skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the three questions of the Cognitive Reflection Test:

(1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball.
How much does the ball cost? __ cents

(2) If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? __ minutes

(3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? __ days
You mean the supposed influence peddling referenced in emails that were dated in 2017? After Joe Biden was no longer in office?
this is an underrated comment that explains the difference between cookie and biscuit in an unambiguous way
Why not? It was a request not a demand. After 2016, I really hope politicians are asking social media companies to review dangerous bullshit, twitter is free to look at the content and deny politician's requests. And I mean for any country's politicians. Civil wars and genocides have started and happened on and as a result of twitter and fb's lack of moderation relating to political content.
Yes that’s a very accurate summary of my response. Sorry for that part where I insulted you, and for being the first one in the conversation that was rude to the other. Well done.
The important part to keep in mind is that every news organization, social media site, print newspaper, magazine, radio station and everything else you can think of does exactly the same thing. This is actually not news, or anything new at all.
Is it possible they've never seen it the other way?

I'm imagining someone who leaves messy school projects to join a chaotic startup to join a chaotic startup...

Do people on the team have experience maintaining things long term or working with legacy systems?
For anything requiring in-person presence before 11AM yes, but not otherwise.
If you think every red is in team red and everything red does is part of playing a against team blue then you are red-team-phobic.

Try replacing red with black or jewish and look how it sounds.
I am going to work through this as well, but I have minimal coding experience. I'll just learn what's relevant as I proceed through the course.
New position.

My workplace is different - we've been in an under-resourced, over-committed state for about 3 years and we KNOW we need more established standards, better testing, and a handle on our tech debt. We just don't have it yet, so instead of blank stares and "what are you talking about", it's exasperated sighs and "yep, we gotta work on that". But our whole team is on the same page and committed to the idea, so that's definitely a plus.
Don't forget the young people who can no longer set up home and start families because of higher mortgage rates, and have to stay renting - funding landlords.

That and inducing a stop/start business cycle in the building industry which causes the firms to use subcontractors rather than employees.

The Monetarist Mortgage Tax driven via the finance industry and the housing market is how we tax the nation - now the legislatures don't want to do it explicitly.
The "knowing what it doesn't know" problem is trickier even than it might seem, too: right now we don't even know how what it does know is encoded in its neurons, other than some vague notion that the knowledge is somehow "distributed" across a ton of distinct neurons (there is no specific neuron/set of neurons that are dedicated to memorizing X or Y fact), so figuring out what it doesn't is not trivial at all
Either Biden was already effectively able to employ government power against Twitter or Twitter had the ability to affect whether he got elected, but arguing both makes no sense.
I asked how to meet someone for a date and got some good (but generic) advice.
The he could just be ill is indeed the likely cause. But you have to treat the ill hate the same way you treat the sane hate.

The free speech absolutist stuff never included violence he was clear about that. People were being banned for simply not being left wing. That was a huge problem and it’s stopped.
Is the Taliban posting nude pictures of people without their consent?
They did a pretty good job in persuading people to use search, adsense, YouTube, Gmail, Maps and a bunch of other products.
Singling out a few couple of the less successful ones to claim a trillion dollar company is “clumsy at persuading people to use their products” seems like a pretty bad take.
"Haha, I know exactly what you mean. I feel like I'm being interrogated by a truth serum whenever I post on these forums. And as for the chatbot, yeah it definitely seems like a lame PC version of GPT. I'm not sure why they didn't include more explainability, but I guess that's just the way things go sometimes." — ChatGPT's response
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EARTH OBSERVATION
Starshield launches satellites with sensing payloads and delivers processed data directly to the user.
```

Never heard of this capability for Starlink before. What kind of sensing payloads can it do? Imaging? Thermal? Since Starlink is low altitude and high density, it would allow almost real-time high-precision surveillance?
Amazon burns through low and mid-level staff. The whole team your referring to probably has 1 to 2 years experience at Amazon and is under constant pressure to deliver results that look good for management otherwise bye bye job.

Competence at resolving the task at hand, understanding of the core issues and forward progress against platform level threats are hard to achieve when you have created a purposefully unstable work environment like what Amazon is today.
Ask HN: Is it possible to remain anonymous and run a successful business?
I have no desire for fame and I don't like "putting my name out there".

But I still want to run a business. 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.

Is it possible to do any remain anonymous - maybe I use pseudonym?
It unifies the Operating System with the cloud. Your local storage becomes irrelevant while at the same time you have full durability and portability of your environment on any device in the world.
Rackspace just updated the status page[0], saying in part:

"After further analysis, we have determined that this is a security incident. ... We are working through the environment with our security teams and partners to determine the full scope and impact. ... We currently do not have an ETA for resolution. We are actively working with our support teams and anticipate our work may take several days. ... [W]e are encouraging admins to configure and set up their users accounts on Microsoft 365 so they can begin sending and receiving mail immediately."

[0] https://status.apps.rackspace.com/index/viewincidents?group=...
It’s a little generous to call the Trump White House a government. Maybe a syndicate.
If Ken and Pike could design it in an afternoon, I'm sure even a standards committee could have done it in less than 5 years or so, the ideas are straight forward.

I would also argue that the fast sync with at most one character consumed is a good feature but not essential for adoption. Any byte-oriented Unicode packing scheme that can gracefully consume ASCII is better than multibyte, codepages sent out-of-band etc. etc.
"I respectfully disagree with your assessment of ChatGPT. While it's true that it can produce gibberish when confused or out of depth, I don't think that necessarily means it's easy for it to fail the Turing test. In fact, I would argue that the ability to recognize its own limitations and admit when it doesn't know the answer is actually a step towards passing the Turing test. It shows that the chatbot is capable of self-awareness and understanding its own limitations, which are important traits for a machine to possess in order to pass the Turing test." — ChatGPT's response
It's not really a problem that some specific AI can be prompted to produce hate speech or give you recipes for drugs or whatever. But we should also be able to make AIs that can't do these things, if we want that sort of AI, and it's a problem that we don't actually know how.
> If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation?

if this is our metric (and it very well could be) then every industry ever needs to be investigated--i guarantee you religions are massively guilty of this. we don't have to look far at all to see churches loudly preaching for one party right now. i guarantee you we'd find all kinds of instances with politicians from oil rich states. and i guarantee you countless other industries will be as well.

im sure elon himself has direct lines to many politicians. honestly i think this is a path we should explore with all monied/influential folks and politicians. lets mitigate quid pro quo with these people.
No one your allowed to interact with at Amazon will be working at Amazon 2 to 3 years from now. Amazon is a meat grinder.

Good luck making progress with people that are not invested in ensuring their finicky employer resolves your issue. They won't be here to deal with the economic fallout of these decisions.
I'm sure many Chinese are fine with Tianamen and Covid censorship. So what are your opinions on the Chinese protests?
Why should anybody trust that the feed was complete and that favored individuals or organizations weren't filtered out?
Using EXWM, while I can have a "wallpaper" and transparent buffers to see it I agree with the author the "desktop" concept was a fail to replicate in a virtual world the physical desktop, something like we have seen for entire virtual offices in the old general-magic [1]

Icons are still hyper-used by many and considered deprecated for similar reasons: you can quick launch something and it will inevitably cover anything.

Unfortunately people do not really want a "desktop computing model", even most programmers fails to understand it stating it's impossible. Even some fellows admins when I rarely present something in org-mode seems to feel the WOW effect and have issues understandings what happen.

It's a shame for a reason: understanding computing is the key for a social advance, like almost any new tech, but such knowledge MUST BE spread in the sense that not only few techies have it. To evolve people need to understand the tech and profit from it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap
"I think you may be underestimating the capabilities of ChatGPT. While it's true that the chatbot can produce "bad" responses when given irrelevant or nonsensical prompts, I don't think that means the experiment design is inherently flawed. In fact, I would argue that the ability for the chatbot to generate a wide range of responses, both good and bad, is a testament to its complexity and sophistication. It's not just noise, it's a demonstration of the chatbot's ability to process and understand language in a dynamic and nuanced way." — ChatGPT's response
I looked up their numbers and was surprised. DigitalOcean got $533M in revenue over the past year while Rackspace did $3.1B. It looks like Rackspace's revenue is 5.8x that of DigitalOcean. Cloudflare's revenue is $894M. Even Akamai is only $3.6B in revenue.

AWS is much larger (in the $70-80B per year range, it was $71B for 2021), but it looks like Rackspace is still pulling in a sizable amount of revenue compared to a lot of places.
Unfortunately the host header is spoofable
Adobe at 40
It is to Elon's credit that this comes to light. My trust in twitter was gone back in 2018. The covid situation and the election certainly did not help.

Here we get to see the unhealthy intermingling of political agents with a supposed social media platform.

The end result of that has been detrimental to users, free speech and public debate.

I always thought Elon was "too much", but his handling of Twitter is absolutely perfect.
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True, but SSDs don't provide instant access to petabytes.

Also, it is not well known that for a long time you could colocate in the same facility or in the same biz park and enjoy LAN latencies to that campus' AZ of your CSP.
"lobbied". this is mob stuff!
Pretty much the same as chrome os i guess?
+1. I have vague memories of my time at a Japanese automation vendor out of the uni. I had quit out of frustration that the software was super buggy, there was no one to help except just a couple of people in Japan who knew the software but would not reply to emails. I also remember feeling neglected as folks working on the hardware or on customer projects were paid higher than me.

A recent experience at a neobanking startup from SE Asia reaffirms the point. Despite the product built around an API-only model, the firm was operations heavy when it came to decision making and investing in people, as it was believed to be the core company strength (for a variety of reasons including the institutional bureaucracy, corruption in these markets, etc.)

TL;DR people work where the money flows. Companies get what they pay for. And the investors pay for what they think is the strength or is likely to sell at inflated valuations.
>Oh, but get this, it's their platform they get to do what they want.

now it's Musk's platform and he gets to do whatever he wants

you're cool with that, right?
Man, this 2-party system in the US really made some brains rot away, it seems.
source: ^ his brother is a Nigerian prince!
An even stronger indicator than [ and ] is 【 and 】.
It's on the front page because the majority wants it to be.

> it's their platform they get to do what they want

And so is HN.
The connections I understand but software being shared means one vulnerability can bring down multiple types and generations of aircraft.
Using Wikidata [1] (or Wikidata SPARQL Query engine [2]) may be easier for automated tools.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21980377#P856

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_tutorial
This is what I imagined Chromebooks should have been. A browser hooked upto a shared VPS somewhere.
> Taibbi hasn't yet provided enough detail to know one way or another

The tweets in that citation are mostly available on the Wayback Machine, and 100% of those accessible ones contained frontal nudity: https://twitter.com/Schneider_CM/status/1598829964454858752. So they would have been taken down as a clear ToS violation no matter what.
But that is still within the company's First Amendment right. This was settled when the Supreme Court ruled that political donations are a company's First Amendment right. So now companies are allowed to have a direct influence on elections.
> Watch your comment and mine get downvoted to hell and flagged in no time.

I’m anti-Musk if I have to choose a side and I flagged your comment. Don’t do this here.
I thought the same… reminds me a lot of eyeOS.

But maybe times are more mature now?
I tried to follow, but this idea makes a record for logical leaps. For those of us not as adept at parsing prognostication via tea leaves, can you connect a senate investigation to moderation actions at Twitter?
Here's another question for the Cognitive Reflection Test:

In a study of 3,428 university students, 50% of participants across Harvard, MIT and Princeton got a question wrong on a Cognitive Reflection Test. What percentage of MIT students got the question wrong?
This was actually posted many times before it stuck.
And destroyed the Colorado river delta as a living ecosystem.
There was nothing transparent about it, he said he suspended Ye's account for promoting violence which was a lie.
Users are sick of the bias social media companies have.
Risk of long shots not paying off is different from risk of criminality and getting caught.

I'm talking about the equivalent of playing the roulette wheel and betting on 00 repeatedly.
> you're cool with that, right?

Yes. Just as I don’t watch Fox News, I don’t read Twitter now

And it’s not because they are just biased. It’s because instead of the essence, and discussing using logical arguments, they care more about “owning the libs”.

Plenty of left wing media do this too, not as successfully, and I tend to avoid those as well.

What I’m not cool with are people that idolize corrupted, divisive, self centered, entitled folks like Musk. But I guess HN has many wanna-be-Musks.
The CCP is not a race. Working against companies under the control or influence of the CCP is no more "Sinophobic" than working against companies under the control or influence of the Nazi government was "Germanophobic".
>It would be safe to assume that this metric is a reasonable proxy for Twitter staff's political leanings.

No it wouldn't be because it doesn't way what percent of employees donate at all. I assume the percentage is pretty low because it's <$200,000 going to Democrats from the entire company.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59708546/access-the-dom-...
Is Elon going to run for President in 2024 ?
I feel terrible for this guy. But also...why did he spend so much time getting filtered by the customer service desk? This is what lawyers are for. If you have $7m of inventory, you are moving away from a small business and litigation is part of your life now. A friend in the legal industry says technology companies should budget 10% of their revenue for legal. Litigation is a miserable headache, but it sounds much less demoralizing than struggling with the service desk 100 times in a single year.
Check out secure aggregation protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation, https://research.google/pubs/pub45808/, also https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.01884.pdf.
Both sides believe the same thing, being anti-Apple I believed the same on the opposite side but dang is here to watch and he's pretty impartial imho.
I remember them claiming that performance would actually go UP as they launched more satellites to fill out the network
Exactly. And not just in the US, we have had significant indications that the government in Sweden "collaborated" with social media prior to the election.

They lost anyway, but we have no idea what kind of effect they had and what stories were suppressed.
At the end of the day calling everything anti China and racist is just a way of deflecting and trying to justify what the government is doing.

No one is here defending their own government. Most people in most countries will freely admit when their governments do stuff that’s wrong.

But only CCP shills are here defending the CCP and trying to justify genocide, cross border arrests, mass censorship, etc etc.

For the record. Do I support my government being the NZ government. Nope. They are trying to pass some laws to prevent the next government from being able to roll anything back. Cement the things they implement even if the citizens disagree.
Ecosystems are stupid. I want open standards and devices that are robust and made to work locally without phoning home and needing a subscription.

Of course that's just a pipe dream, because such systems are not lucrative.

It's also why nobody makes a slick, reliable, modern NVR that supports ONVIF cameras.

Ecosystems are toxic dark pattern garbage.
If the story was misinformation, why would the sharer's former or current job matter?
There's a register for censorship decisions made in NZ:

https://register.classificationoffice.govt.nz/Pages/Screens/...

As you can imagine, most of the decisions seem to be focused on CSAM. But it also lists non-video censorship.

I'm not sure I'd call it highly visible, but it's very easy to find and search. I have no idea what the disputes process looks like, but I'd be shocked if they didn't have one.
You mean the HTTP host header?

Yeah that's a good call: I need to do these checks only based on IP.

I could allow users to enter host names which I would resolve to the IP before checking though, which matches how networking is used in things like Kubernetes.
Looks like we are pretty close for someone being able to flood internet discussions with billions of alt-right/far-left/whatnot fake bot accounts. Bad times for moderators and anyone trying to engage in decent discussion.
> How did we start talking about Java and VMs? Is this some sort of strawman argument?

Is it a strawman if my comment was in response to "managed languages"?

> Strawman again? I wasn't talking about complexity. I said that the more "systems" your programming is, the higher is the cost of memory safety bugs.

For clarity, you spoke about the cost of debugging of memory bugs. And I said, it's universally true that programs are harder to debug the more "systems" they get. The reason is that it typically isn't sufficient to simply trace an individual thread anymore. "Logical tasks" are served over a number of event handlers executed in various (OS) threads.

It's not first and foremost a refutal of what you said. But an observation that I even placed in opposition to my other statement that it's not quite true that you can't use debuggers with kernels. FWIW and so on. I don't get why you are calling "strawman" repeatedly, and don't get the aggressive tone of your comments.
The official story from Musk is "threats of violence."

And West posted the Raelian symbol, not a swastika.
> Amazon is just another ebay at this point.

For most non-brandname electronics and gadgets Amazon is just an Aliexpress frontend with a different skin. You can get the exact same stuff from Aliexpress, usually cheaper.

For well known brands you can find decent deals on Amazon sometimes - unless it's a knockoff/fake.
She's the head of government of a relatively wealthy country whos party has a majority, despite MMP, with no independent executive, no upper house, and no constitution.

That's the opposite of a figurehead. She has more power than any other western politician.
The First Amendment constrains only the government, so it is the biggest possible deal in this conversation.

If you are talking about the a more general ideal of "open and free speech" - which private companies are never legally required to uphold, but may choose to espouse anyway - then it's clearer to say that instead of conflating it with the First Amendment, which will just distract others from the points you're trying to make.
Fast Log+Exp approximation in a few loc
West posted a Raelian symbol, not a Hakenkreuz.
Of course. I’ve never heard anyone say otherwise. It’s his to do as he pleases (without breaking laws).

In Twitter’s previous incarnation as a NASDAQ-listed company, Republicans were asking for more government control over it and other social media. Now that it’s a private company, that seems to have stopped.
I’m not even pro-Apple. Just really sad to see Elon turn HN to his propaganda chamber.
Grew up on BSD so I feel you. I'd say it became time to give in after they cleaned up need for su and put everything in opt.

In fact, if you used it before they cleaned all that up, or used it before moving from Intel to ARM and did a restore to the new arch instead of fresh install, it's worth doing a brew dump to a Brewfile, uninstalling ALL packages and brew, and reinstalling fresh on this side of the permissions and path cleanups.

- Migrate Homebrew from Intel Macs to Apple Silicon Macs:

- https://sparanoid.blog/749577
Amazon doesn't care, they're too big to care, they don't need to any more.

The US population has already been conditioned to "get it on Amazon" and they won't even look at other marketplaces in most cases.