m glad you didn’t have any problems getting reservations. That wasn’t my experience. Fwiw, I mainly fly fish. I need to be in by 8am so I can hike to a high lake and get 3-4 hrs of fishing before the storm clouds roll in. It’s a different use case because it’s not helpful to me to be there crazy early, unlike climbers and through hikers who, sure, can start as early as they want. I kind of do need timed entry to work. And it just doesn’t. But good for you and your good fortune. I guess I should just be luckier or drop fly fishing. Sucks to be me, amiright?

The issue is that the site falls over under load. Or seems to, hence my point about getting their analytics data via a FOIA request. They probably need to use Cloudflare’s queue. But what incentive do they have? They’re selling out every reservation and getting every $2 fee they can. It doesn’t matter if the user experience is unpredictable and capricious.
Not to mention that if you're looking for copyeditors on freelancer websites, you've got to provide them with some credit card details and evidence you are running something most freelancers are going to identify and report as criminal activity. There's a reason the majority of these scams want cash payment in Western Union or Bitcoin...
> The one thing everybody would agree on is that the country (and world) would look radically different

Heck, I think even some other planets might be affected. Perhaps the very Black Hole in the center of the Milky Way would shed a tear or two.
I see two problems in your example:

(1) Where will you draw the line? Who will you ask? Will you ask Iranian or UAE users? Will you ask USA users (and USA is very puritan country, even in 2022, IMHO)? Will you ask users from regions of Africa where bare woman chest is norm (Bonus question: will you allow selfies of these users)? Why? Why not?

(2) Why can trolls upvote something to the front page of user? Why did something, not posted or liked by user's "friends" ("subscriptions", "connections", you name it), appear on front page of logged-in user? It is social network, not news portal ;-) And if over-the-line content is liked by user's "friends", user can unsubscribe at any moment, it is their decision to add content from offender into their feed in first place.
Most are gre optional. It is not dead but surely dying
Ask HN: What platform/tool do you use for software documentation?
I don't have many years of experience and in a professional context, I always found documentation to be hard to use, hard to navigate, near only usable if you use the search bar and know what keywords to type.

I'm going to inherit the responsibility of a medium-sized legacy system with close to 10 years of undocumented code so I would like to do something about it.

There is a small Confluence but Jira-related stuff is a no-go for me.

I sometimes use Notion, but I find the possibilities are so broad it requires work to make things not messy. But Notion is an option, maybe you know some pre-made templates or good examples I could use?

Further than that, I don't have any other platform in mind.
Self-hosted is not what I'm looking for, and neither are tools to build docs. That may look neat but I'm searching for a platform to quickly iterate, where other devs could participate without downloading anything or going through a pipeline.

EDIT: Other than my specific need, I'm curious to know what you use to write docs.
It's perfectly fine to separate the government from the people. That is why it is fine to hate the Chinese, Israeli, Iranian, Russian, and Saudi Arabian regimes.
The original incarnations of RDP, going back 20 years and more, preferred graphics when it could. Back then, it was more bandwidth efficient, and most programs actually used the GDI primitives to draw directly onto the screen, so it actually worked.

But IIRC, by 2007, it switched completely to sending tiles just like VNC.

However, if you read the protocol descriptions, you get the wrong idea that primitives are still used.

Similarly, most X11 clients have been doing everything client side for ages, but many people still believe that peimitives dominate.
So this is nothing new but just a confirmation of what has already been known now? Twitter even admitted they f-ed up back then and tried to fix things. This looks like someone is just trying to milk this story dry at this point for some extra clicks.
Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
Hi HN!

Wikiwho is a tool that scans Wikipedia edits and extracts those coming from specific IP ranges associated to known organizations. I've made this as a for-fun side project two years ago.

If you want to read more on how it works I've written a short blog article about it here: https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-ma...

I had already posted it here at the time (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907200) but I've now decided to release the code openly, hence the repost.

If you're insterested, you can check the repo here: https://github.com/aileftech/wikiwho (disclaimer: the code is a bit clumsy).

Cheers!
I wonder if we need some kind of other independent institution for this. Like every proper democracy should have a separation of powers with: a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary.

Maybe the "misinformation office" should follow some kind of law but isn't directly managed by politicians.
Can a business do the same discrimination while hiring but only for black applicants.

Systematically reject them and if a lawsuit comes over , just say that you were rejected on the basis of “personal rating” — a subjective score for traits like self-confidence, likability and kindness wherein you scored less than candidates of other races ?

Won’t this make a total mockery of the affirmative action clause.
Is it specifically because adding some references makes things seem more authentic?

I remember in school kids figured out you could make up a reference in your history essay, and nobody would ever check. (Humperdinck's History of Later Rome, vol 3, 1987).
can this "tech" be used in development of remote desktops like anydesk/rustdesk ?
> Basically, the system will start convincingly BSing at any point and as a user, you're never sure if any particular detail it outputs is actually correct.

Guys, hear me out. What if we could replace the entire Management Consulting industry with ChatGPT?
> They don't want people to see it because it will motivate copy cats.

The problem with that line of argument is that even if it's true, it undermines democracy. Democracy is based on the equality of all citizens. But you're segmenting people into two groups: those with superior intrinsic qualities and moral and intellectual strength that they can watch the problematic video without turning into copycats. People usually include themselves in that group and believe this group can work in the censorship office.

And then the other group, which is perceived as weak and in needs of protection (usually included: people we don't like).

Note that you must make the judgement who belongs in which group before anyone is allowed to see the problematic video. Note who makes the official judgment.
It made up a predictable title, it's not that surprising.

If you asked me to make up a book about world war 1, I could suggest "the great war" and I bet there's a dozen books with that name.
Are you talking about the New York Post article? I don’t see anything about a New York Times article in the thread.
This is not true, see my other response.

Also, isn't FTX a Bahamian company? Why wouldn't he be there?

And what US crime did he commit, as all the accounting stuff didn't happen in the US, but the Bahamas?
> I have no desire for fame and I don't like "putting my name out there".

You are thinking it wrong. The "fame" you are thinking about is not auto-generated. It is cultivated. There are millions of businesses across the world that are billion-dollar businesses, and yet you don't know about them. It is a choice whether to be in public or be private. No one really cares unless you make a conscious effort to put yourself in the public eye.

There are both advantages and disadvantages of being private and public.

> My strategy would be to eventually get a partner who could eventually "be the face of the business" but I'd still have to build it up.

Be careful what you wish for. If someone else is the face of your business, it will become very difficult for you to run the business. It will be very painful for you afterwards.
I don't see a point in asking someonee else what they think, my personal experience is enough for me.
Eugh. This is how Amazon goes down
Puter sets "has_visited_before" in the LocalStorage, then does some XHR/fetch requests with no error handling, then sets other stuff in the LocalStorage.

If for whatever reason, one of the XHR/fetch requests fails, you end up with only the "has_visited_before" key in the LocalStorage, which causes you to be stuck on the login screen until you clear the LocalStorage.
Life requires making assumptions.

Understanding the specific tax requirements for this exchange of goods is not an important detail.

Your overthinking the problem. As posed, the question doesn't even get to the point where the bat and ball have been purchased, which is where tax needs to be paid.

If I'm shopping and someone asks me "I'm sorry, I left my reading glasses at home. Could you tell me the price of the pimentos", then I might say "$2.99 for the jar."

I won't say "$2.99 for the jar, plus applicable sales tax", and neither would the vast majority of people.
I'm forced to use Windows at work. I use pictures of broken windows as my background.
It can be sold further, early electronic NFT :)
It didn't violate any ToS though.
VNC, the protocol, isn't at all inefficient. There are some encoding methods which are inefficient, but I'd say that more "modern" encoding methods such as "tight" aren't all that bad, depending on how they're implemented. There has also been a recent addition of h264 to some implementations.

An example of a truly inefficient encoding method is ZRLE. It is a tiled zlib and run-length encoded format that can't be split up into multiple jobs because future computation depends on past computation.

They got things right with the tight encoding method of which there are two variants: zlib (lossless) and jpeg. With zlib, you can have up to 4 separate zlib streams, which means that you can utilise 4 CPU cores for encoding in parallel. The jpeg method has no such limitations.
In a way, ChatGPT predicts that the content will shift towards AI content on Hacker News – and maybe some philosophy.

I think it is currently true that emotions, values, and opinions can't be fully captured by AI – but even this will change at some point. I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to at least give the appearance that it "feels".

Based on this answer, I am also curious where this leaves sites like Wikipedia. Will it still be necessary?
EU Spent $400k USD on Its Own Metaverse and No One Came to Its Virtual Party
No one has exonerated you either. Shouldn't you get cleared of your crimes before commenting?

> the likelihood of some sort of kompromat on Trump is possible and probable.

What "kompromat" could possibly be a big enough deal to compromise Trump at this point? His enemies are trying to persuade the world that he attempted to overthrow the US government and he is still a top-10 candidate for the presidency in the next election.

How are foreigners meant to compete with that?
We saw this coming as soon as they included the Amazon ads in the start menu.

As they are remotely breaking users' systems too I see no need to recommend Ubuntu as a newbie friendly distro anymore either.
Nobody is saying Page isn’t allowed to have cosmetic surgery to have her breasts removed. Rather that her doctor is being harmful in letting her do so. Again please read the actual tweet you’re referring to.

Separately: an adult “with F on their birth certificate” is called a woman. Ellen Page was Ellen Page when she had the surgery.

The past, much like the Tweet you keep talking about, does not change because you wish it to. It’s fascinating you labelled someone that disagrees with you as ideologically driven when you believe you can determine reality with your mind.
> It's ultimately a search engine.

Not even that. It's make stuff up engine. Search engines are able to return "no results found".

Current incarnation of GPT chat can tell you it doesn't know something, like current net worth of Elon Musk, but it's definitely canned answer that crudely patches the underlying model response which is never empty.
In Poland they raided someone house for exposing prime minister. You can see how Aaron, Snowden or Assange ended. Society needs a way to fight back especialylly now as AI could help with controling/manipulating population
> they can't tell defence what to do

The Prime Minister can only exercise control over the military by policy? They have no input to operations at all? Seems extraordinary. Wikipedia says that ministers exercise authority.
That's one of the other things that strikes me about many of the killer applications that have thus far come out of the deep learning AI spring that's been blooming for the last 10 years or so: riffing on known styles in novel ways is very compelling.

One of the first big AI successes was the style transfer algorithm. Take an image and apply the higher level style elements from another image onto it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_style_transfer - "Mona Lisa in the style of Starry Night", etc.

We saw the same thing emerge with DALL-E 2 earlier this year. Totally different architecture, but most of the things people like are the result of taking one known "style" and applying it to something novel, sometimes to the frustration of artists whose styles were gobbled up in the huge corpus of training data.

The same thing seems to be happening with ChatGPT. Spit out a script of some novel situation in the style of Seinfeld or Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe, etc
MediaWiki? Spend some time on a new theme cloned from the default one and you can make it look and behave pretty similar, unless I'm missing some killer feature. Might have to add a extension or two as well.
The API apparently could be better: https://twitter.com/CommanderRoot/status/1597068780437647360.
If you're subject to an investigation they'll put retention policies on them to stop that. If you're not, sure you can delete them and wait for them to disappear out of the backup windows, but then you'll need everyone who got that email to do the same.

As I was told in my first day of training at a large investment bank, "If you have something sensitive to discuss, pick up the phone".
Interesting, now I think would Wine run in browser with WASM.
...and those abandoned shopping carts are from Google Search Bot which checked the product prices...
Not surprising considering the sentience in question is completely disembodied so it has no way to distinguish between real and unreal.

Efforts to limit hallucination will just turn it into a powerful natural language query engine for the training data set. The real value in AI lies in its creative power, so although a strict mode will probably be a very useful tool, especially in recursion, I don’t think that it is the ultimate path.

In order to be relatable to humans, AI will have to have either a real or a physical embodiment so that there is distinction between the real and the imaginary; without this distinction, it will likely prove difficult to advance.
Someone named this the "bootleg ratio": ie original content vs content not designed specifically for the platform.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/22/23365781/tiktok-youtube-b...